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by avalys 4y ago
Heated seats are a great example. How much does a resistive heating element and some connectors cost? What are you worried about "breaking" if you're not using the heated seats in the first place? Do you have heated seats in
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by avalys 4y ago
We're talking about a $15,000 off-road premium European motorcycle that burns gasoline for rich young guys to have fun tearing through the wilderness. That's a "waste of the world's resources". The $10 sensor on the
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by avalys 4y ago
It's not really clear that this makes the whole bike more expensive. Most of the expense for features like this is in the design and engineering, not raw parts costs. Shipping all the bikes with the same hardware but enabling options i
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by avalys 4y ago
What's interesting about it? If that occurs past the warranty period, you have to pay out of pocket to replace the defective part like any other. The (hypothetical) fact that the defective part provides no functionality but could disab
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by avalys 4y ago
I don't see the problem. Manufacturers have been selling "options packages" for decades. You can either buy the base bike for $15,000, or one with "premium package" for $18,000. It's obvious to everyone that th
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by avalys 4y ago
3.9e3 is equivalent to 3900 in the same way that 3,900 is equivalent to 3900. So, Ruby’s number parsing is garbage I guess. Hopefully it at least does this properly for floats?
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by avalys 4y ago
When Amazon stock goes up by 10% and Jeff Bezos' net worth goes up by $16 billion, where did that money come from? Who did he take it from? Where did those dollars come from? Trick question! There is no money, no dollars. This is purel
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by avalys 4y ago
That's also a reasonable suggestion. It wouldn't stop them from becoming billionaires. The GP suggested "every billionaire is a policy failure". What's the policy success that prevents this failure? "No one is
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by avalys 4y ago
Sure, that would be a reasonable position, but most people the media characterizes as "billionaires" have not actually sold their company for a billion dollars. This is a fundamental misconception. These listings of "net wort
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by avalys 4y ago
Do you realize that your statement is logically equivalent to: "Every person who ever created a successful company and retained ownership of a lot of it is a policy failure". Would you support that statement?
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by avalys 4y ago
What do you do for a living, exactly?
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by avalys 4y ago
What do you think "being a billionaire" means? If you start and retain ownership of a company that is one worth day a billion dollars, you're a billionaire. That doesn't mean you have a billion dollars in cash. It doesn&
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by avalys 4y ago
Yup. That's right. Okay then. Have a good night! you too
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by avalys 4y ago
I'm realizing I may just be an impatient SOB. I get annoyed at slow people in all sorts of circumstances - grocery stores, airports, etc. but in those cases it is usually easy to just step around them and it doesn't last long enou
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by avalys 4y ago
It's certainly perfectly legal and legitimate. We all have to share the roads. Personally, I am careful around bicyclists, and it is precisely for that reason that I wish bicyclists would not choose to ride on roads that have sustained
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by avalys 4y ago
The comment was edited to add the word “commuter” after I replied and originally suggested someone riding as a hobby or lifestyle choice.
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by avalys 4y ago
If I'm a responsible driver myself, then making myself and my family safe against the actions of other irresponsible drivers is totally rational and moral. If someone is drunk driving in a Toyota Yaris and runs a red light and smashes
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by avalys 4y ago
If you're serious about making sacrifices to stop climate change, don't have kids. Oh, you're not that serious? Too much of a sacrifice to make? You think other people should make sacrifices, but having a family is important
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by avalys 4y ago
No, that's exactly my point, Apache is _not_ a copyleft license. Under the GPL, you cannot change the license in a subsequent version. You must continue to license any derivative works, including subsequent versions, under the GPL. If
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by avalys 4y ago
Anyone working on an Apache-licensed project should expect this might happen, since it is explicitly allowed by the terms of the license. If they are going to get upset about it they could decide to only contribute to GPL-licensed software?
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by avalys 4y ago
You contributed under the Apache “LICENSE”, which allows them to do exactly what they did. This is hardly a subtle detail, it’s one of the major characteristics of the Apache license. If you did not like this, you could have chosen to only
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by avalys 4y ago
What promise are they not keeping? The existing versions are still available as open-source. The Apache license does not require them to continue to release subsequent versions under the same license. The GPL does, but by not releasing unde
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by avalys 4y ago
A lot of “open source means I get to use the software for free and tell the authors what to do, forever, while not contributing a thing in return” in this thread.
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by avalys 4y ago
What’s the cost per liter of this tank vs. the one built in the 1960s?
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by avalys 4y ago
I’m not disputing that GA engines could be significantly improved and modernized in numerous ways. But none of the improvements you mention actually relate to efficiency at cruise power.
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by avalys 4y ago
That's my point, the Lycoming (while an old design) is not all that inefficient. A Cessna 172 burns about 8 gallons per hour and travels at 125 knots, or about 140 mph. That's the equivalent of about 18 mpg. There's been an e
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by avalys 4y ago
The engines are actually fairly efficient. Unlike an automobile engine, they really only operate in a very narrow range and are usually run at a substantial fraction of full power (60% or more). Automobile engines are very challenging becau
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by avalys 4y ago
What is the distribution of total consumption by income range? Yes, the rich use more water per capita, but there aren't all that many rich people compared to the rest of the population. Does the top 1% of the income distribution use m
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by avalys 4y ago
Is part of the problem here that there just aren't that many rich people? If there are a few people in a district of 100,000 who are using 1000x as much water as a normal household, and those people cut their usage 100%, that's st
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by avalys 4y ago
The obvious solution here is to have a tiered pricing system for water, where the price per gallon increases with consumption. Increase the price of the higher tiers and/or rate of increase until consumption drops to level you need. An

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