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by stetrain 3y ago
Cycling on 45mph+ roads (really stroads, or in-town highways) with no separated bike lanes or sidewalk is pretty dangerous. This kind of road is kind of the normal in most American suburban towns or even bigger cities outside the actual dow
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by stetrain 3y ago
Building a society where you need to pay for a car, license, fuel, and insurance to just to function increases harm to the poor.
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by stetrain 3y ago
They'll keep improving the quality for the top end product, sure. But screens with today's quality will fall in price over the next few years. Apple loves putting tech they have already paid the initial manufacturing scale-up cost
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by stetrain 3y ago
Yes, the tendency of successful businesses in a market to acquire upstarts has an effect as well. The positive outcome for many startups that take investment money is to be acquired in such a move to pay back those investors. The negative o
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by stetrain 3y ago
I don't partake in cannabis, or much alcohol (ie one social drink once a week). The reasons I haven't tried entrepreneurship are much more about financial risks. Rent is expensive. Homeownership is barely attainable anywhere near
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by stetrain 3y ago
Being polite doesn't mean agreeing to all requests. You can politely and firmly decline.
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by stetrain 3y ago
You can make pretty significant cuts to R&D and see short term revenue and productivity stay pretty level. In fact it should improve your metrics since you are spending less and selling just as many of your existing products as you were
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by stetrain 3y ago
Those are probably different groups of people. I'll definitely agree that the Mac would see more security issues if it had the install base of Windows or iOS.
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by stetrain 3y ago
I think it's less a preference question and more whether Apple thinks saving PWAs with a third party browser and then launching them with Safari is compliant with the DMA.
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I have never had trouble recycling aluminum cans when I live in a place with curbside recycling or in public with clearly marked recycling containers. Nobody even had to pay me to do it. I know littering will happen and deposits can help wi
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by stetrain 3y ago
> The vast majority of video is landscape oriented, so the default players all have that aspect. I'm not so sure, by hours created and viewed in recent years that may no longer be true with TikTok / Reels / Stories /
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by stetrain 3y ago
There are economic and political incentives to build rockets and space infrastructure. Less so for submarines exploring the depths of the ocean, even if the latter is equally or more interesting from a scientific exploration perspective.
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by stetrain 3y ago
Are single serving aluminum cans, if recycled, really worse than the alternatives? Plastic bottles or glass both have their own emissions and recycling issues.
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by stetrain 3y ago
Other instances are listed here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
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by stetrain 3y ago
https://nitter.poast.org/Culture_Crit/status/175529370618420...
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by stetrain 3y ago
Generally car sales are counted at delivery, or when the manufacturer gets paid for the car. A Tesla order is a $250 deposit. They don't get paid for the car until it gets delivered, and the order can be cancelled at any point before t
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by stetrain 3y ago
Right, they ship cars to delivery centers to match current demand. Most cars do not sit in inventory very long, they are already spoken for by orders. This is especially true in countries where the cars are delivered by container ship. You
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by stetrain 3y ago
Tesla generally ships cars on a JIT basis and avoids large inventory. When a ship arrives with imported cars, the majority are likely already spoken for with pending orders and will be delivered within a month.
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by stetrain 3y ago
I believe Apple said it was more about using that space for other uses, not making the device thinner. Almost every iPhone since then has gotten thicker with a larger battery.
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by stetrain 3y ago
I wasn’t, but who wouldn’t want a hybrid?
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by stetrain 3y ago
I have definitely run into condo and townhouse rentals where the HOA or landlord have rules against unrelated residents living in the same unit.
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by stetrain 3y ago
If Toyota shipped the same annual battery capacity as Tesla then they could sell 100% of their vehicles as hybrid or plug-in hybrid instead of 30%.
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by stetrain 3y ago
This might be true cumulatively but certainly isn't true on an annual basis anymore. If Toyota were shipping the same battery capacity as Tesla they could make every car they sell globally a hybrid or plug-in hybrid and they are at abo
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by stetrain 3y ago
If the purpose it to keep plastic waste and microplastics out of your local environment and local drinking water sources, then local policies make sense. Should other places that also have that potential problem also do that? Sure, probably
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by stetrain 3y ago
Would most of that not have all happened before, and then those plastic produce bags would have been put into plastic grocery bags at checkout?
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by stetrain 3y ago
The two party system is not a policy, it’s a symptom of First Past the Post elections. If you want the system to change we need to restructure how elections work, not somehow try to abolish the idea of people working together politically.
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by stetrain 3y ago
Step 1 - Define a KPI, ie percentage of users using Edge or number of users switching to Edge in <timeframe> Step 2 - Define target goals for this KPI for each quarter Step 3 - Create user stories for features and changes to meet thos
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by stetrain 3y ago
But the user metrics line for my department must go up! Anyway I'm off to implement more push notifications for things the user hasn't asked for.
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by stetrain 3y ago
That's not guaranteed. Really it's a question of incentive structure more than public vs private. For example there are cases I can point to of poor competition and high costs in NASA picking private companies to do big cost-plus
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The public sector doesn't have a monopoly on internal politics. Posturing between departments to be included in the next big initiative happens in lots of companies.

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