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by SECProto 7y ago
> So, I wouldn't recommend LOS to the average user. LineageOS works fine with google apps, if you install OpenGApps. It all depends on why you're using LineageOS - if you're trying to use MicroG, you're probably tryin
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by SECProto 7y ago
If you doubled the length of an owl (or any other object) by scaling it up, then it would quadruple (2²) the surface area, and octuple (2³) the volume. The parent comment seemed to be suggesting the noise would scale with the surface area,
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by SECProto 7y ago
Without getting too far off topic: I sincerely wish we had higher taxes on fuel in the rest of Canada (and commensurate increase in relief for lower income folks whom it would disproportionately affect). Everyone complains about the price o
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by SECProto 7y ago
"Crazy" isn't the best choice of words. It has a loaded (negative) connotation. California has high fuel taxes relative to other US states. It has low fuel taxes compared to most other countries. From random source [1], Calif
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by SECProto 7y ago
I hope YouTube keeps this, even as a preference - I am often satisfied with 720p, and it uses less bandwidth consumption for those occasions when I am constrained.
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by SECProto 7y ago
There was a similar discussion on HN about 1 week ago, where a commenter described making a "lightning strike" trip to Mexico to buy Chloroquine from a less regulated source, so they can dose themself if they get sick. In a countr
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by SECProto 7y ago
> If Tesla is deemed an essential business, why is Jimmy's Bar and Grill being forced to close? According to this document [1] (found via reddit comment here [2]), I found Alameda County's list of essential businesses. Tesla is
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by SECProto 7y ago
> If, under normal market conditions, producers already make X amount (of , say, toilet paper) due to Y demand at price Z, when the demand spikes to 2Y, if you can produce and sell 2X goods at the same unit cost, you can double your prof
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by SECProto 7y ago
Modern EVs accelerate incredibly quickly. Tesla uses the 0-60 time as a main feature of their marketing. Once you have enough battery cells, a large power draw (acceleration) or power feed (charging, deceleration) becomes a very small amoun
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by SECProto 7y ago
> I think if I had to make a guess, Tesla will be in the same chapter in the history of cars as DeLorian and Duesenberg. I don't actually know what chapter that would be. Delorean was around for 3 years, and made ~9000 cars. Duesenb
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by SECProto 7y ago
> That speaks to the lack of airlines in Canada if the third largest has 74 max people and 29 planes. No, it speaks to the population of Canada... Porter still comes in at 18th largest in North America [1] (It might also be because each
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by SECProto 7y ago
> There is no such thing as new traffic capacity anymore. You can only take it from someone else. JetBlue started in the late 90s, and according to the wiki [0], "was awarded 75 takeoff/landing slots". Sunwing Airlines [1]
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by SECProto 7y ago
> Porter Airlines appears to have started in an entirely unique regulatory regime, actually I did a quick skim of that wiki article (skimmed a couple sections, ctrl+f'd for "regulat" and "monopoly"), but couldn&#
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by SECProto 7y ago
Few notes there: * The parent comment didn't caveat "large airline". * Porter is the third-largest airline in Canada. Canada has 10% of the population of the US, so our airlines will be accordingly smaller. * American Airline
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by SECProto 7y ago
> You literally can't start an airline from scratch. Gonna need a citation on this one. I would guess the actual reason airlines are hard to start from scratch is the massive capital required, but would be interested in having this
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by SECProto 7y ago
> So, Philips Hue users need a new $60 bridge after 8 years? Looking at the wiki [1], v2 wasn't released until October 2015, and presumably v1 remained on some shelves for a couple months after that. So more like they need a new $60
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by SECProto 7y ago
It all depends on what terms you're looking at. You're right about infrastructure - rural housing has much larger per-unit quantities of electric/transport distribution. Water is mostly a non-issue, anywhere I'd call rur
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by SECProto 7y ago
Without reading through the links given in the article for some terminology, this read like the turboencabulator [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXW0bx_Ooq4
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by SECProto 7y ago
Yup. uBlock Origin on mobile is what made me switch back from chrome a couple years ago. Definite dealbreaker if it was unsupported
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by SECProto 7y ago
Numbers are suspect from everywhere. Most jurisdictions are only just beginning to test symptomatic patients who don't have a direct link to the initial outbreak locale. One of the difficulties of a disease with symptoms almost identic
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by SECProto 7y ago
> We are orders of magnitudes larger than the SARS outbreak at this point an order* SARS had ~8500 cases, ~800 deaths [1]. COVID-19 is currently ~81000 cases and ~2700 deaths.[2] It will be orders, plural, at some point, but remains to b
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by SECProto 7y ago
> Super fast and cheap shipping is a big deal. Fast OR cheap shipping. At least in my locality. In the place I most frequently order, free shipping is scheduled for "5-7 business days" to get to me, and frequently gets misdirec
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by SECProto 7y ago
For sure. The best way to get the right answer on [hackernews] isn't to ask a question, it's to give the wrong answer.
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by SECProto 7y ago
> The amount of pseudoscience being peddled for attention or thrills in these threads is getting really worrying to me, I had expected something totally different from this community. :/ I believe this is generally the case with mos
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by SECProto 7y ago
I looked up two entry level machines on a Canadian website: * Top loader - 4.4 cubic feet, IWF 6-1/100 * Front loader - 5.0 cubic feet, IWF 3-1/5 Not knowing what those meant, I looked it up. The "water factor" represent
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by SECProto 7y ago
To supplement your anecdata: having used many an old top loader, they do have different fill levels - varying from "small" filling halfway up the drum to "large" as high as it can go. As an individual, even using the &qu
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by SECProto 7y ago
I can't recall ever seeing an analogue TV display a flat blue screen - with no signal, they generally display black&white noise
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by SECProto 7y ago
> Amateur, at least in common American English, is virtually never used in a positive or neutral sense. "Amateur astronomy"[1] doesn't have negative connotations. And I don't think this is an exception that proves the
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by SECProto 7y ago
Possibly something between lifts of asphalt would work. But a nail through the surface layer of asphalt would allow water in, and mess with the structural integrity of the wear surface. Also, the water it allowed in would freeze and expand
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by SECProto 7y ago
Yes, the top lift of pavement is a wear item in the decade time frame. Paint is a wear item in the sub-one year time frame (where I live, with low-VOC paint and frequent winter plowing) Curbs, signage, lights, poles, drainage infrastructure

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