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by seec 1y ago
I agree with the sentiment. A lot of words were written but not a whole lot of valuable information was laid out. I made an effort but it was impossible to not just skim past the second picture.
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by seec 1y ago
Yes that's true. Everyone gets to interact with people that are closer to their ideals but it makes society less homogeneous and disconnected locally because there is no geographical grouping. At the same time people are more mobile th
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by seec 1y ago
Well if they were to reach that price, they would make a bit more sense since it would mean mostly giving up battery life for a bit more versatility. But I seriously doubt it will happen in any reasonable time frame. They are fundamentally
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by seec 1y ago
Why would I stop arguing if I like it? Why even be here otherwise? I have various Samsung foldables in hand, yes. I am definitely impressed by how far they have gotten but it doesn't change the fundamentals. The flip style is just plai
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by seec 1y ago
It is just below 9mm which I'll agree is impressive. Most of the dimensions are in the acceptable range compared to "Pro" models of competitive brands. But I find those already too much, and a pain to carry in most of my pock
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by seec 1y ago
Investing in the futur when you have a hard time creating more value than you consume is exactly what you need to do. Reducing investment is precisely the way to reinforce the downward feedback loop. If they want to keep taxing the common m
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by seec 1y ago
Not many unlike what you want to believe. And there is no mechanism to directly link them to the nuclear meltdown. Since they are suspiciously clustered in specific places, it is more likely that there are other environmental and genetic pr
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by seec 1y ago
Yes that's the point. Dam failure is much worse and actually the largest event of fatalities related to power generation was a dam breaking. Yet people are not against dams at all, even though they are not much better in terms of risks
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by seec 1y ago
This. People have phantasm about Chernobyl that are straight out of their imagination, in a fear driven narrative that is very far from the reality. When you look into it, you find that deaths directly linked to the meltdown are contained t
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by seec 1y ago
Apple is as petty as a little girl. They are "punishing" their users for the EU regulations in an attempt to get leverage by getting their users to complain at their representative against the regulations. Not only is this dising
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by seec 1y ago
What are you even saying? It's funny you think I'm bragging. Here is the thing, people are buying foldables only to show off, the functionality/usefulness makes no sense for the vast majority of people. Which is why they are
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by seec 1y ago
Electricity self-sufficiency is only realistic when: your needs are quite low, you own a house, you have capital to invest for both panels and storage, your heating is not electricity dependent (so most likely fossil fuel or wood, which isn
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by seec 1y ago
I'm glad I'm not alone thinking this. Much of the renewable price/cost calculation is plain wrong because we have offloaded the cost to other countries (who gladly still use fossil fuels). On top of that there is the problem
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by seec 1y ago
Basically this. But he is probably rich enough to not care because the effort that will be asked of him will be small relative to his purchasing power. So, he can pretend to be "good" for doing the right thing, while more unfortun
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by seec 1y ago
This. Germany has been strong arming policies around electricity in the EU for quite a while. Forcing their neighbors to sell their electricity for cheap when it is the most expensive in the market while assuming none of the costs and risks
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by seec 1y ago
50% of the price in France is also taxes and network maintenance fees so your argument does not make sense. The retail price is so high because it is a failure of both technology and politics. The taxes are that high because politically the
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by seec 1y ago
Unsurprisingly you got downvoted. It is a very unpopular opinion on HN. But I agree with you, the math does not add up. I have looked at the data and it makes no sense. Germany still needs to build a shit ton of wind turbines (150GW) and th
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by seec 1y ago
Hey I'll take that as a compliment. I'll say this: I live in France and when Apple announced the first iPhone, I imported it from the US at great costs. So, it's not like if I am a luddite, I'm just able to understand wh
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by seec 1y ago
If you are not an ideologue the reality is that it's not really possible and not a serious option. Modern society/civilisation relies on reliable power generation on cue, wanting to gamble that ability just to be able to remove nu
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by seec 1y ago
You should check your sources. Very often the reverse is actually true. The recent years are not really representative because a lot of reactors were put on hold waiting for repairs and improvement. There is also the fact that France added
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by seec 1y ago
It's funny you say that. Renewables are "cheap" precisely because a lot of the labor cost is offloaded to cheap labor countries with low regulations. There is basically no solar panel market outside of China, and that says so
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by seec 1y ago
Yes but it's not ugly in the look/fashion sense, it's just ugly because it doesn't match a reality where it has a purpose. Either they have good form factor closed but they suck open or they have good form factor open bu
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by seec 1y ago
It's a bit sad that you get heavily downvoted but it shows that they have a completely distorted view of reality. I still use RSS but I am completely with you on this. Most people, even those who work in tech related fields very rarely
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by seec 1y ago
This. I would rather have them be a small independent team that can test and break things instead of having to comply to a big bureaucracy. I think they brought them back to compete with the newer macOS features. It's working and I hop
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by seec 1y ago
Same, I regularly forget to put it back on. You have to micromanage the thing. It does not just work. You have to constantly adapt strategies depending on usage pattern and lifestyle change. I do not use smartwatch features (basically usele
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by seec 1y ago
Exactly in the same boat. Apple offering is underwhelming to say the least and way too expensive for my use case. I want to go Android anyway, I'm too disillusioned with Apple currently, I'm tired of dealing with their predatory b
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by seec 1y ago
I'm with you. Long term Apple customer and it feels like they really don't care about anything that I would like them to do. It's OK but it feels bad because you are kind of trapped with their stuff if you invested in their e
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by seec 1y ago
Yep, weight matters a lot more. For this they could engineer a good plastic but it wouldn't sell because it wouldn't feel "premium" enough. So instead, we get nonsense like that. And it suits them well because the thing
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by seec 1y ago
Bingo !
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by seec 1y ago
The correct solution already existed but it wasn't expensive luxury fashion bullshit enough so it didn't sell and they'll pretend it never existed.

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