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by alvah 4y ago
If you want to dispute the cancellation fee Uber occasionally hits you with when the driver cancels, it helps to know the driver's name, which you can't find in the app after he cancels.
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by alvah 4y ago
I screenshot every time a driver accepts the ride, for the almost inevitable dispute later.
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by alvah 4y ago
Maybe 100 years ago it was as benign as you suggest, but it's since been hijacked by other interests, including a eugenicist and a leader who was kicked out of Greenpeace for being too radical.
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by alvah 4y ago
You do have a valid point, but phantom braking is most definitely an issue, and can most definitely cause a crash that would not have happened otherwise. Any system that gets spooked and hauls on the anchors for no reason, even once, is not
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by alvah 4y ago
bought != wanted...
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by alvah 4y ago
I doubt many people choose between the two though, they're very different propositions.
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by alvah 4y ago
"The high-end market is only a small part of the numbers" correct, but in a parallel universe where Tesla didn't exist & the typical EV looked & performed like a Leaf, would anyone actually want an electric car? Marke
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by alvah 4y ago
Nissan would never have been Tesla. They might have been the largest producer of EVs if history had run a different way, but that's a million miles away from being Tesla.
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by alvah 4y ago
Other countries and economies have chosen not to reward value-creators for the value they create. So far this has not worked out well for these countries and economies.
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by alvah 4y ago
If you believe in Matt Levine's Elon Markets Hypothesis, paying 20% over market to be in close proximity to Elon's Twitter feed might be a bargain.
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by alvah 4y ago
What kind of storage? I wouldn’t bank on chemical storage technologies, at least if we want the type of reliable electrical grid that’s allowed us to develop as advanced industrial nations. Generally, reducing storage cost runs into the typ
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by alvah 5y ago
https://asuprep.asu.edu/khan-world-school/about-us/ -The tuition for full-time students who are Arizona residents will be paid for by the state at no cost to families. -Students who live in the US, but outside Ari
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by alvah 5y ago
Theodore Dalrymple's article on Le Corbusier sums up the hubris of modern architects & modern architecture: https://www.city-journal.org/html/architect-totalitarian-132...
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by alvah 5y ago
Same here (Western Australia) and it's closer to $2500 than the $200 mentioned above.
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by alvah 5y ago
You must be very young. Just about any index fund would have returned ~0% pa from mid 2000 to mid 2013, i.e. not very long ago.
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by alvah 5y ago
When an HR manager boasts to you about how they used a downturn to screw your colleagues' hourly rate down by 10% without reducing their charge-out rate, your ethical stance re: dealing with your employer may change...
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by alvah 5y ago
I suspect the "Recipe Life Story" nonsense was sparked by a highly-publicised (in SEO circles) study several years ago, which claimed the average #1 result in SERPs contained ~2000 words. This started a race to make every web page
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by alvah 5y ago
You should probably argue your anti-Trump case somewhere relevant. Your points have nothing to do with either of the comments you're replying to.
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by alvah 5y ago
You should re-read the simple sentence you're replying to. At the 2016 election, if you didn't want Hillary elected, you had to vote Republican, i.e. for Trump. How is this even up for debate?
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by alvah 5y ago
I'm not arguing "Thiel is a good guy", but if he didn't want Hillary elected (assumption), using his public profile to boost Trump pre-election != actual MAGA hat Trump true believer.
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by alvah 5y ago
I think you'd be surprised how many votes for Trump in 2016 were actually votes for "not Hillary".
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by alvah 5y ago
The modelling has been wrong. Early on someone ran Sweden's numbers through Neil Ferguson's model's business-as-usual scenario, and the model's estimates of cases and deaths were much higher than observed reality (by aro
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by alvah 5y ago
A death with Omicron has been reported, however the UK government have refused to release further details, so at the moment the confirmed # of deaths from Omicron is still 0. This will change of course.
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by alvah 5y ago
"The developer’s engineers and the City have shown that the building is perfectly safe through detailed modeling and investigation. And yet, the prices of those luxury condominiums plummeted with the frenzy of reporting about the settl
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by alvah 5y ago
That's a bizarre take. What incentivises governent workers to be efficient? What incentives workers & owners of a private business to be efficient? Government isn't at risk of going out of business, and within a government dep
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by alvah 5y ago
That's not really true. There are and have been many states, provinces and cities where my line of work is rewarded with high pre-tax pay, but the cost of living in those places (especially housing) makes it uneconomic.
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by alvah 5y ago
The reported CFR may be in that region, but most credible sources estimate a much lower real CFR, due both to many undetected / asymptomatic infections, and confusion between deaths with & deaths caused by Covid-19. For a statistic
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by alvah 5y ago
A friend with a 6yo P85D says his battery performance is still in the high 80%s vs brand new. What to do with large numbers of EVs at the end of their useful battery life is still an unsolved problem though.
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by alvah 5y ago
Piracy is almost always more user friendly than a paid service, and has been for as long as I can remember - at least as far back as when DVDs had unskippable "don't pirate this" messages which didn't appear on the pirat
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by alvah 5y ago
You're absolutely correct. The government giving preference to suppliers on the basis of ethnicity is a huge step backwards.

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