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dymk
3y ago
Are you saying the outcome here is fair and desirable? The first step to fixing a problem is admitting one exists. This seems clearly like a failure of capitalism to reward the innovation of a person who actually did the innovation.
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dymk
3y ago
Well, if they really thought it was a waste of time, they could have fired him in the first few years, but instead they kept funding his research. The company was doing one thing with its right hand, and something entirely different with it
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dymk
3y ago
The problem is that he was unfairly compensated by the economic system (capitalism) he works in, and had to fight for years only to just about break even on legal fees. The guy's gumption led to the invention of a multi-billion dollar
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dymk
3y ago
r/shorthotstories
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dymk
3y ago
It’s not a solution if it doesn’t work for 1/5 users of a system used by millions.
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dymk
3y ago
20%, guess I am right I don’t know why this is the hill you’ve chosen to die on
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dymk
3y ago
> no one under 40 uses that method except under extreme duress You live in a tiny bubble if you honestly believe that.
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dymk
3y ago
That relies on people leaving a message, which not everybody does. And not everybody has a phone that'll do this live message transcribing. And no, everybody who decides to not leave a message isn't "not worth your time"
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dymk
3y ago
> Don't accept them until they start talking. Not professional, not an option for some calls. > If people can't be bothered to leave a message, then that's their problem. It's actually my problem if I miss an impor
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dymk
3y ago
This isn't a solution. I need to accept legitimate calls from numbers who've never called me before all the time.
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dymk
3y ago
The status quo is accepting cyclists getting mowed down by human drivers by the thousands every year
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dymk
3y ago
Responding "nothing to do with ADHD" to someone complaining that their ADHD is making it harder to concentrate is simply incorrect.
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dymk
3y ago
Of course it takes practice regardless of if you have ADHD or not, but ability to focus on something absolutely has something to do with ADHD.
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dymk
3y ago
No CD-ROM? Whatever shall we do.
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dymk
3y ago
If anyone can make it normal, it's Apple
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dymk
3y ago
It's fine to grill this particular dude for his stupid behavior, but can you not insult everybody who has a Tesla because of this? I don't even drive one and it's second-hand embarrassing seeing people make cheap jabs like th
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dymk
3y ago
Well? What’s it done?
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dymk
3y ago
We ship our plastic to those countries
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dymk
3y ago
Kids these days with their walkmans and their headphones, no respect at all I tell ya
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dymk
3y ago
> Agency documents say drivers are reporting loss of steering control, often accompanied by messages showing that power assisted steering has been reduced or disabled. Some complained of an inability to turn the steering wheel, while oth
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dymk
3y ago
My understanding of the Tesla EPS system (this is also a guess, based on discussion observed between Comma 3X devs working on Tesla integration) is that there's not a separate mode it operates in while under FSD is enabled. That's
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dymk
3y ago
What do you think the venn diagram of ratepayer and taxpayer looks like?
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dymk
3y ago
> If we start telling people what they can and can't use legitimately-purchased energy for, we go down a dangerous path very quickly No, you make the cost of energy take into account the cost of the carbon emissions. That's wha
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dymk
3y ago
They do not pay (enough) tax, no. Nowhere near what the actual cost of producing that energy is.
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dymk
3y ago
Utilities are subsidized by the taxpayer. We also don't tax carbon emissions at what they cost to clean up, so bitcoin mining on a grid that uses fossil fuels dirties the planet without paying for its clean up.
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dymk
3y ago
And lots of people want to move to the bay, yet the rents are high enough to prevent them from doing that. Weird, huh?
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dymk
3y ago
Don’t pretend it’s anywhere near a free market as is. It’s nigh impossible to build new or denser inventory there.
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dymk
3y ago
And Apple puts Apple products front and center on their storefront as well, but we don't call that a monopoly
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dymk
3y ago
There's plenty of competition in this space, and there's no need to be snarky.
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dymk
3y ago
There is no company that has a monopoly on robot vacuum cleaners though, and it's unclear how Amazon would use their positions in other markets to unfairly leverage themselves in the robot vacuum market. How are the EU's actions h
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