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Quinner··on Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight
Other people have already addressed that $90 is not that much for good lighting.

But why would the price point of things have any bearing on whether we're in a bubble? If consumers are buying those things at what you would consider to be a high price, that's an indication of strength in the market for tech goods. A strong market doesn't imply a bubble. If there was a great deal of investment in expensive products which were then not being purchased, that would be bubble, but the price point itself does not stand as evidence that this is what's happening.

Quinner··on Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight
So? Not everything needs to be a revolution. Casper already revolutionized the mattress industry. They're merely further monetizing that success by introducing a well-designed new product, since mattress sales cycles are so long.
Quinner··on Boeing’s Flying Car Has Taken Off
Private transports are efficient at delivering individuals to locations. Public transport has the advantage of delivering a lot of people to an approximation of their destination. The latter enables more urban density and more efficient cities overall.
Quinner··on After GDPR, The New York Times cut off ad exchanges and kept growing ad revenue
Do you use / search for information about Docker (the container platform)?
Quinner··on PG&E stock plunged 32% after it disclosed a possible link to California’s fire
And then what incentives and accountability structure will see the government actually effectively mitigate these risks?
Quinner··on How Manhattan Became a Rich Ghost Town
Do you actually live in Manhattan? There have been some losses in nightlife, it's generally too expensive to have big nightclub spaces. But the situation is very, very far from what you describe.
Quinner··on Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars
Lousy is used in this sense to mean "full of".
Quinner··on As the SpaceX steamroller surges, European rocket industry vows to resist
I'm always stunned by the degree to which "resisting" consists of haughty dismissiveness of SpaceX and whining about subsidies (which Arianespace itself receives in spades). I wonder if these people will be able to swallow their pride when SpaceX eats their lunch and they have to go work for the Americans.
Quinner··on ‘Star Citizen’ Court Case Reveals the Messy Reality of Crowdfunding a $200M Game
They weren't working on development for a decade though. It was a decade between games, with a large amount of time between them when no development took place. Same with Diablo.
Quinner··on The Illusion of a Profitable Amazon Prime Now and Prime Fresh
Am I missing something or does the analysis assume every order is a minimum order? Personally my orders average around $100.
Quinner··on What Airbnb Did to New York City
Because you benefited at the cost of others. For everyone that has your success story, rent control causes a number of others to have even less access to affordable housing.
Quinner··on Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B
The way this article was written was really weasely.

> The Phoenix project was originally chosen by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Conservative predecessors

This is assigning blame to Trudeau in the weirdest way.

Quinner··on Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain
The only violence to be feared was committed by Spanish police, there specifically to suppress the vote.
Quinner··on When Citi Bikes Are Faster Than Taxis in New York City
I can expect it, because in large part the rules of the road are precisely that.
Quinner··on Despite money and effort, homelessness in SF as bad as ever
No, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_failure
Quinner··on China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order
The world isn't exactly thrilled with the US, who has acted like a retarded bully across the world.
Quinner··on United removes first-class passenger to make room for 'higher-priority' traveler
Oh come on, it's not a race to the seats. This should've been handled at the gate before boarding. United knew it didn't have enough seats, when the plane changed, they should have made seating adjustments then.
Quinner··on Why the bounce rate of AMP pages is so high
Publishers opt-in to AMP. They actually implement their AMP pages. And I'm honestly not sure why you hate pages that load quickly so much.
Quinner··on An epidemic of unnecessary and unhelpful medical treatments
Do you think insurance companies enjoy increasing rates for the sake of increasing rates?

If they're increasing rates because their costs have gone up, they're not making more profit. And other insurance companies that have done more to control costs are likely to start taking their customers over time.

Quinner··on Tesla aims to start pilot production of Model 3 cars on February 20
Most people who own a car do not use public transit for short trips and commutes.
Quinner··on Tesla aims to start pilot production of Model 3 cars on February 20
Very few people with a tax liability of less than $7,500 would be buying a new Model 3.
Quinner··on Mega Commuters in the U.S. [pdf]
NYC has plenty of tech opportunities and a public transit system that can get you from most residences to most workplaces in well under an hour.
Quinner··on Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase
Google hooks into the systems that want Southwest to pay, it's not directly making that decision.
Quinner··on The Invisible American
Replace corporate taxes with a VAT, perhaps?
Quinner··on We're Bullish on AMP
A lot of the crap isn't loaded by the publisher's site directly but by third-party tracking/analytic/ad code. Many publishers would love to have faster loading sites but can't give up those third-party functions easily. Creating an ecosystem like AMP allows Google to also arm-twist the third-parties to clean up their act, if they want to be supported in AMP.
Quinner··on Apple confirms iOS kernel code left unencrypted intentionally
Enlightened self-interest.
Quinner··on Slowly Poisoned by Energy Drinks
Wine?
Quinner··on The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers
Seawolf's are fast attack boats, the Ohio is the missile boomer class.
Quinner··on How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M
Interesting, same here, perhaps we actually processed the numeral in the child comment subconsciously while reading the written-out five in the parent.
Quinner··on Civilization 6 is coming in October, with big changes
SMAC was the same people, though you're correct about CtP.
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