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by morepork 7d ago
People say Russia, Canada and Greenland look big in the Mercator projection, but what they miss is it makes Antarctica enormous, your app shows it nicely. So much so that many maps just cut off the bottom otherwise it looks a bit silly, but
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by morepork 2mo ago
I assume that they sign up to long term contracts to secure the price of power. When it comes to renewal, the DC operator obviously has a sunk cost that they don't want to walk away from. But the electricity generators are also in the
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by morepork 4mo ago
Both 2023 (probably) and 2024 were over 1.5°C according to Berkeley Earth, 1.54±0.06°C and 1.62±0.06°C respectively. 2025 was (probably) a shade under at 1.44±0.09°C. Unfortunately it looks like that goal won't be attainable, but all t
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by morepork 4mo ago
They also never managed the massive economies of scale for regular solar panels that have driven down prices. Solar panels that can be mounted on any kind of roof, in fields, etc.
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by morepork 4mo ago
I noticed it too, first time I genuinely used bing, and it worked fine. I don't think I ever remember seeing gws go down, there will be a big postmortem on this
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by morepork 5mo ago
I thought that honour belonged to the NZ super fund with an annualised return of 10% before tax since it's creation in 2003. I couldn't find a comparable figure for the CPPIB, but it looks to be lower. https://nzsuperfu
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by morepork 6mo ago
I am not an expert, but my understanding is most funds don't change allocations immediately, but it would be part of normal rebalancing, e.g. VOO and other indexes that track the S&P500 do it quarterly
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by morepork 6mo ago
This is not new, the article spins it as a big increase using a low during COVID as a baseline. Alternative article with stats back to 2001: https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/137340/current-exod... Note als
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by morepork 7mo ago
For card payments sure, but if you buy with play store gift cards bought from a third party retailer, I don't think Google is making much if anything out of that.
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by morepork 7mo ago
Or alternatively, a hundred 10 mile by 10 mile installations. Or on average 2 such installations per state. Hardly seems anywhere near comparable to a Dyson sphere
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by morepork 1y ago
Honest question: do you get charged more for health insurance in the US if you and/or your family aren't vaccinated?
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by morepork 1y ago
This looks similar to what Meta (then Facebook) did a decade ago and basically broke the agreements between Apple, Google, etc. to not poach each others employees
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by morepork 1y ago
Also a German ICE test train was clocked at over 400 km/h back in 1988
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by morepork 1y ago
There are notable Studio Ghibli films that were not made by Miyazaki such as Grave of the Fireflies, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and When Marnie was There. All of those were in my opinion excellent films and similar in style to ones mad
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by morepork 1y ago
Difficult, but not impossible. We fit 3 across the back seat of our Mitubishi Lancer for a few years. You do need to be selective in which car seats you get, and I wish it was easier.
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by morepork 1y ago
Or > Shannon-Leigh Litt has run 500 ultra marathons in 500 Days https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360690060/northlander-runs-her... Out of reach for most of us though.
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by morepork 1y ago
Maybe not to the same extent, but an AWS EC2 m5.large VM with 2 cores and 8 GB RAM costs ~$500/year (1 year reserved). Even if your engineers are being paid $50k/year, that's the same as 100 VMs or 200 cores + 800 GB RAM.
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by morepork 1y ago
Probably vendor specific whether it works, but alarms and calls should still work before unlocking/decrypting in "direct boot" mode
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by morepork 1y ago
On Android you could add a second user which gets its own passcode and set of apps/accounts. If they know what they're doing they could see there are multiple users on the lock screen, but it may be enough.
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by morepork 1y ago
Have you considered using an Android emulator to run these apps? It should be much easier to make full image backups that way.
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by morepork 1y ago
In many cases if you lose your physical wallet, someone else will find it and the cash will stay in circulation, but even if not, as physical currency is much more inflationary it's no big deal. The second point is that most people kee
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by morepork 2y ago
Like now, where Civ VI Anthology which I think includes all the DLC is currently on sale for $9 on Fanatical (activates on Steam). It's always much cheaper to game a generation behind. https://www.fanatical.com/en/
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by morepork 2y ago
There's an episode in the second season of Colin from Accounts that is basically this scenario, but in Sydney
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by morepork 2y ago
BYD will most likely sell more battery only EVs than Tesla this year and appear to have no problem scaling, they also sell cars that fit the majority of market segments. Maybe Tesla's strategy of only 3 models and betting on robotaxis
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by morepork 2y ago
They do, for example Buffet donated $5 billion last year. His fortune is so vast that is only perhaps 3%. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/28/buffett-donates-another-5poi...
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by morepork 2y ago
Should be fine up to about 9 quadrillion[1]. Though with arithmetic it can get messy. The example doesn't show, but I hope dollar amounts are in cents and don't use decimals. Maybe when sending money to Zimbabwe it could be an iss
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by morepork 2y ago
I like AnandTech's tag line (rip): Lunar Lake: Designed By Intel, Built By TSMC (& Assembled By Intel) https://www.anandtech.com/show/21425/intel-lunar-lake-archit...
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by morepork 2y ago
We did go from 16 to 32 and now to 64 bit, so there have been some significant changes in that time, plus all the new instructions added. But ARM chips are taking over, I think there are now more than 10 ARM chips for every x86 one sold
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by morepork 2y ago
Depending on the surface being covered it may actually increase the heat. Any electricity produced will eventually become heat. Solar panels will absorb more heat than surfaces with a high albedo where a lot is reflected back into space.
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by morepork 2y ago
Having more things certainly is good for GDP. But I don't know about you, but I'm pretty saturated on things already, with a bunch of stuff that I've purchased and barely use. Perhaps this comes down to a quality of life vs G

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