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by jedrek 11y ago
Yeah, but a lot of the limits we're hitting are tied to physics. But hey, we're used to trade offs and will go for slightly lower quality in exchange for ease of use and convenience
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by jedrek 11y ago
Obfuscating usernames with real names and no ignore are also massive downsides.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Air pollution kills people. Especially poor people who can't afford health care and can't afford to move to places where four thousand cars an hour pass under their window, day in, day out.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Try riding your bike slower.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Limiting free parking works as part of a long-term solution to make driving a car in high-density areas miserable and expensive, while making walking, cycling or taking public transportation enjoyable and cheap. Other than making parking ex
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by jedrek 11y ago
With something like climate change, issue is that the pain point for the problem is time deferred. An obvious comparison would be to lead in gasoline, cookware and paint: The problems that it caused took many years to surface. Getting rid o
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by jedrek 11y ago
The tens of millions of people who watch stuff like Goodfellas, The Godfather and The Sopranos.
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by jedrek 11y ago
But it's not only language, there are real legal, logistical and cultural differences between countries. You negotiate for content rights in the US, and you have them in the US. Also, by the time you've gotten enough traction in y
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by jedrek 11y ago
What is this obsession with thinking that Apple (or any business) should present new products by going... "well, shucks, this is kinda crap, but we had a production plan to meet. Sorry, it's not very good..." Of course they&#
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by jedrek 11y ago
In the context of competition, tax exemptions are de facto subsidies. If my company has an ETR of 10% and yours would be the same if it weren't for the 50% reduction you got, you can underprice me by a few points and still have a highe
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by jedrek 11y ago
I love how these threads are always full of people who spend 3 hours a day commuting and treat the fact that they chose to live 90 minutes from work as other people's problem.
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by jedrek 11y ago
big companies have an extremely hard time adapting to new paradigms And yet all the big players in digital photography - Nikon, Canon, Sony, Apple - are massive companies who've made the transition. Even Fuji is a lot healthier than
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by jedrek 11y ago
Kodak could have owned this market People keep saying that, but it doesn't check out. Look at who owns the camera market: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax, Olympus and Apple. None of these companies are new, two thirds of them had huge ana
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by jedrek 11y ago
I think you've really hit on one of the reasons that cab driver protests fall on deaf ears: nobody likes cabbies. In my experience, Uber's cars are cleaner, I have a lot less trouble paying (had a card declined once, but I was inf
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by jedrek 11y ago
And there was a law passed in Maine restricting prisons from serving lobster more than twice a week.
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by jedrek 11y ago
How many jokes have been told about 1990s-era dot-coms spending $200k on domain names and then going under 6 months later.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Uber doesn't have to put taxis out of business, it's growing the market - getting a lot more people using taxi-like services. Both people who aren't willing to shell out how much cabs charge in their artificially restricted m
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by jedrek 11y ago
Ten years ago Poland joined the EU. The majority of people did not fly to the UK, they drove or took the bus. How many of these buses crash every year? The last major crash was around Easter in Germany.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Ten.
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by jedrek 11y ago
I don't think you realize how Uber moves into new territory: tons of free ride codes (maybe 40% of my rides have been unsubsidized); special event codes; subsidised events (free transportation to voting places last election here); cash
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by jedrek 11y ago
We only rent full flats when we travel with my GF and have been able to always get in under 50€ in Berlin and Barcelona (including a 2 room flat 400m from the beach for 43€/night). The one time I got a 60€/night hotel in Berlin it
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by jedrek 11y ago
At the higher end of the market (let's call it SPG and up), I'm also paying for a certain conformity of experience and comfort-related services. I'm paying for a concierge who'll let me use the 4 hours of free time I hav
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by jedrek 11y ago
AirBNB-like services are older than the internet, AirBNB just made them sexy and much easier to use as a landlord.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Something felt off the first time I took the subway in Stockholm. It took me a minute to realize that the train was running the other direction, obviously a relic nobody bothered to change that has become codified in modern-day transportati
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by jedrek 11y ago
If they have nothing to hide, ask them for nudes.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Considering the hundreds of thousands of people drivers kill in Europe and North America every year, they're the hazard. If you want cyclists off roads, lobby to change the law.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Cycling on the road is literally the law in most of the west.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Are you sure those appliances weren't repaired? I keep on hearing about planned obsolescence, but between my fridge, oven and washer, I've had one repair in a total of 36 functional years between the three items. I knew the people
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by jedrek 11y ago
More like: if they haven't found it, it's not for a lack of trying.
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by jedrek 11y ago
I'd love to see that too, but instead every department of a company would become an "independent contractor" and the highest-level management would end up a tiny, 100 person company with salaries starting at 300k.

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