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Whilst this is clearly how no company should aspire to be, it's easy to understand that they want to make a profit, and if you design a "once in a lifetime" product, you'll find yourself out of business within 10 years or so after everyone owns said product.

The outcome is planned obsolescence as highlighted in this article. As the article also points out, not only does this damage us economically, it also damages use environmentally. It should be the place of Government to ensure that these externalities are re-addressed (e.g. by taxing companies on every item of theirs which goes into landfill), and for us the citizens to lobby them to do so.
Florence title loans if offering quick and best loans
Trust, Honor, and Excellent Customer Service are the core values of Florence title loans, that makes it different from other loan stores in Florence. Florence title loans are dedicated to the customers not to the money only.
It is the most peaceful country in the world as well. To live and settle there is dream come true for many people.
So, Facebook won't censor?
A corollary is "the richer the fool, the greater the acceleration of the universe's entropy (to include their body, health and a shorter life)."

There are a number health effects no amount of pills or surgery can reverse because entropy, despite marketing. Eat enough peanut-butter bacon sandwiches and cause enough chronic inflammation damage from smoking, then become obese, get diabetes and cancer.
Fucking LOL. The NYT. Purveyors of bullshit extraordinaire. Telling us about the media machine.

Their end can't come soon enough. Judith Miller 2003. Never forget.
There is an FM system in use in some countries (I know it works for sure in Germany). You just need to have a GPS unit with this receiver. More info here https://support.garmin.com/faqSearch/en-US/faq/content/i34WV... (it is the last one mentioned)
payments, in general, are terrible for startups. They are low margin, high capital cost, extremely regulated, and highly competitive. The incumbents have zero interest or incentive to work with you, so you have to be very well connected to get anything done. All of these alone make it a bad idea for a startup, but combined, they are nothing short of insurmountable for all but the experienced and well funded founders.

Here is a great piece by Danny Shader, CEO of PayNearMe. They are one of the most successful payments startups in recent history. You should give it a read: http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/17/so-you-want-to-start-a-pay...
I have a 20 year old ASKO washer and dryer. The brushes on the washer's motor have to be replaced every 3-4 years and the plastic drawer where you add soap is broken and ugly looking (and unfortunately replacement parts are no longer available) but otherwise they still work well.
More than that: it's an exchange of kind - compensation from individual loss is valued much more highly by the policy holder; expansion of the risk pool much more by the policy provider.
Right, because that's only skill required when building cathedrals, and we are totally not oversimplifying any craft here .... right.
Patents (and any other IP protection except trademarks) are based on two competing objectives:

(a) increase invention

(b) increased distribution of invention

The mechanism of a time-limited protection tries to increase (a) at the cost of (b). Any discussion must start with the acknowledgement that both goals have merit, and that the mechanism of how IP law affects them is basically sound.

There's obviously a point of diminishing returns in the time-limits. For example I'd argue that the money earned "70 years after the death of the creator" contributes very little to the motivation of today's writers. On the other hand, very few people will argue that an exclusive right to sell a book for the first year has never in history influenced a writer's decisions.

It's impossible to find the exact point where the curves meet without looking at a lot of actual data, and it's probably different for every product.
I haven't used Ruby in years, but I used it a lot for toy projects at home, and I recently looked at a few of these, and I was kind of impressed - even after years, and almost without any comments, the code was still very readable and rather beautiful. Ruby can be very elegant and pleasant to use; I have never used it for web applications, though.

(At work, I use Perl quite a lot, though. I recently have started trying to use Go for problems I normally use Perl for. But the jury is still out on how well that works.)
You're probably right since "free world" can mean many different things to different people, although I thought Seychelles had like 100,000 people
If you think of your car as any other tool you start to realize the electronic stuff might quickly get in the way of it functioning reliably whenever you need it. We have cranked windows, no AC, no other fancy electronics stuff (park assist? really? is that meant to unlearn people how to drive?) but electrical door locks. The one thing which ever let us down: the door locks of course.
Wait what? Isn't he innocent until proven otherwise?
We've got a 30 year old National microwave that's still going strong, haven't had to service it once.
The fact that you can essentially volunteer yourself to be arrested seems absurd to me. Do you have any details on that kind of program?
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What are the chances YC accepts a new dishwasher company into the program. I've taken apart and put together a ton of them now and have some interesting and simple ideas to make them last longer and work bettter.
Cows, lambs, pigs, goats produce a lot of methane. The contribution to total greenhouse emissions is another hidden cost people don't normally account for. We clear forests to make room for more farms to feed the growing demand for meat around the world. If a plant-based diet doesn't become more popular and mainstream, we are headed for trouble by mid century.
Is 3d printing really the most efficient way to make such a structure? Could you not pack straws together and then squish them? Could you not make a corrugated sheets like cardboard?
Not very up to date are you...
I'm all for freedom of speech, but is the "information snack" format of Facebook not simply the wrong format for spreading political views?

