This works great when you are developing the polio vaccine. But in the wrong hands this is just an illegitimate tool of power. Plenty of people joined companies like Facebook because they were made to believe that they were truly changing the world for the better... the ability to fool people like that is just corporate demagoguery.
The market opportunity is already occupied by Target! Great products, shipped to you or delivered to your car in the parking lot. I’ve shifted at least 50% of my Amazon spend to Target. I won’t buy anything that I eat, that touches my children’s skin, that plugs in, or that has a Li-Ion battery from Amazon.
I'll try them, though I just did some searches for some random categories like sailboat products and got nothing back. We have switched a lot of our home goods shopping to them (in person).
Yeah, sailboat products ain’t gonna happen at Target. Amazon is like a giant Goodwill: half the stuff is obvious crap, another 30% is non obvious crap, and 20% is quality products. If you want verified quality in specialty categories, you need to use a specialty retailer like West Marine.
That can work, but it depends on what you're buying. Target doesn't carry about 99% of the sorts of things that I buy online. However, I have a physical Target just down the road from me, so I've probably already checked there before I even got on the internet.
There lies the trade off. Quality control / trust verification is hard, and you will have way more products available if you forego it. You’ll also have a ton of junk mixed in too.
Of course. I’m talking about for household essentials. Amazon has built a gigantic marketplace by instituting zero quality control. Target is a marketplace with much stricter quality control and a vastly smaller selection. If you’re fine with caveat emptor than Amazon is the better choice.
They don’t need to make the scooters profitable — they just need to make sure that the scooters don’t displace Uber and Lyft rides. They just need to make sure the scooters are crappy, broken, and annoying to get the world to turn against scooters and stick with Uber and Lyft rides.
Given how non-motor vehicle unfriendly most roads are in the U.S., I don’t see scooters take off in most places any time soon, even if managed as well as humanly possible.
Why shouldn’t the principals of a company that willfully harms so many people’s lives receive a criminal punishment on par with what someone who murders a single person gets?
Ones passive and ones active though, they’re completely different. If you fall asleep playing a video game the game doesn’t finish itself.
This is anecdotal but I’ve definitely heard people who will happily talk about binge watching a box set (easily a 50+ hour investment) also say they can’t understand how people can waste so much time playing videogames.
I am skeptical, given that the in the US the average household watches more than 8hrs per day[1] (kind of an odd measure, but it seems likely that most members of the household are at least making it to your 4hr threshold, unless there's just one doing some real binge-watching).
I think they are night and day. The amount of engagement that video games demand on the brain makes them completely different. I enjoy documentaries, but otherwise find television insanely boring and that it tends to make people dull, unlike video games.
Apparently my Symbian phones didn't any issue lasting a couple of days.
C++, Java, Python, Camera, video, a multitasking OS, Internet access, lasting two/three days on single charge.
Yet my first Android device, running Froyo, could hardly last a full day, in spite of forked Java that was supposed to perform better than what Nokia and Sony were delivering.
I always had to carry spare batteries for my Symbian devices, no way did they last a couple of days under regular use. Same with my Sony Ericsson J2ME phones. Running stuff like IRC, streaming radio, bluetooth headphones, really sucked down the battery.
My very last one, Nokia 6120 classic did last a couple of days.
> The battery life of Nokia 6120 is impressive. To give you an example, a daily average of 5 minutes of calls and 20 SMS requires charging every four to five days. More demanding jobs, including active internet browsing in UMTS, will surely reduce durability to 2-3 days, but even so the phone does great. Charging takes about 2.5 hours.
> a daily average of 5 minutes of calls and 20 SMS requires charging every four to five days
I literally laughed out loud at that.
Modern smartphones have fantastic battery life if you switch off data and use them like dumbphones. When I travel sometimes I leave my home SIM with data off in an old iPhone and it easily lasts a week.
In fairness, my Samsung S7 will happily last 2-3 days on a charge if I put it in "ultra power saving mode" (and this is a 3 year old device). And this still allows me to make calls/texts, use WhatsApp, the camera, and browse the internet. The Nokia 6120 presumably couldn't ever do much more than that.
