As long as it’s not one sided or under duress I see no issue.

For real, or just for a little pump and dump action by some bad actor again?

Oh I remember that. I think it was called like the 53rd element as a reference to port 53 for DNS.

To be exact it would be 0.92% each year if it had been steady. 7.3 * (0.0092 ^ 24) = 9.1

To contextualize that number, global population growth is 0.85%, the Eurozone is at 0.36%. So we do grow at a remarkable rate compared to our neighbors.

I’m glad the initiative was defeated though.

No, just the allbutt :-)

Not quite. Don’t ask me why but it’s a statistical term that also includes people with a class B permit, which is limited in term, but can be extended. It’s defined like this:

The permanent resident population is the reference population for population statistics. As of 2010, the permanent resident population includes all Swiss nationals having their main place of residence in Switzerland and foreign nationals who have held a residence or permanent residence permit for a minimum of 12 months (permits B,C, L, F, S, N or FDFA permit-holding international civil servants, diplomats and their family members).

Source: https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/population/effectif-change.html

The plan would have been: Breaking human rights on asylum and the unity of the family, starting at 9.5 million, then if 10 million was reached anyway, cancelling free movement with the EU, and thereby breaking the bilateral contracts.

No it didn’t

The ‘No to a Switzerland with 10 million! (Sustainability Initiative)’ calls for a cap on the permanent resident population

Source: https://www.admin.ch/en/sustainability-initiative

It’s slightly less stupid than data centers in space I suppose. But I still find it pretty weird.

You will have to be tethered to land anyway. Properly high bandwidth networking as you would usually see to connect a data center (on the order of a dozen terabits per second) only exists through fiber optic cables. I’m sure of this point, because optical networking is my day-job, though we only run 400 Gbit/s links on the fastest edges since we’re a small national network.

As for power, well there are 80 MW ship engines (e.g. Wärtsilä-Sulzer RT-flex96C, which has even been built in Korea under license before), so it’s not impossible I suppose. But if you are tethered, then the country you’re tethered to will probably forbid you from burning bunker fuel for 80 MW on its coast. At which point you’d be reduced to running clean diesel or something. That I expect would make the power more costly than just tethering to an electric grid

So now we have a big barge rather than a ship. What do you really save then? I guess the price of the land? And you gain access to copious amounts of saltwater, so you can do closed loop cooling with freshwater, and do the secondary heat exchange to the ocean. But you could do that by building on the coast too. Okay I guess you might gain tsunami security over a coastal building.

If this is a real proposal why don’t they tell us the material advantages they expect, rather than making us guess?

der8auer already explained that it won’t work. So this is no big surprise to me, but nice to see him proven correct.

Links: German: first video, follow-up video, English: first video, follow-up video

Oh I hadn’t realized that Beidou-3 has global coverage. I thought that was still a regional system. Thanks for mentioning countries outside of their earlier area of coverage

The entire stock market runs on GPS for nanosecond timing of trades.

Funny you should mention this. At work we built a time delivery system on our fiber optic network (based on WhiteRabbit from CERN) with the national lab who generates our countries UTC contribution, and a stock market operator became one of our early customers.

Yeah the frequency is not the issue, the high voltage could make it expensive to transform the power up in a distributed manner along the tracks. Might be better to run a separate lower voltage line to the next substation.

Good job on the Tokugawa Shogunate!

His shitty IPO is coming up, so that’s gonna sink soon.

And if the railway track is electrified

We got 100% electrification rate in Switzerland!

But usually 15kV AC with 16.67 Hz, so probably not useful for connecting the panels to be honest.

Yes, this is how it is under the cantonal tax law of Canton Zürich in Switzerland.

Normal commuting expenses are not deductible.

Not true for me. I did say I didn’t know about your locals laws, seems the inverse is just as true

I don’t know about you guys and your local tax laws, but I can deduct the costs of earning my income from my taxable income.

Transportation to the job, further education for the job, (if I had any) the costs of having my kids looked after while I work, that sort of thing.

Fundamentally very similar to how the business deducts operating cost from revenue, before paying taxes on profit.

It would be really funny if Trump and Netanyahu put hits on each other.