Hm. I buy a kilogram of black tea for around $10, and it lasts me around two or three month. So there is that.

Additionally, it's explicitly mentioned:

Coal does not necessarily burn notoriously dirty. With the standards given by the German law, air above a coal or lignite plant is less dirty than that above an average city. It's by no means "Clean Coal" though.

Germany uses less fossil fuels for electricity than for instance the U.S.. It's a common myth, but still wrong. In 2025, coal and lignite accounted for less than 25% of all electricity generated in Germany, and all fossil fuels together, including oil and gas, accounted for 38%.

Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydro in turn accounted for 60%, and the remaining 2% come from sources like garbage incinerators and similar.

In comparison, the U.S. electricity in 2025 came from 16% coal and 40% gas.

To be fair, they were going use the ANSI C23 specification as a basis, but nobody wanted to shell out the money to buy an official copy.

In just the Linux example, it is most certainly not the "one guy model". There have been countless thousands of contributors.

Linus is great and all, but he's currently just doing coordination between the members of a very large hierarchical team. No one human could possibly do all of that work.

This drone (an MK30) is 78 pounds, and about 6 feet diameter. They could easily kill a person if they hit a them. I think this is the fourth time I've read about their drones crashing, and all the cases seemed reasonably avoidable. They are currently operating under a special FAA license that exempts them from several rules that normal drone operators have to follow, like not requiring visual line of site. Given their safety record so far, I think that license should be revoked, and they can go back to a normal commercial license, until they have proven their operations to be safe again.

Because it would have taken 16 times the time, 32 weeks instead of 2 weeks.

At liquidation, each bond holder will receive one obsolete Nvidia GPU for every $1,000 in bond face value.

The initial launch date was 2007. In 2007, the last part of the main mirror was manufactured. But because of increasing cost, Congress postponed payments for additional components and in 2011, completely halted the project. But as 75% of the project was already finished and paid for, Congress granted the founding in 2014, and JWST finally launched in 2021.

But that's your personal trajectory. It's similar to mine. That does not mean that reading is dead. It's just that you don't read as often as you have before, and most people in your age are similar.

But people of all ages read, as soon as they have learned to read. My daughter in the last 20 years has read more than I have. And in 20 years, she will read less than she has now. And then some smug person like you will project that because his friends and him aren't reading as much as before, reading is dead. And they will be as wrong as you now, because they, like you, are using a very limited, and very correlated dataset.

Oslo is exactly that "mound of river" place I was referring to, mound of the rivers Alna, Akerselva, Hoffselva and Lysakerelva.

Oh dear god. Now I am visualizing competitors finding ways to make their skin floppy in places so it parachutes out like a flying squirrel. Are you happy now?

Norway's cost is unlike coasts you might know. Norway's coast is basically a mountain diving into the sea. No beaches, no flat land, except at some spots around the mounds of rivers, and that's where the settlements are. Between two settlements along the coast, you either have a ferry, or a tunnel. Most of Norway's coast does not have a road at all, because there is not enough space, and the E6, which goes through most of Norway, does follow the coast only occasionally, but mostly follows valleys through the mountains.

Norway has the same "large country" problem as Canada, and they are 96% EV. You can generate electricity everywhere. But you can't refine oil into gasoline everywhere.

And no, don't tell me that Canada is much larger. That's not the "large country" problem. The large country problem means: if you are driving more than a day in the same direction, do you pass enough infrastructure for your mode of transport? And that's as valid for Norway as it is for Canada.

To be more precise: The value of fiat money is that you can pay your taxes with it. Further more, you can pay all debts with fiat money. Whenever you owe someone something of value, you can always pay your way out of it. That's why it is called legal tender - the law recognizes all payments performed with legal tender.