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by std_throwaway 7y ago
Isn't it a hen-and-egg-problem? High quality 4K and 8K streaming isn't widely used because there are not many users. Therefore there is no evidence for demand. Therefore there isn't many providers and content. Therefore we do
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
Well, the sky is very likely falling but it is falling so slowly that the older generation won't see any severe effects. In the great scheme it won't matter so much what Germany does if the rest of the world continues to burn the
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
Thanks for explaining.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
So, if I go bankrupt it's basically worth nothing to anybody else because nobody could sell it for money? Even if it gets taken away and somebody else owns my shares they couldn't do anything with it when the board disagrees? Even
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
Can I sell this land to someone else if I need money? Is the use of that land for the new owner restricted or can it be repurposed for agriculture or other uses?
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
What happens if I need my money back?
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
You could post it on a site like imgur and post the link here. No need to derail the discussion.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
* Stop paying so much taxes. * Use money to make money. * Never get sick. * Never get divorced.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
This advice is 50% wrong. You should marry very rich or never get a divorce. For many people marriage works very well as they will tell you proudly. On the other hand this advice is 50% right if you ever do get a divorce. Those things are s
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
50% chance of being totally destroyed financially. But it surely doesn't hit you because you are special.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
Trade secret. Sorry, can't say any more.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
The point is that we don't know and we cannot check.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
Having control over the energy source gives you a lot of power. It doesn't make sense to give up all that power right now. We have to wait until holding on to this power is more expensive than letting it go and this can take a long lon
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
You don't even need storage solutions if you keep sufficient gas/coal on standby. But somebody must pay for these because they don't get many hours of use.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
There's lots of faulty reasoning going around society: * There is no climate change. * The temperature charts are rigged. * Scientists conspire to get more funding. * Dissenting opinions are suppressed by the mainstream. * Taxing CO2 i
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
It's kind of the same reasoning why voting machines are closed source and can only be audited by authorized personnel.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
> 1. The only thing making you fat is excess calories - it cannot be any other way. So, why do you consume so much? Who calls for more and more calories? Why do you get hungry all the time? Why do you not get the needed nutrients from th
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
Maybe by using qemu? (Windows on qemu on Wine on Linux on Windows)
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
So, Intel produced new APUs for low-end/middle class laptops. Great, if that's what they were aiming for.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
This sounds very promising. But it also sounds like something that PR would write. I think we'll have to wait some time until independent researchers get their hands on these chips and give them a thorough testing.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
Those aren't 10nm Xeons.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
Some "hardware patches" are microcode changes that also result in performance degradation.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
Have these tests been run with or without the security patches? Since Spectre/Meltdown/etc. it has increasingly been difficult to compare numbers. Lately intels IPC advantage compared to AMD has been melted away completely by thes
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
Stock valuation is not money. You get money if you sell. The stock is a virtual valuation. You need to sell to make it real. You only lost imagined money.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
750 points sounded much scarier when the DOW was below 10000. Now it's just 3%.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
Yes, there's basically no integrity. Only the appearance of it. A company isn't this way or that way they just do whatever is most promising in that moment.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
Not only is he recreating the mechanism, he's also exploring antique methods and materials that were possibly used.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
Is it really getting any worse or has it always been this way and we just don't learn it in history class?
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
It goes deeper all the way to the value systems that once were bestowed upon the populace by the church.
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by std_throwaway 7y ago
> In the middle of the Max’s development, two of the most seasoned engineers in the F.A.A.’s Boeing office left. > In their place, the F.A.A. appointed an engineer who had little experience in flight controls, and a new hire who had g

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