[-] Querk@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 8 months ago

Collectively agreeing to raising prices is anti-competitive collusion and illegal.

Collectively raising prices is anti-competitive coordination and legal.

Pandemic and supply shocks is a perfect excuse to do the latter.

Good luck to whoever is trying to solve this.

[-] Querk@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Unix people today : "NICE NICE"

Unix people today from 20:28:10 to 20:28:20 GMT : "NICE NICE NICE NICE"

[-] Querk@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The patent story reveals a lot.

Government:

  • creates and enforces a patent system

Also government:

  • does essential research and doesn't patent their own discoveries

Donate to propublica.org - they produce a lot of great journalism.

[-] Querk@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago

Well, the far right faction of Republicans did already side with Dems to oust the speaker.

[-] Querk@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 9 months ago

That's spoiling at that point

[-] Querk@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago

I had a Smaturday last week.

[-] Querk@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 10 months ago

If they are gonna burn religious books, why not include more of them? Burn bibles, qurans, vedas, tanakhs, etc. Make the event more inclusive :)

[-] Querk@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 10 months ago

Engineering: It's not stupid if it works.

[-] Querk@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 10 months ago

"I should speak less and listen more"

[-] Querk@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 11 months ago

Big if true

[-] Querk@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What an appropriate homage - linking to one of markdown's originator's Wikipedia page using markdown.

"In 2002 Aaron Swartz created atx and referred to it as "the true structured text format". Gruber created the Markdown language in 2004, with Swartz acting as beta tester ... Markdown: Swartz was a major contributor to John Gruber's Markdown,[249][250] a lightweight markup language for generating HTML, and author of its html2text translator. The syntax for Markdown was influenced by Swartz's earlier atx language (2002)" from wikipedia

[-] Querk@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 11 months ago

Gasoline cars produce, on average, about ten times more lifetime pollution compared to manufacturing pollution. So even if electric car manufacturing pollutes a bit more, it more than makes up for it over its lifetime of driving.

Your other claim that batteries can't be recycled is false. And that recycling pollutes more. More than 90% of battery materials by mass can and do get recycled - and the expectation is to reach 98+%. Recycling process is expected to produce less pollution and be cheaper than mining the equivalent amounts of material.

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