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China’s Abandoned Electric Cars(bloomberg.com)
5 points by araes 3y ago|2 comments
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by araes 3y ago
One of the silliest articles I have seen on Bloomberg. There are literally lots full of nearly immaculate electric cars sitting around in China. People won't even consider them (apparently not even the poor and homeless) cause they &
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by araes 3y ago
This is perhaps one of the sadder articles I have ever seen on here, and endemic of a lot other parts of society. "Somebody already posted a pretty picture online, there is now no point in me taking pictures ever again." Imgur&#x
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by araes 3y ago
A suggestion that's slightly different from the others. Because of all the emerging fields that are being considered with the new capabilities of near instant "quality" text/art production, there are also a lot of oppor
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by araes 3y ago
Another point is: It's properties might still be interesting (possibly amazing, just not a superconductor). A significant reduction in room temperature resistance would still be incredible, even if it wasn't a "room temperatu
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by araes 3y ago
Can agree that opinions may vary. I was older than the target demographic in the 2010's, yet still bought one because of slightly younger friends. In airports it was great for layovers, because there would be 100's of travelers
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by araes 3y ago
What? Per WP, "All Nintendo DS models combined have sold 154.02 million units". No nostalgia for the best selling Nintendo system ever, the best selling handheld ever, and the second best selling console ever? PS2 only got to 1
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by araes 3y ago
I recently wondered whether the good reviews on WWW shopping sites, are actually written by the bots. The market for astroturfing is so competitive, that the paid reviews probably learned a long time ago you need to leave quality reviews t
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by araes 3y ago
Most certainly agree. Yet, its not whether they 'actually' care. Just the noises they're making. Google looks inept and malicious. MS wants health care money, cause its the next big market as everybody dies. "We care,
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by araes 3y ago
Part of the issue with search, I cannot 'totally' blame on Google. (Note: I blame them some. Made $300,000,000,000 last year. Have 140,000 employees. Their main product is search + ads. There should be an army of programmers
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by araes 3y ago
Interesting from a couple perspectives (taking the above as honest about AirBNB). Confirms a bit about what's been weird with the economy and hiring. From the man on the street's perspective (and apparently teirc's view abov
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Had a similar response. Was actually thinking it was going to be some kind of virtual machines within virtual machines type of exploit.
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by araes 3y ago
To add, there's also quite a bit of what recently has been described as "enshitification." The news source starts out ok, somebody makes a metric [1] to describe "ok," sources start chasing metric, stories all start
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by araes 3y ago
I think the general issue on cooking is similar to shopping, exercise, or "work" for some folks. Some have an interpretation of exercise = fun or pleasure. Some, like me, have a body that treats all exercise as the most dreadful
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by araes 3y ago
If I only I had an extra $15 million I could spare right now. Anybody want to get together and purchase 1350 sq. miles of Nevada? (for comparison, about twice the size of Houston). Timeshare? Tech commune? Minerals? (According to this si
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by araes 3y ago
One point people don't tend to know, is that a lot of folks actually get drugs in jail, and often prefer them. There's quite a few opioid replacements that get offered to anyone who can show addiction withdrawl, and many folks sa
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by araes 3y ago
7.44% gold? That's ~$75 per oz of material. And you're talking about lead cable. Its kind of heavy, even if its thin. And it seems really easy to melt and separate. Notably, most power lines are actually aluminum, which is pr
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by araes 3y ago
If you're doing a cyberdeck, and you already include some form of AR display, then why include the keyboard? Haptic feedback gloves [1] are already a thing, and would allow typing wherever. They frankly need to get smaller, and not in
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by araes 3y ago
The tinfoil hat part of me says its like the "identify the stoplights" challenges. We'll introduce this idea that sounds really tech, and hype. Maybe imply its so difficult that computers could never compete with humans. We&
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by araes 3y ago
Even in the modern era the cost is still relevant. Bricks are still pretty expensive. If I have 100 acres (square), I need ~2.5 km of wall, at ~150,000 bricks for a 1m wall single brick-width wall (deter animals, mark property). At the onl
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by araes 3y ago
This is actually one of the reasons I believe some foreign web commerce sites tend to do so well. There's a culture of filming everything. Film the product being made. Film the completed product in packaging. Film the completed pro
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by araes 3y ago
The situation for students is pretty close to a double bind situation [1]: - Get loans and go to school, or I (your family, society, the job market) will punish you. - Do not get loans, or I (the economy, lenders, your credit score) will pu
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by araes 3y ago
Looked at this a bit ago and share the sentiment. Vancouver, BC was an excellent case study. House prices average: ~$1.1M. Loan rate average: ~5%. Month payment: $5900. Yearly: $71k. Avg Salary: $60k (before tax). After tax: Maybe $4
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by araes 3y ago
Its what society promotes. Social media just happens to be very fast and visible. Almost all signalling from society says the most important people are the attention seekers. In my view, a lot of society only want to win, and don't e
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by araes 3y ago
I find comment 2. interesting for a couple reasons. a) What it says about lowest unique bid auctions [1] and reverse auctions [2] with multiple bidders and multiple auctioneers. That the auctioneers will often (?) take the lowest bid, even
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by araes 3y ago
On the editing text at least, I recommend one of the soft, foldable or rollable keyboards with bluetooth and a phone mount. Walked India and Nepal a few years ago while writing posts and software when I hit hostels or hotels and it worked
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Even more frustrating, its not even that difficult to fix. All they need to do is implement a renormalization routine. If you find your controller is drifting, then the console just needs some menu where you put the stick to a bunch of ref
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Make the equivalent of an an LED strip light that is just a bunch of cell phone cameras at regular intervals and a controller that can trigger and capture from each treating them all like a single camera independent frames. Strip light can
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I keep hearing these kind of arguments about in-depth reporting being costly. Vice went bankrupt when it stopped producing those stories. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Media in 2016, Vice was making $1B ($10^9
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by araes 4y ago
The problem with a lot of open source is the long term issue. The people doing many of these projects often want the short term kudos, upvotes, or research articles. They may iterate fast, and do all kinds of neat advancements, except in a

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