Kon-Peki

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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I’m in a large metro area; when I go to the Toyota website and look at inventory within 20 miles, I see 1 Sienna that is not in transit and not sale pending. That’s across 9 dealerships! By contrast, for the new Land Cruiser I am seeing 3
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
There is only one factory, and it also makes the Highlander, Grand Highlander, and Lexus TX. The Sienna would need to become a lot more profitable for Toyota to reduce production of the other 3 to make room for more Siennas.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The non-hybrid version of the CX-50 is rated for quite good fuel economy. I encourage you to do the math on your own and check my results: it is unlikely that a buyer would ever save money by getting the hybrid option considering that they
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The most impressive aspect of the Tokyo system is not the size (largest in the world), but the willingness to spend money on it. From start to finish it took less than 15 years. Chicago’s system, just as ambitious in size, is still going
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I wonder if there are more examples nationwide, but Union Pacific and BNSF are both still operating passenger service in the Chicago metro area. The locomotives and cars are government owned, but the crews and tracks are UP/BNSF.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
In one of the photos: “Price includes 3-year complementary subscription” with an asterisk and “subject to change”. I admire their honesty. I’ll pass though, I prefer my cars to be transportation rather a “place for consuming content”
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> It's nuts to imagine that Amazon hasn't done the math here. Amazon has definitely done the math and determined that the brands that buy advertising on their platform have really dumb ideas about how much they should bid for t
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
By making the Mark convertible to Euro indefinitely, Germany decided that it would be the only Euro-zone country that wasn’t going to participate in the confiscation of what turned out to be billions from their own citizens. It’s called se
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Politicians in particular say things like "preserving customer choice" But that’s not shocking. Lobbyists and campaign donations make such behavior expected.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Wow, TIL. I wonder if the Brightline extension will cause a decrease in cruises at Canaveral and a corresponding increase at Ft. Lauderdale/Miami.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> This is comically common, but because it has SpaceX in the name, it makes headlines. I once had a flight from Puerto Rico to Chicago delayed because of a (SpaceX) launch at Cape Canaveral that happened exactly within the planned launch
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
B2C is probably treated as a cost center because it is a cost center. Nobody wants to pay subscription fees for heated seats or navigation or audio or whatever. B2B is pulling in money hand over fist because fleet owners see value in the r
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
That terminology might not be clear to a non-expert. If your wrench/spanner is pointed straight up to the sky like a clock hand at 12, rotate towards the back wheel to loosen, and towards the front wheel to tighten. Important! When y
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Not sure what I wrote that upset people so much. Do whatever works for you and/or your kids. I apologize for suggesting that there are multiple approaches to solving this problem. Looking back, perhaps I was offensive for suggesting
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
“Training Wheels” are generally called “Stabilizers” outside the US. They exist and people use them. Balance bikes also exist in the US and have for just as long as they have existed in Europe. But this is not about either. A real bike wi
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Internet personality … posted to his 141,000 followers on social media platform … that photos showing standing trees provide proof that the U.S. government "is PURPOSELY setting fires using Military grade DEWs [direct energy weapo
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
In a modern hospital, depending on how healthy a baby is, it might get as many as 15 minutes before the not-removable-except-by-cutting RFID-enabled tag is attached to the wrist or ankle and it becomes part of the hospital inventory and the
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Even so, there are just as many models of "mid-size" trucks for sale in the US as "full-size". Ford has something like 5 different sizes of trucks, and size #3 is their best seller. If a size #0 suddenly showed up at t
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Ford has a suite of connected software services for commercial vehicles called Ford Pro. It has been generating billions in profit for years. They know how to develop software.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> In a first, the EU General Court ruled on Wednesday that the European Commission must pay damages to a German citizen for failing to comply with its own data protection regulations. This is not, however, the first time that the EU cour
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> The e- part is limited to speeds that most people can reach on a normal bicycle. Maybe. There are regulations, but the wording is generally such that the bike cannot be sold with a speed capability greater than X. So the bikes ship
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> I can not imagine many officials would even have the will to even try something so big and audacious nowadays. How about renaming 567 streets on a single Friday? https://chicagology.com/chicagostreets/streetnamecha
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> I hoped to watch the birth of a new cohort of pennies in person, but a Mint press representative insisted to me that he and other Mint professionals had “no idea” when or where the Mint would ever be making pennies — that these people
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Early word-processing software changed very little of that. I maintain that this kind of software was like typewriters on steroids, with a screen. WYSIWYG software was an entirely new paradigm, and changed everything.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I always wonder how many people actually used typewriters before talking about them in comparison to word processors. By the late 1970s or early 1980s, typewriters had electronic memory. They had error correction "tape" so you
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
If you’re wondering where the dishonesty is in this report, it’s that it calculates the mean time to do a task among those who reported doing the task on a weekly basis, and then assumes that all people do all of the tasks on a weekly basis
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I don’t know why you would include software in your definition of capital. In an AGI situation, great software is trivially generated by the AGI, so it has no value whatsoever. Also, the Wright Brothers analogy is just plain wrong. Their i
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I think you are mistaken about the purpose of DOGE. The one thing they've actually tried is to get the debt ceiling eliminated so the government can run unlimited borrowing. Which would be used to fund tax cuts for the people running
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
He's run about 9 of them straight into bankruptcy. Many of them are now owned by Carl Icahn and running profitably.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
That would incentivize more 3s and dunks. The article spends plenty of time describing why incentivizing dunks is a bad idea, and of course, the question is about how you get fewer 3s attempted. Here’s my suggestion: reduce the rim diamete

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