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It seems to me, that most flat earthers already believed in some conspiracy theories so, they just add another one. What puzzles me the most about flat earther is, how much the shape of the earth is part of their identity. I mean for my daily life the shape of the earth doesn't matter. So for me personally it doesn't matter if the earth is round, flat, or shaped like a banana. it just happened that the earth is round.

Partially this is certainly true and it is easy, since everybody assumes that the costs will increase, nobody is surprised that the reactor which should have costed 3 billion euros will cost over 10 billion euros in the end.

For a technology where the prices are decreasing, this is harder to do.

And I simply disagreed with this assumption.

Safer designs are the result of safety regulations, if you lift those regulations you will get less safe reactors. They might be cheaper but also less safe.

I wonder what the trade-offs of this technology are. Usually with nuclear power you can make it better in one area and it gets worse in another area. That is why nuclear power couldn't really keep the promisses it gave us in the 1950s.

As for me, I think nuclear power is a dying technology. This year two new reactor might go online, after construction time of over 10 years and costs around 10 billion euros each.

I wonder how much renewable energy you could set up 2 billion euros per year. And how much closer we would be in storing electricity if we had spent this money in research.

I think nuclear fission or fusion is interesting and has its applications but commercial electricity production is in my humble opinion not one of them.

BYD busses don't look anything special, yes they are electric but you can get those from a lot of manufacturers. Also they are only partially low floor.

More interesting is the Aptis by Alstom, still more or less a prototype but its design is really something innovative because it increases the room in the bus and it is 100% low floor.

easier to understand than revenue?

But for investing the market cap is irrelevant, the stock price development is relevant, dividends are relevant, interests are relevant. There are a lot more indicators which are more relevant if you want to invest in a company or not than the market cap.

An honest question, why do people really care about the market capitalisation of a company?

Maybe you should take a look at Servo from Mozilla: https://servo.org/

A few things from Servo were integrated in Firefox 57. But the project is far from complete I think.

They wanted the parents to be liable for the damage, claiming they have breached their obligatory supervision to the child.

The judge said that the parents are not obligated to surveillance their child 24/7 in the flat as it would hinder the development of the child.

Of course it is colourful, but the reporter was a parent too and neighbours wondered why they let their children play unsupervised outside.

In Germany a court just ruled that a three year old can go alone to the bath room and their parents don't have to check on them. The child set the bath room under water and someone wanted the parents to be liable.

Also some years ago, I saw a video from a school parking lot, where the hundreds of pupils where dropped off by their parents. So instead of building several schools close to the pupils, they build one big school, to which almost no pupil come alone.

Recently I watched a report by the US correspondent of the German public television. She spoke with parents who got into trouble because they let their children play near the house. A mom who put surveillance software on their children's phone. Parents who look on video feeds from the day care centres.

I found this shocking and also dangerous in the long run, people are getting used to surveillance might also accept it by the state.

You'll find a lot of those on YouTube.

Winds is one of those Electron-based applications, and the idea of having for each application an entire web browser installed and running sounds more then weird to me. I'd prefer a progressive web application or native local application or a simple web site.

I'm looking for a new RSS service, the problem is, that the one I liked best raised its price over the limit I'm comfortable with at this moment. So I'm out of luck. I have given up search for a good RSS application.

This would be neat if it were a local application.

What I would love to see in OpenStreetMaps are translated or transcripted place names. And since place names are extremely political, this should also be mentioned that a place has several names in different languages and cultures.

What I really like about Bitwarden is, that you can define several URLs for one entry, I have some services which can be accessed from several addresses (same account) though.

It is also possible to define how a URL is matched which is a nice feature too.

"Still, all investors should probably sell their coins within the first six months, the study found."

This is a baffling statement, mostly because if you sell your "coins" to someone and they keep them too long, they will lose everything. Which could lead to liability questions.

