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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Obviously I implicitly meant all single use plastics. But random people littering is not even remotely the main source. Poor and unregulated waste management is. Of course the fact that a lot of western countries were and still are exportin
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
It can’t be used as a space heater? It’s not that it’s worse than a “real” desktop chip. In a way it’s better you get almost comparable performance with way lower power usage. Also the M4 Max has worse MT performance than e.g. the 14900k wh
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> Imagine bridges or houses were built like that If they could afford experimenting and have a few bridges collapse before they get it right with no significant negative consequences IMHO it wouldn’t be the worst way to learn. Maybe even
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Why are they all building factories in places like Arizona and Texas? Aren’t there plenty of areas where water is ample and land prices relatively cheap.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
You also needed cheap fuel and relatively expensive labour to make it feasible. Early engines were used to pump water out of coal mines because they were very inefficient and transportation was very expensive. Of course Romans actually had
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> What need is there to experiment with chargers? That’s the point, I have no clue. But we might still be stuck with floppy drives with a mindset like that. Although as a physical connector usb-c is far from perfect. IMHO lighting seemed
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Apple doesn’t really make desktop CPUs, though. Just very good oversized mobile ones. For AMD/Intel laptop, desktop and server CPUs usually are based on different architectures and don’t have that much overlap.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
GDPR us much, much more than cookie banners, that’s just an annoying not very significant distraction. It had a very significant impact privacy, worker rights and such.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> We tried that for 40 years. The result is drawers full of chargers. Which is a fine? The industry eventually converged to just a handful of common standards on its own. You can’t innovate without being able to experiment. Which is only
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> convince most of them that the new method is better, and then the commission will likely adopt a new standard. Only way they could actually prove that is by demonstrating it empirically. i.e. by implementing the technology in products
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
How exactly (and if) do plastic straws from the EU end up in the Pacific Ocean, though? Maybe they could have started with that
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> has improved dramatically They are not covered with PFAS anymore?
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> the Citroen Ami is comfortably sub 10k. It’s a quadricycle and not a real car, though. Also I’d bet that VW/etc. executives are more fearful of Chinese equivalent’s of their mid/high-end models which cost the same as Europr
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
But its also there to protect pedestrians and others from the owner as much as himself. From the government/regulatory perspective.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Apple spends a lot on buybacks so future expectations of them maintaining current margins might be sufficient
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
It was reserved to highly ranked influential politicians, though. Also quite rare as far as we can tell.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> folks report the US feeling a lot poorer than second-tier EU countries How can they even tell that? Maybe people living in either place just have very different expectations.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> Europeans are forbidden the option of private insurance In fact some European countries have entirely privatized systems. Wasn’t the ACA based on those? They are just mandatory and strictly regulated.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> The question is can the value of gold be used as a proxy for inflation So it can’t unless you stretch the period out so such an extent that there basically just 1-2 data points left? Or are you claiming that prices and money supply bet
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> but really the average was quite stable from 1982 to 2004 It was falling at a stable pace for 20 years in nominal terms. I don’t see how can someone see anything else looking at the price chart. And inflation was still 4-5% through the
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Due to obvious reason only the period after Bretton Woods counts. So 55 years. 1980 and 2001 was almost half of that and the real price of gold declined by 4-5x. If you take out the spike in the late it’s still almost 2x or so compared to t
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Lagging by 10-20 years like between 1980 - 2002 when it declined even in nominal terms despite consumer prices more than doubling? If you bought in 1980 you would have had to wait until 2024 to break even when adjusted by CPI…
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
I assume you never tried looking at the price of gold in the 80s and 90s? i.e. it declined in nominal rates and collapsed by almost 4x if adjusted by CPI
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
So there was no inflation whatsoever between 1980 and 2000. In fact there was slight deflation since the price of gold actually declined? It’s easy to make data to fit your narrative when you ignore everything that conflicts with it..
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> Do the legwork and prove your BS. Seems like a bizarre waste of time considering that that you already made up your mind to such an extent that you ate not even willing to explain what are you even trying to say. > and doesn't
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
In what way exactly is it bullshit? For better or for worse the core institution or decision making processes were never designed to be democratic in any meaningful way.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Not incompetent criminals will just workaround, there is no way to avoid that besides 1984 style universal surveillance.
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Seems entirely tangential? It shouldn’t be a race to the bottom…
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
Most voters (in EU’s case anyway) are neither aware nor understand what is this all about. If you told are random person that the government will be able to freely access and read all of your private comment I bet they wouldn’t be too excit
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by wqaatwt 1y ago
> The issue with EU is that it's not really representative Well yes, because most European citizens couldn’t care less about this fact.

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