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by jerlam 6mo ago
The US may have had the most visible polarization about it. We had a President threatening to "open up the states" while state governors issued more and more restrictive orders. Depending on what news media you watched, there were
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The underlying Garmin platform is so old that it predates iPhone/Android. I think you can plug in many Garmins via USB without any special software and simply copy activities and data off the watch. They had a segment of customers who
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Nah, this is not the first G-Shock with an HRM. This is only the first in the "G-LIDE" series designed for surfers which usually has a tide graph. But there have been Wear OS G-Shocks and G-Move watches with HRM in the past.
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This is why GDP isn't a good measurement of the wealth of citizens. Americans get paid more but also pay more for things. Even if we assume the two perfectly cancel each other out, the net result is the same, but GDP is higher.
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California is also required to refund taxpayers if it accumulates too much revenue. The state's spending is capped at some limit set in 1979 with adjustments for inflation and population. https://calbudgetcenter.org/res
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When I read "small sauce bottle" I was thinking of the <1 oz bottles only good for a single serving like travel sized. In this case it's probably because the sauce is not readily available, and the combination of exclusivi
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Also in Vegas (Zoox), and China has their own competitive market of self-driving taxis.
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It's not just "tricky situations", sometimes FSD will do things that no normal driver would ever do, and it will do them inconsistently. Sometimes it's brilliant and sometimes it's drunk.
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"Reannounces recall", "previously recalled in April 2025". If it doesn't work, try it again, I suppose.
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What a terrible narrative for an article. A failed marketing campaign - no matter how long - doesn't mean a company is full of "hypocrisy". It just means that people were not convinced. This is not any different than every ot
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by jerlam 6mo ago
Probably selection effect. Tesla owners with FSD are often aware of its shortcomings and will not use it in situations where it wouldn't work, much less post clips of their mistakes online. People seem to agree it works fine on highway
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I remember the exact opposite of the McDonalds touch screen ordering systems. When they first came out, everything was snappy because it wasn't loading recommendations or additional tracking. There were a lot fewer customization option
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The police do something similar when a mayoral candidate promises to rein in police spending, it's called the blue flu and it's basically a strike.
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New York already has some of the lowest energy usages in the US. Austerity will only get you so far, and is politically unpopular.
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Organizations don't work well when their budget can change dramatically from one year to the next. There's no ability to take on long-term plans when another, popular department takes 50% of your budget, or someone in your PR depa
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It also doesn't help that for school backpacks, the buyer and the user are different people. There is less incentive to take care of stuff, and when it breaks, parents are more likely to blame a bad backpack than to blame their childre
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One silver lining is that backpack industry doesn't have a huge moat. New companies can get started relatively easily as the older ones sell out and decay. The bags I bought 15 years ago were made locally in San Francisco - Timbuk2 and
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Just checked how much a movie costs near me, apparently it's $30 for a single ticket during the day where no one with a day job can go to anyway. Plus they insult your time with 30 minutes of pre-movie ads and overpriced snacks. I&#x27
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There's a great book compiling all the Grand Canyon deaths: https://a.co/d/09qGmU0C I read all the chapters on the hiking and falling deaths before I hiked rim-to-rim. So many of them are "Family hikes down t
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If you're a US employee being paid market wages, the cost of the Macbook is rather trivial compared to how much you cost the company, and how much it costs them for you to be not working. But some lower-level managers and employees don
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by jerlam 6mo ago
By "nuclear battery" do they just mean the same kind of battery we've been using in spacecraft for over 70 years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
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I do wonder how notifications that are synced/mirrored to the Apple Watch and newer versions of Mac are handled.
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It's for Mexican citizens only.
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It's possible that DVD players are extremely low quality now, since there are very few people still buying them.
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There are a lot of new $30K EVs on the market right now, as manufacturers have added a lot of incentives since the EV rebate expired. And a lot of slightly used EVs are coming off lease this year. Tesla is going to struggle since their bran
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The difference is that the parts we're making unlivable for humans already have millions of people living there already.
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Now we need some unnecessarily large, transparent monitors and we've achieved 2054-era Minority Report.
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Whenever I see X used, I wonder if the author will return to replace the variable with the actual name.
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Joining the military is not just a job. The baggage is considerably different than every other job. The obvious difference is that you cannot quit.
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Drones are bullets, not delivery systems like aircraft carriers and machine guns. The US military already deploys a copy of the Iranian Shahed drone. They aren't $400 but the Shahed isn't that cheap either.

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