Imho, at the least, Facebook should merge commenting from larger groups of users on a single political post, in such a way that a balanced view of pro and con arguments can be read. (This means that if one of my friends shares a post, I don't see just my friends' comments).
Apparently my phone summoned an uber while it was in my pocket for a straight hour while I was at lunch the other day, and I was charged 6 dollars and refused a refund.

Permanently deleted, without regret.
I'd also like to say Miele is immortal.

My Miele vacuum was handed down to me by my mother when she died, and it's like a decade old and has zero issues.

And even if it does have issues, replacement parts for it are still sold (mainly because today's models are virtually identical).

Also, without the HEPA filter addon, it meets HEPA requirements (they're just not allowed to say so because HEPA sues anyone that didn't pay the idiot tax to license the name); and a box of 4 huge bags and both the inside and outside non-HEPA filters (you change them every 4 bags, comes in the box with the bags) costs around $20.

Most vacuums I've seen my neighbors own over the years cost like $15 for 2 bags, and you have to buy the filters separately. Miele TCO is dramatically lower, just a slightly larger upfront cost.

Also, all of the house cleaning people I've met over the years all swear by Miele, and they abuse theirs far more than I do mine.
>For instance, New Zealand lamb flocks are grown high up in the mountains

That's such an edge case though.. Burger King and Mcdonalds aren't selling lamb burgers in large quantities.

What about all the cattle farmed all over the world? They're not all on a steep mountainside. Most will be on plains or more factory like conditions.
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Exactly my problem. I love complex games, but I have short batches of time, mostly without full energy, and undetermined amounts of breaks between them. A full fortress mode DF is too much for that. Even if the learning itself is considered fun, it's just not possible due to the long breaks between sessions.

And it's not true that it is impossible to deliver content in that way. Even stuff like language learning is possible to put into waiting-5-minutes-for-bus sessions on the mobile phone.

Last but not least, there are games that can deliver on that. CK2 is somewhat playable, droppable, and still fun. You also _can_ choose to put additional hours and energy in it to make it more complex and more fun. But simple is possible as well. E.g., only now, after maybe 4 years of owning the game, and about 116 hours logged in Steam, I _start_ to learn about the Papacy and using religion to my advantage. Until now it was just like a random event, something that happened on the side but I didn't have to bother with too much.
React-native no longer supported by Facebook?
Also, what other tools could we have made if we had optimal tools for the existing ones?
It's the best example because it shows how strong the narrative is. As you can see from the video and other evidence that has been presented by multiple sources, Trump did not actually mock Kovaleski's disability. He is an equal opportunity mocker, and has mocked non-disabled people in exactly the same way. Other evidence shows that Kovalestic doesn't even have the kind of motions Trump mocked.

The Times, and the fact checkers, clearly manipulated the incident to make the case that he specifically mocked his disability. The freeze frame is the most obvious trick, but the words and tone go a long way too. But the evidence shows their manipulations to be false, yet the narrative persists. Even the fact check admits he didn't mock the reporter's disability (yet it still gives him a negative rating). Instead of being despondent at me -- and shooting the messenger -- you should be angry at them for manipulating you.
I seriously doubt a real study of appliance reliability over the past 70 years would show that the stuff sold in the 50s is actually more reliable or longer-lasting than the stuff sold today. Sure, you can find appliances that old that still work fine, but you don't see the ones that broke down after a year or two--they were junked decades ago and forgotten about. Since you can't grow the supply of working 50-year-old fridges, you are tautologically going to see far, far more appliances that are 10 years old or less failing, because there are far more such appliances.

In any case, I also guarantee that most of the junked appliances people throw out either still work fine, or are repairable. But there are other factors at work. A new kitchen remodel will often include new appliances. Is it wasteful? Sure. But it doesn't have anything to do with the reliability of older appliances.

As for repairs, labor costs have increased far faster than the cost of new appliances, so repairs are not always the better economic decision. Then add in large gains in efficiency of newer appliances, and utility savings _alone_ often make it worthwhile to junk a working appliance in favor or something newer.

