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- Comment on NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks 21 hours ago:
Lol. People want Boeing to fail, because they’re corrupt, lying, poorly engineered pieces of shit riding on bribed politicians. They’ve already deliberately caused the deaths of hundreds of people due to willful and deliberate negligence to save a buck.
Nobody’s wanting the astronauts to die. And they won’t, they’re safe on the space station, and there are multiple options to get them home safe even if they have to abandon the POS Starliner.
- Comment on This smiling robot face made of living skin is absolute nightmare fuel 4 days ago:
So they can use time machines that somehow only work for living matter
- Comment on Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them 1 month ago:
They should just start their own Supercharger company… With blackjack and hookers
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 1 month ago:
Strange how Google became the default search engine back in the day because they were so good at filtering out the dumb websites that just spam search terms all over the page.
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 1 month ago:
It also lets them have a US military base in the middle East, where just about every other country hates the US
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
Every other version of Windows. It’s practically a rule.
- Comment on Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' 2 months ago:
At this point China is more reputable than Toyota when it comes to battery technology.
Toyota has been promising solid state tech “within 5 years” for the past 15 years.
Whereas Chinese companies like CATL and BYD basically make an announcement and then ship products within a year.
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 2 months ago:
Didn’t they advertise this as one of the benefits of buying a pixel phone?
Less than a year and it’s gone… Not that it was much of a feature in the first place
- Comment on My opinion on Bone conduction earphones 2 months ago:
I played around with them from a friend.
They definitely have their use case, the most obviously being when you need to keep your ears open for traffic or whatever.
However, I felt that the sound definition was not great, especially for sharp sounds like cymbals.
It’s one of those “better than nothing” but not what I’d choose for pure listening enjoyment
- Comment on is this the moment spez became Heisenberg? Reddit CEO warns users: "We know your dark secrets' 3 months ago:
Is this like a competition? Is it an invitation to dox spez? We know your dark secrets too, buddy.
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 3 months ago:
A gold topless Paul? Whatever floats your boat
- Comment on Boeing: Last Week Tonight 3 months ago:
Too late, 2 of them already did
- Comment on Boeing: Last Week Tonight 3 months ago:
Boeing’s #1 competency isn’t airplanes or engineering, it’s lobbying.
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 4 months ago:
No, they get shorter range at a higher price than batteries.
People push for it because they are either middlemen who want to sell the hydrogen and get a cut of ongoing profits, or Luddites who believe EVERYTHING must operate exactly the same way gasoline cars do or else they’ll never switch.
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 4 months ago:
It still kinda makes sense for long haul trucking, where the inefficiency of hydrogen is still better than the weight (and thus cargo capacity) of just batteries.
It has absolutely lost the war for passenger vehicles and even short-distance trucking.
- Comment on Why does incest result in birth defects? 4 months ago:
Many birth defects are rare, and require 2 copies of a defective gene to show up. Most “normal” people will be carrying a few defective genes (out of thousands of pairs), but are fine because they have a good copy still working.
Family members tend to have similar genes.
The chances of you and a family member having the SAME defective gene are massively greater than you and some random stranger.
Thus any child would also have a massively greater chance of inheriting 2 identical copies of the defect.
- Comment on Boeing Finds More Misdrilled Holes on 737 in Latest Setback 4 months ago:
But then the executives will make less money
- Comment on How Quora Died 4 months ago:
I think the greatest thing that Quora provided was the “Pregananant???” video
- Comment on America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars: Whatever kind of EV you might want, chances are China has it. 4 months ago:
it basically falls under the vehicle classification of tricycles and golf carts, so the safety standards are, shall we say, more lenient
- Comment on America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars: Whatever kind of EV you might want, chances are China has it. 4 months ago:
I would prefer better crashworthiness though
- Comment on Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere? 5 months ago:
“X can kill gems! Why don’t we use X everywhere?”
X: Thing that can kill humans too. And/or cause cancer.
- Comment on Vulcan rocket's debut brings long-awaited challenge to SpaceX dominance 5 months ago:
the point is that it isn’t higher cost for those missions. Falcon Heavy will have to run at 100% expended mode which is nearly the same cost as Vulcan.
- Comment on Vulcan rocket's debut brings long-awaited challenge to SpaceX dominance 5 months ago:
they can compete in very specific cases - like heavy load to GTO. Falcon Heavy would require full expenditure of all 3 cores to match, which wouldn’t be much cheaper. Plus the larger fairing size helps with certain kinds of satellites.
- Comment on A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant 5 months ago:
in terms of usage though, they are quite similar. Coal serves on-demand power, whereas renewables generate power at times that don’t always align with demand. Batteries can take the role of a coal plant if the renewables already generate sufficient energy.
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 5 months ago:
they’re just caffeine addicts
- Comment on VW solid-state battery retains 95% capacity over 1,000 charge cycles in lab testing 5 months ago:
Maybe a real honest American company, like Boeing
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test 5 months ago:
also, the EPA test cycle for highway has a maximum speed of 60mph, with the average below 50
- Comment on Firm predicts it will cost $28 billion to build a 2nm fab and $30,000 per wafer, a 50 percent increase in chipmaking costs as complexity rises 6 months ago:
Intel already has plans to name the further generations xxA, after Angstroms
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 6 months ago:
HP actually has a brilliant business strategy.
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First get a huge customer base via cheap ass product
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Remove the customers who care about quality
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Remove the customers who care about reliability
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Remove the customers who care about price
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Remove the customers who pay attention to their monthly bills
voila, you have like 3 people left who you can charge infinite money for a lump of shit. Infinite profit margins
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- Comment on Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars 6 months ago:
actually they’ve been selling the LFP version in North America. Even with the extra import costs and reduced government grant due to a Chinese battery, it still ends up cheaper.