Panzer04

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by Panzer04 3y ago
The problem with that is you're ruined if you lose the court case. Few people would be willing to take on such a massive risk.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
The thing that confuses me about fee-based payment businesses is in theory, a Surcharge for a particular payment method should cover the gap. Is there a reason surcharges aren't sufficient to drive down interchange and take fees? Do cu
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Some functions are doing jobs well-defined enough that this is sufficient, but there's plenty that aren't and do deserve additional explanation. I don't want to read the code of your function to figure out what its doing. I w
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Are we looking at the same subreddit? Perhaps it's changed since I last looked, but most recommended lights use a replaceable, rechargeable cylindrical lithium battery. A common requirement/desirable feature of lights is good ligh
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Indeed. Arguably it shows just how good for the economy wind and solar are - they are so easy to install and build that companies that run businesses doing that just don't have any real edge.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Just a technical note, series/parallel has no effect on the power capability of a battery. This is largely linked to the specific cells chosen (whether it's a high energy or high power chemistry). I think the confusion comes from
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I suppose there are limits to the size and power of the motors and controllers you want to use, but those inrunners are probably not ideal either, right? I wonder if you could use an oversized hobby outrunner and achieve the same effect (pr
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by Panzer04 3y ago
This is mostly because US has these crazy 30y fixed mortgages right? Everyone who owns a loan like that is sitting on huge gains and will find it very difficult to sell given the effective loss they would realise - transitioning to another
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by Panzer04 3y ago
This is what a GST/VAT is, but far less disruptive. Taxing transactions that don't actually exchange ownership would be bonkers.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
One wonders how many millions (or tens of millions) they lost from people giving up over a 10 minute loading screen...
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Er, what? Jetstar at least seems to have nothing but A320s for domestic stuff.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
What are you expecting? Toasters are not complicated devices. Are lots of people having toasters randomly fail?
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Part of the point is that a lot of these cards would be busted in standard though, so printing straight to modern is a way to still get these kinds of cards out without powercreeping the standard of the day.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
"Web Browsers really make poor client application runtimes for all but the most basic of things." I found this the most amusing line of the post, given the current state of many staple desktop applications. Besides games, how many
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Given the choice almost any EE would probably pick the higher voltage system for cost saving reasons, but I imagine they were mostly constrained by legacy compatibility requirements here. It’a “smart”, but there are probably reasons it hasn
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by Panzer04 3y ago
It looks like all he’s doing is switching mains voltage, so it doesn’t seem that dangerous. There isn’t much that can go wrong with the high-power side of this system.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
It's a strange world. Small personal EVs (ebikes, scooters, and so on) are all heavily regulated, often with very limited speed limits - while 3 ton cars that are infinitely more likely to kill someone other than the driver are given a
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I've been using Firefox android since I got my android phone (6mo ago) and it's been just fine. Maybe I don't know what I'm missing? It was the easiest browser option with adblock, which pretty much sealed the deal for m
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Top charge in a lithium battery is very arbitrary. Most batteries can tolerate going higher than the specified 4.2v, up to 4.3 or 4.35v - but the cycle life degradation is not worth the extra capacity.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
The rule of thumb is you roughly double cycle life for every 0.1v lower you go (approx. 10% of charge). I would only restrict the full charge level of you never need the full charge available anyway. Eg. I only use about 60% of my phone&#x2
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Or spend a couple of million on a gigantic house in the inner suburbs.. :/
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I don't think most people care. However, EVs still tend to mid-range or higher prices, and still don't have much of a used market at reasonable prices. You can judge preferences better when a run of the mill EV can be had in runni
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by Panzer04 3y ago
It doesn't. It's a populist policy usually proposed by people who don't understand how markets work. The most generous interpretation is they think everyone wants to be a landowner and this policy would help them.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Because they are abusing the auspices of government to block other citizens from building what they want? It'd be one thing if they owned everything and weren't selling, but instead you have some landowners campaigning to prevent
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by Panzer04 3y ago
It's a capacity issue. You just can't transport as many people with cars. In a completely empty city, the first car handily beats transit. Of course. In a traffic-laden city, separated PT tends to determine how long it takes to tr
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Ehhh... Frequent, accessible public transit is the main point. Anything else is more of an excuse, honestly. Nothing puts people off more than the bus being 15 minutes late on a half-hourly schedule. 5, or even 10 minute frequencies are req
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Unlikely. Virtually all lithium batteries display similar characteristics with respect to charging. Charging faster is something that can be variable between chemistries, but typically batteries are fine with charging quite quickly in the f
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by Panzer04 3y ago
One also wonders how many 3rd party deaths were caused by cars, as opposed to the virtually zero for the foreseeable future from these sorts of devices. Pretty classic holier than thou commentary from HN, for sure.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
It helps that by and large gamers on PC are savvy enough to pirate if stores get too frisky. It's amazing valve managed to establish such a moat that they can take their 30% cut.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
You can get a very competent gaming machine for 1k, especially usd. That gets you apple's bottom end laptop, if that. It's not comparable.

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