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Just used it to automate some reporting today. Claude Code worked pretty well though sometimes I had to point it to Typst docs to understand what I wanted.

Deutsche Welle is not funded by the “Rudfunkbeitrag” but part of the federal budgetz

> Is it harder than implied to make that declaration?

It involves going in person to a court or to a notary public. Pretty high friction which, I believe, is largely intentional.


For 8% off my tax bill, that feels like a small obstacle.

Yes, but you'll usually have to make an appointment for that and especially in larger cities or communities this might take quite a time. So, yeah, 8% on the hand, waiting for weeks for an appointment on the other hand...

There's more friction than needed...


There’s been a lot of progress (Temporal, URL, TextDecoder, Base64 encoding, etc.) but there are still gaps.

Math.clamp is a big one (it’s a TC39 proposal). I’d also love to have the stats functions that Python has (geometric mean, median, etc.).

On the more ambitious end: CSV reading/writing and IPv4/IPv6 manipulation.


> On the more ambitious end: CSV reading/writing

Deno's standard libary has nice CSV parsing/serializing, and you can use it in any environment.

Docs: https://docs.deno.com/examples/parsing_serializing_csv/


Most European countries (except France and the UK) are not interested in projecting power outside of a fairly narrow geographic area (mostly the European continent and adjacent seas).

These “military starlinks” will be much smaller systems than actual Starlink. The German one plans for 100 satellites.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-07/airbus-te...


I'm betting on every single implementation costing $10B minimum


Most MRIs vent their helium in an emergency shutdown. https://medprotech.de/en/what-is-an-mri-quench/


From the OECD report you cited:

> In Germany, the tax wedge for the average single worker decreased by 5 percentage points from 52.9% to 47.9% between 2000 and 2024. During the same period, the average tax wedge across the OECD decreased by 1.3 percentage points from 36.2% to 34.9%.

Sounds like Germany is getting better.


Yes the share of electricity produced by coal plants is going down: https://ember-energy.org/countries-and-regions/china/

So it appears they’re building more renewable capacity than coal capacity.


Your graph shows only increasing emissions from coal.

by the way also it shows increasing CO2 emissions from solar and wind. it doesn't make any sense


Look at the graph labelled “ Share of generation (%)” to see the (relative) decline of coal.


What do you think they should’ve done when faced with a legal warrant from the jurisdiction they operate in?


They should've prepared themselves and their customers better before that happens - one tiny example: there is no anon payment option listed at the main payment flow and no warning that credit card. Or maybe there is some smart way of not having permanent access to the payment identifier, only during the time of payment?

Re. at the moment not sure, that depends on their jurisdiction, but that's another thing - why don't they explain what's possible and what and why they did/didn't do?


I agree that they should offer private and anonymous payment like monero and cash. They do talk about using a VPN and Tor to hide your IP but its kind of hidden in the footer.

https://proton.me/tor


https://proton.me/support/payment-options

Quote:

You can pay for any Proton subscription with Bitcoin — but it won’t appear as a payment option when you first create your account.

To use Bitcoin, create a free Proton Account, then upgrade to a paid subscription in your account settings.

Quote:

We accept cash payments in US dollars (USD), euros (EUR), or Swiss francs (CHF).


btc is the opposite of private and anonymous. They do accept cash by mail but not on there main page.


Heat pump exists. I’d rather burn gas in the (mostly existing) gas plants than put more gas pipes into the ground.


Heat pumps don’t solve switching away from gas.


If you don't put in heat pumps, nuclear reactors are one of the more expensive ways to heat a home.

If you do put in heat pumps, nuclear reactors are still one of the more expensive ways to heat a home, but you need a third as many of them as compared to the no-heat-pumps case, if you insist on heating only with nuclear power.

Nuclear power is really only important if you also want spicy atoms, because it's by far the cheapest source of spicy atoms. Annoyingly, this is now a thing a lot of countries have a solid reason to want.


They solve a large part: heating. They don’t solve gas as an industrial feedstock, but you need a lot fewer pipes for that use case.


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