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by fromanator 5y ago
We have finite resources on this planet. At a certain point we're gonna have a hard time finding the materials needed for things. Putting those resources into shared infrastructure like public transit means a more efficient use of thos
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by fromanator 5y ago
So much this! Electric cars also take up the same amount of space and don't solve traffic. Plus they use so much more resources with less efficiency of moving people. Making them self driving and fast comes into conflict with pedestria
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by fromanator 5y ago
This specific issue has been there for years, long before covid. So not sure why you're jumping on covid being the cause here. The erosion of civil liberties specific to covid are mostly temporary emergency powers, which again aren&#x2
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by fromanator 7y ago
I was so frustrated that reporting spam was desktop only. To add insult to injury if you try to go to the web app on your Android phone in a desktop tab it still opens the Android app instead. Since I was at work (and I don't login to
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by fromanator 7y ago
That's not a very good analogy, Apple makes it impossible to run your own app store in their ecosystem. Ford isn't doing anything to stop others from servicing your vehicle, they still provide parts, training, etc to competing thi
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by fromanator 8y ago
A year ago Target pledged to increase it's starting hourly wage to $15/hr by 2020. Currently starting pay is $12/hr Source: https://corporate.target.com/article/2017/09/minimum-hourly-...
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by fromanator 12y ago
Haven't they ever heard of a UUID? Or if they are worried about potential collisions at least make the number 128bit (since you have an obscenely large max value to increment to).
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by fromanator 13y ago
The power drain could also be from poorly optimized supporting chips/shipsets like microcontrolers, WiFi Cards, and other periphery devices.