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byromiz
2025 @01:07PM
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Attached to: Tintin, Popeye Enter Public Domain as 1929 Works Released
In the rest of the world, works will be protected by the Berne convention for the life of the author, with a minimum 50 years extension, most often 70 years.
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byromiz
3 @05:54AM
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Attached to: Will EVs Send OPEC Into a Death Spiral?
While true, power plants are vastly more efficient then cars, it's just basic physics. The transmissions losses of an electrical grid are nothing compared to the losses of burning fuel to get it to the gas, the fuel you burn to get to the gas station, and finally the straight up losses of burning fuel period.
Moreover, cars cannot run on hydropower, wind, biomass, nuclear, or even coal it we go that way. Electricity generation can, and there is a lot of more coal in the ground than oil.
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byromiz
@02:56PM
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Attached to: Texas Could Get a 205-MPH Bullet Train Zipping Between Houston and Dallas
The Chinese G trains run routinely at 350 km/h, with a quite large network covering the most populated part of the country.
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byromiz
3 @12:36AM
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Attached to: Sony Closes In On 40 Million PS5s Sold
The important thing about the PS5 is that it also is a complete PS4, and with the vastly reduced loading times thanks to its SSD-based architecture, it is a much better PS4 than the original and its fragile, noisy optical disk system.
This means that when a PS4 start to show wear and tear, it is a valid choice for owners who want to continue to play with their games to buy a replacement PS5 instead.
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byromiz
2023 @11:57AM
(#63322514)
Attached to: Inside Taiwanese Chip Giant, a U.S. Expansion Stokes Tensions
Rules of business and capitalism such as state subventions?
Asian countries routinely engage in protectionism, and yet they sound surprised when the US do the same.
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byromiz
023 @02:18AM
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Attached to: 2022 Global Smartphone Shipments Were the Lowest in Nearly a Decade
With its 900 mA.h battery, a Nokia 7110 can stay 260 hours in standby according to the manufacturer's specifications. But it can only last 4h30 in voice calls. If we were using those old devices with the same intensity we use the modern ones, even the old ones would be depleted after two days.
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byromiz
3 @12:53PM
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Attached to: Linux Preparing To Disable Drivers For Microsoft's RNDIS Protocol
You can still use the f_ncm gadget. If the OS descriptor is set to WINNCM, Windows 7 and later should automatically install the relevant network driver.
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byromiz
023 @03:26AM
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Attached to: Researchers Discover Why Roman Concrete Was So Durable
After pouring, there are remaining granules of quicklime in the concrete, called free lime. If cracks develop, the humidity entering will react with the free lime turn into lime plaster, which takes a much larger volume and blocks the crack. The calcite-filled cracks reported by the article are examples of this type of reaction. The interesting thing is also that this reaction seems to prevent further deterioration, compared to iron expansion from corrosion which will hasten the degradation of reinforced concrete.
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byromiz
022 @05:17AM
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Attached to: Microsoft-Backed Start-Up Heirloom Uses Limestone To Capture CO2
One seemingly efficient way of CO2 capture is to use volcanic rock such as basalt. When exposed to CO2, the calcium, sodium and magnesium in the stone react and capture the CO2 into stable molecules, as in this example in Iceland. Basalt is an extremely abundant rock, and the transformation already occurs in nature, only slowly. The CO2 should not be able to leak in this kind of scheme.
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byromiz
2021 @12:44PM
(#61932503)
Attached to: France Moves To Shield Its Book Industry From Amazon
Discount on new books is forbidden in France since 1981.
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byromiz
1 @03:04AM
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Attached to: UK Government Backs Scheme For Motorway Cables To Power Lorries
There is a highway section in Germany that has been fitted with power lines, and that is used as a test bed for a similar technology.
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byromiz
20 @06:31AM
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Attached to: 'We Need a Broadband Internet Pricing Equivalent of Nutrition Labels'
At least you have the option of changing providers for one that better matches your needs (or if you really find that no such provider, the option to setup a new one covering this unaddressed market) when there's no monopoly involved. No such option with the monopoly. You need to lobby the provider, and if it does not care you're stuck.
Clearly, for this to work, it also requires regulations to prevent the natural inclination of telecom markets toward monopolisation.
Given how people prefer pay more for fiber, I believe that your fear of a race to the bottom is in warranted as well. In my country, the fiber providers usually have two brands, with a low-cost, low service version, and a more expensive version that caters to those who want a more polished experience.
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byromiz
20 @01:49AM
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Attached to: 'We Need a Broadband Internet Pricing Equivalent of Nutrition Labels'
In places where there is competition, the providers offering the cheapest and poorest quality service tend to be the most widely used. They will massively over subscribe the service, its slow and unreliable, there are very few if any value-adds, routing is poor, equipment provided by the isp is poor quality, support services are poor or nonexistent.
There are no monopolies on most European markets, and yet it appears that the quality of service is not markedly worse than what you get in North America. In fact, In fact, as companies try to optimize their benefits, a monopoly will be able to provide the bad service you describe and get away with it. If a company in a competitive market provides bad service to its clients, they will just change providers.
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byromiz
2020 @09:31AM
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Attached to: Researchers Develop System That Transforms CO2 Into Concrete
Calcium oxyde: CaO
Limestone: CaCO3
CaCO3 -> CaO + CO2
At best it is neutral, but if If you produce CO2 to generate the energy necessary to make this reaction, it's clearly negative in terms of CO2. You need to find a way to get CaO from something else than Limestone to do something interresting from this reaction.
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byromiz
018 @02:00AM
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Attached to: EU Fines Qualcomm $1.2 Billion for Paying Apple To Use Its Microchips
No reliable source on the topic, sorry. But it is quite possible to patent the principles of CDMA - using orthogonal codes to provide multiple users access to the same frequency band - without patenting the technical means to do it with a good power efficiency. If those methods are hard to detect through reverse engineering, it may be a good idea to keep them secret.
I believe that it is not a coincidence that when WCDMA was introduced, one big complaint from early adopters was the very short standby time compared with 2G only models.
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