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yls··on Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant
They found mamooth bones!

Edit: add source [ger] https://science.orf.at/stories/3236752/

yls··on The Religion of Speed
Thank you for the recommendation!
yls··on Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory
Sarcasm?

In a democracy, how would state owned be different from public?

Do you also call libraries state-run?

IMHO both terms are heavy with bias depending on context.

yls··on Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory
To me there is, government as "ops", where the media could be more biased, while the state is the more wholistic entity, owned by the tax payer.

Your comment makes only sense if you follow the narrative that state is bad, private companies good. In most European countries, we are rather happy with having a part of the media market owned by the state.

yls··on Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory
I think it is not owned by the government, rather by the state.

In a democracy, how is this a bad thing?

yls··on Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war
There are many cities around the world where most employees use public transports.
yls··on Ask HN: I hate gym. How to stay in shape?
I started training with kettlebells to build up some strenth, which went fairly well. My workouts are extremely short, 10 snatches per side, sometimes a couple more exercises. Also, from time to time, some planks. But always below 5 minutes.

With the start of COVID, I started cycling way more, mainly touring on the weekend for 3-5 hours. Since cardio / endurance has been my primary concern, I drastically reduced my kettlebell training to one session every 6 weeks, but its still enough to maintain my 10 snatches.

I can really recommend the kettlebells, but be careful since you can quite injure yourself with the weight. I started with 16kg, which IMHO is a great starting weight for men.

FYI I am in my mid forties, overweight but now quite fit.

yls··on Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things
I have used it to extract a table to restore from a MySQL database dump.
yls··on Ask HN: What's your web routine? which sites etc. do you frequent besides HN?
Thanks a lot! I had these subscribed but cancelled them a while back; might revisit le monde diplo. Mediapart is new to me.
yls··on Ask HN: What's your web routine? which sites etc. do you frequent besides HN?
If you don’t Mind me asking: which french newspaper do you read/recommend?
yls··on Running a private mail server for six years, easy peasy
Very happy using Vultr for an OpenBSD based mail stack. They unlock port 25 on demand if you have a valid use case.
yls··on Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid
IIRC Germany, by subsidizing its solar PV industry too heavily, took the innovation pressure out of the latter. This made it way too easy for Chinese companies to take over the market.
yls··on Learn Linux without internet and stack overflow: Linux HOWTOs
Ditto. It was a procrastination project of mine to avoid my law exam preparations.
yls··on The many lies about reducing complexity part 2: Cloud
IIRC they introduced a cluster management fee in GKE.
yls··on After spending $57M on Facebook ads, I was kicked off
Probably also putting all eggs into one basket.
yls··on The Unraveling of America
I think I get your point. However, wouldn’t any political analysis/opinion lead to that phenomenon? The „valid points in insightful ways“ are too subjective to be a reliable indicator.
yls··on The Unraveling of America
For me, it looks rather realistic. If you love the US, shouldn’t you embrace such articles in order to have some intellectual food to reflect on? If you don’t think so, the current admin provides more than enough good news anyway.
yls··on GDPR: Don't Panic
Kinda common in continental European law... Nothing new, nothing to be scared of.
yls··on GDPR: Don't Panic
Nope. Read the law and check on how many countries have extraterritorial reach in their laws...
yls··on Show HN: StockNerd – A community for index fund investors
Hi, I highly recommend a book in case you read German. Despite its weird title, I found it very worthwhile.

Souverän investieren mit Indexfonds und ETFs: Wie Privatanleger das Spiel gegen die Finanzbranche gewinne

by Gerd Kommer

You can also google for Kommer Portfolio. It is, IMHO, very well balanced (asset classes, geography etc.).