Brands don't mean much when they're constantly bought up by other companies and then used to whitewash poorer quality products.
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In places with good train travel, it seems like they already have several cabin classes, from sardine seats (still luxurious compared to air travel) to private cabins (at several multipliers of price). Pod style rooms would presumably be cheaper than that, but still a lot more expensive than a seat?
Then in places without high speed passenger rail, like the US, this wouldn't really be able to address the major problems with train travel (slowness, lower priority than freight, low reliability, etc.).
Under what scenarios would using pods instead of cabins be more economically viable? And could these be retrofitted into existing sleeper cars, or would they have to build entirely new trains?
If you just leave the hard drive out by the sea, it should happen by itself. 80% should only take a few months.
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23andMe
> In an attempt to regain control, Wojcicki made an initial bid in February 2024 to take 23andMe private, offering $2.53 per share in a joint bid, but it did not proceed.[39] In July 2024, Wojcicki offered 40 cents each for all outstanding shares not already owned by her directly or through affiliates.[40] The proposal was rejected by a committee set up to evaluate options for the company's future,[41] and in September the seven independent members of the board of directors all resigned.[42] The company subsequently filed with the SEC indicating that it was no longer open to third-party acquisition offers.[40] Users were concerned about the security of their genetic data, and were trying to delete it from the company's archives only to find out that it holds onto the data for three years before deleting to comply with "legal obligations".[43]
> In January 2025, 23andMe declared that it would need additional liquidity to fund operations, and was actively exploring strategic alternatives including a potential sale of the company.[45] Wojcicki made a third offer of 41 cents per share in March 2025.[39]
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I don't know a lot about her, but she co-founded 23andme and has been tied to it ever since. Maybe it's her baby?
I really do appreciate the transparency and ownership that comes with these. We all fuck up, but a lot of companies would rather hide their mistakes than own up to them. Cloudflare's approach makes me trust them more.
When it's your own outage, it's all-hands-on-deck panic mode. When it's half the internet down, it's no longer your problem, lol
As a former SRE there, is "widespread outage" a specific, special kind of classification that's not obvious to the public just by looking at the status page...? Or what do you mean?
(There are lethal lookalike mushrooms that a vision model or even trained expert can't necessarily tell apart at just a glance)
I stand by what I said... and a lot of them were posted under username cannibalXxx, which has even more spam. They just look like low-effort SEO bait. The self-promotion has gone a bit too far, IMO, but you do you...
Just do the math (between your daily estimated solar panel output and your device consumption)... try not to let the battery drain to under 20% or charge to over 80%.