Arizhel

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by Arizhel 9y ago
Oh, I definitely agree that 1) people don't actually think they're voting for someone who'll make the problem worse, and 2) voters are prioritizing particular values. Single-issue voters are real; I've met many. They a
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Oh, I don't disagree that there's lots of left-wing and progressive people here too, just as on any tech site. But there's a ton of extreme libertarians and alt-right people too; maybe not a majority among the users, but sti
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If a certain brand of cigarettes is creating secondhand smoke that causes a significant number of bystanders to die of anaphylactic shock somehow, and the government refuses to force a recall, and the manufacturer doesn't care, and the
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Not necessarily. If a consumer's device is bricked within the (usually 1-year) warranty period, then they're able to send it back to the manufacturer for a replacement, which pushes the cost right back to the manufacturer. Also,
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Well that's not too hard: it's because the right-wing party and its helpers push an ideology that rich people are better people who worked hard for their money and deserve it all, that wealth "trickles down" to poorer pe
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Yeah, I'm sure it'll look just great that Germany or whoever is stationing the Wehrmacht in northern Africa, and no one will complain about that... /s You really think that's a viable way to maintain the electric power s
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So you think northern African nations are going to let European nations station troops there and take over a big chunk of their land? That doesn't seem realistic, and seems rather imperialistic actually. Letting the northern African n
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by Arizhel 9y ago
What can we do? Nothing really: the main thing to do is to vote better, but we don't do that, we vote for candidates who make the problem worse. In fact, a significant portion of lower-income people are making the situation worse for
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He obviously wants the speed limit on the sign raised to what the actual enforcement is (currently the limit +15 or so).
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How long does it take for a train to get from London to Paris? A few hours? We have something like that: the Amtrak northeast corridor line between DC and Boston (with stops in Baltimore, Philly, NYC, and others along the way). Going fro
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You can't compare population densities that way. They vary far too much from place to place. In the US, for instance, 2/3 of the population lives east of the Mississippi River. Most of that other 1/3 lives on the west coas
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From everything I've seen and read, these positions are becoming more and more rare.
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It's no place for introverts any more. It's a place for extroverts. Only extroverts perform well in an open-plan office.
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Yeah, but you'll never get any peace or privacy away from them. Welcoming teammates does not make work bearable when they're on top of you all day long because of the open-plan office.
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Like where? Everywhere I've seen in the US now has moved to the open-plan office. Cubicles and walled offices are a thing of the past. It's not just Silicon Valley.
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I recommend looking for a new career path. Software is no place for introverts. You were born a few decades too late: back in the good ol' days, software was a good place for someone who liked a quiet office environment with their ow
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Actually, no, that's infinitely higher than their original selling price, literally. They were given away for free at Radio Shack. I used to have one; I spent a few minutes playing with it, then stashed it away thinking I'd even
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I'm wondering now what these machines might be good for as parts. After this company goes belly-up, surely these machines can be had for pennies on Ebay. What can we do with them?
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Rollers I don't think work right if you're squeezing intact, whole vegetables. But of course, these Juicero packets don't have intact, whole vegetables in them at all (proven by the ability for people to squeeze them out by
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by Arizhel 9y ago
Industrial control components, from what I can tell, are a way to slap together something that works really reliably, at rather high cost, but with lower development time and engineering costs. So if it costs you $5-10k to build a washing m
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by Arizhel 9y ago
True, but isn't this basic common sense? We do exactly the same with other poisonous chemicals in the house: drain cleaner, etc. Of course, most of them aren't sweet-smelling like antifreeze, but you also don't use antifree
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>AThe more I read about the Romans' organizational structure and logistics the more impressed I am, they somehow look like an alien species. Yep, sometimes I wonder what society would look like today if the (western) Roman empire ha
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The boomers are only partly in total control now; the Xers also have a lot of control. Regardless, the hippies who went to the Summer of Love are a tiny minority of the Boomers. Most boomers were rather conservative. The hippies either di
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by Arizhel 9y ago
I wonder how hard it'd be to do a Linux kernel rewrite in Rust or D, but in a way where you could do it bit-by-bit, keeping the rest of the kernel as-is in C until you get to it. This would be especially useful for the drivers since t
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Interesting. Maybe there's a problem because of differing expectations then. I can also see parallels in the legal system, and in differing legal systems: the adversarial system used in English common-law countries is not universal,
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Probably. The primary complaint I've heard about ethylene glycol is that it smells sweet and it's poisonous, so it attracts animals (esp. dogs and cats) and kills them. It's not highly concentrated in windshield washer flui
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I recommend going backwards one generation, to the Samsung Galaxy S5. This is the phone I have, and I love it. The battery life is fantastic: I can easily go two full days on a single charge. I'm still using the OEM firmware too (Sp
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WTF? We're talking about real dryers here, not dorm-sized dryers that you can dry maybe 2 shirts in. However, if you select the Samsung 7.5cf dryer, it also has free delivery. Of course, this is built into the price, and $550 for an
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The delivery fee is a significant fraction of the total cost of a modern dryer in the US. Saving a little money by getting crappier dryers will likely have a larger total cost because of the delivery fees, and also the cost of your time i
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I don't see how. I don't see how this would result in better land utilization at all. You could have a big circle around the airport (like in the original circular runway idea), with a bunch of straight "stems" protrudi

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