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by SECProto 5y ago
> But is it really sensible to plow money into (say) the Hokkaido Shinkansen, on Japan's most rapidly depopulating island and not remotely competitive with flights in travel time or price Yes. Sapporo has a population of 2 million;
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Japan already has hysterically inefficient allocation of capital. Examples include the vast amounts of pork barrel spending to build highways, tunnels, bridges and bullet trains to nowhere, as well as building new housing with an expec
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by SECProto 5y ago
I would note that they were specifically talking about "retail price". Alibaba, where (based on experience) you have little recourse with refunds and accountability if the product isn't as described, is not a retail outlet.
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by SECProto 5y ago
The majority of the issues I listed are, indeed, limited to domes (only exception being the knee-wall-encroaches-on-floor-space)
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by SECProto 5y ago
> You just have to partition the interior with vertical walls that extend up 6+ feet. Any section cut through a dome will be a half circle, so you're still going to be wasting a lot of material when you cut that wall. And at 6'
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by SECProto 5y ago
If you make a bookcase, the vertical members will have to vary quite drastically in width along their length. And the shelves would be significantly deeper on the bottom than they would be 5 feet up. And wood comes in rectangular pieces, so
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Not saying it will be for you, but discarding mechanical keyboards on base of what the pre-built market offers is not the best measure of things. What about buying a single $25 off-brand keyboard with off-brand cherry MX keys and likin
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by SECProto 5y ago
You don't even need to go back to old english: per your source, definition 1 under english etymology 1 is: (chiefly Britain, uncountable) Any cereal plant grown for its grain, or the grain thereof. edit: but yes, in the context of d
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by SECProto 5y ago
> No one really falls in love "trying out flavours" of alternative software; the little differences just get in the way. As stated, I used linux for an ~3 year period, using only one distro (I forget now if it was Ubuntu or Min
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Fuck that. Life’s too short for that bullshit. Vote with your time, money and attention. As someone who really isn't the target audience for HN, this sentence has a different meaning than you likely think. I vote with my time, mon
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by SECProto 5y ago
That particular sentence on the wiki is uncited, so trust it with extreme caution. That said, yes, anything is feasible with enough money, and generally you pay an engineer to determine what method will cost the minimum amount of money. Tha
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by SECProto 5y ago
Interesting - should certainly work just as well in cast iron! Was the lettuce served with the egg as well, or just discarded? I could see either - as you say, providing just a bit of insulation and moisture to finish cooking the top withou
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by SECProto 5y ago
It's interesting, I love cast iron for the exact opposite reason: I find it to be very utilitarian and not demanding of my time like a hobby. Definitely have not had any need to build an electrolysis tank. I did use a wire cup on my dr
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by SECProto 5y ago
You don't need a tonne of oil, you need to make sure you don't add the oil until the pan is good and hot. Maybe a tbsp. And if you flip your eggs, you'll have to add a bit more oil before doing so. Other (non-mandatory) egg-i
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by SECProto 5y ago
Imagine the first hole has been leaking for 200 years, and also getting a new hole each year. Also each hole grows every year. The boat is on track to be totally sunk in a couple decades. You probably want to start bailing immediately, also
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by SECProto 5y ago
Yes, this feels a bit like reading an opinion piece dissing on EVs in CarAndDriver 15-20 years ago. Of which there were many.
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by SECProto 5y ago
Bit of an oddity, but I went to a food truck (then known as "burger 2.85") back in 2015. It's now $3.99. Canadian dollars. just proving that such things do exist! https://goo.gl/maps/cNhDTEk41RDQwGHz7
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by SECProto 5y ago
As the network doesn't have any satellite interlinks yet, and each bird covers something like a 1500km (if I recall correctly) diameter ground circle - local night is very easy to determine.
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by SECProto 5y ago
Here's[1] a 12 year old paper on why the spike protein is a good target for vaccine development. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2750777/
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by SECProto 5y ago
I am one of those people. Driving a decade old Toyota Yaris with 210,000km, have performed <$500 in unplanned maintenance (had a ground fault that affected the wipers, cost ~$250). I'm planning to upgrade to full electric sometime i
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Don't assume that launches for refueling operations happen during the launch window. The window is really as long as you want it to be for refueling. Indeed, the parent comment was making a bad assumption. If you look at it that w
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by SECProto 5y ago
> I'm tired of having to follow trends because people suddenly think there's a new shinyshinytrendy thing around: IRC to ICQ to MSN to Skype to Google Talk to Facebook Messenger to Whatsapp to Signal. As someone who used trilli
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by SECProto 5y ago
> That isn't even possible in the most totalitarian of societies. Nothing is stopping locals from grabbing water and soil samples and sending it off to labs. Select quotes from the article: > As with most matters related to healt
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by SECProto 5y ago
I think those were LiPo batteries - i.e. lithium polymer. Same kind in a certain infamous phone that was banned from flights. LiFePO4 are lithium iron phosphate.
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by SECProto 5y ago
> perhaps the Canadian A&W is a separate entity from the American A&W otherwise that number doesn't make sense. Yes, A&W Canada no longer has any connection with A&W US [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Real difficult replace something that's a integral structural member of the car If you look at some recent photos [1] of the Tesla Berlin tour, the "structural battery pack" is still a bolt-in part of the car - it just c
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Having lived in Korea and visited Japan, ubiquitous vending machines is an absolute game-changer Having lived in Japan, I found the ubiquitous vending machines to be neat (and very photogenic), but I didn't use them more than once
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by SECProto 5y ago
> It should be possible because the electrical connection of the batteries to EV drivetrains are relatively simple While this could be true, I certainly wouldn't assume it to be so. I dunno how integrated the battery pack is to the
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by SECProto 5y ago
> They needed the space for other things like the new generation Taptic engine on iPhone 7 I mean, they didn't technically need the space - there was space for one guy to cram one into the bottom without removing the taptic thingy (
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by SECProto 5y ago
...the step from "vaccine requirements on federally regulated transport services" is a hell of a lot closer to "drivers license to operate a car" or "recognized ID to board a plane" than it is to "full Chi

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