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bmicraft

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    Comment #48962035

    Efficient at generating the most value for shareholders? Probably. Efficient at price/performance of product sold? No.

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    Comment #48922340

    Ah yes, because capitalism in it's purest form would never have companies form monopolies and lobby governments for favorable legislation.

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    Comment #48871409

    That's not the message

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    Comment #48871276

    Every single on of those answers I've seen _says_ they did decode it, but each and every one of them only found the decoy message without even realizing it.

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    Comment #48773635

    But it does make sense. You probably looked up where you're going before entering the car on your phone. You probably want to hear the same music or podcasts as on you phone. Do yo…

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    Comment #48733645

    The point they're making is that it's hard to find purely European alternatives. Part of the problem is that companies don't advertise when they somehow still depend on American in…

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    Comment #48472040

    Believe it or not, the eu is not one single entity with one undivided goal. As is perfectly well demonstrated by chatcontrol being proposed by one side and continually struck down …

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    Comment #48027787

    Wrong. If you just take out the fat you've necessarily got more of everything else per kcal. I didn't say per volume, I said per kcal.

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    Comment #48010711

    My dumb answer would be that less fat means more sugar per kcal, so less satiety per kcal. No idea if that's correct.

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    Comment #47985633

    Nuclear is too expensive and takes to long. We can't afford to waste the resources that could go into a fully green grid in a couple of years taking decades building a fraction of …

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    Comment #47845669

    Many people do, although I too don't get why

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    Comment #47845644

    240W max is very little when it comes to hearing up water, and most powerbanks don't even do more than 100W output. That's more in the range of those swappable tool batteries.

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    Comment #47845620

    Charging a 5Ah phone empty to full every day of the year adds up to all of about 7kWh. Nobody cares if you shave off a couple cents per year if the experience is worse.

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    Comment #47800129

    If you didn't specifically test without it, I'd attribute that to cgnat

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    Comment #47788458

    > if you have that little respect for leadership, why are you working at that company? What an astoundingly dumb question. Most people work somewhere to get paid, and If you think …

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    Comment #47788438

    Several things severely wrong with this example. The employee didn't talk to an outsider, they didn't talk to someone the CEO would be likely to have known personally, and they're …

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    Comment #47714788

    I never said loud. Comfortable podcast listening volume in both cases.

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    Comment #47692385

    You can turn up your car stereo and mow over pedestrians undisturbed in your two ton death machine yet I'm not allowed to cycle on a bicycle-only path with with a podcast and trans…

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    Comment #47692347

    > The "plausible sounding-text generator" generated plausible sounding text. More news at 11 Yeah, that's what LLMs do. Now is it true? Who knows!

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    Comment #47692312

    My XM4's always do that at the beeps from the cash register, although I always attributed that to their volume rather than frequency. My theory was that they refuse to produce soun…

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    Comment #47692196

    There is no handshake, all that's needed are two 5.1 kΩ pulldown resistors. By omitting them the manufacturer saved all of about 0.1c and made their device incompatible with compli…

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    Comment #47543207

    The author may feel like this is true, but she probably probably doesn't care for the Kafkaesque nature of the system and doesn't stand to profit from their misery either.

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    Comment #47524334

    Or don't and adjust it in the sketcher? If you name your constrains you can just reference them directly elsewhere. I think that's much easier as you don't have to go back and fort…

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    Comment #47461595

    The main problem with PHEV is, that's it's comparably small battery will age very poorly because it will both: a) do more charge/discharge cycles per distance driven, and b) get ch…

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    Comment #47272905

    I've had some very bad ram (lots of errors found when tested) and consistently the only thing that actually crashed because of it was Firefox.