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by abakker 7y ago
well, for really long stuff, pickup people with 6ft beds get ladder racks. with 8-10ft boards I just leave the tailgate up and put the boards in there at an angle. If I need to get on the highway, a single ratchet strap ensures they don&#x2
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by abakker 7y ago
My guess is that there are serial number / model number / revision numbers that do change when this is done. It is just not mandatory that these changes be published. I agree that it would be nice to know when metal gears had been
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by abakker 7y ago
The term for this is "Quality Fade" and is by no means unique to amazon. This is a very common thing in all low-cost manufacturing. you start with higher quality and lower margin, and gradually degrade quality to improve margin. Y
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by abakker 7y ago
It didn't take long to know how to do it. It took a long time to make cost effective parts that were reliable in doing it for the service life of a car. the bearings in a modern vw turbocharger are incredible. Imagine getting 100K Mile
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by abakker 7y ago
Nice Abom79 t-shirt.
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by abakker 7y ago
Nope, I'll bet that many, many professional consultants and lawyers will now use these to take conference calls in even more comfort than the originals. Seriously, if you spend all day on the phone (aka, a professional), they're a
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by abakker 7y ago
I like this - and, critically, there really is no reason why free market solutions can’t be creative or innovative. A challenge is that many solutions to problems like unemployment have difficult to quantify primary effects - e.g. actual jo
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by abakker 7y ago
it is also upgradeable - i.e. an improvement in efficiency for a motor of the same format, or improvements of the battery in the same format can both be "drop in" upgrades. Not necessarily trivial, but much easier than with ICEs.
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Skin care brand Sunday Riley wrote fake Sephora reviews for almost two years FTC(cnn.com)
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by abakker 7y ago
Alternative view (not necessarily my view): Hedge funds are able to buy companies that are already in trouble. They do a lot of up-front financial engineering to free working capital for last-ditch efforts. Frequently, those last-ditch effo
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by abakker 7y ago
I mean, someone signed off on the footings of the millennium tower, too. SF is not taking a cautious, informed approach, they’re just burying their heads in the sand.
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by abakker 7y ago
Totally agree - I was more saying that the roads themselves do nothing to control speeds. Or, in a modern car it is easy to speed without realizing it.
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by abakker 7y ago
A practical answer is “no”. Speed limits were set when cars really couldn’t safely do any more. But, modern cars have better acceleration and braking and suspension. They remain “comfortably” within their handling capabilities even when 30%
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by abakker 7y ago
I agree that texting while driving is a key part of it, no doubt. But, I’d propose another one, too. New aerodynamic designs locate the A pillars in a place in most cars that eliminates huge swaths of my peripheral vision. Backup cameras al
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by abakker 7y ago
To you and any other developers that feel this way, there are plenty of companies out there, big and small that need your skills. FWIW, developers that know how to buckle down and do work are so important to a lot of un-sexy businesses, but
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by abakker 7y ago
can you personally recommend any open source solutions that are reasonably plug and play?
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by abakker 7y ago
That's a good point. Really, you could just say that they have a seasonal part time job, but when they do it they are paid like professionals. This might not be a problem if there were another part time job that really worked well for
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by abakker 7y ago
For the whole year? If you work 60 hours/week, 36 weeks/year, then you only work ~41 hours/week on average. School years are 180 days, for about 36 weeks. I know that teachers do work during the vacations somewhat, but, they
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by abakker 7y ago
yeah, you open the screenshot in the photos app... but, still, I agree that the idiom of the device is made worse in this context.
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by abakker 7y ago
A confounding factor in this statistic is that even if you were a rational actor, weighing the deterrence value of the death penalty, the actual application of the death penalty is far from certain, so you'd appropriately assign it low
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by abakker 7y ago
Agree. I think two things are clear to me - management benefits from decisiveness to a greater degree than accuracy. the Try/fail loop is better than the wait/see loop. The other thing that management benefits from is information
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by abakker 7y ago
Evil and blame free do not necessarily follow from acknowledging that some level of risk is acceptable.
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by abakker 7y ago
That is already available. Ever heard of Cushman and Wakefield?
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by abakker 7y ago
Here’s an alternative view: we do an ok job of science education, but a deeply unsatisfactory job of teaching people that it is OK to be themselves and likes the stuff they like. Crystal spiritualism to me is just a reaction to the fact tha
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by abakker 7y ago
The real question is: why did we install the protections(barriers) in the first place? I assume that a major component of that was as a reaction to the increasing complexity of modern life. Self sufficiency is fine, but it is difficult to t
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by abakker 7y ago
Because America, the country with mostly native English speakers, is 4x more populous than Germany.
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by abakker 7y ago
Drones at 400 feet are quieter than many cars. If you can’t bear the noise of a drone delivering to your house, do you complain at the noise of an actual diesel truck idling on your street?
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by abakker 7y ago
I really agree with this. In an era where overcommitment seems to be synonymous with "work", I think people just tacitly acknowledge that not all commitments can be met. It is up to you, the employee, to correctly interpret the im
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by abakker 7y ago
the free carbon soil test is used by many farmers to evaluate the amount of microbial life in their soils. Several I have spoken to have expressed interest for a more reliable field test for microbial health in their soils. One side effect
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by abakker 7y ago
I wonder if you could post hoc write it off as a donation to the public, and deduct it from your taxes... (I mean, I don't seriously wonder this, just hyperbolically)

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