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This must impact quality at some point. Either driver competence will decline or vehicle maintenance will be dangerously put off.

Manufacturers selling on Amazon should include QR coded key that can be verified as authentic

>The whole reason for the African slave trade was Malaria as the European "slaves" (poor indentured workers) could not survive in the US south

Do you have any references for that?

Apparently the European slave owners survived

Convenience is just another word for removing waste. Wasted movement, or time.

There's claims the plastic ban bag in San Diego led to a Hepatitis outbreak https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/sep/08/stringers-pl...

It's hard to beat Amazon on diversification, specialization would be the only way. Until they acquire you

To be pedantic dogs are pretty selectively bred by humans. Raptor vs Wolf might be more apt

This same article could have been written 120 years ago about Automats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat

indirectly with chip suppliers

who is this hypothetical poor man who's so bad at managing money that an exact total of the amount he's spending will cause him to overspend ?

Customers could really benefit if YouTube has some competition

If we do find life there, it’s only a few assumptions away to find the great filter is ahead of us

Maybe survivorship bias

Repressive collusion to fix salaries and restrict industry movement, doesn't really inspire your employees to try their best

You stopped advertising and still had passive income of 10k monthly ?

how would that account for time dilation?

your argument would actually be improved by switching it;

That matter is an abstraction to measure comparative rates of time.

"Borg? Sounds Swedish"

I usually re-frame the question to the chocolate cake context.

Like, I have a real weakness when I run into something puzzling, I can't help myself from solving all of it.

"If you need to use Esc to force an app to close, you can switch to another app and try Option-Command-Escape. You can also choose Apple menu > Force Quit." https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT207358

Yes but I'm thinking of the type of scheme people use to lose weight. "If I dont lose 3 pounds this month I'll owe you $10" but for email or media usage

A premium for checking email is an interesting concept, I could see people wanting to sign up for this now as a way to reduce the compulsive need to check for new emails

Most of the article is copied from this http://www.danpink.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/FLIP-Manif...

Customer lock-in is Apple's entire value proposition. Buy in to the ecosystem and we'll provide the best experience that gets better the deeper you go. But yes leaving it is starting to look good to customers as software quality has declined and now hardware options are misaligned and industry is reaching parity in UI and features

target is intelligent extra-terestrials, not necessarily space cows

Music is patterns that intelligent beings could identify, even if they couldn't appreciate the aesthetics

I think Detroit and other manufactures are fearful of automation. If you ask them what the future looks like its driving assist technology. Fully automated driving kills the emotional experience that is used to sell cars.

Sort of reminds me of the UI from the movie Her. Fully integrated handheld and ear piece

not with Airmule, with them the packages are pre-packed

I've run into quite a few applications that won't let you continue past the salary history without entering something. Its definitely a dark pattern for job applications

Related, car companies campaigned to invent "jay walking" and give cars the legal right of way

Improved voice recognition maybe, also bots could be a benefit for handicapped HCI/accessibility. But mostly I think the popularity is just self fueled hype