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by magduf 7y ago
If you have to put this much effort into managing contractors and avoiding shysters, at what point does it make more sense to just not use contractors at all, and do it yourself? This reminds me of when I used to own homes. It was generall
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by magduf 7y ago
>The transit agency is on the hook for the agreed construction cost, and for ridership estimates and minimums. If ridership does not develop, then the contracting agency is responsible for making the operator whole. > The contractor i
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>It's a lot easier for politicians to be "pro-public transit" if they don't have to fight so much for how to pay for it. They don't have to "fight" to pay for it, they just need to use tax money to do s
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by magduf 7y ago
From GM's point-of-view, they're probably doing the right thing. The kind of people who are interested in GM vehicles generally only want trucks and giant SUVs. It'd be nice if GM made more smaller cars, but the kind of Ame
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by magduf 7y ago
Batteries have uses other than EVs, with a big one being power storage. There's a big push to reduce fossil fuel usage and get more power from renewables (solar/wind), but these aren't constant sources of power, so massive b
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by magduf 7y ago
Why should employers pay for that? It's the employee's choice where they live, not the company's. If the company bought some company housing and had employees live there, then your idea would make sense. But why should som
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by magduf 7y ago
>The "Google bus" issue in SF certainly didn't make SF a company town, but it did raise the specter of how willing a large enough company can be to routing around a city's infrastructure rather than work with it, What
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by magduf 7y ago
I completely disagree: lots of other news outlets have not ruined their reputation by printing outright falsehoods intentionally. There's a huge difference between some bias (which is completely unavoidable, everything is "biased
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by magduf 7y ago
>If you are willing to allow dense development (which most zones in the US prohibit) everything changes. Yep, this is the answer to it all: we need to build much more densely, and people need to get used to not having a big McMansion wit
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by magduf 7y ago
Wrong. If you want more space, you need to build more densely. All this does is drive up housing prices farther away, encouraging people to move even farther away. The whole thing is completely unsustainable.
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by magduf 7y ago
>As we add faster modes of transport people move farther out to maintain that time. Exactly, which is why widening highways to alleviate congestion is a waste of time and money. More people will just move farther out, canceling out all
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by magduf 7y ago
Why would anyone hate Twitter? I mean, I don't care for it either, but it doesn't really affect me because I simply don't use it. I don't have an account, and really don't pay attention to it, except for all the &
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by magduf 7y ago
>There's only one CEO per company, Usually, but not always. When I was at Intel, they had two CEOs. They called it "two in a box" for some odd reason.
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by magduf 7y ago
One really nice thing about YouTube is that you can download your favorite programs there with "youtube-dl". I don't know if that works for the premium stuff though (I doubt it). So if you want to download, for instance, al
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by magduf 7y ago
It's funny how the US complains about China propping up or even owning (usually partially) big corporations there, but they do the same with Boeing and many other companies. At least in China, the government is the one that has the fin
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by magduf 7y ago
My problem with this idea is that there's limited data bandwidth on the cellular network, even with 5G (5G has especially poor range, as I understand, so you have to have a tower very close by). If the TV makers can keep the overall d
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I guess I'm assuming here that the amount of data needing to be passed over-the-air will be quite large, since people are talking about these devices listening to your conversations and such. Some simple analytics data like what chann
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by magduf 7y ago
The mfgr must have negotiated something with one of the cellular carriers to give them unlimited access for a fee, with the stipulation that it's only used for these occasional OTA updates which really don't use much data. However
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by magduf 7y ago
How is it not fair? This episode shows that any quotes in a Daily Mail story are probably completely fabricated, and that you can't trust anything in there to be the truth and not complete fiction.
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by magduf 7y ago
Well the video chat thing actually makes a lot of sense, and was definitely predicted by a lot of sci-fi many decades ago, even in "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 1967. I'm actually surprised that of all the things sci-fi predict
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by magduf 7y ago
>I opened a more modern cheap smart TV. Inside were three boards: Power supply & backlight inverter, How "modern" was this TV? Don't they all use LED backlights now? Backlight inverters should be obsolete now.
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by magduf 7y ago
That works if your TV allows that. I'm pretty sure I've read that some models simply won't work if they don't have internet access.
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>The manufacturers make money from the smart features by selling the data and by getting a cut of subscription revenue, so smart TVs can be sold cheaper than dumb TVs. Yeah, this is like how a laptop can be sold cheaper with Windows OS t
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>The challenge is or is going to be when (unless they already do) TVs start embedding 4G/5G SIM cards into the TV to bypass such requirements. Are the cellular providers going to give free cellular access to these manufacturers or s
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Because it costs money and Boeing would rather have larger executive bonuses than pay for a new design. The fact that a new design would be better for the future health of the company is irrelevant: the executives won't be there in 20
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>The USG is already putting tariffs on foreign planes. How so? They can't put tariffs on foreign planes purchased by foreign airlines, and most of the airlines in the world are not American.
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If you break both of them up too much, they may be unable to compete against a major Chinese manufacturer when it scales up.
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There's no monopoly here, there's a duopoly. Airbus and Boeing are in fierce competition with each other. On top of that, the Chinese are entering the fray too.
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Well for a prime example, try driving around the nation's capital sometime. The roads really are 3rd-world. And that's not the only city disgraced with horrible roads. On top of that, there's bridges literally falling apar
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>The main problem is multiple deliveries - how do you make a box that can lock and unlock I used the term "drop box" for a reason. You don't need to let drivers unlock the box. It's a drop box: they drop the boxes

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