SpaceX is going to be printing money with Starlink.
Readit Newshop commented on Starlink for RVs starlink.com/rv... · Posted by u/kristianpaul
hop commented on Apple Books TSMC’s Entire 5nm Production Capability extremetech.com/computing... · Posted by u/kristianpaul
I'm not sure it's the entire output, but AFAIK Apple is the buyer/owner of the largest fleet of high-precision CNC machines (Haas?), solely for the purpose of manufacturing unibody MacBook cases. One time I found the operator's website, a nondescript Taiwanese company that's responsible for all Apple cases. Again this is off the top of my head.
Brother and Fanuc CNC machines.
hop commented on Why is the stock market rallying when the economy is so bad? wsj.com/articles/why-is-t... · Posted by u/harambae
It’s rallying because there are a lot of undervalued stocks. There have been really good deals the past 2 months. And stocks are a great inflation hedge.
hop commented on Amazon is shipping expired food, customers say cnbc.com/2019/10/20/amazo... · Posted by u/rahuldottech
Inventory isn’t commingled between sellers for the same SKU.
I don’t know why I’m being downvoted - Amazon FBA does not commingle seller inventory. The products sold by a seller are only the ones they shipped to FBA. If you request your inventory back, you will only get the ones back you sell. So if a seller sends in a bunch of counterfeit items for a listing, those are physically separated and don’t get mixed with the good inventory that is there.
There are multiple sellers for the same product and they could definitely have bad/old inventory - and they will win the buy box with the lowest price - but it’s still not commingled.
hop commented on Amazon is shipping expired food, customers say cnbc.com/2019/10/20/amazo... · Posted by u/rahuldottech
A key problem with the complaints is that customer reviews don't† take into account the effect of commingling. The expired food might have come from a different seller initially, but you were sent it because of Amazon's supply line optimisations.
Amazon will know but when you write your review or read someone else's, you won't.
Same problem as counterfeit goods and commingling though iirc there are more control in place on perishables so this aspect of the problem rears its head less often.
[†] they can't, we as customers don't have access to the information to know the route items took to get to us
Inventory isn’t commingled between sellers for the same SKU.
hop commented on Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Two-Hour Marathon Barrier nytimes.com/2019/10/12/sp... · Posted by u/Fezzik
4.6 minute miles, dang that is cooking.
hop commented on Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour geekwire.com/2019/secreti... · Posted by u/starpilot
I feel a bit stupid, but does the product look really bad? Why are they hyping it? I thought it would compete with restaurants, but it really looks like a frozen pizza. Weird distribution of ingredients, weird dough without a real crust and not properly baked (compared to for example a pizza baked in real a wood oven or from from a electrical pizza oven). It certainly doesn't look like a normal pizza.
Yeah, that’s a terrible looking pizza, weird they would publicly demo it with that thing as the product.
hop commented on iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max apple.com/newsroom/2019/0... · Posted by u/Zaheer
The utra wide angle 13mm lens will be awesome to have, been waiting a long time for that. One more reason not to carry a dslr.
hop commented on Google Forcing Nest Cameras’ Visual Indicator Light To Be On mattcrampton.com/blog/Goo... · Posted by u/revicon
hop commented on Amazon Unveils Futuristic Helicopter-Plane Hybrid Drone for Deliveries bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/jason_zig
Cool but I can't understand why you'd need such a delivery system? MAYBE you can imagine a scenario where you need to air lift a vial of snake anti-venom very quickly but that's a fantastical, far edge-case. Theres simply no reason that an auto-automobile can't handle 99% of deliveries.
Drones can't go that far. They can only carry tiny payloads. They use a ton of energy just to hover. And lastly- they are much more dangerous than ground-based transport, for the simple reason that _they can fall from the sky_.
Whats to be gained by putting deliveries in the air?
Zero traffic congestion, close to free to operate, fulfillment in minutes? Under 1 hour order delivery? There’s obviously downsides like sound and then falling out of the sky, but getting anything under 5 pounds two orders of magnitudes faster is a big deal.