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811.
by vel0city 9mo ago
I saw these in several different airports. It usually had multiple people staffed at the gate to get in and out meanwhile most of the other snack vendors often only had a single person employed. So you spend a few hundred thousand dollars e
812.
by vel0city 9mo ago
So now I hope you can better see why it doesn't really make sense to always use a debit card here in the US. There are still interchange fees, things can still be processed as swipe + signature or just the numbers printed on the card,
813.
by vel0city 9mo ago
I didn't know Mistral, Z.ai, Qwen, and Deepseek were all fascist adjacent US tech companies.
814.
by vel0city 9mo ago
> It's not at all obvious that this is what happens. This is what we've empirically seen as Apple went from having devices which could trivially be reflashed and resold without much impediment to now most iPhones being locked a
815.
by vel0city 9mo ago
That's 9 million (and probably many more unless Tesla disappears tomorrow) far cleaner cars on the road, offsetting what would have probably been ICE sales. I'm no Tesla-stan but spending $40B over a decade to inject massive amoun
816.
by vel0city 9mo ago
> rather than just buying what was available on the shelf at Lowe's Funny, that exact model dominates the shelf space at the Lowe's near me. Practically a whole bay for just those, over 50 in stock right now.
817.
by vel0city 9mo ago
You're then acting as if the energy supply chain and it's impacts are about the same. They're radically different.
818.
by vel0city 9mo ago
They've made almost 9 million cars overall, with a lot of those made in the last several years. Spreading it over the cars they've made so far, 40,000 / 9 = 4,444.44. Doesn't seem that crazy. I'm not seeing your poi
819.
by vel0city 9mo ago
> You’re free to live in some dense urban environment where amenities are a five min walk away, and everyone relies on underground trains, busses and taxis. Not really. People are often tied to lots of areas for a number of reasons, and
820.
by vel0city 9mo ago
True, but there's also that range of household that aren't truly a real farm operation yet live in that kind of space.
821.
by vel0city 9mo ago
For old EVs the solution is to deal with used parts from wrecked vehicles. It can absolutely be suitable for batteries.
822.
by vel0city 9mo ago
I do largely agree with this. Those small and more remote rural towns are also likely some of the last places to highly electrify due to the particular needs of those kinds of lifestyles. You're far more likely to be towing a horse tra
823.
by vel0city 9mo ago
Old ICE cars are also usually dead when major drivetrain parts fail after a decade and a half.
824.
by vel0city 9mo ago
I think a lot of the smaller gas stations will slowly die off and we'll see continued growth of those kinds of fuel stations known for their food adopt EV charging as well and grow to offer food + energy whether that be gas or electric
825.
by vel0city 9mo ago
> A 1988 report by the Australian Road Research Board stated that the rule is a good approximation for rutting damage, but an exponent of 2 (rather than 4) is more appropriate to estimate fatigue cracking. > The accuracy of the law of
826.
by vel0city 9mo ago
For most of the country you can't really get groceries or have reasonable employment without operating a car. We've designed our cities to make it effectively a requirement.
827.
by vel0city 9mo ago
> Buddy, the world is a bigger place than the 4 square miles around your downtown studio I live in a suburb. There's a bus stop outside my door. It connects me to 1,100 square miles of service area. The busses and trains also have b
828.
by vel0city 9mo ago
You know what would make me more free? Being able to just walk and bike to all the places I want to go, and not have to pay car insurance and the energy cost and the high upfront cost or a loan to buy a giant chunk of metal every time I nee
829.
by vel0city 9mo ago
I've had multiple vehicles have instrument cluster failures while operating them. None of those have been screens. "Analog" gauges have not actually been analog for a while. They're all digital controls being read by a c
830.
by vel0city 9mo ago
> I’ve not heard anyone complain about collision avoidance systems, antilock brakes etc I hear people on this site complain about these things all the time.
831.
by vel0city 9mo ago
> Wireless POS card terminals are incredibly cheap, why people need to hand their cards to someone? Lots of restaurants and bars have been slow to adopt new systems. While many have moved towards waiters having portable machines and can
832.
by vel0city 9mo ago
It's a few clicks to choose to re-key and not have the key saved to your Microsoft account.
833.
by vel0city 9mo ago
The TPM on most computers these days is a sectioned off part of the CPU that only talks through channels on the package/die (fTPM). Good luck plugging something in on that.
834.
by vel0city 9mo ago
Because now all the people at the computer recycle shop can't access all your old files including your family photos and saved passwords. They'd be missing out on all that fun.
835.
by vel0city 9mo ago
No, the actual data encryption key doesn't need to change unless you're very paranoid. The backup key and your normal key is just to decrypt the data encryption key.
836.
by vel0city 9mo ago
They could also just push an update to change it anyways to grab it. If you really don't trust Microsoft at all then don't use Windows.
837.
by vel0city 9mo ago
You can encrypt a Bitlocker volume without syncing your keys even if you do log in with a Microsoft account, at least last time I was configuring Bitlocker.
838.
by vel0city 9mo ago
> if every site accepted both Apple Pay and Google Pay we'd be there. So add another layer of duopoly and middlemen to the way I pay for things. No thanks! What happens when Google permabans me because I failed to pay a $0.50 clou
839.
by vel0city 9mo ago
I had a friend who had their checking wiped out by debit card fraud. Their bank issued them a provisional credit of $150. So nice. Too bad rent was due in two days and was considerably more than $150. Slowly over the next three months the
840.
by vel0city 9mo ago
You go to any restaurants where you handed the card to the waiter?

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