Arizhel

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by Arizhel 9y ago
This is just plain wrong. Car chassis are much better designed now with better grades of steel and better design for managing crash energy. Crash-safety standards have also gone way up in that time. See here: https://www.wired
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Sure, but the point is, the planet will be fine in 10k or 100k or 1M years, it'll still be orbiting the Sun. We probably won't be here any more because we'll have killed ourselves off, but that's OK, some other lifeform
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Nature's attempting to curtail the numbers of a particular highly-invasive species.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>You may have an idea that you know will make you a millionaire and which you could build, but you just can't force yourself to because fundamentally money won't make you happy and the idea is meaningless at best. At least this
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Yeah, from what I hear, that's pretty normal with American cars (particularly GM and Ford): the drivetrains are usually very reliable, but the interiors are terrible and fall apart quickly, and the rest of the car looks like crap befor
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Depends on the size of your lawn. If you have a little postage-stamp lawn, reel mowers are great. If you have a sizeable lawn (the kind you really need a riding mower for), then you're looking at hours and hours of backbreaking work
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by Arizhel 9y ago
This is rather worrisome, but I sure didn't see any lack of mosquitoes last summer :-( Maybe this is affecting the "good" insects while the "bad" ones are thriving...
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I'm going to disagree about Stallman. I suspect he would prefer all-GPL-everywhere, but I think he's pragmatic enough to think that dual-licensing (with GPL being one of them) is better than nothing, because it still means the so
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by Arizhel 9y ago
The Civic HX would be illegal to sell now because it won't meet crash safety standards. That's the point: you can get a car now that weighs quite a bit more than that HX, performs far better in a crash, has significantly lower em
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by Arizhel 9y ago
No, they don't. Look at the fuel economy numbers (and then adjust because the testing methodology has gotten more stringent two times, one just recently and one in 2008 IIRC). New cars are a little heavier, and they still get signi
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I guess you're looking at crappy vehicles then. Go look at some 4-cylinder Japanese cars. They're all super easy to work on and last forever. Well, the Hondas, Toyotas, and Mazdas anyway. I always steer clear of American cars;
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by Arizhel 9y ago
But the automaker isn't making much money with a 0% loan rate, because the bank isn't taking the hit on that (the automaker is paying them somehow), so it basically means the automaker isn't getting the full price that was pa
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Huh? I've replaced tons of them. Before they went to platinum/iridium plugs, you still needed to change them at 20-50k. The platinum or iridium ones will last 100k I think, but any car these days lasts longer than that, so they
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>Other than missing lane assist and adaptive cruise, I see no useful features that have emerged in cars for nearly 20 years. You're forgetting fuel economy and crashworthiness. Fuel economy has improved greatly in the last 20 years
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by Arizhel 9y ago
A project like this could never happen in the US, for the exact same reason it could never happen in El Salvador.
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I didn't see anything in the article about that, I only saw them spout some fanciful ideas about employees being cheaper in Canada due to the "exchange rate" (which is BS, they're ignoring the extremely high cost of livi
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by Arizhel 9y ago
You're missing out on the effect that children will have in that system. Children will still be there, to keep the population stable, and because some people do like to have children, though maybe not as many as in today's system
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Einstein opposed QM, but Einstein has never been the arbiter for all of physics. QM was created and promoted by his own contemporaries, after all, not people who came many decades later. Even if all those scientists of that time had manag
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Oh, come on. The reason we balk at interstellar travel these days is because it'll take thousands of years to get to the nearest star with current propulsion technology. But thousands of years is still far less than 1B years. If we&
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Oh great. If you think Silicon Valley real estate prices and rents are ridiculous, they're nothing compared to the prices in Vancouver BC. And Toronto prices are pretty ridiculous too. And from everything I've read, the salarie
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by Arizhel 9y ago
It's pretty normal for people to believe their opinion is the majority one; I'm sure there's a psychological term for it ("confirmation bias" I think). But I've seen way too many devs who seem to actually like
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>For myself, looking back at the education I got, I think my feelings were best expressed by a friend of mine: "if for that I'm an engineer, then I'm afraid to go to a doctor". Don't worry too much: doctors get f
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by Arizhel 9y ago
According to your link, San Jose is #2, right behind Seattle, for software engineers as far as salary/CoL ratio. So it really doesn't get much better than Silicon Valley's insane cost of living. It's just like I said:
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Only in the long term, and only to society at large, not to people individually. Moreover, society actively punishes most people for having kids, rather than promoting it (some paltry tax breaks are not sufficient to be considered promotio
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>For example everyone on earth could be fed, but that's not how we operate. It can't be done really. We've been trying to for decades, but famine isn't caused by a lack of resources, it's caused by political pro
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>Life extension is the apex of selfishness, and also extremely inefficient. Inefficient? It takes an enormous amount of resources to raise an infant to adulthood, namely with education, and many years of not only complete non-productivi
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by Arizhel 9y ago
>Duel licensing. I don't think that's legal, but it's a pretty interesting idea. Instead of just mandating a license, the vendor and customer can each advocate a license, and then have a duel to determine which license to
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by Arizhel 9y ago
There's a bunch of them, but you'd never want to run hard realtime on a phone or tablet. Hard realtime gives you horrible performance, but excellent latency guarantees. One big thing they do in hard realtime systems is to disabl
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by Arizhel 9y ago
That doesn't seem quite right to me. You might be making more money in USD, but their cost of living is likely far lower. The cost of real estate and rent in major American metro areas is insane these days, and that's where all
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Why do clothes need to be ironed? Who still wears stuff made of linen?

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