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by a4isms 4y ago
Late observation, but... This feels like the perfect dishwasher to wash your glassware after using your Juicero! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero
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by a4isms 4y ago
It's interesting that we have already had this exact same transition with pure software: It is increasingly difficult to just buy an indefinite license to use a program that is dowloaded or shipped to you on physical media, to be run
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by a4isms 4y ago
And forced emigration, aka “transportation to Australia.”
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by a4isms 4y ago
Absolutely one of Rick Mercer’s rants.
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by a4isms 4y ago
> I do think discouraging thinking of humans as resources is a good thing I agree with that. There's a famous rant by a Canadian comic/media personality where he quotes a government slogan "People are our most precious res
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by a4isms 4y ago
Citation needed for both of your claims, especially the second. What do you mean "it's the culture?" There are democracies everywhere, white people everywhere, protestants everywhere, people speak English everywhere, what is
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by a4isms 4y ago
If only there was a way to get more people into the developed world without people in the developed world creating new people twenty+ years at a time... The secret to America's success has always been immigration, whether by violent
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by a4isms 4y ago
Drive a modern car where everything that used to be a button or switch is now hidden behind glass. Wanting the return of mechanical controls with tactile feedback is not sentimentality, it's usability.
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by a4isms 4y ago
Says EVERYONE who drives a late-model car that sticks everything behind the sliding fingers under glass UX, from climate controls to the volume of the stereo. This is a known problem, and one that will get people killed, because it demands
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by a4isms 4y ago
Very true, that case parallels non-crypto assets like index funds. You own the upside and downside of the collateral, and you are also exposed to some risk that the company managing the funds does something extremely stupid and/or mali
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by a4isms 4y ago
Related: "Our Incredible Journey," which focuses on acquisitions that involve shutting the acquired company's products down and leaving their customers high and dry: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
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by a4isms 4y ago
But you could have that upside by owning the collateral. If I own the collateral, I own the upside and downside of the collateral. If I own a stablecoin pegged to the collateral, I own the upside and downside of the collateral, plus the ris
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by a4isms 4y ago
The stereo scene is so funny, I keep a defibrillator handy just in case I laugh so hard my heart fails while rewatching it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19CvEO3Riy0
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by a4isms 4y ago
If a reply hadn't quoted it, I'd gladly change the phrase from "magical conservative thinking" to "unsubstantiated speculation."
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by a4isms 4y ago
I'd be very careful about suggesting that failure proves there is no market for something. Many PC companies failed before Apple succeeded. Apple itself failed to the point of almost being acquired by Sun before succeeding by buying Ne
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by a4isms 4y ago
That market absolutely exists, and a few people have tried to serve it over the years. Here's an old example, a Samsung phone promoted by Jackie Chan that cost about $3,000 back in 2012: https://www.androidauthority.com&#x2F
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by a4isms 4y ago
Here’s the thing: There’s talking about cycling, and there’s cycling. They each have a role: Talking about cycling is how we share knowledge and build a culture and an industry to serve it, and grow knowledge over the generations. But it’s
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by a4isms 4y ago
They exist, and that's why UCI scan bikes at the race start line for electric motors, it's a serious enough problem that it has a name, "Motor doping." Famously, Femke van den Driessche received a six-year ban after bein
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by a4isms 4y ago
I really don't want this to devolve into chest-pounding, but I have worked in the bike industry, and have raced on-and-off as an amateur in road, cyclocross, MTB, and duathlon dating back to the late 80s. I remember when the Ritchey P2
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by a4isms 4y ago
Yes, but we're discussing technology that will also be rare. It's not like these chainless electric drive systems will appear on big-box sporting goods store bicycles, so why compare it to a mass-market affordable bike's tech
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by a4isms 4y ago
Have you seen a high-end bike? The gears have batteries, electric motors, microcontrollers, and sensors. You'll also find wireless power meters, GPS, and even radar sensors for traffic on a contemporary bike. You get the idea. At the l
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by a4isms 4y ago
> Regenerative braking followed by assisted pedalling out of the corners would be a huge win. ...Until the next ascent, where you have to haul the weight of the battery and what amounts to two electric motors uphill... Although it seems
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by a4isms 4y ago
I had a drum brake on my tandem for this very purpose. It wasn't even hooked up to a brake lever, it was wired to an old three-speed shift lever so you could set the amount of drag between none, some, and more.
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by a4isms 4y ago
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just "Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for your convenience." --Mitch Hedberg
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by a4isms 4y ago
You're joking, but to answer the question seriously, the problem with slamming it into your biggest gear and pedalling downhill is that wind resistance increases with the square of your velocity. When going downhill, you are going fast
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by a4isms 4y ago
> disavowing responsibility. Look, if someone comes to my house claiming to be raising money for charity and I givethem money, the following statements can all be simultaneously true: 1. I should take responsibility for checking that the
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by a4isms 4y ago
It's ambiguous, and not that clear-cut. Expressions like "A 20% increase in sales" are almost never used to describe an 20% increase in the sales department's headcount or budget. Most people would interpret that as a 20
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by a4isms 4y ago
What I said was: > If we need microservices to accomplish isolation of state, that suggests we got OOP wrong, very wrong. That’s the last sentence, which summarizes my point. As for Dr. Kay, his exact words were saying that to him at the
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by a4isms 4y ago
I’m very aware that we evolved things Kay may not have intended, and that doesn’t make it wrong. He may have coined the term, but he doesn’t own it, nor should we feel beholden to his vision dating back to 1972. What I said was if the pri
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by a4isms 4y ago
Erlang/Elixir feels like it strikes a middle ground, where every process behaves like one of Kay's objects, including the emphasis on message-passing rather than methods that behave like procedure calls.

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