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by abakker 4y ago
Toyota is literally buying back its electric cars because the wheels might fall off. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/business/toyota-bz4x-buy-back... Everyone has issues.
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by abakker 4y ago
I'm not seeing any mention of the drastically lower tourism for 2020/21 due to Covid. Is there any hypothesis for how this might effect things? Sunscreen? Boat emissions? They mention the tourism drives a ton of dollars, but it al
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by abakker 4y ago
I don't think this is true if you factor in the Total carbon from the process of actually electrifying the roads. Its a ton of cabling made out of a ton of metal that needs to be mined.
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by abakker 4y ago
only 30%? I'd have guessed that most IT projects at least fail to achieve goals if they don't crater completely. the bigger the projects, the more they resemble interplanetary collisions.
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by abakker 4y ago
I used alcohol as an example, and should have been more clear that it was _just_ an example. I'm sure you and I could find common ground where we believe that carrot/stick approach is dumb, but that some rule should be passed.
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by abakker 4y ago
"seems" is doing a lot of work here, and you are presuming your worldview to be more correct than the OP's parents? on what basis do you make that judgement? are you not the descendent of someone who once had more than a sing
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by abakker 4y ago
to add to this, there is a hilarious plague of "second order" thinking in government, while ignoring first order. We got into this mess with things like the 21 year old drinking age. The federal government doesn't have the au
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by abakker 4y ago
Chicken pox may be harmless as a child. That virus also causes shingles and that is NOT harmless as an adult. edit to add: things like HPV seem harmless, but HPV infection is linked to the vast majority of cervical cancer. Things like epste
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by abakker 4y ago
or batteries / battery analogs. It is possible to solve this problem with tools we currently have. If we're thinking long term, we do not require coal or gas for power generation given sufficient hydro, wind, solar and storage. Cr
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by abakker 4y ago
bicycle tube for making bikes out of chromoly can be bought from many makers. The good stuff doesn't have uniform wall thickness but has thinner sides and thicker top/bottom for lower weight/stiffness. It should also have but
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by abakker 4y ago
Bronze and iron are pretty common. Our house has iron in the basement and pvc in a renovated bathroom upstairs. I expect you’re just luck to have never repaired an iron one. (They are hard to remove)
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by abakker 4y ago
They are less durable than a bronze one, and, when your toilet flange goes wrong, you have a major problem. Personally, I like PVC for being light, easy to modify, and definitively waterproof.
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by abakker 4y ago
yep, but now it's flagged so I can't move it.
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by abakker 4y ago
the government backs its currency by having _different rights_ than private companies. E.g. the ability to levy taxes and field an army. We the citizens have given them those rights specifically so that they are the highest authority. This
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by abakker 4y ago
Opportunity cost - you locked up your money and it lost value due to inflation instead of being put into something that kept pace with inflation. Obviously, this is counterfactual, but that is the premise.
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by abakker 4y ago
Gotta pay for another semester then, right?
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by abakker 4y ago
no harder, but slower! stake in a business is obviously slower yet. The ultimate scam is to just manufacture equity and do a pump and dump. any resemblance to an actual business is unintentional.
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by abakker 4y ago
Sure, but college attendance is very high now and wasn’t back when we had a “more informed electorate”. Educational achievement is not a catch all for actually being a thinking and critical person. Also, not everyone has equal potential, an
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by abakker 4y ago
The best use cases for AR _are_ enterprise use cases, IMO. AR seems to be a natural way to interact with design, instruction, warnings, etc. it is not obvious that the same features yield much for the entertainment user, because AR provides
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by abakker 4y ago
fair enough, but I guess anything under T3 equivalent in any drive system is pretty damn difficult. What do you use? The smallest Torx i've used is T5, and even that was very dicey.
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by abakker 4y ago
Full agree. Torx is the best. T25 and larger bits are essentially indestructible.
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by abakker 4y ago
Oh yeah - the bank in a box package from those SPs is totally real. The basic kind of stuff that is uniform across banking kinda works. Its the stuff that is specific to a particular bank that just seems to never be implemented. I have a pi
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by abakker 4y ago
unless you want a website with a real set of useful features, a mobile app, and a cybersecurity audit dept. My grandmother uses a small local bank in Spokane, WA. its terrible to interact with them, and I constantly have to do so because th
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by abakker 4y ago
With a lot of older R22 units, you can "pump them down" where the compressor actually accumulates all the R22 and pulls a near vacuum. Then, if you disconnect it from the coolant lines you can bring the whole unit to a reclamation
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by abakker 4y ago
another problem, though, is that as production methods change, there becomes less meaningful low-end work. Making bolts might have been a basic job at some point, but is basically only done by large automated machines now, or in small batch
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by abakker 4y ago
One of the best responses I've seen on HN. Thanks for the effort of writing it. I'm not sure I'm sold on the idea that ethics are somehow extra-cultural constants, but, we can table that discussion.
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by abakker 4y ago
there is a critical place that this is not consistent with the cheapies that the better ones get right: there are 4 ways to measure with a caliper - between the front jaws, outside the back jaws, the plunger on the bottom, and the ledge on
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by abakker 4y ago
Yes - I understand the theory, but, it is not exactly clear to me how private property rights - the things you actually buy when you buy land - are an issue for collective justice, and it is less clear how charging the a land value tax chan
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by abakker 4y ago
Homeowners already pay "rent" in the form of property tax. Depending on where you are, this might be quite a high payment already. For a mortgage holder with property tax, a great deal of that payment is fees and taxes already.
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by abakker 4y ago
I think you might misunderstand what "deserve" means. You do not deserve to go bankrupt if you don't have health insurance. you do not deserve to lose your life savings if someone robs your bank. Yes, people have a responsibi

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