DocTomoe

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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Without trying to become too political, but thanks to recent trade developments, right now the US is under special scrutiny to begin with, and goodwill towards US companies - or courts - has virtually evaporated. I can see that factoring in
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Ultimately, we will have to end capitalism as we know it and establish some form of UBI - for the mere reason that the bigwigs have no-one to sell things to when everyone is out of a job and there is no money. Which would give rise to a sec
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There have been several cases in which countries were paid to take plastic trash for "recycling" - and recycling became "let's just dump it somewhere": https://www.unodc.org/unodc/frontpage&#x
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I am old enough to remember when similar statements were made about other - now out of favour - energy production methods. NPPs had a "Once in a thousand years" failure rate. Gas was fossil, sure, but the CO2 would be absorbed int
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Considering the anarchist cookbook is just a rebranded selection of freely-available US Army Field Manuals, ... I don't see the problem.
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Well, there's this: https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/0/all-t...
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Everyone with a functional understanding of thermodynamics knows that you cannot extract energy from a system and expect there to be the same energy in the source after the extraction. I do wonder if - in 20 to 50 years - we find out that w
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Related: Build Boring Software @ https://www.intercom.com/blog/videos/build-boring-software/
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Porsche Automobil Holding SE owns about 53% of the voting rights, but only about 35% of the assets, so technically they do not own VW, they just control it. Audi never owned Volkswagen. Volkswagen has owned Audi since 1964. What is tr
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But then, before you know it, you’re back in the terror phase of the French Revolution—because once the guillotine demands to be fed, “the powerful” quickly becomes “whoever we don’t like.” After several iterations of this pattern throughou
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Yes, and no. That vocal part of the consumers are those that grew up with the old 'you buy it, you get to play it' approach. And those consumers are now the ones who will decide what their children get to play. Needless to say, I
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This. I never bought a Sony console again after they took away OtherOS on the PS3. And now that Nintendo starts acting like they own the device I paid for, a customer relationship that started in the mid-1980s ends.
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I ... honestly don't know if I should be impressed or horrified. Essentially, they have become cyborgs. Mootrons? I stand corrected either way.
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So the cow learns there is a 'good zone' or a 'bad zone' to be in. And how does the cow - which now may be panicking - know it does not exit the 'bad zone' by, let's say, jumping into the river? Applying h
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I guess we would just set up a cow fence. These GPS trackers help find cattle, possibly making rescue efforts faster and thus cheaper, but they do not prevent them falling into that river in the first place. A fence does. I know, this is th
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Datacenters are not things that just randomly appear. There are planning processes, and city stakeholders are involved - which would include the TVA. The fact that they built the thing is a good indication that the stakeholders agreed this
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VW already is owned by the German state of NRW (20% of the voting rights, 11.8% of the equity)
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Wirecard CEO was proven beyond reasonable doubt that he personally was involved in large-scale fraud.
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Good luck proving where the decision was made. Volkswagen's CEO is unlikely to have been asked whether to be 'creative' about testing setups.
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In all fairness, in the general European perception, with the Cougar, the Puma, and the Focus, Ford is not really seen as an "American" brand. Especially the Focus has virtually nothing to do with what Europeans would consider &#x
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Yeah, that politico article conveniently leaves out that the TVA - the local electricity provider - runs a methane-powered gas power plant literally 200 meters down the road (which replaced a much dirtier coal-burning power station at the s
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Sony also has 'dumb' - and incidentally cheaper - MP3 players: https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders... That model looks a lot like what the iPod nano did.
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... Unless they do bring more convenience. A popular example are smartwatches. People have a perfectly good clock, stopwatch, sleep surveillance device on their phone, and still pay 300-900 dollars for an AppleWatch. Why? Because looking at
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It's that, and the tower's concrete base (which is huge, and virtually indestructible, which means no-one is going to remove it. It'll stay in the ground forever, essentially sealing it (even if there is a meter of dirt cover
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Dehumidifier bags are bulky. Surfaces, on the other side, can be folded into loops, which should increase the amount of humidity they can absorb.
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Hm, I guess arches were lower back then, and a lot of the riverboats were actually the staked kind (think: Venetian gondolieri)? With different arches for different directions? Honestly, this is all guesswork. But I can imagine something li
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Often, these things are utilitarian, not mystical. So my educated guess: Back in the day, the main problem was river mariners getting hurt by bridge arches that were lower than expected, and the bale of straw was a 'soft buffer' -
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Recently, I've been moving back to 'dedicated items' instead of 'everything on the phone'. It might be an old guy finding a love for vinyl, but having a dedicated camera, a dedicated notebook, a dedicated music play
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Now make this a marketable power-less air dehumidifier. This is one of those 'changing whole industries' things.
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You're making my point: We had comparatively worse and cheaper ways to butcher each others. And yet, we build nuclear bombs. Carpet bombing is not meant for eliminating military targets - it's an act of state-sponsored terrorism t

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