Arguably the Hyperloop was publicized specifically for the opposite: to stoke opposition to traditional high speed rail, while at the same time knowing it is completely impractical.
Ironically, Travis Kalanick felt the exact same way about tipping, and early marketing copy said something like "When you Uber, you never need to tip!" IIRC the drivers finally wore him down and they added a tipping feature shortly before he was forced out. Sad, as the no-tipping thing was one of the things I really liked about Uber when I first used it.
By context, he obviously means automatically applied regen breaking upon releasing the accelerator (so-called 1-pedal driving). While its possible to maintain a smooth speed with this feature, some drivers are using it improperly when e.g. approaching slowing traffic by just releasing the pedal and allowing the car to basically brake aggressively rather than feathering it to allow the car to coast smoothly to a stop.
Thinner with a smaller battery, yes. Not a larger screen though, actually slightly smaller than the "Plus" iPhone which it will supposedly be replacing.
Is this a non-U.S. thing perhaps? I’ve never in my life seen a U.S. hotel charge more for double occupancy, outside of special packages that include e.g. meals for each guest.
Nope theres no “write off”, universities generally aren’t for-profit and thus don’t pay income taxes. Even in the case of a for-profit enterprise, if a company foregoes income it’s just less income coming in, there’s no extra “write off” on top of (obviously) not paying taxes on the foregone income.
No, it’s saying one 10 hour shift a week gets you 30% of what you need to live for a month. So doing 3 or 4 of those a month is sufficient to live on, assuming the posted costs are remotely accurate and aren’t missing anything important (big assumption).
Apparently electricity is 4c/KWh there, so it really is only a “little bit extra” even if you’re heating with resistance heat (at least for a 600sf house).
Register systems like Toast, Square, Shopify, etc. will have to issue a software update that rounds cash transactions to the nearest 5c. It will certainly be a cost, but not an very large one, and no business is likely to see it as a line item on their P&L beyond what they already pay to their POS vendor.
$0.37 is the split-adjusted price, it was never actually quoted that low at the time (for anyone wondering if Apple really used to be a penny stock in the early 2000s).
At that point, Steve was just starting to kill all the “moonshots” and “cool tech but who is really going to buy it” products like the Newton and OpenDoc. Even if he read the email, there’s no way he’d be interested in something like that at the time.
Feedbacks often go into a black hole unless either:
1. A bunch of people file effectively the same bug report (unlikely here)
2. An individual Apple employee champions the issue internally
3. Someone makes a fuss on Twitter/X and it starts to go viral
Sounds like the OP is trying to get #2 to happen, which is probably his best bet.
Not all video projectors, only color wheel DLP projectors (which were once the majority of the home projector market but not sure if that’s still the case). Always drove me nuts but apparently most people don’t notice it.
PODS are advertised as having a transparent roof for light, most likely polycarbonate. Not sure if that would be sufficient for an AirTag signal if the rest is metal, but I suspect it would be.
I think the 5-10 mph above the limit that most people drive originates from the fact that police in most U.S. jurisdictions will almost never ticket someone going less than 10mph over the limit (except perhaps in school zones or construction zones). Due to that, the unofficial limit over time naturally drifts up to just under where you're likely to be ticketed.
This unofficial leeway likely developed due to things like mechanical issues with speedometers and tires causing reasonable doubt about actual speed within a few MPH. If they were to raise the official speed limit by 5-10MPH, then people would just do 5-10MPH above that. If police then started enforcing much more strictly, you're going to jam up the courts with more people contesting a 1mph over ticket as being due to speedometer calibration or whatever. Or just in general being much more resentful of the police for being so draconian.
I looked it up, in Virginia the highest interstate speed limits are 70MPH. They're 65 in New York, (and in other states), so it's patently untrue that they have the lowest interstate speed limits. Source: https://www.iihs.org/topics/speed/speed-limit-laws