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by standyro 3y ago
Thats a fair point. I just flew to Europe for <$600 on a direct flight. Pretty sure that wasn’t even possible in the 90s, adjusted for inflation. Prices are definitely lower and more competitive. The experience has gotten somewhat worse
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by standyro 4y ago
successfully did this too. it's just a webapp, no real need to restrict to Edge except for Microsoft trying to push their products
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by standyro 4y ago
you don't ACTUALLY have to use edge to use it. just use a chrome extension to fake your useragent to pretend to be Edge. I despise needless microsoft hubris
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by standyro 4y ago
I use mine regularly driving to SF or to Arizona from LA for multi hour stretches.
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by standyro 4y ago
Steve Jobs had at least enough product sense to avoid releasing the iPhone and iPod for years while they were in early development. Meta has none of this. Apple succeeded (and succeeds still) because of the company’s culture of obsessivenes
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by standyro 4y ago
There has to be a book or two that explores this! The closest thing I can recall is the Animatrix/Matrix series exploring the concept of blotting the sun out with some sort of artificial clouds.
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by standyro 4y ago
Imagine a world without skin cancer by launching giant space sails is like saying: imagine a world without white people. People have evolutionarily adapted to the sun by producing melanin in their skin, but for some reason aerospace is the
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by standyro 4y ago
Checks out. The only Rivian I’ve run into while at a charger was an employee.
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by standyro 4y ago
Not to offend, but there are plenty of these sorts of live cultural experiences for Gen Z that maybe you aren’t aware of and captivate millions of young audiences. Kissing and holding hands in the 60s seems like an artifact of a decade of u
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by standyro 4y ago
Pretty sure “the free market” has decided that Parler and Truth Social are terrible social media products based on their relative lack of adoption
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by standyro 4y ago
R. Crumb was authentic. That said, I think “canceling” has more meaning behind it than you might think. Bill Cosby was an inauthentic and visible symbol of the black middle class and “canceled” among media types because his messy real life
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by standyro 4y ago
I'm waiting for the next 1906 earthquake and fire to move there. That will really encourage development!
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by standyro 4y ago
It seems like the western world has the exact opposite housing policy to China. China has completely built out cities just waiting for hundreds of millions of people to move in, but we enrich boomers by subsisting and effectively subsidizin
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by standyro 4y ago
I can attest firsthand from having worked alongside journalists that almost all have never daily driven a Tesla and are incentivized by their bosses to write contrarian articles ~ which leads to a whole lede about how journalists are underp
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by standyro 4y ago
What water do you drink? A lot of bottled water comes from tax supported municipal water sources through water rights loopholes, so you could be paying more just to drink similar water. Unfortunately, I feel like this comment encapsulates t
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by standyro 4y ago
It’s not 2006 anymore
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by standyro 4y ago
The internet was certainly not mainstream at the time of that interview. Maybe somewhere along the early adopter curve, if anything. Bill Gates became famous for founding Microsoft, which listed for an IPO in 1986, way before the internet
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by standyro 4y ago
It wasn’t a failure. The first time I got COVID I was sick for three long arduous weeks. A few years later, the second time I got COVID ~ after having rounds of the mRNA vaccines, I was only sick for a week or so. No fever, no loss of taste
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by standyro 4y ago
Pretty sure I remember reading years of Slashdot comments that mocked the iPod and the iPhone for being obtuse overly simplified products, blatantly missing the obvious leaps forward in ease of use for mass market adoption of handheld compu
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by standyro 4y ago
It’s just another tool in the toolbox for artists. Just like artists currently use Adobe software to emulate brushes like real paintings, there is no reason an artist couldn’t use AI generated art to accomplish things that would otherwise b
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by standyro 4y ago
Regardless of your feelings about tax dollars, I hate to break it to you, but the UC system hasn’t being subsidized by California in decades. Something like 15-20% comes from the state. Maybe that’s part of the problem.
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by standyro 4y ago
The article does touch on this, but the real issue is urbanization and heat islands which cause higher surface temperatures in cities.
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by standyro 4y ago
> Yeah, it's chaotic, but I love this chaos. Good chaos. Lots of possibilities chaos. I disagree. Having to buy 5 cables (and return 4 of them) just to figure out which one supports the USB 4 spec correctly and doesn't have wei
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by standyro 4y ago
I'm curious, where did you leave to, if I can ask?
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by standyro 4y ago
When I worked for Tribune (before the LA Times got sold off) it was a hot mess of adtech garbage like Taboola that nobody had the guts to get rid of.
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by standyro 4y ago
The crash in the article was catalyzed by Autopilot rapidly decelerating in the fast lane because the system wanted to slow down due to the shadow of the bridge. The car tailgating behind obviously didn’t help. Their fault, but the author
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by standyro 4y ago
seems like you've never met a crypto evangelist. pretty sure they're in it for the tech </sarcasm>
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by standyro 4y ago
The Tesla Model 3/y infotainment system that's often updated by over the air updates isn't "safety critical" code. You can drive the car without the infotainment system and screen even on. There is a completely sepa
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by standyro 4y ago
I didn't update my Tesla for about a year and half. It eventually complained with a custom message that I would completely lose cell access in the car (which powers navigation, etc) if I didn't run the v11 update. I reluctantly up
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by standyro 4y ago
I’m hungry now

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