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by mfer 5y ago
I'm sorry I wasn't clear. There isn't a standard followed by everyone. I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I'm saying it's not being commonly followed everywhere.
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by mfer 5y ago
People by scrapped ICE cars all the time. It may not be one of the mainstream options but it's not rare. It's common. It's possible to fix it up to get a rebuilt title after it had a salvage title from being an insurance writ
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by mfer 5y ago
There is no standard for super chargers. That means different companies can have different connections. If people want EVs to succeed they should push for interoperability across brands. So that it's as easy to charge you car as it is
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by mfer 5y ago
It's worth noting a difference here... With Tesla this car had supercharger access turned off and he could not get replacement parts to fix the car. By going ICE powered he can get the parts and is able to easily refuel it. I'm no
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by mfer 5y ago
As a parent, those always present computing devices have been a problem. Instead of doing a variety of different things... many of which build life skills... my kids want to just stare at rectangle screens. I now wonder what society will lo
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by mfer 5y ago
I'm reminded of Earth orbit from the film Wall-E for some reason.
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by mfer 5y ago
I'm in Michigan and I've spoken with people who either can't hire or don't want to work because of the amount they get on unemployment. They would rather stay home and collect than contribute. Even in jobs that are natur
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by mfer 5y ago
Abnagale has stated (linked elsewhere in the thread) that this is all based on his story but not a biography. It's not a memoir.
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by mfer 5y ago
The employee putting up that pyramid didn't appear to have the outcome they wanted. It turned into much more. This should be a lesson learned. I've read a fair number of books on helping things through change. The pyramid being pu
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by mfer 5y ago
> Is this just a generational thing? I've worked for several companies headquartered out of different regions of the world. The amount of politics at work I've seen has related to where leadership is from.
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by mfer 5y ago
> First, the executives absolutely clamped down hard on a discussion about workplace behavior. The current state of politics bled into this. There is a fair amount already written on it but the insinuation that laughing a names leads to
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by mfer 5y ago
If you want a bunch of the enterprise features you need to get nomad enterprise. Not everything is available in the FOSS version.
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by mfer 5y ago
Yahoo is still in wide use by people and AOL owns a number of properties and has a decent ad business. It may be that these companies were trying to extract value from them. This happens a decent amount these days. It's less about salv
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by mfer 5y ago
Loosing that many people is going to cause a hard time there. I wouldn't call it SV culture. I think it's more the culture of people who are trying to use companies to promote their political ideals. I grew up and first worked in
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by mfer 5y ago
Another way to look at this is... job openings are coming to Basecamp and people know the culture is a no politics at work place. I bet a lot of people will sign up for that. Enough to fill the openings.
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by mfer 5y ago
> I expect that batteries are the only hangup, Batteries are a huge hangup. For example, we don't know how to recycle them and they aren't good for dumps. And, used car batteries are expensive to replace and you get a lot fewer
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by mfer 5y ago
If people were willing to pay the higher cost for the same feature set, why would they well them for cheaper? Why not pocket the extra profit? I don't like this line of thinking but I'm sure it's going to or already is happen
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by mfer 5y ago
I've often wondered if some metered cable internet companies see 4k bandwidth increases coming and are planning on the overages. I used to have one metered internet provider whose network crumbled when kids would be out of school and u
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by mfer 5y ago
First, this is about more than codecs and quality. The article notes that Google wants data on users that other channels don't get. Hardware may be part of it, though. Codecs also affect bandwidth. Videos in newer codecs often have a s
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by mfer 5y ago
The article says that Google is asking for data on customers that's not available to other channels. This appears to be about more than av1.
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by mfer 5y ago
Most people don't need a fast computer. For many a 5 year old average computer is good enough in terms of hardware. What makes this hardware not great is the many developers who have fast machines who are ok using a lot of it with the
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by mfer 5y ago
When I was in school ethics was taught. But, it was insufficient and it targeted not right or wrong but instead mostly legal liability. This is where ethics becomes difficult because it depends on what you believe about the universe. For ex
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by mfer 6y ago
> Physical media lets you have privacy without logging when you watch media, what media you consume, how many times you consume it, or how long you consume it. Quick note, smart TVs when using the smart features capture this information
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by mfer 6y ago
There are many scenarios because there are variations in our genetics. I was reading (I think it was the book The Innovator's Prescription) that a lot of medical R&D happens in the US. I wonder how that impacts this sort of testing
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by mfer 6y ago
I was reading that testing often happens on men for medications because their biochemistry is fairly constant in a month. Fluctuating hormones complicated drug testing. This seemed to me to miss testing a scenario that affects about half th
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by mfer 6y ago
Reading that immediately reminded med of https://frame.work . I kinda want a laptop that I can mess with. I realize it's not for everyone.
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by mfer 6y ago
Excel allows people to maintain data all over the place. From golf league data to job actual data compared to estimates to so much more. And, excel is accessible enough that tens of millions (or maybe more) of people do it.
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by mfer 6y ago
Some monitoring is for operations. Apple needs to know your phone number of iMessage (if you have that enabled with most people do). Google and Apple will track the location for the "find my device" features that many of us use. T
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by mfer 6y ago
Monitoring people and then selling the data or using it as a sales channel is a way to increase revenue. A lot of companies are under pressure to not just be successful but have constant growth. Following what Google has done is an option c
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by mfer 6y ago
Why does Google or Microsoft pay coders to write software. Their work is nothing without the big company bringing it all together and the brand? Are you saying that the song writers should give their work away for free? The credit is tied t

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