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by bluescrn 3y ago
> 2) Inflation reduces the true value (cost) of debt. And with $34.5 trillion of it, that’s a big incentive to keep it around. This is the point that a lot of people miss. Inflation is good for governments as well as businesses who can e
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by bluescrn 3y ago
If they get it done quickly, it might happen before the election (and then the fallout from the election) turns the site into an utter shitshow?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It only became a problem when emulator performance overtook their current-gen hardware (Especially if enhanced versions of big titles like the Zelda games are intended to be a significant selling point for their next console)
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by bluescrn 3y ago
I've probably spent £3000+ on Lego over the last decade. Mostly fairly large sets. Mostly Technic, Creator Expert, and Star Wars. Zero missing pieces. (Also zero shelf space left to display any more Lego...)
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by bluescrn 3y ago
They really aren't that far off these days. Certainly no 'nasty toxic smells/paints'. Brick fit/clutching can be a bit sub-par on certain parts, but is generally not far from the real thing. Lego does a much better
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by bluescrn 3y ago
I'd rather take my chances with different humans at different companies vs. one AI product (with strong baked-in biases) used by all of them
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Could depend on how many planned ICE bans are postponed and by how long?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
But Apple's entry-level Macbooks aren't intended to be bought. They have almost comically low amounts of storage and RAM for 2024 (8GB/256GB). It's all about the upsell on those non-upgradeable parts.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
I wouldn't count on 10 years of real-world life from a non-upgradeable and 'repair-resistant' device with a glued in battery, even if the hardware specs are good enough to last that long.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> At the moment, x86 is mainly hanging on in legacy spaces because of backward compatibility. x86 platforms also tend to let you run your own code, and are associated with 'proper computers/proper operating systems' where
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by bluescrn 3y ago
You weren't the only one, I clicked on it too, as did thousands of others, before finding a real stream
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by bluescrn 3y ago
He didn't buy Twitter to make money. He saw it as the propaganda tool that it had become, and bought it to rotate it 180 degrees and point it back in the opposite direction.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
And how many nights of Airbnb do nice properties last before being utterly destroyed?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> Fast chargers are the luxury fuel of EVs. More importantly, EVs are currently a luxury product. Seemingly built like other popular luxury products, too (designed to be hard/expensive to repair). We shouldn't be building EVs a
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Discussion isn't allowed. Dissent from the groupthink will be deleted if not banned outright.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It's not so much about accuracy as the low-latency video output (and at the correct refresh rate).
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Compound Inflation, the less talked about sibling of Compound Interest. A few percent doesn't sound much, until you think about how those percentages accumulate over several/many years.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
I'd rather people dump Apple products over their anti-repair practices or the whole concept of locked-downd devices tied to monopolistic App Stores, rather than the Apple vs Epic vs EU fight.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Immediately thought of the C64 version, which I had on some compilation pack of cassette games back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtCDh-S0tEQ
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Just remember that those Macbook batteries are glued in and still subject to degradation over cycles/time. A consumable component designed to be excessively hard to replace, to encourage you to upgrade sooner than necessary. (Not every
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by bluescrn 3y ago
But add the mandatory upsells to a sensible amount of RAM and storage, and the 'bargain' Mac will be rather more expensive. But yeah, there's still a real lack of Windows laptop competition these days, especially if you want
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by bluescrn 3y ago
E-readers are great for fiction and other text-only content, but the average e-ink reader is useless for textbooks and reference books with a lot of images/diagrams/photos.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Most animations have more than 2 keyframes per week
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Cars need to be repairable. An Apple car is a terrifying thought.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It's an election year. They're probably more concerned about generated images of politicians in 'interesting' sitations going viral than they are about porn/gore etc.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The public only see the 'safe' lobotomized versions of each, though. I wonder how far ahead the internal versions are?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Before long we're going to need a new word for physical 'safety' - when dealing with heavy machinery, chemicals, high voltages, etc.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
We've had elections, we've just lacked competent opposition :(
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Fully automatic is OK when you've got human pilots on board as a failsafe. Take out the humans and add remote piloting and they'll be flying bombs just waiting for hackers to take control of them.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
There's not many businesses that'll take $80K of your money and refuse to give any explanation, though. Especially businesses that have a long history of similar incidents.

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