compared to a mega container ship, i bet the carbon footprint of this sailing boat is much much greater!
Please compare the sails, antifouling, boat paint per load compared to a container ship, its much uglier than you think when you compare it to a big size petrol container ship! Just do the math! Its has more a symbolic "green thing" character, which is good! :)
Even an automatically controlled boat is too expensive concerning insurance, fire and so compared to a megaboat with a small amount of people.
Germany did not wear masks on the first shutdown in spring (same as Danmark and Sweden) - the were not available and they came as the spread already went down heading summer.
As for the headline, Germany has a strict shutdown at the moment.
- Door handles made of brass / copper (kill bacteria, viruses and fungi) are retrofitted in many households.
- Significantly less tourism in 2020. Maybe a peak in 2021.
- More divorces.
- Higher unemployment rate.
- Less globalization. There are other triggers for this, such as the current (and expected) US foreign policy.
- A shift in the age pyramid, with various consequences!
- Greater spread / acceptance of bidets. Spread of systems that retrofit a kind of bidet for western toilets.
- Faster changes to the law for drone deliveries.
- More privately owned firearms.
- More doomsday prepper.
- bank consolidation. Especially in the United States.
- I'm curious to see what happens to all of the sub-prime car loans in the United States that used to blow cars up to very poor Uber drivers. They drive for +/- 0 Uber and then drive to the 2nd and 3rd job. One of the jobs breaks away.
- Higher mortality rates for various diseases because hospitals and health systems are overloaded.
- More vegeterians and pasters.
- High capacity utilization in cemeteries, undertakers and crematoriums.
- Much, much more blatant two-tier medicine than before.
- Various airport businesses go bankrupt.
- Less just-in-time, but more local stocks / buffers. In all stations of the supply chain.
- Blatant price changes in food. The prices for mussels, eels and lobsters have dropped by up to 70% in some markets!
- A lot of assets will migrate from older generations to younger generations.
- More vertical farming, rooftop farming, rooftop bee keeping, etc. in cities.
a few days ago i posted a Chrome Chat App, which can use Skype without any permissions (optional camera + mic permissions)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12158740 - may this helps for paranoid people ;)
Hey, in the last couple of weeks we built a Chrome app that unifies a lot messenger platforms. It's a fun side project which is slowly gaining traction on the Chrome Web Store (2k users, organically grown). We have received a lot of positive feedback already, especially from Chrome OS users, but wanted to show it to a wider audience now.
As usual, if you have any questions about it feel free to ask us anything - we are happy about any feedback!