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Comment Re:F U DoorDash (Score 1) 400

though a 2:1 profit to ad spending ratio is completely unsustainable. Can you imagine if a local pizza place spent a five bucks per average daily customer per day to convince people to come into the restaurant?

Keyword is "profit" not revenue. 1:100 profit to advertisement is still sustainable. Pizza store can spend $5 for each customer if their average profit for each of them is $10.

Comment Re:Okay, but ... (Score 1) 128

I play Overwatch. I have 240Hz monitor and 360Hz laptop display. I play at low setting so my RTX 3070 (laptop) can achieve 360fps. I used to be an average player (with 120Hz monitor). With 240Hz, I can play as the best player in my team. It does feel different when you try to have your crosshair almost stuck to the moving enemy. With 360Hz, I have very marginal improvement, and I don't really feel the difference between 240Hz and 360Hz. But it could be due to the laptop display being so small. I haven't tried 360Hz monitor.

Comment I love Disney (Score 1) 26

I love Disneyland, all the Disney movies and animation, I love their songs. As a 40 yr old male, I listen to Disney hits while I drive. I plan to go to Disneyland, Disney World, Disney Cruise when my daughter is old enough to know who the Elsa is and sing Let It Go along with me.. I love Marvel too. Especially the Iron man like every other engineers. But Youtube TV needs to drop the Disney channel and give $15/month discount.

Comment Pay for one more month policy (Score 1) 85

They also need to crack down (mostly gym) memberships that require one more monthly payment before canceling. I've had this from two gyms. I tell them on May 1 that I want to cancel the membership at the end of the month. They say their cancellation policy allows members to cancel at the end of the NEXT month. Basically, I'm paying for two months after I decided not to go there anymore.

Comment Re:Why guess (Score 1) 221

You are comparing apples and more expensive apples. Norwegian have bought tons of Teslas. Anyone who could afford one pretty much bought one already. ID.3 offers a lower price for a subpar product. Seriously, it can't compete. So, poor people now getting into the EV game with ID.3 or used Tesla while rich people are buying the new Tesla. Of course, they will sell more ID.3.

Comment Re: "No, I'M the standard!" (Score 1) 294

A plug-in hybrid is just a stop-gap to pure EVs. It's inefficient to carry around several gallons of gasoline and an engine with all the extra connections between them. There are more parts to fail also. We just need faster charging and more charging stations. Sure, there are no street-side pumps. But you can't easily run gas pipes to the street-side pumps. And it's cumbersome to maintain and calibrate the pump. On the other hand, an EV charging station is easy and almost maintenance-free. Once you install it, you'd make money with it. There are no parking lot pumps either, but there are countless charging stations. They are cheap to build and maintenance-free. As long as you can run the street lights, you can build the charging stations next. A plug-in hybrid is useful at this point. But in a few years, as EVs charge faster and gain longer ranges, they'll disappear faster than gasoline cars. I drove i3 with range extender. I had to use the engine twice over 3 years of the lease. You get used to having a shorter range and plan appropriately.

Comment Re:Updatez (Score 1) 58

Are you a developer? I'm a developer but I've never said or never heard any developer saying they completely tested updates or their code is written to perfection. I'm saying this as a developer for safety-critical software. Things do happen and sometimes massively screw up in the field. The test environment is never the same as what customers encounter in the field. We do our best to write clear, well maintainable code and let our process and tools find out bugs.

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