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by SECProto 5y ago
> Backup cameras are a legal mandate. Wasn't aware of this. Regardless, it should be a standard that can connect to any din stereo. > It is honestly irresponsible to drive a car without a wide-angle backup camera. The only time
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by SECProto 5y ago
Why are backup cameras mandatory? I don't want that either. Make it a standard DIN radio slot and you can put in whatever stereo you want - and upgrade it in 5 years when your car still works great but the Bluetooth standard has change
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by SECProto 5y ago
True, and tires - either smaller (cheaper) tires or longer lifespan of those tires.
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by SECProto 5y ago
If there were two identical 300-mile-range cars on the market, one had a 1000-cycle-life and the other a 600-cycle-life, I'd take whichever was cheaper as long as the price difference was more than say $2000. And if one of them had phy
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by SECProto 5y ago
To translate that "80% after 1000 cycles" into more practical numbers: with a 300-mile-range battery, that means you'd have a 240-mile-range after driving 300,000 miles.
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by SECProto 5y ago
Alright, lot of comments to respond here, I'll do my best. > What makes you think the pros/cons they listed are just the price? I think that because consumers (myself included) will always choose a commodity that costs one thir
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by SECProto 5y ago
> most people prefer the non-supply managed products, taking into account the pros/cons . I don't think they pros/cons they listed (i.e. price differences) are reflective of reality. Specifically, they list milk as $2.25&
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by SECProto 5y ago
Yes, protecting important food suppliers from some foreign competition to ensure a stable supply of food is protectionism.
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Surely if you want to keep your country fed, you'd want to go after the staples like potatoes or grain? Canada is extremely competitive on grain and potatoes (and lentils and oilseeds and ...). Supply management isn't needed
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by SECProto 5y ago
That poll says 74% of canadians either don't want supply management changed during nafta renegotiations, or it could be changed but only as a last resort? That sounds like pretty high support. edit: The later questions are misleading -
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by SECProto 5y ago
And most of us are very happy to support supply management! "Cartel" has very negative connotations. The issues in this article are also entirely different. edit: you forgot to mention our nefarious healthcare cartel!
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by SECProto 5y ago
> All of Asia started from scratch after WW2 and Korea was only 10 years behind Japan due to their war. The Seoul subway [1] opened its first line in the mid-1970s (8km of line 1). Most of their subway growth opened in 1995 and later, a
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by SECProto 5y ago
Agree adding the oil only after the pan is hot is the key step. Learned through trial and error
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by SECProto 5y ago
> And you cannot cook good eggs on anything but a non stick pan if you're not working on a commercial, well-oiled skillet, which is a different beast all together. Disagree strongly on this. I cook fantastic over-easy egg on my cast
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by SECProto 5y ago
I don't think that's reasonable and it's very unlikely that "chats" are going away. I've been using chat apps since that person was in their mid-to-late 30s. Newsgroups were around a decade before that. The rel
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by SECProto 5y ago
Most shoe stores I've been to have shoes on display, and a staff member gets you the size you want to try on from a back room. I have been to a few where they have shoe stock boxed on the shop floor near the displays, but they've
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by SECProto 5y ago
I have a left side taskbar on my work laptop. I hate it, but it's better than a bottom taskbar when im constrained to crappy 16:9 with 720 vertical pixels.
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by SECProto 5y ago
The 5.9 billion (19 was a typo) was investment capital. Per the source, investors were: Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Scott Banister, DFJ Growth, Google, Rizvi Traverse Management, Fidelity Investments, Threshold, Rothenberg Ventures, Elon M
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by SECProto 5y ago
Thank you for the correction. I read 5.9 in the article and somehow typo'd with 19 in my comment.
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by SECProto 5y ago
SpaceX does a couple NASA launches a year, for which they make 100-200 million each and have to actually provide a service that costs them a decent fraction of that cost. They earlier this year had an investment round worth about a billion,
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by SECProto 5y ago
And if you want to compare that to the North American standard: I lived in a small town in Canada. Grocery store was 2km away - walk or drive or bike, they were all fine (though no infrastructure existed for the pedestrian or cyclist). But
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Europeans who live in major cities might enjoy their good public transport options, but in minor cities, towns and rural areas, public transport is crap to non-existent I just opened up google maps, picked out two random small towns in
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by SECProto 5y ago
Make sure you also imagine that competent public transport and/or active transportation options are pretty widely available as alternatives.
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by SECProto 5y ago
> 3.5 kwh/kg is probably 20 cents worth of electricity. Your phrasing implies this is a small number - but 20 cents per kg is 20000c/tonne or $200 per tonne. The current spot price for iron ore is $200, which itself is twice as
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Since there’s not enough reaction mass on earth to bring even a fraction of the human population into orbit Napkin math to disprove this claim: 7,000,000,000 people * 100kg = 700,000,000 tonnes = 7 million launches of starship * 5000t
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Honestly I think Mastodon is already about as easy to use as possible. The real problem is the network effect, and the fact that the average person really just doesn't care enough about the benefits you get from it. I care a great
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by SECProto 5y ago
> What would an average city dweller/commuter/soccer mom do with a truck? Wait til you hear what the average city dweller/commuter/soccer mom drives in much of US/Canada... Most of North America has no incentive
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by SECProto 5y ago
Was coming to respond the same thing. I used a processor from the same generation (2500k) from May 2011 to May 2021, including for gaming. Upgraded to an SSD at some point and the video card, but the processor was still fine. I would'v
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by SECProto 5y ago
Those advantages (offline file storage, sorting by subtopics and threads, access to things from before you were even a member) sounds largely like forum software from ~20 years ago too, which only required decent hardware on the server side
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Which software exactly is functionally the same yet consumes more resources? Can you give some specific examples? From this end user's perspective, Google Chat is functionally no different than ICQ or MSN Messenger were 20 years a

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