Most certainly. Companies don’t exist out of a sense of altruism. But my point is that gains in efficiencies do result in savings to the customer when there is a competitive pressure to reduce the price to the consumer. If undercutting on price can meaningfully grow market share enough, then the additional sales…

What you have described are all situations where there was limited competition, which allowed defacto monopolies or duopolies, mixed with basically zero other avenues for product differentiation other than price. When there are only one or two competitors in a market, there is very little incentive for one to undercut…

Remember that a large portion of the average cost of operating a vehicle is insurance and fuel. In theory insurance for robots would be much lower, as there is much less risk (once the technology is mature), and that risk can be very directly quantified because you can empirically test a robot system’s performance and…

Except Uber and Lyft lose money because they pay the drivers more than they charge, and that _still_ isn’t enough for all of them to have a living wage. The problem isn’t (just) the companies Torch, it’s that consumers do not want to pay for transportation what it actually costs to deliver a service where everyone…

Very true. But here, the regulation was the issue. Remember that Uber’s original pitch was exactly as a black cab service (in the most SF-focused idea ever, literally the pitch was for entrepreneurs to roll up to Sandy Hill Road -where all the VC offices are- in a Mercedes). They were a pure leads generation play to…

I mean, the problem is us. It’s always been us. Consumers have consistently proven that the only thing they care about in transportation is price. For non business customers, basically nothing else matters. People continuing to take the $1 bus to NYC despite them regularly catching on fire (and talk about exploiting…

Actually, they spent a _lot_ of time (at the end of the game) making that economy work well: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/08/how-the-witcher-3s-economy-was-saved-by-polynomial-least-squares/

I think that this is because these are the two states that the echo-chamber of gaming coverage around this game allows it to be in. The preview is, for better or worse, written with the prospective that you are participating in said hype.

Something that Valhalla had that I think is a useful way to present this info is they had a traditional “calibrate brightness” slider, where you make the logo barely visible. But then, once you’ve set that, it has a global “exposure” adjustment that does the same thing as the equivalent slider in Lightroom/Photoshop.

In fairness, game _performance_, which is what many gamers are optimizing for, is generally inversely proportional to global brightness contrast. So, in fact, yes, they actively do want the world to be a washed-out mess because that means they can equally see something in bright light as dark light. Especially since…

It doesn’t reflect reality, but it does reflect how retail executives think (having several friends that work in high level retail). They still think of the same model as a door buster in a physical store, and hope that you’ll buy something else out of frustration.

Not having done any more research onto the other videos he’s uploaded to see if the cars are consistent or the hand on the wheel is consistent across them (the cars aren’t in the two videos here, and it’s too dark to see the hands in the first one): a possible interpretation of his statement is that those videos…

By the end of Yakuza 6 Kiryu was in his 50's.

I definitely agree that Dianna really did mean those to be genuine gifts to Charles. She says as much when she says that performance is the only way she can really express herself (and this is foreshadowed by the first time she’s seen, she’s in costume for a play). But she just fundamentally cannot understand that…

Ha ha I mean, the 991.2 GT3 still makes more power at 2,000RPM than your average family sedan does at peak. So it’s not like it doesn’t move. But certainly, it has to be above 6k to feel like the turbo cars do at 3-4k. Still, if sound and emotion is the point, and not acceleration, then you’d be dropping gears anyway,…

As someone that specifically bought a GT3 over a Turbo for the sound: yes, it’s for the sound.

That whole black car is still wearing camo. Most of the major car video production people have done takes on it now. Chris Harris gets the most of the un-camo’d car:

Oh yeah Mirror makes Kinja look tame in comparison with ad/auto-play-video overload, even _with_ an ad blocker.

He’s literally posed with his FUT player of the week picture. And Bale was a cover athlete for FIFA14. They know how this works.

If the UK tabloids are to be believed, it’s actually the agents asking them to do this, as FIFA and FIFPro are in the middle of trying to pass anti-agent reform.