Panzer04

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by Panzer04 4y ago
How is any of that different to just paying out the money to shareholders, who can individually choose to champion said causes themselves? I don't see why the company should do so. I suspect the biggest difference in how I see this com
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Half the point of raising rates like this is to signal to everyone that inflation is a priority and will be addressed, with the hope of killing off expectations of further inflation (which can be a feedback loop). Ultimately none of the mea
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Sounds like a bit of a cop out. Governments certainly can control all of the above, but it means making significant adjustments to either spending or taxation, both of which tend to be unpopular changes. The war in Ukraine will turn into a
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by Panzer04 4y ago
It makes sense when you consider each floor is essentially identical. I imagine skyscrapers and the like should be pretty predictable once the foundation is set up - it's just rinse-repeat for the next hundred floors (mostly). You don&
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Took my 12 mini on a day of kayaking, water got into the lenses and broke the faceID camera. The water in the lens eventually evaporated, but the faceID cam seems permenantly broken. They are water resistant, but I wouldn't use it in w
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Maximising profits might come at the expense of the worker, but it benefits the economy as a whole. The reason maximising profits is such an excellent goal is because it indirectly leads to maximising profit per worker (especially in lean t
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by Panzer04 4y ago
You want to make it even harder to get a job? The better the benefits you mandate for firing/leaving employees, the more onerous companies become about bringing on more manpower (and eventually, lower wages as a whole since they have t
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Most current cancer treatment methods we have are basically sledgehammers with loads of collateral damage - it’s not surprising the preference is to leave it if it’s benign.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Presumably the journo doesn't really understand the differences between power and energy. They probably just picked the numbers out of a press release. It's even more confusing when they mention older vehicles charging at 11.5kW.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
I’d imagine they’re pissed off the same way Credit Suisse employees are after Archegos blew up. Everything was going fine, but in a corner somewhere someone was making absolutely stupid investment and loan decisions that lead to a catastrop
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by Panzer04 4y ago
The weirdest part is how many people think depositors should actually take a haircut, or that is should be on the depositor to prove the financials of their chosen bank for bankruptcy risk. Not really a view of Silicon Valley though, unless
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Because then it’s quite easy to end up with rampant corruption. By and large, well-regulated private banks work pretty well.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
I suppose - I just find mentions of things like "liquidity" with no specificity pretty meaningless (plus "FED" for referring to the federal reserve; I truly don't understand why it's capitalized as if it's
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by Panzer04 4y ago
I think you'd have to try pretty hard to come close to the normalcy of western taxation. Maybe organised protection rackets? I don't know, I feel like it's somewhat reaching to make them alike. Government taxes are virtually
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by Panzer04 4y ago
This isn't really an explanation of why they failed, just applying a macro explanation to a micro phenomenon. The bank bought long-dated treasuries for the 2% yield (as opposed to short-term treasuries yielding next to nothing). The mo
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by Panzer04 4y ago
You are not robbed as a matter of course. The government takes your taxes as a matter of course. Not taxing you (by giving you a 10k tax deduction, for example) is, in a practical sense, basically identical from the government's perspe
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by Panzer04 4y ago
I agree - not taxing something ordinarily taxed is very much in the vein of "giving" money. I'm a little surprised at the disagreement, but I guess it depends on a persons point of view.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Mostly money - We're in the midst of implementing a new payment model. It makes us (the programmers etc) uncomfortable, but generally these sorts of things come from up high, usually with the intent of extracting more profit. By and la
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by Panzer04 4y ago
It only really works for exact matches. If I have a general idea of what I'm looking for, I can usually hunt it down with google. Discord will give me too many results or no results, which sucks. I like discord - It makes up a very sig
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by Panzer04 4y ago
I guess I should be clearer - I'm more referring to multiplayer communities rather than actual game-specific resources. Communities, rather than knowledge resources, are where it's appropriate, basically. Of course, these often en
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Yup - the most engaged members are usually running the server, so they optimise it for their use. Multiple channels and categories make it easy to remember context if you switch often, and prevent recent relevant conversations from going ou
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Unless i'm missing something (and noting the drawbacks mentioned elsewhere re. no google search), its native search doesn't have any kind of fuzziness. You can't think of some set of terms and have it bring up a particular th
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by Panzer04 4y ago
It’s a little unsettling to think about how much information and knowledge is being locked up in walled-garden servers on discord, basically unsearchable (discord has a search feature, but it’s pretty awful). There’s so many communities tha
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Presumably the tradeoff is more along the lines of retiring at 40, if you don't care about the money.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
It’s not really very good to use them like that though - without a huge cap you’ll get pretty prominent flicker - I expect it’s probably just cheaper to stick in a cheap SMPS at that point if that’s something you care about.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Presumably you could always just break the 5G module - the carmaker can’t assume internet connectivity, so it should work fine without.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
It's problematic - the ideal business model that best matches the costs would probably be a combination (upfront payment, + ongoing subscription for maintenance patches), but I doubt anyone wants that (looks like the worst of all world
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by Panzer04 4y ago
I don't agree with your assertion on upfront purchases. If you sell a product people get good value from, you need to meaningfully improve that product to sell it again to the same user after improving it. Many people are perfectly hap
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by Panzer04 4y ago
This is untrue afaik. Even big channels with big self-sponsorship (eg Linus Tech Tips) still make (pulling out of thin air here) something like 20-30%+ of their revenue from native google ads.
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by Panzer04 4y ago
Cheers for the link - if I read right there’s a cliff around 100w where power use goes way up for extremely marginal improvements. Below 100w it’s more linear, but that might depend on undercoating and the like as well.

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