ChaoAmber@feddit.uk to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoDiamonds lose their sparkle as prices come crashing downwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: news@beehaw.org
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkDiamonds lose their sparkle as prices come crashing downwww.theguardian.comChaoAmber@feddit.uk to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square95fedilinkcross-posted to: news@beehaw.org
minus-squaresploosh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoThere’s nothing wrong with orderly carbon. There’s more than a few things wrong with Debeers
minus-squareCritical_Thinker@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoLiteral monopoly company should have been banned from imports to the US dozens of years ago.
minus-squareAdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoyeah, like the heat conduction thing is super cool, and the ability to scratch literally anything, while not particularly useful, is still pretty neat I bet once diamonds get cheap enough CPU manufacturers will start using them as heat spreaders on their high end chips
minus-squareBronzebeard@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoScratching things is super useful. We have so many tools based on exactly that principle
There’s nothing wrong with orderly carbon. There’s more than a few things wrong with Debeers
Literal monopoly company should have been banned from imports to the US dozens of years ago.
yeah, like the heat conduction thing is super cool, and the ability to scratch literally anything, while not particularly useful, is still pretty neat
I bet once diamonds get cheap enough CPU manufacturers will start using them as heat spreaders on their high end chips
Scratching things is super useful. We have so many tools based on exactly that principle