For example, it's cheaper to transport chicken from the USA to China, where it will be processed (it's cheaper due to lower wages and other reasons) and shipped back to the USA. This is a monstrous practice, that creates a lot more pollution due to trans-oceanic transportation and takes capital out of a nation.
The end product is cheaper to manufacture so the corporation can increase its profits, and the costs are externalized: someone else will have to clean the oceans in the future, and someone else misses out on a job that's outsourced to another nation. Net gain for the corporation, net loss for everyone else.
We need taxes in place so that this practice is a net loss for the corporation. It's ruining the country and the world.
Edit: no, I don't think selective protectionism would harm the poor. I think it would increase prices but it would also increase job availability, for a net benefit for workers.
My Western Digital 1TB external HDD fell to the ground and now makes a clicking noise when plugged, and can’t access any file.
I sent the HDD to Geek Squad and a local data recovery company in Houston-TX and both said a clean room is required to replace the head (taken from a donor HDD) and then attempt to recover the data. It appears to have no other way.
The price tag is ranging from $2,100 to $2,400, involving 10-12h of specialized tech. Is that a realistic price? Seems very steep to me. I’m guessing they are outsourcing the clean room repair service and adding their cut on top of it.
Appreciate if someone can refer a reputable place for HDD data recovery in Houston - TX.
all these games coming out this fall and i have no space on my series s that i got on launch day. i was hoping to upgrade to the x by now but obviously it hasn’t happened so any help would be appreciated
Title. The amp is only recognized by my pc if I take an hairdryer to the side of it for a few seconds. I found some options like this https://www.amazon.com/Decoder-AK4490-Coaxial-Headphone-Amplifier/dp/B07D4CVDYJ that cost far less less than the one supplied from schiit. Or would somebody with a jotunheim want to recommend another dac that they think is better? Primarily used with LCD-2cb at the moment. Thanks!
I'm looking to get a verison business plan for my company but I'm in need of at least 4 IPs (in addition to the primary IP) and I am wondering how much IPs cost?
My mom bought a new iMac around christmas time and it only came with a 256gb HD (come on apple, that's pretty sad isn't it?). Anyway, we started loading all her pictures on it and I've already got the hard drive up to like 180gb full and theres still more. So I want to transfer the Photos database to an external hard drive. Looking online I would fine one that I liked but then started reading reviews and see a lot of hate (didn't work. It's slow. It died in 3 months, etc.). Looking for 2tb or so. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Also looking for some sort of photo stick for her Pixel 3 phone so she can transfer her images from her phone to that and then plug into the iMac to move the photos there.
So, I'm not sure how this relates to Monero other then I'm trying to get at a deeper understanding of the issues that crypto might face, and undoubtedly r/Monero is the best place to ask.
1 oz of Gold can be divided and sent to 100,000 people, and then later they can return it. It takes effort and cost, but when you get done, you have 1 oz of gold. The transaction costs were put onto those who were accepting or transferring it but not removed from the gold itself, the store of value/means of exchange.
This is not true for Bitcoin or Monero, but it is particularly not true for bitcoin.
If you were to divide 1 Bitcoin out to 100,000 people and then request they give it back, you'd not be able to and would effectively end up with 0 Bitcoin. This is because the transaction costs are internal to it, and it subtracts from itself, the store of value/means of exchange.
This makes me question the divisibility of Cryptocurrencies. The transaction costs are internal, as opposed to putting the cost on the users directly as externality costs.
Maybe it simply doesn't matter how the cost of transacting occurs but is it fair to say Cryptocurrencies are easily divisible or easily transferable, when in the thought experiment above it would be impossible to divide and transfer 1 btc to 100,000 people and return it, while it is possible with gold? Divisibility and transferablity are two of the 6 features required for a currency.
(-) Scarcity: final number of the symbols (-) Fungibility: all symbols are interchangeable, commodity like. Symbol A is identical to symbol B, and vice versa. (-) Divisibility: the symbols are easily divisible, so you can divide them to smaller and smaller portions (-) Durability: the symbols can survive the test of time and weahther and won’t be worn out or disappear (-) Transferability: the symbols can be easily transferred between owners
And with this thought, It would stand to reason that cash is a better currency then debit/credit card which often have an unavoidable fee.
If they were separate currencies, the reverse of greshams law would kick in and cash would be preferred over card because it doesn't lose its value each transaction.
Hello! I have an older 1TB external (2014/2015) who's harddrive won't spin up / makes a terrible sound - took it into a shop (toronto, Canada) and they said to recover the data they would have to send it away and it would cost about $700CAD.
The data on the HD is important but I was wondering about the price. Am I getting ripped off hard or is this standard?
https://reddit.com/link/l1o24v/video/1pqockasblc61/player
Results show that external greenhouse gas costs are highest for conventional and organic animal-based products (146% and 71% surcharge on producer price level), followed by conventional dairy products (91% surcharge) and lowest for organic plant-based products (6% surcharge). The large difference of relative external climate costs between food categories as well as the absolute external climate costs of the agricultural sector imply the urgency for policy measures that close the gap between current market prices and the true costs of food.
If the resulting costs are addressed by economic policies in line with common economic theory, they would enable agricultural externalities to be internalized according to the polluter-pays principle and at the same time strengthen sustainable consuming behavior. Pricing of food that includes environmental and social costs would thus also significantly contribute to fair market conditions, and simultaneously to climate change mitigation.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19474-6
Pieper, M., Michalke, A. & Gaugler, T. Calculation of external climate costs for food highlights inadequate pricing of animal products. Nat Commun 11, 6117 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19474-6
People should be able to buy whatever they want, and not have to hassle with a bunch of effort to figure out if this is good or bad for the environment, if people are being paid a fair wage, or have to think about any of the "externalities" of their purchase.
For example, if I fill up my car with fuel, and that causes environmental damage, the government should figure out this cost, and just charge me by including this in the price. Same with things like airline travel, cruise ships, container ships of plastic toys from China, eating meat, etc.
Letting the "free market" do this is stupid, wasteful, and inefficient.
