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by Fins 8y ago
Nah, USSR would just lock people up even without any proof of anything. But they certainly would've dreamed of it.
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by Fins 8y ago
I think you have liters and gallons backwards, unless the British gallon had shrank significantly with the Brexit.
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by Fins 8y ago
Just as I was going to say that... Although I think that plot aside, Metropolis has far more artistic merit than Avatar (or anything Cameron ever made, makes, or will make).
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by Fins 8y ago
Maybe because it is a) wrong about Stalin, and b) Staling killed far more people than Hitler, Churchill, and Ted Bundy combined?
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by Fins 8y ago
Saying that Tesla has best user interface seems to be a bit too strong... Touchscreen controls pretty much suck compared to just about any other alternatives.
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by Fins 8y ago
What GP mentions might really be just an echo of an even earlier times (60's, maybe 70's) when caviar was pretty much the cheapest thing to be served in booze bars (USSR didn't really care much about actually protecting the f
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by Fins 8y ago
While this is a prime case of what Russians call "Toad screwing a viper", it could be that just in this case, despite all his grandstanding, Bezos comes across as slightly more sympathetic than AMI. Just because he is, by all indi
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by Fins 8y ago
It well might have been. I was beta-testing it the North American publisher (and got it for free, although they made quite a bit off me on Calamus SL and plugins for Atari TT030 I had before), even for a while after they sold to... Roxio wa
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by Fins 8y ago
There was also for a while a native Windows NT version of Calamus (they even had Alpha et al versions, if I remember correctly) that was quite good; I used it to make money for quite a long time, and although by now I guess there must be s
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by Fins 8y ago
There are some very good cheese makers in the States (e.g. Prairie Fruit). But of course they have enough decency not to call their stuff "Parmesan" when it isn't.
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by Fins 8y ago
Doesn't really matter all that much if it is SV proper, or Silicon Alley, or Silicon Prairie, or any of the other areas where well-paid tech workers can afford to live without cars, look down on those who can't, and propose what c
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by Fins 8y ago
It's a non-answer, and in any case these people never were relocated "out of" cities. They never lived there, and don't want to.
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by Fins 8y ago
Must be nice living in that SV bubble. How about we make it income-tested, and charge everyone who supports that idea, say, $10/mile and up? Even if you want to go on a road trip in a rental. Or get your kid to a hospital. At least tha
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by Fins 8y ago
And how do you propose to relocate all of these people to live in that urban paradise of yours, where they walk to anything and everything? Are you even going to ask them if they want to? Not everybody wants to live in a big city and valu
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by Fins 8y ago
Yup. Only times I used taxi or ridesharing in Japan was when I flew in with elderly relatives, and taking Uber to the hotel made far more sense than trying to herd 6 people and their luggage through several train changes, and when we were s
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by Fins 8y ago
People with money use transit in NY or Chicago, too, because it works (more or less) and is sufficiently convenient. But in both places you can use transit to get reasonably close to where you're going. When I lived in SV, it was theor
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by Fins 8y ago
Last time I looked Russia (not even talking about USSR) not only promoted but is quite involved in war in Ukraine that had killed thousands of people already. Georgia. Transnistria, etc. Thousands of people (mostly civilians, of course) we
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by Fins 8y ago
The answer seems to be (as per the law of headlines) No. You'd think CHSR proponents would've noticed that comparison with Japan makes little sense not even because of density, but because Japan already (and had when they started
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by Fins 8y ago
Small enough pedestrian zones and improved public transit are something cities (especially US cities), the hatred and proposals are exactly what you'd expect to hear from an overpaid young professional with no responsibilities, commute
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by Fins 8y ago
As I've mentioned, I do find Twitter even less "useful" than FB (and possibly even worse for the society at large), but while Dorsey come across as just a clueless, out of touch hipster, Zuckerberg comes across as not quite h
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by Fins 8y ago
Seriously? While I can think of quite a few companies that have even less utility (Twitter, Netflix, Juicero, etc. etc.) but living without FB is not only imaginable, it's quite beneficial.
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by Fins 8y ago
I'm sure there are very few manufacturers of quality lens-making equipment. On the other hand my latest glasses where neither lenses nor frame come from E-L cost an arm and a leg, too.
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by Fins 8y ago
Aren't they now EssilorLuxottica and also control a good chunk of lenses market as well?
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by Fins 8y ago
It's bad, but compared to SV, for example, it's a breeze. Manhattan's worse, too, and let's not talk about what Boston drivers are called...
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by Fins 8y ago
I did not know that having a build quality somewhat lower than a Yugo and a UX that even a Yugo designer would throw up at was part of a "best car ever made" description.
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by Fins 8y ago
I've priced out 2019 A4 Premium Plus w/o optics but with sport, cold weather, vented seats packages and it comes out to under $47K, and that's for a car that has more meaningful luxury than Model S. Gas is SF is very expensiv
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by Fins 8y ago
Last time I got A4 as a loaner, it had ACC and lane assist, which does pretty much everything "autopilot" does, but without trying to kill you. Changing oil in an Audi, past a free service period, adds up, though.
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by Fins 8y ago
Yeah, I checked them when I lived in PGE territory. Savings on EV are not quite as trivial to realize in real life as they are on a marketing site.
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by Fins 8y ago
Indeed, but isn't that when you might want to actually use it, which is why it is peak?
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by Fins 8y ago
Assuming what gas price and what electric rate? Must've been very loaded A4, too.

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