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by SECProto 5y ago
That list of safety features seems reasonable for a car that is only driven 2300 miles per year
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by SECProto 5y ago
Because, for example in Canada, there have been 1.4 million total cases of Covid over the last year which has on multiple occasions stretched particularly ICU capacity to the limit. In a much shorter time period we have administered 27.7 mi
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by SECProto 5y ago
> From the viewpoint of a healthy young person, the risk/reward ratio of taking a vaccine is bad. Absolutely false. The disease can and does have severe and sometimes long-lasting impacts on young healthy people. The mRNA vaccines d
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Obviously, you're right long-term but it's a slow transition not a switch we can flip. And trains lend themselves much better to slow declining transition than a new pipeline. Can be used for other cargo; are a bit more expen
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by SECProto 5y ago
Increased rights have consequences. Decreased rights have consequences. There are limits on rights everywhere, even the US. I think it's quite rational for people to favour one or another system or limitation. The first amendment in Am
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by SECProto 5y ago
Thinking of adding an aux jack to my old sennheiser 201s, as they work fine otherwise. the reason I got the hd599 is because they had a removable cable, haha
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by SECProto 5y ago
I'll be honest, the ATH m40x was just a google result for best headphones under $50. Comfort is very important (and completely orthogal to price) I used sennheiser HD201s ($15 canadian on sale) for years until the cable broke, then upg
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by SECProto 5y ago
Definitely fair. Wrote that comment before my morning coffee :)
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by SECProto 5y ago
An acceptable roaster costs $20 (air popper), acceptable grinder $30 (hario or equiv), and a good espresso maker costs $30 (aeropress). And a good set of headphones costs $50 (ATH m20x) I spend far more on beans annually than I have on hard
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by SECProto 5y ago
Cheers, I'll agree that snobbery from anti-elites would be just as obnoxious, I just haven't experienced it personally. I've only been bothered by people who criticize me for riding the gear I can afford, and people who don&#
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by SECProto 5y ago
> That may be the case in road bikes, but mountain bikes have gone through a huge transformation in the past decade. The new mountain bikes are night and day different than mountain bikes from a decade ago. You can still ride track on an
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by SECProto 5y ago
Not a mountain biker but: I (and many people I know) ride road bikes older than we are. I've got a Norco from the early 80s, friends ride similar age or older Peugeot and Raleigh. Chromoly that is pretty light and feels great and can t
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by SECProto 5y ago
That's essentially what Canada has done, except on a subnational level (as it only applies in individual provinces that don't have their own emissions reduction mechanisms with at least equivalent effects)
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by SECProto 5y ago
Vehicle drivers decide what vehicles they buy, but pedestrians do not. The Regulations (or lack thereof) incentivize vehicles that kill more pedestrians
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by SECProto 5y ago
Sure, I don't actually know what your argument is to rebut? I know many people who would like to buy a ford ranger sized truck, but manufacturers discontinued them a decade ago because fuel efficiency regulations disincentivized them.
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by SECProto 5y ago
Observation: bigger and heavier vehicles are safer for their occupants in any impact. Regulation: cars should be safer Impact: All vehicles continuously increase in size and weight year on year, decreasing the safety of older vehicles and n
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by SECProto 5y ago
No worries! Nail polish is one of my favourite "hacks", quite durable so it's good for touching up bike frames (especially chainstays, which easily chip), aside from blocking excess lumens from LEDs.
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by SECProto 5y ago
Yes, water usage is likely a concern (though not the one the original comment had raised/I responded to). That section of the Wikipedia article is very poorly cited, linking to a single EBI source [1] which doesn't cite a primary
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by SECProto 5y ago
In terms of carbon footprint, coffee (as a low gram-per-serving product) is probably low. For example, I consume ~200g/week of coffee (10kg/yr), all of which would be shipped in 25kg bags from the producing locale to my local roas
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by SECProto 5y ago
Cars&trucks cause a large majority of the pedestrians killed in walking-around-the-city accidents, though. Lumping those deaths in with highway deaths makes the statistic meaningless.
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by SECProto 5y ago
You can also use nail polish - will block some of the light and change the hue. As many different shades of polish available as you can imagine. Some shades block more light than others
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by SECProto 5y ago
Why element 115 in particular?
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by SECProto 5y ago
> It's not like a lab leak is an extremely unlikely possibility at all. The tweet was talking about the virus being engineered in a lab, not the possibility it escaped from a lab. Their opinion on the possibility of lab leak seems
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by SECProto 5y ago
> one source I read said that the non-satellite map data was actually correct, and it was the stitching of the satellite imagery that was incorrect The opposite is true: If you look at areas like the Macau-Zhuhai border or Hong Kong-Shen
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by SECProto 5y ago
> What i find weird is the extreme and very unscientific agression among certain virologist: "If you think SARS-CoV-2 was engineered in a lab, please unfollow me. " Take a similar situation, imagine you were a structural engine
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by SECProto 5y ago
To speculatively answer your original question about why Business Insider reported the plans in US Customary units: It's an American media company. Albeit owned by a German publishing house. And the article was authored by someone out
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Altitude and physical length units are still in feet tho, same goes for weight which is in long tonnes. The article on suezmax[1] uses metric as the primary units, even in images/charts. The article on deadweight [2] explains that
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by SECProto 5y ago
Assuming you mean Children Of The Sky (second as in sequel to the first one published), that one actually deals with this topic (bootstrapping technological advancement) maybe more than the other two. I assume you didn't mean A Deepnes
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by SECProto 5y ago
Bootstrapping civilization is a bit of a sub-thread in the three Zones Of Thought books by Vernor Vinge. Definitely my favourite SciFi books
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Think of it like this, every kg added to Starship is one kg less to Orbit. And maybe like 10-30kg less to Mars. With standard staging this would be correct. With starship it's a bit different: Every 1kg added to Starship is 1kg le

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