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  • It kind of does, most of my tech friendly family members refuse to buy Chinese phones, not because they care about privacy but because they have no resale values. They only buy iphones, samsung and google.

    If Google secondhand market crashes, I’m pretty sure some of them drop Google from their acceptable phone list. I’m not saying it’s direct impact of Google, but at least it’s indirect in the sense they will not buy Google next time.

    So if you buy secondhand Google 8, you are part paying your sellers next Google pixel 10. It’s a bit mental gymnastics, but not baseless theory.

















  • I believe It’s close, I worked on a paper about a decade ago, and our numbers were not too dissimilar, actually it’s ridiculous how similar they are. We went with the most extensive data hunt on land usage. We had non-arable land at 14.7%, which rounded up to 15% in our summary. We got multiple sources for global precipitation levels. We got registries from US, Russia, China, India, Brazil, Canada, Australia, etc totalling 65 countries, we extrapolated the rest, our extrapolation was actually 70% of the paper. We back tallied registry numbers with global weather data.