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by yardie 4y ago
This keeps being brought up since the early days of AWS. Yes, the cloud is more expensive. It simply adds another layer of management, scalability, and flexibility you would not be able to build yourself. And there is a layer of profit for
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by yardie 4y ago
> quite as easy to withdraw money back then, usually you'd have to at least make a phone call, or head over to your physical branch. Now you could just open the website/app and do it there, immediately. The main reason some of
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by yardie 4y ago
$20 in the late 80s/early 90s is like $50 today. That shorts demo reel to get $50 for a VHS out of me. Unless it came in a steelcase.
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by yardie 4y ago
It's not an alternative to NMEA, thought it definitely started as an open source replacement of NMEA. Cooler heads prevailed and the NMEA body opened some of the IP to SignalK developers. So instead of the opensource hardware that used
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by yardie 4y ago
Twitter acquired his company and kept him on as an employee. A lot of times founders end up having to coast because the buyer is still trying to sort out how to merge the tech. The founder is basically on garden leave/on-call tech supp
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by yardie 4y ago
> Polestar is a good example of combining startup-like mindset with production know-how That describes every startup that wasn't founded by an 18yo college dropout.
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by yardie 4y ago
I was just joking about this with a friend, an engineer at Cruise. You don't pay and GM can tell the car to drive off. He laughed like it wasn't that far from the truth.
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by yardie 4y ago
Build housing with 20% low-income set asides or take your chances with environmental review. I think the intention is you can't shortcut all the bureaucratic bullshit with this neat trick.
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by yardie 4y ago
Most of the urgent care I've used don't have the equipment to handle this. I've been twice in the last 6 months to 2 seperate urgent cares. In both cases I had to go to the ER anyway for X-rays. The doctor in one urgent care
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by yardie 4y ago
This is also the business model for the private rail in Hong Kong, Singapore, and now Florida with Brightline. The Brightline model is surprising because it shouldn't work. Miami and Orlando aren't well thought of for there public
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by yardie 4y ago
Japan privatized their railway in the early 90s. It's really good. This is not an endorsement of privatization just a counterpoint to the argument of national vs privatized transport systems. What it means is leadership and management
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by yardie 4y ago
Plastics, asphalt, fertilizer, sealants, complex hydrocarbon chemicals. I think everyone kind of underestimates how much of our lives is based on oil. Transport is the largest user, ~50% of each barrel. But the green revolution wouldn'
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by yardie 4y ago
More like 200%-900% on a lot of items. When I was a sales associate at big box retail the big ticket items were sold nearly at cost (~10%). The addons were where the money was made and fat commissions. If you were selling Playstations the c
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by yardie 4y ago
The circuit board for a UPS and the board for a motherboard aren't really the same. One is designed for high voltage/high current and conformal coated in epoxy. The later has much tighter tolerances and is optimized for low voltag
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by yardie 4y ago
The batteries are sealed lead acid AGMs. Where orientation isn't a concern because the electrolyte is gelified in fiberglass. Also, they shouldn't be off-gassing at all. That's the sealed part. I've had SLA batteries puf
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by yardie 4y ago
2008 everyone thought they were some sort of property wunderkind. Just using cheap loans from banks who were investing employee pension funds into complex derivatives. 2023 government put the brakes on cheap loans. Mortgages are highly regu
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by yardie 4y ago
FPL is $13,500 for an individual. Not sure where you are where $27000 seems livable because I don't think even grad students can get by on that.
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by yardie 4y ago
> The lifestyle creep just gets most people. A lot of people who were doing okay before find themselves underwater budgetwise because of inflation. Tech is one of the few industries where you get paid more by getting paid more. If you&#x
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by yardie 4y ago
Yes, I know they are ads. But it is the difference between push and pull. Consumer Reports is the oldest influencer style. But you go there seeking information on things you are interested in buying. But once you've completed your purc
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by yardie 4y ago
It's going to be fascinating to watch the influencer economy really take off. Customers, such as myself, are looking to brands they trust. At first I was dismissive of the influencer economy, but now that I'm doing more of my own
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by yardie 4y ago
Funny how the largest western nation has made it abundantly clear they have little respect for women and lgbtq rights. Yet, it is the developing countries that are held up as being backwards. > The problem is that an African cannot repla
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by yardie 4y ago
Yet the right to free speech and assembly have far more restrictions in place.
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by yardie 4y ago
The great thing about EV charging is you can do it almost anywhere there is electricity available. You can do it at home, a charging station, the supermarket, visiting friends or family, or at the park. I've literally hung out and aske
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by yardie 4y ago
Diesel is ~$5/gal in these parts. If you average 40mpg That's about $31/250miles. Or 19% higher than an EV. And for the unscrupulous stations charging $6/gal for diesel its 33% higher. Doesn't seem like much of a dr
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by yardie 4y ago
EA is .40/kw or $.31/kw + $4/mo membership. Our electrical utility in the south is $.13-.17/kw So to fill a Tesla battery from near empty to full ~80kwH is around $25.
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by yardie 4y ago
My IG handle is pretty desirable and was the title in a film. Every few months I get password reset notifications. I get DMed with offers. I also get occasionnal DMing thinking I'm the handle for the artist.
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by yardie 4y ago
> Chief Executive Arvind Krishna has been trying to pivot Big Blue from its traditional business of infrastructure and information technology services to the fast-growing cloud-computing market. Skating to where the puck has been. While
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by yardie 4y ago
One of the first projects I created with the Raspberry Pi Model A was setup a SDR listening station. Then I wrote some software and downloaded software to listen and stream ADS-B data to a few aggregators. One of them was ADS-B Exchange. Th
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by yardie 4y ago
I bought one of those locked by Company X laptops. It went out of business and I needed a new display, cheap. And some former employee now has $100.
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by yardie 4y ago
I remember when activation lock came to the iPhone. The guys selling "gently used" phones in front of the Metro stopped selling them overnight, it seems. They quickly pivoted to Android. And it for a while everyone was trying to p

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