maxsilver

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by maxsilver 2y ago
This is kind of a crazy take. The comparison to a "$150k sports car" is crazy -- a Sports Car can be a flashy way to display wealth. No one is displaying wealth by having once paid for a Sublime License. No one is sliding up to fo
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> Why would it make people poorer? Because people buying something means they no longer have the money, and are thus, poorer. If you have $20, and you buy lunch for $10, you now are $10 poorer. > Were you under the impression that c
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by maxsilver 2y ago
I'm lost. How did people being poorer (having more student debt) push prices higher? Most of the people I'm thinking of don't have student debt for fun. They did it because their jobs either hard-required it (to get licen
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> The author cherry picks the SV area which is not indicative of the country as a whole. The whole country is SV now, plus or minus a few percentage points. Even in nowheresville-Michigan, any house near any job costs about 4 to 5 times
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by maxsilver 2y ago
It's less about the games being high-quality, and more the games being community-created and user-driven. Roblox isn't a competitor to Astro's Playroom or Ratchet and Clank. Roblox is like, the next generation of ActiveWorlds
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> Carriers see the ability to easily move a physical SIM outside of their control as a problem Every carrier has already had the ability to block moving physical SIMS too, for many decades now. (AT&T in the US literally did used to b
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> How do I move my eSIM to my new phone? You open your web-browser on anything with service (your laptop / desktop / toaster / Nintendo Wii U / whatever), go to "insert-my-carrier-here.com", login, and clic
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> But really mixing two powertrains is expensive and complex, and can only be fit in big cars. So "big, expensive, and complex", that Toyota's only been doing it since 2003. (Or 1997, in Japan). Yes, it's a luxury to
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> A small plugin hybrid doesn't make sense. On the contrary, a small plugin hybrid makes perfect sense. You get all the benefits of the EV (somewhere between 40 to 60 miles of non-gasoline driving, every night, with no emissions) an
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Something like ~6% feels "fair" (where "fair" means, is equal to the approximate value provided). Apple isn't really incurring any costs for this. They don't make any of the content, they don't write any o
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Wouldn't the easy solution be to use two sets of letters for IATA coded flights for the same airline? Something like "DL1234" and "DZ1234" for Delta? I know a lot of the two-letter codes are claimed too, and I'
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Is Apple really eating "years of losses". Or are they making a strategic play to pick up most of the prestige television market, without needing to push an M&A through the FTC (and they're doing it, just as David Zaslav
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> Who would want to be in charge of an aerospace company if there was a real risk that you'd get charged with murder if you don't have an almost psychic insight into the technical decisions of your company? You say this like it
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by maxsilver 2y ago
Yes, it's crazy to me that Netflix puts so much effort into improving encode quality, and then they don't let most people see that version -- almost no one gets to see the "good" versions of their encodes. Whether it&#x2
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by maxsilver 2y ago
To be fair, the new test footage that Netflix released (into creative commons even) explicitly tries to protect against that to some degree. Some shots in the new footage use HDR to crank brightness up to a requested 4000 nits on the subjec
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by maxsilver 2y ago
The scale of the IF text-parser problem isn't that bad, and they addressed a lot of the issues decades ago, modern games don't struggle with this nearly as much. It's just that that Interactive Fiction tends to be a niche hob
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> Like, you pay the electricity, I'll pay the water bill, you pay 75% of the mortgage, I'll pay 80% of our vacation, but we split meals 50/50... Sure, it can be exhausting to keep track of everything separately and constan
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> $40K, "affordable," shows what a bubble NYTimes is living in. Did we read the same article? NYTimes is claiming that "$20k" (or rather, $20k after up to $7500 in federal rebates) is affordable. Which, it kind of is?
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by maxsilver 2y ago
>. Google comes in and offers to buy you out. You decline cause you know that they are blockbuster and your Netflix. In retaliation google hires all your staff, and sends them to the roof to rest and vest. If you know for certain that &q
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> My Playstation can accept directional and OK button presses over CEC, but my Roku can't despite that being much more useful. To be fair, in this case, the issue not "CEC doesn't work", but rather, "Roku broke
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> Even plug in hybrids spend most of their lives burning gas. They don't. PHEV's spend 50%-80% of their time on electric only, if you use them properly. (Just plug them in once each evening). > The Solterra (snip) is a very
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> Legacy auto makers claiming that ICE hybrids are EVs is very disingenuous. Calling a traditional ICE hybrid an "EV" is disingenuous, completely agree. Calling a PHEV an EV is 100% totally fair. I drive a used 2017 Chevy Volt
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by maxsilver 2y ago
The Prius Prime and RAV4 Prime are great EV's (PHEVs), they have some of the best-in-class efficiency metrics (on either form of fuel). And their child company (Subaru, 20% ownership) is doing a full EV (Solterra) Toyota isn't &qu
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> Then something happened around 2017 and their coffee became awful (it was never incredible, but it got much worse) Tim Hortons got acquired by Burger King (Restaurant Brands International / QSR) in December 2014, and the quality s
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> At least in the US this happens due to rent control rules. No way, the vast majority of the US has no rent control at all. Landlords can already raise prices whenever they want, it's always been legal. Despite this, most choose to
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> Corporations arent buying housing in the vast midwest for this exact reason Except they are buying lots of housing. Even in nothingsville-small-city Midwest, we're experiencing exploding housing prices, despite no real barrier
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by maxsilver 2y ago
> Its only a good investment because supply is severely limited by the government. The entire American Midwest exists, and proves this point severely wrong. Supply can be infinite and unlimited, and it's still profitable for compa
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by maxsilver 2y ago
It is a major national emergency, but average voters don't care about it, because almost no politician is willing to address it -- there's no one to vote for, who would try to fix it. Even politicians who are struggling with this
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by maxsilver 2y ago
All of the above. - Prices are determined by comparables. When home owners sell, and can push prices higher, it pushes all possible future prices for all properties nearby higher simultaneously. - Corporate interests are buying up real esta
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by maxsilver 2y ago
It depends on the area. In Michigan, for example, the area here is mostly swampland, houses with no infrastructure have to build their own. Usually that means running new power lines, and figuring out well water and septic. Septic is tricki

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