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by c0vfefe 7y ago
Elon defines idealism, while Toyota defines pragmatism.
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> Keep it simple stupid - focus on making great high-value EVs, and keep dropping their prices in a profitable manner. Problem is, self-driving is an essential part of their image of high-tech luxury. Their marketing strategy depends on
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It's planned obsolescence.
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More bloat than the old hardware cam handle.
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This is surprising, given the vitriol that is on much of talk radio. What kind of music was making you more frustrated on the road?
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I would think a way to recapture the meaning and mystique of music listening is not necessarily to throttle your listening time, but rather to more intentionally explore different genres & curate your own taste. The kind of aimless brow
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You're setting up a false dichotomy between decentralized & centralized, where the real concern here is quality vs. careless. The same technological advancements that have allowed everyone to have a voice have also made it triviall
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He may have grossed that amount, but is that really take-home pay? Otherwise, we're comparing applies & oranges (& crepes).
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https://reddit.com/r/ihavereddit
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Most professional musicians I've heard from would be thrilled to even spend that much time on music itself, what with all the other annoying business details to manage.
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That would be a good alternative if an unlikely series of conditions were met, e.g. availability of sufficiently-paying part-time jobs, sufficient wage similarity to not make the lower-earning partner's work a relative waste, affordabi
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Some of these comments from today might help brighten your worldview. Human beings do feel love and and act on it, regardless of how virulent your perception of capitalism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19727156
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> That would just mean that some Americans donate a lot. Are you saying this doesn't also occur in other nations, like Germany?
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There are many bias rating services, and allsides seems to be decent as any. I use a Firefox extension that they power, BiasFinder.
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"The expression was a call to arms by the party advocating destruction of Rome's ancient rival Carthage, which was thought to be rebuilding its capacity for further warfare." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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I hope that this interview won't be dismissed as another "bootstraps" polemic by an elite like Freeman or Cosby, when it seems like just a regular guy reflecting thoughtfully about himself & his culture. So much of our cu
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You can't have equality of outcome without removing the ability of an individual's choices to influence their outcome, aka freedom. Therefore "equity" is a fundamentally anti-liberty concept.
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This is true especially regarding divorce. Biasing divorce renumerations overwhelmingly towards one gender has greatly weakened the shared financial incentive to keep families intact.
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Is our culture so blind as to see no distinction between moral value and economic value? This doesn't make sense on an intuitive human level, which is why people will often help out their fellow man without being motivated by profit. S
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> being raised almost exclusively by one parent, and having the other confine themselves to cutting checks. If that's how you see the environment that a stay-at-home parent produces, with a full-time employed parent functioning onl
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Perhaps the convenience of modern life discourages having lots of kids. Since they're no longer needed to work the family farm, and are more likely to live past infancy, and will almost always function as a huge liability of time &
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Rather, mocking products that claim they're immune to it.
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That's how Google did it!
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I found some more information on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wCbRfoWgmQ https://www.ted.com/talks/joseph_ravenell_how_barbershops_ca... https://www.collectorsweekly.com/artic
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Reviews for a physical product that is described as fulfilling certain functions are much more objective & useful than media reviews.
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> stakeholders behave like it's a "commitment". Many places treat budgets the same way.
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And human psychology is an important factor here as well. Less stop-&-go means fewer temper flares & physical opportunities for collision.
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Not throwing shade, but since the comment you replied to assumed the availability of public assistance, did you find that to be available in your experience?
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To say nothing of a lack of cognitive energy to significantly alter the flow of cash/calories.
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Does this figure take population growth into account?

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