The EOL (end of life) of an individual electric scooter does not result in it being tossed wholly into the wastebin. Very few of these are likely complete losses - the aluminum frames are made of durable and reusable parts, I imagine the electronics package is wholly reusable as well, save for a worn-out battery... Which out to be good for hundreds of recharge cycles, not just 30. Electric motors are built durable and tough these days. It's likely a badly wrecked frame, damaged wheels, or depleted brakes that takes a scooter out of commission after an avergae of 30 days (likely this is thought of as routine maintenance, not even full "repair") and after a mild rebuild it's returned to service with a new unique ID. Genuinely totalled scooters would still be stripped for parts to be used in future repairs. Or am I missing something?
It's not really a huge priority to make the ice experience easier. If people could swoop through like McDonald's, there would be a lot more waste... a certain fraction of the BRC population has more money than sense, and we don't want to see ice all over the playa. Everybody has to wait in line, which is a nice equalizer. It keeps everything a little cleaner, and people often remark about how much fun they have in the ice line... you meet people there that you wouldn't necessarily bump into anywhere else on the playa.
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A default desktop environment will probably do more to further Linux adoption than fancy widgets ever would... Simplicity has been and will be the number one draw. It was simple to use the same OS that we used at work 20 years ago, when computers were thousands of dollars and floppy disks were incompatible across OS's. It was simple to just use the default OS that came with the Dell my mother bought 10 years ago, which is why I was never able to get her using Linux for more than a week data time. It was even simpler for her to buy and use a Mac 5 years ago, and she never looked back - it was simple, intuitive, and reduced the number of family tech support calls to virtually zero.
Simple and elegant (and functional) doesn't have to be expensive. I hope we are finally headed in that direction.
Perhaps there are Vine reviewers farming out their writing and receiving free products in exchange. I've been experimenting with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, and a fair number of the assignments seem to be fake reviews of some sort, with improved SEO as the endgame. I've been offered HIT's (Amazon's shorthand for the small tasks often worth as little as $0.01) that require a person to write small articles or reviews, 150-500 words, using incredibly specific technical jargon or product lingo. Sometimes it's Ph.D. level stuff.
I can't imagine anyone having the technical prowess and educational background necessary to write intelligently about such subjects being interested in making $0.75 to do so, but maybe that's enough money to inspire someone in Bangladesh to write meaningless positive reviews peppered with jargon, and small enough change to inspire someone in America to outsource a large number of reviews in order to increase their Vine ratings.
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The EOL (end of life) of an individual electric scooter does not result in it being tossed wholly into the wastebin. Very few of these are likely complete losses - the aluminum frames are made of durable and reusable parts, I imagine the electronics package is wholly reusable as well, save for a worn-out battery... Which out to be good for hundreds of recharge cycles, not just 30. Electric motors are built durable and tough these days. It's likely a badly wrecked frame, damaged wheels, or depleted brakes that takes a scooter out of commission after an avergae of 30 days (likely this is thought of as routine maintenance, not even full "repair") and after a mild rebuild it's returned to service with a new unique ID. Genuinely totalled scooters would still be stripped for parts to be used in future repairs. Or am I missing something?
It's not really a huge priority to make the ice experience easier. If people could swoop through like McDonald's, there would be a lot more waste... a certain fraction of the BRC population has more money than sense, and we don't want to see ice all over the playa. Everybody has to wait in line, which is a nice equalizer. It keeps everything a little cleaner, and people often remark about how much fun they have in the ice line... you meet people there that you wouldn't necessarily bump into anywhere else on the playa.
A default desktop environment will probably do more to further Linux adoption than fancy widgets ever would... Simplicity has been and will be the number one draw. It was simple to use the same OS that we used at work 20 years ago, when computers were thousands of dollars and floppy disks were incompatible across OS's. It was simple to just use the default OS that came with the Dell my mother bought 10 years ago, which is why I was never able to get her using Linux for more than a week data time. It was even simpler for her to buy and use a Mac 5 years ago, and she never looked back - it was simple, intuitive, and reduced the number of family tech support calls to virtually zero. Simple and elegant (and functional) doesn't have to be expensive. I hope we are finally headed in that direction.
Perhaps there are Vine reviewers farming out their writing and receiving free products in exchange. I've been experimenting with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, and a fair number of the assignments seem to be fake reviews of some sort, with improved SEO as the endgame. I've been offered HIT's (Amazon's shorthand for the small tasks often worth as little as $0.01) that require a person to write small articles or reviews, 150-500 words, using incredibly specific technical jargon or product lingo. Sometimes it's Ph.D. level stuff. I can't imagine anyone having the technical prowess and educational background necessary to write intelligently about such subjects being interested in making $0.75 to do so, but maybe that's enough money to inspire someone in Bangladesh to write meaningless positive reviews peppered with jargon, and small enough change to inspire someone in America to outsource a large number of reviews in order to increase their Vine ratings.