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samfisher83··on Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters
Ultimately consumers will need to decide whether they want to put with this or go with a easier car to repair like a Toyota.
samfisher83··on YouTube alternatives: P2P video hosting that uses up to 60% less bandwidth [pdf]
Even if you implemented this how are you going to replace the ad money and the viewers?
samfisher83··on Three programmers got fired, including me, due to a single app crash
In the article it mentioned she made 100/month as intern. You can make more money working at McDonalds. It must not have been the US. I think developers in the US have it pretty good.
samfisher83··on Costa Rica Has Run on 100% Renewable Electricity for 299 Days
Lots of wind and hydro. Plus they use 1/6th energy of us.

Edit: why the downvotes? Just because I mentioned they use way less power than the US?

samfisher83··on Roger Waters refused use of song for Instagram ad [video]
Fb wants to use a pink Floyd song for Instagram ad. Roger waters is not a fan of Zuckerberg so he said fuck you to that.
samfisher83··on Husband of Amazon employee sentenced to prison for insider trading Amazon stock
I understand the plea deal, but why. I am assuming they had evidence she gave him the data. Why let her off?
samfisher83··on Husband of Amazon employee sentenced to prison for insider trading Amazon stock
How did his wife get no prison time?
samfisher83··on Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.
Appsmith is also open source, but this looks great. Can't believe you knocked it out in 7 weeks.
samfisher83··on Cost of a 51% Attack for Different Cryptocurrencies
Why is og bitcoin not on the list?
samfisher83··on Apple has a decade-long lead in wearables
When Samsung had mst they had a pretty big lead on the competition, but seems like they dropped it.
samfisher83··on Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO on July 5
I meant in terms of return.
samfisher83··on Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO on July 5
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samfisher83··on 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning
F150 is the best selling vehicle in America. The price is actually comparable to the gas version. This might be the vehicle that really changes the EV game.
samfisher83··on The Tether Ponzi Scheme
By an army
samfisher83··on The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences
Its the whole JIT inventories stuff they preach in business school. Toyota actually stocked enough chips to handle something like this.
samfisher83··on Why I Work on Ads
According to the sec disclosures the 3 highest paying tech companies are Google, Splunk, and Facebook. They all happen to be among the 10 best paying public companies in America. 2 of the 3 are almost completely funded by ad money.
samfisher83··on Advancing Excel as a programming language [audio]
Excel is probably the single most used piece of business software in the world. People have been able to make quake. People have done 3d rendering without vba. People have done all kinds of stuff with Excel for a while now.
samfisher83··on Alphabet reports Q1 earnings
Oil companies have even higher revenue per employees.
samfisher83··on Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared
Even if the software was messed up there must have been some bank records that they double checked. Don't banks have some sort of the paper trail.
samfisher83··on US owners find greed doesn't play well in European soccer
Barca and real Madrid are two of the richest sports franchises in the world. Look at all uefa champions. They are all the big spenders. It's already a system of the haves and have nots.
samfisher83··on Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving
I think it was more people doing stupid things than the environment since no one was driving the car. I wonder how old the people in the car where.

Also they need to stop calling this thing autopilot.

samfisher83··on Hit songwriters ask pop stars to stop taking credit for songs they didn't write
If Rihanna sings your song it might have a much greater chance of being a hit.10% of a million dollars is better than 100% of 10000 dollars. You just have to do the math and figure if its worth it or not.
samfisher83··on Visa moves to allow payment settlements using cryptocurrency
I think people like have payment protection. Visa was basically created by the banks and ultimately the credit system goes back to the banks. Let's say you buy something through eBay and pay through the Bitcoin what protection do you have?
samfisher83··on The price students pay for a prized IIT seat
It's the chance for a lot of kids to chance to get out of the hood and change their entire family's fortune. It's a competitive world.
samfisher83··on AMD Expected to Become TSMC's Second Largest Customer
Semiconductor manufacturing is pretty dirty. Lots of toxic chemicals.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-15/american-...

samfisher83··on Why are so many successful founding CEOs software engineers?
Allen and gates where writing code when they were in highschool when no one was writing code. They also also got 1590 and 1600 on theirs sats when it used to be super hard. These are super smart and motivated people. You don't they could master leetcode after a few weeks of practice?
samfisher83··on Intel Core I7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake
You have to give whomever came up with 14nm process. Despite being super old it's still somewhat competitive. It's crazy Intel can't fix their process. They make more cash than amd, nvida etc. They make more cash than tsmc.
samfisher83··on The Mars Helicopter Is Online and Getting Ready to Fly
In general the older nodes work better for radiation and other cosmic forces.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening

That's why they don't use the latest and greatest in the space.

samfisher83··on What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
Roads have ice so you might get hurt getting there
samfisher83··on Autopilot on Cars for $999
This was like 600 bucks a few years ago and they are using leco phone from about 4 years ago.
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