Think it’s less about you caring and more about acknowledging, flaws and all, the impact on culture this individual had during their lifetime
Readit NewsFreedomToCreate commented on DMX has died at 50 pitchfork.com/news/dmx-ha... · Posted by u/doppp
I saw the Netflix seaspiracy documentary last night, and it made me think there's really no way to sustain such a huge human population. Every single method of food production seems unsustainable to me, it either uses too much water or land, or produces too much greenhouse gas.
Personally I'd much prefer us to lower the population through infertility rather than famine and war.
The social implications of this would not be pretty. Without young people in society, the purpose of tomorrow would slowly fade. No point trying to build a future if there isn’t someone to take helm of it. Children of men did an excellent dramatization of this
FreedomToCreate commented on Decoding the Peloton ihaque.org/posts/2020/10/... · Posted by u/_ihaque
The Peloton, as I understand, doesn't dynamically adjust its resistance.
On a $4K machine? The $800 NordicTrack rower we bought automatically adjusts resistance with their iFit programs. So people were just paying for an exercise bike with a big LCD screen? I'm astounded that they stayed in business long enough to release a second version that fixes this. VC money can fix that problem, but I'm also astounded that anyone actually bought one.
The bike is 2K for the one without a motorized resistance knob and I bought one despite this feature because it takes me 1 second to turn the knob to the dynamically adjusted value on the display.
FreedomToCreate commented on How Texas Can Become the Next Silicon Valley bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Sounds like a repeat of what happened to SF. Be ready for the tech money and tech sis/bros to descend like a swarm of locusts, displace all the locals, extinguish everything cool, and then start complaining about how nobody appreciates them.
Imo, these are the worst type of people. I look forward to the day they all leave the Bay Area and go somewhere else.
You are going to be waiting forever
Interesting.
It is surprising to me (but probably it is some aeronautics specification/need) that its 2-stroke engine uses 95 octane+4% oil mix, it is years that using synthetic oil you can use 2% or even 1% oil.
https://www.pegasusaero.ca/
This company designed hybrid engines for retrofitting onto drones
The issue here is ecosystem. Googles advantage is everything syncs together across there platform seamlessly. Going the no google routes fragments my ability to share photos, share docs and sheets, access easily across platforms.The trade off is being locked out and tracking (which you can limit in privacy settings).
Edit: also want to add that there is also a risk with using smaller platforms as they have a high chance of going bust. I employ a strategy of keeping files on both google, iCloud and a personal drive to have redundancy in case of issues. Of course this does make sense if you want to be absolutely invisible
FreedomToCreate commented on San Francisco, Silicon Valley rents plunge amid downturn sfchronicle.com/business/... · Posted by u/tarr11
My community has dropped prices 10% and is offering 1 month free (4 year old complex in north san jose). However they are not offering this to current renters whose renewals are coming up. They offered me a 0% increase and when I cited that the 5 other identical apartments are currently available for essentially 20% off (10% discount over 12 months plus one month free), they began been pushing the narrative that the rent will increase by the end of June and that I should sign now before they change the offer. So now its a waiting game.
The integrity of all new sources have been challenged to such a degree that the real loser here is the average person. There is no way for many of us to assess who to trust and we are being mired in confusion and smokescreens created by the powers that be. There is no denying that it is being done intentionally and its just sad.
FreedomToCreate commented on Amazon in advanced talks to buy Zoox wsj.com/articles/amazon-i... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
Sadly Detroit's Big 3 announced that they believe electric cars are the next big thing so they're cutting back on research for autonomous cars. They're blaming it all on the pandemic. I said publicly that Tesla and Comma.ai would eat their lunch. Now I can add Amazon to the list!
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/mobility/20...
There are numerous Tier 1s (Bosch, Continental, ZF) working on providing autopilot like tech to auto manufacturers. Additionally companies have there own efforts (GM super Cruise for example which btw has nothing to do with Cruise and is developed separately). Comma has open sourced all there code, so good chance the OEMs have someone looking at it.
FreedomToCreate commented on Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube support.google.com/youtub... · Posted by u/zaggynl
Hm, I've switched to:
DuckDuckGo - search
Brave - browser
Android - you've got me there; but I might switch to Apple next year.
Gmail - ditto, but I'm hoping to switch to proton or similar
Youtube - alternatives like Bitchute exist for banned videos
Fortunately, although the GOOG does have a lot of best-in-class products out there, competition is rising. Consumers benefit from lots of choices.
Google biggest advantage (and its the same thing Apple and Microsoft are doing) is integration of services that ultimately make the users life easier. Personally I use a Mac and iPhone and all my data is stored in iCloud. I do a lot of my personal work with MS Office and my email is Gmail. But over time I have found that choosing an ecosystem does benefit you. Recently I switched my work tasks to Google suite products and dropped my Apple TV for an android based solution. The main advantage is now my TV, browser (chrome), gmail, youtube are all synced together. I can watch videos on my tv and save others to pick up on my phone later. I can edit my docs anywhere and link them into my emails easily. I have debated moving from Apples Photos to Google Photos so that my images are all centrally located for my own ease of use and cross platform integration. I still back up all files to a secondary drive and forward copies of important emails to my outlook account in case I ever get locked out of my google account, but the integration is really nice.