A shame, as a Spaniard my German boss always said that I was more German than him...never sure as to take it flattering or otherwise.

Of course he said if I was to be a German I would be from Berlin....apparently those folks can make a public budget work.

This was around the financial crisis. Not this one upcoming, the last one.

Being German and being German from Berlin are not the same thing.

I'd take the Berlin thing as a compliment.

The German thing alone wouldn't be one.

...maybe he wasnt from Germany but from another country from DACH region? :-D

yes, and hopefully all of them will be set up in his garden and his children kindergarten.

Because why somebody else should bear the risk of a nuclear disaster.

This is nonsense. State/society is the last backstop, the last resort insurer in nuclear risk. Why shall we insure nuclear risks so Mark gets richer with more clicks ? again socializing the costs and privatizing de profits.

Not in my backyard.

Maybe you're right. Maybe we should just continue to burn coal and let people die of black lung mining it and millions of people living in the pollution zone. Safe, clean energy is overrated.

I am not saying I am against nuclear. I am just against "private" nuclear benefits, public insurance.

Your answer is off topic and full of prejudice.

This kind of reactor is really hard to blow up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor#Properties

(Disclaimer: most of my life I lived closer than 50 miles to various major nuclear plants.)

If they let me buy the heat for cheap, yes in my backyard. Well, not literally in my back yard, but only because there's a great space several blocks over where there's already lots of freeway noise, so any process noise will be overwhelmed. My city needs tax revenue too, so this would be great.

tax any money received using stocks as collateral, as personal income.... as that is how they get the money they spend.

I am shy to admit I used visicalc on an HP-85.....1980 ?¿? maybe...I learned the periodic table with a basic program I made on that piece of art.

if fancy a bit more of capability, dockerized opnsense and just play right with your vlans. One cable is enough into your switch...did I said managed... and your opn/telco eth exit.

I am not using Twitter, not buying a Tesla and I am definitely not going to Mars. Positive !!

not any longer. My edge 70 required weeks to uninstall bloatware, taboola and all that crap. Eventually settled with netguard to kill any non approved outgoing connection. It has been a real pain. Changed my view on moto completely. I have been a happy user of a Motorola one for 6 years...

>> And—like any other payments directly from readers—micropayments would be a multiplier for advertising, not an alternative.

WTF, no way

>> no drug like attention ... help develop the habit....

Mark Z. again ??

legit advertisers ?¿?

Are there any ?? taboola and their ilk unremovable apps ? anybody wants their heads blow up?

>>The survival of legit sites depends on how quickly marketers can level up to stuff

Bonkers. Legit sites depend on reaching financial independence on legit valuable content that people want to read.

It is true that I look to this from an EU perspective. I am biased

Time ago a colleague and I pitched YC for compsate.com, basically a wallet (real money, forget crypto) based system ( no subscriptions ) for news/content micropayments system. The idea was based on no adds, no tracking, read news like you buy a newspaper at the kiosk. Pay 2 orders of magnitude more for each article you read (than what ads provide per page), your choice. Replenish wallet at will.

Logging into a system (acquiring an ID token in the process), then browse freely to any news site and read any content, including pay-walled which would be paid out of your wallet. All near real time. Small amounts would drive down risk of fraud, that could be as well controlled by the selection of news stand that can join.

Pay for what you read, compensate for the value of what you read, make your news source independent (at least financially).

We fail the pitch but I believe it still is doable and preferable for the media if they would set up such a platform together. You know the commons....sometimes wins.

whats different from stirlingpdf ?