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CommentRe: You SOLD It To Me. (Score 1)124

Their code could still be used in other products and you're still having to open source code that you used to make money with and maybe still are making money with and now maybe others can use to make money with.
Not saying closed-source is the best thing since sliced bread, but this does go against normal practices for companies that try to make money from their software products.

CommentRe:US Company Outsources, Who Knew? (Score 2)157

To push this point on, I work for a US company (not in the US). Everything is and has been outsourced because cheaper so you're more competitive. First production, now also deskjobs. Most goes to Asia, some in Central America, others in Eastern Europe. If you don't do that you can't compete. If you can't compete your company goes under. You have to join this rat-race or you loose to your competitors. And they're not just American competitors, so they don't care.
Believe me, I've seen many coworkers go. The next round is now underway. Just 10 people, but it's again 10 people gone, 10 people outsourced to some company in India.
Fortunately for us there are no tariffs yet on using services from non-US companies. Don't mention this to Trump. He'll love the idea.

CommentRe:So.... (Score 1)157

And if you manufacture everything in the US, to what cost? Will it be cheaper or more expensive. Maybe the thought process is that it will be cheaper than importing with tariffs but it will be more expensive than it was. Ergo: you still can not sell your product at the price you want so you still won't get the same revenue (let alone the same profit).

Either way, you lose, prices go up and the economy will go down.

CommentRe:So.... (Score 2)157

You haven't understood correctly and have not read the article (granted, it's paywalled). They import the parts they need for their laptops from outside the US (mainly Taiwan) and due to the import tariffs those prices have gone up so they have to ask more money for their laptops and they realised that that won't be competitive.

So good on you Trump! You've killed yet another American business!

Their post on X.

CommentRe:Sigh (Score 1)272

It depends on what kind of free society you want. Do you want a society where every manufacturer is free to abuse you to no end, or do you want a society free of such abuse. And believe me: it won't be long until every manufacturer will be abusing you, because $$$.
I know the US is more inclined to the former. But trust me, you do not want to live in such a "free" society.

CommentRe:Megawatt (Score 2)275

The (350/400 kW) truck chargers are exactly the same as the passenger car chargers. They are interchangeable and trucks can use the same infrastructure as the cars (even charge next to cars). Sure, there are dedicated spots for trucks at some places, but the stall is the same and there is no limitation for a general charger to be used by a truck (that is, most trucks require 800V chargers).
I can recommend @elektrotrucker (@electrictrucker is his English channel) to see the state of the charging infrastructure, mostly in Germany, but he has done some drives in France, Spain and Austria.

CommentRe:A rather misleading headline (Score 1)103

The numbers here are somewhat misleading because solar has such a low capacity factor. 50GW capacity probably equates to something like 10GW of average power output (ie about 10GWYr of output across a year - somewhere around five hours of peak output per day) though calculating the exact figure would require detailed knowledge of where it was all installed.

Solar can easily supply the same amount of kWh per year as Wp installed. So 50 GWp installed capacity (I assume that is what they mean) should deliver 50,000 GWh every year. Even at my high latitude of 51. The USA shows a general not less than 1.2 kWh/Wp and going up to 2 kWh/Wp. So I'd imagine it wil be better than 1. The 10GWYear that you mention would equate to 8,760 GWh (because 8760 hours in a year).
The main disadvantage about solar is that it delivers power in peaks and is therefore only useful if you can also store energy (or use other sources of energy at night or when there is less sunshine) and given sufficent penetration of solar, you will have more energy than you need if you have no storage.

CommentRe:The artists are 100% correct (Score 1)142

And again: are you applying this only to the arts and performances or to everything anyone makes? Let's say I make a nice table for myself, would anybody be free to take it and distribute it in the world? No, it is mine to do with because I made it. The same goes for music, I can decide that you can have it, but I can also decide that you have to pay to listen to it.

No, obviously, that would be stealing your table, a physical thing.

There. That is the point of my argument. Stop making it about IP. I have never talked about IP or inventions. My music that I write is also a physical thing. It is my creation, it is written notes. It is not an invention to be ruled by IP law.

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