I have an ikea bed and dressers that made 3 moves, and a table that made two. We just sold the dressers. There's a market as long as you take care of it and use moving blankets and all that. The person *receiving* the dressers called afterward to ask how to get the drawers un-jammed, but that was their fault for just shoving them in without hooking the rails properly as they were taking them away. Some people get a lot of life from ikea, and some don't.

The annoyance is that they charge 3x the market rate for GBs of RAM, and don't even offer options with as much RAM as OP wants. Then they give you low-cost options that utilize cheaper alternatives like SSD swap. So, if you buy the version that is "reasonably priced" you end up with a small fraction of how much ram you'd like, and there is in fact *no* option that gives you as much RAM as you could buy from Newegg and load into a PC.

Please read his post again until you understand it. Heat pumps are more efficient than resistive heat, but they are limited to a range of outside temperatures. When the outside temperature drops below that range, the heat pump stops producing anything and resistive heat is your only electrical option. It has nothing to do with the "reliability" of heat pumps, its just physics and economics. The goal of a heap pump is to heat inexpensively with electricity. I think my $50/mo charge just to be connected to the natural gas (nevermind usage) year round is much shittier than the heat pump option, and will happily replace my furnace with a heat pump (plus resistive coils for extreme temperatures) and disconnect my gas next time the furnace dies. And both options are way cheaper than the insane fuel-oil prices of the oil furnace I had in New Hampshire.

In "mild" regions like Ohio (presumably stretching across the whole US at that latitude), heat pumps have plenty of months of heating to do, since the temperature is below 70 degrees for about half the year. The temperatures only drop below 0 for maybe a few days in Jan-Feb. This makes the heat pump a bargain, especially with cheap midwest electricity.

Wind "chill" helps, because the heat pump coil is colder than the wind, so it's actually "wind thawing". And this is exactly why heat pumps stop working at a low cutoff temperature - because the coil is no longer colder than the wind.

Took them long enough. I never would have guessed that Idiocracy's home entertainment predictions would take longer than the political predictions.

Now amazon just needs to sell a toilet-armchair to put in front of it.

Maybe you're missing the AI aspect of the photo editing in this conversation? They're describing the hardware requirements to run an AI engine, which Google is supplying from a data center in this case.

Oh, no I meant the vertical phone-shaped Zaurus SL 5500, like an extra-tall blackberry. The thumb keyboard was surprisingly good; better than a blackberry and infinitely better than a touchscreen keypad. I could actually code on it at a reasonable speed, and it had all the standard PC keyboard punctuation characters available as function-combos. If I had a year of free time and nothing better to do, I would retrofit a PinePhone board into the SL 5500 shell just to have a cell phone with that keyboard.

The problem with all those clamshell designs is you can't type on them easily while walking. In fact I can't think of any scenario where they're nice to type on - a non-desk table will often be the wrong height for your wrists, and if you're at a proper desk there's a good chance you have a bag with a bluetooth keyboard in it for your tablet. Even laying on a couch, your wrists are at an odd angle and you end up trying to balance them on your legs propped up at just the right angle.

The Zaurus was usable everywhere, and I'd still be using one if they made it with modern specs.

Nevermind the Sony Vaio, I want a modern processor and cell modem in a Sharp Zaurus form factor!

Running Arch Linux, please. With open firmware. And a developers' wiki. And an advertising budget to attract enough developers to fill the wiki for me.

They did this on real terminals in the 80's, but it was slow, and few terminals supported it, so few applications used it, so not many emulators bothered to support it, so it's still not used much even though the speed is no longer a problem.

https://github.com/saitoha/lib...

It’s also incomplete, and not really absolute. “big angry bear” “small scared rabbit” “big smelly garbage pile”

A different way to look at inflation is to say that old favors are worth less than new favors. In that sense, it isn’t so bad, because it encourages people to keep working and participating in the economy, especially talented people who might otherwise decide to retire early on their stockpile of favors.

High inflation is bad of course, but I think a little inflation is a necessary piece of the economic puzzle.

Hm, thanks for the fact-check. I think snopes gives a better explanation though

So the cause/effect seemed obvious to a lot of people, though the specifics are being described very incorrectly.

Healthcare used to be required to be nonprofit, then they repealed that law in the 1970s and everything went fully for-profit, and many people argue that the quality to cost ratio decreased. (this is a hard thing to really quantify since technology is advancing so fast at the same time) Anyway, maybe thats what OP was thinking of.

Guns don’t kill people, low blood pressure does (from bullet holes)

In other words, I don’t think the word poverty refers exclusively to exchanged currency, but the overall circumstances of people having the ability to obtain what they need in order to live well. So yes poverty is deadly, because it means a person doesn’t have the means to avoid death.

Anyway, I agree with the rest of your post but the first sentence was very distracting.

And likewise $100 wouldn’t make a dent in the wealth of the average american.

There’s a lot of skewed reporting of it, but the very real part is that the highest tax bracket got a larger percentage decrease than the lower brackets, and it wiped out a ton of federal revenue that was replaced with debt spending which now will be paid back by future generations.

Wealthy people in control of lots of money got a giant tax break (just look at all the corporate stock buybacks made with the windfall) and the general populace got some hush-money. I think its fair to call it a tax cut for the rich.