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by avar 7y ago
The article we're discussing is talking about BMW in the UK. Your link is to US-based consumer reports. I wouldn't trust anything about BMW or other premium German brands from a US source as an EU customer, because: 1) US (and Can
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by avar 7y ago
> no one copulates based on the national availability of housing[...] The GP's point is nonsense, but people most definitely do start families based on the overall cost of having kids, and housing plays a major role.
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by avar 7y ago
You can't just mandate low costs by fiat. That's why it causes market distortion. You could also say mandate that say breakfast at a hotel should cost no more than $1. You'd get that, but you'd also pay for it via rising
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by avar 7y ago
At the risk of getting into the tabs v.s. spaces debate of cooking: Electrical stoves are good enough, electric induction stoves (unlike the old electric stoves) can near-instantly change their heat output, which was the main benefit of gas
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by avar 7y ago
It doesn't matter much if your insulation is mold-resistant. Presumably it's resting against wooden beams or other things that would be friendly to mold, or the water can drip down once it condenses to something that's friend
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by avar 7y ago
This is a bad rule of thumb in some climates. Your technique of piling on insulation might create a dew point at a place that isn't ventilated, and thus cause a buildup of mold.
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by avar 7y ago
The extinction of a species is permanent, it won't exist tomorrow, and it won't exist in a thousand years. Contrasting that with transitory economic interests of the current electorate is short sighted. There's a very good re
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by avar 7y ago
> If memory serves Rolls placed the blame on the initial problems with the Trent 1000 on air quality in SE Asia (high sulfur content specifically). As a related factoid BMW doesn't sell some of its engines in North American, Austral
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by avar 7y ago
> [...]$600 premium for electrification. But most people like mid-drives (torque-sense pedal assist), so it's more like $800[...] I don't know about the US, but in the EU that "like" is a must-have, your bicycle isn&#
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by avar 7y ago
> [...]it seems to me that a lot of people who use [E-bikes] hardly pedal at all; depending on battery power for what seems like the biggest part of the load. As an immigrant to The Netherlands it seems to me the Dutch hardly pedal at al
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by avar 7y ago
If you had a motor like that you wouldn't need batteries. You'd power the car with the motor :)
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by avar 7y ago
As the judge said "[it] would be almost impossible without such technology". So it doesn't have to do with "on a computer", but companies like Facebook violating privacy in ways that would have been impractical with
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by avar 7y ago
Valuing something in terms of its short-term impact on stock doesn't make any sense. An iOS vulnerability is worth a lot, but that the stock price dipped 3% is more of a sign of the market being fickle and reacting to any bad/good
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by avar 7y ago
> It doesn't really add up to me. Actually it sounds like a world of troubles to avoid paying taxes to me, but who knows, rich people are weird. I'm not commenting on the plausibility of this woman assuming her mother's id
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by avar 7y ago
I have no stake in this conspiracy either way. Just responding to a couple of things: > Besides I think the counter-argument that the people in Arles would've noticed if Fernand Calment suddenly started pretending that his daughter
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by avar 7y ago
Even with your edit this is worth replying to: Why waste your money on a single rack-mounted PC when you can buy 40 cheap cellphones running Android and network them together. That'll probably provide greater reliability. The obvious a
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by avar 7y ago
The main competitor isn't other mainframes, but PCs. A lot of mainframe users never needed a mainframe, they just didn't want to get fired for not buying IBM. Other users need some sort of mainframe reliability, but that's al
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by avar 7y ago
> [...]rockets like the Saturn V, which was amazing but too big and expensive to be used for much besides Apollo[...] The cost per launch for the Saturn V was around a $1 billion in today's money. That's lower than some estimat
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by avar 7y ago
> You can't microwave a turkey or cook it on a hot plate. Yes you can, you'd slice it up and cook it like bacon. Other parts you can use for stews etc. You can't cook the whole bird all at once, but if the alternative is n
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by avar 7y ago
This used to be true in Amsterdam but has really shot up in recent years due to E-Bikes. In some areas every 5th or 10th bike is now an E-Bike, which are easily €700-1200 second-hand.
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by avar 7y ago
I haven't hiked in Ireland, but Iceland's even more deforested and this is a sentiment shared by many Icelanders. Of course it's a matter of taste, but in general I'd much prefer to hike through the non-forested parts of
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by avar 7y ago
The Netherlands is free to set any laws it wants about where scooters are allowed, but if you're talking about the 25 km/h limited pedelec E-Bikes they're allowed on the bicycle lanes by an EU-wide legislation that The Nether
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by avar 7y ago
It's categorically dangerous to have a easily pressed button shift gears in the car. I don't see how it's relevant that some designer can say "don't put something that can be used as a cupholder next to it". T
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by avar 7y ago
You said: > That seems unlikely, as that requires like 11km/s which is more than the sum of the two velocities[...] Isn't the first problem here that you're assuming a spherical cow in a vacuum physics problem? Two satelli
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by avar 7y ago
It's not the perspective, it's actually like that. The drive mode "island" is a sort of "peak" where "N" is a regular button, and all of "D"/"P"/"R" lean away f
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by avar 7y ago
What they intended to use it for isn't relevant. It's still dangerously bad design. Steering, breaking, accelerating and shifting gears in a car should require deliberate and unambiguous action from the driver. Some of the UX for
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by avar 7y ago
No recent car UX I've seen has been worse than the Hyundai Ioniq. The button to toggle reverse is right next to the cup holder / center storage, and placed & designed such that it's easy to accidentally hit it as you put
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by avar 7y ago
It's got some great footage, but it's really not. In intersperses shots of mission control with footage of what's going on in the mission itself in such a way that it's hard to get a good idea of what's going on in
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by avar 7y ago
The alternative isn't a repeat of 9/11. You're assuming that passengers aren't a whole lot more motivated to overpower hijackers after 9/11 than before. One reason 9/11 could happen is that passengers generally
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by avar 7y ago
The Internet hasn't made any of this murky. It's the exact same thing you can do with the postal system, for which we have hundreds of years of precedence. If a US citizen in the 1960s sent a leaflet containing some thought crime

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