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At no point does the article enlighten me of the actual ‘problem’. The photo is beautiful. The ability to even capture this signifies technological advancement, which I think wonderful.

In some way this reminds me of living in SF back in 2015, and all the arguments over the towers going up in soma. “No one wants the Manhattanization of the city” was accepted fact on both sides. Yet that wasn’t an obvious fact to me at all, and I could never find an argument in support of this ‘fact’.

Can someone enlighten me here?

sell if off

To who? How?

Probably 12 hours a day, or even 16 hours/day if you also count Twitter as “work”.

It’s the marketing effort that puts me off. I know I’m a 10x developer with a great product sense, but spending hours every day on Twitter and blogging sounds awful. I very definitely count those 4 twitter hours as ‘work’.

I just got a Rivian R1S and lack of CarPlay is by far the worst thing about the car. The built in Spotify app is janky, podcasts and music can’t continue where it left off, built in map seems to only direct me to busy roads. It’s so annoying I’m thinking of selling (for a profit).

Why is this happening? Car executives aren’t stupid, and must realize software is not core to their business. Unless they plan to start selling phones down the line they can never ‘win’ this battle. It’s clearly a huge waste of internal effort.

Does Apple try and take a % of the car sale as a license fee? Even if the fee were $2000 per car… that could be passed on to the car buyer. I would pay $2000 today to get CarPlay into my Rivian.

Link for the curious https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/

If he decision to kick off this project took a bill in the California legislature, then why didn’t they save tens of billions by tacking on a “CEQA does not apply to HSR” sentence to the end?

There are no mega-companies because it is not a single market in practice. Language alone splits your market.

It would be like launching your SV startup only in California and not getting the other 49 states for 'free'. For each new state you launch in, there is regulatory burden and language burden, not to mention culture differences affecting UX. Small markets limit growth and reduce ability to raise capital -> ergo the US competitor will almost always win.

Google? Older articles are down ranked? A guess.

So if this becomes the new ‘standard’ work week, which day becomes part of the weekend? Friday?

I see these stories all the time. I’m pro the idea. But it’s not going to work if one industry works Tue-Fri and another Mon-Thu and their customers are taking off Wednesday. That standard work week being _standard_ is a feature.

Thanks. But even at $80k it’s a no brainer. The hybrid solution I vetoed came in at $130k!

EDIT: To expand on that, only about $40k was batteries. After an initial period would fall back to (large) generator and only certain areas of house powered. I’d have to check the math, but an E F150 with a much smaller generator would be both cheaper and power the whole house indefinitely.

Surprised there’s no discussion on the price delta here - I could buy 10x power-walls for $110k, or 1x E F150 for $40k and get a free truck thrown in.

As someone with a large house who just investigated a hybrid power walls + gas generator + solar backup solution and didn’t go through with it due to cost, this is huge. I am literally considering buying an F150 to just keep parked stationary behind my garage.

Why not just write @(x(), y(), z(“items”))? Named cells was a feature.

My immediate thought is excel is 3d — through worksheets - it’s just the calling syntax is horrible.

It would be hard to displace excel at this stage. But if there was a) a good gui and b) a translator that allowed you to save a Teapot spreadsheet as excel for sharing… I’d consider switching.

Does this mean I can finally have multiple user accounts on my iPhone?

I guess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28306355

So why didn’t your investors offramp to fiat themselves, and then transfer you USD? Or are you saying they were in foreign countries and had non-USD denominated bank accounts, this you saved them currency conversion costs?

The house I grew up in in Scotland did exactly this.

We had fireplace powered central heating -— radiators throughout the house linked to pipes behind the firebox. In the morning I’d wake up to ice on the inside of the windows, and by my teenage years it was my job to head downstairs and light the coal fire first thing in the morning. It worked well once the fire was up and running.

This was in the ‘90s btw, I’m not _that_ old.

Where does this 50/50 myth come from? I have used Amazon prime as my first choice for all shopping since 2014. Only if I can’t find an item on Amazon will I buy elsewhere. (This is a convenience and customer service decision, I am relatively price insensitive.) Now I have kids and a larger family, this usually means 1 or 2 packages a _day_.

