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901.
by SECProto 6y ago
Yes, but the whole issue was caused by them switching to a new water source because it was cheaper. And old lead pipes that hadn't been replaced. And inadequate water treatment to prevent these conflicts. Root cause would be mismanagem
902.
by SECProto 6y ago
Flint is not a wealthier town. They are one of the "someone else's problem" poorer places that the wealthier towns don't care about.
903.
by SECProto 6y ago
> In most of the northern hemisphere it will only be viable for a couple months in the summer. This is not correct. I've done line drying year-round, doesn't work great when it's below zero (freezes) but otherwise works fi
904.
by SECProto 6y ago
I think it's worth trying if you have the availability (somewhere to set up a line or a rack, and low-ish relative humidity helps them dry quickly). As for whether it's worth changing your habits: that's up to you. Give it a
905.
by SECProto 6y ago
> I'm barely in my mid 30s and the average font size has been steadily creeping, maybe 1.5 pts per 5 years I'm a similar age, and my font size has been decreasing steadily. As monitors get better pixel density, text is readable
906.
by SECProto 6y ago
It's very much local market dependent. In my locale, mid-90s to mid-00's was all about getting people to try craft beer with anything they could - a lot of English styles. Then NW IPAs dominated from about 2007 to 2010, then one-h
907.
by SECProto 6y ago
Hops are a flavouring ingredient, not a psychoactive ingredient. And despite a decades-long love affair with strong IPAs, most craft beer areas have been big into low alcohol kettle sours, etc for the last 5 years or so. IPAs haven't g
908.
by SECProto 6y ago
If you make 31k, you likely don't have the good health insurance of the OP, and your final bill would be hundreds of thousands (i.e. it couldn't be afforded)
909.
by SECProto 6y ago
I agree. I'll share two quotes, from near the start and near the end of the article: > Vanilla vines need specific conditions to produce flowers and beans. [...] the challenge was developing a commercially viable way to grow the so
910.
by SECProto 6y ago
SpaceX did 13 launches in 2019: 4 for NASA, 6 for commercial operators, 2 for SpaceX, and 1 for the Air Force. NASA launches are higher paying though. NASA has also provided cash in the form of the commercial crew/commercial cargo deve
911.
by SECProto 6y ago
Yeah. I think it's more likely to stop someone accidentally taking the wrong bike. Since they aren't secured to anything and the locks aren't beefy, defeating it would be pretty trivial. I have a number of friends with anecdo
912.
by SECProto 6y ago
> Everyone is buying a mega bag thinking that they will now suddenly do a lot of baking I normally go through a 5kg bag of flour every month or two, just baking some breads and cakes occasionally. So far, I've gone through almost 20
913.
by SECProto 6y ago
> At the end of the day, there are only 3 things that matter for a rocket engine: exhaust velocity, how fast it can burn the fuel, and the mass of the engine. While those are primary factors, and a rocket won't go up if they aren&#x
914.
by SECProto 6y ago
> the exhaust velocity of the main engines of the Space Shuttle, 4.4 km/s. It's not clear why this is considered to be groundbreaking. And ion thrusters have an exhaust velocity in the 20-50 km/s range. Things can be groun
915.
by SECProto 6y ago
They do use locks, they are just tiny things that lock the rear wheel in place. They look like the brake mechanism. For example: http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/252774835823-0-1/s-l1000.jpg side note: the ubiqu
916.
by SECProto 6y ago
Even square footage isn't a perfect metric for cross-national comparison. For example, furniture in Japan (at places like Nitori) is often designed for smaller spaces. When I lived there, a $300 couch fit[1] perfectly in my living room
917.
by SECProto 6y ago
That's great! Generally takes a lot of political capital to do something like that, so good work London.
918.
by SECProto 6y ago
> Anecdotally, where I live in Seattle, the people who are still driving are driving like maniacs...speeding, ignoring stop signs, lights, etc This is likely similar everywhere. Traffic controls idiots speeding. For another anecdote, che
919.
by SECProto 6y ago
I'm having a lot of trouble trying to conceptualize how "car/bike traffic" could be a giffen good. "A product that people consume more of as the price rises". Raising/creating tolls for cars decreases usag
920.
by SECProto 7y ago
I did not mention movies once. I said music and podcasts that I use daily. My routine would look like following: 1. Get in car, plug in power and aux cable 2. Press play on (playlist or podcast) 3. Press start navigation on google maps I&#x
921.
by SECProto 7y ago
The question was, "what do you use the SD card for?". I answered. Other things you mentioned: * I just checked, and my phone storage is actually only 32gb. I misspoke. * It's quite close to full with just a month worth of pic
922.
by SECProto 7y ago
I use the sd card for media storage. Music and podcasts. Significantly reduces monthly data usage. My car has an aux port. It has terrible Bluetooth that cuts out every couple minutes. I also use the same headphones at my home plugged into
923.
by SECProto 7y ago
Carrier data for phones is expensive. I use it to store media (podcasts and music) so I can pay for minimal monthly data. I bought a 128gb microSD card 3 or 4 years ago, meant I could save several hundred dollars (twice now!) by getting a m
924.
by SECProto 7y ago
And yet, my cheap android phone has two things that are infinitely more important to me: an aux port and an SD card slot. My phone would be fundamentally less usable (for me) without them, while quicker switching between apps etc would be a
925.
by SECProto 7y ago
> I really can't help but appreciate the irony of alleging agenda in the above poster's sources, while simultaneously citing the Daily Mail, Yahoo Sports, and Twitter. The post you're replying to did not use those as sourc
926.
by SECProto 7y ago
I meant linguistic usage - it has had a very similar definition (head of something) for millennia.
927.
by SECProto 7y ago
The brick works as a thermal battery - if it's cold, you're heating your house, and the intermittent exhaust is keeping the brick warm. If you're not heating, well it's not cold so the brick temperature doesn't matt
928.
by SECProto 7y ago
> "President" was supposed to be the most boring title. It was chosen because the role was supposed to be simply that: To be present President doesn't come from the word "present" [1], and has been used for mille
929.
by SECProto 7y ago
> Incidentally, this is the real reason manholes were round. This doesn't pass the sniff test to me. A manhole lid fits loosely in its frame, and is simply cast. The round shape is used ecause that way the lid cannot fall into the h
930.
by SECProto 7y ago
> The lack of a headphone jack was always going to happen, that’s just the way of the world and nothing will change it I just got a Galaxy s10e which has both a headphone jack and an SD card slot. I choose to purchase phones that have th

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