I'm not trying to defend reliability of modern appliances, but this article way overstates the reliability and manufacturing quality of older ones, while ignoring a lot of other factors at play.
Generally speaking, purchasing commercial appliances doesn't work for a few reasons:

- The manufacturer of a commercial appliance usually won't provide a warranty for it if it's used in a residential setting.
- Your homeowner's insurance probably won't cover anything related to using commercial appliances in your home.
- In certain cases (probably not a washing machine, but certainly other cases like kitchen appliances), commercial equipment has different standards and codes that can be hard to accomodate for (this can be especially relevant for stoves and ovens)
How do you play eve in a relaxing way without putting much time into learning and developing complex excel sheets?
Are you familiar with a type of hardware or software called firewall?
The keyboards are significantly cheaper as well. The Model M keyboard retailed for 150$, which would be almost 400$ in today's money. For 400$ I guarantee you you will find a keyboard with a thick casing and quality plastic today.

These product comparisons all fail because today, we can make so much cheaper products than we could back then. And we are now comparing the cheapest crap (even a 100$ keyboard is cheap in comparison to the Model M) with MUCH more expensive products from the past. (Lego might be an exception here, as that product is the same)
See my answer above. It's fake news because it was a manipulation of the truth to suit a narrative. That the narrative is so strong is why I chose it. The facts are independent of whether one supports Trump or not.
This seems like an overreaction for a measly $6.
"Fake news" only became a "problem" after the last US election.

If we really want to solve the problem instead of an an outlet to vent frustration like spiled brats, then we should think deeper.

Why does my mum believe every piece of crap that shows up on Facebook and WhatsApp? And why do I call bullshit within a few seconds of reading it?

This I believe is the right angle. Why do people believe obvious lies. And why is it obvious to some and not others?

I suspect the root of the problem is our system of education. The primary goal these days seems to be obedience and unquestioning believe in authority.

If this isn't solved (I doubt it can). Then asking for fake news control will bring a bigger problem - loss of free flow of information...

China already has an excellent way of controlling fake news. But is that what we really want? Those who will benefit from the Chinese news control are those behind the sudden interest in fake news.

Wake up people!
Cars are designed to fail faster? Um...No. not even close.

My experience, as well as facts, don't support that. Cars are lasting longer than ever. The average age of a car on the road is highest it's ever been.... http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/07/29/new-car-sales...

I remember when I was a kid, as a rule of thumb, people would say to expect a car last for 100,000 miles. Now I'd expect closer to double that.

I'm actually pretty amazed at the quality of modern cars.
In the URSS the appliances had a mandatory 25 year warranty. So, it makes sense to me...
"Planned obsolesence" is nothing more than a conspiracy theory always presented without any proof.
Exactly. What incentive is there for manufacturers to make appliances that last 50 years when consumers won't even be able to tell? They'll just buy the cheapest one anyway.
See also: the story of Volkswagen AG and its parts for American vs European cars (esp Passats)
Are there an any advantages to using hydrodynamic vs. electrodynamic forces for carrying signals? Hollow cellulose nanotube structures could be printed to carry fluid to different areas of a three dimensional circuit.

Would you be able to sacrifice some of the raw "speed" you gain from using electrical current to carry the signals in a traditional PCB if it meant you could work with significantly reduced heat? Or is my rudimentary understanding of the physics here betraying me? Friction is going to exist, so it's quite possible that these types of organic fluid logic gates would be useful for other reasons, but not in the ways I've imagined.

Without some(all?) of the electromagnetic changes associated with the continued reduction of die size for traditional electrical circuits, can you build significantly denser (and eventually more powerful) mechanical circuits with fluid-filled cellulose nanotubes?
This assumes the 'best' people are least likely to get arrested. I reject that idea as pushing boundaries is very common among the most intellectually gifted.
Companies could offer a 20 year warranty to signal that their products are intended to last a long time.
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> by taxing companies on every item of theirs which goes into landfill

Second that idea. From my perspective, if recycling was perfect the only limitation on single use items would be how convenient it is to dispose and obtain another one. Also, I hate searching for new clothes that fit when the current options go out of fashion.
> That is why we have version numbers.

This is why the authority for the language has version numbers. If it's just your compiler, it's a bit impertinent if not outright illegal to call it C 2.4.

And depending on the amount of changes, I don't think this is necessarily a good idea. Perl 6 comes to mind.
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A condition that requires surgery doesn't necessarily means a life in pain...
Mathjax appears to be broken if you use https everywhere or just visit with https[0]. Just a note to RSchaeffer. Nice article.

