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New comment by happosai in "California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down"

happosai — Sat, 16 May 2026 03:40:20 +0000

Sunsetting subscription service is fine IMHO. The deal is clear when buying (you get X months of play). Just like Netflix vs buying DVD. Also the financial incentives align - as long as someone pays monthly, money comes in to keep the lights on the servers.

Micro transactions should be covered tho. If you buy an epic skin for your player in a F2P game and suddenly you no longer can use the skin - money back!

New comment by happosai in "Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets"

happosai — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:01:36 +0000

Austria could be there but they would need to build oversupply of solar, wind and (pumped) hydro to saturate the export grid lines. And currently Austria isn't building renewables at scale. I think there is a strong NIMBY movement so the best places to build wind and pumped hydro are blocked...

New comment by happosai in "Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets"

happosai — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:14:32 +0000

Not most of EU but geographically large and diverse and low-latitude countries will. Spain has winds from three different sea areas and is known sunny, so they are in a good position.

New comment by happosai in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"

happosai — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:14:57 +0000

The word you are looking for is "invention". Innovation instead means exactly refining and improving existing things.

New comment by happosai in "'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking"

happosai — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:06:23 +0000

There are lots of non-violent low stress games. It's just a challenge to find the good ones. Some ones I have enjoyed

- spirit farmer - planet of Lana - far: lone sales - Dave the diver - art of rally

New comment by happosai in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

happosai — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:48:33 +0000

Well hydropower is the "easy" level of the decarbonization game. So it's not really surprising first countries to leave fossil fuels behind are also countries with mountains and rivers.

New comment by happosai in "EFF is leaving X"

happosai — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:09:44 +0000

The reason to leave ex-twitter and the reason to keep using lesser platforms may not be the same reason.

Probably the reason EFF keeps using mastodon/bluesky is not for reach, but to support federated platforms.

As an activist organization EFF needs reach people, but also it needs to show people alternatives to surveillance capitalism exist and encourage their use.

New comment by happosai in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

happosai — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:56:46 +0000

Energy consumption in total in Germany will only go down if you decide to export your steel and chemical industries to china. The high temperatures needed by industrial processes can't be achieved with heat pumps.

New comment by happosai in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

happosai — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:52:44 +0000

Electrifying reduces energy consumption only in selected use cases. Such as EVs yes. However other usescases such as making steel with hydrogen, plastic fromwaste or fuel for planes require vastly more energy when electrified.

Unsurprisingly the use cases where energy consumption is going down lead on electrification (because it's a cost advantage), so it may seem like electrification reduces energy consumption.

But if you really want to leave fossil fuels behind, the electric consumption will go up, up and beyond.

New comment by happosai in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

happosai — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:45:58 +0000

Wtf are your numbers from, but they are wrong. It's over 2200TWh per year. And it you truly want to be renewable, the numbers go up. Upcycling waste to plastics or using hydrogen to make steel is more energy intensive than using fossil fuels. https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/indicator-final-energy-con...

New comment by happosai in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

happosai — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:10:48 +0000

Most definitely not true. Maybe enough area to cover current electric usage, but to truly decarbonize society a lot more renewable energy is needed - for transport, heating, iron industry, chemical industries, fetilizers etc. Massive amounts of electricity is needed unless you export your industries to china.

New comment by happosai in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

happosai — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:05:28 +0000

Marginal pricing is not specific to electricity in UK, that's just how commodities end up priced.

Saudis pump oil at cost of $10 per barrel. Will they sell it to you at $10? Nope. The average oil price? Nope.

Saudis will sell the barrel at the highest price people are willing to pay - the marginal price. So if the most expensive oil needed to match the global oil demand is some super expensive arctic oil project, the oil will be priced according the marginal cost of that project even if only 1% is needed.

New comment by happosai in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

happosai — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:57:58 +0000

Now do putin and bibi next, and maybe Xi will realize taking other people's land by murdering is unacceptable and won't invade Taiwan.

New comment by happosai in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

happosai — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:02:14 +0000

There are like a half dozen cities with 100.000+ population at over 12k feet altitude. And towns and villages a lot higher. So right, 12k is no's dangerous per se.

The problems come if you haven't acclimatized.

Why China Is Winning the Green Methanol Race

happosai — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:05:33 +0000

Article URL: https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/why-china-is-winning-the-green-methanol-race.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586130

Points: 2

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New comment by happosai in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

happosai — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:28:20 +0000

The production shifts oil revenue from Islamic dictatorships to Christian dictatorship of USA. Maybe a hyperbole for now, but for how long? Independent media and education under attack, gerrymandering your voting rights away etc. Considering most of the population lives is solid red or blue state and thus their vote for president doesn't count, how much of a democracy is USA when the minority of independents live in swing states are the only who's vote counts?

Also USA us doing nothing relevant to reduce gas demand like CO2 cap and trade or CO2 based tariffs.

At this rate buy Chinese will be a more moral choice than buy American by next decade.

New comment by happosai in "E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May"

happosai — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:27:32 +0000

Ah Network effect, That's why we all are still using Skype, microsoft messenger and ICQ.

You don't have to wait for everyone to switch, in fact it's pretty normal to reach different people on different chats.

https://xkcd.com/1810/

New comment by happosai in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

happosai — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:54 +0000

Car is a deadly machine (especially big trucks and SUVs) and the owner of the death machine should know who they give their death machine.

New comment by happosai in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

happosai — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:48:36 +0000

Exclusion zones are great for nature:

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/how-chernobyl-ha...

So The "worst case scenario" for nuclear power is creating a new wildlife park free from human interference.

New comment by happosai in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

happosai — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:51:59 +0000

The Jesus people love it when Americas army support Israel

The racists love it when Muslims get killed