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781.
by SECProto 6y ago
> But compare it to [perpetual motion or faster-than-light space travel]. That's a completely inaccurate comparison - perpetual motion and faster-than-light violate fundamental physical laws as we understand them. Net-positive power
782.
by SECProto 6y ago
I follow the manufacturer's suggested interval of 8000km. The same car supposedly has a longer interval in Japan (16000km), but using a different engine and definitely different operating conditions. It's just not enough of a cost
783.
by SECProto 6y ago
Not OP, but I can pluralize his anecdata. I've had my car for 9 years (~120k miles - sat rarely driven for a couple years in the middle). The only maintenance I've had is oil changes (2 or 3 times a year, so $100 estimate seems ac
784.
by SECProto 6y ago
Sure, I accept I was wrong, and millibits may have some niche usage. That said, the comment I was responding to was describing hardware with "4 mb" of ram. There's no confusion in that case.
785.
by SECProto 6y ago
> I'd seriously paint my roof and my whole house with it to keep it cooler in the summer. It'd likely be more effective to do some combination of insulation, radiant barriers, and thermal breaks.
786.
by SECProto 6y ago
Pfizer has been pretty explicit with their comments that the deliveries will still meet the amount required by the end of quarter. Perhaps the EU has end-of-month targets instead. I'm just not that concerned about it personally. There&
787.
by SECProto 6y ago
> initially they planned to cut Canada's deliveries by ~50% for 4 weeks but EU's by a 8% for 2 weeks. This is simply because of different contractual obligations to the different parties. If I owe you $100 by the end of year, b
788.
by SECProto 6y ago
While we're being pedantic: I agree with you about SI prefixes, but bits are indivisible. A millibit doesnt exist (only possible use would be if one was referring to something like a transfer speed as "19 millibits per second&quot
789.
by SECProto 6y ago
> Although the second time he came back it appears he did not hide his identity The second time he went back, it was apparently as part of the group negotiating the Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty[1], so it makes sense he wouldn't
790.
by SECProto 6y ago
I think you've had much more luck from your gardens than I've had from mine...
791.
by SECProto 6y ago
Lots of highways and airports and bus lines lose money/exist only because of government support. Being profitable as a sole concern doesn't account for any of the benefits from transportation options existing.
792.
by SECProto 6y ago
And if you look internationally, the Detroit-Windsor-Toronto-Montreal-Quebec City corridor is in a line with a number of intermediate cities
793.
by SECProto 6y ago
HSR can be put underground. And since urban land is expensive, the rails are put underground. 90% of the Chuo Shinkansen will be underground[0]. The first section of the proposed Northeast Maglev in the US will be 75% underground[1]. The Ho
794.
by SECProto 6y ago
Lots of cities where people dont own cars, so the car is actually less convenient (most of the world where high speed rail is even a consideration). Planes are only cheaper and faster when you don't care about land usage, greenhouse ga
795.
by SECProto 6y ago
> At the end in your example, I feel like I would have a deeper understanding of kimchi as it relates to Korean speakers, how “green onion kimchi” is different, and why that means someone is dead tired. Picture this situation in reverse.
796.
by SECProto 6y ago
> Most driving interactions in a Tesla are through the stalk or knob rollers on the steering wheel (that adjust based on situation). It is very well thought out. Does the tesla know that I've changed heading and the sun is now provi
797.
by SECProto 6y ago
You say it was discontinued because it was unprofitable. I say it was discontinued because it was unpopular. Neither of us has shown any actual proof one way or the other
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by SECProto 6y ago
The Yaris was available for roughly $14k up until a year or two ago (I only know the Canadian price, which was I think $15,900 cad). It was discontinued because it didn't sell well enough. Similarly, Nissan had the Micra available in C
799.
by SECProto 6y ago
I would buy one in a heartbeat, if it were available in North America. Would be a good city car (but I'd not go on any roads with speed limits above 80km/h at most)
800.
by SECProto 6y ago
Note that shingled drives are totally fine for many use cases. I bought this 14TB drive to act as a secondary backup for non-critical data, I expect it'll be a write-once-read-rarely kind of situation. Even if it is SMR, it'll be
801.
by SECProto 6y ago
Or use a different example, inclusive zoning in Japan is generally very mixed, with good outcomes for walking/cycling/transit. The only exclusive zoning areas is for industrial. https://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/201
802.
by SECProto 6y ago
Was a good sale on WD Easystore external drive from Bestbuy. Back up to MSRP now.
803.
by SECProto 6y ago
I just bought a 14TB drive for 250 canadian - equivalent to $0.0141 USD per gb. According to a backblaze blog from 3 years ago [1], they were at $0.024 per gb four years ago. So they certainly havent halved, but the prices are definitely st
804.
by SECProto 6y ago
> So you do enjoy having text broken down in small pieces inside an interface that's obviously made for short messages I do enjoy having text broken down into small, coherent pieces - whether it be a tweet or a paragraph. Twitter en
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by SECProto 6y ago
I only read it /because/ it was a twitter thread. I wouldn't have clicked the link if it had been a blog post (unless I read the comments here and found a compelling reason) To defend twitter: each tweet in the thread has to
806.
by SECProto 6y ago
Indeed. I hesitate to change it manually though, as I know the (former) name of the road was done as part of a 911 upgrade in the early-mid 00's, and a lot of similarly semi-private roads renamed a few years after that. So OSM got thei
807.
by SECProto 6y ago
OSM uses a different, also incorrect, name for the road. At least the name OSM uses was correct at one point (about a decade ago - also when that feature was last edited).
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by SECProto 6y ago
> You've used the suggest a change feature within Maps? I've done that several times and I think it always worked for me. I've had a road that is mis-named near me. I've used the "suggest a change" feature m
809.
by SECProto 6y ago
I don't think you need 6 quarters. Using your numbers, 1.3 billion iPhones is 650 million pounds. At 4000lb each, it only takes 163000 model 3s to outweigh the iPhones - about 5 months of production, or two quarters.
810.
by SECProto 6y ago
Yup. Salinity would be 36 ppt, so for every 1000 tonnes of water they need, they'd produce 2 truck loads of salt (so say maybe 20 truckloads of brine). It's a lot easier to truck out and dispose of 20 loads of brine, than to sourc

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