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  • It’s pure greenwashing.

    They made a deal with a company that has zero practical experience with nuclear reactors, literally built nothing.

    It’s impossible that in just 6 years they will manage to:

    1. Build a test reactor for their new unproven technology that as of now exists only as a PowerPoint presentation to show to investors
    2. Have it approved by the government
    3. Build the full scale reactor
    4. Have it approved by the government
    5. Get a license to use enriched uranium in a private setting

    Even if they finished yesterday to build the final version of the full scale reactor, 6 years aren’t enough to go all through the regulatory red tape

    Now that they promised that will use “green” energy in the future, Google can continue to use energy from coal and in 2030 everyone has forgotten about this vaporware deal













  • Well, while I don’t understand their stubbornness of supporting Google drive, (Google restricts it so much? Ok then just remove it and blame Google. Replace with Dropbox/WebDAV/ftp/whatever) IMHO they’re right about the piracy. Years ago I tried to be an app developer for Android and iOS and I personally experienced that iOS users are willing to pay for everything. The in-app purchase to remove ads on iOS was bought by many, while on Google play literally a single person got it. Maybe it can be simply that because iPhones are 5x more expensive than the average Android (in my country there are no carrier locking and no carrier discounts at all), then users are wealthy or they’re adult workers, while kids and students get the cheaper Android phones.

    I closed both dev accounts years ago and now I’m android user. As an user, I simply cannot imagine paying $5 on Android for a glorified text editor with all the free alternatives that are available. Maybe android users are cost conscious?

    This is the top 10 most sold apps in my country:

    1. Game Booster 4x Faster Pro (users tricked by deceptive ads)
    2. e-Connect (an app to manage a specific home security system)
    3. Threema
    4. Obd torque pro
    5. IPTV extreme pro (used by pirates that want to watch soccer)
    6. Peakfinder
    7. Metronet (an app graphically identical to e-connect but with a different icon and name)
    8. Analog Rolex Royal Watch face (with obvious trademark infringement but of course Google doesn’t care)
    9. Tasker
    10. Nova launcher prime

    Now, this is definitely alarming.

    A smartwatch watchface is the #8 most sold app in a country with 30 million android users???

    #2 and #7 have a combined download count of 20k! And are in the top 10???

    Peakfinder is the #6??? How many people in October are trekking so much that they need to know which mountain are watching???

    Tasker and nova launcher?? Yes I also bought those two apps but are for power users, the 1% of users.






  • Well, they don’t appear to use them as propaganda. When Travis T. King crossed the border, they arrested him and not used as propaganda “see? He hated SK and USA so much”

    Same for Otto warmbier, instead of “see? After he saw our wonderful country, he wanted to take a piece of propaganda back home to always remember us” he was arrested, tortured and sent back dead.

    I do not recall any situation when they used something like this as positive propaganda instead of a public execution

    When they did that experiment on YouTube showing how wonderful is life in north Korea (if you’re a daughter of the elite), it lasted until it suddenly went like “Winston Smith never existed”