QuarterReptile

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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
I generally don't disagree about SUVs, but minivans adhere to the same regulatory scheme: they get their truck status by GVWR>6k lbs., as opposed to by high clearance and steep angles. I think your issue comes from fuel consumption
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
Presumably the mailmen can just take a lesson from Amazon, UPS et al and leave the vehicle idling in the travel lane when that happens.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
>pickup trucks, SUVs, and minivans . Are minivans really comparable to SUVs and pickup trucks in this problem? They never give off the "angry wall of death" vibe to me, like the other two...
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
A 10 year old Ford Focus weighs 2900lb empty. I'd be impressed if this truck weighs less than 5k empty.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
In my undergrad engineering department, we see the biggest opportunity for improvement as being in lab sessions, where it's not reliably apparent who is wrong or struggling, and it takes a while to explain to each group what is wrong.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
On Google's transparency, I think you need to bear in mind that, even if they have stopped now, Google was built by routinely collecting unseemly piles of data about each of us on the mostly correct assumption that our Overton windows
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
I think you're conflating the Google Play store with Google Play Services. The latter is what people seek to avoid
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
I played with this a while after uploading one pdf chapter from the textbook I teach out of. The chapter covers text segment and stack dissection of simple C programs, as in rudimentary reverse engineering. I was happy with many of the flas
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
My personal theory: Americans feel less and less as if there is a common American culture/identity, such that culture shock becomes a serious hindrance.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
These people you propose are renters, not buyers. I don't entirely discount the impact of CoL differences (moving to California is pretty annoying from that perspective, and I've done it twice), but it's not the barrier you&#
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
I can't speak to the French ecosystem, but in the US these pools often (usually?) get resold to swim clubs who find some land and build buildings around them.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
Why is it so hard to just pay the ransom for your encrypted data without funding further ransomware or nuclear weapons development in North Korea? It's baked into the very core of the offering.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
I would expect so. My intention was to remind or inform that delays are part of the goal. In other words, we may get some time back, but plan on it being less than you would like.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
I have never been in one of these situations. Would it be reasonable to go one roundabout beyond one's turn, use it to reverse directions, and then make a right turn upon returning to the intended turn? On the walk/bike angle: my
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
It's sort of the reverse, in a sense. If drivers adhered strictly to yield signs, those getting onto the highway would wait until there was a space in traffic. There would be times when you could not get on to the highway at all, when
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
I'm not sure if I've understood your question, but I'll take a shot: By using an offline GPS app, you no longer have the need to coordinate with a centralized server. In exchange, you will lose traffic data. There may be some
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
The idea is cool, but if you are in a US context, outside of a core city, please understand that your being delayed is actually part of the feature set of a stop light. Delaying you and other drivers allows gaps in traffic that let people
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
On the off chance that you are serious: get a Pixel phone, install Graphene OS, follow the mobile Extreme Privacy guide ( https://inteltechniques.com/book7a.html ), and be ready for inconveniences.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
Not necessarily. That's the entire point of US American nuclear weapons. Edit: Unexplained downvotes are hopefully for my unclear wording. MAD is the doctrine of the US, but other places have doctrines ranging from "don't dis
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
>That would be my ideal for how UBI would work: make sure people never have to chose between a bad job and starving or being on the street; but also make sure they have a clear path and opportunities to improve their situation and become
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
It's probably worse as a disincentive to marriage than as a disincentive to work.
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
Yes, I believe that is correct. I don't know how welfare fraud is investigated, but she probably has a near-zero risk of ever being audited for taxes. Again, welfare cliffs suck. EITC was supposed to replace them, but nothing else got
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
Trump's political machine pouring money into primaries to oppose dissenting Republicans is a great corroboration of how little cohesion is in the Republican party. It's not happenstance that the first ever removal of a speaker of
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
I don't know what the state of the art is, but in the 2010s there was a huge mess where a 'biographical evaluation' test was required of ATC applicants, with the timing such that you took it after the FAA prep courses . The
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
>In many ways it skews the ratings of the schools because they can be lazy and not teach as well...but still show great school average scores, since so many kids are already enriching externally. If you didn't already know, SES is
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
The studies section of Wikipedia is much less compelling than you let on (only two are described, with limited accessibility to the others), but the important question is: do you prize mostly the mechanism or the outcome? The poster talking
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
If the pool staff is obsessive enough to check your float's USCG approval, it's probably not going to be any fun. It may be happening because you have a critical mass of bad swimmers trying to drown or because the lifeguards are t
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
The best filter, when I worked at a pretty low-wealth public pool, was when someone tried to wear a shirt into the pool. It was a filter that cut across socio-economic (couldn't afford swimming clothes), physical (out of shape), and pe
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
>child drowning victims are 3:1 blacK Careful, your source says that the rate, not the number , is 3x. There are some stats where it is actually 3x the raw number, in which case you know you have found a really crazy disparity given dif
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by QuarterReptile 2y ago
Maybe just put 'refrain' in front of bad thing for the time being.

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