Growing up in Buffalo, our next door neighbor would always put in a skating rink, wood frame, polyethylene liner. It was great, we played hockey all winter long.

Now, you'd be silly thinking you get any decent spell of cold enough weather in Buffalo for that skating rink.

Another data point, bugs that didn't use to inhabit Michigan have discovered it is now warm enough in the winter to not freeze off their little hinies, so now they are ready to go come spring for all those nice fruit trees.

The fish in the Atlantic north of the equator have decided to vote with their fins and move north. Fishermen along the East Coast complain they must now use more petrol chasing their asses north in order to catch them.

Tropical diseases have been moving north in the U.S.

Now, don't forget, global warming is a hoax perpetrated by Haitian immigrant pets trying to eat Ohioans. I hear they like to roast them with a delicate seasoning on the barbie before chowing down.

People are already dying, and we are going to have to do some drastic stuff if we don't want it to get dramatically worse. Accelerate the race to net zero, and radically alter our cities and buildings to cope.

I mean they kinda did since they're talking about Exaflops not exanops.

It's LineShine which is apparently ARM based.

Sounds broadly similar to Fukagu in general high level design: ARM CPUs driving very fast very wide on-cpu SIMD units. Sounds like they have a mix of HBM and DDR which is interesting. Also given the reported numbers (peak vs max), I'd expect their custom interconnect is on die like the Tofu one.

It looks generally pretty good.

The UK wasn't built to survive hot, humid weather. We need urgent reform of planning laws so that people can fix their homes with things like exterior shutters on windows. The push to install heat pumps should focus on air-to-air with cooling capability.

In Japan, where they have hot and humid months, the advice is to design your house for the summer. You will be a bit cold in winter, but that's far better than being extremely hot and humid in the summer.

I mean... maybe. Taking a look at the recent and current Ontario projects they're all remarkably rapid and under-budget. The Darlington project has been issued permits that work out to completion in just under 14 years since initial proposal. You may be thinking of other countries, but Canada is doing this stuff exceptionally well.

It would be a good start, but not worth it unless Musk and Thiel are also ruined.

I'm guessing you have them on your roof, so not the ideal angle. And for commercial use, even 10% of nameplate is fine. They are so cheap, you just build more of them.

It's a European system, while VISA and Mastercard are both American. That alone is a big benefit for Europeans.

Yet another person doesn't know what Socialism is. May I suggest reading the Wikipedia entry instead of Fox News?

We don't need to pay someone for insurance, we have consumer protection laws instead.

Yes I've had my debit card ripped off, and fraudulent transactions made on debit, and yes I got my money back.

As the summary notes, it is designed so that transactions are anonymous to the ECB. Likely that means pseudo-anonymous, in that identity could be determined with some effort, but that goes for cash too. Fingerprints, serial numbers, CCTV everywhere...

The goal is to provide a replacement for cash, because cash is expensive to manage. The government has to physically create it, and replace it as it wears out or the security needs updating. Businesses have to count it and transport it to the bank, and can be victims of counterfeiting. One of the reasons why many of them prefer card payments, even with the fees, is due to the overhead of handling bank notes and coins.

To do that, it is going to have to be genuinely as private as cash is. Believe it or not, the EU isn't all about surveillance, and privacy is considered an important right. Remember that the EU created GDPR, and some member states like Germany go even further with strict privacy laws.

Most transactions in the EU do not occur via credit card in the first place. In my country only 35% of people have an active credit card account, and I'd be very surprised if my experience with my friends and colleagues saying they only use credit cards when they go on holidays or require a reserved transaction (car hire, hotels, etc) is typical most of those 35% never use it. I keep my credit card in my passport wallet. I've never used it locally.

Now if you want to talk about Visa Debit, Debit Mastercard, or Maestro, THAT is the kind of system this is trying to fight. But to your actual point, the pressure will be on the vendor. Just because the end user doesn't have a surcharge doesn't mean the vendor doesn't pass on / have costs. Vendor action can drive consumer behaviour. E.g. the rise of cash free society has really rocketed with the advent of supermarkets that have cash free lanes. Get major suppliers to adopt something will drive consumer beavhiour.

The Wikipedia article on socialism isn't great, being very US centric and seeming to have little input from countries that actually practice it. But the last thing it needs is what he is suggesting.

We have an equivalent of UPI being rolled out in the EU already in the form of Wero (something which the Netherlands has been using since long before the UPI system was introduced). Works much the same way, it's just not very prevalent at the point of sale.

But neither UPI nor Wero have anything to do with what is being discussed, which is an *offline* system. No India doesn't have an equivalent, and there's a reason the EU is investigating this while also rolling out Wero bloc wide in parallel.

Two solutions for two different problems.