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by SR2Z 1y ago
It currently does not. Most batteries (by mass) are recycled. Recovery rates for the minerals used to make them are often above 90%. Recycling batteries is an indispensable part of making them. We can make the process safer, but we can&#
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by SR2Z 1y ago
They will also make it so expensive to process e-waste that it would probably end up in a landfill.
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by SR2Z 1y ago
I have heard that it's unusually nutrient rich - maybe not toxins, but human shit definitely causes algal blooms.
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Tariffs decrease that utility by decreasing the utility of all imports, even the ones that were supporting domestic employment. It's not 1910 anymore. The US is integrated into the global economy and many if not most jobs export to a
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by SR2Z 1y ago
You're sure, but virtually no Americans want to work in factories when there are plenty of jobs with either less physical demands or higher pay. This is a well-known problem with factory jobs: https://fortune.com/2025&#
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by SR2Z 1y ago
We are apex predators, and our shit contains the condensed toxins from all of the lower rungs on the food chain. The other extreme would be an animal like a cow, which shits basically smellier grass. That's basically it. A human bein
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by SR2Z 1y ago
China had a comparative advantage in labor costs that they have turned into an advantage in manufacturing. Plenty of Americans want factory jobs to exist - almost no Americans want to work them. Sure, nothing worth doing is easy, but not e
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by SR2Z 1y ago
The typical driver was significantly more likely to die back then. Modern cars shrug off small accidents too - you just end up with dents or scratches or other ugly but cosmetic body damage. The thing that makes modern cars so easy to tota
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Except for one little thing: countries have comparative advantage in the production of different goods and services. Boeing is great at turning aluminum and steel (low in the value chain) into jetliners (at the top of the value chain). Bec
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by SR2Z 1y ago
IMO the rules should be simple: manufacturers of electronics need to be required to provide private keys for the electronics, plus a source-available MVP firmware for getting the thing to work. I don't care if GM or whoever wants to sh
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by SR2Z 1y ago
If you (or anyone else) has been in a crash, I fully believe that your car should report what you were doing right before to anyone with physical access. There is no good privacy reason whatsoever to protect that data - the only possible wa
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by SR2Z 1y ago
> Wouldn't that create an enormous hole in the market for other less-scummier companies to jump in, albeit at perhaps lower margins? A certain amount of margin is required for the company to even try to do business. Unfortunately,
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by SR2Z 1y ago
The allocation of capital is not even close to a monopoly. There are plenty of VC firms looking to fund almost any idea. The point of VC, specifically, is to grow software monopolies - but it's very easy to pick up VC funding if you h
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by SR2Z 1y ago
> since the companies issue their own stock, so they don't need to buy anything to sell it, Public companies diluting shareholders generally causes people to flee for safer investments. A company is not a person. It doesn't al
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by SR2Z 1y ago
> Could that not be a script you run on a fresh Ubuntu install? It would be amazing if you could just download the combo of the script and image so you don't have to spend time configuring it :)
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by SR2Z 1y ago
I fly on 737 MAXes pretty often. They're still modern aircraft, and they still have a good safety record overall (consider that almost 2000 have been produced, and there have only been two crashes). Boeing will keep pumping them out
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by SR2Z 1y ago
The main problem with the 737 is really just that it's old, and at every single turn Boeing has chosen to make incremental updates instead of redesigning it. An issue like MCAS would be much less likely if the aircraft was designed to
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Is it fair to say that AI is continuously subsidized? Once a datacenter is built and becomes profitable, why would anyone just scrap it? Even if the owner goes into bankruptcy, that's a huge capital asset that evidently people can&#x27
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by SR2Z 1y ago
I don't think you get there without an AC, but the point is that many people have AC and central air and use both of them. My guess is that most people don't have AC or are sensitive to price increases and choose not to run it. T
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by SR2Z 1y ago
You get a $500 bill for using 1000 kWh/mo - that's just leaving a 5000W AC on for 200 hours. My apartment AC is probably 2000W, but similar principles apply. Add in a fridge, cooking equipment, water heating, leaving a server on,
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by SR2Z 1y ago
> Yet completely ignores how the Biden administration tried to force every American into getting experimental mRNA vaccines with no long term safety data, or else you lose your job. And you weren't allowed to sue the vaccine manufac
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Poles and wires for a datacenter should be much cheaper than for a subdivision.
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by SR2Z 1y ago
PG&E charges about 50c per kWh. It's not very hard to have an electric bill that high when electricity costs ~5x the national average.
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by SR2Z 1y ago
What exactly would you tell them? That they can't make hammers because someone could use them to commit a crime? The tools are there. It's up to us to deal with them.
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by SR2Z 1y ago
It's hard to see why anyone would pick an airplane like this over a surplus, demilitarized fighter jet (only one of them has spare parts)
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by SR2Z 1y ago
I mean, if I see any kind of annoying unskippable ad on the $1000 TV which I own outright, whatever generated that ad is going in the trash can or being disconnected from the Internet if it can't. Companies would do well to remember th
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by SR2Z 1y ago
No, he just was forced to be a refugee from his own country. Do we really have to compare suffering?
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by SR2Z 1y ago
The point is the saying is that it's not physically possible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. It's always very funny when people say it as if it means the opposite.
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by SR2Z 1y ago
I think there's a (wrong) expectation that an American manufacturer would idiot-proof their products and not do anything dumb like double the voltage while keeping the connector the same. The number of times I've heard people comp
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Healthcare is one of the rare examples where pretty much any reasonable-sounding change probably can't help but make things better.

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