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Yeah that's obviously not great but that video is nothing like what you described. You made it sound like it drove onto a mainline train track with a train barreling down the tracks that couldn't stop with the guy diving out of the car to avoid getting clobbered. It did not, it got stuck on a tram track. Not quite the same thing.
1. it's not that bad
2. you'll probably get used to it
3. gotta get it over with sometime
All people do here is complain.
Best I can tell you're arguing that 9% market share by units sold is some kind of failure. Now go look at who has the highest market share by revenue. Hint: it's a fruit company.
So, 377-year-old water bond still pays interest, presumably.
I thought that was Windows XP?
I wonder how the water being heated? Resistive or heat pump?
Because an ICE vehicle has never caught fire.
I don't understand this logic. The vast majority of people don't care what version of Windows they're running. They'll just keep running Windows 10 without a care in the world. Just like they keep running Windows 7.
Why did everybody lose their minds over this? It seems Safari does this without much drama.
You have 7 chargers and not a single lightning cable? Or a wireless charger?
> This isn't difficult: TVs should not be "smart".
As it turns out other people have different priorities than you do. The world not conforming to your personal preferences does not make it wrong.
I'm surprised to say but the latest Samsung interface and remote is quite good. Good enough I feel no need to put an Apple TV on it (which happens to have an awful remote).
Those salaries are not correct for either location.
50% seems... high. I don't think the majority of people are looking to become pioneers. Are the people who already work from home "live on some land"?
Presumably there is a lot of management being laid off as well that managed those 3,500 people. There probably isn't enough HR to manage that volume of layoffs 1:1. No point in dragging it out over multiple days, dealing with rumors, etc.
I watched the call in the article. Given the severance they're getting I think they did the most humane thing possible.
Pretty sure residential mortgages cannot be called.
Edit: assuming the borrower is current.
At that scale you're talking about millions in storage cost a month so I'm not sure $5 million is that scary.
Also for that amount of data it'd be faster to transfer as a stationwagon full of backup tapes (https://aws.amazon.com/snowball).
They're not that uncommon. You can do this with SQLAlchemy in Python or jOOQ in Java.
How are overhead lines any more ugly than a sprawling freeway?
At least your card can't get skimmed that way. Of course contactless would be the ideal.
Protip: if you click on the headphone icon on recaptcha you get an audio challenge which I find much simpler and less annoying.
> Inefficiency and lack of centralization in government may have indeed been a plan of the US government that worked at its founding, but at some point we have to re-evaluate and find a balance between decentralization and efficiency.
This one thing I've thought about. People seem to assume it's bureaucracy within government that's the issue when really it's bureaucracy among government.
At a minimum there's Federal, State, County, Municipal. Then you might have other specially formed districts for transportation or whatnot. There's no "the government". There's many governments and trying to get them all to agree on a coordinated plan for anything beyond the status quo seems next to impossible. The Bay Area is a perfect example of this. It's all one region. For all intents and purposes municipalities are pointless. It's just one giant organism. But some counties didn't want to join BART, some are more NIMBY, some don't want to construct housing, and so on.
Could anybody familiar with other better functioning countries maybe compare this system to one that is known to work better?
CDMA is going away. Verizon is supposed to drop 3G by end of this year.
How has this not been a scandal? The hospital, owned by the city, is fleecing its own citizens. The incentives are so perverse.
This is one reason why people in the middle to lower middle class resent the system. The system will only take care of you if you are indigent. If you're upper class you're wealthy enough to take care of your own problems. Of course I think their grievance ends up being that somebody else got something they didn't instead of demanding they receive the same benefits (affordable healthcare).