Comment Re:Compare with a GPU server (Score 1) 54
The sever rental also includes power and bandwidth as part of the cost...
The sever rental also includes power and bandwidth as part of the cost...
It will be obvious that someone is using a translation service, so you take that into account when understanding what they said. The same thing can happen with regional variations of the same language, or people who are novices in a particular language.
If you translate a website and it says something unbelievable or out of context the first thing you do is assume the translation is incorrect, the same will happen here.
Some phones already have the capability - iphone 15 and up for instance with the latest ios.
Doing it at the network level makes it available to any user regardless of what handset they have.
A service like this will probably announce (in both languages) that it's been turned on, so you're free to hang up if you don't consent to it.
Floppy drives and blank disks were plentiful and cheap once too, now they're getting harder to find and a lot of the used units available are in poor condition. It will happen sooner or later.
But yes digital files are easier to manipulate, and you can periodically transfer them to newer storage devices so you don't get stuck with obsolete and unreadable media.
There's nothing stopping you from backing up digital files onto new media.
The physical CD can become damaged or degrade, rendering it unreadable. The readers will also fail over time and need to be replaced, and while they're still being manufactured today there will eventually reach a point where readers are not being manufactured and you have to rely on old stock or refurbishments.
Older media formats are becoming increasingly hard to use these days, even if you still have the physical media and it's not degraded to the point of being totally unreadable.
Which is why they're building a lot of it, but it's also not reliable and cannot be the sole power source. They need things like coal for backup when wind/solar fail due to a lack of wind and sun.
Coal is a short term benefit, cleaner air a longer term one.
If you lose in the short term, you might not be around to reap the long term benefits.
Global isn't the problem, it's central control by a foreign entity which is the issue.
Linux is global, and even tho Linus lives in the US and is thus beholden to US law any changes forced by the government would be noticeable, and foreign users could create a fork that's free of further US influence.
The same can't be said of commercial operations - even when a US based company has an EU division, they are ultimately answerable to the US based bosses and thus by extension to the US government. Sure they may store data on servers physically in the EU, but that doesn't do much good if the people managing those servers answer to foreigners.
In many places fresh foods are significantly more expensive than fast food, and less widely available which becomes a problem for people without transportation.
A lot of people also have to work long hours and don't have time to prepare food, so they buy ready prepared.
Or it means they added something else instead of sugar, usually something much worse.
The ONLY ACTUAL problems are the unhealthy levels of SALT, SUGAR, and FAT.
Unfortunately the "solution" often given for too much sugar, is to replace it with artificial substitutes. This introduces a new problem - things that we haven't traditionally consumed which have unknown long term effects not just on people's bodies but in some cases on the environment too when these things enter the water system.
The key point in your statement is "unhealthy levels", salt sugar and fat are fine in moderation, in fact our bodies require some level of each of these in order to function at all. Replacing them with unnatural substitutes just makes things worse, reducing excessive consumption is the answer.
However reducing consumption is fundamentally incompatible with a for-profit food delivery model. No food producer wants you to eat less, so they introduce all these artificial additives so they can claim there's less (salt|fat|sugar) and that therefore you can now eat even more.
That "processing" is limited to cutting. The nutritional content of the meat is not changed, it's only cut into smaller pieces.
You could say fresh vegetables were processed in the same way since they were cut from the plant.
When people talk about processing they're talking about processes which add or remove ingredients, or change its form significantly. Processed meat is generally subjected to a process like smoking, or is ground, mixed with other additives and possibly cooked.
There used to be a social stigma about being fat in western countries too. Now "fat shaming" is punished and the narrative pushed is "its ok to be fat". The inevitable outcome of this is that more people will be overweight.
You need the stigma and shaming as a form of motivation. Like you pointed out, healthy food is available, exercise is available, it just needs motivation to lose weight.
It's cheaper because the chicken nuggets are made from a less desirable waste product. The whole chicken contains the premium pieces (breasts, legs, wings) as well as a small amount of waste.
The chicken nuggets are made from the waste after the prime pieces have been cut off and sold for a higher price. When you buy a bag of chicken nuggets you're not buying whole chicken, you're buying the waste from several chickens where the premium pieces have already been sold.
The difference is that cigarettes are entirely optional, but food is not.
People eat the highly processed food largely because it's cheap. If it became expensive then this would push up the cost of food and place a burden on people, who would have no alternative.
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