CannedYeet
@CannedYeet@lemmy.world
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 2 days ago:
The pickles onion and barbeque sauce are nicely balanced and crunchy though
- Comment on Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough 2 days ago:
The point of the Kin was that it was supposed to create a new service tier in between dumb phones and smart phones with expensive plans. At the time phones came with 2 year contracts that subsidized the cost of the phone. A basic plan came with $175 worth of subsidy which covered a dumb phone. If you added $30/month for unlimited data, you would get $350 off the the up front cost of a smart phone.
Microsoft’s idea was that parents didn’t want to pay that much for a smart phone for their teens. But a teen would get plenty of benefit for a something in between which would allow them to use a non SMS messaging service and browse social media. Plus it had a keyboard.
It’s still Verizon’s fault. But it wasn’t lack of promotion. The Kin didn’t make sense without the accompanying plan.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 days ago:
Ridiculous. I couldn’t name a more trusted brand of RAM.
- Comment on Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry 5 days ago:
§cience
- Comment on Trure 1 week ago:
TRuRe
- Comment on We need to normalize not captioning single image memes, so everyone can reuse it. 1 week ago:
Congratulations, you have reversed entropy
- Comment on Burger King now selling "Mystery" menus 1 week ago:
I think the lack of veggies is worse than the excess of meat. This way it just sits in your colon causing cancer.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 2 weeks ago:
I turned it off from that android app and as soon as I returned to the inbox there’s a notification asking me to flip it back.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 weeks ago:
For the sake of argument I think you could say that you’re depriving a scavenger of a meal. I don’t know if that’s how veganism is usually framed.
- Comment on We have one at home 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on In the US we have Breast Cancer Awarnes month and a bunch of others. All we do is throw money at a problem and hope it goes away How come the Gov don't take care of people from starving? 3 weeks ago:
In 2018, SNAP benefits supplied roughly 40 million Americans, at an expenditure of $57.1 billion.[2][3] In 2017, approximately 9.2% of American households obtained SNAP benefits at some point, with approximately 16.7% of all children living in households with SNAP benefits.[2]
en.wikipedia.org/…/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assista…
In the scheme of things, the interruption of SNAP benefits was a blip. A cruel blip, but I don’t think it’s fair to say we don’t do anything.
- Comment on Tax strike? 4 weeks ago:
The billionaires are way ahead of you
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 4 weeks ago:
I like price discrimination. Price discrimination lets airlines price first class tickets above cost so coach can tickets can be priced at marginal cost. It’s a way to charge the rich more. If you have an extensive library they figure you’re not poor. If your wife’s library is small, they might be guessing that she can’t afford to buy a lot of games.
- Comment on A hypothesis 4 weeks ago:
I started on a Mac from Apple’s bad days. The school computers were Windows and it felt like all the other kids had Windows computers at home. I think feeling like I was at the disadvantage probably had an effect on me that led me to Linux. Also the second family computer ran Windows ME, so…
- Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 1 month ago:
We’ll just have to go out Californey-way to find some internet
- Comment on It's indecent 1 month ago:
That’s an AASS. Unlike the Game Boy Pocket, which had a flat AAASS.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 1 month ago:
My camera can record videos of ICE abuse. Are they gonna ban that?
- Comment on 💩. 1 month ago:
If you’re trying to solve your poop problem with Brain Octane, your head is up your ass.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The world is full of assholes and it’s not my job to pick a fight with every one of them.
Also, they’re giving away free software. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 1 month ago:
Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Recorded on 05/26/2009.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 month ago:
Gelatin
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I don’t know the ideology of 99.9% of the developers of the software I use. I don’t want to know it. The license is all I care about.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
If you want rsync but shiny, check out rshiny
- Comment on How does the Chinese government even work 2 months ago:
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 2 months ago:
Whenever someone breaks a barrier as “The first gay…” remember that they’re technically “the gayest…”.
- Comment on How does the Chinese government even work 2 months ago:
I wish I had a source on this, but I heard that bribery of government officials is the norm. They don’t get paid much so it’s expected they take bribes. But their bosses keep them in line. And the weird thing is that it actually works kind of well to make sure things get done, compared to the gridlock faced when trying to build houses or public transit in most cities in the US.
- Comment on Make it make sense 3 months ago:
Except the person next to you or behind you gets frustrated and cuts you off and you have to hit the brakes and create a traffic pulse.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 months ago:
Actually we have “right to try” laws for the scenario I described.
But the FDA could use some serious reform. Under the system we have, an FDA approval lumps together the determinations of whether a drugs is safe, effective and worth paying for. A more libertarian system would let people spend their own money on drugs that are safe even if the FDA’s particular research didn’t find them effective. And it wouldn’t waste tax payer money on drugs that are effective but exorbitantly expensive relative to their minimal effectiveness. But if a wealthy person wants to spend their own money, thereby subsidizing pharmaceuticals for the rest of us, that’s great in my opinion.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 4 months ago:
It’s not that simple. Imagine you’re dieing of a rare terminal disease. A pharma company is developing a new drug for it. Obviously you want it. But they tell you you can’t have it because “we’re not releasing it until we know it’s good”.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 4 months ago:
As an exercise to remove the bias from this, replace self driving cars with airbags. In some rare cases they might go off accidentally and do harm that wouldn’t have occurred in their absence. But all cars have airbags. More and more with every generation. If you are so cautious about accidental detonations that you choose not to install them in your car, then you’re being too cautious.
I can’t agree that they’re not being cautious enough. I didn’t even read the article. I’m just arguing about the principle. And I don’t have a clue what the right penalty would be. I would need to be an actuary with access to lots of data I don’t have to figure out the right number to provide the right deterrent.