I mean, you buy those coins and sell them as fast as you can, because you know that they won't be worth anything within in days or weeks, it could be argued that you committed security fraud. Well it could also argued that the ICO itself is already fraud, because of the huge risk involved.

Apple also removed Samba from macOS for the same reason it didn't update bash or readline in ages: the GPLv3.

There is only one issue I'm having with macOS or Mac OS X today, they still use 10.x and they had three wonderful possibilities to switch to 11:

Lion: Darwin 11. (Also leaving behind PowerPC) El Capitan: Simply remove the 10. High Sierra: Sync with iOS 11.

But Apple didn't do it.

On a serious note:

The other thing I really disliked was FileVault 1, which based on a sparse image file and was an horror to backup. And in Panther it was at first extremely unreliable. I think I lost some data back then. FV2 based on CoreStorage was much, much better. Which came with Lion btw.

The paper deals with this, it even says this gives the users the false impression of control. I remember this weird pop up if you allow Facebook applications of friends to access your information. It was never really clear if you agree or disagree to it by checking the check boxes.

How would metric measures work in such a system? Or time?

It is a metric in case of many laws because of the huge amount of industry lobbying which prevents laws which benefit the common good and only benefit the short term goal of the industry, like this copyright law.

Copyright came about to support and foster creativity, it was meant as new form of property because creativity has no clear boundaries.

About the intentions of the GDPR, they were clearly to give people more control over their data and give business more restriction. The basic rule of the GDPR that companies should only store the data they really need at that time not more, not less. Overall this is what the GDPR does. My issues are more like, in some cases the burden for SME are too high and too weird for consumers. Like increasing the age limit from 13 to 16 or demanding complex privacy policies which no-one reads

The GDPR should have been the basic privacy policy for everyone, only if you do something different you have to transparent about it. Like transferring data to a third party.

Article 11 is about a new right for publishers. It could potentially make an infringement to post a link to a news article on Twitter, the paragraph you posted is a limitation to that right, because it says that authors can do that what everybody always could have done.

This new right was "tested" in Spain and Germany. In Spain news sites lost 15% of their traffic. Bigger site were hit less hard because people knew them and got to them directly. In Germany they gave Google essentially a license for free because Google didn't want to pay and because the publishers couldn't lose the traffic from Google. But smaller companies than Google and start-ups had to pay, putting them at clear disadvantage. Also the scheme costed around 10 million euros in legal fees had almost no income for the publishers. A Massive failure.

But they passed it anyway yesterday.

I think the GDPR is not as bad as people claim. At least it is really done against the industry and in favour of the people. Interesting will be the e privacy directive, which could mandate that websites and ad networks respect the Do Not Track settings in browsers. Which would also get rid of many cookie warnings.

Anyway, now it is not the time to stay idle, it is time to call your MEP and campaign against link tax (article 11) and upload filters (article 13). https://saveyourinternet.eu/

After that the next fight will be when the trilogue between Commission, Council, and Parliament is done.

The problem is that industry has been involved in EU politics for decades, they have their people and lobbyists well in place and they are able to make the politicians believe that they not only represent the industry but also the consumers/users and the creators. Of course this is not true.

For example Netopia which is sponsored by the film and music industry and the Premier League says consumers are diverse and that is why EU wide licensing is a bad idea.

An organisation of the picture industry claims directly to speak for photographers, even though they are their suppliers

But it works, politicians of all parties argue that those copyright regulations will help creatives and creators, that those people need platforms to present their art is not important, they are supposed to go to the old players (gatekeepers).

P.S. Platform company are also not speaking for creators and creatives. I think HN is full of links to articles about how YouTube isn't listening to the creatives who use their site. And how YouTube is changing the site to make is worse.

I have an IPv6 internet connection but in my home network are still devices, like my TV, which do not support IPv6.

I also use some VPN tunnels, which also still rely on IPv4.

Yes. Since May 25, the whois for .de is limited to technical information like DNS server or DNS key.