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by sf_rob 3y ago
I agree. Granted it's out of my price range for the time being, but a device to make a plane more bearable while giving me a screen that doesn't require craning my neck on the other side would be a huge deal.
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by sf_rob 3y ago
Isn't GM ditching phone connectivity in favor of Google Built In (TM)? e.g. they're fine with Google building it if they can upcharge for it.
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by sf_rob 3y ago
I got in an argument with the Ford CMO on Twitter about this. He said that the F150 has maintained the overall footprint for years, which is true. However, if you super-impose an image of older F150s and newer ones (which I did) you find th
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by sf_rob 3y ago
Typical government product launch website. As far as I can tell, they don’t provide a link to where the service will be available or date of availability despite it being tax season. I guess you are to check back if you’re potentially eligi
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by sf_rob 3y ago
Also these companies are reaching financial maturity. It's going to be the next generation of companies to be trendy/fun/excessive IMO.
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by sf_rob 3y ago
The argument for a rate cut is that the effective rate (real rate adjusted for inflation) will increase as inflation subsides and headline rate is held. So the same rate that was pumping the brakes at 7% inflation would be slamming them at
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by sf_rob 3y ago
They had a marketing demo of a robotic charger a few years ago, but nothing came of it. They also had the demo of full battery swaps before that, but they'd have to change their entire architecture for that to work.
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by sf_rob 3y ago
The interesting experiment would be to make Go startups work in Python and Python startups work in Go :)
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by sf_rob 3y ago
Physicians just have a different utility function drilled into their heads. I strongly disagree with this utility function but they really are trying to strictly maximize health outcomes for their patients. Knowing billing information would
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by sf_rob 3y ago
From my experience as both a patient and a spouse to a general practitioner the opposite is generally true. Doctors are grossly unaware of both costs to patients and insurance eligibility of procedures. They push for the solution that they
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by sf_rob 3y ago
A fate worse than death. (Joke but I was a heavy Google Music user before it suffered the same fate).
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by sf_rob 3y ago
If Telemetry is valuable, it's largely valuable to the degree it's representative. Opt-in sacrifices this and even a well optimized opt-in process won't prevent that. This is not to say that Telemetry should be opt-out, just
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by sf_rob 3y ago
If (big if) the EV Equinox actually starts at $30k then it's reasonable to assume that the Bolt will slot under that. Again, big if.
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by sf_rob 3y ago
My cynical view is that Google's X projects had great value to the company but not in the long-shot asymmetric return sense. X convinced engineers working on optimal ad placement that they were part of something grand and beneficial. G
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by sf_rob 3y ago
Even though it came out of X, I don't see how Chronicle could reasonably be considered a moonshot for Google. A cloud-based SecOps suite that emphasizes integration with Google Cloud/GSuite seems like a fairly obvious vertical exp
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by sf_rob 3y ago
Yes, allegedly demand outstripped supply for the lower core count chips so it was a mix of disabled rejected cores and disabled working cores.
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by sf_rob 3y ago
Even post-implementation, even in a poorer era, dietary preferences are sticky. There are fads in farming, for instance my distant family got into the emu hype of the late 90s and lost a decent chunk of money because there was only a small
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by sf_rob 3y ago
FDIC says the national average is 0.35% for savings accounts; Bankrate survey of banks says 0.24%. Granted this included dinosaurs taking advantage of their customers, but the point is that it's weird to use the maximum to make claims
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by sf_rob 3y ago
Your post clarified my thinking on this. If I think of Notes as a Twitter clone then I'm upset because, like the parent poster, I want a much narrower subscription-base for long form content than I do short form content. However, if I
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by sf_rob 4y ago
This is good advice. Tinkercad is hardly more difficult than Microsoft Paint and can be easy enough to start doing some basic DIY modeling in an afternoon.
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by sf_rob 4y ago
Or as King of the Hill (TV Show) says of Phoenix: "This city should not exist. It is a monument to man's arrogance."
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by sf_rob 4y ago
I think your broader point is generally true and often missed so have an upvote, but in this case the FDIC is going beyond it's stated policy. Demanding that the floor of the FDIC's guarantee be lifted/ignored seems distinctl
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by sf_rob 4y ago
I'm looking forward to seeing some of this make its way to general release, but I'd guess that this post is in the vein of their hurried initial press response to Chat GPT.
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by sf_rob 4y ago
He seems to be of the belief that Twitter's issues are bottom line not top line. Hiring would require a major shift in belief.
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by sf_rob 4y ago
Elon's own account is that he's "experimenting" with taking production services offline to cut cost and simplify their code base. Essentially a literal Chaos Monkey. With this in mind, service degradations aren't su
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by sf_rob 4y ago
My tinfoil hat belief is that the design was solely to please their investors, an electric Mercedes S Class. Sad because it really is the best designed EV in the market IMO.
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by sf_rob 4y ago
Speaking of this, my employer provided healthcare (Aetna) refused (according to Costco) to fill my existing prescription at Costco after messaging me that they would like to transfer it to CVS (which Aetna now owns). They'll allow it i
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by sf_rob 4y ago
The escalation here (moreso than the size/language) is that there appears to be zero indication that this banner is part of the browser chrome (unlike previous iterations). I believe that it is still technically browser chrome, but the
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by sf_rob 4y ago
You are correct. The FED is not targeting tech workers as implied above; they do not have a granular "toolkit" at their disposal. Although workers in growth industries will be harder hit due to valuations being based on future cas
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by sf_rob 4y ago
RE 2: As far as I can tell the last strategic reserve sale occurred in mid-November with no sales in December / bids for repurchases being solicited. It's possible that the supply effects continued through December, but it seems a

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