JoshTko

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by JoshTko 5y ago
Even Apple corp has to buy co2 certificates, the staff need to take flights, and work in non 100% sustainable buildings. What matters though is that Apple is considering the carbon costs of vendors and suppliers. So all thing equal, low car
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by JoshTko 6y ago
Won't this rapidly lose reflectively anyway on top of any city building due to soot/dirt? Lowering cost or increasing durability probably matters far more for reflecting sunlight using white paint.
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by JoshTko 6y ago
Average users view the garden as a feature, not a bug - and that's the point. Apple removing complexity that their user's do not understand or need is good product design. HN audience is not Apple's main target audience.
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by JoshTko 6y ago
From a mass end user perspective what part of the phone ecosystem is sick?
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by JoshTko 6y ago
on iOS there is a lifesaving phone setting of sending unknown callers straight to voicemail.
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by JoshTko 6y ago
VW's main mistake is that their joke was something some people actually really liked. It burns a ton of goodwill. Many of their supporters may have even defended the idea. Now VW effectively told their supporters that VW thinks they ar
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by JoshTko 6y ago
Volkswagen would have benefited from reading this article> Bill Gate's comment that the prank makes Microsoft look stupid applies pretty well to the Voltswagen stunt.
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by JoshTko 6y ago
Aside from the odd naming change, the main purpose of a move like this is to signal to employees the extent that the organization is making a shift. It may especially be necessary for such a long standing organization such as VW.
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by JoshTko 6y ago
This is one of the result of climate crisis. As complex environments get disrupted over time they become less and less diverse allowing for more booms and busts of single species. The wildfires last year probably wiped out a lot of the mice
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by JoshTko 6y ago
Should software companies give access to source code so that users can fix bugs?
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by JoshTko 6y ago
This assumes that repairable devices on net cause less waste which may not be the case for smartphones. Lighter, waterproof, with no moving parts for battery swapping can lead to much longer lasting devices.
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by JoshTko 6y ago
I think Apple is justifiably terrified of a 3rd party battery, installed by someone with 5 minutes of training, causing a fire and making headlines.
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by JoshTko 6y ago
I don't want a bulky, heavy, non waterproof, and less reliable smartphone (due to more moveable parts) just to have a easily replaceable battery.
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by JoshTko 6y ago
This would be easy to prove if SE are disproportionately represented as CEOs in non software companies. My bet is this is not the case.
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by JoshTko 6y ago
Those chips will probably not be out until later this year and will take another couple months to show up in laptops. By then we will see the midrange versions of the M1. In Macbook pros.
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by JoshTko 6y ago
Giving stuff away doesn't generate profits needed to invest in R&D.
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by JoshTko 6y ago
I trust them a bit less these days. Seems that at least some of their products are pay to play. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25993512
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by JoshTko 6y ago
Just had an Amazon vendor offer me the full value of my purchase (in Amazon gift cards) to change my review from 3 stars to four. On one hand, it's great customer service, but on the other the product is still really a three star produ
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by JoshTko 6y ago
Ponzi schemes have a schemer with asymmetric information about the scheme. How is the analogous to bitcoin since there is no asymmetric information (anyone can see the code). You can argue that bitcoin is a pump and dump scheme perhaps but
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by JoshTko 6y ago
The most common store of value is cash. But it can be other things like a house, or stocks, or bonds. Anything that you can use to purchase other stuff. Key desirable store of value attributes is that it is widely accepted and doesn't
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by JoshTko 6y ago
BTC's main purpose is as a store of value not as a currency. Volatility will eventually go down, think 30+ years.
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by JoshTko 6y ago
Basic goods should never be in unregulated markets. People are overwhelmed by these complex products. There is no reason why someone needs to spend a weekend trying to understand how much electricity will cost. US productivity is the real l
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by JoshTko 6y ago
This comment should be higher up. But interesting that HN is still very much unclear of BTC's core benefit.
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by JoshTko 6y ago
Can you share your sources on your key points?
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by JoshTko 6y ago
It's just poor design to allow for good-faith. It's too easy for a bad actor to artificially create "leftover" doses to give to friends and family. Just don't allow doctor discretion and organize better for the nex
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by JoshTko 6y ago
This is a complex issue. Ideally we would have a much better organized rollout avoiding these scenarios. I don't think we ever want individual physicians using their own contacts list to find candidates regardless of good intention, it
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by JoshTko 6y ago
Agree. Just am pointing out that the energy consumption of bitcoin seems to be vastly overstated, possibly by an order of magnitude.
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by JoshTko 6y ago
Half of Iceland's electricity is already from bitcoin mining so at the very least 1/12 of total bitcoin mining is from geothermal. The first youtube hit for bitcoin mine gives another operation in the US using hydro electricity. A
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by JoshTko 6y ago
My understanding is that the vast majority of crypto mining happens at dedicated farms in energy cost optimal locations such as Iceland where you can have clean geothermal energy. I haven't seen an analysis that looks at actual mining
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by JoshTko 6y ago
No one knows who MicroStrategy is. The impact comes from normalizing - CFOs can point to a Fortune 10 company as a precedent and buy bitcoin without looking completely foolish. Buying bitcoin can soon be normal as insuring against currency

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