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Kjell

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  • Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemies

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  • Solar and wind power are dependent on the weather to generate power, where nuclear power is not. I agree that there are many ideas on how to store the energy from solar and wind power, but how many of them is used on such large scale that it makes a difference on the grid?

    Out of topic but do you have any data that shows that the baseload is obsolete? I have a hard time to believe that based on the definition from https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/baseload

    Baseload refers to the minimum level of demand on an electrical supply system over a 24-hour period, with baseload power sources being those plants that generate dependable power to consistently meet this demand.

  • Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemies

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  • Nuclear is part of the solution. We shouldn't rely on a single source of energy.

  • Europe has survived 3 energy shocks in 4 years. The only way out is to stop buying power from its enemies

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  • This is the correct answer. Nuclear is not a perfect energy source, but it fills one big gap that we currently have with the renewable energy sources.

    I would also say that gas can be an ok alternative in some situations. For example as replacement of a coal power plant if it is built together with solar and/or wind power. The gas power plant can increase the power when the renewables does not produce energy and be turned off during sunny or windy days.

  • The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone

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  • The latest community phone will be manufactured in Finland.

  • Good question

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  • My manager suggested that the team would sing for me last year in a group meeting. I asked why and she said they should sing because it's my birthday. I had to look on the calendar because she sounded so convinced but it was several weeks until my birthday. Since that she has never suggested happy birthday singing again and I really hope it remains like that.

  • Fluxer is now hiring, with 8 positions currently open

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  • In most companies in Sweden it is fine to speak English. In a company that develops an app I would even assume that everything is in English except for the legal stuff.

  • Fluxer is now hiring, with 8 positions currently open

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  • The salary is a bit low for the engineering jobs, the recommended salary without any experience at all is almost 4000 €/month. While the recommended salary is higher than most people get, it should be possible to get around 3500 €/month. But the remote-first and flexible hours are perks that compensates for some of the lower salary.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • I need to rewatch it again, I haven't seen it in many years.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • With ai and more and more surveillance it is even more relevant than when it was aired.

  • The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone

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  • Google will not spy on you and most of the code is open source. I'm not sure if it has been audited.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • I will recommend person of interest to anyone who asks.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Foundation and Andor are such great series.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • How many seasons have you seen? I watched the first two and they are great but I lost interest after the first episodes of season 3. How was the last seasons?

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Silo is great but I didn't fall for severance. But I might give it another try.

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • I think it became worse already in season 4 and then season 5 was meh, as you said. But I'm glad I saw all seasons once. I watched the first three seasons again last year and they are still great.

  • [Inspiring]: Canadians are paying more than lip service to Buy Canada — and now the numbers prove it

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  • I have Firefox with uBlock Origin, Consent-O-Matic and CanvasBlocker and I have no problems to read the article.

    There’s been a lot of talk about the Buy Canadian movement since the protest first sprung up at the onset of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war, but is it all talk?

    Not according to a recent study by the Bank of Canada.

    Central bank researchers tapped three sets of data that confirm Canadians have indeed been shifting away from their neighbours to the south by increasing their spending on domestic travel and Canadian grocery products and reducing their spending on similar U.S. products and services.

    Historically the United States has been one of the most popular travel destinations for Canadians, but that has changed since trade tensions flared between the two countries, said the study.

    Canadians took almost 10 million or 25 per cent fewer trips to the United States last year. The biggest drop was in trips across the border by land which fell by 8.4 million or 30 per cent. Trips by air were down 1.2 million or 12 per cent.

    Data from Statistics Canada show that Canadians are now spending their money on travelling within Canada and to international destinations other than the U.S. Canadians took four per cent more trips domestically and spent about 10 per cent more in Canada on travel and tourism between the first and third quarters of 2025 as the “Buy Canadian movement gained momentum.”

    Getting numbers on how Canadians are spending their money in the grocery store is more difficult so the researchers turned to the NielsenIQ Homespun Consumer panel.

    This data involves 10,000 Canadian households each month scanning the barcodes of their purchases, three quarters of which are groceries. Using the barcode to determine where the product was licensed, researchers were able to trace, though admittedly imperfectly, its country of origin.

    The shift from spending on U.S. products to Canadian goods is “modest but clearly visible,” they said.

    In March 2025 when trade tensions escalated as Trump launched his tariff war, food spending on Canadian products jumped two percentage points compared to January of that year. The share spent on U.S. goods fell by a similar amount.

    “And what started in March wasn’t short-lived — it persisted through the summer,” said the report.

    The shift in spending was larger in some categories, especially coffee and fruit juices. Researchers said some of this may be due to counter-tariffs imposed by Canada which made some U.S. goods, such as orange juice, more expensive. Most of those tariffs have since been dropped.

    The Buy Canadian movement remains strong, however.

    Canadians made their preference for homegrown goods and services clear in the central bank’s latest consumer survey in the fourth quarter of 2025. More than a third of respondents said they plan to increase their spending on domestic travel. Almost half said they will be reducing their spending on travel to the United States.

    Trade tensions over the past year have pushed the Canadian economy into structural change, with supply chains and domestic production shifting away from the U.S. and exporters finding new partnerships, said the study.

    Monitoring spending patterns is important because the movement could actually be affecting the economy.

    “Should Canadian consumers continue to prefer domestic products over U.S. goods and services, this spending shift could not only affect the composition of Canada’s gross domestic product but also have an impact on inflationary pressures,” it said.

    Apart from the Bank of Canada study, Buy Canadian is showing up in other data.

    Foreign direct investment into this country hit $96.8 billion in 2025, the highest annual inflows in almost 20 years.

    The United Kingdom boosted its exposure, snapping up Canadian software companies ranging from cybersecurity to AI-powered asset management, “suggesting U.K. investors see Canadian tech as both promising and a natural gateway to North American markets,” said Maria Solovieva, an economist with Toronto Dominion Bank.

    “With Canada pursuing more incremental engagements with other partners, including the most recent PM’s announcement of visits to India, Australia, and Japan, we may see a more diversified flow of direct investment towards the second half of the year. A trend worth watching,” she said.

  • Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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  • Oh, I meant what the advantage would be of tracking TPMS sensors instead of using a camera to read the license plate. I can see the advantage of tracking people.

  • Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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  • It seems easier to set up a camera and scan the license plate for identification instead of using radios for logging TPMS sensors.

    Would it be an advantage to identify a car by logging the TPMS sensors?

  • What search engine do you guys use?

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  • Qwant on my computers and DDG on my mobile.