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by tortarga 5y ago
These are most likely two separate problems. Car based urban planning which requires large wide roads, giant carparks and 'boxey houses' due to garages can overwhelm any other aesthetically pleasing design (notably green space). A
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by tortarga 5y ago
As the article hinted at the simple answer is Car Dependency. Suburbs are regulated and built to accommodate cars now and not people. The topic is explored thouroughly on the 'Not Just Bikes' youtube channel. https://ww
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by tortarga 5y ago
Analyst Ben Evans frequently refers to cycle of bundling and unbundling of produtcts in tech. Once the market becomes completely fragmented, a new service offering to bundle it back up will inevitably come along.
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by tortarga 6y ago
Even the battery cells themselves are made by Panasonic, the packaging of a complete product is the value of the PowerPack.
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by tortarga 6y ago
Seems to be planned. Elon tweeted in response to Tim Dodd that the engines were "working great" on ascent.
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by tortarga 6y ago
Mandatory voting would be the fastest way to "fix" America. Turnout based voting means you win by radicalizing your side to show up to vote. Most voters would fall into a bell curve of political preference and in the US that middl
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by tortarga 6y ago
Music streaming solved this problem by remembering they were combating piracy not each other. Each music service has all the music and they all pay royalties. TV streaming services have come full circle and are repeating the same cable tv m
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by tortarga 7y ago
US dollar is pretty much steady against the Euro from 2016 levels. The AUD fall is because of our mismanaged economy. The fall in US tourism can better be attributed to Trump trashing America's foreign image.
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by tortarga 7y ago
Trees that had their leaves stripped by acid rain, flowed into stagnant seas and the nutrients caused ocean-wide algal blooms.
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by tortarga 7y ago
People viewing gaming subreddits most likely already own a console or gaming PC and aren't the target audience for Stadia. Google's aim is to open up gaming to new markets of people who only have low end PCs, laptops or mobile dev
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by tortarga 7y ago
Being in the US, which from an outsiders perspective appears to have little in the way of employee rights, what risk do these workers face of simply being fired and replaced by the company?
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by tortarga 8y ago
There was recently a video posted theorizing this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKNCBrkZQ4 Very interesting watch. Based off the paper: https://twitter.com/awm22/status/1044512585599602688
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by tortarga 8y ago
Does "Obsolete" only apply to consumer grade applications though? Can there be a market for refurbishing old phones, laptops etc for IoT controllers that don't need massive processing power?
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by tortarga 9y ago
Eve is a serious game about internet spaceships.
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by tortarga 10y ago
Fishing?