clusterfish

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by clusterfish 5y ago
I don't buy that as a factor. Given that the OEMs overprice the parts that they have to compete with aftermarket suppliers for, why would they NOT overprice the parts for which they have no such competition? Note that being unable to p
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by clusterfish 5y ago
That's not what this is about. Negative electricity prices are rare, and do not account for the massive difference in utilization between renewables and nuclear. By the way nuclear power output can be ramped up and down by a lot, and i
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Coal and gas sure, but renewables are obviously dependent on weather. Nobody runs their solar panels less than maximally possible "because they can". When there is significant oversupply of energy from solar, it gets sold for penn
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Bullshit. Coal and petroleum are way deadlier than rooftop solar, even without diluting it with industrial solar installations. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all...
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by clusterfish 5y ago
You don't get it. In the US you can watch something else, despite the oversized influence of media conglomerates.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
I mean then we can't really use that video to judge or corroborate the morality / atrocities of the sides. And even for economics and politics, there is no analysis of balance or tradeoffs, just an exposition of what Russia wants.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
That is a decent factual YouTube video but it is laser focused on the title - what does Russia get out of invading Ukraine. There is no discussion at all of atrocities or moral controversies... Does the advertised curiosity stream series go
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by clusterfish 5y ago
I'm with you on all points. Nazis are bad, of course. Invasions are bad. The reason I cared to comment is because Ukrainian Nazis are used as justification for the invasion in Russia. But nazis exist in many countries, and are given le
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by clusterfish 5y ago
You won't find 100% correctness even in peace time. That doesn't mean you can throw your hands in the air and assume that information from both sides of the conflict is on average equally (un)trustworthy. There's tons of evid
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by clusterfish 5y ago
There's Azov batallion, but Russia has its own Wagner group. None of that is an excuse to invade another country and shell civilians of course.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Yeah right. You keep trying to hairsplit one sentence because you're butthurt that nobody cared about the conflict you cared about, but now people dare to care a "lesser" conflict that you don't care about. And oh here&#
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Because they don't want to deal with people who are paying for the bombs falling on them, even if it's not those people's fault. They're a private company so they get to make such decisions. You can always go to some fac
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Don't bullshit me, you were talking about Namecheap's response, not other countries' sanctions. The sanctioning countries are third parties to this conflict. You can talk about their double standards all you want, I won'
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by clusterfish 5y ago
I hope your own country / city / office / home never gets shelled, so that you never have to learn the difference between caring for your home and a "double standard". Nothing easier than armchair demagoguery, until
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by clusterfish 5y ago
You should email their support. I don't think they actually want to terminate your particular account, I think they only want to target people and companies who are actually in Russia (so they looked for Russian addresses and payment m
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by clusterfish 5y ago
> seizing Ukraine for it’s strategic importance to Russia - food, energy, year round port, buffer against a land invasion to Moscow. Wow, that's literally the worst take I've heard on this. - Russia has food to spare, exports t
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by clusterfish 5y ago
So? What else are you gonna shell first when invading a country?
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Clumsy stupidity doesn't make you into the most valuable company in the world.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
rel=nofollow etc. Although not sure how much it's respected
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by clusterfish 5y ago
It's just a strange choice given that the author is lamenting about how traditional relief maps don't represent both coastlines and high mountain terrain well... And then proceeds to not represent coastlines well, even though that
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Interesting idea, but elevations lower than 50m or so are colored black as if they're water. Looks like an apocalyptic flood. Don't understand why the author didn't make sea level a clearly visible threshold.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Not everything that is essential should be regulated the same just because they have this factor in common. Stop being so dense. A market being essential simply means that optimal outcomes in that market are very important, so regulation is
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Maybe last year was a bit bullshit.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
If they actually did it at scale they would run into conflicting dashcam footage very quickly, and the whole conspiracy would go belly up before bearing any fruit. If you think data is meaningless we should also remove police cruisers'
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by clusterfish 5y ago
You'd be surprised. Google makes more than that from showing ads to an average US user. Same for Facebook iirc.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
I don't even know what you're playing at. Yes, grocery stores are essential. Yes, gasoline is essential, being the only source of energy for all long range transportation. Yes cars are essential in many places where there's n
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by clusterfish 5y ago
You can't carry your laptop in a pocket. And laptops are also "a luxury you've become inseparable from", doesn't make them any less essential. You'll need a stronger argument to claim that something that almost
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Tiny bit? Try and migrate dozens of app accounts to a non-Apple email, as a non-technical user. Disregarding the sheer amount of work, such users won't even know how to send emails from the private addresses they signed up with, making
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Essential - adjective - absolutely necessary; extremely important. Game consoles are not. Smartphones are. Obviously.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Yeah duh because those countries don't subscribe to brain dead free market absolutism.

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