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by SECProto 3y ago
I'm a 185cm non-Japanese, and kei truck seat and space has been just fine for me. You can't recline the seats obviously, but that's not why you're in the truck
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by SECProto 3y ago
> I don't get why everyone obsesses over stopping and turning and shills snow tires. Most accidents are caused by failure to stop and failure to turn, not failure to accelerate. > There's a reason that everyone and their bro
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by SECProto 3y ago
Does your AWD car with summer tires brake better in icy conditions than your FWD? > better straight line stopping distance and cornering ability don't actually help you because being able to controllably put power to the ground is
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by SECProto 3y ago
It absolutely applies here - they didn't want to build the launch mount in Florida until they had actual info from a launch. They also iterate their rockets with each new one (even production rockets, ie falcon 9, gets iterative change
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by SECProto 3y ago
> They mention NASAs Artemis program, but the real enabler of larger payloads to the moon may be SpaceX Starship, not SLS Note that the two aren't mutually exclusive: Artemis 3 uses [1] Starship as a major component, and it's l
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by SECProto 3y ago
> How is peak load defined in a hospital? Same as everywhere else - largest demand on resources. For a hospital, the resources are staffing and equipment (rather than cpu/storage/ram). An MRI machine is cheapest when you have a
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by SECProto 3y ago
> That came later after the MCT and then ITS acronyms I believe there was a BFR originally [1], and it just returned later. But the real old one was the Falcon X and Falcon XX [2], which were to use the "Merlin 2" engine (giant
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by SECProto 3y ago
Yep, that video shows it well! Third row is a little tight, but I'm 6'1" and sat there for a 5 hour drive with my duffel on my lap, haha. I think I had it better than the three larger folks sharing the middle row. So it would
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by SECProto 3y ago
One thing I loved living in Japan was availability of minivans that were actually small. The Toyota Sienta (note: not sienna) had 7 seats while being built on the Vitz (Yaris) platform. 3 feet shorter than a north american minivan, a foot
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by SECProto 3y ago
> The city of Paris is doing the right thing here Note that your source is very outdated. Paris just opted to ban electric rental scooters effective September. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/parisians-vote
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by SECProto 4y ago
> Maybe this is the formal groundwork for another such informal blog post, and it just happens to share the same title. Close - this is the detailed background behind the plan as presented a month ago. From the executive summary (page 2)
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by SECProto 4y ago
> Maybe we'd all be happier with just a nice plot of land and some plants to tend to and perhaps some hobbies to keep us busy. And enough money saved up to buy land in Thailand and retire at 48, without worrying about how he's
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by SECProto 4y ago
Haha glad my calling out of nonsense is apparently indistinguishable from a large language model. Does chatgpt do citations like that?
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by SECProto 4y ago
> despite widespread accusations and suspicions of corruption, nepotism, and even drug trafficking, he is our ally... and hence not a dictator Being a dictator means [1] to have absolute power. There are dictators that are friendly with
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by SECProto 4y ago
> cryptocurrency stuff is the closest I've ever felt today to the spirit of the old internet Cryptocurrency feels like the exact opposite of the old internet to me - it feels like a bunch of anonymous bros looking for the next suc
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by SECProto 4y ago
> how much can you buy one for or build one for? $10: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/vindriktning-air-quality-sensor... presumably not quite feature-comparable, but the article and website are rather absent
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by SECProto 4y ago
Planning decisions tend to be made by municipal staff not by elected Council. Regardless, if every city council/staff is causing the same issue, then I think that's a pretty reductive argument. We need to look at places that are d
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by SECProto 4y ago
These are the parts that aren't a reasonable argument: > your right to access your own money won’t be put at risk. The bank accounts that were frozen were those "that funnel money to demonstrators"[1] - i.e, not their own
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by SECProto 4y ago
> Just don't go protesting, I heard that's one way to lose access to your money in Canada. You heard incorrectly. Don't accept anonymous international donations to participate in disruptive harassment so severe that it req
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by SECProto 4y ago
> If we were to make housing more dense but use the extra space as countryside that's not going to provide any more customers within the catchment area of the OP's coffee shop, is it? If your current area has 400 residents but
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by SECProto 4y ago
> Find a pretty outdoor area where some property developer kindly built commons seating on their own dime, and drive a coffee food truck up to it. Most places with high demand like this also have prohibitions (or limited parking/ope
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by SECProto 4y ago
> I'd love to hear more about this, and how one defines "better" Sure! The discussion was about enjoying small independent coffee shops, and how to run one profitably, so my description of "better" is w.r.t. that
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by SECProto 4y ago
It doesn't work well (graphically) if you choose eg, something in australia and something in the US. Shows the Australia flight travelling West across all of africa (when it actually travels northeast, across the ocean)
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by SECProto 4y ago
Yes, and historically, mom-n-pop style shops (not specifically coffee) made the property costs work by living in the same building or property. But if you own a house and want to turn the ground floor into a cafe: surprise, modern zoning la
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by SECProto 4y ago
If you're thinking about this, then you have to consider how those business you mention make money with a similar model. Starbucks: they don't charge $2 a coffee. I would only ever get a drip coffee and I think it's around $3
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by SECProto 4y ago
> and given that we are a country of common law, technically, Quebec has civil law [1] for a portion of their legal system. If we're being pedantic :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_law
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by SECProto 4y ago
> But please, why isn't a public inquiry the correct format and what is the right format that will balance national security and public trust I already gave you a list of 4 reasons I think a public inquiry is not the best format. Yo
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by SECProto 4y ago
Personally, I trust the relevant government institutions (Elections Canada, CSIS, etc) to know and address it properly. While more information being released would be good, I don't think a public inquiry is the right format.
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by SECProto 4y ago
Yes, I'm sure that's why the European commission did the same [1] a few days ago, why the US House is debating it now [2], and a number of other govt's have been considering it in the last month or two.. [1] https:/&#x2
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by SECProto 4y ago
In the HN spirit, what would be the "strongest plausible interpretation" of why a public inquiry might not be the best solution? I can list a few to start: international relations, protection of sources and methods, unnecessary de

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