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Re:Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 ye... on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @11:43AM (#49260092)
I feel this view is very localized and short term . Yes, Airbnb has an effect (potential big) on some of the people moving to cities. BUT the Airbnb effect maybe be big in some areas but definitely insignificant in other areas. My village in Peloponnese has absolutely NO Airbnb . Almost everybody have moved to the cities. There are 6 people that live in the village the whole time. I believe all of them are above 60.
Re:Why Addresses Have Numbers on Monday August 10, 2026 @01:57PM (#49247282)
No. You need to know your current location. Then you can easily extrapolate where the destination is.
Re:Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @02:01PM (#46709950) 

  What if the new government also imply that you have to change our religion? What if the new government does not believe in "free enterprise" and will TELL you which company you will work for. What if the new government change the sports teams you like? What if the new government change the language you speak. 

  See for the example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace#Timeline  . Notice how the official language suddenly changes when a new "government" from a different nation take over. Are you so sure that the French Canadians will not have a problem with suddenly English potentially been the official language?
Re:How many bytes does gzip compress? on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:04PM (#46167282)
On the explanation for step 1, the author only removes "the" as redundant. But there are more byte ranges that can be removed The following can be removed as reduntant "the " (notice the space) "at"
Re:Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe on Sunday November 30, 2025 @04:52PM (#46100797)
The European new headlights are illegal in US. They are superior but still illegal.
Re:Chinese woman convicted after ' biggest' Bitcoin seizure on Monday September 29, 2025 @11:28PM (#45421618)
$6.7bn!! WOW
Re:Deregulated energy markets accelerate solar adoption on Monday March 24, 2025 @02:06PM (#43463778)
IN https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-beats-the-heat/ , there is a very interesting quote. "The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has also been lauded for its growth in storage, but when put into perspective of load, the gap remains quite large. Comparing all-time peak load and peak storage discharge (non-coincident), ERCOT's battery fleet would have met less than 5% of demand, while CAISO's battery fleet would have met about 16%, more than triple the value in Texas."

Absolute numbers are not the right metric when one of the states doesn't care about efficiency and decides to generate more and more electricity. Then absolute number are huge but percentages of renewal are very low.

Re:Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor on Friday February 07, 2025 @11:03PM (#42980271)
Ireland is in EU. UK is not in EU anymore
Re:The FAA's Real Air Traffic Control Crisis Runs Much Deeper on Saturday February 01, 2025 @02:50PM (#42901555)
From the website "The FAA has discontinued use of this Behavioural Assessment since 2018."

That was 7 years ago.

Re:Japan ranked 31st in digital competitiveness, 92nd for English skills on Sunday November 17, 2024 @02:38PM (#42166457)
And they are 1st in Japanese Skills !
Re:China's chip capabilities just 3 years behind TSMC, teardown shows on Friday September 06, 2024 @03:32PM (#41469035)
This seems to be a joke. China has 70% of the world global research share on advanced aircraft engines Seriously? Maybe in writing papers . But that does not translate to actual product. China has 50% of electronic warfare and 45% of radar? In what planet? Any test to see if a lot of what is going on in other countries is not published?
Re:Can solar costs keep shrinking? on Thursday August 29, 2024 @11:36PM (#41397531)
> The California failure is a good example What California failure? Take a look at record battery discharging for CAISO https://www.gridstatus.io/records/caiso?record=Maximum%20Bat...

Do you notice anything? The records keep falling ever summer. The battery discharge per day went up by 100% in the last year.

I do not see any bending of the curve. California is the perfect example of building enough batteries can solve the duck curve problem. Even in Texas, with the government actively against renewables and batteries, you see record been set for battery storage all the time https://www.gridstatus.io/records/ercot?record=Maximum%20Pow... Texas quadruple the battery storage in the last year. Difference between California and Texas. California is about 3 years ahead of Texas. When the economics are so much cheaper, battery power is build .

Re:Unrealized Gain Tax–A Coming Sea Change in FY2025 Budget Proposal? on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @12:26PM (#41381263)
No. Let's say I have $100 million. Every year, for 50 years, I get a $2 million loan against only $2 million of my asset. The loans keep rotating and keep going. At the end of 50 years, I die. When I die, the assets go to my estate AND (and this is important) my assets base value is rebased to current values. My heirs sell some assets to pay off the loans. BUT the assets have been rebased to current value, so there is no tax due (since sell value is the same as base value). Let me repeat. My estate pays NO TAXES at all since the assets were rebased.

That's called tax efficiency ;-)

Re:All Cars Sold in the US Will Soon Have to Be Able to Automatically ... on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @12:41AM (#40219572) 

  I actually have to set up a car alert for when I go above 90, because the car is so quiet and powerful that I can easily go above 90 without realizing (obviously on the highway) . 
  New cars have improved tremendously.
Re:California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a rec... on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @01:01AM (#40060607)
See also https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html and scroll down to "Batteries trend" and compare today vs a year ago. A year ago, batteries were discharging max 3MW and were drained by 10-11 pm. Yesterday batteries were discarging at max 5.3MW and were fully drained around 11:30. So batteries handled twice as much power for longer period of time.
Re:California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a rec... on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @12:54AM (#40060558)
Take a look at https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/index.html Scroll down to "Net demand trend" which is "System demand minus wind and solar" and compare yesterday vs last summer and a year ago Yesterday (4/15) lowest net demand was 366 MW Last summer, July 4th , lowest net demand was 2350 MW Last year (4/15/23) lowest net demand was 2227 MW

You can see that last summer, with so much more "powerful" sun, the net demand never went below 2300 MW. Last year went down to 2227 MW. Today, we are down to 366 MW. We manage to produce so much more solar in the last year that the net demand minus renewables went down by ~1800 MW. That means a few more years of improvements like that and we will have excess power generation of solar/wind at least during the day for most days. So if we start storing that excess generated power, we will start making a dent on other times of max power (since we can discharge batteries when max demand is needed).

That's the plan on how to keep lowering the net demand more and more.

Re:Inside the AI porn marketplace on Thursday August 24, 2023 @03:48PM (#37253710)
These laws already exist right now. Here is an example. You can't make a painting at the dimension of a dollar bill that's so authentic that looks exactly like a dollar bill. That's called counterfeiting and it's illegal on every country in the world I believe (for their own money of course).
Re:New York Times considers legal action against OpenAI as copyright t... on Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:33PM (#37167596)
But if you create a company that takes the NYT articles, scans the articles for extreme weather information in Dubai and emails your paying customers every time that happens, then you are doing copyright infringement.

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