That and they’d rather the small % of users that use the kindle for piracy keep doing that vs going to another ecosystem

Pictures/Videos?

50gb of data at USB 2 speeds is minimum 14 minutes while usb 3 is 1 min 30.

Real world is probably like double the time for both as usb 2.0 definitely doesn't average 480mbps

Also I don't know how it's on apple, but on Android you can only access the files via MTP and that makes it way slower. If my android had USB2 speeds, It would probably take hours to transfer 50GB

Wouldn't it also be real bad news for Zelle? And in theory Venmo/Cashapp/etc

Zelle is already owned by a consortium of banks. Even if FedNow were to make Zelle obsolete, it wouldn't do anything to harm the banks, so they ultimately wouldn't care.

Meanwhile, Venmo is owned by PayPal, who deserves to become obsolete, so we should all be cheering this on.

Not for Zelle/Venmo/etc.. Zelle is for P2P (person to person) and FedNow is for A2A (account to account). There are no take backs on FedNow so it's not intended to be used for P2P. No take backs means no recourse for fraud etc.. FedNow should supplant ACH waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down the line.

There's also no take backs on Zelle, Venmo, or Cash App.

I can't speak to Venmo/Cashapp, but Zelle does take backs. It's for specific areas of fraud such as the fraudster impersonating a government official/agency, or things like fake not for profits.

There are takebacks on Venmo. Someone recently paid me and then asked Venmo Support to reverse it. Venmo pulled the money out of my account without even checking with me. I'd have happily reversed the transaction if the sender had just asked me. If you're selling something to a stranger, nothing beats cash.

What I have heard is that the banks that own Zelle will try to convert it into a directory service mapping identifiers like email addresses and mobile numbers to bank account information. The actual payment clearing will move off of Zelle, and all payment clearing and settlement will happen on FedNow or The Clearing House’s RTP system. That makes some sense to me.

How big of a ship would you need to even hold that tether?

At 4000m under the ocean, you'd need like 10000m of cabling at a minimum I'd assume? And then you'd need the tether + winch to be capable of supporting and lifting the sub at that depth.

I'd be amazed if any country let alone company has that capability outside of maybe the US military.

I think a 4mm dyneema line would have been more than sufficient to pull this to the surface in an emergency, and would have been relatively cheap and light. It could safely 1-2 tons of force, which would rapidly lift a neutrally buoyant sub of any size…

This would cost about $3/meter.

How do they control the unmanned subs that they use to survey the Titanic then?

They are not tethered?

A data link tether and one capable of pulling up a giant heavy craft are very very different

The vehicle that discovered the titanic was a sled pulled behind a ship on a tether. A thick steel cable can take a lot of load. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(ROV)

Also, subs operate at close to neutral buoyancy. A tether does not need to support the weight of the vehicle, it only needs to resist the force of drag that the water exerts on the vehicle moving at whatever the max tow / lift speed is.

The vehicle that

Corporate America

Hell no. Corporate America makes you run a rat race without faang-level rewards.

If I am going to be made to run a rat race, I want lots of money for it.

Never really had that experience very often. if the manager doesn't really give off a casual vibe than probably want to look other places.

Make sure you talk about managing priorities. If you start hearing everything is a priority and talk like that then you need to find some else to work for.

The meetings will kill you

I just checked in the android audible app, I actually now have the ability to buy with dollars via the app itself.

Usually they'd redirect you to audible.com to avoid any google fees but apparently they stopped that?

I do not have the premium audible subscription though, only plus. Maybe that's why?

That's dell basically ripping consumers off.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Celeron-7300-Processor-B...

Is the latest celeron which should be more or less equal to a 6th gen i7 while using a lot less power. They are selling a 3 year old celeron in a 2021/2022 chromebook which is inexcusable.

Acer sells a chromebook with an i5 that's routinely $430 refurbished (yes it's a refurb but it's basically always available) https://acerrecertified.com/chromebooks/?_bc_fsnf=1&Processo...

There also wasn't a coordinated half-assed effort to stop the Spanish Flu.

Not everyone's an engineer. Lots of roles work better in person.

Could you provide some examples?

I am speaking of roles who successfully performed 100% of their work from home in the last year.

Also, why are engineers being forced to come back to the office?

I am an engineer who successfully performed my work from home.

But I definitely prefer to work in an office.

> Why does an employer want me to suffer more, even if it will cost them?

In this question, there is an embedded assumption that your employer wants you to suffer more.

Even some engineers prefer to work in-person, although I'm now coming to understand it appears to be a minority. At least in this comment thread.

I think we don't really know the breakdown of people who prefer in person vs not, but the remote people are REALLY passionate about their position

This penalty basically starts at 250k in combined income. The median household income is $60,700 as of 2018.

Sure doesn't. My wife and I made the same amount of money, within 1% of each other, when we got married. We both changed out deduction from single to married. Tax bill came around and we owed 10k.

Our income at the time, combined, was ~160k.

The loss of EITC affects low incomes.

The mortgage deduction affects anyone with a "large" mortgage, but at current housing prices "large" is becoming the norm.