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It doesn't seem like it's strictly true that they don't charge trading fees. From their docs, it looks like they charge fees to bet "takers" (as opposed to makers), but exclude the…

For those of you who are put off from trying the game by the category for today’s puzzle being sports, note there are other puzzles from prior days with more general topics. Click …

I don’t think the implication was that everyone can be a billionaire with luck - rather that virtually nobody becomes a self-made billionaire without some (and often a lot of) luck…

I think this makes the economic circumstances which allow for a billion dollar company to be created sound rarer than they are. There have been numerous technologies that have emer…

Yes and no. If consuming the lanes as much as possible was the goal, we’d be parked bumper to bumper with no available space to move at all. We want the throughput of the road to b…

As others mention it really depends on your use case. If you can charge at home (ideally at 240v), and you don’t drive more than the range of your vehicle in a day regularly, it’s …

Deep integration with the car is the most difficult piece of the Supercharger system to achieve for any other charging network. They have the best in-car and in-app charging experi…

If the drones could meter their own consumption from the line using a utility-approved meter, anyone with a drone with said meter should be able to just tap onto lines at will and …

Hypothetically, sure, assuming the parent comment that these meshes are sufficient for modelling is correct and that you can find any teens who want a non-digital toy. I think a go…

My dad handed me down our 2001 4Runner when I got my license and it was a great first car as a high school and college kid. Not enough performance to be that tempting to do anythin…

I don’t think the argument being made is that the cost should be proportionate to wealth, but proportionate to impact or alternatives. If flying private incurs 10x or 100x the exte…

I believe it’s both really. My understanding is the end caps are bolted to a titanium flange, not the carbon fibre hull directly. The titanium flange the caps are bolted to is epox…

I’m sure it’s not the case that any random person can get a quote for something like this, but in the case of Titan the people who can afford the $250k ticket probably can.

I saw a bit of video where they showed the construction- it’s a few inch wide band of carbon fibre wrapped around an inner tube like a spool of thread until it reaches 5” thickness…

I don't really understand this assessment. Half as much is $1,750. That's really not much compared to what people are willing to pay for Apple devices. Basically the price point of…

This is also done in auto racing, particularly endurance racing where you might pick up 4+ hours of bugs and debris on the windshield over a driver stint. The windshield has a stac…

I believe this is more than speculation. Pretty sure that someone from Reddit basically said as much in one of the transcripts or conversations shared by Apollo’s dev. Reddit feels…

Is this supposed to be some kind of takedown? Why would I care that one of the moderators of a subreddit has a normal, common occupation? That article is so petty it deserves no on…

If one of Reddits big goals in all this is to sell actually useful information on a broad variety of topics for training LLMs (I think they’ve basically said as much), then I’m not…

Reddit forcing open the subreddits would result in massive backlash from moderators, who are often the main people providing content and enforcing content quality. It would crank t…

All of that can be accomplished with one-time purchases. What’s the value-add of a subscription? It’s great that future buyers can upgrade, I think that’s cool. But now sellers can…

I wouldn’t complain if it was a one-time purchase. Different spec levels have always cost different amounts for basically every product. But what ongoing value do I get for my subs…

Sure, as long as your emotions are driven only by the contracts you sign. People sign a waiver accepting the risk when they go whitewater rafting, but that doesn’t stop it from bei…

If this money was distributed among the wealthiest 10% it would be far more distributed than it is now. Most of the people driving the 399x compensation figure are in the top fract…

I don’t think there’s all that much concern about incentive packages tied to performance. The question in my mind is: how much compensation is required to provide that incentive? A…