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bliteben
·vorig jaar·discuss
Jobs had won complete cultural dominance of desktop pcs with the iMac 27". If you saw a desktop on a tv show for the past 20 years it was an iMac 27". Tim saw they could cancel it and go against their policy of minimal cords and sell separate Mac minis and Mac Studio displays.
bliteben
·vorig jaar·discuss
The difference is with the app. With the Apple Remote it works fine, but in the app it only works with HDMI magic (I'm sure some tv's allow you to use the HDMI magic with no sound bar / receiver)
bliteben
·vorig jaar·discuss
I got one recently for a room that was already wired with speakers, and man the ability to control the volume on Apple TV remote app on your phone is amazing. For whatever reason none of my other Apple TV's will allow that (could be the tv's fault, but obviously somewhere along the line they at least expect a speaker bar). I'm sure it's a fault of the HDMI spec somewhere that you can't easily change the volume on the tv itself but you can on downstream devices.
bliteben
·vorig jaar·discuss
Just wait till these robot maximalists figure out that a pile of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen is much cheaper than robots made out of steel and carbon fiber.
bliteben
·vorig jaar·discuss
Seems like the obvious solution to this, is if you collect driving data on public highways, the data has to be made available to the public. If you collect the data on private highways you are free to keep it private. If you don't intend to use it in a product on public highways it can remain private.

Doesn't even seem that crazy when you consider the government is already licensing them to be able to use their private data anyway. Biggest issue is someone didn't set it up this way from the start.
bliteben
·vorig jaar·discuss
The ease and seemingly no-cost nature of small changes in software development, causes scope creep that would have huge costs in construction.
bliteben
·vorig jaar·discuss
Yes, almost all post 2000 houses will have 20 amps in kitchen but in many areas the other circuits will be 15 amp.
bliteben
·vorig jaar·discuss
I thought everyone got waivers and the tariffs were just an excuse for raising prices. Was that not what happened in his first administration?
bliteben
·vorig jaar·discuss
In Astoria, Oregon on Wireless road you can find nearly 100 in a tree. I'm not sure why they are in such high numbers, but you can often see them scavenging fields where seafood waste (shells) are dumped.
bliteben
·vorig jaar·discuss
I moved back to the south after living out west for 20 years and it is insane the amount of trash dropped by trash workers while they are dumping bins. Part of it is cultural in that trash is literally piled at the street in bins of varying condition vs out west where you know if it doesn't fit in your 90 gal bin it ain't getting picked up by the robot arm.
bliteben
·vorig jaar·discuss
how many vc investors are in the class of people that get audited by the IRS?
bliteben
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Even Apple Store employees will freely give you the discount. Apple doesn't discount because they aren't a discount brand, but they will give you this discount if you ask.
bliteben
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Wonder if its better than a single color channel hologram though
bliteben
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
I don't understand how it isn't fraud. I looked at an ambulance bill for my mom the other day:

$1798 total

-$388 Medicare paid

-$1324 Service adjustment

$86 Amount you owe.

I don't think dumb is sufficient to explain this. It's pretty easy for me to see how someone leaps from this de facto legal system to outright fraud, because the line between them is pretty thin.
bliteben
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
> Floating gardens using soil are practically impossible

but very cool when they do exist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_island
bliteben
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
If tomorrow everyone switches to your proposed vegan diet, where does all the saved power, water and land go towards?

growing cattle keeps the land from turning into concrete. If you actually want to conserve land you want to use as much already deforested as possible for growing crops and then never deforest new land. Slowly you should work onto getting conservation NGOs to integrate it into government protected land.

Seems to me like a fools errand to optimize land use. The optimal use in the Americas for example was likely already there 14,000 years ago before humans arrived in Americas. We obviously can't go back, but we can improve land, but optimal ....
bliteben
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
I mean brass can be crazy hard to find, I'd bet if you did a geocaching experiment with brass picking a random spot within shotspotter's accuracy tolerances, you'd find the casing less than 50% of the time. Add in an hourly employee that is in no way motivated to find the casing and you'd prob drop to 10%.
bliteben
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
How would you handle stocks not paying a dividend? It is a clear moral hazard and with a flat tax you could expect even more companies to adopt this practice of only doing stock buybacks.