bobthepanda

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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
Unfortunately in most countries the blocker is politics, not the desire of public health officials to do anything. See the current US admin going after vaccines while declaring open season for peptides.
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
TEMU also existed because of the de minimis exception. To speed up customs processing and ease business, the US and EU had minimum package values before customs and tariff inspection occurred. TEMU and Shein just kind of took it and ran wit
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
Even with mechanical stokers you still needed a dedicated fireman making sure the proper amount of coal was making it in. Nothing like a modern liquid fuel engine where you can just drive yourself without manually adjusting the amount of fu
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
This is actually not the first major energy transition. The world moved from coal to oil for transport and shipping fairly quickly due to the higher energy density and significantly easier handling of liquid vs solid fuels. Using pipes and
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by bobthepanda 1mo ago
I think we’ve only got here because social platforms are large and also own advertising auction platforms. I wonder how it would look like as a new antitrust vertical slice to enforce against. Plus you can always self host content and set u
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by bobthepanda 2mo ago
I think there is a distinct difference between deplatforming content, and simply not monetizing it. You have the right to shout in the town square but I do not have to put money in your cup when you do it.
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by bobthepanda 2mo ago
Alternatively, cutting out labor just results in mass poverty except for the moneyed few, and a new era of technofeudalism. It seems pretty clear that the current crop of executives strongly prefer the latter scenario.
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by bobthepanda 2mo ago
IIRC the big push to contactless and Oyster before it is just reducing the cost of handling money. Transit agencies do not really want to be in the business of banking, and physically printing paper tickets and maintaining the machines to a
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by bobthepanda 2mo ago
you don't even need all of that to track people. there was a bit of a kerfuffle where a dataset that literally only contained the start, end and time, and some deanonymized data of NYC taxi rides was successfully deanonymized and used
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by bobthepanda 2mo ago
to put this in perspective; a lower hood will strike somewhere lower on the body like the legs, and bounce them off the hood (absorbing some impact) a higher hood will strike somewhere closer to the head and torso, causing substantially mor
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by bobthepanda 2mo ago
part of the problem, at least in the US, is that the SUVs destroy other cars, so it is quickly becoming a weird safety arms race.
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by bobthepanda 2mo ago
I think Hong Kong has been enough of a cautionary experience for Taiwan that this is more or less not going to happen willingly.
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by bobthepanda 2mo ago
That’s not necessarily a bad thing. As an example, 110v American outlet plugs are almost certainly not the most efficient way to power devices and appliances; but, because they are so standard and are good enough, using them massively eases
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by bobthepanda 2mo ago
Japan itself is involved with a lot of the R&D, the factories are there because of that and because of major buyers also being there. It’s not like we’re going to evacuate the hundred million plus of Japan.
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by bobthepanda 2mo ago
The emerging thing is that the earthquake caused a gas leak which later caused an explosion. Pipes will just go out of alignment during an earthquake, there isn’t a ton you can do to prevent that wholly. My question is why upon calling in a
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by bobthepanda 2mo ago
this isn't even that weird, when I worked in a BigTech it was pretty explicit that there were certain countries where you should not bring your actual work device through the border, and you'll get set up with a different one whil
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by bobthepanda 2mo ago
A diversity of media is a good thing. Most of the bad things you could say about state media also apply to sufficiently concentrated private media.
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by bobthepanda 2mo ago
It’s also a bit of a dilemma; if your boss has AI mania, and you buying into it or not is the difference between being promoted, keeping your job, passed up or even fired, the rational course of action for self-preservation is to also buy i
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by bobthepanda 3mo ago
for events specifically, Partiful seems to be the thing in my area finally displacing the Facebook events model, and it's a lot less bloated.
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by bobthepanda 3mo ago
at least in the US, most people are fine with iMessage/SMS since * pretty early on the vast majority of phone plans started bundling unlimited text messaging, which IIRC was a big motivator for using messaging apps abroad * because of
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by bobthepanda 3mo ago
even in the best scenarios, a well organized group of people is not using all the features of email "properly" to say nothing of groups that are supposed to have the general public.
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by bobthepanda 3mo ago
When i say multitask I mean that more literally. If you’re driving you can’t read, if you’re a passenger on public transit audio won’t make you motion sick, if you are cooking or cleaning you can have it on in the background, etc. Reading r
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by bobthepanda 3mo ago
Audio is just easier to multitask with than reading.
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by bobthepanda 3mo ago
admittedly i have not used a vespa myself, only seen. but an e bike is a pretty good mode of motor transport.
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by bobthepanda 3mo ago
also, there are neighborhoods with extended amounts of gun violence and discharges and I can't say that the residents "don't mind it"
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by bobthepanda 3mo ago
It's worth noting that the initial supersonic bans came as a result of sustained sonic boom testing over the same population: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests
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by bobthepanda 3mo ago
Japan is a bit of an outlier because of earthquake regulations. There is a history of substantially updating building regulations every time a new record is set for largest earthquake in the modern era; and so if you are buying historical,
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by bobthepanda 3mo ago
there is a large, well connected domestic auto industry that wants Americans to keep driving bigger and more gas guzzling cars because that's the only thing they know how to sell to Americans these days. Though this is not really limit
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by bobthepanda 3mo ago
This is correct. For context, when the 747 was being developed, simultaneously Boeing was developing the SST, Britain and France were developing Concorde, and the Soviets had their own supersonic Tupolevs in development. Boeing was anticipa
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by bobthepanda 3mo ago
I would have to imagine that the newer 747-8 would have the much lower pressurization and other comfort standards of its generation of aircraft in the 2000s; the problem is that it didn't really sell so most people did not get to fly i

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