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by bequanna 3y ago
The below is from my link. These are qualitative, objective metrics. Not anecdotal or qualitative. > Compared to the 2021 IQS results, the 2022 version say an 11 percent increase in problems per 100 (PP100) vehicles, which is 18 PP100 wo
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by bequanna 3y ago
Anecdotally, I've heard many stories from people who have bought new cars post-Covid and has serious issues <1 year of ownership. Quality seems to be decreasing. I found many similar stories: https://www.newsweek.com&#x2F
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by bequanna 3y ago
> The real scandal is that we're not building out public transit so that people do not need to own a car in the US. Is there evidence that a large number of people actually want more public transportation? If we're talking abou
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by bequanna 3y ago
I hear this repeated all the time, but it rings false. Convenient junk food is quite expensive compared to “real food” like meat, uncooked pasta, fruits, vegetable, etc which are healthy but require some preparation. The argument then goes:
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by bequanna 3y ago
Have their vacuum models improved? When I was in the market about an year ago, it seemed that Chinese robot vacuums were light years ahead. I have a few iRobot vacuums that are several years old and never get used due to ineffectiveness. It
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by bequanna 3y ago
The current low hanging fruit for demand response would be industrial customers who have some ability to scale up/down power usage.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Isn't it already more expensive for remote customers? Electricity bills are typically separated into generation, transmission and distribution.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> The soviets nor the chinese can hold a candle to the US or europe when it comes to ecosystem destruction. Chernobyl had entered the chat. Also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Russ... http
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by bequanna 3y ago
I think you’re missing the point. We shouldn’t look at every action taken by someone we disagree with and think: “let’s do the opposite” Super relevant in the US today where both sides are unwilling to appreciate anything positive done by t
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by bequanna 3y ago
I don't know if you're right or wrong about this but do you have some kind of statistics to back this up? To me, your claim rings somewhat false. I can think of many children that had injuries of all kinds but only know of one who
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by bequanna 3y ago
> to avoid being directors of a company that might fail Why does this matter? Just trying to avoid the bad optics of being the director of a failed company?
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by bequanna 3y ago
Can’t Apple just remote brick stolen items? I thought they were doing this with stolen merchandise.
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by bequanna 3y ago
This scam has been around far longer than deepfake audio/video. ~20 years ago my grandparents were close to sending money to someone claiming to be my cousin asking for bail to get out of jail.
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by bequanna 3y ago
The tone of your comment confuses me. I didn’t say it was a bad thing at all.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Here comes the confirmation bias. Now, every issue with a Boeing plane will be noticed, reported on and magnified. I'm not saying this is necessarily bad as there actually do seem to be some significant issues at Boeing. Hopefully, the
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by bequanna 3y ago
Sure, but I don't think we need 100% coverage. I guess I though that the majority of people would have the ability to trickle charge their cars overnight.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Why doesn't slow charging while the car is parked at home solve this?
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by bequanna 3y ago
I have yet to understand why people have made land value tax a thing. As I understand it, land value and improvements are already taxed but a land value tax would only tax land value. Can someone make this make sense? Why would this promote
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by bequanna 3y ago
> And for each plateau achieved, IBM would pay its inventors $1,200 in recognition of their efforts. After taxes, this is a pretty small amount. With paltry rewards like that, I wonder if employees even cared much about this program.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> that formal treatment and healthcare for the underlying condition targeted by the "wellness" product is prohibitively expensive for American customers This just isn't true. The vast majority of Americans are either cover
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by bequanna 3y ago
For private schools, sure. They should be able to do whatever they want. But public universities take tax dollars and should be accountable to taxpayers. Given how high tuition has become, I doubt most taxpayers would support academic schol
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by bequanna 3y ago
> Got a near full-tuition scholarship from a T200 public university to study undergrad in the US. US public universities give scholarships to non citizens?
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by bequanna 3y ago
This rings false. Townhomes are seen in large numbers in almost all suburbs and I don’t think they inspire the same NIMBY fury that apartments do.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> Occupy no longer exists. BLM no longer exists. Are you implying those groups were infiltrated and sabotaged by the alt right baddies and that is why they failed?
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by bequanna 3y ago
Well, it’s a bad argument made that way, I agree. But let’s at least be honest about the necessity to massively overbuild intermittent sources (and expensive storage) to provide reliability when we compare $/MWh.
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by bequanna 3y ago
For me, it’s the explicit political messaging in almost every show that has ruined entertainment. If I want someone to tell me what to think, I’ll watch CNN or Fox News.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Well, it seems like when you give people an option to not live in small boxes on top of one another many will take choose that option. I don’t understand why urbanites have to scream and yell about someone else’s choice to live in the subur
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by bequanna 3y ago
#3: Isn't this what has happened anyway? Anecdotally, everyone I knew that was young, hip, and lived downtown moved to the surburbs once they reached a certain age.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Not my experience at all. I've been part of successful offshoring at a few different companies. It wasn't "one and done", that is, we had to try different countries, different subcontractors, etc but it is totally possib
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by bequanna 3y ago
Ok, so forcing a company to lock in high costs while non-union competitors can use offshore. Can you explain how this would even work? Why would any company agree to this?

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