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New comment by pipodeclown in "Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped"

pipodeclown — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:09:21 +0000

You can always notify the EC anti competition whatsdpg through their wistleblower portal:)

New comment by pipodeclown in "How much oil-market buffer is left?"

pipodeclown — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:35:07 +0000

Demand is genrally destroyed in places where people can't afford the higher oil price which is most definately not the US. Poor countries are ehere people will suffer.

New comment by pipodeclown in "How much oil-market buffer is left?"

pipodeclown — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:32:22 +0000

That really makes absolutely no sense. Derivatives whole purpose is to allow people to hedge their exposure to the underlying, in this case oil prices. Many parties active on these markets have such exposure but are unable or unwilling to take delivery as part of that hedging contract..

New comment by pipodeclown in "German industry pushes to restore 40-hour working week without extra pay"

pipodeclown — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:47:51 +0000

US workers most definately do not work the most of any country. Maybe relative to some rich western europeans you do but globally you are very much in the 'rich countries where the average working hours are quite low' category. There are even more than a few european countries with average working hours per worker that are higher than in the US.

New comment by pipodeclown in "Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down"

pipodeclown — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:20:42 +0000

Sure but that doesn't change the fact that they are charging s Ahead while the rest of us sit on our hands.

New comment by pipodeclown in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

pipodeclown — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:24:13 +0000

Plenty of countries have corporate laws that are less shareholder focussed than those of america. In the Netherlands for example boards are obligated to take into account broader sets of interest such as employee in their decisions and this is enforceable in court.

New comment by pipodeclown in "Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip"

pipodeclown — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:40:24 +0000

Sure but just for browsing, checking some e-mails, a bit of YouTube or other media consumption, you know what 90% of people use their macbook for 99% of the time, it would be fine.

Nobody is saying you should be able to render some 3d models on an iPhone..

New comment by pipodeclown in "Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip"

pipodeclown — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:38:28 +0000

Like what? A macbook is just a screen, connected keyboard and trackpad. This thing has the equivalent of all of that.

New comment by pipodeclown in "Porsche demonstrates inductive EV charging at IAA"

pipodeclown — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:25:30 +0000

Man you see this crap pop up on here so many times I'm almost starting to wonder whether car industry shills are just trying so sow seeds of doubt with misinformation.. haven't we agreed by now that the only future we should strive for is one that can plausibly be made completely emmissionless...? All options you list either still have emmissions associated with them or are so hilariously inefficient that we would need to blanket half the globe with PV panels to power everything. All alternatives have been extensively explored and the only and most efficient way to power cars in an emmissionless way turned out to be a battery electric drivetrain. There is a reason all the options you list didn't take off.

New comment by pipodeclown in "Workers Want a Four-Day Week. Companies Should Too"

pipodeclown — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:38:08 +0000

Most of the Netherlands banks have switched to 4 dat workweeks, sure you don't get as much work done on 4 days but it sure is nice to have an extra day off:)

New comment by pipodeclown in "The 'invisible crew' who have 35 seconds to prevent a Eurovision blunder"

pipodeclown — Thu, 15 May 2025 10:16:17 +0000

'Crew' implies that it is a group of people doing this and therefore they have 35 seconds. You can reconstitute the sentence to check what you should use. In this case you could say in your head:" the crew as a team check the video feed. They have 35 seconds to do this." If this was referring to an individual it would be: "Peter checks the video feed, he has 35 seconds to do this."

New comment by pipodeclown in "Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check"

pipodeclown — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 19:49:47 +0000

Sure but you should be comparing the goal end state, a world in which out energy consumption and generation is green, that's the whole point of our move to bev's and hydrogen. So you should be comparing energy generation by green means to power a BEV or using green energy to produce hydrogen to power a hydrogen car. In that world the whole energy production and consumption chain is about 3x as efficient for BEV, which in my mind means there is no way hydrogen is going to be competitive and we shouldn't waste valuable resources on persuing it.

New comment by pipodeclown in "Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check"

pipodeclown — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 19:45:02 +0000

That is completely incorrect, it is the opposite.

New comment by pipodeclown in "Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check"

pipodeclown — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 19:43:47 +0000

Efficiency doesn't matter when you're literally pumping energetic liquid from the ground. It does matter when you need to build 150% more solar panels to produce the energy to create your energetic liquid/gas.

New comment by pipodeclown in "Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing"

pipodeclown — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 12:52:15 +0000

Just basic customisation functionality is missing in MacOS. Recently bought a MacBook and am constantly amazed about the stuff you can't do. Oh you want do use normal scrolling on your external Bluetooth mouse (like everybody that uses a mouse does) and natural scrolling on the trackpad? Nah bro, choose one for both. You wanna just plug in some generic usb hub connected to multiple monitors like you did with your 500 euro laptop? No can't do. Want to specify the SDR content brightness on an external display separately from HDR content brightness when enabling HDR on the display? Nah bro we're just gonna blast full brightness at you all the time, and I can go on. Hardware is second to none but the software is really.holding the machine back

New comment by pipodeclown in "Exercise May Be the Most Potent Medical Intervention Ever Known"

pipodeclown — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 20:23:38 +0000

I really don't see how this is not obvious. Evolutionarily speaking our survival strategy involved high amounts of exercise (running after antilopes and gathering plants/fruits) so our bodies are optimised for high amounts of exercise. At the same time we needed to survive in unpredictable and sometimes low calories invironnements, our behavioural instincts are therefore to gather and consume as much calories as we can while expending as little calories as possible in the process (binge eating while loafing around if possible). Such optimisations and instincts can lead to unwanted outcomes in new environments such as those of modern sedentary lifestyles.

I really don't see how you subjectively not feeling a benefit to an active lifestyle conflicts with the above.

New comment by pipodeclown in "Former NASA scientist doing experiment to prove we live in a simulation"

pipodeclown — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 21:13:03 +0000

By simulation, scientists generally don't mean: we're all plugged into the matrix. What they mean is that this three dimensional reality we're experiencing is a projection of some sort of higher dimensional reality.

New comment by pipodeclown in "United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency"

pipodeclown — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 21:12:37 +0000

Standing stockpiles matter in a ever changing and destabilising world. We can't imagine it now but what if the US (or any other nuclear power) started to destabalise, maybe end up in a civil war, fracture up into smaller pieces, what ever. The less nuclear weapons you have lying around during and after that process the less opportunities for things to go terribly wrong.

New comment by pipodeclown in "FCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days"

pipodeclown — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 21:18:20 +0000

Yes but what is prohibited in Europe is to hide the cost of the phone in the payments of the cell plan. They must make clear exactly what part of your monthly payment is to pay off the phone and what part is the cell plan. That has basically blown up subsidised phones in Europe..

New comment by pipodeclown in "CATL launches new EV battery with close to a 1M mile, 15-year lifespan"

pipodeclown — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:32:20 +0000

Nah mate, overhead chargers above each busstop which automatically engage.