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by zeroname 8y ago
LED-backlit displays have always been mercury-free, it's the "ancient" CFL-backlit displays that needed mercury.
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by zeroname 8y ago
It isn't liquid either. False advertising!
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Everything can become a culture war on Twitter. I follow a somewhat abstract modernist composer’s Twitter, which so far has been entirely about music and performance dates, and now it is up in flames because someone has decided to drag
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by zeroname 8y ago
New Rule: If you don't want the "like" button on Twitter, you're not allowed to press the "downvote" button on HN.
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by zeroname 8y ago
"The data clearly shows that cancer causes smoking!"
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Upvoted - not sure why a perfectly reasonable comment is greyed out It might be the hint that maybe sometimes people are at least somewhat responsible for their problems.
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by zeroname 8y ago
Maybe, but that feature is pretty new and it doesn't even show up on the Desktop site. I've never even heard of it until now. I've been using the "like" Button for bookmarks since forever. Those are my bookmarks.
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by zeroname 8y ago
Do you understand how a hammer works? I mean, do you really understand how a hammer works? Throwing X at Y and seeing what sticks is literally how life got from single-cell organisms to "The Apprentice". We'll keep doing it
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by zeroname 8y ago
You must be part of some sort of culture war on Twitter. My experience is completely different. I don't follow people engaging in these battles and I don't post things that would be an engagement. It really is smooth sailing from
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by zeroname 8y ago
Exactly, so please go ahead and study it.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Globe-scale carbon sequestration would increase demand for olivine massively. Would mining operations be able to scale appropriately without prices going through the roof? Prices wouldn't go through the roof, because the demand is
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Lots of tiny things can be done now, with relatively little effort. Those little things of "low effort" have just as little impact. Those things that are significant (transportation, meat consumption, heating) would also repr
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Why don't you just stop eating meat, stop driving, stop whatever else that you do and have a smaller carbon footprint naturally, instead of living a carbon lavish life and paying some money to be called carbon neutral. Why? Becaus
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by zeroname 8y ago
That's a bit of a special case, because shaming creates stress, while people with an eating disorder eat to reduce stress. Otherwise, I think it's self-evident. There's many behaviors that would've been socially unacce
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Because chances are people who are systematically impoverished are also not properly educated on how to exercise birth control in effective manners This is not true at all. Everyone knows how not to have children, just like everyone
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by zeroname 8y ago
I'm gonna answer your loaded question honestly : Yes, I would rather shame people who are "having kids when they clearly have no resources of place for them in their lives" than spending any of my personal resources on actua
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by zeroname 8y ago
That's a "hipster" feature, not something that the "enterprise" customers of these products are asking for.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> We have a responsibility to properly accommodate someone else's specific needs, but also ensure their safety. You're not ensuring their safety by forcing them to wear helmets. Some statistics for bi-cyclists show that helmet-
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by zeroname 8y ago
First of all, why should you be forced to ride with a helmet? Your argument seems to be cost to "the public insurer", but I don't think that's a clear cut way to save money, it really depends on the insurance. For heal
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by zeroname 8y ago
The supply in question isn't land, it's housing. There's enough vertical space available, so far all intents and purposes, it's not a limiting factor. What's limiting efficient land use is artificial constraints put
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by zeroname 8y ago
It states that the "typical GPU system" (estimated at ~1300$ without GPU) will be 25% more expensive. By the way, the MSRP for a regular 2080Ti is 999$, the 1200$ is the Founder's Edition price.
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by zeroname 8y ago
The 1080Ti is back at MSRP and the cryptocurrency demand has vanished, so what's left is the demand displaced by the high prices earlier. In the past, it has been common that new hardware with low initial supply fetched premiums that l
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by zeroname 8y ago
> In an attempt to make the planning permission system more comprehensive, it has only turned out more complex and expensive to navigate. That means that only the largest operators can afford to work within it. That's exactly what I
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by zeroname 8y ago
The Law of Rent is about the cost of leasing the land from the owner of the land. This is not the relationship between tenant and the owner of the real estate. It's not the tenant who is looking for maximum productivity from the land,
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by zeroname 8y ago
You're looking at the wrong real estate. The people that bought and drove up prices for all this junk real estate in the middle of nowhere were ordinary people who had no idea about investment, fueled by subprime loans. That kind of mo
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by zeroname 8y ago
QE was more of a way to keep the system alive than a "broad monetary stimulus". Giving money directly to the people in a crisis creates ultra-high-velocity spending and massive inflation. People rush to the stores buying up wares
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by zeroname 8y ago
There's no one class of economists who all share the same opinion and make the same predictions. The idea that cheap money leads to bubbles (which can lead to recessions) was well-established, it just doesn't harmonize well with t
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Rents go up when people can afford higher rents. Only if supply is capped artificially, e.g. in major cities where it's almost impossible to build. > Consumers take out loans and save less when unemployment is low and they feel
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by zeroname 8y ago
> I've already addressed this, it's pretty trivial to recompile most major software packages. Is it not obvious that outside of the Linux bubble people are not looking forward to invest their precious time into such things? &gt
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by zeroname 8y ago
> What distributions have you been using? I rarely have a problem with Debian or Fedora in this manner. Fedora and especially Arch are big offenders. Debian is so "stable" that I can't install newer software through the pr

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