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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Revenue increase of 10 billion is about 3%, essentially tracking inflation.
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
And nothing of practical consequence is learned from exploring the tombs in Egypt. We might be able to decipher some tidbits about everyday life thousands of years ago, but one would be hard-pressed to explain what tangible benefits it offe
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
I find it odd to see geeks, on a site essentially devoted to idle curiosity, speaking out against idle curiosity. There is value in showing respect for the dead, mostly for the benefit of those near death and the grieving families, but the
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
We're OK with disposable alkaline batteries, so what makes lithium worse? If anything, alkaline batteries might have a slightly worse environmental footprint due to the use of manganese. The problem with lithium batteries is that they
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
Sure, but there's no reason to suspect that low gravity does anything interesting to fungi, of all things; and there's ample evidence that it doesn't from previous experiments, intentional and not. Other comments cite instanc
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
I'm a bit perplexed about experiments like that. I get it why we did a lot of this in the early years of the Space Age to validate our assumptions about the hazards of outer space. Then, there was some scientific curiosity about how ce
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
That was the whole gimmick here, though. They pitched it as "AI-generated George Carlin". They used his likeness for the thumbnail. They faked his voice. Nothing is stopping you from writing a novel in the style of Harry Potter, b
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
It doesn't cost $10M in equipment costs to create a basic fabrication facility for short-run metal parts today, right? You pay for land, permitting & compliance, construction, etc. Machinery to cut "consumer-sized" part
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by quatrefoil 3y ago
> I don't understand why people insist on paying hundreds of dollars for a "name", when the watch you are describing is only worth $50, give or take. Why do people pay for The North Face, when you can have knock-off brands