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by Factorium 5y ago
The solution is to standardise packaging so that it can be re-used by multiple brands and companies, with just a clean out and new set of logos glued on. This might not be suitable for a Pringles can, but at least suitable for glass contain
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Unhappy with prices, ranchers look to build own meat plants(abc3340.com)
7 points by Factorium 5y ago|0 comments
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by Factorium 5y ago
Immigrants are brought into the US to fill existing positions under poorer conditions than US workers, and to generally boost aggregate GDP (mostly to the benefit of capital/land owners). Canada and Australia have extremely generous im
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by Factorium 5y ago
Apple probably makes more profit from Gaming than from every game developer on the planet combined, despite not making any games. If anyone is thinking of working in the Games Industry: don't. All of the profit will be skimmed off by p
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by Factorium 5y ago
Are these results broken down by race? If not, we could be seeing static or even improving results, hidden by the shifting demographics of the USA. When you examine Goodschools data for a given area, there is a very high correlation between
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by Factorium 5y ago
I am Polish. Poland reverted back to COVID-normal a lot earlier, and was later to implement lockdowns, than the UK. For people on the fence about going back home, lockdowns were a major driver. Additionally, Poland has rejected vaccine mand
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by Factorium 5y ago
This is good. We should be training more people directly from age 15/16 for direct entry to the workforce. University should be only suggested to the top 20% of each yearly cohort, and senior highschool to the top 50%.
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Popular Stocks Owned by Congress(investinganswers.com)
2 points by Factorium 5y ago|0 comments
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Maximum Vaccination(eugyppius.substack.com)
9 points by Factorium 5y ago|1 comments
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by Factorium 5y ago
To be specific, 14" or 16" Macbook Air closer to the $999 of the 13". I guess that would cannibalise sales of the Macbook Pro, but the M1 Macbook Air is totally sufficient for regular browsing and officework.
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by Factorium 5y ago
I wish we could get a Macbook Air in these screen sizes. I don't need the extra power, just the bigger screen.
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by Factorium 5y ago
Is this the socialised price after Government subsidies? If so, the cost of medicine is just borne elsewhere: the average tax wedge is 38% in France vs 18% in the USA for a married couple with 2 children: https://www.oecd.org&#x2
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by Factorium 5y ago
Solar can't provide district heating. When temperatures reach -10, -20 celcius, a heat pump's COP is near 1.0, at which point its basically just a space heater. Small Modular Nuclear Reactors are the perfect solution for Europe: t
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by Factorium 5y ago
The UK strategy is to replace those gas burners with heat pumps, which you can power with nuclear energy. The problem in the UK is that many houses are very old and poorly insulated. Passivhaus basically needs to be the standard (if it isn&
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by Factorium 5y ago
The UK should build dozens of Rolls Royce SMRs each year, and setup a factory line for them with multiple in simultaneous construction. If we value our civilization, we would be building hundreds of units a year for use across the Western w
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by Factorium 5y ago
'Contact Tracing' for COVID: https://www.9news.com.au/national/wa-police-stand-by-decisio...
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by Factorium 5y ago
Sounds like its a good time for Tesla Semi with convoy functionality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=529MNAxoSYA
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by Factorium 5y ago
Don't people just find houses they like from online real estate sites now anyway?
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Graduate wages fell 10-20% after elite Colombian uni lowered entry requirements [pdf](static1.squarespace.com)
1 points by Factorium 5y ago|0 comments
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by Factorium 5y ago
Russia supplies 55% of Germany's natural gas imports. Cut that off and say goodbye to manufacturing, electricity, heating.
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by Factorium 5y ago
Current wholesale electricity prices in Germany are $194/MWh: https://www.energylive.cloud/ How much does Germany spend on the military? Cancel it, and spend the money on nuclear power. Otherwise Germany has a signific
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by Factorium 5y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41447603 Former Chancellor Gerhard Schroder oversaw the shutdown of Germany's nukes. Now he's on the board of Rosneft, a giant fossil fuel company controlled by the Russi
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by Factorium 5y ago
Any prematurely closed nuclear power plants that can be restarted?
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by Factorium 5y ago
Its the Minto Pyramid Principle / Situation Complication Question Answer: https://www.richardhare.com/2007/09/03/the-minto-pyramid-pri...
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by Factorium 5y ago
The QR codes are security theatre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater With cases now in the hundreds/thousands per day in Australia, plus widespread vaccinations, these QR codes are pointless... same a
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by Factorium 5y ago
The operating costs of Nuclear are minimal, the problem is planning, building, regulating, decommissioning them. On that basis, modular nuclear reactors seem to make the most sense. Rolls Royce in the UK looks to be onto a winner with their
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Intel accepts antibodies as a full substitute for vaccination [pdf](intel.com)
5 points by Factorium 5y ago|1 comments
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by Factorium 5y ago
There's a lot of moral hazard here. The weaker the vaccine, and the greater the dismissal of natural immunity (which according to Israeli hospital data [1] is completely superior to vaccination), the greater the profit for big pharma.
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by Factorium 5y ago
Plant-based meats are processed foods - consumer spending probably follows marketing and advertising intensity, same as for a can of Pringles or a bottle of Red Bull. To replace frozen meat in a Whopper, it simply needs to be a cheaper inpu
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by Factorium 5y ago
Your opt-out is to buy an iPhone.

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