It's a fine idea if good candidates for conversion can be found, but shouldn't they fix up their dilapidated public transit system before inviting more density into their urban core? Just today, one of their rail cars…
Simple: capex and economies of scale. Suppose that I have an idea for a widget which market research indicates could sell for $20/, but probably not $50/. I can hit the $50/ target with small contract runs, which would…
In the words of John Oliver's character on Community, "It's just that the average person has a much harder time saying 'booyah' to moral relativism."
Is it? A vehicle lasts for decades. $10/mo * 20 years = $2400. That's almost an extra 5% you get over the purchase price, nicely hidden away at the time of sale. You also self-select for the sort of customer who will…
Not surprising that jobs which mostly involve seeing and helping other people score highly. Nor is it surprising that people who sit in front of screens dealing with petty workplace politics score poorly. What's up with…
Abrahamic religions in general - Jesus was also not a fan. >Jesus went into the temple courtyard and threw out everyone who was buying and selling there. He overturned the moneychangers’ tables and the chairs of those…
"Digital electronics" communicate using discrete values, 1s and 0s. "Analog electronics" communicate using voltage/current/temperature/etc levels. One of the simplest examples is a voltage divider: if you put two…
Tough to say, information about the systems is restricted and hard to come by. I'm pretty sure they have hooks into audio systems for wireless emergency alerts, but could be wrong.
They may have access to backdoors in the baseband firmwares. The baseband is an opaque binary blob that operates outside of the phone's main OS, and its contents are usually considered a trade secret by the manufacturer…
Landscaping materials? You can get things like sand and mulch for like $30/ton. You just have to provide your own transportation.
You'd think they would at least throw in an exponential backoff. Here, I'll help. to = 2; while (!request(timeout=to)) { to *= 2; } I'm available for a 6-week contract. $1M plus a ride in a Dragon capsule, cash up front.
A good real estate agent can provide a lot of value, especially if you're a first-time buyer. * They've seen a lot of houses, and know what to look out for even before you commit to calling in inspectors. * They've seen…
It feels like a common paradox. Why should lawyers discipline lawyers? Why should cops discipline cops? Why should lobbyists advise legislators? Why should banks help to shape financial regulations? Why should corporate…
It would be neat to have a fundamental "money" primitive alongside int, float, string, etc. It might not be simple to implement, though. Off the top of my head, * Can you confidently say that $100>¥10 in an offline…
Just wait until you can't see a restaurant's menu, in-flight announcements, traffic advisories, etc. The pandemic opened the door to making a piece of technology a mandatory requirement to participate in society. It…
Not usually, no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea You can definitely be convicted of one, though!
Write it into the law that self-dealing to evade taxes is fraud, if that even needs to be spelled out. Also, vacant properties would count as vacant whenever they are not productively occupied, even if there is an…
Those things are bigger than an old F-250, and they only have a 4.5' bed. They're also not really pickup trucks, underneath they have the same SUV unibody as the Bronco (yikes) and the Escape.
Of course it's wrong. We are able to do easy work with flexible hours for high pay, while more important professions can barely scrape by. That injustice stems from a system that we cannot meaningfully change, though.…
Maybe a property tax adjustment based on how much time the property has spent vacant over the past N years? Something like, every year the property owner pays: property value * (average vacancy % over N years) If your…
Good point. I, and I suspect many others, would still pay $40K for a specialty base model which would only cost $30K if it sold in mass-market quantities. Large companies in oligopolic positions won't try to produce…
Cars aren't like governments, though: the Toyota Corolla doesn't hold a monopoly on anything. Why don't we have more specialized vehicles catering to small, passionate niches? A modern Jeep or Land Rover looks just like…
To quote the CBS reporter who recorded an earlier journey with them, as he read the waiver form¹: >...An experimental submersible vessel, that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body, and could result…
From whom? Your average voter neither knows nor cares about the DMCA. We've all got things to do, people to see, and computing is just one industry/hobby. Influential companies prefer predictable systems. They are…
>You would think large corporations would do the same against internal troublemakers, competitors, etc. They certainly do! Here's a recent example, although it ended in prison time for the executives:…
It's a fine idea if good candidates for conversion can be found, but shouldn't they fix up their dilapidated public transit system before inviting more density into their urban core? Just today, one of their rail cars…
Simple: capex and economies of scale. Suppose that I have an idea for a widget which market research indicates could sell for $20/, but probably not $50/. I can hit the $50/ target with small contract runs, which would…
In the words of John Oliver's character on Community, "It's just that the average person has a much harder time saying 'booyah' to moral relativism."
