The shutdown of the nuclear reactors was an ideologically driven decision by the last government and the last government before that.
Energy prices are extremely high which damages the German economy. Renewables depend on massive subsidies that Germany can't afford less and less.
Oh and Gas: Switching supplier from Russia to Qatar wasn't a brilliant decision. You just replace an adversarial supplier with another one. Thats really no reason to pat yourself on the shoulder. Its an extremely short term decision.
You are using the word "ideology". That isn't the hallmark of good arguments. But may be we can agree onto that the current government is trying to fix all the problems caused by the previous one.
The problem wasn't shutting down the mostly old nuclear reactors, the problem was curbing the ramp up of renewables. But fortunately, the current government is fixing that. Which brings energy prices down and while currently we are hit by many factors, quickly can become a big support for Germanys economy. It might be expensive leading a trend, but it does pay of long term.
Yeah, but... why? It should be easyer and cheaper to do so. I fail to imagine how much more value they can extract by refusing to use this. What? 50 more measly bucks per car? Obviously, there's something I'm not getting, would love for someone to illuminate me.
Are they imagining there is more value in this than there is? Am I simply underestimating the value potential for having their own thing? Do they want to protect their customer's data? Do they think that NOT having it somehow is a positive differentiator? Do they not know how to make it happen? I am stumped.
It's in the article "Since 2021, the ecommerce giant has failed to attend three meetings with the employment and social affairs committee"
The quote from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39529974 might be more clear "The move comes after Amazon’s repeated refusal to attend hearings in the European Parliament on working conditions in Amazon warehouses."
Nokia never understood the less-is-more thing that Apple are so good at. Hundreds of phones and an overcomplicated OS wuth political and technical problems - Symbian - were the result, not the cause, of a company that lacked focus and direction.
It's interesting that Microsoft never succeeded with a smartphone, given that their other hardware products enjoy a decent reputation (keyboards, mice, tablets); I suspect it's because of the software side - stuck with the desktop metaphor and windows, which makes no sense on smartphones.
The last version, the one on the Lumias, was actually quite OK on a phone from all I've heard -- and living in Finland, I knew more than a few people who used those back in the day.
That's preciely why Windows 8 sucked so much on the desktop; it was intended to have as much as possible of the look-and-feel of Windows Phone. Windows 8 sucked on computers; apparently not so much on phones.
At the time, Microsoft's software development was a bit of mess. But Windows Phone didn't have a desktop metaphor. Recently I had the opportunity to try one that was sitting in desk for a few years and it was pretty interesting and snappy. But they redesigned their mobile OS so many times, had no good developer experience, and came in late enough that it was all doomed.
I worked at roughly 10 companies in my life. Most either used Outlook/Office or Gmail/Calendar/Drive. Personally I hate the Microsoft office productivity stack, and on the other hand, I love using the Google stack, including Calendar.
Different strokes for different folks. I don’t like google calendar and prefer outlook’s. It’s probably the only part of office except Excel that I actually think works well.
Not perfectly, I’d still like a good calendar based around sharing and collab, but the best out there.
I think we need a good decentralized calendar that treats all calendars as peers. Outlook and google treat a single server as being the authority and everything has to go to those servers for actions. I’d rather see something like a calendar blob for individuals that gets sent around and rehosted lots of places like git. Or at least the availability. It’s still funny to me how hard it is to tell someone off server what your availability is.
The shutdown of the nuclear reactors was an ideologically driven decision by the last government and the last government before that.
Energy prices are extremely high which damages the German economy. Renewables depend on massive subsidies that Germany can't afford less and less.
Oh and Gas: Switching supplier from Russia to Qatar wasn't a brilliant decision. You just replace an adversarial supplier with another one. Thats really no reason to pat yourself on the shoulder. Its an extremely short term decision.