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by morsch 4y ago
Some physical books cost 3 bucks, new, others are 30, some textbooks 150 USD. Distribution costs have little to do with it. Not that I'm defending predatory textbook pricing, I totally support copying those 150 USD textbooks, whether i
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Interesting. It's more like 0.5x to 1x of the paperback in my experience, buying mostly English books on Amazon Germany. Sometimes considerably less, especially for older books, eg I just bought a fantasy trilogy from the 80s for like
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This has been a thing for decades, nobody cares. It doesn't scale to a size that warrants their attention. Not that there's much the publishing industry could do about it if they wanted to. Apart from leaning stronger into ebooks,
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But everybody knows what a library is and grassroots booksharing (aka drop off your old paperbacks in an agreed upon public place) is already a thing, so maybe not a dystopia? Also, buying books second hand is incredibly easy and cheap. And
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The combined emissions of CFC-13, CFC-112a, CFC-113a, CFC-114a and CFC-115 increased from 1.6 ± 0.2 to 4.2 ± 0.4 ODP-Gg yr-1 (CFC-11-equivalent ozone-depleting potential) between 2010 and 2020. The anticipated impact of these emissions on
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How do you know GDPR has done very little?
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I tried Feedly for a couple of days, then I switched to Feeder and haven't looked back. Zero dependency on any central service, no user accounts, no upsell, no algorithms. I don't need any synchronization features, though apparent
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Seems like a bigger one would only be more efficient.
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He's probably referring to paracetamol's narrow therapeutic index[1]. 1 paracetamol may relieve your headache, 10 will do lasting damage to your liver, or even be fatal[2]. It's kind of nuts. Of course, Ibuprofen is not witho
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Seems to me the problem is a lack of imagination
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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-at-birth-... https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/median-age?time=earliest....
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Yes, I'm sure about that. Let's take a famous example, Dresden[1]: after the bombings, most industry was still standing (though not operating), 50+% of living quarters were left, 70% of retail was still operating; rudimentary civi
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Laos is smaller in area and still had more ordnance dropped on it than Germany. And Germany was a highly developed country before the war, despite heavy bombing, there was a lot of infrastructure remaining. Germany in the fifties and sixtie
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I was born in a water moon...
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Most people around here have a job.
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I'd be willing to buy a nice one, but it's probably one of the most annoying things to shop for. I don't know what I want, and mattress vendors all seem like crooks. The rise of the internet foam mattress startup has made it
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I'm sure you could design it in a way that people wouldn't mind. Most games get harder as you succeed at them. Rimworld is a builder game that does it. And not just through increased complexity, but by making the environment more
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I wouldn't be worried, the market for modern city builders is large enough to support a few of them, assuming they're distinctive enough. I'm kind of shocked nobody made an attempt to displace C:S in the last couple of years.
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the actual simulation was being done on the servers, rather than on the client I remember that's what they said, but I doubt it was ever the case. Wikipedia says the cloud functionality "enable[d] cloud saves and multiplayer fun
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The worst dishwashers sold in the EU still use less than 1 kWh on the eco program. https://www.coolblue.de/en/advice/energy-consumption-dishwas...
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I have fond memories of that as well. I think I first played it on a holiday on my dad's black and white PowerBook. Those fast enemies with the blade-like front were terrifying. What's the spiritual successor?
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Wolfenstein 3D, specifically, hasn't been banned since 2019: https://www.schnittberichte.com/news.php?ID=15165
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Where?
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Here's the security bulletin for January: https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2023-01-01 How do I determine which, if any, of these is fixed via the Play store update mechanism?
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It also has many positive outcomes for a kid to spend some time in a daycare with other kids its age, for some more so than others. Social capabilities, language capabilities, nourishment, ...
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I think it will be cheaper to stop geo-engineering large areas to seal the ground, preventing it from storing water. But we'll probably have to do both.
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You can use an AI for learning if you go beyond treating it as a machine for cheating on your homework, and instead think of it as a 1:1 tutor. Imagine the AI having a teaching curriculum that it tends to go through, but in a conversational
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Nope. Couldn't find anything via Google, either. I thought you were making a Seinfeld joke, at first ("The Little Kicks"), but apparently not.
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The extra physical button on my Samsung S10 is my favorite thing about it. Ordinarily it launches Samsung's voice assistant, which naturally is completely pointless, but you can patch it to do whatever you want. I've set mine to p
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At this point I can't really enjoy documentaries like that anymore. I keep thinking "they brought a steadicam down there?" or "where is all that light coming from?" The fourth wall is thoroughly broken. Thanks, I&#x

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