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Toyota took 7 years as well. They did not start selling the Prius worldwide until 2000, and they hit 280k worldwide sales within 7 years.

But if you want to compare yearly figures...the non-liftback models went from 0 sales to 530,000 in sales in just 2 years. Now that is impressive. And it's also the counterpoint to Musk's Tesla: both Tesla and Toyota knew that demand existed for their cars. But Toyota knew how to execute properly, and did so, and was able to satisfy that demand. Tesla so far has royally fucked up, continues to fuck up, and it's up in the air whether they'll be able to right the ship before they run out of money.
As a democratic socialist, I am on board with hating the game.
There is a world of difference between taking away benefits from someone convicted of a crime and saying that "such and such people qualify for assistance if they fill out forms x,y,z and do a,b,c."

It would be analogous to saying that since we send some people to prison, we should all be in prison. It makes no sense to compare these two things. A person who commits a crime loses some rights. That may include a UBI, it may include voting rights, it may include loss of limbs. Felons are fundamentally treated differently than non-felons.

How they are treated does reflect greatly the moral fiber of the population. I personally would not want to take either a UBI or voting away from felons, but that is a completely separate debate and should not be a factor in the UBI being applied to the other 99% of the population.

The UBI debate is about what distribution of resources leads to the best society. It is about who has power, who does not. It is about who gets to make the decisions of what is made and to whom that stuff is given. It is about whether people can live secure or in constant fear. It is not a debate about the criminal justice system though that debate needs to be had as well.

They are not totally independent, of course. There would be a great deal less crime if the stress of surviving was removed from much of the population.
Yeah, but most people outside the Bay Area aren't writing about how the Bay Area would respond to hypotheticals demographic changes. (And, how policy changes in SF proper might produce those changes.)

Everyone qualified to do that also recognizes the difference between the City and County of San Francisco and the larger Bay Area, and between both of those and Northern California; the article conflates all of those (suggesting at one point that certain new SF municipal regulations are designed to protect Northern California’s traditional “easygoing, uncrowded and quiet” lifestyle, which is a thing that might exist outside of or on the periphery of the Bay Area within Northern California, but certainly isn't how most people would describe most of the Bay Area, or San Francisco specifically.)
Wait until year 2 or 3, governments are slow.

I've had countless accusations of unfiled paperwork and numerous refilings. If 1 thing is off it seems like it takes atleast 6 months to correct it.

I also seem to get a fake workers comp claim or two per year that needs to be sorted out. By the time your correction is filed, another notice had already been sent out. So, you need to refile again to be sure then they call asking why you refiled twice. It's a pain.

Also, if you have an employee that owes alimony or child support it's another hassle that the employer gets sucked into.
Same as the difference between "techbros" and journalists who report on Silicon Valley, for anyone outside of either group.

It's narcissism of small differences all the way down. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differen...
And not just a phone number, but a phone number in a specific format.

It took me more than 10 minutes to figure out how to add a friend with a phone number from Spain. The trick was adding a space in the right place. In the meantime, she couldn't find me by my US number.

Turns out, different countries format the phone numbers differently, and Whatsapp gets confused. Just for US numbers, you have +1(xxx)xxx-xxxx, xxx-xxx-xxxx, 1xxxxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxx,(xxx)xxx xxxx, xxx xxx xxxx - and I don't know which one Whatsapp uses internally for ID.

For what it's worth, entering the phone number exactly as it shows up on my account info didn't work.

TL;DR: a phone number does not a good ID make.
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Honda Insight was never offered for sale, lease only. I'm not including leases because Tesla does not lease their cars and lease stats are more than a simple Google search away. But if we were to include leases, Prius' stats would look even better.
You might be interested in looking up concatenative languages. There's a wiki[0]. I really like Joy in the abstract sense.

Factor made a few waves a decade ago but has kind of lost steam[1]. It's still being developed though[2]. Kitten looks promising but develops at a snail pace because it's one guy doing it[3]. Not a dig against him, mind you!

[0] http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Front%20Page

[1] http://factorcode.org/

[2] https://github.com/factor/factor/

[3] http://kittenlang.org/
Topics back then included:

- self-programming computers

- natural language

- neural nets

- computational complexity

- self-improvement

- representations (ontologies)

- randomness and creativity
SUVs sit up higher. This makes them easier to get into and out of.

SUVs are basically hatchbacks. I currently own a hatchback (GTI) and our old SUV was easier to get into and out of. The GTI is more fun to drive though.
The rules are designed to enforce the delivery of ads.

I agree on the no surprise aspect. Adguard allowed users to expunge ads, Apple has many policies to prevent ceding such control to mere consumers.
The supermarkets process the transactions as cash on the credit card. I paid something like 5% in fees because of that (on a UK VISA card, about 15 years ago).
> Windows is not ‘effectively free’, it’s just you don’t usually pay for it separately.

https://www.howtogeek.com/163303/how-computer-manufacturers-...

