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Babel is both the driving force of innovation and the cause of much of the fragmentation in JS. Babel allows you to use the latest language features and target the oldest environme…

Rematch reminds me of Marty.js. I like some of the ideas about providing a createStore wrapper that is more zero-config and using something like redux-actions to make reducers simp…

I've given advice to young professionals in the past in this same vein. I ask, "What magic is it that people love good ideas, yet, you have a good idea and no one listens to you?" …

Write an evolutionary ML bot network that trades stocks in 5 minute intervals. Don't try to compete on the nanosecond micro trading end, just try to beat the market by making "good…

I wonder why? Is the same phenomenon at play with Trump's approval rating? It's been in the high-mid-30s for many weeks now [1]. 80+ consecutive days at the time of this writing. E…

> [Streaming is] the big asset [movie studios] could build on! The movie studios likely don't see it this way. Tickets and merchandising are still the two main pillars of the indus…

High-quality public television tends to make cable and satellite TV less attractive. SkyTV has been far less popular in its primary markets than DirecTV has been in the US. In the …

> The only competition with the streaming service would be piracy. Piracy is the only thing that will lead to a consumer friendly streaming option. If it weren't for music piracy, …

> If all major studios pull their content from Netflix, then it will not have the large library size anymore. Exactly! It is obvious that Netflix and Amazon are pivoting to be more…

Most people pay north of $100/mo for cable TV [1]. Depending on your bundle you may pay as high as $150 (anecdotal from friends who have Comcast). If you pay $50/mo for your intern…

Tesla's big advantage is that most other car makers have publicly ridiculed electric cars [1] and heavily promoted the roar of gasoline engines [2]. Electric car sales are widely e…

I think the term you're looking for is "history" [1] as in, "tech people tend to adopt a historical view of older companies." With extremely few exceptions, the older a company get…

Gas prices and EV sales are, perhaps counter-intuitively, unrelated [1]. It has been widely reported that low gas prices do not affect EV sales [2]. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/0…

City Lab has debunked that notion twice [1, 2]. "[I]t’s important to realize that the situation reflected in this data represents the past, not the present. States across the count…

The idea that electric vehicles are "dirty" because of electricity produced from coal is now widely viewed as a myth [1]. The electric grid in the US (and worldwide [3]) is consist…

Oil companies recently raised their projections on EV adoption by 40% [1]. Many countries are setting aggressive EV quotas, targeting 100% EV adoption in the near future [2, 3]. Pe…

There is a long list of companies that are planning to go all electric or to significantly electrify their offerings in the next few years [1, 2, 3]. Chevy/GM is an early entrant i…

> it's very possible that most car buyers simply don't want [a Tesla/electric car]. Many surveys have shown that people want electric cars [1, 2]. While the car industry overall ha…

Early studies (2012) found that high school students had CTE [1]. When the issue broke nationally a few years ago, early indicators were that high school students were at higher ri…

One wonders why you would say divisive things aloud in an otherwise lonely forest. Saying something hurtful, offensive, divisive, unnecessary... is problematic regardless of the si…

The possibility of concussions is present in [nearly?] every sport. Typically, head injuries are not a core part of gameplay. In the case of soccer, there have been concerted effor…

This is an easy step that soccer has taken to reduce the occurrences of brain injuries. Anyone who is confused on this issue should note that any jostling of the brain can cause mi…

Your core argument that football builds stronger camaraderie [than other sports or team-like activities] is unsupportable. There is no reason to believe that football is the key in…