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megy··on Phone Addicts Are the New Drunk Drivers
There should be an instant ban from driving, you are not allowed to continue your journey, and for at least a week after. Plus fine.

It is ridiculous how lenient the laws are. 40,000 people die every year on our roads.

megy··on All of Toyota’s electric vehicle patents are now royalty-free
Building more cars is not going to be anyone survive. We need to get away from individual transport.
megy··on All of Toyota’s electric vehicle patents are now royalty-free
Yes, just as nothing about the existence of a no-free licensing arrangement dis-includes water from making you wet.
megy··on IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care
So, no different to most products then? We mainly stick with the ones that work.
megy··on IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care
> If anyone is promising a 20% or greater improvement over the current leaders, I immediately file it away as a scam until I see extraordinary proof.

Ha, this is just silly. Ok, so what percent were IBM promising? How do you ever reduce anything complicated into a percent change.

megy··on How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals
Sure, you can do that. They will not do it, but you can certainly try.
megy··on Nordic Valley’s brilliant, zero-budget solution to trail/lift status
> The simple verison is that small resorts really do operate on minuscule budgets.

Yes, all small companies are like this.

megy··on The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally Makes That Plain
Why? They cause congestion, the take up space, they need to be taxed.
megy··on The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally Makes That Plain
We paid for it, but only drivers get to use it. And when they aren't using it, they are off limits. And on top of that, they are incredibly dangerous, with a million direct deaths a year.

And in a lot of cities, roads take up more space than private residences. Such a huge waste.

megy··on Gravity Payments: Seattle company with a minimum salary of $70K
Great, that is enough for you. That is meaningless to anyone else, who does not know you.
megy··on Gravity Payments: Seattle company with a minimum salary of $70K
This is rubbish, even one report can ruin a reputation.
megy··on Researchers trick Tesla autopilot into driving into opposing traffic
I know, only a million people are killed on the road every year. Imagine if drivers were desensitized!!
megy··on Plastic Bags to Be Banned in New York
You don't have pockets? A bag? I have one on my bike, wrapped around the handle bars.
megy··on Linux touchpad like a Macbook: progress and a call for help
Force touch is so good I had to switch the laptop off to convince myself it wasn't actually moving.
megy··on Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
I got that too. I had no ads, but I did have a link to other apps that I made that were similar (It was a city travel guide app). That counted as an ad apparently. Yeah, I can see there point, so I changed the link text.
megy··on Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
It might be the result of developing it on a fast internet connection in the office where the ad loads up straight away.
megy··on Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
The solution is not to obey the click of the content change 0.1 seconds before the click.
megy··on Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing
> You can't get good results through bad means.

Like a 5 day work week from 6 days? Like 8 hour work days? Like safe conditions for workers. All things unions helped deliver.

megy··on Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing
> They had seminars on how to work less and push back against complaints.

Work less? Or work 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week? There are plenty of examples out there of people who think that is the bare minimum.

> They directed the members to engage in behavior that was best for the union while bad for the workers and the company.

Of course, that is what a strike is, but a necessary evil.

megy··on Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web
I am on mac. I run all 3 browsers. Chrome feels the most sluggish, with firefox the clear winner.
megy··on Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
What would you imagine with differentiate +/- people to sin users?
megy··on Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
How is that telemetry relevant? The bug needs to be fixed no matter how many people use it.
megy··on How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former industry execs tell all
You can mock, but if someone bought a house, and paid a lot for it so they can view the river, then this is a reasonable concern.
megy··on A missing letter helped create a tech billionaire
It really seems to be a thing to have a story these days, no matter how true it is.
megy··on Did Strava copy its mobile route builder from another app?
> took a few screenshots (23, hardly earth-shattering)

Are you saying there is a number of screenshots that would be earth-shattering?

megy··on Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold
WTF? If you have a high paying job, this is a couple of days work, and it is tax deducible in oz if you work in the industry.
megy··on Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold
They don't have a camera under the screen, they have a finger print reader.
megy··on Whitespace killed an enterprise app
You don't ask them how do they want it redesigned. You ask them what they like, what they don't like. And preferably, you get a chance to see them use it.
megy··on Whitespace killed an enterprise app
> So this designer set out to solve the problem, taking cues from modern consumer apps.

The problem is, the arrogance of the designer. Who would ever redo something without talking to the user?

megy··on Cryptocurrency Was Their Way Out of South Korea’s Lowest Rungs
> once made so much money trading cryptocurrencies that he was spending $1,000 a month on whatever he wanted.

That doesn't even sound like much at all. Surely he would have more than that if he worked a job.

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