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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 uninforme…

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 f…

> 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 G…

> 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 res…

> 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 goo…

> RISC-V chips from China Entirely different market segment, I'm not even sure how's that particularly relevant when talking about iGPUs anyway/

> the deadliest natural disaster in its modern history. Wasn't the 2004 tsunami deadlier?

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…

You know that how exactly?

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 accordi…

> 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 ex…

Why? I'm not challenging the validity of the data itself. Just the interpretation.

You do have a point, but directly comparing costs is somewhat dishonest until solar plans start working 24 hours a day.

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 c…

Directly comparing solar or even wind with nuclear, gas, coal isn't exactly fair though unless you account for storage costs.

Wouldn't enough storage make it much more expensive than nuclear?

> 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 …

> 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 re…

> 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 …

> 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…

> 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 ye…

> 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 surprisin…

> 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 suit…

> The HN hivemind is not going to like this A government gambling taxpayer money in a virtual casino? What's not to like?