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This is why some companies and interests are better off staying private. SpaceX is a perfect example. Musk doesn't want to be accountable to shareholders for return on investment a…

Services like this have a very large network effect. As the informed users leave, the quality of discussion drops and the remainder of users end up leaving too.

Now you can build apps on the iPad… it’s a baby version of XCode, but you can submit them to the App Store which is pretty rad.

Bar ends were never very popular. Maybe 5-10% of riders used them. I don’t think a single manufacturer adopted them in a shipped from the factory setup.

There is no doubt purses are useful on occasion and if you are carrying a purse, pockets are redundant. But I suspect one of the big reasons women complain about pockets is because…

This reminds me of the guy who traded a paper clip for a house... only in reverse. Every time these companies get traded, more gets added to the bundle and they sell for less money…

First... duh. I mean it is something everyone has known for a long time. That said, I think it goes a little bit deeper than just simply the fashion industry is trying to screw wom…

Why not just put the login in the top bar . I’m not sure why a site would recommend making an extra click easier when it’s not necessary at all. If someone has ever logged into you…

Modern houses are very easy to install and come in preconfigured shapes. They ship flat packed components and drop them on site for low skilled workers to build. They include thing…

There are better ways to build affordable housing already. You make a factory that builds prefabricated panels then deliver them onsite. With prefab, you don’t need to transport an…

I suppose that’s a fair comment. The whole build system and IDE slow down when working with Swift. It’s possible Swift wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for faster processors. One nice …

Apple forecast a 2 year transition a year ago at WWDC. That means they need a processor for their base laptop/ consumer desktops. One for their high end laptops and many of their p…

> 90% of the laptops sold Worldwide aren't Apple laptops, most of them are sub $500 laptops. Apple’s share of the total PC shipments is closer to 15% now and their share of the lap…

Maybe for some low hangers, but compiling code will still be faster, XCode and VSCode will be a bit snappier, Safari and Messages will be a bit better. These base things need to wo…

There are definitely reasons leasing is appealing, dealing with trade ins and resale can be a big headache. I tend to hang onto vehicles for 7+ years regardless so it’s not a big i…

Musk is bad about price promises, but $10k is a huge exaggeration, you can still get the Model 3 for $39k. The Model 3 was available to anyone who preordered it for that price and …

Teslas are still pretty new, but generally speaking leasing them is not a great choice. The terms are fine, but financially you are better off buying one and selling it after 3 yea…

“Premium Sedan” includes a lot of things. BMW certainly classifies driving performance as part of that. As does Lexus. Mercedes has it’s own performance models. Now if you wanted t…

> New S, X, Roadster, Cybertruck, and Semi models on the way There is also a lot of noise around the sub $30k mystery car Musk hinted about at the battery event. He said $25k, but …

Any kind of wired setup would interfere with other tractors they use in the field. Fertilization, and eventually harvesting. I’m not sure why people are inventing more complicated …

Hydrogen power is fundamentally a power storage technology. It makes sense to use H2 for that. I've seen some technology that transforms CO2 into jet fuel which is another somewhat…

A lot of these problems solve themselves with proper pricing. For example if power is nearly free during daylight hours and expensive in the evening, businesses will shift some per…

It feels like within the next 20 years we are going to have a good handle on “green” power to fixed locations. The tricky piece we have left is how do we move people and freight ov…

We know a lot of ways to store power. The trick is storing it efficiently. If we have enough surplus power (which may be the case in a few years), efficiency becomes less important…

Yes, but it could have been that I was tapping to specific portions of the time line. I can’t honestly recall if I was tapping or sliding or both.