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by jbay808 5y ago
It's also because big tech has a lot of money. Many other companies can't afford to pay those salaries, and they would if they could.
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Domestic production of almost everything in the world. This is also immensely valuable to innovation because it's easy to make new things and test new ways of making things. Do you expect that "designed and engineered in X, made i
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It seems to me that if you can make a product of a given quality very cheaply, that probably indicates that you're very good at making it. The fact that I can't get competitive production quotes in the USA for most products, like
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Plus, for anything other than new releases you'd get the rental typically for up to a week, whereas now it's 24 hours even for a 30 year old film.
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I've noticed that streaming video quality is really bad, actually. Especially when the scene is very dark and grey, like Dark , you can hardly see anything because of the compression. Physical media thankfully does better.
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Reminds me of the brilliant "On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines" [1]. We show that it is not only implausible that machines will ever exceed human size, but in fact impossible. [...] The term “supersized machine” impli
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I'm a control theorist with an engineering physics background and although I don't have a strong foundation in manifolds and Lie groups, it's a subject I've been interested in for other reasons. A book that looks to appl
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If the meteorologist says it will rain on Saturday and be sunny on Sunday, and in fact they happen in the opposite order, my weekend plans are ruined. But the seismologist is just saying, "I don't know exactly when but it reeaaall
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It's a lot like predicting earthquakes right? You can measure strain and know that you're due, but you still don't know precisely what the trigger will be or when it will happen. We don't make such jokes about seismologi
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It should scarcely cost any power to cancel the cogging torque though, wouldn't it? Can't you just keep a small percentage of the battery in reserve for that purpose?
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Hopefully your motor will also work as a regenerative brake. But perhaps not every controller offers that?
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Canon and Nikon make similar machines too, but they've lost market share ever since ASML released their dual scan system. And at the moment EUV doesn't appear to be a mature enough market to support competitors.
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To me it brings to mind the giant airplanes of Miyazaki's Nausicaa .
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I agree they'd probably pay extra for the parts, but that might not just get passed on in their system price. It can manifest in all sorts of other ways (debt, discontinuing a different product line, cutting back on research, etc). In
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I think that your experience with COVID tests would depend strongly on which country are you in, and which government you are talking about.
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> they'll just raise their own prices to compensate. That's how it works in econ 101, but not necessarily in practice. Prices on many goods are less flexible than commodities like oil and lumber, for many reasons. Manufacturers
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> PV panels are the future of energy, so you need to have domestic factories no matter the cost. Another benefit of domestic factories is domestic innovation. It's much harder for an engineer coming out of university and going throu
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What is your budget?
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Wasn't there also a sofa shortage, caused in part by a foam shortage? https://slate.com/business/2021/07/furniture-shortage-couch-...
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Canada is accepting democracy activists as refugees from Hong Kong: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-star...
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I'm not aware of any vacuum container that is strong enough to resist buckling while being light enough to be buoyant.
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Unfortunately, that just sets the world record for the farthest freestyle javelin throw even farther back, to 1977, when Voyager 1 was launched.
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Exactly! And borrowing money to spend on consumables like apples is clearly risky borrowing. How will you pay it back once you've eaten the apples? So the lender is very strict and the rates are high. When you borrow money for an asset
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I'm not sure things have really gotten faster. The increased communication rate might be balanced out by the higher inertia of a more interconnected global economy. I feel like the ripples from 2008 are still catching up with us -- loo
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Sometimes yes, sometimes no. For example, inflation typically triggers interest rate increases. If your debt is fixed rate that's fine, but if it's not, it might get more expensive more quickly than you expected, and your wage inc
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In Canada at least, primary residences are capital-gains exempt. Mortgage payments are typically almost constant with respect to interest rates, because the monthly payment is what tends to climb to whatever value the market will bear. Inst
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Compared with doing what else with your 10,000 yen per month?
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The Plaza accords were basically this. It was conducted much more amicably than the current brow-beating with China though. I'm sure they had their reasons but Japan was probably a little overconfident in agreeing to those terms at the
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What I mean by reciprocity is, if distant far-field antenna B can transfer energy to our contained-field antenna A, then shouldn't our contained-field antenna A also be able to transfer energy to the far-field antenna B? Wouldn't
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By the principle of reciprocity, such an antenna also shouldn't couple at all to the far field of a distant radiating source... Right? So this should work well for a near-field coupling device, but not as some kind of distant silent re

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