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by hristov 6y ago
I am sure this is done mostly for business reasons. Apple wants to minimize the SKUs in order to reduce production costs and inventory. On the other hand, they want to have a good price range to capture price conscious consumers and extract
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by hristov 6y ago
It may also be a sign of people stuck at home going through their stuff and trying to find things to do with their time. It may be a sign of baseball fans not being able to go to games (or being scared of it, if they are able) spending thei
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by hristov 6y ago
This is important to keep in mind when you read articles and/or studies about how electric cars or wind or solar power is impractical. A lot of the data these studies use is just obsolete. Say you have an opinion piece in a news paper
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by hristov 6y ago
It is comforting to see this discussion continues the great HN tradition of having a lively and wide-ranging debate about a complex scientific article or paper without ever bothering to read the article and paper. This is a rather complex p
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by hristov 6y ago
This unfortunately has been a long used tactic in the music world. In the old times it was sharpie producers putting their names as writers for songs of poor black artists, so they (the producers) can get royalties in addition to their usua
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by hristov 6y ago
Negative electricity prices are not a crisis but a great business opportunity. There is a lot of money to be made from free energy, or even better energy that someone is paying you to take. There are, for example aluminum plants, whose majo
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by hristov 6y ago
My understanding is that these were used as what we currently refer to as treasuries. I.e., debt that the government owes to an investor. So, if you want to lend the government some money, you get half a piece of wood with some notches indi
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by hristov 6y ago
I am not sure they should. It is something people want to know about. It is their duty to report about important to know events in the real world, and the fact that there exist scumbags that are willing to murder random people is definitely
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by hristov 6y ago
It is not that clear cut. Stamping requires softer steel which can be bent in those stamping machines. However, softer steel kind of goes against the purpose of of the body parts in the car. If you use softer steel you need more of it to en
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by hristov 6y ago
I think twitter should give foreign leaders pretty wide latitude to tweet, as long as they do not call for violence, use their tweets to command foreign agents, etc. Of course twitter can put notices on their tweets that these are foreign l
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by hristov 6y ago
It is a bit disappointing, that in what we consider to be an advanced capitalist economy there are these pockets of exorbitantly high prices.
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by hristov 6y ago
It is a little disappointing to see npr resorting to internet ad spam style headlines. Unless of course this truly is the chariot my archeologist does not want me to know about.
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by hristov 6y ago
That all sounds great, but with semiconductors you always have to worry about double ordering, stockpiling, etc.
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by hristov 6y ago
The problem with that sort of thinking is if you let the virus circulate and multiply you are risking mutations that are resistant to the vaccines. There already are two mutations that are already somewhat resistant to the vaccines accordin
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by hristov 6y ago
What you are saying is true but irrelevant. Yes there is a baseline of demand. But that does not mean that there is a requirement for a similar supply. The demand you described can be supplied by cheap renewables, complemented by gas or hyd
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by hristov 6y ago
By hydro i did not mean pumped storage hydro but ordinary dam hydro. It does not technically store energy but it is a very effective on demand power producer because you can turn it on or off at will (provided there is enough water in the r
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by hristov 6y ago
I don't see why we need this so called baseline. It is an outdated concept pushed by the nuclear industry. We need (i) to harness the cheap energy coming from the sun and the wind and (ii) another source of energy to make up shortages
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by hristov 6y ago
The target audience of the WSJ has learned long time ago to treat the editorial board as the crazy uncle you ignore at Christmas gatherings. The WSJ has arguably the best news gathering organization in the US. Their editorial board is a jok
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by hristov 6y ago
It is even weirder than you find it. When you read towards the end of the article, it says "Most of the power knocked offline came from thermal sources, Woodfin said, particularly natural gas." So natural gas and other thermal sou
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by hristov 6y ago
And for nuclear all large problems are excluded from the statistics. The Chernobyl disaster probably killed about million people according to reputable western european studies. But the official Soviet statistic is one person dead, and that
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by hristov 6y ago
So we have had the tyrant, we have had the plague, I guess it is time for the locusts.
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by hristov 6y ago
I gave you an example in this article. The article talked up a couple of proposed pieces of legislation that had nothing to do with lithium, because they were proposed by republicans.
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by hristov 6y ago
Read this with a huge grain of salt. Clearpath is a conservative lobbying organization. In the end they use the article to sell several bills (most of them sponsored by republicans) even if some of the bills it touts (the ones by Ted Cruz a
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by hristov 6y ago
Pollutants in the environment have also been increasing. The world seems about the same as it did in the 90's but the amount of microplastics, herbicides and pesticides in our water and our food has gone through the roof. I wonder if w
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by hristov 6y ago
I do wish people would not publicize cannonball runs. Racing on public streets is dangerous and should not be encouraged. The Porsche Taycan looks worse than the high performance Tesla's based on published EPA numbers but it has some a
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If you were honest and serious with the response, the lockdowns did not need to be longer than two weeks. This would have had minimal psychic toll. You can see right now that the countries that were successful with the virus response like H
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by hristov 6y ago
Actually healthy food can taste really good. But a true great tasting healthy meal must be fresh and it is relatively hard to prepare, making it expensive. Most Americans have negative feelings about vegetables because the average American
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by hristov 6y ago
Ask your employer how they feel about paying for your healthcare. Whatever your opinion of the quality of healthcare you get may be, it is an undeniable fact that the cost is rising and has been rising at rates far above the rates of inflat
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The biggest reason for cost overruns in the US is that the companies that are doing the work make more money from cost overruns. The way nuclear plant financing works in the US is that taxpayers and ratepayers ultimately pay for the cost no
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by hristov 6y ago
Vonnegut is brilliant. I have read almost everything that he has published and love finding new interviews like this. It is very important to remember the Dresden bombing which was a horrible war crime. Unfortunately, even up to this day th

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