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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Volatile organic waste yes, but most plastic waste doesn't decay into methane in significant quantities.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Plastics don't decay into methane in significant quantities.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
It makes no difference to the atmosphere whether you're burning oil or plastics made out of oil. It's better to not burn oil at all!
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
A landfill is a far more sensible place for the waste to end up than the atmosphere.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Yes, but climate change is definitely going to cause problems in far less than 400 years, and landfill soil pollution is highly regional problem, not a global problem.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
The water and soil pollution from a landfill is predominantly caused by biodegradable waste. Hard plastics aren't a big contributor because they're stable for a hundred years.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
> It’s being trucked to a cement plant northeast of Salt Lake City that burns it for fuel. That seems way worse than putting it in a landfill?
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
This is entirely tangential, but I'm interested to hear how, exactly, you think consumers have been harmed?
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Do you think European data protection law actually prevents much tangible consumer harm?
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
To me it doesn't make much sense for a fine to be based on money a company might make in the future.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
It isn't a tax dodge, it's a simple matter of Amazon's international retail business still growing quickly and so needs a lot of capital. Happy to look at any evidence otherwise.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
It's impossible they earned more than $1B from europeans , since Amazon's entire international retail business still hasn't turned a profit overall.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
It's worse than that. Almost all of Amazon's profit comes from AWS and its US business, but this fine is entirely a cost due to its retail business in the EU. The operating income of Amazon's international retail business in
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
It's sad this article makes absolutely no attempt to describe what, exactly, Amazon did wrong.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
It's not "just supply and demand". Supply can increase to match demand! The production of almost everything in our lives has economies of scale , so it's surprising that this isn't the case for cost of living in ci
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Apart from the effect size in that study being pretty low, theres the obvious sampling problem in that sort of people regularly having their brain imaged are not normal!
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
No, there's no supply because local governments are permitting historically low rates of new development.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Batteries are more like fuel tanks
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
How “sensitive” is facebook user data though? All content in a facebook account is already visible to an average of >100 people - their facebook friends. (Messenger had stronger protections than OP is describing)
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
LNA, an aviation industry newsletter, recently came to a very different conclusion [1]. The biggest difference to Wendover Productions's numbers is a hugely higher estimate in the cost of replacing the battery every 5-10 years due to b
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
100% of the population with 70% immunity results in far fewer deaths than 25% of the population with 90% immunity
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
West Texas has highs several degrees higher than central Spain, which is the small difference between unpleasant and deadly.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Remember too that the majority of the linux kernel isn't covered by any unit or integration tests.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Cost is a non-answer. The cost of nuclear plants has gone up about 5x since the 70's due to regulation, which is entirely in the hands of the government.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
The EU ETS applies to flights within the EU, so carbon externalities are already priced in. Also the choice isn't between trains and poorly connected airports. You can build high speed rail connections between city centres and airports
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
It's entirely up to developers whether to put ads in their game or not.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
#2 and #4 are both about Zoom having a botched e2e implementation (it was "e2e", but had server-side key management). That's not really a win for Teams since it doesn't even try to support e2e.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
Yes. Ethical review boards, patient confidentiality, and modern clinical studies did not exist during any other pandemic comparable with SARS-CoV-2. Like in wartime, when the threat is to society as a whole not just individuals, individual
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
In the short term prices are driven by liquidity, but the fundamental value of a company's stock is the net present value of its future free cash flows. Anyone believing otherwise will, in the long term, lose money.
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by saddlerustle 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. If you assume all sales were to consumers it's true that the government receives ~~18% of Apple's revenue compared to if Apple sold nothing. Or are you just referring to the small difference betwee

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