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sfifs on Jan 19, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize com...

Because what's the incentive?

In this case, the incentive was pressure from the Government to make life easier for tourists coming for the Olympics.

jzl on Jan 19, 2017 [–]

The incentive is not give USB-C a bad name by having people fry their computers and devices by using the wrong cable. Try googling "usb-c cable won't damage". There should be standardized icons denoting what the cable is capable of doing.

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