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The whole e-bike categorization seems so simple to me. Omitting the "automobile" category (e.g. large-ish, enclosed-ish, fully motor-propelled, more than 2 wheels), a vehicle that is wholly self-propelled is a "motorcycle", one powered from a motor and/or pedals is a "mo-ped", one that powered only when human power is added (i.e. pedaling) is "bicycle" (or, more broadly, "human-powered vehicle") and one with an a boosting electric motor is an "e-bike." DMV categories already cover the first two.

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The computer hardware industry’s job is to make networks, disks, CPUs, and memory faster and bigger. The computer software industry’s job is to squander as much of that improvement as possible by making software as slow and massive as they can.

If Elon Musk is worth $36.5B in 27 working years, that means he can do the work of 48,000 workers earning $28K/year. Why doesn't he just reopen Tesla all by himself?

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Friendly reminder: "X as a service" is just a misleading corporate euphemism for "pay forever for not owning it".

"Software as a service" actually means "pay forever for not owning the software".

"Games as a service" actually means "pay forever for not owning games".

"Infrastructure as a service" actually means "pay forever for not owning the hardware".

And so on.

There is no "cloud", it's just other people's computers

@drq Yep ... just recently fighting with a friend's iCloud. It is low on space but the ability to download pictures is broken. If it were phrased any other way, one would say Apple is holding your property hostage.

I sometimes think I'm the only one who is annoyed that "STEM" has three letters other than "T". My niece-ish got a drone with the "STEM" label on it for Christmas—and it's not even hackable, just a closed sensor-based flying doohickey. Maybe I'm biased in seeing mostly media from Adafruit and Sparkfun touting "STEM Arduino this" and "STEM RPi that". But what about research, or design, or calculus?

As far as I have determined, the only purpose of adding an anti-class-action arbitration clause to a company's Terms of Service is because they intend abuse.

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@ben @Gargron I kinda doubt people use underscores to separate words in hashtags, otherwise you'd have the #mans_laughter vs. #manslaughter problem

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