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by bhelkey 2y ago
> Similarly we can look at that past 20 years of Euro/Yen/Pound against Argentinian Peso and conclude that it's all fine? Have you looked at those conversions? One June 1st 2007, 1 Argentinian Peso was worth 0.082£, today
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by bhelkey 2y ago
One metric we can look at to see if "dollar is imploding" is the exchange rate of USD to Euro/Yen/Pound over the past 20 years. None of those exchange rates indicate that the dollar is imploding. Instead they indicate th
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by bhelkey 2y ago
In 2023 highlights your link says: " We maintained 64% carbon- free energy, on average, across every grid where we operate—even as our electricity use increased."
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by bhelkey 2y ago
According to statista, the leaders in cloud marketshare are (in order): AWS, Azure, and GCP [1]. I don't believe Apple has any significant cloud offering. There is a question about the sustainability of consumer electronic devices but
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> The cloud uses a lot of energy. They can use renewable energy but they aren't. Do you have a source for that? In 2022, 64% of Google's data center energy was carbon free [1]. I was not able to find similar numbers for Microso
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by bhelkey 2y ago
From the US Department of Justice's lawsuit against Apple: >Apple recognizes that driving users to purchase an Apple Watch, rather than a third-party cross-platform smartwatch, helps drive iPhone sales and reinforce the moat around
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In addition, the site claims BlenderGPT is a registered trademark ("BlenderGPT®"). I find this to be very unlikely.
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by bhelkey 2y ago
It does interface with blender. However, Garmen can't call their watches "Apple Watches" just because they can interface with Apple products. And they certainly can't claim Apple Watch as their registered trademark like
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by bhelkey 2y ago
I think this is how the puzzle author intended the puzzle to be read. That being said, I would argue that, "All my hats are green." has different meaning than "I may or may not own a hat. Any hat that I own is green". Th
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> Edit: I have a Xiaomi M1804C3CG. It looks like that model has 2GB of ram. I can certainly understand running into performance issues with those specs.
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by bhelkey 2y ago
This is the quote: > Tesco and Sainsbury’s published shrimp welfare commitments, citing collaboration with SWP (among others), and signed 9 further memoranda of understanding with producers, in total committing to stunning a further ~1.6
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> It's a primary source It's not a primary source. It's a one sentence summary of a secondary source. This[1] is the primary source of the Tesco commitment. [1] https://www.tescoplc.com/sustainability/
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by bhelkey 2y ago
The purpose of a citation is to provide further evidence supporting the claim. This instead links to a ~thousand word article. A single sentence of which is relevant. Instead of supporting the claim, it instead restates the claim.
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This two thousand word article boils down to, 1) every dollar donated saves ~1,500 shrimp per year from agony in perpituaty and 2) saving 32 shrimp from agony is morally equivalent to saving 1 human from agony. Neither of these points are w
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> requiring in-person voting on-the-day Exactly three states don't offer early voting to all voters [1] and none of those three were battleground states. [1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/map-early-voting-mail-ba
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by bhelkey 2y ago
Just a third party news outlet is probably fine.
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> I could pirate every game I have on my Steam account. According to the CrackWatch subreddit, there were 29 games released with Denuvo in 2024. Of those, only one has been cracked and it was done via a demo bypass [1]. You can pirate ma
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by bhelkey 2y ago
It is a lot easier to make a 2d drawing than it is to make a 3d model.
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by bhelkey 2y ago
What drop in equivalent exists for Android? I have no desire to move to iOS. What drop in equivalent exists for Google maps? I have used OpenStreetMap for a personal project and have tried other proprietary options. If Google maps disappear
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by bhelkey 2y ago
Android makes up ~70% of the global phone marketshare [1]. Google maps makes up 70% of the mapping marketshare [2]. Chrome makes up ~65% of the browser marketshare [3]. Those are three of the nine products Google has with over a billion use
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by bhelkey 2y ago
Google could have licensed Android to OEMs, not allowed 3rd party app stores, made 3rd party app installation functionally infeasible (need to reinstall every week), and forbidden other web browsers. I appreciate that Android did not go dow
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by bhelkey 2y ago
Don't Pixel phones ask the user if the want to enable location tracking on setup?
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A walkie-talkie receiving a message should be a passive device no? One can triangulate a radio broadcasting, I don't know how one would track receiving the broadcast.
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If they open source it but the app isn't allowed on the app store, how will anyone install it?
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According to this article, one game will be streamed on Netflix but the cost of Netflix is listed as $84. I am confident that a one month isn't that much. More generally, it appears that the article didn't consider how long each s
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by bhelkey 2y ago
I don't know if this text was always there but today, when I use incognito mode, I see: > Others who use this device won’t see your activity, so you can browse more privately. This won't change how data is collected by websites
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by bhelkey 2y ago
The main place I wanted a small PC is in my entertainment stand. I tried using such a PC in my living room as a media console. My plan was to use steam's 'Big Picture Mode's along with an Xbox controller to give a console lik
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I love the idea, I love the format. As others have mentioned this isn't really a skill tree, it is more of a skill line. It is extremely difficult to be an expert in ~50 different skills. Because of this, it is difficult to make ~50 hi
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It looks like the easy stuff is at the bottom and the harder stuff is at the top. It's more of a skill line than a skill tree. That being said, I find the idea intriguing and the format appealing.
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by bhelkey 2y ago
> Amazon is planning to sell a paid subscription for an artificial intelligence-revamped version of Alexa > you’ll still be able to use the current version of Alexa without a subscription fee. It seems as if the current experience wil

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