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by Panzer04 3y ago
A lot of non-government debt is likely to be floating rate. America is somewhat unique, with a large consumer fixed debt market in mortgages thanks to government subsidies, but that's not the norm.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Apple’s chips are on better process nodes, which confuses the issue. That being said, you really have to test chips at the same power level to get an idea of performance per watt in a comparison. You can easily double CPU power for only a f
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by Panzer04 3y ago
And we teach people to avoid those too. Weasel words and delaying terms are common regardless, and usually not desirable.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Negative gearing is made out to sound much worse than it is. If anything, it's a benefit to wage earners by allowing them to pay a business expense from their pay. It's just a standard deduction afforded to investors for business
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I would think the biggest limitations would be: - Cost of placing under the highway (mitigated by only doing so on full reconstruction/maintenance works) - Cost of materials (massive induction coils, over a very large distance to get m
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I recall somewhere that due to us getting better at protecting people from pathogens, immune systems get “less practice” at identifying friend from foe, increasing the likelihood of contracting an autoimmune disorder down the line. I have n
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by Panzer04 3y ago
But why should we accept that such statements are bullshit? It’s because companies are so cavalier with their advertising language and we let them get away with it.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
But it has the benefit of lifting pressure on house prices in many other locations. Many cities sprawl in extremely inefficient ways as they attempt to accomodate excessive demand, while apartments etc are much cheaper on a societal level i
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I really don't understand the outrageous compensation. Seems to me like a lot of CEOs just play the game of "don't fuck things up" and collect a massive paycheck because the board and shareholders are too scared of hirin
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I'm not sure about the expenses of more floors - those seem extremely high to me, on the face of it, though. The benefit of dense housing is more so about the total resource expense of maintaining a city. If you have 1m people in singl
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Because the characteristics are different. Denser housing is very efficient, in the sense that it requires less infrastructure spend. Roads are just not very efficient - you need to spend a lot of money to get the same result as a transit l
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Good for them. Heat pumps obviate the need for gas heating, and gas stoves aren’t worth the trouble with induction posing a reasonable alternative.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
They clearly do just fine in summar, and heat pumps use basically the same amount of power in either direction. I don’t see why the grid would be overloaded.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
They've had the shit pounded out of them over the past couple of years already, this is probably not unexpected.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Overheating is entirely down to the profiles the manufacturers use. Intel processors can be efficient, but usually they get clocked to the moon on desktop. Laptops are so all over the place it's impossible to judge them either :/
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Presumably the point of that is ensure each individual, mostly separate step is completed efficiently, rather than inefficient refineries or drilling being papered over by efficiencies elsewhere.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
There’s a 12 month minimum work experience, I think - so maybe if you were really keen and able to pass all of the other tests easily it’s still 12mo commitment, which is impossible to justify unless you want it as a permanent job :(. There
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by Panzer04 3y ago
My brother was a domestic electricians apprentice - at least at that level, you get a lot of crap work. Roofs, underfloor, walls, etc. lots of abrasive insulation everywhere. It’s not a particularly clean or neat job to run new wire in a lo
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by Panzer04 4y ago
The clear best option would be to get rid of the apprenticeship system - test for what they actually care about, greatly shorten the working experience period (engineers have to do 3-6mo on an education). If it was possible to get a sparky
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Security, comfort, etc. there’s a reason many businesses habitually underpay - many don’t leave regardless of pay.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Yep, absolutely. I’m an EE, and was interested in doing my own electrical work - there’s no recognition of prior learning, as far as I can tell. In Australia you must have completed a 4 year apprenticeship. No ifs, buts, it maybes. For re
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by Panzer04 4y ago
“Decided that it’s fine to exploit it for optimisation tricks” is a poor characterisation. The reality is, if you define particular behaviours you will harm performance in some cases. If you define how something in particular should happe
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by Panzer04 4y ago
It's still stupid. It costs Apple a minimal amount extra to vastly improve the utility of their devices with 16GB RAM and 512/1TB drives by default. But they're cutting corners here in search of product segmentation and profi
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by Panzer04 4y ago
The 3G service will be replaced with 4G/5G - it will probably be better, in all likelyhood. The range is based on the spectrum used, not the technology. 3G was kept around only because of old mobile devices (eg. PoS terminals) that nee
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by Panzer04 4y ago
It costs money? Most democratic countries have issues giving away too much money in foreign aid, especially given the budgetary deficits the vast majority of countries are running nowadays. China doesn’t have to deal with any of that, the g
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by Panzer04 4y ago
The idea is interesting, but I’m not sure about the presented fat loss options.. just eating less always works, and fairly well, but it’s presented as the worst option in this chart. Probably the biggest issue is compliance when it comes to
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Because no one reads "normal" news?
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Most of the time these kinds of boosts should lead to more workers being hired, because previously unprofitable applications become profitable. There's not really a bounds on demand for software like there is for, say, food.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Ultimately though nothing is free. The cost of those extra rights will come from somewhere else. In Australia we have superannuation. The government is raising the mandatory super contribution soon from 9% to, idk, 12%. Some people act like
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Obviously the employee being let go gets the biggest benefit - but those rights aren't free, is all i'm saying. It leads to more onerous interviews, a more stagnant and slow-moving economy, etc. eg. 6mo of guaranteed severance if

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