I have exactly _once_ received an item that was obviously fake.

Every time I purchase elsewhere I am shocked to be charged shipping, wait days for the item to be shipped, and go through hell if I need to return something. Amazon wins because it’s a better product in every way.

Because moving to NYC from pretty much anywhere else would increase your annual cost of living by far more than $5,000. Net you’d lose.

After laughing and upvoting this brilliant satire, coming to the comments was like a second meta-joke.

Like another poster below with Linux, every two years I purchase a Windows laptop (most recently an XPS 2 years ago) and try it out. And so far every time I’ve been so disappointed, from hardware quality, through coil whine, through WiFi that won’t connect, etc etc. The experience has been horrible.

I truly want what you say to match my personal experience... but sadly not. Mac has just been superior in every way.

And now with the move to Arm and seeing the benchmarks starting to come out, it seems yet another huge reason to stick with Apple.

That is unfair. Apple has a billion devices in active use so there are bound to be the occasional issue. And even with those issues it is still a _far_ better experience than either Linux or Windows.

Thank you and ordered.

Amazon link for the lazy: https://www.amazon.com/Strip-Vegas-Architecture-American-Dre...

Certainly they would not have been able to be sold on any legitimate exchange.

May I ask why? (Genuine, not a crypto expert). Do exchanges by default trace any bitcoins back and see if they were connected with illegality? Is there a list of tainted bitcoin addresses that are effectively worthless?

A lot of people here misinterpreting the CEO tax —- it applies to revenue made within San Francisco, and is not dependent on the location of the company. So no, it should not impact the decision of a founder to base their company in SF.

The doubling of transfer tax on property over $10m however... that has a very real impact on a founder who has already made some money.

Also consider the inverse example of Twitter: SF offered tax breaks to companies setting up on mid market street, and low and behold startups moved in and gentrified the area.

I have the exact same story, and I too now mistrust the Wirecutter!

Depends so much on your climate.

Heat: the best by far is under floor heating (hot water not electric). Each room will have its own thermostat. There will be no cold spots, it will just feel cozy. No air is being cycled around the room keeping dust down.

Ventilation: indoor pollution is usually many multiples of outdoor. You want a an MVHR (or MEV) system to exchange the air in the house for fresh air with low heat (energy) loss.

AC: You need to move cold air around for this unfortunately. Pumping chilled water through your under floor heating pipes risks condensation in crawl spaces, and even if it doesn’t it simply doesn’t work very well. (Source: I had ‘radiant cooling’ ceiling panels in my last house.) I would look into a mini-duct or ductless AC system so you can control each room individually.

In climates that require heat and cooling, it is far more cost effective to go with a standard HVAC system, unfortunately, as you’ll be putting ducts throughout the house for AC. (Why put a separate system in for heating when you could just move hot air around?) But if you want the best, not cheapest, solution you really want under floor heating.

No, bricked is relative to _anybodies_ ability to fix it without replacing hardware.

Doesn’t the article explicitly say that is not the case?

Though the thermal environment is performing work on the load resistor, the graphene and circuit are at the same temperature and heat does not flow between the two.

I’m not a physicist or even an educated layman, can you explain your comment more?

So you never use google, don’t have an iPhone, and never purchase from Amazon or any other online store? Your only footprint online is hacker news? Only cash offline? I think that ship sailed many years ago and you’ve already died on the hill.

For years I’ve thought the hardware is the problem. The experience of all past headsets —- since the Oculus DK1 —- has been good enough to get a feel, or idea, of what this could be, but has never crossed that line where VR can become mass market. Discomfort, simulator sickness, and that “cross-eyed” feeling are something enthusiasts can push through, but the masses still view VR as a tech demo. And until there is a mass market install base, no-one is willing to spend the money creating great content.

IMHO this chicken-and-egg problem will only be solved when there is a step change in the hardware. I hope the Quest 2 is it.