scottyah

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by scottyah 3mo ago
You really can't think of ANY situations that might be helped with instant communication with the outside world? If that's true, please don't go into national forests or BLMs anymore, I don't want my taxes to be spent lo
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by scottyah 3mo ago
I don't think spacex is rolling in cash. Their valuation has little bearing on cash reserves until they sell.
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by scottyah 3mo ago
If plenty of other people are having success with the same tool, perhaps it's not the tool.
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by scottyah 3mo ago
Wow your take is that we need to just start mass killing off large swaths of "unimportant" people? This is wild. It's also been done before in Hanoi, and made a lot of people quite angry (and the others dead).
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by scottyah 3mo ago
> prevent billionaires from wasting even more money on boondoggles This is what you want though? If everyone stops "wasting even more money on boondoggles" there is no innovation, and no jobs if nobody is making more boondoggle
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by scottyah 3mo ago
It mostly goes back to when mortgages (then other debts) were handled by local banks by law, then people in NYC changed those laws so all the money was routed to them. It's not like NYC is just purely more productive, it just found a w
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by scottyah 3mo ago
I think it's a great system of checks and balances- billionaires are only created by dealing with a lot of people and successfully solving a lot of problems. Once they have it, it's work to hold on to the money though. Politicians
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by scottyah 3mo ago
World Peace
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by scottyah 3mo ago
The best defense...
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by scottyah 3mo ago
Humans just adapt and normalize things too quickly, so long term seeing more violence will just desensitize people and make it more acceptable. Just look at the difference between protected kids in suburbs vs kids growing up in bad areas.
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by scottyah 3mo ago
They can pop out defects and if things go wrong and there's friendly fire or civilian loss, it's chalked up to scrappy efforts in war. The USA does not get the same amount of leeway, saving our people is a top priority and the med
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by scottyah 3mo ago
Have you compared it to grok in teslas?
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by scottyah 3mo ago
Just because you don't always hit a home run doesn't mean you don't need a bat.
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by scottyah 3mo ago
I agree, wheel controls are my favorite!
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by scottyah 3mo ago
You're right- it was a generalization. I think the amount of actual dashboard-button-pressing without looking away is extremely low, probably 1 button. The rest might be usable a quick glance, but so is a touchscreen.
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by scottyah 3mo ago
You cannot push physical buttons on a dashboard without taking your eyes off the road, it's a myth. Fiddling with radio controls is the most cited reason for accidents before cell phones.
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by scottyah 3mo ago
Not exactly, I got my first iPad in college. It's not so much that it's a challenge as it's totally unnecessary effort. I'm sure when the controls came out they were great, then they turned into some weird sprawl that wa
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by scottyah 3mo ago
It's a cool new feature with lots of potential and almost no downsides, what makes you descend into such attacks?
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by scottyah 3mo ago
It's not forced on people, get a grip. It's a free feature on a free browser, just like all the other features.
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by scottyah 3mo ago
The propagation of this type of mindset is more damaging than the gambling.
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by scottyah 3mo ago
Then it seems like we should work on making it better instead of just trashing the idea?
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by scottyah 3mo ago
you're just describing another thing that can go wrong. Most likely when you "rip open the dashboard" there's a few different PCBs that can all go bad, then a bunch of fuses, small LEDs, other things that need to be fixe
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by scottyah 3mo ago
It'd be easy to check. It was true on my 1998 Mercury Mountaineer, I can't imagine car manufacturers would go back just for funsies.
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by scottyah 3mo ago
Adjusting radios was the biggest cause of traffic incidents for a long time. IMO the super bright LED headlights from other vehicles is the worst thing for night vision.
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by scottyah 3mo ago
On my last button car, I could control volume and turning on/off the radio without looking, but that was it. With the touchscreen, I do have to glance away but am way faster to get back looking at the road. Most things I just don'
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by scottyah 3mo ago
Stellantis tried it already, had to back-pedal calling it a "glitch". I'm sure someone else will be bold enough to try again though.
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by scottyah 3mo ago
I love voice control, have you tried/gotten used to that?
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by scottyah 3mo ago
Their source is "a Swedish motoring magazine in 2022". Europe sure does love regulation- no desire or call for finding the best way to implement vehicular controls, just a desire to lock in old functionality with a flimsy excuse.
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by scottyah 3mo ago
I could not imagine having to go back to buttons for anything I actually want to control. Once you get used to a well-designed touchscreen, buttons are just so clunky and unintuitive for most functions. Dials are probably my most favorite p
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by scottyah 3mo ago
Do you not have muscle memory for screens too? I find my brain has an easier time visualizing all the touchscreen controls I use semi-often over buttons. Perhaps it's a generational thing.

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