throw-nocoiner

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   by throw-nocoiner 4y ago

   Sorry, this just empirically isn't true. Tesla raised supercharging prices 50% overnight without a whimper in my country, while another EV charging chain raised AC rates 100% just because they can. Two years later, neither of them went
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   by throw-nocoiner 4y ago

   The way Sweden and Finland admission process unfolded makes a complete mockery of democracy Rushed, decided behind closed doors, by a small clique of elites, without any semblance of democratic mandate, unconstitutional, no real public deba
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   by throw-nocoiner 4y ago

   An interesting trivia: Dividing the available arable land by global population leaves only a 100x100m plot per person - and that's before barns, silos, houses or warehouses. That's not a whole lot - as a city dweller, I'm con
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   by throw-nocoiner 4y ago

   That's surely nice, but ultimately inconsequential What matters in the end is whether Uber can sell the service for more than it costs to provide it. Traditional taxi could do it, Uber cannot
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   by throw-nocoiner 5y ago

   IMHO a bigger problem is equating innovation with digitization. In the end, living standards mostly stem from our interactions with the physical world, not digital. After all, rich people buy yachts and mansions, not Adamantium armor++ set
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   by throw-nocoiner 5y ago

   It's about equally split between electricity, heating and industry