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by floundy 1y ago
I agree, I switched to Mac last fall with the incessant Windows 10 popups that my CPU is not supported and I can't upgrade to Windows 11, so buy a new PC chump or you'll be EOL! Okay, I bought a new PC Mr. Nadella, it just doesn&#
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by floundy 1y ago
Used it on various devices. A Dell laptop (with power switching between dedicated and iGPU, what a nightmare that was for Linux display drivers), a desktop I built myself, a Raspberry Pi running RPi OS. I find most things fine in Linux and
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by floundy 1y ago
Every couple of years I give daily driving Linux a try. I still find that old joke about "Linux is only free if your time is worth nothing" to be quite apt.
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by floundy 1y ago
>partially digested micro plastics I'd imagine they come out in essentially the same condition they go in. :)
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by floundy 1y ago
>plants grow in the dirt and risk having insects crawling all over them Non-sequitor. >And the sheer number of lifestyle diseases people have. Red herring. Other peoples' diabetes or obesity doesn't really impact me. Plastic
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by floundy 1y ago
There are some interesting thoughts here, but reading this I can't help but think the author is themselves afflicted by some sort of internet-addiction-induced psychosis. This reads like the mental dump of a mild schizophrenic, and per
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by floundy 1y ago
HN these days is very similar to Reddit. Most users spend their free time talking about things others have done, rather than doing things themselves. Of course, most of this internet discussion leans negative for various reasons that have b
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by floundy 1y ago
My point still stands, as the original comment was discussing the risk of loss over 30 years, with no additional investment that was 32 years of the investment being below its peak value.
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by floundy 1y ago
Many international companies are global, and have a lot of sales to the US. But I never see anybody using that as a justification for not investing in the US. As to the Nikkei retort this seems to be hindsight bias and ignorance of historic
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by floundy 1y ago
This comment is a microcosm of how HN is essentially indistinguishable from Reddit nowadays in the quality of discussion.
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by floundy 1y ago
Incorrect, the DJIA lost around 90% of its index value in the Great Depression, so the theoretical portfolio in this exercise would have declined to around 10 cents, but holding an asset at a negative return does not result in a margin call
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by floundy 1y ago
The Nikkei 225 is still below its peak value from December of 1989. The US is an outlier in terms of historical average stock market returns and there is no guarantee this outperformance will continue into the future. Actually I'd say
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by floundy 1y ago
In a world flooded with AI content, you use ChatGPT to reply to HN comments. Very cute.
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by floundy 1y ago
Good. Why should MRNA get 10% of their market cap in free government research handouts when there's other pharmaceutical companies that have been far more successful at making vaccines. MRNA literally has two products. This is a dying
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by floundy 1y ago
Socioeconomics of drug addicts and the general stubbornness of the elderly strongly indicates these will be the last groups adopting self-driving vehicles.
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by floundy 1y ago
Golly gee, I can't open GIMP, the cool kids are watching...
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by floundy 1y ago
People can prove things to be wrong without having to substitute their own complete analysis. This is how misinformation on the internet spreads so virulently; people can just post false claims and misleading content far faster than those w
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by floundy 1y ago
I just left a parent comment poking holes in the WSJ article, too. The author of the WSJ article, Patrick Thomas, is also a journalist, not an economist.
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by floundy 1y ago
This article is clearly written by a journalist and not an economist. Retail prices of eggs going up is not proof that the egg suppliers are being exploitative. The end retailers need to be investigated for their margin on eggs for it to be
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by floundy 1y ago
He's a Reddit-type reactionary, and the furthest thing from a trained economist. That analysis takes no consideration of the supply chain at all, and doesn't consider that if the thesis is true, perhaps the store selling the eggs
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by floundy 1y ago
Hilarious and pathetic. I hope GIMP realizes that the people pressuring them to change the name are a bunch of terminally online keyboard warriors with zero accomplishments in life, and normal people who use and support their product do not
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by floundy 1y ago
I was able to nearly start a small fire in a few seconds by cutting open a USB cable, stripping the pos/neg wires, and attaching them to the charging interface of a small electronic device I had lost the charging dock for. Powered from
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by floundy 1y ago
Doctorow has published over a dozen books, had his term "enshittification" broadcasted out to the world, and makes less than $160 per month in ebook and audiobook sales?
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by floundy 1y ago
Urbanists are amusing. Ignoring the obvious criticism that they presume to think everyone else wants to (or should want to) live in a heckin' cool city, or their entitlement to attempt to overrule democratic majority decisions by subur
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by floundy 1y ago
>sells to whoever they can"; the builders have little incentive to care about what's cost-effective and >People have a certain approximately fixed amount of money available to spend on a house, and basically all of that mone
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by floundy 1y ago
Zero chance that solar panels are paying off the initial investment in 3-4 years... if they were everyone would have them. This is also super basic supply and demand stuff. If you forcibly raise the price of a good, demand for it goes down.
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by floundy 1y ago
I think smartphones are the one exception as a "necessary evil" at this point in the first world. However, we are talking about a thermostat here. When I bought my house, there were 40+ year old mechanical thermostats on the wall.
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by floundy 1y ago
I refuse to invest in anything in the Google ecosystem at this point; any app, software, or hardware you use can clearly be discontinued at the whim of the C-suite getting pitched by some PM trying to justify why they deserve to be a team l
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by floundy 1y ago
I received one of these calls several months ago, I believe it was pitching solar panels, however the bot initially refused to admit it was a bot. "I'm not a robot, I am a real human named Casey." Eventually I broke out of it
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by floundy 2y ago
Have you used Windows 11? When right clicking, there's now a context menu within the right click context menu. To see what you could see in Win10, you have to right click, then select "See more options" or something. Which ju

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