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  • Email is not the same, if it was, then mastodon would just be another email client.

    One of the biggest issues with federated social media is discovery, a specific problem that email doesn't deal with, sense communication with email is primarily done between individuals with known addresses.

    It's also easy for people to comprehend email because it has an easy analog to regular addresses and traditional communication (I'm writing a letter on my computer and it's getting sent to someone else's computer)

    Finally, it took email decades to get to the place it is today, and 99.99999 percent of people using it don't understand how it works in the slightest, like at all.

  • I would say the fact that he isn't a P.E. is enough for me.

    If he was some mastermind engineer like he claims, he could easily pass the FE without even needing to study.

    Everyone else in the world needs to prove their credentials, why doesn't he?

  • Why? I read the article and I'm not exactly sure what these proposed rebates are for or what qualifies a car or person to be eligible for them.

    I didn't even see in the article anything that said Tesla would be excluded, other than a non-quote of maybe. Maybe I'm just missing something obvious.

  • This is pretty rude to be honest and I can't believe rhetoric like this gets voted up.

    This trivializes all parties, steers people in wrong directions and generally is just actual unwarranted or wanted, fake medical advice.

  • What do you think the millions of people flocking to a new service as refugees would do?

    Do you think George Takei or Flavor Flav care about federation and instances, or did they just see that Bluesky works similar to twitter and make accounts.

    Most of the people joining are going to use the default recommended instance because those people aren't joining out of technical interest.

  • Google could pay chrome billions just like they pay mozillla and apple..

    Besides it's not like that's really true anyway, chrome would make tons of money independently, it would just sell user data to Google or other parties instead of Google getting it for free. Chrome 'doesn't make any money' because it doesn't need to on paper, the same way a parking lot doesn't make any money for a grocery store, but if a third party owned the lot, the grocery store would just pay them to use it, or the individual people using the lot would.

    Chrome is the biggest browser and successfully collects data on billions of people, additionally, chrome development would absolutely be supported by all of the companies that build chromium based browsers like Microsoft, opera, brave, etc.

  • That's not true on every plane.

    Typically for doors that don't open inward first, they have interlocks.

    For example, the over wing doors on a 737ng don't open inward, they are actually spring loaded on a hinge and swing directly outward, there is a locking pawl that engages and disengages automatically under specific circumstances, requiring the squat switches on the landing gear to be engaged and the throttles to be in an idle position.

  • When you mortgage a home as an investment property, you are leveraging your money 5-1 (on a 20% down payment)

    If rent covers 90% of the mortgage, you still make an absolutely huge profit amortized over the loan.

    If you consider the tax incentives (interest write off, depreciation, capital gains deferment, pass through deduction) the gap in the rent can be covered.

    Consider paying 50k down on a 250k house, the. Paying an additional 15 percent over the life of the loan (around 40k) to cover for gaps in rent.

    Over the life of the loan you turned 90 grand into 250 grand (and a house is an appreciating asset, so it will likely be worth more than 250 by the end of it all)

    Deduct depreciation (value of the home minus land value over 27.5 years) and carry over losses can even make up for the gap of rent you pay entirely over time.

  • For real open source projects, it's a lot of the time not nerds working for free.

    All your favorite frameworks and libraries are often developed in house at big companies (angular, react, vue, tensorflow, Kafka, pytorch, k8s, Jenkins, and many many more).

    And even then, much of the development on them is done by people who are getting paid to use the frameworks at smaller companies.

    There are tons of examples the other way too of course, but even the Linux kernel is mostly corporate commits, Google, Huawei, Oracle, and others.

    This isn't inherently bad, but it's not as cut and dry as people make it out to be.

    I want to add, that language development is also often done by companies. Today for example is a Mozilla thing, and while a non profit, the devs aren't working for free.

  • Yea, I would wonder why hobby engineering isn't on the list, or something like 'maker' I think 3d printing as a stand alone is more of a support, it would be like, instead of woodworking, the hobby is 'sawing' it's part of it, but engineering is what the hobby is actually.

  • Why? If people really truly deep deep in their hearts, fundamentally disagree about something, why should they continue living together?

    Couples break up, roommates move out, people immigrate, empires expand and recede, borders change.

    Why must the US be this sea to shining sea empire? It's not like there is some natural or physical reason.

    Why does one border have to be here versus there, it's arbitrary anyway, it's changed in the past and it can change again.