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  1. Re:france is broke on France Will Tax Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon In New Year (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Vacation is around 30 days, give or take, that are 6 weeks.
    As we have school holidays of about 12 weeks per year, actually more, those 6 weeks are badly needed.

  2. Re:Tariffs on France Will Tax Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon In New Year (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    A socialist does it because his groups of friends has so destroyed the French economy
    About what century are you talking? The french economy is actually very strong ... always was.

  3. So far I saw the term GAFA only on /.
    I doubt it is a common term in any part of Europe.

  4. Re:And why not? on Germany Refuses To Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Real Evidence (phys.org) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Unlike the US, Germany has laws, and not a President that can order nonsense.

  5. Re: Wha?? on Electron and the Decline of Native Apps (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    What is a "Mac App Drawer"?

  6. Re:Beside the point. on Lawmakers Push To Create a Three-Digit Suicide Hotline Number (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The digital assistance basically only works if you have an internet connection.
    Depending on country, culture, billing plan, people often have no internet (have to top up first or what ever).

    And then again ... I doubt many suicidal people come to the idea: "oh, now it is time to call the suicide hotline!"

  7. Re:This again? on Lawmakers Push To Create a Three-Digit Suicide Hotline Number (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    611 .... RING .... RING ... RING ...

    Hello, this is 611, your service operator. Is this a phone service problem, dial 9, is this a mental health problem, dial 5, is this a suicide problem dial 1.

    1 ... music plays ...

    Please hold the line, all service personal is already engaged in conversations, as soon as one is available you will be dispatched.

    Please hold the line .... music plays

  8. whatever we'll be offsetting the same amount of watts of power and therefore be dissipating the same amount of heat.
    No? ... go back to school!

  9. First:
    Yes, a lot more damage.
    Second:
    You are making bold and uninformed off the cuff assumptions and think I'M the idiot?
    Obviously you are an idiot, you proved it with the first sentence I quoted.

  10. Cuba and Venezuela are under boycott by the US, and the US forces other countries to boycott them, too.
    So ... ? How much does that say about their capabilities?

  11. Nagasaki and Hiroshima caused each about half a million death.
    You want to tell us you have half a million or more people dying in NY traffic over a decade (perhaps you don't know what a decade is? ... it is 10 years). NY has what? 12 million inhabitants?

  12. So, in other words, we didn't hit peak.
    On other words: we are at peak already. Or do you see an increase in oil production?

  13. it can be quantified for that particular mine.

    If you mine for silver, meaning silver is your X ... the quantification looks quite different.

  14. So nuclear is just as environmentally alternating as everything else.
    Not in terms of heat ...

    Perhaps you like to look up how big the sun is, how much energy it beams to earth and how puny the energy of a single nuclear reactor is ...

    Sorry to confuse you. That will be very big numbers with miles long zeros trailing at the end ...

  15. Which part of "reprocessing does not work, does not make sense" did you not grasp meanwhile?
    Depending on your fuel source you get half the fuel back ...
    Reprocessing means: remove all the waste. Then enrich the rest/remains. Enriching the remains is 10 times easier than enriching natural uranium. But: you still have the waste ... where do you want to store it?

  16. If we ever figure out fusion... then it'll be a no brainer.
    Except for powering a space craft, fusion will be pointless.

    Solar and wind (and tidal and waves etc.) are simply one or two perhaps more magnitudes cheaper.

  17. So 1000 wind mills set in a grid of 31 x 32 10 miles offshore out in the ocean cause more damage to the environment than a open pit mine for uranium feeding a nuclear plant of similar capacity?

    The problems of the planet are two: idiots like you, and idiots like you running for president.

    isn't harnessing and disrupting any energy flow the natural landscape has spent the last few billion years evolving around.
    You lost me at disrupting ...
    But: look out of the window, your landscape around you is not even a million years old. Probably not even 100,000 years . Idiot.

  18. their accessible quantities and the determination that THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH OF THEM for the demand required through 2050.
    Yeah, but you do not realize that this is complete bollocks.
    Most Solar cells don't use any rare materials, only super effective thin film cells do.
    Wind mills don't need raw earth materials either. They use it at the moment to have leighter stronger magnets fro the generators: and that is not a requirement!
    Niobdynium is only rare because it is mostly mined as side product of iron. As most steel in our days is produced from recycled steel, there is not much supply of fresh Niob on the market. If you simply target mines for Niob you would have enough.

    we can't get to all the earths crust by a long shot and not all of what we can get to is easily accessible or cheaply accessible and even if we can get to it easily and cheaply we can still only pull it out so fast.
    Probably true, that is why you harvest the sea floor for "mangan balls", or extract stuff sea water.

  19. Re: Business as unusual on Electron and the Decline of Native Apps (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    You answered to the wrong post ...

  20. Re:Wha?? on Electron and the Decline of Native Apps (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    There never was an HP calculator that had core memory.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  21. Re:WTF USA? on Global Carbon Emissions Jump To All-Time High in 2018 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, a wrong wikipedia article ... what a surprise.
    A mere heat pump is not "geothermal" there is no noticeable thermal source 1yard or 10yards below the ground.

    A heat pump is a heat pump and geo thermal means you pump up +100C degrees hot water/steam up and run a turbine or do large scale heating projects.

    Of course you can disagree, but then you have a hard problem in arguing about energy when a mere 300W heat pump for heating your house is the same as a 500MW geo thermal electric power plant.

  22. Re: I was furious at Gates and IBM on Was Commodore's Amiga 'A Computer Ahead of Its Time'? (gizmodo.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Not your fault ... I mixed up the names. QL was for quantum leap ...actually not that hard to remember :D

  23. Re:Try doing actual work... on Is The World Shifting To 'Ambient Computing'? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Did you mean Wintermute is coming?

  24. Re: Apple aside... on Electron and the Decline of Native Apps (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    I give Slack 10 years before it fades away, the only chance it has is if it is bought by Cisco or someone equally evil.
    I second that.
    As a product/Application it simply sucks ...

    (A) Team chat services is a terrible business model, (B) and really companies shouldn't pay for it.
    A) probably
    B) people need it, and cross company wise ... not only internal

  25. Re: China, no question on Canada Grants Bail For Arrested Huawei CFO Who Faces US Extradition (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean, accusation of fraud?
    And what kind of fraud should she actually in person might have committed?