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just remember that raid is not a backup

even the russian part of Europe?

the constitution restricts the governments ability to conduct unreasonable searches, not people like google or facebook.

Cars go through places where people don’t live, and that is one of the best usages for cars.

where are there gas stations, let alone EV chargers every 100km?

that’s the entire point of fines, to internalize external costs.

If it’s still profitable after full enforcement of fines then either the fines were not correctly set or the buisness model is a net positive.

shocking no one, laws are worded in complicated ways that lawyers will take full advantage of.

insider information makes them useful predictions.

not too different than how oil futures are set, and those are a reasonable indicator for gas prices.

If I were in their shoes I wouldn’t either, reducing the cut now increases the chance you would need to increase it later which for a platform largely thriving off goodwill would not be the smartest decision.

isn’t producing better art the point of starving artists? or am I misunderstanding the phrase?

I remember looking into this years ago, desalination is a reasonable solution (for houshold usage in developed nations) at only a few times the ridiculously low water cost we have now. Agriculture is the issue because it currently depends on insane amounts of cheap water dispite there being more water efficient methods of growing crops (indoor hydroponics).

first result https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/how-much-energy-does-desalinisation

how could you feed anyone for that little (per year, let alone permanently)?

the $20 phone I got is almost completely unusable as a phone, but for browsing social media/playing music/readin books in the shower it would probably last a few weeks while being cheap enough to not care about replacing it.

I wonder if slopping webapp alternatives together would provide a close enough alternative

now add 90x frame gen to turn it into unplayable *high framerate* gaming

people looking for a new way tp experience old games

because if most people aren’t significantly inconvenienced they won’t join a different platform, and if there aren’t your friends on a different platform it’s really hard to leave.

you don’t need new phones, and I personally have purchased new phones (horrible carrier locked smartphones) for about $20 about 3 years ago.

you can find plenty of phones for $100-$400