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You are literally giving anecdotal evidence with N=1. > But the Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawaii (B.E.A.C.H.) found that “plastic bottle caps are one of the top 10 items found during marine debris beach clean-ups and are the
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There are tradeoffs, you need to think about the whole lifecycle. Glass is heavier, which means more fuel burned to carry it. You need to wash it too, more detergent in the ecosystem.
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According to an eco site this will have some impact, they call it "leash the lid": > 6 Most Common Sources of Plastic Pollution > 1 of 6: Food Wrappers & Containers (31.14% of pollution in environment, by unit count) &gt
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Dumb question, but if plastic eating bacteria starts spreading, wouldn't we all be in a lot of trouble? Will car plastic interior start to rot? Will PET soda and water bottles start decomposing in the grocery store, and will they requi
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Quick search shows PyPy received 1.5 mil euros from EU. It also received 200 k dollars from Mozilla. That's enough to fund about 10 developers for a year. From what I remember IronPython had Microsoft hire something like 5 developers f
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In theory, in practice it's more complicated. USDC usage is increasing, but it will be a while until it can displace USDT.
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There was no serious money invested until recently in Python performance. Imagine what could happen if billions of dollars were invested in performance like it was done for C/C++/Java/Javascript in aggregate by various compan
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The conventional wrong answer is to short USDT/USD on an exchange like Coinbase. The correct answer is to do a spread trade between BTC/USDT and BTC/USD since this is where the liquidity is. The real answer for you is to stay
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> there is no upside to holding it People don't hold tether because they love tether. They hold it because they need it to trade crypto. So you need to balance the risk of tether being a scam with the opportunity risk of not being
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Playing with toys does make kids smarter. It's not such a stretch to assume that video games have a benefit too.
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But the distribution is important. The fact that there are some cyclists which actually need a $20k bike doesn't mean that the majority of $20k bike buyers are not doing it just for status (the famed dentist cyclists).
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> see TE become this lifestyle company TE always was a lifestyle company. All their products, including their gaming device, are about looking cool. Which is why device thinness is extremely important and the first thing they talk about.
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Is there any binding force between neighboring Neon atoms? Or do you make the "solid" by just bunching them together until they have no place to go (like stacking oranges)?
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The behind the scenes for Eurovision are quite interesting. Supposedly it's the second biggest event production in the world after the Olympics. There is no single point of failure, there are two separate master control rooms, two sepa
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> crack down on child abuse Actually today you don't use cracking down on child abuse as a reason, you use the danger of the far-right. All the leading left-wing publications, New York Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, CNN, Vo
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All the left wing press is calling for this, by running articles about how the far right is using encrypted chats to organize violence: > Why right-wing extremists’ favorite new platform is so dangerous. Telegram’s lax content moderation
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In theory an algorithmic stable coin can be moved around more quickly, since you can move the backing BTC/ETH/... more quickly than the backing USD. In practice they are extremely fragile as seen here.
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On demand usage can mean long term staking, you can't do that with USD, you need a crypto token. I'm not saying it's smart to do that, but that there is a need for stablecoins.
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The pound peg broke because the price it was pegged at was fundamentally mispriced. The mispricing was the problem, not the pegging. Bulgaria pegged it's currency to the Euro for more than a decade now. And the peg is solid. There are
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There's some law which states that when the price of something halves, the usage doubles. Look at LED lighting, it's more energy efficient, so now we deploy more of it, ending up using exactly as much energy as before (but now eve
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In UK a government letter addressed to you is accepted as proof of address. Like the NINo paper (SSN equivalent). And UK gov doesn't require ownership proof on the address you provide to them.
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> EU law is binding to all of them and there's no escape from it. Only in theory, in practice EU countries break EU law all the time, with minimal consequences. Some like Poland even openly, it recently said something like "w
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The hard part opening a bank account in UK as a fresh immigrant is providing a proof of address. The easiest way is to show your NINo paper (SSN equivalent). It will take you about 3 months to get that paper, so you need to manage somehow w
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> Being so vulnerable why are they not remote controlled? They are working on that - remote controlled ground vehicle with customizable upper part, one option with a cannon turret, another option with launch tubes for suicide drones:
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I don't think it would start a fire since all the materials surrounding the contact area are supposed to be fire resistant, and the arch is pretty small.
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The best sport event insurance ever: > 2020: Wimbledon to receive $141 million in pandemic insurance payout > For each of the past 17 years, the All-England Lawn Tennis Club has paid for an insurance policy to guard against losses
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Actual study link: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abk0639
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> Now that use of the material, once reserved for high-end bikes, has become widespread in the bike industry, reports of accidents and mysterious failures are on the rise. > Reed and other experts in carbon fiber agree that any mat
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My understanding is that all chargers, GaN or not, are required to use a transformer to electrically separate the primary (wall input) from the secondary (charger output). So a fault directly connecting you to the wall circuit should not be
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Grounding doesn't make much sense for devices which are completely plastic encased. I get your point about "pass-through grounding" to the laptop, but then again, a lot of time the laptop is not connecting to a charging wire

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