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by fierarul 7y ago
I'm convinced both the company wrapping this as an eco-friendly move and the eco blow-back from some consumers to be morally equivalent. I didn't see a mob asking for 30% higher prices so Sonos could actually do proper recycli
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Since the existing owner just 'sold' them to Sonos for a 30% coupon and the promise of actually recycling the gear, I'd say no.
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Excerpts from the 2022 Chairman of Harmony answer regarding the Holy See rejection of the Panda chip: "It is a common misconception that the so called 'Mark of the Beast' chip has anything to do with money. The Panda chip is
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by fierarul 7y ago
Because a trade-in program where you sent the device to Sonos wasn't operationally / financially possible. There are extra costs with doing this in house (or, I guess, by partnering with a recycling centre) which meant the discoun
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You are assuming there is a market for used Sonos gear. I pretty much assume it is not. Dismantling and recycling used electronics is what actually happens. Even Apple boasts about their Liam robot to dismantle iPhones... what percentage do
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+1 Clunkers are generally functional machines. At least here they don't accept the clunker if you can't drive it in there.
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None of these really require the manufacturer to step in and give you any money or discounts.
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Apple marketed a lot their Liam iPhone dismantling robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYshVbcEmUc
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I think Sonos did the right thing by creating Recycle Mode and the over-reaction to this was amazing. Telling customers to just send the bricked device to the local recycling centre in exchange for a discount seems fair. Apple also has a
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I know that if I spend extra time I can edit the URL but honestly this reddit block has allowed me to just stop browsing reddit unless absolutely necessary. A positive thing in a way...
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I'm also on Firefox on Android and have been getting that block for quite some time...
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I must be in the bad A/B bucket because I see 'This community is available in the app' and haven't been able to use Reddit a lot on mobile for weeks / months? Google gives me this article about the new trend: https
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Sadly Reddit is locking down the personal finance subreddit behind their app so they can monetize it better. I find this article to have interesting timing as the readership on that subreddit must be going way down nowadays.
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Based on the data the ongoing cases have been decreasing for the past two weeks: http://covid.410go.net In another two weeks they might have less cases than other regions!
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Interesting. I never read news that China cases are actually decreasing and all the charts show the total cases which is flatlining (in China) but not going down. The rest of the world seems to go exponential, otoh.
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I just used this repo yesterday to create a chart of the ongoing cases on http://covid.410go.net It shows that China numbers have been going down for the past 2 weeks. This is not highlighting in the news...
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Ah, so it's not about power being a big expense, but being a constraint that is limiting their growth: > We are constrained by the data centers’ power infrastructure which, along with our selected power distribution units, leads us
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This is a good question and I would like to learn the answer too. According to some napkin calculations, the CPU is $5000 and will be kept in service, I guess, 5 years. The US average price is 13 cents / kWh so this 225 watts CPU will
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> SourceHut runs its performance critical infrastructure (git, builds) on AMD EPYC. These CPUs are sweeeet. The hard part is sourcing motherboards. I currently buy them from some dude in Germany on eBay because he's the only consist
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Apple macOS notarization: not the same for everybody(patreon.com)
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This gradual process might also happen because compensation has to cover the costs. While some things have kept their prices seems to me some services have gone way up. I was just discussing that a hotel we went to long ago basically triple
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> iXSystems mentioned to avoid AMD for FreeNAS This seems odd. Long ago FreeNAS on the N54L microserver was a nice setup and it had some AMD chip. I suspect it might apply only to some bleeding edge stuff...
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Maybe I'm not in a good niche anymore, but seems to me many US companies are setting up local shops which means they won't hire you remotely as an independent contractor but as a local employee / contractor which has much l
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Not that Western Europe has big IT salaries compared to the US. It never seemed to me that IT is viewed in EU as this big growth engine compared to the USA and salaries and prestige seem to reflect it.
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Evidently, the interviewee didn't meet just any Googler, he met the outlier, the only one unhappy there! Humans don't work like that. That single data point and the experience he had allows quite some generalization. Maybe this is
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It's the first page in the Buffet letter: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2019ltr.pdf
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I agree. Depends on the situation: if you are single and by life you mean going out, dating and having some trips then it's one thing. If you are married with children, especially young, I think the side hustle is a no-go.
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In many ways this is a SV / USA bubble. Tech pays well in other countries too, but nowhere near those levels. I think in many ways tech salaries as still depressed. We forget about the Apple / Google / Adobe / eBay &#x2F
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I guess one advantage is that now every marketing company/institution can analyze the entire flow of money within the country.
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> "AI companies simply don’t have the same economic construction as software businesses" > Last I checked, "AI" is software. You might be underestimating the importance of data to apply that software onto. I might

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