Is it? A vehicle lasts for decades. $10/mo * 20 years = $2400. That's almost an extra 5% you get over the purchase price, nicely hidden away at the time of sale. You also self-select for the sort of customer who will…
Not surprising that jobs which mostly involve seeing and helping other people score highly. Nor is it surprising that people who sit in front of screens dealing with petty workplace politics score poorly. What's up with…
Abrahamic religions in general - Jesus was also not a fan. >Jesus went into the temple courtyard and threw out everyone who was buying and selling there. He overturned the moneychangers’ tables and the chairs of those…
"Digital electronics" communicate using discrete values, 1s and 0s. "Analog electronics" communicate using voltage/current/temperature/etc levels. One of the simplest examples is a voltage divider: if you put two…
Tough to say, information about the systems is restricted and hard to come by. I'm pretty sure they have hooks into audio systems for wireless emergency alerts, but could be wrong.
They may have access to backdoors in the baseband firmwares. The baseband is an opaque binary blob that operates outside of the phone's main OS, and its contents are usually considered a trade secret by the manufacturer…
Landscaping materials? You can get things like sand and mulch for like $30/ton. You just have to provide your own transportation.
You'd think they would at least throw in an exponential backoff. Here, I'll help. to = 2; while (!request(timeout=to)) { to *= 2; } I'm available for a 6-week contract. $1M plus a ride in a Dragon capsule, cash up front.
A good real estate agent can provide a lot of value, especially if you're a first-time buyer. * They've seen a lot of houses, and know what to look out for even before you commit to calling in inspectors. * They've seen…
It feels like a common paradox. Why should lawyers discipline lawyers? Why should cops discipline cops? Why should lobbyists advise legislators? Why should banks help to shape financial regulations? Why should corporate…
It would be neat to have a fundamental "money" primitive alongside int, float, string, etc. It might not be simple to implement, though. Off the top of my head, * Can you confidently say that $100>¥10 in an offline…
Just wait until you can't see a restaurant's menu, in-flight announcements, traffic advisories, etc. The pandemic opened the door to making a piece of technology a mandatory requirement to participate in society. It…
Not usually, no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea You can definitely be convicted of one, though!
Write it into the law that self-dealing to evade taxes is fraud, if that even needs to be spelled out. Also, vacant properties would count as vacant whenever they are not productively occupied, even if there is an…
Those things are bigger than an old F-250, and they only have a 4.5' bed. They're also not really pickup trucks, underneath they have the same SUV unibody as the Bronco (yikes) and the Escape.
Of course it's wrong. We are able to do easy work with flexible hours for high pay, while more important professions can barely scrape by. That injustice stems from a system that we cannot meaningfully change, though.…
Maybe a property tax adjustment based on how much time the property has spent vacant over the past N years? Something like, every year the property owner pays: property value * (average vacancy % over N years) If your…
Good point. I, and I suspect many others, would still pay $40K for a specialty base model which would only cost $30K if it sold in mass-market quantities. Large companies in oligopolic positions won't try to produce…
Cars aren't like governments, though: the Toyota Corolla doesn't hold a monopoly on anything. Why don't we have more specialized vehicles catering to small, passionate niches? A modern Jeep or Land Rover looks just like…
To quote the CBS reporter who recorded an earlier journey with them, as he read the waiver form¹: >...An experimental submersible vessel, that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body, and could result…
From whom? Your average voter neither knows nor cares about the DMCA. We've all got things to do, people to see, and computing is just one industry/hobby. Influential companies prefer predictable systems. They are…
>You would think large corporations would do the same against internal troublemakers, competitors, etc. They certainly do! Here's a recent example, although it ended in prison time for the executives:…