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> 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.


I don’t think so. My M3 Pro is on the list as supporting 120 hz but it only has Thunderbolt 4.

Also the base M4 doesn’t habe Thunderbolt 5 and it support 120 hz.


> My M3 Pro is on the list as supporting 120 hz

Can you point me to said list? All I could find was:

> Mac models with M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra, M2, and M3 support Studio Display XDR at up to 60Hz. All other Studio Display XDR features are supported.

And The Verge reports:

> There’s also support for adaptive sync that can adjust between 47Hz and 120Hz (if it’s connected to an M4 Mac or later, or the M5 iPad Pro)

I got an M3 Max and was strongly considering upgrading my old monitor, but if I can't do 120hz, I'll just wait until I upgrade my laptop as well.


I’ll give you an anecdote: my work laptop is an M3 Pro MBP, and my Dell U4025QW works just fine with it over Thunderbolt at 120Hz VRR


That monitor has a noticeable lower pixel count.

Dell U4025QW: 5120 x 2160 = 11,059,200 vs Apple Studio Display XDR: 5120 x 2880 = 14,745,600

So your display has 25% less pixels.


It’s quite possible this is running with a reduced color space (chroma subsampling). Degradation happens automatically based on available throughput and most people don’t notice.


For desktop use? Chroma subsampling is obvious. DSC compression, on the other hand, is not. DisplayPort and HDMI support both.


It’s obvious if you use a test pattern and/or know what to look for: https://testufo.com/chroma

I had no idea what it was for the longest time. As it turns out, macOS frequently enables it even when it’s unnecessary, and without any way to override.


> Can you point me to said list?

There’s no list per-se. The MacBook Pro (2021 and later) is listed as supported. The M3 Pro and M3 Max are not listed as only supporting 60Hz while the M3 and M1 Pro are.


They did say M3, not M3 Pro. You're probably okay.

(Notice how they listed the M1 chips individually.)


It‘s also generational. My 18yo sister in law is now applying for colleges and the word “application” immediately made her look for an app. That the whole process happened on a (not mobile friendly) website was rather surprising to her.

(English is her 3rd language)


I am 51. The amount of Ludditism on HN shouldn’t come as a surprise to me. But it does. Most older 70+ year old people I know don’t own a computer at all and would never use one. But they do know how to get to things they need on their phones.


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