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by ricw 4y ago
That argument was used in the early internet stages too, and hasn’t aged well. Where are printed encyclopaedia or yellow pages or sears these days? All in a pittance of their former self. The ability to do distributed trusted transactions w
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Apple Announces M2 SoC: Apple Silicon for Macs Updated for 2022(anandtech.com)
4 points by ricw 4y ago|1 comments
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by ricw 4y ago
Not a doctor, but I believe that has to do with vastly improved survival rates for heart attacks. Hospitals have just gotten much better about it, by knowing that they have to act fast and having procedures in place to ensure that happens.
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by ricw 4y ago
Agreed. There were minor use cases were it was delightful to use (able to swipe & adjust brightness or volume). But overall it was just useless. You weren't even able to skip to the next song, like you can on the old function keys.
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by ricw 4y ago
Simple answer: price. 13in pro starts at $1299. The newer 14in starts at $1999.
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by ricw 4y ago
It does have an immediate positive effect. People will likely switch to apple and trust it more. This means more service revenue, long term lock in and ultimately more profits. Im moving my to-be-paid-for personal google apps accounts over
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by ricw 5y ago
presumably that's why the two spectrums have a 0.2GHz gap between them, which btw is massive. based on 2020 mid-spectrum prices, this is worth a staggering $66B.
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by ricw 5y ago
Precisely. Until all the profits + substantial deterrent fines occur, nothing will change. This will have been worth it to the violators. In effect this just encourages them to keep this practise going. This has to be treated like fraud. Wh
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Methane and NOx Emissions from Natural Gas Stoves and Cooktops in Homes(pubs.acs.org)
2 points by ricw 5y ago|0 comments
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by ricw 5y ago
Good luck to them. In Germany the national storage facility had nuclear waste stored in it for a decade or so and it “unexpectedly” started leaking and resurfacing. The project was subsequently abandoned about a decade ago and all existing
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by ricw 5y ago
Apple is 20% of TSMCs revenue. That’s enough to make such demands. On top of that they’re likely also paying top dollar.
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by ricw 5y ago
Could just avoid all of that by going underwater along the coast. But yes, good point in that power grid lines are as controversial and politically fraught as nuclear power...
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by ricw 5y ago
Yada yada yada. Renewables are intermittent and cannot be trusted. We need nuclear. Sure, just that it's not even remotely price competitive despite decades of R&D and subsidies and nobody wants Nuclear in their back yard. What the
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by ricw 5y ago
Exactly. The same argument gets peddled out against any Apple product. There was a capacitive touch screen phone before the iPhone. There were app stores before the iPhone’s. There were music players with X before the iPad. Rinse and repeat
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Another former Facebook employee has filed a whistleblower complaint(engadget.com)
13 points by ricw 5y ago|1 comments
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by ricw 5y ago
So they’re moving to a state in which they’re not allowed to sell their own cars due to dealership laws? What kind of signal is this sending? This is the single dumbest thing Musk could do. A big F to the state that has promoted him to wher
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by ricw 5y ago
Can you then explain why, as the whistleblower alleges, all the programs to keep the newsfeed "clean" for the 2020 election campaign were turned off a month or two after the election? This would have certainly lead to a degradatio
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Why satellites are manufactured in clean rooms(ohb.de)
126 points by ricw 5y ago|44 comments
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by ricw 5y ago
I recently discovered that it also acts as a great anti-productivity page blocker. Simply add your top social and news addiction pages to the blacklist and you’re set. I use Firefox only for work, which has helped me immensely to stay focus
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by ricw 5y ago
Toyota in particular has been quite dirty and backwards facing. They strongly opposed the tightening of vehicle emissions standards in the USA as one of three companies (fiat-Chrysler and GM being the others). They are constantly lobbying a
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by ricw 6y ago
They actually do. He describes in detail how agricultural production is estimated using historic data in farmland, yields and how it is painstakingly adjusted per region. In other words the tedious work needed to actually do this. A long a
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by ricw 6y ago
It took SpaceX 19 attempts before they landed their Falcon 9 rocket. By all means, they managed to land starship during their 3rd attempt, even if it blew up 8 minutes later due to a hard landing. Rather fail fast, than fail slow. SpaceX ta
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by ricw 6y ago
Wasn’t this the exact problem with the 787? Particularly in Boeing’s factory in the carolinas which is the only plant producing the 787? I’m definitely not flying the 737MAX, and this seriously makes me question the 787 as well as 737NG or
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by ricw 6y ago
This describes it pretty much spot on. It’s the change to make it transparent and clear to end users. One of the core accusations against google and Facebook is that they have been doing this on the sly and in-transparently, as is well docu
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by ricw 6y ago
Maybe try dimmable LED bulbs? They work perfectly fine here. I find LEDs look much better, particularly if you have chandelier type lights.
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by ricw 6y ago
I know from people working at Apple that they’re acutely aware of this, but it’s a hard problem to deal with. Turns out that the variance of human ears is so big that it’s nearly impossible to make something fit all. Hence you will always e
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by ricw 6y ago
I couldn’t emphasise this more. Stick to the YC mantra: always talk to users. Ask them what they want or have problems with, quantitatively (questionnaire style) and qualitatively (talk to them in person, real user testing). Added a new fea
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by ricw 6y ago
It is also one of the main reasons so many buildings, both ruined and standing, still are around and accessible. Had the population not collapsed, they probably would have been built over or repurposed over the years. This way, they just re
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This might be how law enforcement agencies break into the iPhone(appleinsider.com)
2 points by ricw 6y ago|0 comments
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by ricw 6y ago
Hopefully also for Linux on both server and desktop side. The M1 as the first powerful ARM consumer device plus the availability of ARM servers in the cloud will hopefully lead to the ARM eco-system breaking out of its mobile stronghold.

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