So, why DO people buy Apple? They know it is more expensive. Clearly, they believe they are getting something that is worth that price.
Because it has the better OS. The Linux integration into Windows needs a PhD to grasp how it works. So I use Multipass instead. Or docker if that is more convenient.
With unified memory the recent generations of Mac minis are excellent for argentic computing.

Why would I take the hassle and time to figure which Linux box with which GPU is "cheaper" ...

Computer hardware is usually written off over a course of three years, spending $100 more than needed limits my cashflow, but my earnings are only affected by $30. Which is compensated if I can bill 20minutes more work by saving 20mins hassle time.

If something is free depends on the country.
And obviously tax paid is not free for the society.

For example: in Norway and Denmark (I think all Scandinavian countries) employers and employees do not pay into health insurance. The "portion dedicated to health care" It is included in income/labour taxes.

In Germany (simplified) we have mandatory health insurance. Which is paid 50 - 50 by the employer and the employee. It used to cover the whole family of a single worker ... no idea how that is right now.

While in Scandinavia a doctor visit is completely cost free, in Germany you have to pay a token fee (which can be extremely high). In Scandinavia typical medication is free. In Germany you get it from a Pharmacy, and pay a token fee again.

In Germany hospitals try to keep a patient a day longer than necessary, or two. To "get income". In Scandinavia they get kicked out as early as possible: because they want to save costs.

Universities are more complex. But standard schooling is cost free. Of course we have private schools ... and people use them for what ever reason.

My studies were cost free for the first 5 years, then I had to pay. Has I taken the PhD offer, I would have been paid for my further studies.

Luxembourg has free public transport. Even for foreigners.

Germany has not a German wide ticket for public transport that costs $30 for low income people and up to $65 for normal income, per month.

Nearly everywhere in Europe you get extra aid for kids. Which can be significantly high. For example, first child about $300 per month, up to $600 for 3rd and any further child.

If housing is affordable, depends on the country and rules. It is cheap in Portugal, Greece or rural Spain, France or even Germany. And absurd expensive in London, Paris or Duesseldorf. Germanies capital Berlin is surprisingly cheap.

What I want to say is: free is paid with taxes. Taxes are based on income. So low income people seriously have everything relevant: healthcare, dental care, school for the kids and other benefits: for free. The richer people pay higher taxes, but obviously have on paper all the benefits for free, too.

Schoolbooks still cost money, but often are traded down from higher grades to lowers. And in special cases the state supports buying school books.

People like to emigrate to USA because they hate the rules in Europe ... to much paper work. Or think it is easier to get rich elsewhere.

However counter examples are companies like BioNTech ... to Turkish scientists from an ethnic minourity, migrated to Germany to found their research company ... and in the end, Pfitzer made them rich.

"your steam bullshit made me type wrong." You certainly placed the blame for your error upon me.
No, it puts the blame on me. As I typed wrong.
Reading comprehension problems?

What is that defense?

It is an example of "wrong numbers". Just like "wrong" IPCC reports.

If you base actions on wrong numbers, the results are not what you aimed for.

In Germany the government simply could build more "social aid houses" ... which doe snot make any sense, as we do not need them. We have the houses. But the marlet is in a crisis.

Hoped that helped :P

It is Americans who use the wrong definitions.

Which is plain obvious when you mix up waste with unspent fuel and have ridiculous claims in your culture that: oh the fuel still has 95% of its energy ... no it has not: for that you need a different reactor type. (X)

Or: this raector can run on waste. Does your car run on the shit you pour down the toilet? No it does not. You can get CH4 from it, sure, and can run the car on it ...

There is no reactor on the planet that can run on "waste" as in fission products of a previous reactor run. You could make an RTG from it, though.

(X) and if you reprocess that fuel, to use it in the same rector type, you get something like 18% new useable fuel, 4% - 6% waste and ~75% useless inert uranium. That useless inert uranium, however, you could put into a CANDU reactor.

If you do not want to learn the technology and what those terms actually mean, then stay in your stupid braindead believes the nuclear industry is brainwashing you into.

Well, we both did not use the original Spanish spelling :D

Anyway: the heat transport to continental Europe will break down.

Has nothing to do with "no polar ice". The regions I mentioned: have a certain height, so it stays cool in summer ... and even cooler when the gulf stream breaks down. And then: comes the winter.

Some of them, not all as you imply.
But it is enough to make them a net importer most of the summer, and the reason they are investing big time in wind and solar.

You want to tell me white cornmeal makes it bitter? That does not make sense. Panetone for example is not bitter at all.

For AI workloads they probably use https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

You make me wonder, what is in the bread that tastes bitter? (makes it taste bitter?)

The gulf stream is either an air plane, perhaps that is your misconception, or an ocean stream of warm/hot water.

Has nothing to do with wind.

Lol, are you a retard?

If the AMOC collapses, Europe will be in less than a decade in an ice age. Seriously, get a damn clue. Switzerland, Austria, north Italy, parts of France and possible Spain and south Germany: will end up under a huge glacier. Probably most of the Balkan, too.

The only thing that takes longer than a decade: is making that glacier grow.

And it does not really take long to collapse. It basically happens over night. Just like the switch from El Ninho to La Ninnga.

And the single biggest takeaway from all that work is: climatologists, as a field, have been consistently underestimating how bad things are and how bad they're going to get.

Not really. They underreported it. As the IPCC under pressure of the USA did not dare to give a true assessment.

And that is a real problem in every situation where numbers are manipulated.

You base your actions on numbers, and assume they are a true guess, or true numbers ... but they are not.

For example Germanies amount of unemployed people is measured by the amount of people who get "first class" unemployment aid.

The people unemployed who happily would take a job in their expertise: is 3 times as high. But they fall into different social aid categories ... are treated different ... are not considered to be on the "job market" ... hence a 65 year old gardener who would love to garden 4 days a week for 6 hours a day - for a surplus pay to his social aid - is not considered for open jobs that would fit.

In other words: if fake numbers do play your agenda, everyone around you makes wrong decisions.

Germany has a housing crisis? No it hasn't. It has a market crisis. There is more empty space than people seeking an apartment/house. The amount of empty office buildings, is absurd.

And that obviously tickles down into the construction business ... in a few years you will read in the news how the construction business is struggling ... which then again hits the labour market ... and so on.

Then again, the next shop here with a simple trade does not get workers. The other shop closed, because the workers he had could no longer pay the rents, and he could not pay them more.

Germany is atm run into a small catastrophe by "the real estate mafia" ...

But fox news uses Fahrenheit.
And we all know: it is easier for an AirCon to adjust it, as the 1F steps are so small, and the 1C steps are so big.
And a human body can judge F instantly but not C ...

And: obviously it sounds so much more exiting if you furnace your pizza at 600 degrees versus mere 200 degrees.