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by BorgHunter 6y ago
That appears to be an error in the article. Rolls-Royce plc has a press release on this, not Rolls-Royce Motor Cars: https://www.rolls-royce.com/media/press-releases/2020/24-09-...
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by BorgHunter 6y ago
I would certainly find it mysterious and confusing to find a game installed to %APPDATA%, and I've been a PC gamer for over two decades. Saved games and config files, sure, possibly mods too, but if a game installed somewhere without a
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by BorgHunter 7y ago
Smartphones, no (although with batteries being almost universally not replaceable now, six years is usually a difficult prospect without some delicate surgery), but a particular version of an OS, I think six years is plenty reasonable. The
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by BorgHunter 7y ago
> I’ve been thinking the past couple of years you should be able to vote in local elections in the area you work in, even if you don’t live there. In many areas this would effectively lead to the suburbs being able to dictate urban polic
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by BorgHunter 7y ago
Some years ago, I recall there was a bug in iOS which caused alarms not to update correctly when DST started (or ended), resulting in lots of oversleeping as alarms failed to alarm when expected.[0] Personally, I have a problem with my chea
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by BorgHunter 7y ago
Typically a high-pitched whine from a CRT is from the flyback transformer. I found, when I was a kid, that sometimes a well-placed whack on the CRT's cabinet could temporarily fix the problem. Nowadays, I have no idea if I can hear tha
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by BorgHunter 7y ago
This is the first time I've ever heard of Metra referred to as "light rail". Metra uses enormous diesel locomotives and runs on freight rail ROW (for the most part)--there's nothing "light" about it.
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by BorgHunter 8y ago
> So we are left with 'establishment' mediocrity instead of the most popular result. In this case, Left is the most democratic winner of the race, also known as the Condorcet winner (assuming Right supporters would support Le
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by BorgHunter 8y ago
Payment at restaurants in the United States is very different than you might be imagining. The process goes like this: * Server brings bill, disappears to go serve others * Patron places credit card in the sleeve thing the bill came in, lea
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by BorgHunter 8y ago
> holding the door open for women I hold the door open for everyone. Male, female, and other. This is common courtesy. > The idea of "ladies first". I've never really encountered this. > The custom of men being requi
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by BorgHunter 8y ago
On-time performance has dropped dramatically in the past ten years. In the following article, look for the graph titled, "On-time performance by line, 2007 to 2017". https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017&#x
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by BorgHunter 8y ago
This is one of those "it depends on the state" questions. In general, a seller is going to calculate and remit tax based on the delivery address, but the laws are actually a bit more complicated than that. chasil, who lives in Ill
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by BorgHunter 9y ago
> Also, can you give any examples of "toxic femininity" behaviours? The idea that women should be subservient and avoid conflict at all costs would be an example of "toxic femininity". It's a mirror image of beha
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by BorgHunter 9y ago
This defeatist attitude is a major contributor to the sorry state of bicycle infrastructure in most of North America. I respectfully suggest that if you want to see it improve, it's entirely counterproductive demonize cyclists as reckl
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons qualifies, I think. There's one particular moment in that game--everyone who's played it all the way through will know, and I will not spoil it--which is emotionally powerful, and absolutely could not
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
Taleb is likely referring to the Lindy effect, which he also referenced in his book, The Black Swan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
This is a good example of the mindset that the parent poster opposes. Why do you take it for granted that, unless you live in a mind-bogglingly dense and expensive city, a car is the only way to get around? There are plenty of examples of
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
What I'm getting from your post is: When you teach other people, you devalue your own knowledge. Knowledge should be hoarded, guarded jealously, and others discouraged from learning the things you know. Because if knowledge is shared,
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
Cabal would be a false cognate, as the two words are not linguistically related in any way. Chaebol (재벌) is "chae-" (wealth) and "-bol" (clan). Zaibatsu (財閥) is "zai-" (financial) and "-batsu" (clique
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
I finished the OMSCS program while working full time. I think most can do it unless you regularly work significant overtime or otherwise have a significant lack of free time. Those with families, kids, etc. seem to do best taking one class
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
Curiously, though, travel by car requires one to rely on others just as much as any other form of transportation. It's just that the reliance is hidden away from you. Take the road that goes past/to your residence. Who built it? W
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
> Bear in mind, I haven't used HERE since the Nexus 4 came out. Why aren't you using it today?
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
Philips still makes those kinds of clocks. The "light up slowly" comes from LEDs, now, and the color of the light ramps up from red, through orange, eventually to white, over the course of a (user-configurable) timespan. They&#x27
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
What version of Windows do you use? My desktop uses the latest version of 10 (AFAIK) and the shut down button reads something like "Shut Down and Install Updates" when Windows wants to install an update. I also remember 7 having a
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Some Like It Bot: Algorithms are getting better at entertaining us(fivethirtyeight.com)
3 points by BorgHunter 10y ago|0 comments
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
Short-term federal debt funds like VFISX and VSGBX have very low risk and do better than most savings accounts. The risk is probably close enough to zero for most people, considering it's basically all interest rate risk on short-term
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
This isn't what "near-zero risk" means. Near-zero risk investments are things like savings accounts, CDs, and T-bills. Index funds that track stock-based indexes are intrinsically risky, as you yourself point out, unless you
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
This is fair. I do think this should be a bit more prominent, though, because when I hear "toothpaste", I tend to assume it is fluoridated. Unfluoridated toothpaste is unusual enough that it should probably be called out right o
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
If this is true, then I must be really out of touch. No one has expressed that opinion to me, nor have I seen it on Facebook in my News Feed (and I do occasionally see woo-woo stuff there). And I've certainly never heard a dentist sa
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by BorgHunter 10y ago
> Power Toothpaste does not contain Fluoride. We know many of you don't want fluoride in your toothpaste. This seems bizarre to me. People don't want fluoride in their toothpaste? Why not? Dentists seem pretty unanimous that ev

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