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by thworp 2y ago
> "invade" = western propaganda > The proper word is "reunite", as it was agreed with the US So the US and the PRC had some milquetoast diplomatic correspondence which did not include Taiwan. If the PRC now occupie
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by thworp 2y ago
But is it actually that valuable if no potential buyer could insure a house on it? This is the gist of the article.
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by thworp 2y ago
The new one is actually dual 4k (only one on the market) but obviously has quite a price tag: https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/gaming/57-odys...
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by thworp 2y ago
Going from 2k / 27" to 4k / 27" screens severely reduced my eye strain after a long day of code-staring. Both were IPS panels so I can only attribute it to the incredibly sharp text rendering.
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by thworp 2y ago
> than the people running the country. This attitude and its variants with different scapegoats really irks me. Let's say that in 1980 all the world's governments and businesses conspired and implemented measures to get close t
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by thworp 2y ago
Climate change is going to have more of an impact on people who have little resources and are already suffering from a lack of infrastructure, healthcare and stability. If these populations get more resources and can afford more services, t
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by thworp 2y ago
Alright, let‘s make a deal then. We will do some horse trading in the UN and purchase one or more islands for all you degrowth enthusiasts. We will even give you all the support we can in returning the soil and ocean to a healthier state. I
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by thworp 2y ago
Please provide some sources, because I think your 40% is also based on monetary and not nutritional value.
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by thworp 2y ago
Are you driving around with actual summer tires (not all-season or all-weather)? By winter tires do you mean winter tires or studded? If you do mean summer tires that seems almost unbelievable to me. I have some experience both on the r
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by thworp 2y ago
While I don't have any deep foundational knowledge, I do know that: - the energy required for moving in a fluid grows sub-linear with the vessel's volume - larger motors tend to be more efficient - your autonomous swarm will be a
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by thworp 2y ago
As the other comment mentioned, the email body contains the entire quote chain. The way clients accomplish threaded display is a combination of: - parsing the unstructured email body and looking for quote levels, html formatting and printed
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by thworp 2y ago
You can have your pick at https://craftcloud3d.com/
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by thworp 2y ago
> it was only informative in my opinion Was it though? Your second paragraph is written in a way that it can easily be interpreted as "all critics of DEI hiring are racists". Is that a more sophisticated statement than "al
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by thworp 2y ago
Yes, but that is still better than the paperclip maximizer ending it all. That was all I was saying.
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by thworp 2y ago
They self-evidently are. Profits are at some stage related to fulfilling a demand. No matter what, in the end the corporation has given a group of people what they wanted. If you think there is any scenario where that is worse than consumin
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by thworp 2y ago
It‘s because to the domesticated observer, the walled city symbolizes an idealized vision of chaos. A place you could have inhabited where you would finally be free from the dictates of society. The ideal space of opportunity where you coul
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by thworp 2y ago
Most gluten-free ingredients come from completely different crops, that are stored and processed in seperate facilities. But even if they weren't, have you checked the prices of certified allergen-free food recently? Even if a large pa
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by thworp 2y ago
The main reason they became so gigantic is regulation. First, since "heavy-duty" vehicles are subject to less regulation, crew cabs demand soared (much cheaper than a regular car with similar room). Then, during Obamas presidency,
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by thworp 2y ago
Don't you start with that. It's the producers that have to bear the cost, if you just don't expand on what happens next, prices will stay the same! /s
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by thworp 2y ago
"Prevent allergens" means a 100% certainty that there are no trace amounts. This would require clean-room conditions for the entire factory, deep cleaning everything (including the inside of machinery) between each batch, and do
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by thworp 2y ago
Do you have any idea about how expensive it is to audit your entire supply chain to ensure that it is 100% free of allergens? You'd essentially put that cost onto everyone for the benefit of a small minority. I'm sure you can see
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by thworp 2y ago
Russia that knows that China and India will not accept a nuclear first use in an offensive war. More than that, nuking Ukraine would also the drive everyone else still dealing with Russia far far away, probably even Iran. Also, if Russia us
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by thworp 2y ago
> Think having your own farmer and food-producer in your own house or property Impossible. The world is too urbanized, there simply is no space to do this for more than a few % of the population. > Way too-many of the problems plaguin
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by thworp 2y ago
I was replying to a comment which lamented the fact that people's pensions depend on the stock market. I brought up that the alternative - financing current pensioners directly from taxes or an "insurance" fees - also has som
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by thworp 2y ago
> Maybe shackling everyone's retirement outcomes, executive compensation, and economic policy to large private corporation's stock price The alternatives to investment-based pensions do have some trade-offs. Both the tax-based
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by thworp 2y ago
A neutral transcription of the article's content could be "Streaming video content has similar underlying economics to TV. Now that money is no longer cheap, everyone is converging on the TV model of 90% standard-fare and 10% pres
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by thworp 2y ago
But Iceland has decidedly not been stable. They gained de facto independence in 1918 and completely lost their sovereignty only 22 years later when Britain occupied them (that is despite them still having armed forces in 1940). Since WW2 th
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by thworp 2y ago
> a large percentage of their economy is private businesses Are these businesses actually private? Does the fact they all started teaching Xi Jinping Thought (TM) to their executives at the exact same time indicate who ultimately control
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by thworp 2y ago
Not without a drop in living standard, no. If you're good with what was normal in the 1950s, we easily could. This will obviously keep going, in about 2060 you will probably be able to afford a 2020s standard of living on one day of wo
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by thworp 2y ago
> We couldn’t fix inequality and corruption in 100 years. Why 100 years? I'd say we haven't fixed those in 10000 years and will never fix them, unless some divine intervention changes human nature. > Why nobody is working o

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