The cost of a pre-installed license is cost neutral in most cases due to the crapware they add.

My overarching point is that 99% of consumers are cost-conscious. They look at the price in paper and rarely weigh anything else, especially a fuzzy notion of privacy. We are the 1% and we should be mindful of the 99%
I believe it's for the exact same reason other Big Companies are incapable of delivering anything "exciting":

1. Soulless design-by-committee.
2. Complex internal politics - "Cool idea you have there with the Prius, but I don't want to see it become too successful and eat into the sales of the Corolla. We need to sell 200k Corollas or I don't get my bonus".
3. The "proven" technique of having focus groups with a diverse crowd of aged-35+ white suburban soccer moms tell you what features they value in a car the most.
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Jobs was a real piece of work.
You summarized the paper as, “children from at-risk families achieve better education when the father ends up incarcerated.”

The one study you’re citing here might suggest your summary statement if “parents on the margin of incarceration” was equivalent to “children from at-risk families”. But those are very different concepts.

You can have an at risk family just by being low-income. Certainly many low-income families are drawn into crime, but by no means all, or even a majority, of low-income families, have a parent who is at the margin of incarceration.

I think the only thing you can reasonably conclude from this study is that leniency in the judicial system towards parents just because they’re parents may be misguided.
We’re headed for a future where only the wealthy can enjoy nature
Love seeing things like this. I've been a developer for 20+ years now and my only formal learning was a high school comp sci class where our teacher Mr. Smythe made us do all our theory on paper or the chalk board, including tests. We did have lab time too, but it he wanted us to be able to reason our way through problems and not rely on the machine for that. I still carry a paper notebook everywhere and use it constantly. Can't thank him enough.
I think people are downvoting you because it seems like you are suggesting that because it's OK for you billions of internet users have their functionality downgraded.

If you feel like punycode is a security issue then you should disable it. Perhaps browsers could do this automatically for people like you. But that's on you - saying 'nobody wants it because i speak english' is not a great foot to stand on.
yeah, I just read the article. true, for small-medium businesses it's more feasible.
probably also an important point that machine learning can address some of the basic complexity
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Wow, it is a different world :)
> Honda Insight was never offered for sale, lease only.

No, 17,000 or so were sold, and it was the first mass produced hybrid sold in the US.
> [1] Even more impressive is that these are sales of a single model...

If we relax that "restriction"... Toyota says they sold 1.52 million electrified vehicles in 2017. That includes the Prius (both hybrid and PHEV variants), all their other hybrids (they have at least one hybrid option in most market segments they cover now), and the Mirai (fuel cell vehicle), across both the Toyota and Lexus brands.

It sounds a little less impressive when you realize that's only about 15% of the vehicles they sold globally, though (10.386 million cars globally, although I'm not 100% sure if that number includes Lexus).
Too Much of a Good Thing at NASA
Maybe. But hundreds of millions of people have already been hurt by disappearing jobs and falling real wages. To say nothing about that is to let the narrative of sacrifice stand. I think it would be worth focusing on the potential to create jobs.
I knew someone would make a native FORTH for WASM the moment I heard of the latter's existence. Surprised it took so long for one to pop up, honestly!
My mother started and ran a book donation charity. A lot of what we received as donations just ended up going to recycling --outdated encyclopedias, romance novels, and so on. The work needed to sort out people's low quality donations actually ended up dominating the costs of running it, moreso than manning a "free books" table at a local grocery store. She tried just letting people sort through stuff themselves at first, but most people would decide after a short time searching through the free books that they were all crap and give up, defeating the purpose.
Then it seems microcredit has not yet been tried.

Anyway, even if we're specifically talking about micro-enterprise, there is a high rate of failure and then people having the loan as millstones around their necks, and there's questions about how good it really is to have a bunch of businesses of the sort that are financed by microcredit: https://governancexborders.com/2013/05/29/the-art-of-pointle...
Somebody really sucks at their job of protecting Swedish crowns.
Popular games like Dota 2, Fortnite, and League of Legends are free to play but charge for in-game cosmetic changes.
At least in India, it was equivalent of $1 in my currency, i.e. Indian Rupee.
That sounds like a temporary problem to me - not anything fundamentally wrong that can't be fixed.

Apartment complexes where I live (Denver metro) are already competing with each other on features like "bike/snowboard fix-up stations", "Amazon lockers", "heated pool", and other absurdities - you bet they're going to install 220v chargers if it helps lure people in. Eventually, it will be expected - just like the bike fix-up station.
You can test the pigments in the paint to see if period-correct materials were used. A lot of forgeries use pigments that wouldn't have been invented or otherwise available at the time.
>E-mail sucks for almost anything.

