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Thank you for the response. Good luck on your endeavor!

Gotta wonder what they're up to over there. Is the AI slop that bad? Culture change?

These switches remind me of the butterfly switches on previous generations of Macbooks....not a great memory

I think most people on this board would agree with the thesis. However the real problem is when the owner of the restaurant looks at profit and loss statements and decides to keep …

The article specifically talks about how some of those huge meatpacking companies are losing money on cattle. I don't think it's them to blame in totality here.

Thanks! I think those could all be good heuristics.

One thing that plagues [insert current FAANG] is the large amount of corpus knowledge that is outdated/misleading or just plain wrong. I'm curious how this addresses that if it's d…

This is quite the claim (and I'm not saying you are wrong from making it). I just would have expected some of these institutions to be better.

Is there a situation in which your smarthome taking 30s to recover from a node failure is impacting your life? Seems like a distinction without a difference

I think an interesting point here is there is no substantial difference between allocated vacation days if you work for the government or a private employer. One would think the go…

Doesn't stop charlatans from creating startups promising to make it work :)

> Notifications between 12 a.m. and 6 a.m. also stop without parental consent, and it’s not clear how that works with travel or time zones. It just doesn't. These fucking morons wr…

Reading Postgres queuing posts always seem like deja vu. People love to write about them

It will surely be a tough sell. It will be very expensive (comparatively), and most travelers won't even want to do it. There's a reason Ethiad is so successful on these kinds of f…

As the country exited COVID, mainline carriers began to really push their basic and barebones fares which directly took away business from ULCCs like Spirit. Spirit never really le…

The real cost of air travel continues to go down as customers really only discriminate on price. Airlines have tried before to compete on other facets but everything failed. The be…

The new Airbus Project Sunrise aircraft also set the record for longest passenger aircraft flight

Yep. > We should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. "We consume all intellectual property for our model but you cannot do the same"

This is a whole lot of words to say "we don't support open weight models". It's so obvious they are hoping to regulate out their competition rather than compete

Rent Control is a settled topic in economics, bar some fringe theorists. It would be impossible for me to explain all the negative externalities that rent control has on both exist…

The policies she chooses _results_ in the failure to implement them because the ideological obsession clouds rational judgement and it loses in court

> Mamdani explicitly campaigned on building more, especially housing You can't claim to support building or improving housing while implementing rent freezes on 40ish% of all units…

She also failed to secure wins when suing most big businesses because their strategy and evidentiary standards were subpar. Her ideological positions haven't really held up to cour…

Removing tiny pieces of red tape (a permit to sell ice cream) is a token gesture when he decided to install Lina Khan as Chair Of New York City Economic Development. Her entire rep…

Why are we writing articles about some random, single-event rental ad. What are we doing here?