You're thinking of the modern civilized places. (Do the weirdos consider those joints woke?)

The one I used to live near was the original Grimaldi's under the Brooklyn Bridge, which burned anthracite until it closed.

I have no problems with coal-fired pizza joints and similar. The amount of pollution from this is minuscule, and in general small-scale, artisanal use of stuff doesn't hurt. It isn't that coal is morally evil in and of itself, it is the massively abusive use of it as a routine energy source that's destructive.

Those places suck for the neighbors, though. I lived a few blocks from a coal-oven pizza place for a few years. Only smelled it sometimes when the wind shifted the right way, but I would not want to live any closer to one.

Data is here: https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/a...

Germany is high in terms of CO2/kw-hr, but not the highest in Europe. Germany has dropped their CO2/kw-hr by 37 percent since 2010, so it is at last improving. France, as OP noted, is considerably lower.

This is technically true, but the amount of CO2 produced is so miniscule compared to burning fossil fuels that to a good first approximation it is zero.

Basically, when your entire method of producing energy is by burning hydrocarbons, you produce a lot of CO2.

The serious killer of birds is glass windows on skyscrapers.
Wind turbines barely rate.

PBS is primarily (85%) privately funded. It will continue to produce shows like Masterpiece, Nova, Frontline, and Sesame Street and people in places like Boston or Philadelphia will continue to benefit from them.

What public funding does is give viewers in poorer, more rural areas access to the same information that wealthy cities enjoy. It pays for access for people who don't have it.

By opting out, Arkansas public broadcasting saves 2.5 million dollars in dues, sure. But it loses access to about $300 million dollars in privately funded programming annually.

Good. Coal combines the worst features of all the power technologies. It is an awful, dirty fuel, with a cost reckoned not merely in dollars but in lives.

They're retiring the coal plants because it's not cost-effective to run them, but all the other problems with coal are enough to make me cheer.

It seems to me that, if you were developing something like this, you'd want to write the encryption and decryption code separately from the non-trivial key management code, so that you can unlock it easily if someone accidentally locks the wrong system. You only make the build that doesn't have an obvious key when you're really going to use it. For that matter, it's probably wise to do your demos with the version with the master key, so that potential affiliates can't attack a real target for the demo. Then you give the version that doesn't make it easy to unlock to paying affiliates who aren't SentinelOne. It's not like they'd need to redesign the whole system to generate a random key and not write it in plaintext anywhere.

instead of "nearly 56"? K.I.S.S.

is what they really want.

I like them too, family even is an antique book dealer. But.. I am allergic to a lot of old books. And now I need bigger print and more interested in new books with option to find old ones. So even though it has drawbacks, my kindle PaperWhite has some killer features: big text, instant purchase, and kindle unlimited. Big e-ink tablet (Daylight Computer DC-1) is also useful. The AI feature? Haven't seen it yet but people who buy cliff notes or my family member who had to give a talk about a difficult book to a book club recently could make use of the feature.

Seriously, the idea that we know all the practically important physics there is is the kind of thing only somebody who's never done science or engineering would believe.

The last sentence of the article:

Whether it [the new law] withstands constitutional review will determine how far Germany’s commitment to individual privacy can bend in the name of security.

Industrial R&D is important, but it is in a distrant third place with respect to importance to US scientific leadership after (1) Universities operating with federal grants and (2) Federal research institutions.

It's hard to convince politicians with a zero sum mentality that the kind of public research that benefits humanity also benefits US competitiveness. The mindset shows in launching a new citizenship program for anyone who pays a million bucks while at the same time discouraging foreign graduate students from attending universtiy in the US or even continuing their university careers here. On average each talented graduate student admitted to the US to attend and elite university does way more than someone who could just buy their way in.

Silicon wafers are the wrong thing to compare against. The CZT semiconductors are like photodiodes (for other radiation), not what they make the logic out of. It would make more sense to compare with InGaN (for blue LEDs), which plays a similarly specific role in common devices.