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And the reason we can't build where people need them is mostly zoning.
> It turns that in 1965, a Japanese company called Yamasa Clock created a personal-fitness pedometer called the Manpo-kei, which means “10,000 steps meter.” The Japanese character for 10,000 looks almost like a person walking or running, which is likely how the gadget-maker landed on the name—and the number. It’s also an easy goal to remember, especially when accompanied by a sketch of a person who’s literally walking.
https://www.popsci.com/story/health/10000-steps-evidence-stu...
I go in the office every other week for a day when some other coworkers will be there. It's my least productive day, but it is good for planning with coworkers.
Pay for my commute (on top of salary) and I'll think about it.
They almost certainly don't have ALL the information, but they'll know which carrier sent them the call, who can then look into it... and on back to the source carrier.
They were entire cpus in sockets.
IBM and I'm sure others have shipped enterprise hardware for years that was partially locked. You might get a machine with 16 cpus but you only paid for 8, for example, but you could license the rest as you grew. It seems a little similar and it was in no way underhanded, everyone knew what the deal was.
However I'll echo what another poster said. I say Tesla should be free to sell whatever they want, but if the end user finds a way around it too bad.
He'd set the resolution to 1024x768 on the 800x600 panel, once I fixed that I was good to go!
Once the disposal/recycling costs are part of the initial purchase, consumers will make better choices.
Include a core charge to encourage the consumer to get it back to the right place, as well.
The real issue is the trial. Auto charge trials, especially ones I'm unsure of, are a turnoff. This brings me to 3 issues...
* 7 days is psychologically a short time to try this. For me, this means I have to set aside time in this coming week to set everything up and see how it works. A longer trial period might help.
* The auto charge at the end of the trial is, as mentioned, a dark pattern that I avoid whenever possible. If I'm not 90% sure I'm going to use the product, I won't sign up for something that needs my credit card in advance.
* The free option is too limited for me to start entering data and come back later. It's also missing functionality I think I'll need later. I have to pay at least $14, and setup an auto-charge, to pick up where I left off later, so this is a non-starter for determining if the product is worth the $14 to begin with.
In short, it might be worth $14 a month and it is even likely to be worth the ~ $100 a year, but the limitations and requirements around the trial keep me from feeling comfortable finding out. The most off-putting is the auto-charge, which make me nervous in any case.
It looks great. I'd love to dig in to it more.
I know you've seen this elsewhere but I don't think I'd pay quite that much for the product, and the blow-away-everything of the free model means I'd probably not come back again.
The housing screen should let you fill in your full payment amount but ask if any of it is escrow/PII or anything else beyond P&I.
A pet peeve with mortgage offers I get in the mail, email, from my bank, etc, is they all know my monthly payment but that payment includes escrow for taxes and insurance. This leads to me getting offers telling me how much I'll save when their offer is actually higher than what I've got (especially true now that rates are higher). I felt the same moment of annoyance when I entered my payment amount and saw I'd have it paid off in half the time I actually will.
Back to cost for a moment.
Like many others, I do my own tracking today, which has a cost in time of course. Since it's coming from my free time I tend to value it in terms of what else I could be doing, and mentally to me that's the "movie model". I spend perhaps 15 minutes twice a month tracking my expenses, debt, etc and in movie terms (a ticket is $18 and provides about 2.5 hours of entertainment) that's about worth about $3 to me.
And because I take the time to look at my expenses regularly, I really, really, really try to avoid any kind of recurring costs when possible. I think this is probably true for a lot of your audience.
If company A makes a product that is cheap to make, but expensive to recycle, and company B makes a product that is expensive to make but has recycling as a core value, and thus is cheap to recycle, company B loses when they have to take on company A's device after a sale.
The costs should be on the original manufacturer and as such, reflected in the purchase price.
Every item manufactured should have, at minimum, it's recycling or safe disposal cost included in the price.
Let consumers make decisions based on the real costs.
You may end up with things like compatability modes, extra options, and the like. But don't worry, you can clean it up later.
It is possible to exist in this space with a potential conflict, as long as you position yourself appropriately. If your interest is to serve "decent" companies by providing them with interested candidates, it can work.
It'll work fine until the site decides chasing profit is more important than integrity of the system, so probably right around the time they're looking for more funding.
Of course misbehaving companies would probably stop spending there, but that might not be a bad thing.
Before you could observe an event and remember it (poorly) and share it (slowly) but technology, for better or worse, has greatly increased the possible fidelity of that memory, which can now shared endlessly without losing quality.
The difference isn't that what you do now can be shared. It's the ease of sharing and the fidelity with which it can be shared.
5 years ago even the internet as a whole at least felt functional. Today everything feels like a giant scam.
They likely spend all of it on the million meetings full of people who wouldn't actually be executing the change, next to none of it on the team and infrastructure where the change will be made, and then fire the team who made the change.
Sure, in this case, 30 minutes spent and done.
Recently I got a per capita tax bill for a town I didn't live in. They wanted payment for the last 8 years. I lived in a different town entirely (2 towns during the time in question).
When I filled out their form to contest it, they asked for deeds or leases for the duration to prove I didn't live there.
I told them I wouldn't provide such documentation without some proof to the fact I didn't live where I said I did. They responded to ignore the bill, it would be removed (which it was).
To me even the time I spent on this was excessive. In a just world, they'd be liable for my time. Entities, private or government, shouldn't be able to incur costs on our time and life due to their bullshit reasons or error.
The phone network is a federated service. You can call an ATT customer from Verizon. You can also call them from Joe's Discount Boxes and VoIP sales.
Now, if you start making spammy calls, ATT might block you as a customer (after warning you first). Same for Verizon. But Joe's Discount Boxes and VoIP sales doesn't, because box sales are down and these VoIP margins are so, so juicy.
Spammy customers flock to Joe, because he allows it. Joe keeps letting customers on, without doing due diligence, without caring if they're legit (beyond a valid looking credit card), and eventually gets blocked by FCC order. (See https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-23-389A1.pdf, for an example).
Now, federation doesn't have an FCC, the various server admins will be filling that role themselves, but there is a reason scummy people will use scummy servers.
Side note: This kind of FCC enforcement is fairly new to the industry, so if you're wondering why you get spam called all the time still, there is some hope this'll change.
You can make yourself look like a fool though, and you have.