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Awesome to see AoE, and games in general being future proofed. Sad when functionality is lost because someone turned off a server.

The nuanced answer to this is they have a first mover advantage and make a great robot. The point of the thread is that new development is much cheaper for folks to figure it out. …

Super familiar. Thanks!

Folks in the industry are certainly thinking about this. The economic forces at play could be huge.

Most folks when they think of recycling, think of the blue bin they put out every week. That’s about 25% by weight of all that gets recycled in the country. Metals, industrial scra…

They would be busy ferrying troops and supplies. Amateurs talk about tactics, professionals discuss logistics!

Yes - but they paint with a big brush. Unfortunately legitimate repair and reuse is caught in the mix and made much more difficult.

Lawyers and lobbyists paid lots of money to figure out how to subvert stuff. OEMs may work to make stuff less consumer repairable/upgradeable to force folks to use their repair ser…

Cool, let’s work on plastics!

Long after you are gone, you are going to give some Junk Removal person a heart attack.

Fascinating. Did she work in medical / hard science? I could imagine some exposure to radiation / magnetization could do this.

Supposed to flambé it

Not sure where you buy your steaks, but you are overpaying.

It’s called slippage - the order book doesn’t have 51% of all the shares immediately for sale at the right this second offer price.

Figured I was about to read how fierce competition degraded margins in a highly competitive industry - everyone has their biases

// How well can it be recycled at end-of-life? The fact that the chemistries are changing and diverse is the most difficult thing from an End-of-life perspective. A lot of business…

I would have to see the exact complaint. One interesting piece is that cameras are sold in the US by Nikon USA, and in the EU by Nikon Europe. It is possible that some regulations …

E scrap contains a high proportion of potentially hazardous metals and materials which is why it has an outsized influence over just the volume. It is the fastest growing waste seg…

They took the existing components and supercharged them. This thing is exponentially more expensive per cubic inch.

It’s called a red herring argument - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring

The value here isn’t decided by the plastics. We are talking lithium, cobalt, copper as primary recovery. There are tons of interesting angles in plastic recycling. Engineered plas…