Takumidesh

joined 1 year ago
[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

At 65mph, you cover two car lengths (~30 ft) in about 1/3 of a second.

Typically human reaction time for braking is about 1.5 seconds.

If something went seriously wrong in front of you (like a sideways car, or a hidden obstacle in front of the car in front of you) you would have covered 10 car lengths before your foot touches the brake pedal.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago

These isekai titles are getting too much.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This is what I don't get, I can also just say 'visionary' things by just opening any sci-fi book and pointing at a random page and claiming that I want to make that.

The hard part isn't envisioning cool sci-fi concepts like self driving cars, colonized planets, ai servants, and life like VR. The hard part is actually doing them.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

This isn't actually true.

Gog isn't 'piracy is strictly legal' there is still a license attached to the software that can have restrictions.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I assume business would insure against scenarios like this, whether that's through securing cash as they suggested or if that isn't an option (which seems to be the reality of the situation) through things like, escrow accounts, insurance, and cash on hand.

You say the businesses wouldn't just 'throw away money' yet here we are, the businesses, by not 'throwing away money' are stuck with these machines to deal with.

I understand that the person was saying that the business should have collected a deposit, but they didn't, so my question is, why are these businesses caught out by this? Why didn't they prepare for the risk they assumed by subletting their property, if they didn't collect a deposit, they should have sequestered some cash to handle this scenario.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

No, but any smart business would retain some of the revenue they got from the red box for scenarios where they may have to deal with shit they didn't expect.

In other words, the revenue they gained from having a red box on their property for 10 years probably more than covers the insurance claim they can file to get it taken care of.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Did the stores not profit off of the machines being there for all of these years?

I can't imagine redbox wasn't paying these stores some kind of rent or commission, otherwise why would the store let them just post up their business on their property?

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

1000 perfectly timed butt pokes.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (3 children)

This has already happened with federated services (XMPP)

It's not a conspiracy, there is proven history of EEE techniques being successfully used to capture an audience and then destroy the adoption of the protocol.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This isn't direct democracy, we aren't voting on every issue that would otherwise come across the presidents desk. We are still electing representatives to make decisions on our behalf.

We are still a federation of states (federalist) represented by elected decision making leaders (Republic).

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or horror movie fans

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

People generally don't like being proselytized.

 

For example, I would like to group many related communities together and then browse just that grouping.

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