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New comment by throwaway85825 in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

throwaway85825 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:49:06 +0000

This marks the beginning of the end of the AI free money era. Next they will dramatically raise prices when they have to be profitable on tokens.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill"

throwaway85825 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:36:07 +0000

Meta is behind this.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

throwaway85825 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:35:22 +0000

A pardon costs ~1M, just need to still more than that and you're golden.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

throwaway85825 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:33:56 +0000

A lot of people were involved with the mission that were not themselves directly endangered but could still stand to profit.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "DeepSeek v4"

throwaway85825 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:24:15 +0000

They were declared cia officers with black diplomatic passports.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition"

throwaway85825 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:40:28 +0000

Typical ev car is .25kwh/m and at 25p/kwh it should be closer to 6p/m. Quite a bit more than 1p/m.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

throwaway85825 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:33:03 +0000

It takes 6 years to develop a vehicle. You cant rely on it being 0$ forever, the laws/regulations didn't change.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

throwaway85825 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:55:23 +0000

Regularization is a national policy. Soon to be followed by a shortened pathway to citizenship.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

throwaway85825 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:49:53 +0000

That's quite the leap. Not that it's relevant but I have no issue with european boycott or sanctions of Israel, though warcrimes accusations are pretty toothless. Almost no leaders past or present charged with war crimes were ever arrested.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

throwaway85825 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:45:03 +0000

In rear view mirror display is mostly just on GM products.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

throwaway85825 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:39:07 +0000

When it already has a screen it's much cheaper to get rid of the buttons then. The screen as a requirement is priced in whereas the buttons are not and thus cut.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

throwaway85825 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:37:21 +0000

The EPA push for fuel efficiency made it easier to hit targets by selling huge trucks instead of small cars.

There is a value in safety regulation but the incentives as legislated have led to negative results. It needs to be fixed or repealed. Not sure there's a clean solution here.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

throwaway85825 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:34:02 +0000

They just gave millions of foreigners the ability to vote for the government.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

throwaway85825 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:20:15 +0000

The Spanish government no longer had to care about the consequences of their actions since they found a new voting block.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

throwaway85825 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:18:16 +0000

The auto industry is just responding to incentives, the EPA makes it way easier to hit emissions targets the larger the vehicle.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

throwaway85825 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:16:21 +0000

The irony is cars got screens largely due to the backup camera mandate which was intended to be a safety feature. Governments are very bad at understanding unintended consequences.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries"

throwaway85825 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:04:56 +0000

The solution to such information asymmetry is to mandate disclosure of all algorithms and data used in setting the price.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries"

throwaway85825 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:03:47 +0000

Most people don't have an extra 2 dollars.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

throwaway85825 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:53:45 +0000

SOCAMM is a jedec standard nvidia is already shipping in several products.

New comment by throwaway85825 in "In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition"

throwaway85825 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:52:21 +0000

If you're referring to DC charging it's going to be pretty expensive. The construction and power electronics for a DC station is going to be in the millions.

For AC the rectifier is inside the car and the L2 chargers is just a fancy plug. Price should just be the base electricity cost.