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by jsight 7y ago
Unfortunately, for every case like this, it seems like there is another of satire about Pelosi spending billions on impeachment being treated as truth. I just saw that one the other day with lots of little angry reactions from people who di
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by jsight 7y ago
There is a vast difference in the style of doughnut between a regular glazed krispy kreme and a glazed dunkin. It is a big enough difference that they almost don't seem like the same product. Not saying one is automatically a lot bette
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by jsight 7y ago
People routinely buy Pepsi|Coke at twice the price of off-brands and I wouldn't call them moronic.
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by jsight 7y ago
There is a lot of truth to that, and that is a big part of what makes it so difficult to filter out the companies that are criticized legitimately from the ones that are criticized wrongly. I've been around long enough to recognize tha
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by jsight 7y ago
Except that Uber is not doing that at all. They do make a gross profit on each ride. Its more like asking if you were successful if you were generating a lot of revenue by selling people dollar bills for $1.15/each, but losing money be
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by jsight 7y ago
Yeah, the only one that I'd leave out is "Android Fit". Google doesn't brand much as Android these days.
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by jsight 7y ago
Oh, that is a fair point. If they'd have bought Nokia before they both became turkeys it might have ended differently. But at that point, Nokia probably wasn't for sale and the "two turkeys" analogy wouldn't have ap
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by jsight 7y ago
It'd be pretty shocking if they don't start with Fitbit OS, tbh. Its a much larger community.
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by jsight 7y ago
That is possible, but it seems like they could have accomplished that for a lot less money.
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by jsight 7y ago
I don't see how it could have been too late. Nokia switched to MS way before the acquisition. It wasn't successful for a lot of reasons and I don't think an earlier acquisition would have really changed that.
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by jsight 7y ago
> I agree Google Maps has improved, but I’m not convinced it was directly because of acquiring Waze. They often include Waze reported events in Google Maps now. That was the part that I was referring to. I'm not sure if Google Maps
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by jsight 7y ago
I tend to agree, but it has also improved Google Maps, so maybe it is still a plus for the business overall?
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by jsight 7y ago
I don't see any indication that youtube is losing money. That seems like a pretty bold claim, tbh.
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by jsight 7y ago
Alternatively, you could view this as a recognition that Wear OS has failed along with a plan to move to Fitbit as a software platform. If they can combine Fitbit's software and community with better hardware, they might actually have
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by jsight 7y ago
I think the Google acquisition of Motorola is relevant as well. On the surface, it looks like it makes sense, but Google has a horrible track record with these things.
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by jsight 7y ago
> I said it was a systematic defect camera based systems share, not that it was intrinsic to camera based systems. And I'm saying that even that is incorrect. Here is a Tesla failing to stop: https://twitter.com/gree
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by jsight 7y ago
I'm curious... which version of AutoPilot do you have?
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by jsight 7y ago
It has been a problem, but it is definitely not an intrinsic defect of camera based solutions. The stopped truck example has been examined in depth with rooted Tesla's. The Tesla actually detects the truck, but fails to fully recognize
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by jsight 7y ago
> I think the fundamental issue Musk has is that his cars can’t drive safer than even a below average driver. Agreed. > Oh wow, it can stay in a lane and match speed! So can every car manufacturer. They’ve got a level 2+ system and c
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by jsight 7y ago
The sad thing is that it seems like it has gotten worse. When I first started using the iPad a few years ago, I remember a pretty simple set of gestures (using multitouch) to do things like this. Now, I literally have no idea how to go to s
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by jsight 7y ago
You aren't wrong about that. I've lost countless hours to people doing some random thing to get a newer Python version (even if they didn't even need it), only to completely hose both the new one and their system one. And the
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by jsight 7y ago
* Don't close bug reports just because they're old. A bug report is either good or bad - that is, the bug is either reproducible or it isn't. A bad bug report is bad from the start; close it quickly - or else, don't clos
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by jsight 7y ago
If you are just ordering a simple pepperoni or cheese or something that probably is easier. The payment part can generally be solved by just telling it "cash", though. Noone complains if you actually pay with a card at the store.
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by jsight 7y ago
Or the opposite of that, since so much of what was said in the article is basically true. Ordering pizza via the internet wasn't a big deal. Getting the customizations across correctly, OTOH, made a huge difference, and every pizza ord
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by jsight 7y ago
There is definitely a tradeoff for sound quality and that can be a good reason to disable it in a quiet room. In noiser rooms, it is likely that the background noise is already damaging sound quality more than the ANR will.
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by jsight 7y ago
I'm not sure that I'd say "en masse" either, but the current numbers to understate the phenomenon by quite a bit. Just a year or two ago it was <1%, and I'd expect it to hit >4% by the end of next year with a
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by jsight 7y ago
Lithium Ion battery cells right now cost ~$100USD/KWh and are good for approximately 1000 cycles. That works out to ~.10USD/KWh of provided capacity, which is too expensive, but not "orders of magnitude" too expensive. O
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by jsight 7y ago
I can see where you are coming from, but you are likely not aware that a lot of this is already happening. Even my small coop gives out a few hundred dollars in rebates for electric water heaters with remote control. They use this for deman
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by jsight 7y ago
> Their market share can only go down. When you currently hold less than 2% of the market, this is far from a certain statement. Their share is as likely to increase as their competitors, though the rate of increase is certainly open to
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by jsight 7y ago
Tesla builds ~400,000 per year out of a single factory. If VW were producing 3.2 million/year by the end of 2022 that would seem like a lot to me. Of course, if/when Tesla ever builds a European plant it may be much smaller than t

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