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Congo is the largest supplier of Cobalt (70% of the world supply). This is why a lot o battery manufacturers advertise their reduced reliance on Cobalt.
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> You can't unsee your own assumptions. It's why you can't escape a prison of your own making (literally or figuratively).
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Carbon credits are one of the biggest scams in our attempts to "clean up". In the same spirit as some industries putting the "recyclable" symbol on everything end everything. "We planted a tree". No you didn&#x
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The issue mentioned above around how justice works has always been a problem in the US. Justice isn't blind, or fair. Best justice money can buy . The current administration just went all out for this.
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> Would you put a Nazi and a Jewish person in a room every day Today's Nazis have more diversified targets for discrimination. Concentrated antisemitism was a side effect of the personal issues of the most famous Nazi exponent in hi
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I accidentally upgraded to the alpha (identical laptops, picked the wrong one and jumped into it) and it's been very rough and not just around the edges. Can't wait to go to beta, hopefully this addresses most of the issues. At
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From my experience the best person to read these images is the medical imaging expert. The doctor who treats the underlying issue is qualified but it's not their core competence. They'll check of course but I don't think they
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I think you're reading the wrong lesson from this. If someone cares enough to take you down, your strategy isn't just useless, it's actively harming you. It's a "for my friends everything, for my enemies the law&quo
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> I have to walk though many other unrelated things to see the desk chairs That's what I was trying to say earlier with the limitations of the physical world. IKEA implements a lot of psychological tricks to get your eyeballs on as
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But you go to IKEA for IKEA and get IKEA. With the phone stores or search engines you go to them for $result and you get $something_else. It's similar but not quite the same. Even the parallel with the physical world fails us here, IKE
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Might be good value for the keyboard alone but too bad they couldn't put anything better than the 7 year old A76 CPU in there. I understand the reasoning, the ecosystem consistency, I know that the price limits how cutting edge the int
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> Decades of being tied to x86 This doesn't pass the smell test when Linux powers so many smart or integrated devices and IoT on architectures like ARM, MIPS, Xtensa, and has done so for decades. I didn't even count Android her
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Anand was involved in a scandal recently there [0]. Is he still in that job? The driving force behind the reviews for mobiles and related topics at AT was Andrei Frumusanu. His reviews had a level of depth very few even on AT could touch. B
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I'm running one daily for the past ~12-13 years and the stability is impeccable but the performance is as you'd imagine. More likely that the motherboard age and degradation of various components would lead to instability, than th
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> I have to admit that your friend has a point Do they? "Many humans" would hit that? The humans in the car spotted the debris at least 8s before the impact. I don't think any humans would hit that in broad daylight unless
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This puts the cart before the horse. At least one important question to answer before. Does something absolutely needs to be done? Then we start looking into the best alternative. What's the concrete threat scenario you avoid by movi
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Your take is non-sensical and obtuse, and the attitude is not much better so I’d hold off on the celebratory self-pat on the back. The people who do the job should get a lot of the credit. But none of them do it for free. Insurance is there
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Downvoting moves the comment down the reply tree and greys it out making it harder to read. Flagging comments completely hides them from many users, especially when logged in. And flagging submissions sends them to oblivion. So these method
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“Optics” just means you care about how the situation looks like to you or others. Having a RAV4 when a Yaris would have done the job is optics. Sometimes having any car at all is about optics.
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> They know how to ignore a PR if they don't want to review it How well does that scale as the number of such contributions increases and the triage process itself becomes a sizable effort? LLMs can inadvertently create a sort of DD
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It’s the optics part that breaks the camel’s back. Any decent car goes from A to B. Only expensive cars have the “optics”. The car is a status symbol that carries you around, and the poorest are the most “vulnerable” to need such a status s
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> The incumbent produces an innovative gadget. It may even be good, but its Sales Dept earn their quarterly bonus from the existing product line sold to the existing customers. In a rare feat, Apple managed to do just that with the iPhon
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> I can only see gains here. All of your points are correct. But so many companies/employers keep abusing this power that I have to assume they see some value. Some of the things you mentioned are even short term gains for some co
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Of course I was talking from the point of view of the employer. I come from a completely different work culture and expectations.
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Rude and aggressive reply to an otherwise perfectly civil comment, “trust me bro, I’m an expert”, bringing up “arguments” but never actually stating any, and chatgpt-like random statements about Jewish-Moroccans from “the company”. Hallmark
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I think the losses you’re thinking of are more than made up by the gains coming from the employees being afraid they can be fired at any moment.
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I meant “we” as humanity. You gave a very US-centric perspective at a time when the US finds it challenging to deal with many long solved issues. Why conflate not wanting, not caring, not wanting to pay for it, or just not being able right
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No, those are your words. The dumbed down, skewed, ragebaity, Fox News level strawman. The guaranteed way to drag down the conversation when you have nothing of value to say: pretend the other guy said something just as worthless and then
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Routine governance in Stalin’s time is what we now call Stalinism. “Just the way we do things” doesn’t tell you much about the quality. Unlimited campaign spending has a huge potential to consolidate power and allow more spe ding in a posit
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The average Chinese who’s seen China progress by leaps and bounds continuously over the past 40 years probably wants this to keep up. So why change something that’s working? It only sucks for the people who oppose the ruling party, the diss

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