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by SECProto 4y ago
I've used their grinders before and loved them, but they have some newer models since I last looked. The Q2 Looks like a great upgrade for my travel setup, and I'm at a financial place in my life where I can afford to do that (so
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by SECProto 4y ago
Hario Mini Mill Slim. It's not fantastic, but it's a burr grinder, and it's consistent enough for french press in my experience. Too slow for fine grind settings though. Bought one as a student ~15 years ago. Options were muc
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by SECProto 4y ago
> But coffee can be cheap. $100-200 BIFL hand grinder, and like $50 for a brewer + tons of paper filters (if you're trying to do decent coffee for cheap, a $40 hand grinder and a $10 french press is fine once you get a good techniqu
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None of that gets to the question of why a brake job specifically costs so much, which is why I used it as an example. Brakes are no harder to do than 3 decades ago (at least for my car). They cost a lot because of the cost of labour, prima
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by SECProto 4y ago
> I know that car repair costs are going up and repair rates are going down, and have been for decades. The reason is obvious: Have you taken a car in for repair recently? I agree that the reason is obvious - parts labour costs make it n
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> Another big question is how much mass needs to be shipped up from earth to manufacturer solar cells. If you take the linked page at face value, it explicitly states: > without special substances brought from Earth. (I suspect, like
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by SECProto 4y ago
> Why are IEA forecasts spurious? While I don't agree with the post you're replying to, the IEA has a long history of terrible predictions with renewable energy. Not sure if they've improved recently, but for the better pa
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by SECProto 4y ago
Generally I agree. However, I saw negligible performance improvement from getting a ten year newer mobo/cpu/ram, so the previous trend didn't apply. I only upgraded because there were some system stability issues (probably ra
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by SECProto 4y ago
8 years is no longer forever in PC terms. It used to be you could only go a couple years before your computer could no longer run anything but that's no longer the case. For an example, I usually build a PC once the older one is horrib
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by SECProto 4y ago
Fully 2000 km from Cold Lake to Tuktoyaktuk. Depending where the object was, there's a lot more distance in the way.
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by SECProto 4y ago
> The sentence was obviously crafted to show power Your partial quote is highly misleading. The first two words in "Canadian and U.S. Aircraft were scrambled" changes the meaning quite dramatically. NORAD is bilateral. > Kno
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by SECProto 4y ago
? It doesn't transfer your posts, but it does transfer [1] all your followers, follows, bookmarks, mute lists, and block lists. That's still a lot of room for error. What happens if you and a follower transfer your accounts simult
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by SECProto 4y ago
> This is really the result of the massive skills loss in the construction industry The skills weren't lost, just no one wants to pay for them. If ten people can build ten houses in a year, but to do decorative houses they can only
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by SECProto 4y ago
> language barrier isn't really an issue day to day. Most people in the huge urban centers (such as where you'd pick up the RV) speak English well. This is not the general experience in Japan, and advising people to expect Engl
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by SECProto 4y ago
That is definitely true! Very useful in the "I want to start developing stronger functional muscles" context, but will only get you to a certain point If memory serves, last time I was lifting weights regularly, I could bench 225l
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by SECProto 4y ago
Using dumbbells instead of a bar also builds stronger stabilization muscles, and doesn't let your strong side compensate for weak side.
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> There is wide reaching news articles about this topic, one example you can read it via google translate: That article seems to be discussing how track works were being conducted without signal protection. Which is very different than n
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by SECProto 4y ago
> Fun fact, due to corruption Turkey's newly built suburban rail system called Marmaray does not have signalization. They accepted the project without it. Do you have any backing for this? I couldn't find any (english language)
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by SECProto 4y ago
> There are a lot of difference between the English and Japanese audio in Kiki Definitely. Jiji (the cat) has a totally different character if you listen to the dub vs the original Japanese. One of the few instances where I prefer the du
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by SECProto 4y ago
This article has a couple non-sequiturs that undermine the whole argument, the biggest to me was the thrust of these two sequential paragraphs: > the growing electric vehicle industry may help reduce carbon emissions but it will also cau
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by SECProto 4y ago
Not different from the current system, where we elect politicians who promise not to raise taxes, so they defer maintenance on all infrastructure, until in 70 years we have to spend trillions replacing old pipes/bridges/roads that
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by SECProto 4y ago
> electrical conduit, which I think is one of the cheapest type of beam/tube available. There have been pretty serious PVC conduit shortages for the last year or two. In construction projects I've worked on, they've had to
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by SECProto 4y ago
> 1. Produce/transport a bunch of electric vehicles, producing massive emissions 2. ??? 3. Somehow billions of tonnes of carbon get removed from the atmosphere I'll revise that to be more accurate: 1. Produce/transport a b
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> What I really don't understand is why don't Shell, Exxon, Chevron and their ilk get into the EV game and start setting up DC fast chargers at all of their gas stations? At least in Canada, there has definitely been a push in
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by SECProto 4y ago
You could also just log in to an account and set your own theme. My account is still one the 2005 theme as it works best for me.
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> What size garden do you have? The recommended dosage of manure is 30-50T per hectare, so 3-5T per 1000m2, but this is for the most exigent vegetables. Reading their other comments, they have about 1000m2 of garden. So using 5t over 3 y
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> If someone trusts you, they might talk to you about them. If you've been praising the wonderful science then they aren't gonna open up because why would they? Yes, my comment was also an anecdote and therefore also not data.
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And a downvote brigade to follow on us for calling it out.
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An anecdote is not data. I know about twenty couples (half are relatives, the rest friends and coworkers) who have gotten bivalent boosters, whose children have gotten 3-4 shots, and none of them have had any issues.
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> But if it has a SIM slot with 4G/5G access then it's nothing more than a repackaged phone. A repackaged phone with a quality headphone jack and physical buttons? I'd love to buy that (but unfortunately it doesn't se

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