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Submission + - European Parliament bans Amazon from its premises (euractiv.com)

Kant writes: The European Parliament decided to ban Amazon representatives from accessing its buildings on Tuesday (27 February), due to multiple events where the global retailing giant did not attend meetings requested by members of the European Parliament, the European Parliament press service confirmed Euractiv.

Comment One client to rule them all (Score 4, Informative) 70

Instant Messaging Interoperability: https://datatracker.ietf.org/w...
Get rid of walled garden chat clients: https://matrix.org/
Choose just one from the list of Matrix client: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/c...
Set up your own Matrix home server: https://etke.cc/
Bridge it with as many walled gardens you like, to chat with your captive friends: https://etke.cc/help/bridges

Comment Re:Mobbing (Score 1) 81

Are you part of the Inquisition? I read the article. Even the WHO emphasises that, before the age of nine, sex in children is a game like any other. Perhaps the problem is in the mind of that teacher who, after ten years in which millions of children have read those books, saw something licentious. Exactly what happened in the Vatican in the 16th century.

Comment Re:Ha Ha (Score 2) 68

Energy is present in the universe in many different forms. Like water is steam, liquid or ice, just to understand each other. In a popularised journalistic piece, it seems more than legitimate to call an 'energy store in thermal form' a 'battery', even though the term, historically and technically, identifies some kind of electrical energy store.

Comment Re:Why do online stories try to invent new words? (Score 3) 186

You missed the purpose of those articles: to explain, to illustrate to an audience of readers/viewers with general knowledge and non-specialist vocabulary.

Besides, what is wrong with calling things that have identical functions - energy storage - by the same name? The ability to generalise is considered a positive capacity of the human mind.

Comment Re:Make up your mind! (Score 5, Informative) 186

Please, note the different SI unit of measure: W and Wh

If you are more comfortable with liquids, think of this analogy:

W = flow rate of a pipe, litres per second, gallons per second etc.

Wh = tank capacity, how many litres it contains, how many gallons it contains etc.

k = 10^3 = 1,000
M = 10^6 = 1,000,000
G = 10^9 = 1,000,000,000

"Million kWh" = 10^6 x 10^3 = 10^9 Wh = 1 GWh

So, if you have a 20 GWh tank and you open a tap that can let out 900 MW (0.9 GW), you can empty it completely in 20 / 0.9 hours, that is approximately in 2h 13'

Comment Brexit currents? (Score 1) 130

It is somewhat reminiscent of the sad business of Brexit. Even on those shores, in view of high waves and dangerous currents, numerous warning signs had been erected, but were blithely ignored.

Either people ignore the warning signs, or people do not read them, or people do not understand them. One almost has to wonder why we waste public money on warning signs.

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