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541.
by anamax 5y ago
And yet, some batteries start burning spontaneously when broken open.
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by anamax 5y ago
Some battery fires appear to be much more difficult to put out than gasoline fires. Gasoline does not spontaneously combust when exposed to air, unlike the components in some batteries.
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by anamax 5y ago
And yet, the Euros didn't bother. You remember the Euros. They're constantly telling anyone who will listen that they (the Euros) have the world's largest economy (which is true by some measures, but seems to be irrelevant o
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by anamax 5y ago
Note also that cars are more robust than trains or even buses. There's no central controller that can crash and there's no union to go on strike.
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by anamax 5y ago
The "D" in DFJ is Draper, which I mentioned. (DFJ has renamed itself to "Threshold.") I missed ATA. DFJ/Threshold did the seed round, $500k, but doesn't seem to have invested afterwards. ATA did B, at $9.1M,
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by anamax 5y ago
Theranos was not a "SV darling". Yes, Theranos was headquartered in SV, but, the vast majority of the investment money came from outside. (The only SV money was some very early stuff from Draper, which was a relatively small amou
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by anamax 5y ago
Bikes only work for short distances and then only in reasonably good weather AND when you don't need to carry much. Buses and trains are only efficient than cars if they have a reasonable number of riders who want to go between roughly
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by anamax 5y ago
You don't want to work at a company with "Company wide except for Pat" policies.
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by anamax 5y ago
It's not the bike lane, it's the "you should organize your life so bikes work for you". The "getting to work experience" isn't the only thing that is important. You don't know, or care about, the bene
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by anamax 5y ago
Note that you don't mention anything about living, just transportation. And, you couldn't resist throwing in pejoratives. It's okay that you like bikes, that you design your life around bikes. You're offended that othe
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by anamax 5y ago
There are multiple groups who advocate abortion for "those people." (Different groups have different definitions of "those people.")
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by anamax 5y ago
Google has chosen a business model that makes it too expensive for them to provide decent customer support. It's unclear why that's a defense. There are other business models.
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by anamax 5y ago
You're assuming that people live to work when most people work to live. The difference is that the latter would happily NOT work, or at least not work at what they do, if they could support their life. The former will happily change t
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by anamax 5y ago
It's poor form to point out that a racism accusation is one of the most effective political attacks/responses. Said effectiveness is not that dependent on the "truth" of said accusation. (The sneer quotes are because &
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by anamax 5y ago
A test that never fails is a slow comment.
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by anamax 5y ago
I start by inserting asserts that fail. I keep at it until the expected failures occur. As I fix things, I move those failures.
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by anamax 5y ago
"valuable" isn't enough - the rent and the person working there must be paid.
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by anamax 5y ago
It's not clear how that handles local functions that are redefined or that have multiple definition sites.
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by anamax 5y ago
> If a community wants a bookstore to remain they'll probably need to set it up as a non-profit of some sort. That doesn't solve the problem. Space costs. So does someone working in the store. The latter is true for both owne
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by anamax 5y ago
The "work product" of CU was their movie. Is it okay with you if a corporation donates money to Roger Moore to support the production of a documentary that said corporation agrees with? Does it depend on whether said documentary a
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by anamax 5y ago
I didn't say that you specifically advocated censorship. However, the US Govt has asked Facebook, Twitter, et al to close accounts, remove posts, etc.
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by anamax 5y ago
> AirBNB competes with hotels So what? So does staying with friends/family. So does using an RV. As does camping. Lots of things "compete with hotels" but that doesn't mean that they're subject to hotel regul
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by anamax 5y ago
> But the notion that free speech necessarily promotes positive progression in an honest marketplace of ideas, or the discovery of 'truth', seems naive and really quite outdated. Remind me - how often have censors turned out to
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by anamax 5y ago
> You mean unlike the piles of settled law governing the hospitality industry? Short-term rentals are/were not part of the hospitality industry. >>> Uber/lyft got started as a "town car" service, which is leg
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by anamax 5y ago
> Airbnb and Uber essentially disregarded local regulations Not really. There were almost no AirBnB regulations before AirBnB because no one was doing anything like that at scale. Uber/lyft got started as a "town car" ser
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by anamax 5y ago
> We already have limits on speech (no yelling "Fire" etc etc) Actually, it's falsely yelling "fire" in specific and very limited circumstances. You're actually encouraged to yell "fire" when there
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by anamax 5y ago
As the author points out, the US Marines don't have to prepare for every kind of land war because the US Army can do what the Marines can't (and visa versa). In addition, Marines believe that "Hunting tanks is fun and easy.&q
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by anamax 5y ago
Yup, every major newspaper and TV/Cable network is a corporation. If the NYT can push candidates, why not Sears?
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by anamax 5y ago
As the documentary Demolition Man shows, we communicated using jingles.
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by anamax 5y ago
> The first step has to be repealing Citizen's United. Citizen's United was a group that made a political-advocacy movie and the FEC wanted to treat it as regulated political activity.

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