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by jandrese 2y ago
$1,524.76/day/person. Makes you wonder where the money went. Obviously paying the guard salaries and whatnot adds up, but that's luxury midtown Manhattan hotel room prices for every single inmate. It would be cheaper to hi
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by jandrese 2y ago
My parents certainly never did that. Very few parents did, the tickets were way out of the price range of the typical passenger. It's like pining for the days when people traveled in the opulant lounges of ocean going steamer ships,
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by jandrese 2y ago
Pre-orders are just wind until they're actually delivering product. It doesn't cost the carriers much to make the pre-orders. The calculation is that if it somehow pans out then they won't miss the boat, if the company fail
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by jandrese 2y ago
New York to Sydney for $100 in 4 hours? My bullshit alarm is blaring. Unless they have a secret teleporter project they aren't telling people about. If you're burning dinosaurs to do that it is not happening, not unless oil bec
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by jandrese 2y ago
How does not printing money make any difference here? It's not like people put trillions of cash into nVidia. The cap is just outstanding shares times what they were last sold for, if someone buys at a higher price suddenly lots of p
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by jandrese 2y ago
I feel like this is a symptom of our broken economic system that has allowed too much cash to be trapped in the markets, forever making mostly imaginary numbers go up while the middle class gets squeezed and the poor continue to suffer. A f
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by jandrese 2y ago
In my town there was a guy who was absolutely obliterating 88.5 as well as 88.3 and 88.9 broadcasting some Hispanic hip-hop with some grossly overpowered local transmitter. He overpowered the stations on the entire east side of town. It t
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by jandrese 2y ago
Look up "water barons" for an example of market failure due to high cost of entry.
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by jandrese 2y ago
In the video it appears to be only throttle controlled. I have no idea what kind of e-bike regulations India has, but I wouldn't be surprised if the answer is "effectively none". Hopefully they won't make the same mist
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by jandrese 2y ago
It does say a 40km range, but ebike range estimates are often highly optimistic.
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by jandrese 2y ago
That's a quite a look, reminds me a bit of something from the Fallout universe. I'm a bit surprised at the "pedaling charges the batteries" bullet point. That's extremely rare in the e-bike world. 25,000 mph top
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by jandrese 2y ago
Yet another person is burned by calling setenv() in a multi-threaded context. There really needs to be a big warning banner on the manpage for setenv() that warns about this because it seems like a far more common problem than you would ex
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by jandrese 2y ago
Yep, but remember that not everything works efficiently on a market. Utilities like water and power with high barriers, at least on the distribution side, shouldn't be left to the whims of a free market. We have plenty of historical
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by jandrese 2y ago
It mirrors in a lot of ways capitalism vs. communism. Or more precisely market based economies vs. command economies. The ultimate problem is that efficient distribution of resources depends on the unique conditions at thousands or millio
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by jandrese 2y ago
Madoff stole from the rich. That is a sure fire way to have the book thrown at you. Smart criminals steal from the poor, because they don’t fight back as much and the justice system doesn’t care.
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by jandrese 2y ago
I like it showing you the possibilities when you click on a cell in a cage, but I was really wishing they had a "press shift and the number to set the cell value" feature. I messed myself up a couple of times by unselecting the w
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by jandrese 2y ago
If you suppress posts where people include the source you are effectively promoting posts that do not include their sources. This gives more power to people who post opinion as fact and outright trolls. It is the fundamental problems with
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by jandrese 2y ago
I guess you really used the fact that most words are repeated to keep the byte count in check? On the old C=64 I had it was a bit of a problem not to blow out the memory with just the text of the document once you started using it for more
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by jandrese 2y ago
You still need to truck in the sodium additive even if you're cracking water on site to store the H2. Dunno if you need a couple of mg/kg or if it is like 5% of the fuel to make it burn at the right color.
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by jandrese 2y ago
The 40% figure is supposed to be "wire-to-wire", but they do list that as the "target efficiency" which suggests it may be somewhat aspirational. It presumably doesn't include the energy needed to extract and refin
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by jandrese 2y ago
Bottom line: 40% efficiency, which is better than I expected but the competition is batteries at 80+% efficiency. It's a hard sell, especially as continual improvements in battery storage will continue to eat away at their niche. 5,00
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by jandrese 2y ago
That tariff difference between "video" and "stills" cameras having a 30 minute cutoff is funny. If you think about the vast majority of the time when shooting moving video with a handheld or tripod mounted camera it doe
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by jandrese 2y ago
It's not unfair to say the first generation iPhone was a bit of an aspirational device. It helped a lot if you found some working public WiFi, but even then the speed wasn't entirely the fault of the radio, the processor and espe
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by jandrese 2y ago
The courts will make that decision in 5 years or so, but it doesn't help people who need their stuff working today.
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by jandrese 2y ago
The first couple of generations of the iPod were a modest success, and then more as a fashion accessory than as a practical device. Lots of cultural cred, but the sales figures were pitiful compared to the subsequent generations.
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And yet Microsoft figured they could make Silverlight work on devices with even less impressive specs.
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by jandrese 2y ago
That link now 404s.
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by jandrese 2y ago
> It had the revolutionary touch screen, yes, but you couldn't really DO that much with it. You glossed over the one killer feature of the original iPhone: It had a fully functional web browser and enough compute power to just bare
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by jandrese 2y ago
Also less space than a Nomad. The killer feature of the iPod was the iTunes music store. Everybody was sick of the hoops the companies made you jump through to buy songs. Singles were basically out of fashion thanks to the domination of t
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by jandrese 2y ago
Classic big company problems. "If we built a product like this it will cannibalize some of our existing and profitable divisions, and those existing divisions have a lot more clout internally than we do. The CEO worked his way up from

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