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This is hilariously petty it's almost The Onion worthy. If they keep at it, John Oliver will pick it up.

At least in the U.S., you're allowed to cancel airline tickets within 24 hours without any penalty.

"Interim CEO".

The market seems to think this is inconsequential.

That is a nice setup since it minimizes recovery time to nothing. I'm guessing you're using their B2?

I've had 2 drive failures since using BB so it's been worthwhile. But their Download software is pretty dreadful if you have large amount of files. I may try their ship-drive option next time.

Tracking their stock price, they are operating pretty lean, so I don't fault them for having crappy software.

Yup. All drives kick the bucket at some point. That's why I use BB. I don't trust myself with NAS.

The ones that never failed me were any drives made by Quantum using SCSI interface. 5 drives, zero failure over 10+ years. But those were slower and cooler running units.

It’s a little strange to see 36gb instead of 32gb. I’ll take the extra 4 though.

I like Netflix enough but when they announced the price hike recently i didn’t like them enough to continue to pay. So I cancelled too.

Mine too. The soundtrack is spectacular as well. Doesn’t appear to everyone’s cup of tea but I think it’s a masterpiece. For me it had more replay values than Akira or ghost in shell. I must’ve watched it 10 times.

"Broken down there are 137 Engineering management roles and 38 Product roles being reduced. Additionally, there will be 388 role reductions across our Engineering team"

Companies have cut back on recruiters a while ago, so I guess they stopped money on linkedin.

I wonder what areas will be impacted next.

It’s doing one to one comparison of the comparable homes. Schiller looks at average home price without adjusting for newer homes being much larger and better furnished than the ones built 25 years ago

In the end, it's mostly about dollars and dense. Most coal plants are operated by large companies including Georgia Power, Duke Energy, AEP, etc. who have large coffers to fund lobbying effort to influence the public and regulators. They are mostly located in middle America and provide well paying jobs for the locals.

Even though no new coal plants are going up, they've made large capital investment building these plants in 70s and 80s, and they want to maximize the returns as long as possible, right up until the lifespan which is around 50 years.

So they're doing the minimum necessary to appease and avoid raising the ire of regulatory bodies and general public.

People elect goverment and officials, both at local and federal level to make informed decisions that weight in numerous factors. If people had more direct control over and line-item veto and vote, we may not make the best decision as a whole. At least for some contentious issues, you sometimes get to directly vote on state referendum.

ATP for a new car in July was $48,334. For used cars, it was $29,5k last quarter.

$30k is a lot of money for sure. But it does not get you much car these days, new or used.

30k is significantly less than avg priced internal combustion engine cars.

I do miss those clear buttons and input fields.

I cannot tell you how much my 70 something year old Mom gets confused trying to figure out what's clickable vs not on modern apps and OS.

Maybe it's just me, but in the video, the founder doesn't seem all that excited about the acquisition. It's almost like he's having second thoughts, but it's too late to back out.

I didn't even realize what Loom was until now. I love their product demo video on their home page. https://www.loom.com/

Brilliantly made.

And I'm completely sold on the value of this software. Screen recording is the best way to log software design defects.

This is a 17 year old aircraft, so I think it's only worth one fifth of that at best. They may be better off just buying a used one, rather than risk putting this into service.

While I don't think Google will abandon Pixel phone, yeah I'd be wary of buying pixel watch for sure.

For better or worse, Apple's rectangular form factor is something people have gotten used to and frankly it's more space efficient than a circle.

To really make a dent in the market place, they should build a product that has a Wow factor that is good enough to lure even Apple Watch users away.

The pace of hardware improvement has slowed a lot so I’m not concerned about this as much as in the past.

I think that’s one of the main reasons why Google decided to make this commitment.

Video of the ad. https://twitter.com/MrBeast/status/1709046466629554577?s=20

From the same blog: vehicle sales are up 15% YoY

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2023/10/vehicles-sales-in...

Not necessarily a sign of health, but playing catcup with hisotrical trend.

Can't they charge $2-300 more and put in better chip and camera?

Summary: Americans are spending a lot of money on vacations and fun experiences that they might've otherwise put off, because they are prioritizing to enjoy life now than later.

Inflated housing prices made savings almost pointless and COVID crisis taught them about fragility of life.

Just for argument sake, Apple walks away from $20B/year in pure profit to develop its own search engine.

Google is going to just sit idly?

Google already knows how to make great search engine. It is just 'choosing' not to, so it can make more money from advertisers.

If it didn't have to pay $20B/year to Apple, they can re-deploy all that capital however they see fit to maintain its dominance.

Wow... this part of the video blew my mind... comparing human to tortoise.

https://youtu.be/FYr04ymjD1w?si=dd45tE7vKW6ZcIOw&t=224

The risk of death for human exponentially increase as you age, but it is constant for tortoise.

CEO pay always grew inline with worker's pay until 1978 when trend started to break. Coincidentally, 1978 is when 401K was introduced.

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2021/

Then in 1990s, all hell broke loose and the gap completely blew open between avg worker and CEO pay.

As someone who failed at sales, I have nothing but respect for people in sales, and people who work in account management that put up with client bull shit and bring home the bacon.

While I do miss the number pads it was leading me to bad posture and messing up my back. I like how some keyboards have detached numberpad but they are rare.