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601.
by dv_dt 3y ago
Missiles have traditionally cost less than jets
602.
by dv_dt 3y ago
I guess if fossil fuel companies can do it with CO2 why not Uber and congestion, sure just sign all us up to pay for the externalities.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
So by the end of the article they let on that, like Uber, the cost is unsustainable. It has to be very inefficient to be paying one driver & one vehicle making trips for one person. Maybe there is some balance for on call pickups in sm
604.
by dv_dt 3y ago
The lazy alternative has a direct line to accounting expenses, vs the productive management alternative for devs a more ephemeral connection to the accounting lines - even though it actually affects the bottom line more strongly than the s
605.
by dv_dt 3y ago
To me, meetings day implies a rule that everybody attached to that office is required to be in to have meetings with, but I apologize if I read to much into it.
606.
by dv_dt 3y ago
I would prefer not to be tied to a commute distance of an office with a commitment to waste that commute time and energy every week. What works for you personally is very different from a hard requirement for everybody.
607.
by dv_dt 3y ago
IMHO There is negative value in in-person work all the time. There is positive value in occasional in-person meetings with focused agendas. Work remote by default with quarterly or semiannual get together.
608.
by dv_dt 3y ago
It’s Toyota version of the remote work snafu. Buying a futuristic car where you still have to go somewhere else to fill up is backwards compared to charging at home 99% of the time.
609.
by dv_dt 3y ago
Negotiating with the unions doesn't make any difference if there fundamentally aren't enough workers in the labor force at the currently needed skill levels. If they want more workers, you have to actually look at training program
610.
by dv_dt 3y ago
Then it's a shame the not only US capitalism and world capitalism is incapable of investing in the long term. Though I'm fine with government support as long as the outcomes return a fair share of the benefits of the private ventu
611.
by dv_dt 3y ago
Exactly what do you need the speed for was my first thought. The only thing I came up with is maybe car play, but if lighting/usb2 speeds are sufficient then it’s mostly moot that the flagship has usb3. Maybe the extra usb to lightning
612.
by dv_dt 3y ago
That was a very similar investment landscape when TSMC started up - it’s a real shame that US capitalists are so short sighted. Or maybe they’re too cheap to invest when they have control of government taps via lobbying. Why invest your own
613.
by dv_dt 3y ago
They couldn’t figure out how to split up the caravan temporarily and use open chargers at multiple sites?
614.
by dv_dt 3y ago
This is just a misleading thought framework of discounting any single item as a “decisive” silver bullet. Of course none of them are being talked about as being a silver bullet. We need a 1000s of bullets fired at changes to avoid even high
615.
by dv_dt 3y ago
They also have huge lengths of high speed and regional rail. The difference shows up in the energy per capita numbers. Nothing prevents climate change unless we get more intentional and scaled investments in renewable energy and circular gr
616.
by dv_dt 3y ago
I don’t see why, recycling is refinement at a high density in a form that is near perfect for battery use. It’s probably more in wait of a high enough volume of input materials.
617.
by dv_dt 3y ago
What? Europe has tons of mass transit and walkable cities.
618.
by dv_dt 3y ago
True, monopoly can more easily be satisfied with local optimization with a lock on profit while competition increases the possibility of overcoming local opt blockages.
619.
by dv_dt 3y ago
Slashing oil production only works if we make serious investments in other energy infrastructure. It’s only tangentially about “standard of living” - it’s about how you even supply food and other basics of living if you cut off current en
620.
by dv_dt 3y ago
A monopoly can be more efficient if it passes its operational savings to customers instead of collecting profits. Unfortunately profits before all else (even long term risk mitigation) is the business outlook of this era.
621.
by dv_dt 3y ago
A piano can be used to infringe IP, but of course there is more context here right? Right?
622.
by dv_dt 3y ago
Honestly it could have been something as simple as a a missed bleed of an air bubble in the brake lines. But this was on a less than 3 yr old car, and its been a while since we last discussed it, & I don't recall if they had any so
623.
by dv_dt 3y ago
I had a close in-law that had a total braking failure with their ~2017 Mazda Cx-9, which was one thing, but then the dealer was pretty horrible about acknowledging or even diagnosing it. In the end, they sold it off early instead of continu
624.
by dv_dt 3y ago
Can you say more about how commissions for solving problems work?
625.
by dv_dt 3y ago
It was a weird offhand jab to the flight attendants union at the end - this situation would seems like some job performance metric issue tied to on time departure stats. The captain & crew choices were to hold the plane for a cleanup, o
626.
by dv_dt 3y ago
Microsoft has had some serious recent faults in their fundamental handling of a couple of areas (like driver signing! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37261500 ).
627.
by dv_dt 3y ago
They don't even have fully automated butchers yet
628.
by dv_dt 3y ago
I think there are also cnc type robots in surgery but doing more limited tasks - you see them in some orthopedic surgeries where they cut precision sockets to join prosthetic parts.
629.
by dv_dt 3y ago
As I understand the daVinci device is not really a robot in the sense that it works autonomously. It’s a precision waldo setup with a surgeon in control.
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by dv_dt 3y ago
Coffee doesn’t emit secondhand fumes which increase cancer in people who have not elected to drink coffee

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