Detrytus

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by Detrytus 6mo ago
Well, building luxury housing still helps, to some degree: the richest residents of the area would buy it, and they would sell their old house to someone slightly less rich, who in turn would sell their old house… At the end of this chain y
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by Detrytus 6mo ago
Well, once you loosen up building codes to allow apartment buildings instead of single family homes then suddenly the developers will come with a lot of cash to buy those homes from NIMBYs. And cash is always convincing.
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by Detrytus 6mo ago
Well, if they did then EVs would pay more, since they are much heavier., because of, you know, the batteries.
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by Detrytus 6mo ago
Isn't the whole point of PoW that the work done is otherwise useless? I mean: you invest money (in form of your hardware/electricity bill) to mine a block, and that ensures that whoever would like to fork the chain has to spend at
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by Detrytus 6mo ago
Yeah, I think they want to do it this way, because Iran wants some compensation for damages, but paying reparations directly would be too humiliating for the US, and Trump would never agree to it.
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by Detrytus 6mo ago
No, the point is that instead of the US paying reparations from their own pocket they will allow Iran to tax Gulf countries. That sentence is just worded badly, I would rewrite it as: 10. Iran to use Hormuz fees for reconstruction instead o
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by Detrytus 6mo ago
I think that's kind of how all the religions were started. Smart people being tired of reasoning with dumb ones and instead going with "do this, because that's the will of God".
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by Detrytus 6mo ago
Well, depends where you drop it, paper is very fragile medium. Ever dropped an important paper into a puddle, or spilled a coffee on it?
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by Detrytus 6mo ago
Yeah, that's probably the only reason for SpaceX going public.
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by Detrytus 6mo ago
I hate this line of reasoning. People who didn't vote are equally guilty, because they did not care enough to show up. Or, maybe, they just didn't make it to polling station on time for some reason (having to pick up kids from sch
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by Detrytus 6mo ago
Well, Slovenia is a small country and has land borders with many others. Imagine that gas in New Jersey was $1 per gallon cheaper than in New York and Pennsylvania. I guess a lot of people would drive to NJ gas stations.
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
With 6-7 GPUs and EPYC cpu it will also cost 2-3x more than a Mac Studio.
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
> You can make them so cheap defense becomes too costly. That's because the US chose to shoot them down with Patriot missles, like morons. Ukrainians have developed cheap interceptor drones for this very purpose. There are also rada
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
In theory yes, but in practice those drones would have to take a really long flight over enemy territory giving more opportunities to shoot them down. And it’s not like they are difficult to shoot down, they are cheap crap, their only advan
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
Which is funny, because the serving sizes in US restaurants are so big that no human being can be expected to eat it all.
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
Someone once said that this is because Waymos are novelty, and they still behave a bit weird, like being slow and undecisive. Which leads to humans being super-careful around them. So the Waymo safety record is actually not their own achiev
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
US constitution says that starting a war must be authorized by Congress, president has no authority to do it on his own. The problem is: over time the US grew so powerful, that the definition of "war" became blurry. "No, we a
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
I wonder if Godwins law and such did more harm than good in the end? I mean: yes, Hitler was a terrible person and Holocaust was horrible, but, by putting so much effort into convincing everyone that Hitler and Holocaust were so unique thin
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
Freight can also mean shipping, I’m not sure electric ships are a thing yet.
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
Conspiracy theories arise from the natural tendency of human brain to look for patterns even where there are none. That being said, nowadays it seems that a difference between conspiracy theory and confirmed fact is 12-24 months
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
You can watch a movie without popcorn, you know. Not only cheaper but also healthier. This American obsession with popcorn always seemed weird to me.
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
Yes, it does cause huge inflation, but that's not even the biggest problem with it. That would be: people do not really like to share fruits of their labor with strangers, so UBI would significantly undermine the motivation to do anyth
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
There’s nothing complicated about roundabouts: entering it is like joining the traffic from a parking lot/your own driveway, exiting it is like exiting a highway.
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
Prices in the US are usually much lower than in Europe. I just checked and 48->64 ram bump is still $200 I just did a 14" MBP with M5 Max, 128GB RAM, 4TB SSD, nano-texture display. Price difference is $5849 vs 7004 EUR ($8136).
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
Well, to be honest most countries in the world beat America in healthcare and transportation, and to lesser degree in education and housing. US are a third world country with big army, that’s it.
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
I think it is kind of a paradox which is clearly visible in some progressive Scandinavian countries like Sweden or Denmark.
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
Why would they remove the option instead of just increasing the price?
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
Well, I think context matters here a lot: If you go to a random lawyer in Wyoming and ask them to write "expert opinion" then what you'll get would probably be something standard, written by a junior associate, or maybe even
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
Maybe I'm naive, but if court orders tariff refunds cannot it also order that the importer must return it to individual buyers? That's only fair, right? Companies don't get to keep the money. If they want to sue government fo
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by Detrytus 7mo ago
128gb was there for a while. I am kind of disappointed they do not have 256gb option.

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