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Comment · 11 days ago
Sharecropping is bad for sharecroppers, what a surprise.
Comment · 22 days ago
I wished it was just all into logos and no actual game. That's the real AAA experience.
Comment · 1 month ago
It's clearly a bubble. I'm not sure why more people don't describe it that way. It's a gold rush. People are hoping that everyone else drops out before they do. Nobody thinks all the participants can win. At best one of them can take a small fraction of $6T.
Comment · 1 month ago
But let's be clear: Prop 13 is bad and is holding down property taxes on both commercial and residential land.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm curious how they got the raw material to them. You can't make 5 tons of ice cream a day out of thin air. Were they shipped premixed sugar & milk or did they get straight raw ingredients and mix them onsite? I feel like the refrigeration capabilities are a pretty small part of the supply chain required to actually produce ice cream. Did they get a floating milk tanker to stop by every few days? Were they loaded on shore and just made do with what they had until the next port call?
Comment · 1 month ago
Hostie d'tabarnak, flic.
Comment · 1 month ago
The inside screen, when divided in two vertically, along the fold line, is exactly the same dimensions as the outer screen. Pretty much by definition. Any folding phone, of any aspect ratio, can run two apps on the interior display side by side.

The issue of the internal screen being the same aspect ratio as the external when rotated is completely separate.

Comment · 1 month ago
Yes, I do understand the issue with the aspect ratio, which is indeed good design, but parent comment's example is that "you can run two apps side by side" is the tautology. Well, at least since the invention of double-entry bookkeeping and getting rid of Archimedian phone design.
Comment · 1 month ago
this isn't great design, it's tautology. of course the phone open is twice the size of it closed. it would be hard to make it otherwise.
Comment · 1 month ago
in the keynote they explicitly said it was a polymer. Apple materials technology is really good, but it's not "folding glass" good.
Comment · 2 months ago
Yes, by all means, figure out how to reshore American production of potash, aluminum and heavy crude near northern refineries.
Comment · 2 months ago
oh he understood what plate tectonics was proposing very well, he just completely rejected it in favour of many distributed prehistoric oceans and a lot (a LOT) of erosion. It was weirdly congruent to phantom time theory.
Comment · 2 months ago
Back in the early 2000's, well before most social media sites existed, I had a coworker who shared with me a number of questionable theories, one of which was basically this. He also believed very passionately that plate tectonics was wrong. Unfortunately social media didn't invent brain worms.
Comment · 2 months ago
Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" was used in a cruise ship ad in 2003. Not the 90's, but not exactly recent.
Comment · 2 months ago
The Pixel 9 Pro Fold had a lot of warranty replacements due to a failing internal cable. The 10 seems to have resolved the issue, but time will tell.

Other than that, the Pixel Fold has been a great phone. It's like having a tiny tablet with me everywhere I go.

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