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by danans 8mo ago
Not if they don't have access to capital. Lacking that, they won't be building much of anything. And if there a lot of people seeking capital, it gets much harder to secure. Capital also won't be rewarded to people who don&
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by danans 8mo ago
> Could this lead to more software products, more competition, and more software engineers employed at more companies? No, it will just lead to the end of the Basic CRUD+forms software engineer, as nobody will pay anyone just for doing t
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by danans 9mo ago
> It feels as though all we need is a spark. And yet, many sparks seem to have come and gone. Big market moves, in stocks or yields, that have recovered. Tariff and invasion threats, protests, you name it, they might move the needle but
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by danans 9mo ago
> They can capture the market without moving the workforce there. Meta/Instagram/WA have dominated Indian market for a decade now. The former is a logistics company. They need an on-the-ground workforce in places they operate.
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by danans 9mo ago
> That’s still too much complication. Most companies would be well served by a native .EXE file they could just run on their PC I doubt that. As software has grown to solving simple personal computing problems (write a document, create
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by danans 9mo ago
> What's taught in public schools is pretty thin gruel. It's pretty thin gruel at many private schools too. The limiting factor in either case is that most kids are there because they are made to go, not self directed. Money d
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by danans 9mo ago
> The amount of world history taught there is vanishingly small. Just for fun, ask some high schoolers who were the major combatants in WW2. That is an example of poor teaching of historical facts. It's bad (especially in our curre
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by danans 9mo ago
These stores were solving for an Amazon problem (brick and mortar stores without the expense of workers), and not any significant customer problem. They often put them in places, hoping that people would be attracted by marginally lower pri
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by danans 9mo ago
> When I think about the counterfactual me that grew up in a large American city, New York or L.A. instead of Toronto, I see someone who's more stunted than me, in important ways. No skating classes, libraries too far to walk to on
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by danans 9mo ago
Yeah, one wonders what a warrant actually means at this point.
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by danans 9mo ago
> When someone is arrested, the police can get a subpoena to enter your house, right? That's a warrant. A subpoena is an order to appear in court.
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by danans 9mo ago
> That pervasive behavioral surveillance is the main reason Apple has never allowed a native Chrome app on iOS. There is a native Chrome app on iOS. It gets all the same url visit data as Chrome on other platforms. Apple blocks 3rd part
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by danans 9mo ago
> I infer they aren't bulldozing a dike around the flat farmland to prevent runoff Earthen dikes and berms are a common feature around farmland in California.
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by danans 9mo ago
Like everything else, it depends. In the extreme case, if you eat beef every day but use a bicycle for transportation, live in a mild climate with little need for heating and cooling, and rarely fly in an airplane, your diet could be a sig
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by danans 9mo ago
> To be fair to farmers, it's more complicated than that. A lot of farmers are wealthy because the poorer farmers have been squeezed out, often because of the actions of the very governments they voted for. Of course, it's not
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by danans 9mo ago
> They don't see the effect of their taxes being spent, They are quite aware of taxes because 13.5% of their income on average comes directly from federal subsidies paid by taxes on "city folk". https://usafacts
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by danans 9mo ago
> In other arid areas, people use terracing on hills so the water runoff is slowed and the water can soak into the aquifers. Also, dikes are built around fields to hold the water and also let it soak into the ground. > Are these done
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by danans 9mo ago
Pedantic, but the article is talking about the way we structure/organize information, not store it. When I think of the word store, I think of the physical medium. The way we organize the information is only partially related
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by danans 9mo ago
I recommend a backup butane stove, which is what I have for outages where my induction stove doesn't work. Also an outdoor camp chef stove. Both are cheap and work great. My camp chef doubles as an outdoor pizza oven.
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by danans 9mo ago
> According to linguists, elongated variations [of hello] such as "heyyy" ... Not to be confused with the vocative interjection "Hey" which is likely thousands of years old, at least back to Proto Indo European, but p
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by danans 9mo ago
> Many people use these for business with great success. Not enough to make it economically viable. Most people who want an EV want a compact, sedan, crossover, or sports car. Most people who want a luxury pick up truck want to burn gaso
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by danans 9mo ago
> Using a plug-in hybrid as an EV can and will wear out the drive battery over the lifetime of the car PHEVs have battery management systems and buffer capacity to protect the battery just like pure EVs. For many, at extremely high pow
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by danans 9mo ago
> But the problem is that means you drove a minuscule amount so if you’d bought a hybrid you would have still used very little gas and your car would have been much cheaper. A 2023 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (38 miles EV range) costs less
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by danans 9mo ago
> However, if you are pulling your lawn care trailer around town, you will not have a problem, I live in a high CoL area, but I still can't imagine a lawn care business affording an $80k truck. Most of them seem to drive used Tacom
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by danans 9mo ago
> From what I can tell, most pickup owners don't use them as a pickup You are right, except most of those people don't want an EV
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by danans 9mo ago
> but plugins get closer to the less efficient alternative (regular hybrid) the more you use them. As long as most of your drive cycle fits within the EV range of the plugin hybrid, they are cheaper to operate than a regular hybrid. Th
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by danans 9mo ago
> It's a shame the Lightning got discontinued. > As an EV owner, it sucks that the main thing holding the technology back is misconceptions and misunderstanding, rather than actual practical matters. The F150 Lighting (and the Cy
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by danans 9mo ago
I shouldn't have used the word "tend", but there are still many 2-stroke auto-rickshaws in India. I saw (and smelled) them a year ago. That said, I know many cities in India have banned them, and they are not in production
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by danans 9mo ago
For me, the more exciting phenomenon is the electric 3 wheeler, AKA the electric auto-rikshaw/tuk-tuk. Hired 3 wheelers are the primary affordable last-mile option in cities big and small in Asia when you don't have or can'
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by danans 9mo ago
> Agreed. The problem is that native window management is pretty bad in macOS. And the 3rd party tools solving the problem aren't that great on top of being expensive sometimes. Linux desktops have great ground-up support for tiling

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