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by badpun 3y ago
Going say 62 km/h does not feel that different than going 50 km/h, but can result in a sizable fine in many countries.
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by badpun 3y ago
Weren't communities dissolved to build the massive highway network US has?
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by badpun 3y ago
> 3. Never in my life have I just stared at the speedometer. Why are you staring at it so much? Is something wrong? Without checking speedometer often, how do you know if you're not going above the speed limit?
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by badpun 3y ago
> That's the goal!! Very high doctor pay is the number 1 cause of skyrocketing medical expenses. Exactly! I can't think of any other country where doctors routinely make 15-20x minimum wage, and people become doctors predominan
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by badpun 3y ago
Exactly. Making of a navigation system seems much more technical than making a web-based shop (amazon.com).
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by badpun 3y ago
> You can't have a pair of glasses that is simultaneously opaque enough to give you the illusion you are in another place AND breezy enough so that your eyes won't sweat. Air is just much bigger than light, so you can't bl
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by badpun 3y ago
I bought a new (made in Japan) Mitsubishi in 2013, still have it, and it didn't have any failure yet whatsoever. If you buy German, American or (shudder) French cars, then yeah, they will become problematic after 7-10 years, or even ea
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by badpun 3y ago
Don’t you need to extract hundreds of millions of tons of lithium ore to get a couple of millions of tons of pure lithium? Not to mention the extensive chemical processing the ore must go through.
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by badpun 3y ago
Right now, the price of oil is still not set by market prices, but kept artificially high by the OPEC cartel. Petrol could be much cheaper if the oil producing countries wouldn’t optimize the production (and hence, price) for maximum gains.
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by badpun 3y ago
The amount of digging and extremely polluting chemical processing required to manufacture an electric car is massive. After that, you need to power it, which means expanding the electric grid and power facilities (which means even more dest
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by badpun 3y ago
You don’t have to buy a banger, just buy a new car and drive it for 20 years. You will save vast amounts of momey.
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by badpun 3y ago
> I never get sensible answers or they offer paltry excuses such as masks fog one's glasses. Working with power tools while not seeing much due to fogged glasses is much less safe than breathing in the dust, though...
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by badpun 3y ago
> We have solved nuclear fission power, created vaccines for COVID, and went to the moon. Surely we can go back to a world of greater sustainability than now. I'm not sure about that at all. These three things you listed are just sc
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by badpun 3y ago
The ceiling is there because without it, a minority of people eventually acquire enough wealth and political power than comes from it, that it dominates entire society, to its detriment. Just look at Mexico or Ukraine as examples of what ha
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by badpun 3y ago
I think plenty of people are well aware of this. That's why parents insist for the best possible education for their children - they know that it's the credentials carried by the diploma, and not the child's actual talents (o
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by badpun 3y ago
> More and more it seems like the only escape from this technocratic capitalist culture is to return to valuable or forgotten traditions -- creation without expectation of return, sharing of stories of heritage and history lost by our pa
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by badpun 3y ago
I looked into that myself years ago, and honestly can't remember now why I made that decision back then :) Should probably document such stuff somewhere.
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by badpun 3y ago
> But they've been entrenched for years now, completely dominate so many aspects of the web and get plenty of value out of even their free users. That's why I store only 1 file on my Google Drive - a 10 GB encrypted blob (TrueC
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by badpun 3y ago
Are they just doing object detection, or are they also doing 3d scene reconstruction (visual SLAM)? My bet is on the latter, and the SLAM reconstruction should show them that there's something dangerously close to the car. Of course, v
620.
by badpun 3y ago
How would the Finnish police know how much I make a month if I'm not from Finland?
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by badpun 3y ago
> My car's gone the opposite way. When trying to find it in the parking lot, with the old one, you just pushed "lock" on the keyfob twice and listened for the horn honk. The new one makes a nice, elegant but not very loud
622.
by badpun 3y ago
That works until electric cars get popular and people start stealing their electricity (plug their car charger to the 220 extension cord with "free" electricity on tap).
623.
by badpun 3y ago
You've skipped the part where gadgets ("stuff") are a massive increase in quality of life - that's mostly why people get them - even though there are costs associated with them, the benefits far outshine the cost, making
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by badpun 3y ago
The engineering is their core competency and the source of competetive advantage. Given that it currently works well, and those companies are massively profitable - they see little point in doing risky cost-cutting.
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by badpun 3y ago
The difference between the "West" and the rest isn't as large as it used to be. There are good companies in UK, US, Germany etc. to be sure, but they aren't paying that much compared to costs of living (esp. when you acc
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by badpun 3y ago
> What would have happened if they had just put it on the steam store? It was once tried out by Edmund McMillen (of Supermeat boy and Binding of Isaac fame), who have basically dumped "The End is Nigh" on Steam with little to n
627.
by badpun 3y ago
I have a decade old Mac (2013 MBP with discrete GPU) and it runs Windows 10 perfectly fine. I even do some light gaming on it.
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by badpun 3y ago
We weren't always like that, the laws started changing in this direction maybe 10 years ago. Before that, everyone with a decent job was getting a company car, an now company cars are only given for people who actually travel a lot on
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by badpun 3y ago
I'm in similar situation. I much prefer to walk, because it's healthier, cheaper, less stressful an more pleasant than driving. Also, since it doubles down as excercise, I don't have to do as much of it. I carry the groceries
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by badpun 3y ago
It's not a problem where I live (Poland). If you're worried about it, you can show the content of your bag to security as you enter the store, and also carry receipt from the previous store.

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