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- Comment on VPN by Google One shuts down 1 week ago:
Maybe the services that don’t need to sell your data to be in the black.
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 1 week ago:
More than the charging infrastructure it is the city infrastructure: when you have condos built without any planning 50 or more years ago, even if you pass a law that every home need to have a charging station in these condos it is physically impossible to do it. Charging infrastructure comes after you solve the problem where to put 70 or more charging station for every condo in the district.
- Comment on Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show 1 week ago:
Hybrids: the worst of both worlds.
If you want to keep relying on gasoline then just buy an ICE car
Maybe I can use a hydrid: short trip (to the train station/mall/small affairs in the vicinity) go in electric, longer trip use gasoline.
Not everyone has a charging station at home and in many places you cannot install it, be because forbidden by some old laws or because there is not the physical option.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 1 month ago:
They also weren’t an excuse to keep property off the housing rental market at scale.
True. But given that houses were off the market even before, I don’t think it is exclusively their fault.
For example Milano historically always had about 30% of the available homes empty, and that even before Airbnb.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 1 month ago:
I agree with you to some extend.
What I do not agree about is the implicit assumption that if AIRBNB is banned then every house that was used for short-term rental would become available on the long-term rental market.
The main advantage of the short-term rental (obvious higher profits aside) is the fact that the owner is sure to be able to get back the house if/when he need it. So many owners saw the possibility to use an house with AirBnB (or other similar ways) a lot more attractive than keeping it empty (paying the taxes on it) and much less risky than having a long-term rental where the tenants could be turn out to be a bad one.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 1 month ago:
Because often it is a nightmare to evict a tenant that do not pay the rent.
I can speak for where I live where a lot of people gone to the short-rental way exactly because that way they have the certainty that when they want the house back, for every reason, they have it.
To me AirBnB is not the problem, it is the wrong solution to a real problem.
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees 1 month ago:
You need a big fancy building in a fancy city to attract top talent, high earners, so it keeps the class system intact as well.
I don’t think that this is that true anymore.
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees 1 month ago:
Remote work is not right for ALL companies. Just ones that are completely or predominantly software-based.
I would expand to all the jobs that can be done with a laptop, an internet connection and a phone.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 month ago:
You’re missing the point of a safety feature. The car shouldn’t, by itself, close the lid if something’s in the way. It should allow the user to push it down, or disable it temporarily, to do so.
I get the safety feature. The point is that here I am saying to the car to close the lid even if something is in the way. I made a conscious decision to do so, and more than one time, so I expect the car to do it. But I agree that it could have been designed in a better way.
The point of a safety feature in any system is to prevent unexpected situation from having unexpected consequences, not to be a magic solution that accommodate for brainless people. In one direction, you can make the judgement call and force the thing down, in the other direction you lose a finger.
Which is exactly what happened here. He made the judgement call to ignore the safety feature (and probably ignored how the feature works)
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 1 month ago:
Probably the request to Proton arrived from a Swiss judge, who received a request from Spanish judge, and he evaluated the request and decided that it has merit.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 month ago:
Obviously.
But let’s face it: if the car lid would never close if something is in the way, some other dumb youtuber would have made a video about it and here there would be a discussion about how stupid are the engineers to not let the lid close even if a bag in slightly on on the way and the user know what they are doing.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 month ago:
What person with an automated cargo door closure mechanism has thought “stop protecting my stuff and just fucking close”?
The same person that sometime need to force the door to close because even if his things are in the way, he know there will not be damages, just a bag a little more pressed. Or some more trashed trash you are taking to the landfill
I’ll admit it annoys me when there’s something in the way that keeps my door from latching and it reopens, but I’d rather have to clear the door and shut it manually than it force itself closed and jams the door or break my shit.
Which is what the system assume in this case. It stops 3 times, the 4th it suppose that the human know what he is doing.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 month ago:
Nope, but they probably know that an elevator doors and a car lid are two completely different thing with different use cases and security concerns.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 month ago:
Never tried to force the closing of your trunk lid because there is a bag that is slightly over the limit and you need a little more pressure, even if the bag is a little pressed down ?
The assumption here is that if it is your finger which is in the way, you take it out the way and you are not that stupid to try to close it again if for some reason you are not able move it away, which to me seems to make a lot of sense.
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico 1 month ago:
I don’t know, but if they live there, I think they have it that good.
It is more (way more) probable that they just commute far enough away from there to have lower housing cost
- Comment on Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died 1 month ago:
Not a doctor here, but fulminant meningitis can kill a person in about 24/48 hours if not cured, for example.
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico 1 month ago:
They cannot, that is the reason you need to pay that much to work for you.
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico 1 month ago:
Why pay someone $200k/yeae when someone will do the job for $80k/year?
Assuming the same job’s quality, a possible answer is “because to live where your company is you need to be paid $200K/year”
- Comment on The AI grift that can literally poison you 1 month ago:
Buy a book published more that a couple of years ago. Or ask the people living in the area (the older the better, normally ). Or ask the people living in the area where you can have the mushrooms checked, they usually know where to go.
- Comment on The AI grift that can literally poison you 1 month ago:
Ask the people living in the area. They know the mushrooms and eventually they know where to go to have them checked.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Why do you think that Russia would care to include the edits from the original Wikipedia ?
- 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:
How does a battery seize control of a parent device when it is only connected by power wires?
It does not need to. Just set the battery on fire. Now set 100.000 batteries on fire, simultaneously, in a city, at night.
- 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:
I think you are seeing this as racism when it is just some old good skepticism about a country that is famous for faking everything.
Maybe they really done what they say, or maybe it is just some proof of concept that need to be ported, if possible, to a viable product stage or maybe it is just a fake, we will see.
- Comment on No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel 2 months ago:
As far as I heard (but I am not too familiar) the CEO is essentially never in the office.
Maybe, but that not the point.
Yes, insubordination is the key point. But it’s also the key point of a protest. The take away is that Google doesn’t accept a protest (any more?)
There are limits though. While you are free to protest, I am entitled to not want you to protest in my home.
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 2 months ago:
Are you so deluded to think that there are no other service provider in EU ?
- Comment on ‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram 2 months ago:
Until the EU don’t use the same tactic: follow the law or get out.
And what Meta is not understanding is that if the EU will arrive at this point, the “follow the law” will be as pedantic as it can be. And maybe even a little more.
Meta should learn from what happened during the Brexit’s negotiations.
- Comment on No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel 2 months ago:
I think that there are two main reasons that caused them to be fired: insubordination since they occupied the CEO’s office and refused to leave when asked (and probably he don’t asked only one time) which led to the second reason, they were arrested for trespassing in the CEO’s office.
- Comment on No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel 2 months ago:
I don’t know, but it seems that at least it is enough to be arrested.
- Comment on No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel 2 months ago:
Reports seems to indicate that they were arrested for trespassing.
- Comment on No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel 2 months ago:
If there is a criminal charge or conviction I think you would be fired in most countries.