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New comment by retromario in "Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war"

retromario — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:20:13 +0000

How do you define "Western people"?

New comment by retromario in "How long before superintelligence? (1997)"

retromario — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:54:00 +0000

It triggers me that there's an obvious typo in 'Oxford' right under the author's name. I wonder if it was originally published like that since 1997 and never caught or changed with all the updates.

New comment by retromario in "Small German town starts testing geothermal power utilizing new techniques"

retromario — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:04:06 +0000

Geretsried (the town) apparently sits in an ideal location for geothermal power and heat plants, in the same basin as Munich and other surrounding municipalities who have been leveraging geothermal energy to great effect.

https://geothermie-allianz.de/en/geothermal-in-bavaria/

I'm surprised we don't see more such projects.

New comment by retromario in "Microsoft bets on Germany in €3.2B AI push"

retromario — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:23:00 +0000

I'm not OP, just explaining how public and private investments are sometimes linked.

New comment by retromario in "Microsoft bets on Germany in €3.2B AI push"

retromario — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:16:40 +0000

Some projects are a mix of private and public investments. A freeze on the public portion affects the risk/trade-offs of the private investment portion and therefore on the overall project.

New comment by retromario in "Losing my son"

retromario — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 20:06:23 +0000

Every human being is born with zero ability for self-preservation...

New comment by retromario in "Bret Victor update"

retromario — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 17:24:23 +0000

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

New comment by retromario in "The Tesla Semi cab from the practical POV of someone who drives trucks"

retromario — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 22:56:25 +0000

What about the 4 examples of other electric semis shared at the end of the original thread?

https://twitter.com/TOrynski/status/1600970796159336449

New comment by retromario in "Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet"

retromario — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:46:00 +0000

https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro...

2-3x more energy efficient + the same performance (if not better) than other (Intel) chips ~2 times more expensive. I don't think there's been another leap like that in the last 20-25 years.

New comment by retromario in "Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends"

retromario — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 20:39:40 +0000

I think it's only a matter of time until the US and Germany stop buying gas from Russia. It's going to cause a lot of pain, especially for us in Germany where nearly a third of gas is imported from Russia. But that's the point, there are no more easy ways to put pressure on Putin. We are all going to feel a lot of pain before things get better.

What is happening to the Russian people is tragic, but it pales in comparison to what the average Ukrainian is experiencing (shortages of food, medicine, water and basic shelter, psychological terror, maimings, deaths).

We have no other means to put pressure on Putin save arming Ukraine or attacking Russia.

New comment by retromario in "Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory"

retromario — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 21:36:04 +0000

Uh, Germany locked down pretty hard, several times. "Good" organisation and mass testing came later.

Source: my last two years with three kids at home

New comment by retromario in "North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering"

retromario — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 23:16:09 +0000

The other points are fine, but a 3 or 4-year old does not understand nuance or personal responsibility. I think that in general German society encourages a strong sense of personality responsibility as part of developing healthy children and adults, so kind of a weird thing to pick on.

Personally I jaywalk when it's safe and no kids are around.

New comment by retromario in "Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its footing?"

retromario — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 10:44:37 +0000

https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/31872/people-with-migra...

A few examples as well as general recent trends but also the challenges immigrant founders are facing.

New comment by retromario in "Numi – Calculator app for Mac"

retromario — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:44:49 +0000

Do you have a source for this?

New comment by retromario in "Letters from House members to cable providers [pdf]"

retromario — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 21:53:45 +0000

> None of those deaths were linked back to the Capital building in a meaningful way (including the officer).

That is simply false.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-of...

New comment by retromario in "WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash"

retromario — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 20:38:00 +0000

How does the Matrix experience compare to Signal, feature-wise? I ran into similar frustrations with Signal's lack of polish in certain areas when trying to move family over.

There's something to be said for why WhatsApp is so popular, it feels like the most full-featured and polished communications app.

New comment by retromario in "Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine"

retromario — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:03:37 +0000

The EU messed up but they are at least publicly owning up to some of the blame (finally): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/ursula-von-der...

New comment by retromario in "Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features"

retromario — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:00:37 +0000

> eg, having a custom one-touch screen lock button that's always present

Do you know that clicking the TouchID button will lock your screen?

New comment by retromario in "YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud"

retromario — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 20:59:46 +0000

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/944230517/supreme-court-rejec...

New comment by retromario in "FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization"

retromario — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 20:47:22 +0000

Their thinking is pretty much all laid out in the 2015 Zuckerberg memo on VR/AR: https://twitter.com/lucasmtny/status/1095861887588229120?s=2...