qwebfdzsh

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by qwebfdzsh 2y ago
I wasn't complaining just replying to your somewhat silly analogies... The whole thread was basically about Apple purposefully crippling base/cheapest configs (which most uninformed people tend to buy) to maximize their profit mar
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by qwebfdzsh 2y ago
I mainly talking about driving styles, modern F1 drivers pull all kinds of maneuvers and drive so close to the limit that would be totally suicidal back in those days (especially for overtaking, you aren't going to fight as hard when y
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by qwebfdzsh 2y ago
> The base level Porsche is absolutely slow compared to the top-end. It's still very fast compared to a 100 hp budget car (HP is selling 8GB laptops for $300 and you can get a 16 GB one for $500 with 512 GB of storage, the Air start
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by qwebfdzsh 2y ago
> Early race cars were not paragons of safety They were death traps, racing drivers were way more cautious back in those days because any slightly severe accident was likely to result in death or severe injuries. Reliability was garbage
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by qwebfdzsh 2y ago
> Do you complain the base level Porsche is slow? It's certainly not "slow" though... > Do you complain the base level Tesla has a short range? Again, the range is still pretty good compared to most other EVs > The b
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by qwebfdzsh 2y ago
> RISC-V chips from China Entirely different market segment, I'm not even sure how's that particularly relevant when talking about iGPUs anyway/
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
> the deadliest natural disaster in its modern history. Wasn't the 2004 tsunami deadlier?
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
What does that have to do with ketosis? You can eat a lot of carbs and not be fat... > had almost none of the diseases we have that are all really metabolic dysfunction/diabetes at their root True. Unless you were rich. Even heard o
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
You know that how exactly?
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
Salt was very bulky (less so than grain of course) but I don't think it made a very good medium of exchange. Shipping goods on land especially was extremely expensive. .e.g according to Diocletian's price edict (so the prices them
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
> They had to find alternates. Except they didn't use salt for that. That's a myth. Did you read the article? > the lack of fiat currency as the reserves of silver and gold were exhausted. True, they had the same problem in
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
Why? I'm not challenging the validity of the data itself. Just the interpretation.
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
You do have a point, but directly comparing costs is somewhat dishonest until solar plans start working 24 hours a day.
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
Just starting build them at a much bigger scaled would probably result in significant decrease in costs on it's own. China, Korea and Russia somehow manage to build at much lower cost. > risk factors of a meltdown (however small) to
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
Directly comparing solar or even wind with nuclear, gas, coal isn't exactly fair though unless you account for storage costs.
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
Wouldn't enough storage make it much more expensive than nuclear?
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
> I dislike the potential for a meltdown of course no matter how 'unlikely' Why? A meltdown is really not a big deal at all. If we're fine with burning coal we should be perfectly with a having a meltdown or two every few
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
> The entire purpose of starting a company is to make a profit by delivering a product or service that the market will willingly buy Why? People can start companies for whatever reason, also your company itself can be the product and big
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
> a thing whose primary role is to store and exchange abstract, agreed upon value. To be fair that's a hard one. Token? Speculative asset? I mean it's closer in most ways to stuff like gold coins or diamonds than real money. &g
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
> Have you looked at a Pentagon budget lately? No, but I trust you. However the US tech industry is doing just fine without too much government funding and intervention so it's not such a huge issue (in this specific area of course,
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
> Galileo To be fair one of the reasons his ideas were rejected is because he wrote a book portraying the pope as an idiot. Heliocentrism/his books were banned earlier but a few years later one of his friends and supporters during t
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
> strategic reasons Such as? I can't really think of any benefit besides providing jobs and funding for contractors (so kicks backs etc.) Then again it's not particularly surprising, the EU is well know for wasting massive amou
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Archaeologists unearth 'most shocking example of Roman slavery' at Pompeii(theguardian.com)
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
> monetary system Bitcoin is not even close to being that nor it ever could. It's entirely a speculative assets not an actual currency (I couldn't think of a token/system less suitable to be used as actual money even if I
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
> The HN hivemind is not going to like this A government gambling taxpayer money in a virtual casino? What's not to like?
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
But doesn't change the fact that financially Unreal is a side business for Epic (IIRC even their storefront somehow makes more money..). What's the point in making those tools if you can make significantly more money arguably in a
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
So all (addictive or not) prescription drugs for instance should also be available to everyone freely and without any limitations? Also unnecessary/avoidable deaths are only an issue if they are an outcome of violence or government res
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
They are still massively over-bloated. Realistically they should cut at least another 30% or so (for some reason they still have about 50% more people than they did at the beginning on 2022). Of course that would turn into a disaster due to
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
Epson's cheapest plan (printer + 1,250 pager per month) seems to be $14.99/mo. Not if that's a great deal if you only print 60 pages on average unless you need to buy a new printer each year for some reason. Seems like the su
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by qwebfdzsh 3y ago
I'll try that line at the checkout next time.

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