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721.
by roughly 2y ago
There’s a thing we tend to do as engineers where we hear a thing and then start thinking through the implications and design, which is normal, but also we seem to assume we’re the only ones who’ve ever thought about it, and therefore our co
722.
by roughly 2y ago
It’s a larger device, but I’m hoping the new Framework 12 comes in at a price point to fill the “cheap hacker laptop” category. The original eee was a fantastic “throw it in your bag & bring it anywhere”, and it all but required running
723.
by roughly 2y ago
I think it's something that's coming about because of the level of performance reached by the average sports car - in prior eras, the actual mechanical challenge of making a car fast meant achieving higher and higher peak performa
724.
by roughly 2y ago
Defector is fantastic and Sabrina Imbler is an absolute treasure - gift link, to share the wealth: https://defector.com/this-is-the-last-thing-you-see-before-y...
725.
by roughly 2y ago
SF history is fucking wild - my personal favorite story is that a number of the bars in the financial district got their land by basically buying and scuttling ships when the city announced the landfill project that created the current coas
726.
by roughly 2y ago
> completely unsustainable for any decently sized chunk of the global population I think the inherent critique in Solarpunk is that our current way of doing things is unsustainable for any decently-sized chunk of the global population -
727.
by roughly 2y ago
Becky Chambers’ “A Psalm for the Wild Built” is a nice dose of solarpunk fiction if you need a pick-me-up: https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-psalm-for-the-wild-built-beck... (Chambers’ entire body of work is just gen
728.
by roughly 2y ago
That depends on whether there’s a use for oil aside from as a tradable commodity, and additionally on whether there are scenarios in which we might need it for that potential use case in quantities that exceed our ability to easily acquire
729.
by roughly 2y ago
May I offer a proposal here? A great many people would've told you beforehand what DOGE was going to be and do (although I think most of us are a bit shocked about the speed and violence of the thing). I expect you heard some of it ahe
730.
by roughly 2y ago
> speedrunning a far-left utopia What the fuck are you talking about? We don’t even have socialized medicine in this country.
731.
by roughly 2y ago
I cannot think of another subject whose “101” level magical thinking has affected the real world as much as economics, though. At some point the purpose of a system is what it does, and economics 101 affects the political discourse in a way
732.
by roughly 2y ago
Uncertainty is Bad for the economy. Right now the regulatory picture is a total question mark (tariffs! Unless not.), and the slash-and-burn approach DOGE is taking to the feds is leaving everyone sitting on their hands as one of the larges
733.
by roughly 2y ago
From the manifesto: > Yet, while print remains king, it lacks what digital tools offer: engagement, accessibility, and efficiency. Guys, that’s not a flaw, that’s the _sales pitch_.
734.
by roughly 2y ago
GenZ also grew up in an era where doing anything mildly interesting on a computer risks getting expelled and having the feds called. The shit I did to learn my trade as a kid would absolutely not fly today.
735.
by roughly 2y ago
Apple's commented previously on why they build in China, and it's beyond just the pricing - the supply chain for every single part they use is in China and mostly in the same geographic region, so there's a level of flexibili
736.
by roughly 2y ago
If they expect the rate of return to exceed what they could get elsewhere, of course they will. Depending on what the investor expects to happen to land pricing, the math can pencil out just fine on letting an asset sit until someone's
737.
by roughly 2y ago
Hell, I got shown an ad after I paid for a ride on Lyft the other day. Even if you’re the customer, you’re still the product. If there’s not already ads in the drivers’ views, I’m shocked it’s taken them this long.
738.
by roughly 2y ago
> If those buildings are “useless”, how is the developer going to make money on it? That doesn’t pass a basic smell test. By selling them to someone else who intends to sell them to someone else, just like every other commodity on the ma
739.
by roughly 2y ago
The whole point of having an app is to collect data, show ads, and “engage the customer with the brand.” Any additional capabilities beyond that are incidental.
740.
by roughly 2y ago
They’re just pulling the feature in the UK. If they put in a back door, they’re pulling the feature for everyone.
741.
by roughly 2y ago
For some reason it never occurred to me that Sutro was still a live radio tower - it’s such an SF landmark that I think I just assumed it was decommissioned or something.
742.
by roughly 2y ago
Pandemics became a thing among humans when we moved into cities because the increase in population density meant the disease could spread faster than the population’s immunity could build. Chickens in the wild (insofar as “wild chicken” is
743.
by roughly 2y ago
There were substantial policy and economic philosophy changes around this time. The 1970s are the rise of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics, which led to the Reagan Revolution in the US and Thatcherism in the UK, as well a
744.
by roughly 2y ago
In the modern world, Elon Musk bought his way into controlling the federal government, Larry Ellison is proposing an autocomplete panopticon, Mark Zuckerberg is building a survival bunker on Hawaii, and the leading cause of bankruptcy for e
745.
by roughly 2y ago
To put some math on that - assuming a market rate of return of ~7% and an inflation rate of, hell, we’ll call it 4%, that’s $30M/yr inflation adjusted forever. You invest $30M at the same rates, and it generates $900k/yr inflation
746.
by roughly 2y ago
Every single person who winds up in that situation has said or thought exactly that about someone else. There’s a reason all this advice is a cliche, and there’s a reason we have to keep giving it, and just consider yourself lucky that you
747.
by roughly 2y ago
Yeah, these things are true, but I think that needs to be baked into the calculus on these bills: getting them passed isn't even half the battle - if you don't have an answer for how to get the money down to the ground, the law&#x
748.
by roughly 2y ago
One of the more salient critiques of the Democrats is that they need to stop taking victory laps when they pass legislation and short-changing the implementation. Part of the loss in this last election was because of how little of what they
749.
by roughly 2y ago
> If sufficiently low, from an EV perspective, perhaps they made the right choice? They made the wrong choice. The thing about statistical probability is there’s eventually a right answer - a 1 in X chance collapses into an outcome. They
750.
by roughly 2y ago
Tech has a long history of declaring things useless and then gradually bootstrapping them back up as we learn all the lessons that led to those things existing.

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