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by sf_rob 2y ago
USA government spending as a percent of GDP is on the lower side of developed nations (high 30s depending on the source). Our peers are Luxembourg and Norway, and we’re well below France and Germany. Granted that we are one of the few devel
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by sf_rob 2y ago
An interesting outsider perspective is this clip of Steven Fry going to an Auburn game: https://youtu.be/FuPeGPwGKe8 Regarding the latter, it’s weird and certainly was exploitative when college athletes weren’t allowed to m
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by sf_rob 2y ago
Nationally there’s FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, who (despite a recent name change) are focused on campus free speech rights.
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by sf_rob 2y ago
Yes, I prefer YouTube and use it for background audio when I'm not listening to podcasts. YouTube Music is a product trying to kludge way too much into a single app to be good at any one thing. It's an okay music player, decent po
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by sf_rob 2y ago
While I'm not all-in on the ecosystem, I'm pretty far. It's still terrible. I still can't "cast" YouTube audio to my Google Home Mini unless I use the Home Mini in Bluetooth mode (I have more reliable Bluetooth
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by sf_rob 2y ago
Whenever I submit Google Home/Chromecast bugs/feature requests I include some snark in my sign-off like "I know you don't care about this product and it will be killed soon, but if I'm wrong please consider the sugg
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by sf_rob 2y ago
And every war since Vietnam has been a police action or military operation.
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by sf_rob 2y ago
Yes, it’s interesting but mostly a shift of concentration of earnings. Market weighted PE multiples are slightly elevated historically but not insane; forward PE even less so (taken with a grain of salt of course).
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by sf_rob 2y ago
The only EV I’ve rented from Turo was the opposite experience. They gave me the car at 75%, they capped charging at 90% in settings, then they charged me for bringing it back at 70% (which was just past their threshold but considering I cou
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by sf_rob 2y ago
Can you provide citation for a US federal requirement? I'm skeptical and not finding anything in a search.
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by sf_rob 2y ago
Conjecture, but did the prior report have a one time tax hit? That's fairly common.
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by sf_rob 2y ago
That's not uncommon and is even beneficial in warmer climates. It will be parasitic in winter (even if externally vented) and symbiotic in summer.
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by sf_rob 2y ago
Tangent, but my experience with this was when I needed to upgrade my mobile plan for international service... but I had 2FA via text message enabled for the account.
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by sf_rob 2y ago
Claiming that merchant fees result in higher prices is different from claiming that reducing merchant fees would directly, immediately, or measurably lower prices. Isn't a plausible explanation that companies are hesitant to lower pric
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by sf_rob 2y ago
Are you factoring in the federal tax credit with your math? I suspect not when I look at their website where lightly used EUVs are ~$20k. Of course, you may not be eligible for the federal tax credit, but $8500 doesn't strike me as muc
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by sf_rob 2y ago
Only the performance Model 3 is currently eligible for the Federal tax credit[1]. They may be referring to some generous state EV credits. [1] https://insideevs.com/news/700533/tesla-model-3-rwd-long-ran...
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by sf_rob 2y ago
Until Tesla changes their Model 3 sourcing to be eligible for the $7500 tax credit, I don’t understand who would buy one over the Model Y even with the “highland” improvements.
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by sf_rob 2y ago
While Musk’s attention was certainly a key asset in Tesla’s early years, I’m not sure that his attention is still a net positive.
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by sf_rob 2y ago
I think structuring the law as a penalty is "smart" in that the government does not have to explicitly ask providers to require ID, but I can't imagine them not being at significant financial risk without doing so. This will
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by sf_rob 2y ago
The 2007 Cosco Busan incident appears to be a glancing blow. I can't find any information suggesting an analogous impact at any point.
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by sf_rob 2y ago
I'm very ignorant of hardware, but how does this work? I would have thought that M2 and USB protocols were divergent enough that this would require significant hardware/software emulation in the interface, but this looks to be a s
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by sf_rob 2y ago
I find it somewhat entertaining that the press conference, and to a lesser extent the brief, argues that giving 3rd party dev access to Wallet functionality would result in a more security for the user. I don't always trust monoliths (
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by sf_rob 2y ago
The first study[1] I could find that included analysis of vegan vs non-vegan diets' correlation with blood PFAS levels suggest that vegan diets are negatively correlated with some classes of PFAS (and neutral with the other classes ana
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by sf_rob 3y ago
I’m fairly unaware of the current state of Linux on Apple M hardware, but I’d want a Linux partition on Apple hardware more than a Mac partition on x86. These days I have two devices though.
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by sf_rob 3y ago
My coworker calls this “shoveling the sh*t”. It only gets stinkier if you don’t.
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by sf_rob 3y ago
At a glance London has 4x the population density. Atlanta, like most US cities, is sprawling. I would think this would make street cleaning less economical (although not to the degree of quarterly sweepings). Dense US cities, such as SF and
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by sf_rob 3y ago
This method of data exfiltration is in Kevin Mitnick's book! He needed a daily pin that banks used to validate intra-bank communications. He called a bank, said that he needed to fax over loan forms from another branch for signing late
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by sf_rob 3y ago
I contacted Wells Fargo to complain that their use of 3rd party surveys from non WellsFargo.com domains attenuates customers to entering banking information to 3rd parties. They had one incompetent employee contact me to assure me that the
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by sf_rob 3y ago
Recognizing fallacious reasoning and reapplying it in a different direction may be clever but is certainly more dubious than believing a fallacy out of poor reasoning skills.
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by sf_rob 3y ago
I'm willing to bet that this is a inference due to "Login with Google" being an option. Probably worth sacrificing a click in their sign-in funnel to prevent it though.

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