Ever tried sending a message that's several pages long on anything but email? Go ahead, do it. See how <your preferred messenger> hits the ground face down on that.

Even your short comment is too long to be comfortably read in most IM apps.

>- no standard way of quoting

Using > is a de-facto standard. Now, I know, you have objections. Before you voice them, try receiving a long message in your IM of choice, and try writing a response quoting parts of the long message you just got. Could you manage to do it in a single message? Ah.

Some of use like to write, you know. And email is good for that.

Almost anything else sucks.
That's pretending nothing has changed since 2011. It's interesting you pick that year, because that's not long after China's former approach collapsed with the global consumer in the great recession, and they had to switch to gorging on debt to continue faking a high rate of growth.

It's also fascinating that China would install a dictatorship right as this switch-over - from organic growth to extreme debt - was occurring. I'd wager the Communist Party is terrified of what's coming socially, and given their overwhelming vote in favor of the dictatorship they think that power is going to be necessary to control the people (they very knowingly voted to clamp down on all human rights in the country by handing Xi that position).

Since 2011 they've taken on tens of trillions of dollars in new debt. As recently as 2008 China's debt to GDP ratio was reasonable. Their debt to GDP ratio has drastically worsened since and is very realistically the worst among major economies now (when their immense shadow debt is included it's a certainty). Household debt to income ratios have similarly gotten dramatically worse in the last decade. There are in fact limits to how far a nation can push such things.

Somewhere between 1/4 and 1/3 of their new GDP every year is going just to new debt interest payments. When you consider what else needs to come out of that new GDP, that's a very stark debt situation. In 2011 they also weren't seeing record bond defaults.

The types that cry wolf are often early or very early in their predictions. One has to ask if there is in fact any truth to what they're saying, instead of only focusing on their regularly saying it. In the end, they may be too early in their speculation, rather than entirely wrong.

China should have accepted slower organic growth and maintained their financial health. They chose the Japan approach of levering up massively on debt when the growth dropped off. They're so terrified of their own people about what happens if growth is 2% instead of 6% (being terrified of their own people is also why they installed the dictatorship to control them). It tells you all you really need to know about their system, it's fragile and can't survive a recession or stagnation.
> If the problem is toxic home environments though, why aren't people suggesting that we cut out the middle man and focus on building a better foster / adoption system and encouraging people to use it?

Or we could just try to fix th social problems that produce the toxic home environments rather than ripping apart the families that society has already failed.
Phone company reps are notorious for ignoring any and all such notes on accounts, we can't know for sure if Reddit had this in place but it probably wouldn't be much of a hurdle
I'm sorry, but this strikes me as extremely disingenuous.

They didn't invent the market, the Prius was just a better Honda Insight (primarily by virtue of having 3 more seats). Again, they deserve massive credit for their accomplishments.

But, again, they lose the "sales increase" by a wide margin unless you tweak that by insisting on limiting it to "a single model".

Certainly we don't know if Tesla will survive but the challenges facing a new carmarker of any sort are simply massive, rather than just producing a slightly-differently-propelled model in addition to the millions of conventional cars you already produce.

And where you really fall over is by trying to argue about "the non-liftback models" which I can only presume means the discontinued[1] Prius V which is a slightly-differently-bodied version of an existing car.

[1] https://www.toyota.com/priusv/
I've heard of similar stories with adult iliteracy or almost-iliteracy.

I applaud your counter-Dunning-Krugerish inquisitiveness about your own skills. I hope some of that rubs on me.
SpaceX has Gwynne Shotwell. I’m not sure there’s a similarly capable decision maker at Tesla.
I haven't read anything close to 50% of his thoughts to know if most of them are quite profane, but the few other pieces I've read have indeed seemed quite insightful.
Your arguments continue to devolve into uninformed or utter bad faith.

The insight WAS offered for sale, and Tesla DOES lease their cars[1]

[1]https://www.tesla.com/support/tesla-leasing
Yes, I missed that, thank you for the rebuke.
It is truly amazing how he is hero-worshiped while Bill Gates is vilified. The early secretaries at Microsoft became millionaires from their stock options while many who played key roles in the success of Apple got their salaries and bennies and that's it.
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Apple is making a lot of promises like access to a person which makes me think they’ll be curating this, at least for a while.
Everybody poops.
They certainly did 10 years ago.
:) Personally I've never used any serious complex analysis in my job (I'm very grateful too, because I always struggled a bit with it). The closest thing I've seen, which I did run into recently, is the use of complex numbers to compute very accurate finite differences. It's one of those delightful tricks that is both elegant and useful: https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2013/10/14/complex-step-di...

I've been working in golang, which fortunately has built-in complex128 types, so it's proved very helpful in a project!
our machines also run many different services (the CDN product is just one of them) and isolating I/O from different products is difficult. I'd also love to have NVMe.
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