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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
bloomberg had an article along similar lines late last year. The main hypothesis isn't terribly controversial to me, amazon lowers logistics wages since it pays less than the traditional players, and has sort of the 'business gr
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
Jeez, when visualized like that, that's a lot more than I was expecting. How many multiples of this do they currently expect they want to get their vision of a general service running? Maybe a dumb question, what are the ones that
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I understand, I was careful to say a segment, I know how easy it is to come off resentful or bitter. I largely don't have much a problem with van life or any such lifestyles, like you say, there's plenty of people where the extent
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
The thing I find oddest about that, is I always hear about the Telluride, but the Hyundai Palisade rarely comes up. I couldn't figure how they could differ enough to cause such a disparity. I assume in reality, Palisade pricing has to
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I agree, if your grand answer to the torments of society is to just rely on that exact society to sustain you, it's not a sustainable answer. Even just something as simple as the cigarettes he scavenges, where does he think those are
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
Actually, looking it up, it just like adobe just released some procedural modelling for Substance a la Houdini, Grasshopper, Sverchok et al. That's really exciting to me, I really love procedural anything. And they do have Stager for s
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
So that part where I think it's really bad, and the fact that they use Full Self-Driving and FSD as basically a brand name is borderline irresponsible. But to me they are pretty consistent in their language, and any talk of autonomous
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I agree, It's one of the things where I feel I hate the opinion, but it is what it is. If the promise boils down to the blog announcement on their blog, the line is 'all Tesla vehicles produced in our factory – including Model 3 –
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I was really interested to read about their subsurface scattering model, but alas, it's like the only TODO in this whole thing. Which is really saying something, there is an incredible wealth of information in here.
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
Yeah, kinda bizarre that they don't specify, that's like... the spec. Sites have said it's 11.13Wh (~comparable to a iPhone 12), but then even at that, how efficient is the Qi charger itself? How much of that capacity do you
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
A bit of splitting hairs, the notable exception I can think of is that if it comes with run-flats, you are expected to return it with run-flats since it's a specification. Higher end cars also usually have a "similar quality&quot
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
That's a very good point. I guess then I would lump those together as 'policy' but you are right, that is a very distinct problem vs taxes. And probably not a surprise, I'm really not a fan of most US alcohol policy.
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I remember reading about the fermentation thing before, it just seemed so bizarre. Just strikes me as so odd, that the real innovation, is a tax workaround. And that innovation basically created an entire market category. At that point if
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I see what you're saying, but then I also don't share the author's viewpoint. That may have a little to do with it. It is an interesting thought. What if you, as a company, create some open source that eliminates or genuinely
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
Hmm, I certainly see where you are coming from, certainly a large part of art is that, an artist really did some feat in creating it. I am sympathetic to the notion that aspects of modern art certainly seem value vision more than outright s
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I remember seeing what looked like basically every city in the San Joaquin Valley seemed unusually highly ranked on a per-capita car theft list of US cities (e.g. Bakersfield, Stockton, Merced, Modesto), and further north into the Sacrament
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
Interestingly enough, the Norway SWF did dodge Wirecard. The new CEO is a former hedge-fund guy. He was named March 2020, but did not start until September 2020. There's not enough context for me to think it attributable to any chang
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
In addition to what people have said about the temperature of surfaces in direct sunlight, you have to account for the power the electronics are using. The aluminum backplate is serving multiple purposes, but judging by the gap pad they are
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
Thanks for responding. I can dig it, a utility vehicle you thought would be bleh to drive. And thinking that if there's smoke, something might be cooking.
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I feel like the conflict in the spirit of the article is to create billionaires, not just have billionaires. 'Create' is not a great word, but 'create an environment that allows for creation of new wealth' is a bit verbo
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
A bit off topic, and pardon my asking, I'm genuinely a bit fascinated to know how you came to buy what seems to be quite a specific vehicle, with the expectation that you would hate it? If it was just cost and utility (i.e. "yeah
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I'm a bit confused reading this, the argument that the 1%+ echelon are ~= to corporations in an aggregate model, and that effectively corporations are underinvesting? Or rather that the 1% are under-consuming, and so any evaluations o
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
That's certainly fair, I think the big exception would be if the board feels they are at a local minimum, and that the potential acquirer is being overly opportunistic. Partly that's trivial, because that's when companies fre
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
“The Altium board appreciates the interest expressed by Autodesk ... however, it considers that the proposal significantly undervalues Altium’s prospects and therefore rejects the proposal at the current price,” the company said in a statem
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I can definitely say that's what I understood outlets to mean, that it could have come from the lab in both contexts. I guess I don't quite follow with how people would think that it being a weapon that spread intentionally or uni
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
Perhaps that's true, but it's sort of orthogonal. boeing and airbus don't make engines either; afaik no major aircraft manufacturer does (pending the inevitable exception). Granted, I don't understand how China's ae
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
The implication there is that equities are long term an adequate hedge against inflation.
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I always really loved how Habitat 67 looked, whatever practicality issues aside hah. I also really love The Interlace in Singapore, but I have no idea how you could be expected to navigate it if you are unfamiliar. I wonder how it is for se
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I assumed the implication of the OC was that 4 engines was the undisputed standard for long flights over open water, which would be kind of true until like, the early 80s.
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by gimmeThaBeet 5y ago
I think the implication there is sort of operational, that flying in open water, when have an engine failure, flying with two engines likely presents more problems. Not really my discipline. I don't know how long a twin engine plane is

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