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by naming_the_user 2y ago
For what it's worth this isn't that uncommon. Most drives fail in the first few years, if you get through that then annualized failure rates are about 1-2%. I've had the (small) SSD in a NAS fail before any of the drives due
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft Modern airliners approach 100mpg per seat. About the same as four people in the average American car (25mpg at four people is 100mpg per seat). Compared to say, yo
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
A more accurate description I think is that "we" have bifurcated. It's another element of political division. Almost everyone I know thinks that things like OnlyFans are embarrassing at best, and disgusting at worst. Sure, mo
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Modern Apple Silicon based laptops have fantastic graphics performance, manufacturers just aren't that interested in supporting them. It's probably a bit of a chicken and egg thing at this point, plus the fact that most "seri
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
This is an odd interpretation IMO. Thiel - "If you bought a house or have all sorts of obligations of one sort or another, it may be very difficult." My takeaway from that would be - if you have a dream and that dream requires an
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
This is properly, properly cool. Not in the market at the moment but man. Those 18650's! Just awesome.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Completely not a thing in the UK. The app is a portal for SMS based auth and that's it. Everyone uses WhatsApp or other social network based messengers.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
The keys used mean that it doesn't work properly for me on Firefox, hitting / opens a search box (in the browser) that I have to close and the Return key to send a message doesn't work at all. I also don't see any other
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
The Scandinavian countries also have a population size that they can support more easily. The US is massive, right? 45 people per sq km. Sweden is at 28. Finland 18. Norway? 15.
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
We have the same caps, and in the UK we have cards with 12+ months interest free. They do sometimes have small annual fees but nothing like the bank rate. My understanding is that it's a bit like bank accounts, it's paid for by pe
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Who’s talking about rent here? The article is about mortgages. When you buy a house you know what you’re getting into. Sorry, I don’t subscribe to the pessimistic “landlords bad, capitalism bad” viewpoint of the world, not that this has any
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I think that you're mixing up a few things here to be honest. I grew up poor and I don't have the faintest clue what you're talking about. Terror? Predation? Being used and discarded? No, we just didn't have that much mo
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
I think it's a bit less dramatic than that really - most people accept that the world we live in has both rights and responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is that by paying for the loans you take out, in exchange you get to k
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
The simple solution is that e-scooters and other powered vehicles need to face the same enforcement as cars. If not for tickets, plenty of drivers (including me) would take more liberties on the roads. Licence plate, fine if you don’t have
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
For what it's worth, as someone who doesn't need to work on a daily basis (made enough in my 20s), extended periods of unemployment can quite easily lead me down a similar path to the one that the article describes. If you slip in
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
Back in the day I'd just wing it, hey, firmware update the only harddrive I own, what could go wrong. Now if it's not on at least two drives within a few hours of something new (photo, video, work done, whatever) it seems like a t
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
My first instinct was to say that this isn't much, but actually, it's not insignificant. Say there's a billion users. 14975GWh implies then that each user has used 14975Wh or 15kWh. Per year. Fairly spicy I think. It's a
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by naming_the_user 2y ago
This is very interesting, thanks for sharing! So if it takes 1J to do some computation in 1 second (say 1GHz at 1W), you're saying that in the perfectly spherical cow case, it takes 2J to do that same computation in 0.5 seconds (2GHz a