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Re:Lego Wants to Remake Its Toy Bricks without Anyone Noticing by 9935c101ab17a66 on Friday August 31, 2018 @09:23PM (#17889609)
This is a really well-written rebuttal to the "straws are destroying the planet" narrative in general.
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Re:Lego Wants to Remake Its Toy Bricks without Anyone Noticing by specialist on Friday August 31, 2018 @11:35PM (#17890045)
Every journey begins with the first step.

Imagine the competitive advantage Lego will have once they develop this new source of material.

You've heard of Moore's Law, ya? Like Einstein said, the most powerful force in the world is compound interest. Same thing.

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Re:Lego Wants to Remake Its Toy Bricks without Anyone Noticing by hueving on Friday August 31, 2018 @11:52PM (#17890101)
Moore's law (or the exponential effect in general) hasn't applied to any other modern fields (last 200 years) and had finally failed in semiconductors. It's not an actual law, it's just an observation of a manufacturing system benefiting from its own gains.

So unless Lego's output costs cut in half with a reduction in co2 production, there won't be anything like a moores law effect.

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Re:Lego Wants to Remake Its Toy Bricks without Anyone Noticing by specialist on Saturday September 01, 2018 @01:14AM (#17890349)
"or the exponential effect in general"

Uh huh. No progress, no innovation.

So this is irrelevant too:

Metcalfe's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe's_law

"costs cut in half"

Uh huh. We'll never have carbon taxes either.

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