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New comment by 39896880 in "New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike"

39896880 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:28:20 +0000

Your analogy only works when applied to the hiring stage, as that is when the publishing house decides to work with you. If the publisher accepted your manuscript, assigned you an editor, gave you a target publish date, and gave you advance and then suddenly booted you and said “your work isn’t good” you’d have some questions, and rightly so.

New comment by 39896880 in "New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike"

39896880 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:23:31 +0000

> Striking during election week is kind of a crappy move to pull.

Can we get a definitive list of weeks where workers’ rights are officially less important than $world_event? That way we can schedule our requests appropriately. We don’t want to inconvenience anyone.

New comment by 39896880 in "Electric vehicles now represent 19% of the passenger vehicle sales worldwide"

39896880 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 01:47:25 +0000

An ICE vehicle will always and forever run on fossil fuels. An EV may start its life getting electricity generated from fossil fuels but can get its power from whatever the generation changes to

New comment by 39896880 in "Why Chinese spies are sending a chill through Silicon Valley"

39896880 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 01:37:58 +0000

Engineers who work 100 hour weeks at suppressed wages on tenuous visas.

New comment by 39896880 in "Electric vehicles now represent 19% of the passenger vehicle sales worldwide"

39896880 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 01:33:48 +0000

Interesting that hybrids are not considered EVs anymore. Some states still offer EV plates for Priuses.

New comment by 39896880 in "Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back"

39896880 — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 23:13:30 +0000

The automatic stop-start system found in newer cars isn’t especially hard on the starter. These systems have reinforced bearings, faster engagement mechanisms, direct fuel injection or integrated starter generators, which start the engine without relying on a starter motor at all.

New comment by 39896880 in "The rise of the U.S., the rise of China"

39896880 — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 04:54:18 +0000

The time to start a business is in your 20s, before you have a kid. Unfortunately, China runs short of these. The largest demographic bucket is 50-54 years old. The second largest is 65-69. The 20’s are 7th and 8th…

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101677/population-distr...

New comment by 39896880 in "The rise of the U.S., the rise of China"

39896880 — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 21:56:52 +0000

Peak consumption for a population is 45-54, when income is highest and people are having their 1 kid. Once retirement hits income is generally fixed as people rely on pension or savings. They also depend more on state services like healthcare. In China, this also means depending on their 1 child.

It’s not really possible to say “China’s fundamentals are fine” because China’s fundamentals look like nothing the world has ever seen. It’s not clear they have the leadership to navigate it.

New comment by 39896880 in "The rise of the U.S., the rise of China"

39896880 — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 21:07:02 +0000

> But it does give them a _lot_ of leeway for easy growth. They just need to make the country more business-friendly at the lower end.

Consumption-led growth is all but over. The population is shrinking, manufacturing is fleeing as fast it can, and the number old people exceeds young — China got old before it got rich, which has never happened before

New comment by 39896880 in "Apple acquires Pixelmator"

39896880 — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 20:53:28 +0000

Shazam was bought to boost Siri’s ability to recognize music but Siri isn’t really good at much, so it hasn’t been fully absorbed. Now with AI eating the world I assume that functionality will get reproduced by a foundation model and actually integrated into the OS

New comment by 39896880 in "300 people applied to rent $700/month sleeping pods in downtown San Francisco"

39896880 — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:27:00 +0000

We have these in the US and they are falling out of favor because they tend to attract crime and drugs. They are called SROs.

New comment by 39896880 in "Apple acquires Pixelmator"

39896880 — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:39:30 +0000

Note that this hasn’t happened with Shazam, miraculously

New comment by 39896880 in "M4 MacBook Pro"

39896880 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:33:58 +0000

"This is a huge week for the Mac, and this morning, we begin a series of three exciting new product announcements that will take place over the coming days," said Apple's hardware engineering chief John Ternus, in a video announcing the new iMac.

New comment by 39896880 in "M4 MacBook Pro"

39896880 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:06:00 +0000

They said there would be three announcements this week and this is the third

New comment by 39896880 in "Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction"

39896880 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:33:43 +0000

You’re allowed to say kill on Hackernews

New comment by 39896880 in "New Mac Mini with M4"

39896880 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:44:25 +0000

Can you think of any examples where a company trying to sell you something made unfavorable comparisons between their product and a competing product?

New comment by 39896880 in "What happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?"

39896880 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:47:03 +0000

The Atlantic reported on similar research in 2014. The article from The Atlantic is titled "Learning to Live with the Voices in Your Head" [0]. Here's a choice quote from that article:

>“The problem,” [Intervoice founder Dr. Marius Romme] writes, “is not hearing voices, but the inability to cope with the experience.” In 1987, after two decades of clinical work, the Dutch psychiatrist began promoting a drug-free therapy in which patients were encouraged to accept and analyze their voices.

The article linked in this post has a similar sentiment from one of the patients:

>She hadn’t expected them to go. “My aim wasn’t to get rid of them – just to get along with them,” she told me. “I wasn’t quite sure I wanted to let go. I’d never really been on my own. As abusive as it was, it’s still a relationship.”

Hopefully the therapy takes off, and we don't keep re-discovering this every 10 years.

[0]https://archive.is/pfKrC#selection-1413.89-1413.360

New comment by 39896880 in "Tesla's Cybertruck is outselling almost every other EV in the US"

39896880 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:34:54 +0000

> The amount of normal people I've heard use Volt/Bolt interchangeably is incredibly high.

Yes, this is / was a real issue and might be the biggest fuck-up for GM. I’m an EV nerd and when I talk about these cars I emphasize the first letter like I’m moderating a spelling bee…

New comment by 39896880 in "New iMac with M4"

39896880 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:13:22 +0000

Education as well. Main reason why that headphone jack has stuck around I suspect.

New comment by 39896880 in "New iMac with M4"

39896880 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:26:57 +0000

>Now 4 generations in, they are still comparing performance to M1. I get that 15-20% improvements aren't too exciting but it feels old.

FTA: "Compared to the most popular 24-inch all-in-one PC with the latest Intel Core 7 processor, the new iMac is up to 4.5x faster.1"