jedrek

> Any rational company would have standardized the parts inside a phone like IBM did with the IBM PC.

Any company that is run by people who're capable of reading and understanding history books would probably not do that.

IBM released the PC in 1981 and effectively left the "standardized component" PC market in 2001, when they shut down the Aptiva line. That's a 20 year run, which saw IBM try to move away from Intel and into their own RISC processors for the last 5 years.

And its height, IBM was shipping 750,000 computers a year. In 2022, Apple sold that many iPhones every day.

IBM created a market by allowing other companies to make PC clones, but that pushed margins to unworkable levels and effectively forced them out of the market.

Do realize that viewers are not YouTube's only "customer". They spend a lot of time and energy courting video creators as well, and their monetization program is one of the few that allows even mid-sized creators to record videos for a living.

Hey so fun fact: three month notice periods are standard in Germany because German companies like to have runway to offload and onboard employees.

Germany is famously pro-labor, so you actually have two notice periods: one for the employer (statutory) and one for employees (contract). The two are usually aligned, and only get out of sync when the employee has been working somewhere for a long time. Let's say you have a month-long notice period in your employee contract. You work at your job for 5 years. By that time, the statutory notice period has increased to two months: if your employer wants to fire you, they have to give you two months. On the other hand, if you're the one who wants to leave, you only need to give them one month, per your contract.

Pretty neat.

Funny how the assumption is that robots have to save us. Worker productivity is at a never before seen, all-time high. The benefits of that productivity are going straight into the pockets of the largest holders of capital.

We don't need robots, we need guillotines.

The gatekeepers are exclusively capitalist companies.

You realize one of the goals of capitalism is to replace all public services with private, for-profit ones?

100k/pa in the UK is 'ultra wealthy'. 120k/pa puts you into the 1% of top earners.

> Some people will never steal even to save their own life, because they have principles which guide them in that direction.

Are you sure there are, or do you think there are based on a Disneyesque view of morality?

> A lot of experts in cars and rockets claimed that Tesla and SpaceX are terrible ideas and they were proved wrong many times.

Can we see some references to these experts?

Hard work and grit are tied to millions more cases of folks being among the working poor.

They’re not an American but they’re also not from “other countries”, but from one specific country. None of the 27 countries of the EU have that level of corruption or hyperinflation either. My country has an absolutely horrible reputation for business and somehow I’ve had mine for almost 9 years without much bother.

Imagine having well paid customers.

It’s us. I was the same, now when I have a fresh Mac (like at work) I like to grab my dot files, my ssh keys, and remove a few items from the dock and I’m good to go. I don’t even do the last that much since I mostly launch from Spotlight.

I'd love to read up on that not so specialist CNC tech, considering most of the CNCs brag about having tolerances of ± 0.0025mm.

When I tell people here in Poland that I have friends living in LA, SF or NYC, making six figure salaries and living with roommates to be able to both live where they want AND pay off their student loan debt, they are dumbfounded.

Oh, I didn't realize all people are Americans.

Still using my 2004 20" ACD.

> Because 40 hours a week are, if you remove vacations, holidays and sick leaves, on average roughly 4 hours per day.

I'm sorry, but who told you this?

The median amount of PTO in American companies is 10 days + 8 days of Federal holidays. That 18 days vs 260 weekdays, or 7% of the work year, meaning the average American works 7.5 hours a day, not 4.

Being tired ("I don't have the mental or physical energy to do engaging things") and sleepy ("I want to sleep") are completely different things.

It's almost impossible to host any sort of event with 200-300 people for 3-5 hours for under 10k.

Any venue that has room for 250 people + catering should not be doing it for less than $40 a person!

Taxing profits makes reinvestment a better strategy than profit taking.

Aldi Denmark is the worst Aldi I've ever been to.

The basic problem with processed foods is that they mimic the qualities of natural foods.

If you leave kids to eat whatever they want with an abundance of food, they will create a perfectly balanced, healthy diet. They did a study of this in the 1950s and the kids who had certain vitamin deficiencies would naturally even go for the fish oil they needed to supplement their levels back up.

Take something as simple as bacon flavored potato chips: you eat them, and your body thinks it's getting the protein it needs, but it's not, it's getting something that mimics protein. But your body's kind of dumb, so it wants more chips, because they should have protein in them!

Almost every obese person out there is someone who's had their natural feedback loop completely destroyed by learned behavior. They don't feel "full" the way people without eating issues do.

Really? I feel the risk has grown. Based on numerous cases, cops have realized that getting filmed killing an unarmed person pleading for their life barely impacts their career, much less their freedom.

I'm tired of these kinds of big predictions because there is absolutely no penalty for being wrong.

Well, by doing that you go from maybe breaking an NDA to mail fraud, but w/e.

I've flown on more Bombardiers and Embraers than Airbuses or Boeings in the past 10 years.

Treating interactions with your child like it's they're a problem to solve means you're treating them like a pet, and I have real issues with that.

The device that connected the world is called the telephone, it's revolutionary force makes the WWW look like a fart in a storm.

It's called the telephone.

Except that I want to partake. I'm not willing to drop out of my hobbies just because of this, this isn't the hill I'm going to die on.