Are e-bikes even a form of exercise?
Sure, putting in the effort to pedal yourself along is great for your health. Is moving your feet a bit while an electric motor moves you along the same?
If being propelled along on two wheels by a motor led to good health, motorbikers would be the fittest people in the UK. I don't think that's quite true...
It's not a free market, though.
Apart from the natural monopoly of distribution networks, there are near-monopolies of generation in many areas.
Meanwhile, national and regional regulation is preventing the cheapest forms of energy like wind, onshore and offshore. Electrical companies are not prohibited from using charging and other restrictions to prevent solar power installation on private and small business buildings.
This isn't a very capitalist setup. It's an oligarchy at best, and arbitrary authority at worst.
... is the bubble bursting.
... this is the same sort of cockwombles who had startups claiming they had "re-invented Search" back in the early 2000s and their only "innovation" was to ignore robots.txt
All of what you say is true, but you're not explaining how a third party can produce a functionally equivalent part for much less than what Apple sells it for.
If all you said were the only things that applied, then you might get a charge port for $5 when you are Apple buying millions to make new iDevices, $20 when you factor in Apple's warehouse storage costs and cost of capital to pay for it and then hold it for a couple of years for a repair, and maybe $30 when it's made in small quantities by the actual part manufacturer and sold into the repair parts market.
None of that explains why Apple is charging $250 for it. Only one thing explains that: massive profit margin and huge costs to discourage third party repairs.
That's the only plausible reason for the situation described in the story at the top of the thread.
... to play for all the spammers.
We all know that doesn't work.
A person can be tracked using this unique identifier until they buy something (with non-cash payment that is traceable), and then they're identified. They can then be tracked across other locations, and identified there.
It's the same problem as face recognition and other unique identifiers being used to track people.
This is 100x marketing, not 100x actual productivity.
In particular, 100x solving of real problems is not happening with the glorified autocomplete systems that he is peddling.
The air/ground logic (to decide if the aircraft is in the air or on the ground) is not the same as the fuel cutoff switches. The position of the cutoff switches is recorded on the EAFR (data recorder). You can tell the difference between the two situations, even if they can both cause an immediate engine rollback.
This article is a pile of speculation, based on statements from someone who has a particular axe to grind against aviation regulators.
Proxmox
Yes, Signal is still OK because it's used to inform the press about near-future US Government actions.
... is that now you're a Nazi Bar.
Just like Twitter.
If the US Government gives Elon a billion dollars to go to Mars, his company will get to Mars with the same cost-efficiency and effectiveness that other aerospace companies have achieved on other NASA contracts, such as the gaggle of companies delivering the Space Launch System.
Baseball players work a little harder than you may think. Each team plays a bit over 6 games a week, so even with some doubleheaders that's some play on most days of the week.
Not a bad deal for $20/month if you're a fan.
In English, every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
