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by zamfi 6y ago
> But Smith and Cuscuna now are severed from their creation. Cuscuna told Marker that the bankruptcy allowed, in her words, “bottom-feeders,” to snap up the company, and says it was clear from the start that they couldn’t work together.
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by zamfi 6y ago
> it always seems like what people really want is just a well organized and reasonably trustworthy third party who can handle this stuff. And also a third party to sue when things go south, or to correct errors (at scale, humans al
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Perhaps those who suffer from isolation find solace in both cigarettes and the socializing that occurs with their use?
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> You're literally making the argument that you're suggesting nobody is making. That ultimately its better for consumers if Tesla has a proprietary connector. Your reason for that line of thinking is because you assume if Tesla
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> By buying a Tesla you're supporting the notion that proprietary connections are good. You continue to say this, but your evidence is nonexistent for this claim. Standards exist, Tesla doesn't use them for <reasons>, the
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by zamfi 6y ago
Almost everything you say is spot on, but unrelated to my claims about whether a mandated standard is preferable at this point in time in the US: > The thing is, Tesla wants to push their proprietary connector and have that be the domina
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by zamfi 6y ago
This is a huge straw man. Obviously it would be better for consumers if all these companies got together and used a single standard and shared resources to build out a great network. Also better for consumers would be decoupling the chargin
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by zamfi 6y ago
> you can't tell a useful benign app from an app trying to upload your life. This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but it appears only 32% [0] of people care enough about privacy to switch to a service that preserves it. I suspe
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by zamfi 6y ago
I think you’re missing the other piece of the parent’s reply — the fact that Teslas are always tracked, making them easy to find, makes it easier for insurance companies (and cops) to find thieves, and makes theft much less appealing.
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by zamfi 6y ago
The reality is less important than the perception, though. The perception among laypeople is that EVs are less maintenance than ICEs, even though that may only be marginally true. The perception among dealership staff likely matches this.
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Yes, though that's a different requirement -- most trunk "buttons" are electronically, not mechanically, connected to the latch, aren't they?
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by zamfi 6y ago
Also not the parent, but I assume "calculated beforehand" does not refer to the pandemic per se , but rather either preparedness for when the economy goes south or exploitation of that reality after the fact.
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> gimme some physical controls especially for hardware actions like popping the trunk I'm with you on this, but it's a pretty great example of when a touchscreen isn't a safety hazard: very unlikely I'll want to pop
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by zamfi 6y ago
From https://registrar.berkeley.edu/service-adjustments/instructi... — > Will students be required to take in-person classes or be present on campus? Students will NOT be required to take in-person classes or be pre
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by zamfi 6y ago
> What kind of an idiotic argument is this? Convincing retort there, I should have realized my argument is idiotic! Consider my mind changed. And I bet you’ve convinced everyone else reading this thread too.
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> How can we have a meaningful discussion as a nation, when there is no apparent common ground? No set of agreed-upon facts? It's worse than this. Even just presenting facts that are inconvenient or go against the desires of beliefs
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~12% raise?
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by zamfi 6y ago
That’s what they did! > I'm now back to using email. /s
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by zamfi 6y ago
That the adage was intended to address a narrower case does not invalidate your argument, friend! People should, and do, make tradeoffs for maintainability over speed — and this is still choosing to make your app slow — whether Knuth meant
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by zamfi 6y ago
I guess I wasn’t clear — this is my point! You’re adding it because it has huge benefits, and one cost is it slows things down. You are still making an explicitly decision to use something that makes your app slower, no?
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by zamfi 6y ago
> accepting a tradeoff of speed for deliverability So...making a purposeful decision that results in your program being slower ...is not “writing slow programs on purpose”? They’re definitely not slow by accident. No one but artists (
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> No. The argument against premature optimization is not about labor vs. performance tradeoffs (but about correctness and maintainability vs. performance tradeoffs), nor is it about the entire code base, but about non-critical elements.
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> Nobody writes slow programs on purpose, but people are very willing to trade it off for things that are more important in the grand scheme of things Wait, of course they write slow programs on purpose, because "premature optimizat
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by zamfi 6y ago
You’re being downvoted presumably for snark, which as a lover of snark I can’t support. However, your point is also mislaid: there were plenty of anti-maskers at the time of the 1918 Influenza pandemic. Ignoring or selectively using facts t
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by zamfi 6y ago
This is a common refrain, but cities would absolutely collect substantial property taxes from new residents because new residents are much more likely to be paying substantially higher property taxes (having bought now-expensive properties)
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> Prop 13 shields NIMBYs from negative externalities of their desire for their neighborhoods not to change. Housing is in short supply which inflates property values, but they don't have to worry about that because they don't w
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by zamfi 6y ago
> We further observed that expression of Chi3l1 is regulated by the circadian clock, as deletion of the core clock proteins BMAL1 or CLOCK/NPAS2 strongly suppresses basal Chi3l1 expression, whereas deletion of the negative clock reg
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by zamfi 6y ago
I'm not sure either, but I don't object -- and I think it's actually related to topics that folks here care about, like cognition, language, and interpretation. Personally, I find it fascinating that this is spectacularly har
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Not correct: your taxes will go up annually by 2% or CPI, whichever is lower. Granted, this means they will grow substantially slower than historical property appreciation, but it’s not 0. Also your property taxes start out at 1% of asses
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by zamfi 6y ago
> NIMBYs oppose new construction because it keeps their property values high No, they just don’t want their neighborhoods to change (read: poor people, more traffic). I don’t think most of them are frankly thinking about their property v

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