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Antipode··on Fairphone 4 has a five-year warranty and aims for six years of updates
For most waste, recycling isn't the magic bullet many people have been led to believe it is. I do wonder about the viability of designing electronics to be easier to recycle, though.
Antipode··on Steve Wozniak announces private space company to clean up space debris in orbit
At least at geosynchronous altitude it seems like it would be significantly biased in the direction of Earth's rotation, especially along geostationary orbit.
Antipode··on Steve Wozniak backs right-to-repair movement
I really wish they had US support. They'll work if you can get one, but they don't ship to the US so you have to use a third party re-shipper (both for the phone and for replacement parts). Even then their frequency bands aren't optimized for the US so you're likely to have reception issues.
Antipode··on Show HN: Sorted CSS Colors – Sort the named CSS colors in a nice way
That's a fairly common misconception for some reason.
Antipode··on Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
I was talking more about hyperinflation specifically, rather than the normal ~2% annual inflation targets. I don't understand how lack of monetary policy would prevent hyperinflation.
Antipode··on Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (2014)
How would a completely unregulated currency be better in that regard? Aren't the wild swings in bitcoin price essentially hyperinflation/deflation?
Antipode··on The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company
How would forcing insurance companies to pay whatever drug companies ask not just raise insurance premiums? How do you differentiate dropping a drug because they're not willing to sell underpriced from dropping a drug because it's overpriced?
Antipode··on 1000 Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection
Accept or except?
Antipode··on Gravitricity – Fast, long-life energy storage
To answer my own question: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction
Antipode··on Gravitricity – Fast, long-life energy storage
How do you convert power to methane?
Antipode··on Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
I don't see an app with that exact name, and I see endless close variants.
Antipode··on Ultralight lithium-sulfur batteries for electric airplanes
How much of a prop plane's noise is from its propeller vs its engine?
Antipode··on Mexican states are moving to ban the sale of junk food to children
Subsidies are the reason HFCS is used in everything in the US, but sucrose is also cheap and isn't healthier than HFCS. I'm not convinced that the price difference between the two would significantly affect manufacturers' decisions of whether or not to include a sweetener.
Antipode··on Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database
Sounds like The Saga of Biorn https://youtu.be/MV5w262XvCU
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