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by jjav 3mo ago
Sure, I'd pay 2K or 5K or 10K more for a car with purely physical controls, no screen. It is so much better it is not a question.
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by jjav 3mo ago
> So the automakers have to install a screen in the dashboard. Perfect example of reasonably good intention backfiring. So now you have a backup camera, which is useful, but you also have drivers fiddling around with a touchscreen while
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by jjav 3mo ago
> If it wants to replace US tech it needs to be competitive with US tech There has been the age-old argument of how Linux can only replace windows on the desktop if it is "good enough". In reality it has been good enough almost
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by jjav 3mo ago
If someone is going to a university far away, that would be a good reason to move. No particular reason means when there is no particular reason, such as when going to university in the same city. It's often much better to live at home
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by jjav 3mo ago
> Even if they do, it still means they failed to save up that money without having to live with their parents. So? This practice of moving out for no particular reason is very US-centric. To me the "normal" obverved in most pee
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by jjav 3mo ago
> the correct way to approach this is to make good versions of both Well, not quite. Correct way is to simply have everything configurable instead of some product manager imposing their personal aesthetic. Want green on pink? Just config
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by jjav 3mo ago
> So pre-digital, no books, publications, photographic prints, scrolls, tablets, or clay etchings we lost to time? That is already answered in prior post. > Digital records are far far more long-lived — in the statistical average — th
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by jjav 3mo ago
In the pre-digital era, the norm was that content was preserved. Simply because it was printed in newspapers, magazines, books, alsbums, etc.. in thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of copies, so merely by inertia, many copies survived squ
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by jjav 3mo ago
> I guess I'm getting old, but I have to wonder what people are doing that they need more than a gigabit. I have a hard time believing there is anything they can do to saturate 1 Gbps connection at home. It's probably just brag
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by jjav 3mo ago
> but the US situation in 2026 is appalling appalling? What exactly, in detail, can't you do with a 1 Gpbps connection?! My home ISP delivers ~22 Mbps and it is totally fine for all use cases.
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by jjav 3mo ago
Other than running a commercial CDN at home or something.. what possible need is there for a 25 Gbit home connection? My home ISP connection (in Silicon Valley) is ~22 Mbit. That is enough for just about everything I can think of. We can ru
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by jjav 4mo ago
> I disagree with the interpretation that it needs to be held physically. I mean sure, but you can think of it analogously that if the file lives on a hard disk/SSD that you own and can hold in your hand AND the file is in some op
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by jjav 4mo ago
I've never had a robinhood account so admittedly don't know their interface, but on Fidelity (IRA account) I just click Trade->Options and enter the trade info, click Submit. How it can be easier than that?
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by jjav 4mo ago
Oxide is the only company I can think of that carries the torch of what silicon valley used to be in the 90s. Actual, awesome, cool technology! I wish massive success to Oxide.
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by jjav 4mo ago
> How else do you propose funding the quite expensive and risky enterprises that venture backs? Easy: Risk. When you invest in a small private startup, accept that it's a crazy risky bet that will probably fail. So those investors s
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by jjav 4mo ago
> If the company itself is profitable, then typically it can continue. I only wish, but rarely. This is one of the great tragedies of the grow at all cost system. There have been so many great profitable companies, where the product is g
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by jjav 4mo ago
> But surely the photo has the same value to you no matter how much effort it took. Maybe? That's the philosophical question IMO. If I have a website interface controlling some remote scope where I set coordinates and click to captu
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by jjav 4mo ago
> Now for anyone giving Robinhood the benefit of the doubt- their evil was (I think) absolutely confirmed when they unveiled a new feature- you can now trade OPTIONS with your retirement account. While I think robinhood has done some sha
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by jjav 4mo ago
As a mechanic at the local quick lube, not much pay. But if you can get positioned as an expert in any car-related field, the pay can be huge. I know several people who are local experts in various car related professions who cater to the v
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by jjav 4mo ago
> the obvious middle ground is preventing eviction until a new tenant is found. Not sure that's obvious (is it done that way anywhere?), but it is an intriguing idea. On the positive side it does decrease the inefficiency of places
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by jjav 4mo ago
> Or you own more than vehicle. Plenty of families own multiple vehicles, and they don't all need to have tons of range. I wish there still were small and very cheap EVs to fill this niche. We had the Fiat 500e (somewhat infamous) $
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by jjav 4mo ago
> a renter can’t easily absorb losing their home or a sudden 20% rent increase Right, so let's pass laws (where not already in place) that prevent sudden eviction (e.g. nobody should be able to be evicted if they are a few days late
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by jjav 4mo ago
> These laws become the way they are because landlords brought it upon themselves for the most part These laws seem quite unrelated to the problems. There needs to be laws to protect the renter against bad landlords and there needs t
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by jjav 4mo ago
> Companies are increasingly filtering resumes/candidates in a sufficiently aggressive fashion Last open position I hired, about eight months ago, received about 1000 resumes/day for the first few days. For my whole career I&#x
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by jjav 4mo ago
> They don’t ride a shuttle up to the Hubble Telescope Right, but that's actual groundbreaking work, capturing image data that has never been captured before. The value there is in the work itself. It's a different game for hob
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by jjav 4mo ago
> It's hard to understand why someone would think otherwise. Think, or feel? Rationally, most people might realize that over the decades places will change. Emotionally, if you put it a huge amount of effort and more money than yo
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by jjav 4mo ago
> Maybe they could just like look at photos someone else has taken? If you are using someone else’s equipment, at a location you’ve never been too, it feels like you may as well just look at bubbles images of things. Yes.. this is an int
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by jjav 4mo ago
> fear of change is one of the first principal components of this problem By describing it a "fear of change" you are assuming (I think) that the change is always good for everyone, people just "fear it" irrationally.
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by jjav 4mo ago
> So AI unlocked doing for me. I don't quite follow how AI unlocked any of that? The best way to learn these things (well, second to a human coach who has the expertise and has time to guide you) is from youtube videos, not AI.
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by jjav 4mo ago
> producing more, more, more, faster, faster, faster. And for what? What’s it all for? If you wanted a literal answer, it is to accelerate revenue as much as possible to make the very rich people who own most of the company even unfathom

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