[0] https://rylanschaeffer.github.io/content/research/overcoming...
> The downsides of Consumer Reports are as follows:

Another downside, as the article pointed out, is the intentional smokescreen of multiple product names and slightly differing versions that make comparison shopping and meaningful reviews virtually impossible, and why I don't get as much value from my Consumer Reports subscription as I used to.

This is particularly prevalent in the mattress industry.
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How does not being able to maintain 100% privacy elsewhere matter in this discussion? The fact that there are thousands of abuses happening every minute doesn't justify abuse in any way.
Perhaps. It's more the principal of the matter. Why accept it if it's 6 dollars vs 100?
You seem to imply that for you anything of the sort is X-files worthy material.

To "coerce people into behaving in an ideal way where sexuality is constrained and nothing happens"
you just need some groups hell-bent on the protestant WASP ideals that "made america great". Then you
can also have some opportunists that play those cards because they make a living out of it (e.g. appealing
to a conservative audience), and so on.

So it is indeed "put through intentionally by people who're organized together".

Do they have "hidden evil plans" related to their bigger plan?

All the time.

Not all of them together, but groups here and there, conspire all the time (in the sense that doing something shady and unknown to the public to further their cause).

Like for example people were openly racist in the South in the sixties, but teams of "community leaders" and such could
also conspire to bring forward some hidden evil plan related to the cause (e.g. lynch someone or burn some crosses and beat up some militant blacks or pro-black people to put them "in their place"). They didn't do those things openly. But they did it for the same cause they were openly in favor of.

A similar "orchestrated evil plan" e.g. would be a "character assassination" of some person on the other ideological side. You get some dirt on them, have various friends in
the media push it, etc.
Thirty years in, South by Southwest still keeps it weird and wonderful
Not for people that can't get over the election results.
I had a similar experience in a mechanical engineering class, our professor was discussing MTBF (mean time between failure) and how calculating this more accurately allowed companies to better engineer their product for obsolescence. For a company, a product that is too reliable is unprofitable in the long term and so they adjust by making sure that the product works beyond the terms of the warranty but not much more.

My professor was himself horrified by that (but he was a teacher because he believed in not working for corporations so that was not very surprising)

I do know one company that has a reputation for not doing this. Miele in Europe but then their appliances are double to triple the price of typical companies.

EDIT: corrected Mean Time Between Failure instead of Mean Time Before Failure. Thanks slim
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It is a fine country, marred only by the difficulty in finding a decent curry.
>Both are forms of entertainment and both cause you to lose money.

In one of them you get a luxury item -- with both use value, status value, and resale value.

In the other you get nothing at all. Not even status.
Nope, i'm using them on an up-to-date pro version. They work.

A lot of that is also misreporting and half truths by journos who don't give a damn about anything but being the first to get the clicks with the most exciting headline. For example the group policy update configuration was changed with the anniversary update to not reflect in the user update ui, but still works perfectly fine and is still reflected in the group policy ui.
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I use it. And bash more often than any of Python or Ruby. I use Go tools more often than tools written in Python or Ruby these days.

Demand for something in job ads does no always equal what is used out there. My current job was not announced as a Perl job. The HR department had listed Python though. We use zero Python in our product or tools.. There was already some Perl here. Actually when looking past the makefiles I discovered that the build system was 90% Perl. Let's just say they got lucky with the hire since no one had a clue when they were recruiting.

I think this is the situation in lots of places and if you know your devops and prefer Perl you will do as good as or better than anyone using those other languages that "surely must be dying now that we have Go.."
If what you are saying is true it has changed significantly since the '80s/early '90s. Back then psych help could truly be a career killer.
This post is an example of armchair programming, so your armchair experience is more than enough.

On a more serious note, it's software architecture done on paper. Any experienced programmer will tell you it's close to worthless. You don't have to be a graphics expert. Abstraction of passes and pipelines isn't anything new, it even bled into the modern APIs like Vulkan. This post is just some inexperienced programmer's vague description of how he or she would like things to work in theory. It's not worth a discussion.
Qualcomm has made a new chip for flip phones (yes, in 2017)
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I'm selling magic numbers. They look like an IP address, ex. 9342.7663.0223.434. You put this on your business card as a replacement for all the other stuff (phone, fax, email, website, etc) so friends and customers only need that number to communicate with you anyway you want them too. You can email the number, fax the number, text the number, call the number, IM the number etc. How much would you pay for a magic number? Would you pay a set up fee? subscription? add services as you needed them?
Time to stop thinking about profits and start thinking about sustainable developments.
Right, especially since it was his own fault.
For payments using direct bank transfers tends to be the standard approach in the EU, certainly for national payments.
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Why said anything about intellectually gifted? He said best.
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