Hacker News: pizzaman1https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pizzaman1Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:10:44 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by pizzaman1 in "Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament"]]>I think he means that maybe it‘s for the best if „the internet“ in its current state dies, i.e. people move on from the current platforms towards other ones or real life.

]]>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:23:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824008pizzaman1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824008https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824008<![CDATA[New comment by pizzaman1 in "Magnifica Humanitas"]]>> In a similar vein, it looks like we may eventually (at least at some point) turn the tide on CO2 emissions, but not because anyone (at large) really sacrificed anything, or did something that was mildly painful now in the hopes for a better future, but instead because renewable and battery tech is just getting to be the economic best option.

One should not forget the reason that these technologies have become so cheap is policy interventions. Especially renewables got kick-started by programs like the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) which then created demand for Chinese mass manufacturing to eventually lower prices.

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