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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.

> 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.

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

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

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

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.

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...

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.

> 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

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

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.

Note that this hasn’t happened with Shazam, miraculously

"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.

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

You’re allowed to say kill on Hackernews

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

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

> 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…

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

>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"

Toyota set up shop in the US in 1981 because the US auto industry and unions lobbied for import restrictions. Then Congress held hearings and threatened legislation, followed by the UAW filing trade complaints.

Then, in the 1981, Japan signed the Voluntary Export Restraint (VER) agreement where they agreed to limit auto exports to the US to 1.68 million vehicles annually. [0]

The US is the second largest auto market in the world.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_export_restraint

The status quo before fediverse-type services was the lack of existence of fediverse-type services. Therefore, the continued existence of fediverse-type services proves that the status quo is changeable.

People want to carve out a space on the web that isn’t controlled by surveillance capitalism, fuck let them. They don’t have to dismantle the entire infrastructure to deserve that.

It’s okay if loops doesn’t become the next TikTok. Not every project needs to take over the world. Alternatives are good.

Eh. If foreign carmakers want to compete in the US they can do what Toyota did and set up shop in the US. Employ Americans with market wages and under American labor standards.

We had a generation of globalism. It gutted the middle class.

Their CEO seems to be reacting to a perception that Chevy is “behind” and trying to get ahead of the market on EVs. If they were smart they’d still be making the Volt, since it’s an extremely reasonable PHEV that many people with garages in the US would appreciate. It would increase the number of electric miles driven.

The Bolt EUV is the perfect EV, and it’s a travesty that they stopped selling it. Hopefully the talk of them bringing it back is true.

Not a bad idea, but the purpose of the legislation is to prevent Surfside from happening again. Newer buildings were built with different regulations and brand new buildings likely have fees commiserate with their age, as they were more recently inspected.

It is much easier to correct a transcription than to generate it wholesale. As well, the task of audio transcription correction has long since been commoditized because of the deployment of speech recognition on every smartphone.

It’s not quite a solved problem but it’s close.

Kobo has Pocket integration, is this substantially different?

I’m not a Bluesky user, but I contend that it is time to rethink success when it comes to the web. The website I am most active on has fewer than 50k active users, is limited to about that many intentionally, runs on donations and is centered are a single set of interests. It’s almost 10 years old.