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No, that's not what Frustration Free Packaging is. "FFP" is just easy to open cardboard product packaging, basically no blister packs.

They still put your FFP box into another bigger shipping box.

Or maybe design is just entertainment. It’s a story that keeps the monkey mind engaged in what is most likely a banal exercise.

Try immediately after getting out of the shower. There is about a 90 second window for me.

Same. A 20 pack of Gillette Mach 3 disposable razors (not the replacement cartridges, but the full disposable razor) from Costco, lasting 5 years and counting...

$80k cars are the poster children of money pits. You must not be familiar with the space.

Not sure if you are serious. Becuase, yes, that is actually part of it.

Have you shopped for a car lately?

What you get for your money:

20k-40k: Plastic

40k-75k: Plastic painted to look like metal and wood veneers

75k+: Maybe metal and real wood

This refers to everything you touch and see in and outside the car.

US manufactures aren’t in the 75K+ market for sedans, US mfgs only know plastic.

For the Germans, you need to be in flagship cars to get away from metalized plastic (A7/A8, S-class, 7-series). Porsche is a safe bet for real materials.

Tesla replaced everything inside the car with a giant, great looking screen. 90% of the “value engineering” by which existing car makers use to differentiate between their Low and high end cars... Tesla just got rid of it. Tesla has no intention on playing in the “value engineering” traditional mfgs have been doing for decades (it was the only innovation game left to play).

Tesla instead is competing with tech and features they can literally upload to your car overnight. There is no comparison to traditional autos.

Tesla is an iPhone moment for car industry (if they can manage to deliver the quality and experience they promise without going out of business).

Sounds like a good thing for someone who wants you to take a vow to say.

If you print ABS or PC, look into proper ventillation. Known carcinogens present in the fumes.

Proper ventillation for my home-residing 3D printer is the bathroom. Close the door and hit the fan.

You can guess when the idea hit me... :D

Who’s asking?

Very interesting. Any ideas on how to quantify productivity of the meetings? Insights into efficiency of a meeting would be helpful as well.

In general, unless you are running a long computation (in CAD, that could be a stress analysis; in graphic design that could be rendering a frame) you won’t notice any difference in snappiness of workflow.

I run Autodesk Inventor 2018 on a bootcamped mid-2017 Mackbook 12”, it has a built in Intel video card (650 I believe). The only time I wish I had more processing power is when doing huge FEA analysis, my 15W processor goes into a down-clocked limp mode, and computations take 4X longer than on a latest gen desktop).

Nice, copying comment from other thread:

Backed Kickstarter for the Argo and the delivered product exceeded all expectations.

I hope they catch on, the Argo is 1/3 the price of the fancy euro cargo bikes.

Backed Kickstarter for the Argo and the delivered product exceeded all expectations.

I hope they catch on, the Argo is 1/3 the price of the fancy euro cargo bikes.

I’d be curious what Joel would say about that same article today, I suspect his understanding of the nature of competitive landscapes has evolved.

Do you have some example charts generated? Sounds interesting.

Why do investors engage in psychological power games (like this)?

That piece of writing left me feeling icky. I hope the people he has advised have found more positive and less demeaning investors.

Great question! Answer is, you have to have a legal team the size of Mercedes Benz:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/12/05/amazon-g...

FTE stands for ‘full time equivalent’

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/calculate-fte-742.html

It’s a very popular observation spot and permits try to manage its overuse. Errant car headlights can spoil an observation, the area caters to enthusiasts that follow a slew of best practices (only using red flashlights in the dark to preserve night vision, etc).

How upset would you be if “Money is freedom” isn’t true?

I think your setting yourself up for some disappointment with that one.

>> I feel profoundly disappointed in life and people, in the sense of being wronged

I suspect there is a notion of "things ought to be a certain/right way" in your view of things. I feel this defense is often used to justify to oneself why one hasn't engaged in something/the world. Said another way, it is safer to think things should work a certain way instead of risking for oneself to find out. It's never too late to find out directly.

Passengers are cost AND travel-time/hassle sensitive. It appears Airbus didn't place enough value into the "travel-time/hassle" part.

More detail: the Dreamliner is 20% more efficient than previous generation planes. This allowed airlines to "break" the major hubs into many quicker/easier direct flights at a price that passengers are willing to pay. Boeing bet increasing value in this manner was superior than Airbus's bet to simply make hubs cheaper to operate.

Interning at Boeing in 2005, when the Dreamliner was still 2-3 years away from production, I asked a BD manager if Boeing was worried about A380 (the burning question at the time was "Who is going to win, A380/Airbus or Dreamliner/Boeing").

Without pause, he said "Not worried at all, A380 serves the hub and spoke model, which is dying. People hate layovers, they want more direct flights."

Not a hard insight to grasp, and one which seems to have doomed A380 from the start.

What happens when there is no upside for the original creators/designers/inventors? Who designs the next best thing?

That is an easy one to answer: baby boomers, gen-x, and anyone over ~33 years old as of now... they didn't have cell phones or tablets growing up.

But I think what you are getting at is you want data supporting the emergence of a correlation in this new, younger cohort. I'd argue that a close proxy is the introduction of the PC workstation in the 70's and 80's and the "ergonomics" industry that resulted. Seems pretty easy to assume the same dynamics are at play again.

"The result of this study showed that prolonged use of smartphones could negatively affect both, posture and respiratory function." [0]

There is negative financial incentive for the device producers (Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, etc) if it is discovered that their products are harmful to consumer health. [1]

As for data confirming emergence of harm caused by smartphone/tablet, it is a easy google search to see professionals at top research universities and hospitals provide anecdotal evidence that there is a correlation. [2][3]

From personal experience, a talk with a professional in Physical Therapy or Occupation Therapy will yield their first hand experience with the identification of cell phone/tablet (and laptop) use as the source of the physical stressor, and the subsequent mitigation (through behavioral (use it less) and environmental (use ergonomically) change) as its cure.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4756000/

[1] http://www.crn.com/news/mobility/300089826/apple-ceo-tim-coo...

[2] https://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/pain/art...

[3] https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=is+smar...

*edited for more linkz

Or the union is flexing it's muscle to both sides, the sides the union hedges against each other for the union's own now-built-in profit share. Capture that value baby.

Thank you for this comment!

A complex tax system allows competition within the tax advising service provider market. You get what you pay for... the original American Way (tm).

eBay and Amazon have very little in common in terms of how they area organized. Amazon's "customer facing database" is SKU-based. eBay's "customer facing database" is seller-based. Two completely different worlds.