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901.
by stetrain 3y ago
Someone suggestions diverting some wasteful spending from the military and you jump to winding down the military and giving all of its money to something else?
902.
by stetrain 3y ago
A company can provide you a computer with software on it. If you refuse to use it according to their policies I don’t think you would have much recourse. Asking users to install spyware on their personal devices is a bit different. In most
903.
by stetrain 3y ago
Sounds like employee monitoring software that logs screenshots every X minutes while clocked in. I would hate that on a work device, let alone a personal device they want me to use for free.
904.
by stetrain 3y ago
I have not heard of any road-legal EVs in any markets not having mechanical brakes. So either there was a failure of that braking system here or the driver was very confused about what was going on. The bit about the car still trying to mov
905.
by stetrain 3y ago
Also interference on a digital Bluetooth signal would likely not cause incorrect sound to be played, rather just a pause, stutter, or connection loss.
906.
by stetrain 3y ago
There's a big difference between causing interference in a receiver a few inches away versus an airplane 1000ft above you. It may be that this charger passes the legal requirements while still causing small amounts of interference when
907.
by stetrain 3y ago
That could also be because of the noise cancelling, where the microphones are "hearing" the ultrasonic frequencies and the headphones are trying to cancel them out.
908.
by stetrain 3y ago
The wheel as a general technology isn't obsolete, but a model year 4000BCE wheel certainly is. In your analogy that would be like Apple declaring the Smartwatch category obsolete, which they have not done.
909.
by stetrain 3y ago
Media coverage of event A over event B doesn't mean event A happens more frequently or severely than event B. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_bites_dog Not saying Cruise is doing well or poorly statistically, ju
910.
by stetrain 3y ago
An absence of device on the wrist is also never obsolete. Or a polished stone on a bracelet. So it's a question of what utility or value you derive from it. Personally if I didn't have a smart watch that tracked activity, showed m
911.
by stetrain 3y ago
If both sides agree to a price then that's a very local market value. If lots of people on both sides agree to a price then that really is market value.
912.
by stetrain 3y ago
A company offers you an $80k salary for a new position, you counter offer with $100k, and they say they'll call you back. A couple days later they call and you both agree to $95k. Is that you "fighting the good fight with skills t
913.
by stetrain 3y ago
I don't really care about having better specs other than a decent processor and SSD. iPad-level performance is fine. ARM is probably the better choice here. But having a nice keyboard, trackpad, and high res display are good. A lot of
914.
by stetrain 3y ago
My mom actually really likes her Chromebook Pixel and I'm not sure what to replace it with now that it isn't supported. For a lot of users the browser is the whole computer anyway. Windows is now full of ads and User Engagement po
915.
by stetrain 3y ago
I think being too “good at the job” is part of what people are worried about for politicians. Yes there are skills to be learned to be effective in such a system, but being too entrenched in it can lead to forming relationships that oversha
916.
by stetrain 3y ago
Ideally, probably. But this was a negotiation between the EU and UK and presumably didn't touch rules on other EU imports. There are other political discussions happening about tariffs on EV imports from China to the EU which might add
917.
by stetrain 3y ago
Because if your goal is to allow free trade between allies (EU and UK, but not China) and a manufacturer sets up a shed in the EU, brings in a car 99% built in China and adds one bolt to it and tries to sell it in the UK as EU-made, then it
918.
by stetrain 3y ago
The article says it is about EU manufacturers exporting cars into the UK.
919.
by stetrain 3y ago
This article is about an exception made for cars sold between the EU and UK, which EU manufacturers are failing to meet because they are sourcing too many components from China and elsewhere.
920.
by stetrain 3y ago
> Top minds in London and Brussels negotiating the deal agreed to "rules of origin" dictating that a 10 percent tariff would apply to any vehicle that was less than 45 percent made in either the EU or across the Channel. > T
921.
by stetrain 3y ago
Sure, but when the 30% was announced most software for the Mac was purchased on the developer's website with a credit card. Not bought at retail store in a cardboard box. Margins on digital goods are not bound by the same rules of econ
922.
by stetrain 3y ago
What's the alarm? Without cursive you can still communicate perfectly well by most forms of reading and writing, with the specific exception of longer form hand-written documents which are becoming rare in society. In elementary school
923.
by stetrain 3y ago
Not sure how that follows from this article. A government having a regulatory limit on device emissions and a device failing that test is orthogonal to "phones cause cancer"
924.
by stetrain 3y ago
I don't see anyone in this thread arguing against an abundance of caution. But an abundance of caution doesn't mean the "phones cause cancer people were right"
925.
by stetrain 3y ago
Yeah, the console this game was optimized for (Xbox Series X) has SSD storage and was released concurrent with the Nvidia 30XX series. 2020 console specs seem like a reasonable target.
926.
by stetrain 3y ago
Closer to $60 for top spec DDR5 5600MHz Apple uses LPDDR5 6400MHz They're definitely still making extravagant margins on their upgrades. They do seem to be moving to multiples of twelve for their newer machines. M2 supports 8/16&#
927.
by stetrain 3y ago
They would make a profit by renting below their monthly payment, because they are also gaining equity. Making a monthly profit and ending up with a paid off, appreciated house at the end is profiting doubly.
928.
by stetrain 3y ago
I pay $2500/mo to rent a house that was purchased for $280k in 2015 and is now worth about $550k. That's comparable rent to what I would pay for a decently desirable 2bd apartment. Property taxes county + city are about $4300 per
929.
by stetrain 3y ago
Not paying increasing rent ever year is actualized money in your pocket to save or invest how you see fit. The unrealized part is the gain in property value, and your equity in it by paying down the mortgage. But if you consider never selli
930.
by stetrain 3y ago
It was already grounded. This is formalizing the investigation results and the list of corrections agreed upon between the FAA and SpaceX, many of which SpaceX has already started or completed.

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