What many posters in this thread fail to realize is that there is a very good reason why steam hasn’t been hit by the enshittification that otherwise permeates human existence in 2024.
Of course, Gaben as their CEO has the last say in it. And he’s just a good guy. But wait, aren’t there other companies that have good guys as their CEO and yet the enshittification persists?
The profound reason is that Valve is not a publicly traded company. They have no obligation to any investors to make number go up. They are a private company, they can do whatever the fuck they want. If they stay flat and keep paying their employees, that’s totally fine, and there is 0 pressure on them to change anything. THAT‘s why Valve seems like such a different company compared to everything else that’s out there.
Of course it’s still a choice to go public or not, and they have made the right call (for us consumers).
Good man. I agree 100% - the more warming we get, the bigger of a difference each .1 degree makes. So we should only get more aggressive about climate change the worse it gets instead of giving up.
Die Schweiz ist ja natürlich auch ein sozialistischer Musterstaat.
Indeed, what the hell is this article?
I’d like to relay this comment from hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36834046
It seems there's news of a battery breakthrough every week. I've learned to temper expectations, because so many "breakthroughs" turn out to be dead ends. Because it's not enough for a battery to be incredibly light, or made of abundant materials, or last for ten thousand cycles. It needs to be good at many things and at least okay at most things.
E.g.—
• How much capacity per dollar?
• How much capacity per kilogram?
• How much capacity per litre?
• How quickly can it be charged?
• How quickly can it be discharged?
• How much energy is lost between charging and discharging?
• How predisposed is it to catching fire?
• How available are the materials needed to manufacture it?
• How available are the tools/skills required to manufacture it?
• How resilient is it to mechanical stress, e.g. vibration?
• How much does performance degrade per cycle?
• How much does performance degrade when stored at a high state of charge?
• How much does performance degrade when stored at a low state of charge?
• How much does performance drop at high temperatures?
• How much does performance drop at low temperatures?
• How well can it be recycled at end-of-life?
A sufficiently bad answer for any one of these could utterly exclude it from contention as an EV battery. A battery which scores well on everything except mechanical resilience is a non-starter, for example. Though it might be great for stationary storage. I'm only a layperson and this list is what I came up with just a few minutes of layperson thought. I'm sure someone with more familiarity with battery technology could double the length of this list. But the point is, when you daydream about some hypothetical future battery tech, you need to appreciate just how well today's lithium chemistries score in so many areas
While I appreciate the sentiment, I think it’s unrealistic to expect the greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere to decrease. For that, we already would need net 0 emissions AND some sort of carbon capture system in place.
For now, what must decrease is greenhouse gas emissions, and the article admits that that is what happened (but the decrease was so low it could be attributed to natural fluctuations).
Der zweitbeste Zeitpunkt ist heute.
Hat nicht geklappt weil die NPD nicht relevant genug war, und ein verbot damit nicht nötig ist, war die Begründung.
Das ist bei der AfD anders.
I did not realize this is a month old. I certainly did not know about this, but I figure this piece of information probably can’t be overstated for now :-)
Not with this attitude. Did you consider writing your representative that you support this motion?
Research published yesterday by several European media outlets has revealed that an international campaign in support of the EU's proposed child sexual abuse regulation has been largely orchestrated and financed by a network of organisations with links to the tech industry and security services. The
An actually shocking revelation: the chat control legislation currently being pushed by the EU commission is traceable to foreign interference.
Wenn man einen langfristigen anlegehorizont hat, würde ich grade jetzt ETFs kaufen. Die sind nämlich mit dem Preis ganz schon runter gegangen, weil sie (zur Zeit) die hohen ezb Zinsen schlagen müssen.
Auf lange Zeit werden die EZB Zinsen wieder runter gehen, und dann wird man mit dem etf quasi automatisch hoch gehoben, aber das geht eben nur wenn man min. 10, besser 20 Jahre Spielraum hat.
Festgeld würde ich nur machen wenn du die Sicherheit unbedingt brauchst. Zum Beispiel, du hast dir ein Haus gekauft und du weißt 100% dass das Geld in einem Jahr fällig wird. Dann kann man das nicht in einen etf stecken, Risiko zu hoch. Dafür wäre Festgeld oder Tagesgeld perfekt.
So eine Einstellung hilft halt auch nur den rechten Parteien. Wenn die Linken immer nur 100% ihrer überzeugung durchsetzen dürfen, sonst sind sie nicht „ideal“ - wie soll das gehen? Wenn sie nur 15% der Stimmen haben? Da muss man halt auch realistisch bleiben und eben die Partei wählen, die am nächsten an den eigenen Überzeugungen ist, auch wenn die nicht 100% davon durch kriegen.
Wenn man die Flinte ins Korn schmeißt, gewinnen halt wieder die Rentner mit ihrer CSU oder den AfD Zombies. Damit ist dir sicher auch nicht geholfen.
Im not sure what you are talking about, carbon taxes are one of the best ways to mitigate co2 emissions.
If two producers produce the same good, but one of them emits less co2, that one will have higher profit margins.
This is just one of the levers to nudge industries (who, let’s be real, are the main polluters) towards cleaner operations, and as far as I am informed, it’s one of the most effective ways.
So this is good news. It’s good. We have to celebrate that, too, lest we all suffer from doomerism. Can more be done? Yes, there is always more to be done.
But is this a good, important step?
Definitely.
This is the correct answer, this shit is „your carbon footprint“ all over again
Same, I actually refunded it after 2 hours because I was already bored.
And I like space games.
You are right, but a corporation is not run by robots. There are individuals making these decisions, and they must - and will be - held accountable.
Nein, das sind die Grünen. Die einzigen, die ernsthaft was ändern wollen und nicht nur schwadronieren.
Billiger Artikel.
Oder besser gesagt, billige Headline.
Die Grünen machen sehr gute Arbeit, und die Medien täten gut daran, das auch zu würdigen. Die Medien sind nämlich mit schuld an der katastrophalen Lage, in welcher dieses Land sich befinden, und solche Artikel bzw. das Framing sind der Grund dafür.
Dann soll der Autor doch mal die Hosen runter lassen, wo können denn die Grünen viel mehr rausholen? Sie sind in einer Dreierkoalition, und sie sind nun bei weitem NICHT die Partei, die für das bremsen verantwortlich ist.
Weiter unten geht er auch darauf ein, dass die FDP und die SPD für die Misere hauptsächlich verantwortlich sind, aber was hängen bleibt, ist, dass wieder irgendwie die Grünen selbst schuld sind.
Einfach dumm.
Bereitet EVP-Chef Weber ein Bündnis seiner Konservativen mit den Rechten vor? Selbst einige seiner eigenen Leute wollen ihm nicht folgen.
Judge Jacqueline Corley penned a remarkably shoddy decision in the Microsoft-Activision case. We have a problem with bad and often random decisions by judges.
Despite the somewhat confusing title, this is an analysis of the merger trial, and how it could continue. Definitely worth the read, it pulls back the curtain on what happens when two giant corporations are trying to fuse.
"The idea is to create a moat that nobody else can attack." - Microsoft exec Matt Booty