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by xyzzyz 4y ago
They probably aren’t, and neither are Amish men.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Aren't Google ads just businesses prioritizing their listings on Google search page?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
With tar.gz, there is not much of a benefit: the window size is only 32KB. Now with LZMA, the situation is much different.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> It's a civil matter, isn't it? No. Willful copyright infringement for commercial game is a crime. See 17 U.S.C. § 506(a).
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> That intersection is a good place for a rolling stop, where you bring the car down to perhaps 5mph before you proceed, mostly because of the sidewalks on both sides and the risk of kids running around or riding bikes. On the arterial
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> I don't assume people are going to stop at a given intersection, I take a look at their current speed and project it forward before determining if it's safe for me to go. While I sympathize with your overall sentiment (and in
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
No, they would export some stuff and import other stuff. It would all balance out. In the end, it must: what’s the point of exporting things, if you don’t get other things in return? Exporting is not a charity, you must import things in ord
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> You nuke the Eurozone, and suddenly German goods become massively more expensive for hundreds of millions of people, which will tank their income. Yeah, but the imports then also become massively cheaper, so it might even out: Germany
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
$12500 in 1985 is $35000 today. That's more expensive than MSRP of highest trim of 2022 Honda Civic, which is a better car than any 1985 Honda.
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Diversity has meant exactly that all the way since Bakke.
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Not any more than buying a new car in 1980s, especially American-made one.
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Food grown closer to home is greatly expensive for most people, as relatively few people live close to places where agriculture is particularly efficient. Corn locally grown here is never going to be as cheap as corn from Iowa, half of a co
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
You can buy cheap used car. A 5 years old used car today will be nicer, more convenient, safer and more reliable than new Civic in 1985.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
In the short term, you can use resistive space heaters. This is, to be sure, 2-3x times more expensive than heat pumps, but given the cost of gas, might still be worth it. Point is, nuclear helps , and a couple of extra gigawatts day and n
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
In Germany, electricity from photovoltaic won’t replace gas for winter heating. That’s why nuclear is so crucial in Europe, where, unlike in US, photovoltaics are much less practical, due to weather and land use constraints.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
You can easily heat houses with electricity, and, with more effort, you can convert most of industrial processes to use electricity instead of gas. The reason it hadn’t been done is that it was significantly more expensive than using gas. H
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Were you not getting sick before Covid? Lucky you, I got colds a couple times a year, even more often after my kids started attending school. Covid is just another cold for me, why should I care?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
No, they haven’t. The graph in question is inflation adjusted. Non-inflation adjusted wages have grown by much more than 25%.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
The wage graph in the article you linked shows that they have not actually been stagnant. They went up by 25% in the period.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Your clarification makes more sense -- I also consider reduction in pay to be equivalent to firing, a piecewise one. I understand that it means that has to follow all rules about firing people, and that much I also find reasonable. At the s
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
For 100 pounds of coal, the bulk buyers paid less than $5, typically $2-3. That’s hardly worth the hassle for them.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Are pay cuts illegal in UK? Wow, that’s insane.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Data centers use so much energy that they need their own enormous AC systems to remove that heat from the building. Also, have you considered all the labor enabled by AC? Economic development would not be possible in tropical regions with
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> the apartment buildings could also have a similar solution (their own solar panel/wind turbine/geothermal) They can’t, though. Apartment buildings are too efficient at packing people together to have enough per capita roof sq
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
In Europe, much fewer people live in houses, and thanks to the dense, walkable cities they enjoy, they have much fewer roof and yard space to put the panels. Also, unlike US, most of Europe doesn’t have huge swaths of hot and sunny plains
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
What kind of “mechanism of action” you are looking for? I mean, physicists provide no “mechanism of action” for the forces they stipulate to exist. There is no “mechanism of action” for electromagnetism, it just does what it does. Similarly
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Do you also recommend that people don’t live anywhere it snows? I mean, heating up in winter uses even more energy than cooling down in summer.
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No, it doesn't settle it once and for all. It settles it once for Mississippi. Other states are free to have different laws. That's the point of Dobbs.
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Yes, of course the prices went up due to frantic actions taken by governments in the course of the pandemic. My point here is simply that blaming the inflation on war is simply trying to shift our attention and absolve themselves of respons
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You’re missing the parent’s point: in a counterfactual scenario, if as much money was handed directly in stimulus checks as was used to pump assets, the actual inflation would be even worse, because velocity of stimulus money is much higher

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