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by jbob2000 6y ago
The lemon laws were written for the combustion engine days, where hundreds of mechanical components can reasonably add up to an unfixable lemon. A defunct battery can be swapped. A bad electric motor can be swapped. Sensors can be changed.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I think the intent behind the goodwill repair is important. If Tesla is doing this intentionally as a legal loophole, then there’s a problem. But electric cars are new, we’re still understanding some of the problems with them, and we’re sti
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by jbob2000 6y ago
The class B shares don’t have the same power as the A shares, it’s still classist. The expensive insurance thing is a hard thing to prove, it’s definitely an opinion rather than a fact. What I saw was the huge success Geico had with their a
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by jbob2000 6y ago
More accurately, “The Markup believes that its web scraping activities aren’t considered ‘unauthorized access of a computer’”
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by jbob2000 6y ago
He’s responsible for the propagation of expensive insurance and sugary drinks around the world - he extracts wealth from the poor and middle class, and by never splitting his stock, makes it impossible for anyone but the elites to share in
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by jbob2000 6y ago
>... combat sequences through procedurally generated towers and buildings, chained together by crafted plot events. There's a fantastic game out right now called Hades from Supergiant Games (of Bastion fame, this one could comfortab
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Big companies do this weird thing where they get a bunch of passionate people to oppose each other when creating a solution, and then take some weird Frankenstein middle ground that appeals to no one except the budget and timeline.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
The best thing you can do with powerful technology is to give it away for free. Then everyone is on even footing and you don’t get an abusive power imbalance.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Electronics are fairly light, you probably don’t save much by shipping raw/incomplete products to the consuming country for final assembly. It’s not like soft drinks, where you want to bottle them close to the point of consumption so y
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by jbob2000 6y ago
It’s not about the Chinese people but about their government. Smart people don’t want to contribute to the regime and leave the country. This is where the comment “the Chinese can’t innovate” comes from - it’s about the political regime b
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by jbob2000 6y ago
This is getting very close to the Universal Language that Umberto Eco describes in his book The Search for the Perfect Language. I wonder what he would think about this if he were alive today...
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I guess this is the risk of lurking the front page nowadays; Glancing at a subreddit's memes and never reading their comments apparently put me in the antisemtic camp. Fuck the modern internet, I'm out.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
That's unfortunate, because I really liked the cynicism around consumerism, it made me question a lot of the purchases I was making.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I am not denying anything you're saying, I also know many older programmers who have no issues with their career. My comment is about the perception of older programmers and why this may affect enrollment in Computer Science. I agree
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by jbob2000 6y ago
English has a context problem, in that you need to know a little bit about the person to truly understand their communications. Mix this with the Anglosphere's culture of humor and sarcasm, and I see how someone communicating anonymous
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by jbob2000 6y ago
/r/ConsumeProduct was antisemtic? I never saw that in the posts of theirs that made the front page. It was always memes about over-consumption, they might make fun of disposable make-up wipes for example ("And when you'r
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by jbob2000 6y ago
At 39, you are right at that tipping point where job offers mysteriously start drying up. I'm not speaking from first hand experience, I've only been doing this for 10 years since graduating, but this is what I regularly hear from
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I don’t think it’s just that, I think it’s also the perception that computer science = programming. And programming isn’t a career, it’s a job you do for a decade or two before you get too old or move on to management. And if you’re plannin
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I recently finished a popular dental alignment program, where you have to wear aligner trays in your mouth for 22 hours a day. It solved my clenching problem, but I’m not sure why. I suspect it’s because the aligners created a Small gap b
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by jbob2000 6y ago
What if the thing that is pushing the error object has an error?
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Apple isn't doing this for Macs primarily, this is for the iPhone and iPads. With Nintendo starting to bring a lot of titles to the app store, Apple probably expects other big publishers to start using it as well. They are going to wan
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by jbob2000 6y ago
There are many ways the browser can fail. I'm sure their SDK is large because of all the random hacks they need to use to capture everything from every browser. Couple this with the need to create first-class API, which adds some code
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by jbob2000 6y ago
This feature was created in the vacuum left by the slow and stale nature of web standards organisations. There should be a safe, simple way to develop a website that has all of these features. This would allow functionality like this to exi
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by jbob2000 6y ago
For small-scale anything, the best analytics are simply talking to your customers.
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The message this sends to girls is that if you’re pretty, this is the easiest way to make a lot of money. It damages the work of people who have spent decades trying to get women to be valued for things other than their bodies.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Here’s the non emotional reason: diversity kills the organization of labour. It’s much harder to organize a union when you look around a lunch room and subconsciously feel disconnected from your coworkers and maybe don’t even speak their la
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Maybe some kind of centralized lookup? Oh wait...
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Putting settings in a settings menu is non-standard? It takes two seconds to click the menu and check.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
That is hilariously wrong. There’s no “right” way for an ecosystem to be. A hydro dam changes the landscape and the ecosystem re-adapts. Natural dams form all the time in nature as well, should we go around breaking these up to “save” the e
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by jbob2000 6y ago
The thing about enterprise services is that they don't operate in the same environment as ones on the open internet. So while these vulnerabilities look bad on their own, they aren't that bad when you stack the enterprise's

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