Panzer04

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by Panzer04 2y ago
You could just keep life and money separate, it's technically possible for the ratios to be different.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
If this were stated for many countries it would be cause for concern, and it certainly draws parallels to the US - but Argentina's economy has been a disaster forever, and regularly suffers from huge hyperinflation and government defau
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Argentina's government has been a disaster for a century. It's not at all surprising to me that reining in government spending in an economy that has had 4? Defaults over the past few decades will result in an improvement.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Ever heard of chesterton's fence? If you don't understand what the code is doing, removing it sounds like a recipe for disaster.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I would be much more impressed to see a person with a controller (and just directional controls) telling the bipedal robot where to go in a normal human environment - for example, just crossing the street. These seem very curated, on perfec
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Fortunately resistive heating is just about the cheapest possible heating in capital costs and trivial to retrofit as a backup.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
It's entirely possible the wires would get hot enough to get useful heat, but I think the much more practical challenge is moving the air and insulating it from the outside. Beyond that, you're likely also decreasing the maximal e
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by Panzer04 2y ago
The main problem seems to be setting the backup payment below the rate necessary to sustain life. I have to disagree that you won't become dependent on assistance given too freely. Obviously these crises leaned way, way too far in the
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Are you driving like a grandma slow acceleration or are you driving at low speed? The latter is much, much more important at highway speeds. Apparently the EPA test is run at 60mph Max and an average of 50mph, which would to a significant e
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Are you sure about that? If you go only uphill in a gas car you will use a lot more fuel per km, just like an EV.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
There's a difference between deflation due to productivity growth and deflation due to lack of money. Deflation is good if it's the result of us producing more of a thing better and thus driving the price down. Broad-based deflati
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by Panzer04 2y ago
But very much nonobvious. I recently had to help one of my parents when they couldn't figure out how to install some software, and it turned out to be S - but I had to do a bunch of digging to figure it out and I'm good with compu
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by Panzer04 2y ago
There's another circumstance where people were calling out threats and mostly no one cared - the recent presidential election. it's difficult to argue nothing will change when on occasion it does.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Shouldn't there be an auction system or something? Surely it's fraught to allow arbitrary employees to determine valuations. An auction might not always get the best price, but it should prevent outright scams like this. I guess m
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by Panzer04 2y ago
This feels like a decent answer. A bit like allowing inssder trading, although that has many more problems XD
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Sure, you can prefer chrome - but if you had to switch it wouldn't be a huge imposition (Certainly less for 99% of people than it seems to be for you) It's not comparable to switching from Windows to Linux.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Not sure about plenty; I've been using Firefox for years now and not encountered any real issues like that. Each to their own, I just disagree that Firefox isn't a real alternative in the same way Linux is to windows.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I feel like the real alternative is backspace and replace, personally XD
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Logitech MX3 is the modern version, not sure what else there is. It's got a magnetic mechanism that allows the scroll wheel to freewheel if you want.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Making an inelastic resource (gold) the unit of exchange in a growing economy is a recipe for deflation. You don't want the most economically sensible decision to be holding onto capital, since that results in precisely nothing useful
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by Panzer04 2y ago
There is no functional difference between chrome and Firefox. If you are at all dissatisfied with google it's trivial to switch. I don't think the analogy holds
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by Panzer04 2y ago
That is cute as hell XD
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Do HDDs have many electrolytics? Those are the main culprits for going bad, and are usually used for power electronics, not controllers/processing circuitry (they don't need the bulk capacitance that you'd usually use an elec
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by Panzer04 2y ago
The point is that smelting the aluminium takes tons of electricity, so doing it in Iceland where that's produced via geothermal is effectively exporting that electricity.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Seems a bit weasle-y. How hard is it to be straightforward? I don't mind Firefox doing what it needs to to fund itself. I do mind when it seems like they try to hide what specifically that is. Saying that some places define "sell&
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Presumably they mean that if you want to post a comment to hacker news you give them the right to do what you want them to do. I'm presuming there's no catchy legal gotcha around the "doing as you request" clause.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Presumably this is the Richard Scolyer case, if anyone was curious. A brief lookup indicates he could possibly be seeing recurrence; hopefully that's not the case but this is something that many people have said about his trial. We can
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I'm going to be honest; How is Amazon seeking to do this? Are they suppressing other online competitors? I'm sure they buy lots of competition, but that doesn't stop someone else from setting up shop. The idea to me is strang
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Yes, everyone has their own agenda. The idea of the thing is pretty straightforward though; Companies succeed or fail on the merits of their product. The government shouldn't seek to give undue advantage except insofar as to incentiviz
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by Panzer04 2y ago
It depends. There's more rhetoric nowadays around things like rent controls and profit caps, both of which I view as very destructive to the mechanisms of market allocation. I think it's a divisive issue though since there's

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