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by giobox 3y ago
> Apple and Google own the entire mobile OS market. They could literally destroy Microsoft if they started to hugely degrade the experience of Microsoft products on iOS and Android with dark patterns a la Microsoft. But they don't.
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by giobox 3y ago
A pattern I've observed at international companies who have done multiple layoffs in the past 12 months is that the European offices are rarely hit hard in wave 1 due to the additional statutory protections in many European countries.
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by giobox 3y ago
Isn't this the third time in a year they've announced layoffs?
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by giobox 4y ago
As nice as your Samsung might have been, it's pretty absurd IMO to claim contactless was as prevalent in the USA in 2013 as it was in European countries like say France or the UK. Huge nationwide retailers such as Walmart and Kroger he
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by giobox 4y ago
Kinda wild to me Damon Albarn's Gorillaz project is 25 years old now! In 1998 I'd never have guessed they would keep it relevant through to 2023.
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by giobox 4y ago
I'm not passing judgement on this case and this comment has no relation to its facts, but generally speaking a single company controlling ~51 percent of the market is not the definition of a monopoly, at least not for anti-trust purp
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by giobox 4y ago
And this should be the first question almost anyone asks themselves in a discussion about an anti-trust/monopoly case - defining "the market" is the lynchpin upon which much of antitrust law works both in Europe and the Unite
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by giobox 4y ago
Campbell is IMO the more appropriate comparison too - Mandelson was an elected MP and later a Lord during Blair/Brown years, he wasn't a SPAD for hire like Cummings or Campbell. That said, the three of them worked very closely tog
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by giobox 4y ago
> Maybe, but we're talking about the banning of ICE vehicles, not the banning of fuel. This is a bizarre point to make? Regulation of fuels and regulation or bans of ICE vehicles would obviously go hand in hand (it already does toda
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by giobox 4y ago
Not an expert, but I've encountered Reed Solomon error correction extensively in my career, and this seems to be replacing RS applications? I wouldn't be surprised if there was a fair amount of inertia to overcome given how widely
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by giobox 4y ago
This assumes future regulations will allow you to do this. There are already examples of commercial fuels today that sell fuel only to commercial customers at a different rate. See "red diesel" in the UK - its just plain ole diese
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by giobox 4y ago
The recent announcement (also from CATL!) of sodium ion batteries that are competitive with typical vehicle grade Lithium cells (LFP chemistry) means Lithium is unlikely to be the blocker people argue either. Lithium Ion is already potentia
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by giobox 4y ago
This has a simple solution used in other countries - Lifetime appointments with mandatory retirement ages. The UK as one example requires much of the judiciary to retire by 70.
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by giobox 4y ago
> And over a billion ICE cars... The world does not sell over a billion ICE cars annually, not even close. BEVs are already over 10 percent of global annual sales by unit count, with recent studies putting last year at 1/7 sales bei
585.
by giobox 4y ago
Whats selective? Look at the world around you - BEV sales are in the millions of units per year. It's just common sense analysis. Toyota shipped 2000 Mirais in 2022, I feel for the owners.
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by giobox 4y ago
> You do realize that BEVs predate internal combustion cars? You could've said the same thing about all EVs just a few years ago. Toyota and others have tried and failed for decades, yes. The order of events is irrelevant to the dis
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by giobox 4y ago
The history of fuel cell cars doesn't exactly paint a happy picture... I think its critically important we have managed to profitably make EVs at scale - no one has ever turned a profit on fuel cell cars, and indeed often sold them a
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by giobox 4y ago
From new, you will get to 100k miles with the above on majority of decent EVs on sale. Beyond 100k, there isn't much, but you will likely need to do things like brake disc replacement or some shock work, but the costs are still minimal
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by giobox 4y ago
This is the primary reason I wouldn't go back to combustion. The running costs of electric vehicles are absurdly low at times. You can put 50k-100k miles on most EVs on sale today having only bought cabin air filters, tires and wiper b
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by giobox 4y ago
The lack of identifying numbers causes no end of confusion when I travel with it too, especially in European countries that Apple haven't launched the card in yet. It got so annoying on a recent trip, I just reverted to using another c
591.
by giobox 4y ago
I've long wondered about what wifi/cellular looks like on an infinite timescale... it does strike me as unlikely too we will maintain two separate wireless standards forever for IP data. I think embedded cellular or equivelent glo
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by giobox 4y ago
This is true of virtually all TVs today, regardless of price point.
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by giobox 4y ago
I've seen rumblings that day may be very soon, too. Once devices in the home have embedded prepaid 5G out with your control, all sorts of home networking/firewall challenges are going to arise. We are entering a world in which it
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by giobox 4y ago
Kind of.... My local video rental place back in the day stocked just about every release for all the major consoles though. You weren't limited in scope in the same way GamePass will limit you to only GamePass supported Xbox/PC ga
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by giobox 4y ago
I think you're right, but the irony is the segmentation isn't working - in my experience no customer notices this drawback on the Air until after they've bought it. Everyone (quite rightly) assumes a 1000 dollar+ laptop will
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by giobox 4y ago
They are impossible to buy because Ford loses money on each one. The recent massive price increase doesn't help sales, and is critical to actually stemming the losses in short term. Ford in bald financial terms simply can't sell t
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by giobox 4y ago
> Ford's electric F150 is selling quite well > I haven't seen the sales figures This is just a fantasy. While it reviews well, they are impossible to buy and Ford struggles to make any money from it. Ford sold just 13,000 of
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by giobox 4y ago
I couldn't agree more - I was shocked when I discovered the Air can't natively drive two displays, even with many docks. The only real solution are things like that kensington dock's display-over-USB hack which is not as reli
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by giobox 4y ago
> People believed for some reason that he was leftist, and later discovered how much to the right, American "left" is. What nonsense. That US Democratic Party politics often leans more right than many popular European parties o
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by giobox 4y ago
> Sure, but Steam doesn't run natively, and is very heavy on battery and GPU. So it isn't good for playing on a laptop when mobile I'm assuming this statement is referring to the large amount of software that is Windows on

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