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by SECProto 3y ago
I'm even more against apps than I am against motorized door openers.
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by SECProto 3y ago
I haven't had one so I can't directly weigh in, but up here, winter = physically pulling hard on door handles to get the seals to unstick. I can't imagine something like cybertruck (no handles at all) working in real winter
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by SECProto 3y ago
> Painting an entire machine, instead of just the panels that need it, takes time and wastes energy. As someone who lives in a location that heavily salts the roads, I am not looking forward to a car where a designer living with califo
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by SECProto 3y ago
Yeah, it was a huge simplification to be sure. The comment was talking about cutting his train ticket by $15, so I assumed it was more of a long distance thing - amtrack has farebox recovery of 95%
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by SECProto 3y ago
This is just putting them on a similar model (user pays). Currently, a train ticket has to cover the capital and operating costs of both the vehicle (train, driver) and tracks. For driving, the driver pays the operating and capital cost of
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by SECProto 3y ago
> Bridges only last for roughly 50 years. The bridge projects I've been on spec 75 or 100 years. Main difference is better protection/sacrificial depth on ferrous members.
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by SECProto 3y ago
> Wow, talk about taking a comment to an absurd point. I think the one that "took a comment to an absurd point" is the one about driving being a human right.
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by SECProto 3y ago
Yes, that is an issue and should be corrected. Every monetary penalty should also contribute towards license revocation.
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by SECProto 3y ago
The money is the economic incentive. The points resulting in license suspension fills the other loophole. > Once in a while, I get a ticket for it. I just pay it and continue not having a license plate on the front of that car Yes, I agr
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by SECProto 3y ago
Yes, I covered that in my comment about points systems (they exist everywhere I've lived - get too many tickets and your license is suspended, regardless of if you pay it off). Unless you mean that there should be no fee to renew your
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by SECProto 3y ago
People get tickets for violating motor vehicle laws. These laws exist to protect all users of the road. If you can't follow the rules, you don't get to operate a vehicle that can easily kill other users. The only issue with licens
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by SECProto 3y ago
Grammatically, pronouns are used when it's already clear who is being described. In this thread, the Government of Canada was the only body mentioned. Using "they" to refer to a singular officer who had before then not been r
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by SECProto 3y ago
By using the pronoun "they", you're implying the same person ("the Canadian government") as the post above. Per your sources, the statement was made by a single officer, with the actual police services quoted as adv
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by SECProto 3y ago
Children Of The Sky is certainly available digitally.
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by SECProto 3y ago
> cities can presumably limit parking, make it very expensive, perhaps implement congestion charges These are three very difficult to implement changes (due to complaints), and also very ineffective at increasing safety (fewer vehicles =
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by SECProto 3y ago
> Cities are welcome to erect whatever barriers they like to private cars. This is inaccurate - for liability purposes, most road design in the US conforms to the MUTCD (and other design standards), which have very car-centric requiremen
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by SECProto 3y ago
> 2.75 million unplugged wells in the US that output "6.6m tons of Co2 worth of methane" [2], or put in another way each well puts out 2.4T of Co2e each per year. Per the article you cited, the 6.6m tonnes (not tons) of CO2e do
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by SECProto 3y ago
> So I looked it up. Note that the links you provided are not primary sources. They rely on this one tweet as the primary source. https://twitter.com/siddharthkara/status/1612587425087524864
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by SECProto 3y ago
> ADB is an acronym. Not everyone knows what it means I've used ADB a half-hundred times, and I had no idea what it meant until I read replies to your comment. Defining the acronym is likely not helpful to anyone who has used it bef
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by SECProto 3y ago
Here's data for the price of gold over the same period in USD, showing almost same 5x increase. Could you explain the relevance of either to this story about the Nikkei? Price of gold in 1989: ~$370 USD/oz Price of gold in 2024: ~
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by SECProto 3y ago
Skip the gear and tell them it was your deepest freedive
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by SECProto 3y ago
While true that they are concerns, the first article you linked notes that those started to be clamped down on 6 years ago - would be good to have an update. And also, the scale of methane leaks compared with cfc11/12 means that even t
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by SECProto 3y ago
> quarks have -1 and 2. Wikipedia suggests the quarks that make up the proton have charge ⅔e and -⅓e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_quark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_quark
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by SECProto 3y ago
Not a physicist at all but I'd offer the following thoughts on the question of "why": - Take a neutron, pull out an electron (and an antineutrino), and you're left with a proton. - Asking why protons and electrons are so
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by SECProto 3y ago
> phased rollback of net metering in California Thank you for this clarification - I thought the discussion about changes to net metering was general, not California specific. Reading [1] about the changes to net metering in California,
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by SECProto 3y ago
There are all kinds of complications - commercial solar isn't dispatchable so it does tend to get lower rates than most other sources. In my jurisdiction residential (net metering) customers are only allowed to install a certain number
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by SECProto 3y ago
All electricity generation throughout the US is subsidized in various ways already - eg low interest loans for new generation capacity, programs for low income earners, not (or not effectively) charging for carbon and methane emissions, low
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by SECProto 3y ago
> There should be standards for EV chargers, so anyone can charge their EV of choice at the charger of their choice. In north america, essentially everyone has agreed on the NACS [1] (starting in 2025). In Europe they use a "Type 2&
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by SECProto 3y ago
> I mean you can put regulations on anything to make it sure it is doing what it is supposed to be, right? Yes, and when it comes to selling health-related products, the standards are higher than, say, entertainment devices. For very goo
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by SECProto 3y ago
Reading [1] about the regulations, it sounds like the only requirement (for self contained air cleaners) is that it has to be certified, and can't produce ozone. That seems pretty painless, and I would like the comfort of knowing that

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