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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
That's an overly-simplistic breakdown. Almost all campaigns I've seen, across political stripes, include an element of "don't let the other guys win!". After all, it was Hillary's main selling point. Also, even
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
>Google underestimates the value of data stored by users. Of course they do. How can they possibly put any value on endless PB of holiday snaps? They only care that you are now reliant on them to store your memories.
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
Democracy is a popularity contest.
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
Once it becomes more widely accepted just how bad the continual dopamine drip of (especially mobile) social media is for individuals and society, it would be very interesting to find some research into the gender differences. My wife has a
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
There'll be another Cash for Clunkers type program, and there won't be any cheap, reliable old cars.
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
> Most of that production is to US and Europe consumers. This is such a tiresome argument. The West has mandated that we all buy EVs in the near future, while labour and environmental laws mean that it is basically impossible to manufa
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
I just picked laptop as a convenient example, and because it might remind people that they probably have a house full of similar gadgets (and with a similar level of embodied energy).
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
Concrete takes 1.1MJ/kg to manufacture[1]. So, you get ~4000kg of concrete for one laptop's worth of embodied energy. Amortised over the expected lifetimes of the items in question, manufacture of high-density electronics still re
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
>Making all this plastic stuff can't be energy cheap... Plastic is relatively cheap, energy-wise. Your embodied energy usage is dominated by semiconductors. Edit: Google tells me that a laptop takes 4500MJ to manufacture. If you wer
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
In what scenario would it be useful to be able to carry your own copy of Wikipedia a short distance and be able to read it for a few hours before the battery dies?
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
I'm glad they will probably fail at that, as I absolutely do not want Facebook to be mandatory for regular life.
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
However, I hope that lessons about human nature have been learned, now that we have all lived through the pandemic. Whenever we look at history and ask "how could people buy such a flimsy story, and abandon all that they previously hel
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
It's a bit old, but should give you some ideas to start your own research: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2229029/computer-factor...
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
Where I live (Wales, UK), a recent report examined school attendance since the start of the pandemic. Not only does attendance continue to decline in the high single digits, the affect on the worst-off in society is truly devastating. The d
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
Here in the UK, we effectively turned our nursing homes into COVID treatment facilities. Thanks to the global fear of Covid, we decided that the best strategy was to empty the hospitals (discharging many old folks back to their care homes i
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
I don't understand your use of the word "triage". Unless I am mis-understanding, you are defining it as "we will triage unvaccinated Covid patients as "not needing care"". In which case - everything I&#x27
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
>There was a feeling that this was unfair to all those who got the vaccine and thereby had much better outcomes But that's how healthcare works. How many other conditions do healthcare professionals have to treat, that are the resul
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
I did not. I have a young child, and refused to follow the herd and just sit everyone in front of a tablet or Netflix. It made my life incredibly hard and lonely - have you tried occupying a 1-year-old for a year, when you are under effecti
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
I heard you. I prefer to work with hard facts, and not emotionally-laden scenes and imagery. What was the Covid death rate for your town? Our city council commandeered a football stadium as an emergency Covid field hospital. It was practica
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
>I firmly remember all the army trucks sprinting around my home city carting dead bodies and healthcare professionals, I also remember many media outlets using extremely emotionally appealing images of "scary" hospital scenes a
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by fdewrewrewf 4y ago
>And I always think of that picture as an image of the 21st century’s first immunocapitalist. I make the opposite argument - while huge numbers of ordinary citizens were kept under effective house arrest (or other restrictions), the weal