Correct. And temperature does not depend on length. We already said it.

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Yes, maximum carried current is indeed invariant of length. I explained math behind it in https://lemm.ee/comment/17115060

And more surface area for heat dissipation. https://lemm.ee/comment/17115060

They cancel out.

On a scale from “smoking 20 packs of cigarettes a day” to “stubbing your toe on a really heavy piece of furniture”, how dangerous would you subjectively rate daisy chaining extension cords

As dangerous as one extension cord of their combined length. Don’t forget to verify that every cord rating is above load rating. I recommend to use at least same rating as circuit breaker or get extension cord with circuit breaker built in and never decrease rating down the line without circuit breaker before it, so even if you somehow overload it, there will be protection from it.

AND NEVER COIL OR THERMALY INSULATE! Cords rely on convection for heat dissipation, and spooling and insulating reduces it, thus increasing electrical insulator temperature until it melts and spontaneously combusts. This applies to extension cords in general.

And temperature difference to ambient temperature is thermal resistivity * dissipated power / (2\*π\*radius\*length). If you will plug dissipated power = resistance * current^2 and resistance into it, you will see, that temperature difference is invariant of length.

The longer the wire, the more heat it can dissipate, so no, you don’t need wire to be thicker.

Inductance is not the reason here

Yes! There is a video about this. Heat in spool of cord is trapped.

It doesn’t make sense. Temperature difference does not depends on length.

but it will also raise the risk of releasing new tech.

It has FOSS exemption.

Rather than simply impose a liability I would feel better about requiring orphaned IP to be opensourced so interested parties can do exactly what’s happening in this case.

In a way it does that.

EU citizens can sign EU Citizens’ Initiative for this for games.

EU pushed new product liability bill. After it takes effect companies will be responsible for breaking of devices and software.

Liquidatoon doesn’t mean they have no money. And they still have some assets.

Also that’s why we should apply mandatory copy laws to software too.

Yes please. And mandatory copy.

If only there was law demanding to refund broken products before liquidation.

I think its constitutional design is relatively apolitical

Relatively as long as we are talking about variations of parlamentary republic or other system without Great Leader. For example we can compare EU and USA of our timeline: one has functioning healthcare, public transport and labour laws, while other has system, that allows only for two right-wing parties to exist, both of which compete for sucking corporate dicks more. All this while election of Great Leader takes all attention from parlamentary and local elections.

And as you have said “if that’s who won in the national + EP elections”. Having oligarchy neigbour instead of leftist one makes domestic oligarchs more likely to win.

Better than Putin Russia, that for sure.

I think it would look like “better EU”, but EU itself would be better than in our timeline.

EDIT: I think alternative timeline EU would be even better than our timeline because it would have example of union, that focuses on quality of life instead of “number must go up”. Also it is worth noting, that I said this assuming USSR would either survive as it was politically in 1991 or reborn as result of parlament winning in October of 1993.

EDIT2: Also I said it with assumption that USSR would learn, that feeding people to military machine is bad for everything.

You still have better educational system.

Yes, USSR.