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by sib 2y ago
It's called making products worse, reducing security, and stripping the fruits of innovation from investors & creators. It's deeply annoying.
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by sib 2y ago
"Two turkeys rarely give birth to an eagle"
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by sib 2y ago
>> Majority of Coda leadership will be gone in 6-12 months Well, in this case, the new CEO of the combined company is from Coda, so perhaps a little less likely than otherwise...
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by sib 2y ago
I lost > $10K of photo gear from a locked car trunk on my first trip to Hawaii (Oahu). I shot some pictures at a photo location, put the gear, in my camera backpack, into the trunk, drove 30 minutes to a completely different town, and st
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by sib 2y ago
I'm not trying to "demonstrate a general trend." I'm providing evidence to disprove a blanket statement. And from a logic point of view, showing a single counterexample disproves it. Separately, the Model 3 Performance i
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by sib 2y ago
>> This comparison is stupid. It is just 3 versions of one car and one version of another car. Huh? Why is it a stupid comparison? It is comparing the Model 3 (very popular EV) against a similarly-positioned ICE vehicle. I showed thre
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by sib 2y ago
Yes, 100% - because as the "business owner" I've been the one responsible for actually passing the signed agreements back and forth, so I would have seen the notarization.
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by sib 2y ago
Jaguar was historically known for terrible quality control, right? When I was young, the joke was that you had to own two; one to use while the other was in the shop...
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by sib 2y ago
>> Electric vehicles are very heavy, which means a lot of mechanical stress for the suspension Not necessarily - as an example: Tesla Model 3 Standard: 3,862 lbs (1755 kg) Tesla Model 3 Long Range: 4,034 lbs (1834 kg) Tesla Model 3 Pe
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by sib 2y ago
>> because you fail to understand the basic tenants of the GDPR Hi! In the spirit of improving communication and assuming that you'd like to know: A tenant is someone who rents a property A tenet is a principle or belief that
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by sib 2y ago
>> I would assume normal commercial purchase contracts are notarized just because it is so easy to get someone to do it. (I've never been in this process so I wouldn't know, but that would be my guess) Having been involved i
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by sib 2y ago
"It's so intuitively false that I'd have to wonder about someone who thinks it's true." This is a wonderful encapsulation. Thank you.
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by sib 2y ago
Right - and this is why people don't trust these sources. Previous numbers, incorrectly stated at 10x true values: "of high concern because they are 80% of daily value" New numbers: "still of high concern even though the
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by sib 2y ago
Fair enough! (And if you want a good history of horror in broadly-speaking early-middle 20th century Eastern Europe, I suggest reading Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder.)
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by sib 2y ago
>> It's worth noting just how extreme the levels of crime against humanity committed by the Japanese were. >> The Germans (and Swiss...) for the most part imprisoned / shot PoWs. Not to take anything away from the Japa
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by sib 2y ago
You seem to have (accidentally?) left off the rest of the comment: "Tesla FSD is practically perfected, with no accidents whatsoever, under such conditions "
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by sib 2y ago
In this case, there is a separate service that Google developed for early warning. (Source, worked at Google in Android team.)
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by sib 2y ago
This is similar to the "severe weather alert" I just received on my phone when the temperature will range from 47' to 67' F (8' to 19' C) in Los Angeles today, December 5, with clear, sunny skies and no noticea
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by sib 2y ago
As almost the only country* in the world that charges its citizens on worldwide income, the US is the last place that could be called a tax haven. *Eritrea being the other...
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by sib 2y ago
Nope. Nobody changed the argument. No one said "USA subsidizes drug development out of a societal sense of charitable obligation to the rest of the world ." It just so happens that - due to the unfortunate design of our system -
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by sib 2y ago
Right, right, it must be the propaganda. That's why Bill G, Larry E, Jeff B, Mark Z, and Warren B have all left, because the US is a shithole (your word) and they can afford to go anywhere they want.
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by sib 2y ago
> The US certainly does not subsidize drugs for the rest of the world. It literally does. The costs of producing drugs are mostly borne by the US market, allowing drug manufacturers to charge less elsewhere while still investing the bill
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by sib 2y ago
>> I know of three people who committed suicide with their own guns > This is gun violence. Huh? Do you count people who hang themselves as victims of "rope violence"? Are people who kill themselves by sucking on the vehi
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by sib 2y ago
>> Are you saying that for people making median level of income, the US is a horrible place to live compared to the rest of the world ? > Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. I just came back from Chad. I've also spent time i
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by sib 2y ago
Cool, thanks - I sent you an email
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by sib 2y ago
Great idea. Would use (flew 140 segments the year before Covid). One piece of feedback: I asked for a "flight from LAX to..." and it recommended flights from SNA and ONT (two other airports in the Greater Los Angeles area). These
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by sib 2y ago
Sorry, what the heck is "cookie butter" (native English speaker here, in case it matters...)?
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by sib 2y ago
I wonder (no pun intended) how much of this is driven by Marc's residual dislike of Amazon? Amazon currently has a partnership with Grubhub to provide Grubhub delivery as a Prime benefit. Amazon competed strongly (some might say unfair
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by sib 2y ago
I do a lot of (high-end mirrorless camera, ~45MP, 14 bits/pixel raw files) photo processing. There are many individual steps in Photoshop, Lightroom, or various plug-ins that take ~10 seconds on my M1 Max MBP. It definitely doesn'
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by sib 2y ago
But then wouldn't the job run twice when time "falls back"?

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