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yes but if you look at the decade before that, it was pretty common about 3-10 or so bank takeovers per year, from the link below.

Dell and Apple can learn that there are consumers out there who want low cost minimalist options with long battery lives and long operational lives. Not everyone wants to buy a brand new 600$ computer every 5 years. They can learn that some consuemrs aren't going to put up with the crap of planned obsolescence.

here are the reasons I hate apple more than facebook: 1. they force developers to buy mac os x to work on their platform 2. their app store monopoly is extremely hostile towards developers and thus democracy 3. they force me to enter my financial information when I sign up with them 4. they won't allow me to use their products without an apple account which means I need yet another password to sign in 5. they won't even allow me to download apps without signing into my apple account. 6. the whole apple ecosystem kinda locks you in. 7. planned obsolescence, which I really hate.

On the other hand for facebook. I can just ignore it completely for months on end and easily block all my notifications or emails from it. or block them one by one if I choose. if i dont like the feed, then I just don't spend time on it. nothing about facebook isn't easily circumvented whereas apple has a death grip on you, as long as you need to use it's products.

energy from key presses: really cool idea. i hope that gets documented somewhere so the patent trolls don't try to patent it or something.

i love the minimalist concept of a laptop with so much battery life: Dell and Apple could learn something from this.

so that gray piece on the right is the solar collector, right? since it can go 2 years, what's to stop it from going forever? what if you added a 2nd collector on the left? how big would the solar panel need to be in order for it to run indefinitely?

Super job!

I'd say HN quality is way way better than Reddit, entirely due to the audience. Reddit is very much anti-knowledge, anti-solution, anti-reason whereas HN features intelligent discussions, often supported by facts.

those salaries aren't so inflated when you consider the cost of living over there. Want to rent a modest 2 bedroom house in palo alto? that'll be about 90K per year. After taxes, the average software engineer would be lucky to spend only 50% of their take home pay on rent.

personally, i think you'd be better off making 1/3 as much in the mid-west but who wants to leave all their family and friends?

most people at these companies don't last very long. if you doubt that, just take a look at the average person's linkedIn or resume. You'll see the average tenure at a tech company is about 2 to 3 years.

i really don't understand why people don't like facebook. they're no worse than apple or your ISP (now they're truely evil).

dissinfo? just unusubscribe or don't follow that account? do you really want facebook censoring everything you can see or don't see based on political correctness? or some other filter?

and how is it "selling user data". I've always found this to be wholly inaccurate. it's targetted advertisement. do you really prefer untargetted advertising?

I'm no facebook fanboy. personally i don't use it much. i've read articles on the matter but they never make any sense. Is there an article somewhere that explains all the vitriol towards facebook, because i really don't get it.

If you were to electrify all the vehicles in the world today (and the developing world hasn't even got lots of cars yet), it would take 1/2 the world's known supply of lithium. and those batteries only last about 8 to 10 years.

Lithium become abundant, no way. Not with the amounts we're using up per capita and the enormous population on this planet. the green revolution is just getting started and there's definitely not enough to go around.

my interpretation of this is that the tech recession will take a long time to enter into and the winding down of tech is going to take several years at least.

we as users, need to start finding alternatives to Google and Youtube. Not to stop using google/youtube but to diversify. Sure, today, the vast majority of users of Google and Youtube might be treated fairly. But this sort of thing can happen to anyone. No one company should have so much power, the potential for abuse is too large.

Regulation isn't a silver bullet. Maybe a little bit for certain things. But, You'll never be able to develop enough rules to make sure everyone is treated fairly.

the best way out of this is to educate users and start getting them to use other search products. we need more diversity of choice.

Most media companies effectively have this as a single point of failure: Google Search. And, it's not from lack of trying to diversify. Countless businesses must depend on it, espcially media and content based businesses. I of some very large media companies in existance for over 10 years, and they still get over 50% of their traffic directly from Google. If google decided to ban them, their multi-million dollar business would dissappear almost overnight.

Thanks for the list but you forgot one of the best series of all times that contains many libraries: A Series of Unfortunate events. I'm slightly ashamed to say I saw it on netflix, rather than reading the books. But, i hear the books are great too.