galacticdessert

Just for my understanding, what is the issue with xanthan gum and locust bean gum? You need thickeners, stabilizers, and emulsifiers if you want high quality ice cream and that applies to both industrial as well as artisanal.

Xanthan or Agar Agar are commonly used even in household gelato (think a 1kg ice cream machine or something like a Ninja Creami - which is one of my own ever favorite and most recommended appliances) to reduce the formation of ice crystals. Locust Bean Gum and Guar Gum or is a thickener and can greatly improve the creaminess of the final product.

Historically people used a lot of egg yolks as emulsifiers in ice creams, but there are reasons to limit them or directly not have them in your gelato. Think even just fat content, or allergies, or personal preference. For that you will need some sort of natural gum and as far as I know there are no known health hazards associated with them (unless you consume crazy amount like 10-20g/day, which means you have to eat it from the jar with a spoon... I would not recommend)

Workers' councils...

The tone in the article is so off. We are clearly headed for a climate disaster, being whiners about having to manually de ice your windshield is so very childish.

I understand there is a broader topic of regulators impacting what can and can’t be done but isn’t that just having a government?

Yeah you are being a dick. Hope you will also have a little one one day and maybe then you will realise how absurd you having to correct their kids sounds like ;)

So did McKinsey ;)

Small and efficient ICE engines are as proved a technology as it gets. If you end up buying a V6 engine now it is not because of how good or reliable the engine is, it is either nostalgia or status symbol. So, please don’t and be more mindful of your emissions.

Oh I soooo miss Fotolog, was a great concept

As I consultant that works extensively in Excel, I understand your point. The lack of decent syntax highlighting, auto-indentation or “IDE mode” instead of the formula bar can be painful. Especially when working with models developed by others.

On the other hand, you can see it as a feature. It forces you to keep your formulas short, break them down in helper columns and overall make your logic cleaner. If you are writing a 4 line long formula, you are doing something wrong. Sytax highlighting would still surely help, but it is not a replacement for clean modelling.

Cheap green electricity at less than 50 $/MWh should not be a problem, most PPAs are already getting signed at costs substantially lower than that.

Absorbing large amounts of CO2 happens every second since 2-3 centuries at this point, and is the main driver of ocean acidification and subsequent coral bleaching, loss of wildlife, etc. If the mentioned process could "recycle" the CO2 needed for lime production, then it could be a big win for a very hard to decarbonize sector.

What is still to be checked is how more expensive this lime will be, and how it will stack up compared with traditional limestone+carbon tax

I feel like when you need to create value and make a product, better to do it in a language you know. Product value is not directly proportional to product performance or raw HTTP request serving time.

I for instance know a bit of F#/C# and Java, but would probably pick Python to make a new product just to remove that mental barrier of not having my lack of language knowledge in the way of things