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by ipqk 3y ago
Arbitrage it from places where green energy is cheap or free. For example, iceland has pretty much 100% renewable energy sources. Already it has an extensive aluminum industry because energy there is cheap, and aluminum is energy-intensive
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by ipqk 3y ago
It is compared to non-vaccinated regions, if you had bothered to read the article. > To calculate mortality in the three countries, where death registry statistics are unreliable, the researchers employed tens of thousands of community r
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by ipqk 3y ago
Yes, this was half the article.
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by ipqk 3y ago
No one was sold anything yet. These things don't go from 0 to 100 overnight. We've assumed that self-driving cars will be safer than humans in the future, though that's yet to be determined. And even if their safety record
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by ipqk 3y ago
One of the biggest "white-collar" crimes is wage-theft, which certainly isn't distant at all from the average worker.
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by ipqk 3y ago
You can try congee or polenta instead. Or mix in various grains.
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by ipqk 3y ago
She blasts her views on twitter constantly — she deserves all the scrutiny she gets.
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by ipqk 3y ago
They always remove Pros after a year. See: https://daringfireball.net/2023/09/apples_two-pronged_annual...
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by ipqk 3y ago
You can probably find it for awhile "in the channels", i.e. 3rd party retailers like cell-phone stores for a little bit longer until their stock is depleted.
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by ipqk 3y ago
USA & europe tanneries are usually pretty regulated and treat their wastewater. Other countries may vary.
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by ipqk 3y ago
> Your blood pressure reading on the day of a doctor's appointment, right after you've driven to the appointment, made your way through the intake pipeline, and finally sat down in the chair, is not representative of its readin
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by ipqk 3y ago
That's not true. For the last few iPhone upgrade cycles, everytime I got a new iPhone I just removed the SIM it came with, and popped in my old one. Everything worked. The only time i replaced the SIM was when 5G came out and it requir
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by ipqk 3y ago
But wait, everyone keeps telling me that Apple cripples their products after a couple years forcing you to buy their latest version.
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by ipqk 3y ago
lol, on Medium which I get a 50% banner ad asking me subscribe.
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by ipqk 3y ago
I gets heavily brigaded early on by right-wingers that downvote anything with non-white or LGTBQ+ characters. Just look for reviews that say "woke" or "urban" or "ethnic".
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by ipqk 3y ago
But then who pays for laying down the fiber? What company would want to pay that cost when others can use it?
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by ipqk 3y ago
Aren't diamonds quite brittle? I feel hitting banging the diamond pan against the burner slightly too hard will cause it to shatter. Or using a metal spatula too roughly.
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by ipqk 3y ago
Climate change should be number 1 on this list, and it not being listed is unconscionable. It's absolutely because of climate change. Everything else is secondary.
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by ipqk 3y ago
> Also, whatever vehicle designer that decided the horn should honk whenever the car locks — you are on the top of my list! This should be illegal. I sort of get it 30 years ago when aftermarket & OEM car alarms were a new thing, but
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by ipqk 3y ago
Companies may spread out their emails over days. Right now Google is sending out emails about their new Gmail inactive account policy. A lot of people use my domain name as their email address for some reason. I've gotten 17 emails so
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by ipqk 3y ago
No.
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by ipqk 3y ago
Not always. M:TG has always been sold as a collectible card game, and many of its early cards are extremely valuable.
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by ipqk 3y ago
Those $100 2TB drives are probably because of this: https://www.theverge.com/22291828/sandisk-extreme-pro-portab...
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by ipqk 3y ago
I was asked to provide a quote for a silly fluff lifestyle piece my friend was writing for the college's newspaper. 20 years later, that piece is number 5 when searching my fairly unique name (I've done as much as possible to scru
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by ipqk 3y ago
This would be about 90% of Reddit's front page. Just look at /r/tinder: people just casually posting screenshots of ostensibly private conversations with the person's face & first name visible. It's frankly ridi
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by ipqk 3y ago
That would help a little bit, but most of the illegal biking by ebikes is done to save their time not because they're feel unsafe. Things like salmoning (going wrong way in an already existing bike line); careening down the sidewalk th
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by ipqk 3y ago
The problem with ebikes/scooters in NYC is that I no longer feel safe on sidewalks. 5 years ago, I always felt safe on sidewalks but would always cross roads carefully (I have a rule about never looking at my phone when walking across
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by ipqk 3y ago
Are you East Asian by chance? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odor#ABCC11
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by ipqk 3y ago
That is sort of the case. Lower alcohol drinks are taxed less per volume. But taxes are so high, that even low-alcohol drinks are still expensive. A 3% beer is taxed ~US$1.25 for a half liter. https://www.skatteetaten.no/en&
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by ipqk 3y ago
This is what I do. The trade off is that I wake up every 1-2 hours having to pee, and thus get a poor night's sleep. But better than being hungover.

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