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by jabbany 4y ago
I mean if the goal is "Socially disallowed" it should be "shouldn't". "Can't" implies some kind of enforcement/compelling force preventing that, either from nature, or some authority (a nation st
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> in what world In our world? Based on the thread, Tesla did a battery service on a model of car with a 60 battery. Unless it was stated as upgraded, after the service it is still a 60 car to the manufacturer. A 60 car that just happened
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by jabbany 4y ago
I think there is a difference with Tesla though, because they do segment based on software. So some of their actual 60 level cars are sold with 90 batteries limited in software. This is more akin motherboard manufacturers who would unoffici
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Yep! If the buyer really wanted to go for someone, and assuming Tesla didn't cave re-enable the upgrade, their best bet is to go after the previous seller for misrepresentation of a 60 model for a 90. This also happens for cars sold as
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by jabbany 4y ago
"Socially disallowed" is not a thing that can be implied through "can't" though, as that's just a convention and courtesy. OP probably would like to have the legal guarantee, but it's a fight that's s
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by jabbany 4y ago
Actually it didn't. The post said the battery had a 90 badge and the car reported capacity as if it were 90. Neither of these are direct claims by Tesla that an "upgrade" happened. Some 2060s also have dies marked for 2080s t
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by jabbany 4y ago
Yeah. It does remind me of things like heated seat subscriptions for some other brands. IIRC there you had 2 models, both with the same heated seat hardware, but if you paid for the feature outright during purchase, it will be enabled perpe
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by jabbany 4y ago
Yeah, there's no logical distinction, only a moral one. Imagine 3 scenarios: Company A rolls out a new mandatory update to a phone that addresses a CPU vulnerability, and to compensate for the reduced performance, overclocks the CPU so
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Assuming this refers to Batterygate, the loss was only in the EU where they do have better consumer protections. They actually settled in the US to avoid setting precedent...
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Actually, it isn't bait and switch at all. Unless Tesla advertised the upgraded capacity explicitly after the service, you are not entitled to anything. This is why things like consumer CPUs and GPUs do not advertise a guaranteed level
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> no, they can't lock it down to 3080 level 3 years later with a software update I think the problem is that there are 2 different types of "can't": can't as in technologically impossible, and can't as in le
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by jabbany 4y ago
I mean we already have this with AMD PSB. Basically a vendor key is physically burned into the CPU that validates the vendor firmware (BIOS/UEFI) and if the signature doesn't check out, the CPU just refuses to run. I think physica
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This. I keep one in between my (rubber) phone case and phone. Though at this point we should just move to tool free sim slots like with Sony phones.
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> Why it is this underestimated and underappreciated Wait... when has it been underappreciated? Besides things like ChromeOS, many "platform native" apps have moved to become essentially wrappers around web apps. It's pret
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The argument then is why just these two? What about the BSDs or DOS? What distro of Linux? Realistically, the reason OEMs pre-install Windows has nothing to do with the storage space or even with the logistics for developing a "choose
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by jabbany 4y ago
A lot of these large volume OEMs depend on extra revenue from the Windows bloatware that they preload (antivirus, games, social apps etc.)... Usually they get a kickback based on volume sold. This stuff largely doesn't exist for Linux,
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by jabbany 4y ago
Given the recent news about them running out of people to hire... I wouldn't be so sure. The cynical view is it might be better for them to keep up the supply of low skilled labor...
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> But if you live in hotels or AirBNBs, there's a pretty good chance you've got a shower stall to shave in. A lot of these also provide disposable razors, shaving cream etc (either by default or if you ask the front desk), so d
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by jabbany 4y ago
It doesn't make logistics easier, but it makes it worth investing resources into. Economies of scale means you get more value for the resources you do invest into logistics. Anecdotally, almost all small online businesses I've see
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The electric shaver "antecedent" isn't nearly as efficient as the electric version... (1) Those require some kind of lubricant like shaving cream (= extra space cost) or shaving in a shower/with water (= significantly re
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> 5000+ active SKUs. You have provided evidence for the exact same point I'm making, economies of scale. You have a large ecommerce business with a variety of things to sell so you benefit from economies of scale in shipping. Most s
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by jabbany 4y ago
The example of same/next day delivery doesn't suggest anything special about Amazon though. It's really just an argument of economies of scale. A small business usually only addresses a very specialized part of the market so
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Maki is just Japanese for "roll"
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Not hard to imagine building an AI conversation agent to prey on the elderly by being a "friend" then mugging them for all they've got. There are plenty of scams that take advantage of the elderly facilitated by real humans a
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by jabbany 4y ago
To be fair a lot of those are specialty tokens for specific services/uses. Overall, the crypto situation can be thought of as more similar to, say, "gift cards" issued by companies. You could say the same thing about a $5 Sta
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There seem to be a bunch of leaks related to improper ACLs on S3 instances... I wonder if there should be some kind of channel to report this to AWS instead so they can temporarily shut off public access rather than wait for the service to
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This. The use of dashes here is a bit annoying IMO ... Not sure if this is standard but I usually see the delimiter being used to define the date format: big-endian y-m-d uses dashes, middle-endian m/d/y uses slashes, and d.m.y li
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Idk why caller ID spoofing is still a thing that carriers just let happen. Email has had the same problem and we have since built solutions like DKIM to more or less get rid of most spoofing attempts.
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You'd think that services should be aware of the security concerns in this inbound vs outbound distinction, but I've had cards where after calling the number on the card, customer service person actually instructed me to hang up a
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That's what's really chilling. To this day I wonder if the customer service person was being intentionally malicious or if the bank's verification protocol was just that bad. I could totally imagine friends and family just ty

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