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by cc439 7y ago
High precision, high volume, low labor input manufacturing is much harder than you'd think and not exactly what China's economy specialized in until it became an explicit focus of the central government. The electronics and comput
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by cc439 7y ago
>Consider iPhone 5c, for example. The colors are horrid, and when you add those Crocs-like cases it looks more like a Fisher-Price toy than like a device an executive would want to be seen holding. Except Apple has previously found wild
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by cc439 7y ago
I'm betraying my ignorance but I thought SV/SF were relatively temperate climates. Nothing like Seattle, but still 50 low to 75 high most of the time?
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by cc439 7y ago
I can understand that. Honestly, my experience with modern midsize sedans (Altima in particular, Accord, Camry, Sonata, etc) is that the manufacturers view the rear doors as throwaway areas for "engineering" weight out of the car.
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by cc439 7y ago
I think a one star rating is closer to "fire this person immediately" due to grave concerns.
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by cc439 7y ago
I wonder how much that tendency is the result of Europeans having more exposure to "management by the numbers" kind of rating/review systems. Nearly everyone has held or known someone close to them with a job where a mostly m
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by cc439 7y ago
The CEL being on isn't enough for me to ding a driver but I've also never received an Uber ride where the CEL was on but the car was in otherwise top condition. There is definitely enough of a correlation between a CEL being on an
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by cc439 7y ago
That's why you should push doors/trunks/hatches closed and not throw/shove/fling them. I don't mean "push", as in close it like your closing the front door after sneaking home after curfew in high sch
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by cc439 7y ago
I guess it depends on what part of California you're talking about but all-seasons will generally outperform equivalent grade summer tires in the rain if temperatures start falling below 50-55° or so. A summer tire's grip falls of
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by cc439 7y ago
>I just get in the car, keep quiet, and get out at the end (same as I've always done with taxis). I am very much a talker and I was all about being chatty with drivers back when Uber was still a new thing. Several years later and I
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by cc439 7y ago
Does anyone ever question the competence of the media based on their ability to fall for such obvious bait time and time again?
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by cc439 7y ago
>From what I gathered, this sounds more like it happened because he is somewhat grating as an individual, as opposed to a political statement. All that means is the propaganda worked on you.
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by cc439 7y ago
There is such a thing as becoming a martyr but the most likely outcome is becoming another Michael Hastings or Daphne Caruana Galizia. It's all fun and games until you get killed before your story breaks or your proof of corruption get
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by cc439 7y ago
That would simply create a gigantic greenhouse that would require enormous energy inputs to keep it habitable during most of the year. Not the most eco-friendly solution.
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by cc439 7y ago
>(O)r as collectors items... Any form of serious gun control is likely to include a grandfathering clause in order to keep it constitutional (beyond simply 2nd amendment issues). A few semi-auto firearms and other assorted "naughty&
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by cc439 7y ago
>Pregnancy isn't something women do by themselves. There's going to be a man involved. Plenty of women use sperm banks... This is very much the exception and yes, a man is involved, but the transaction is 100% voluntary on the
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by cc439 7y ago
Those are asset taxes (with the exception of Italy's 0.15% foreign investment value tax) and it's not hard to hide wealth in liabilities/investments. The über wealthy would barely be affected by such laws should they be enact
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by cc439 7y ago
There are still plenty of companies making exact change machines, they just put brand new ones in on my local toll road ~3 years ago.
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by cc439 7y ago
Medicare for all would do nothing to harm Big Pharma as the government is not legally allowed to use its monopsony status to negotiate prices under Medicare Part D (the section of Medicare that accounts for 85% of government drug spending).
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by cc439 7y ago
China's recent support for Maduro in Venezuela, condemnation of the US for ending their exemption from Iranian oil sanctions, and their many energy related treaties and contracts they've signed with Russia over the past decade poi
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by cc439 7y ago
As best as I can tell, the Chinese government's plan is to externalize the effects of all the debts that turn bad. At the end of the day, foreign investment in physical assets (factories, equipment, supply chains, etc) and infrastructu
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by cc439 7y ago
>they're not even attempting to play in the cryptoverse. Which is a good thing considering how much of the population's life is already intertwined with and recorded by Google. I can't imagine anything more dystopian than
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by cc439 7y ago
How much of that benefit is purely short-term though? In a hypothetical world where Uber and Lyft's current pathway to profitability never pans out, what are the ramifications. The most obvious one is that their fares will increase by
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by cc439 7y ago
>For just $5, Seller Mafia will “brush” an account, which is when a product page is stripped of all information except its reviews and listed with a new product, which is against Amazon’s marketplace rules. This allows a seller to inheri
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by cc439 7y ago
>This is a government that undermines core liberal values like private property rights and privacy rights, with a multitude of financial regulations, surveillance state anti-money-laundering laws, and prohibitions on unrestricted use of
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by cc439 7y ago
>My father has a good one for going around blind corners and going up blind hills at night: Check trees and other objects in the direct path of oncoming traffic for light. Back in high school, I convinced one of my friends that I had a 6
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by cc439 7y ago
>I also question the suggestions that longer published flight times mean more CO2 and there's no incentive for airlines to become more efficient. >Just the other day I flew out of NYC and it took us 40+ minutes of being in a queu
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by cc439 7y ago
That sounds like more like your landlord is antiquated, not banks. Not only does Venmo exist as an all-inclusive payment option, every major bank (i.e. not a local one with <15 branches) I'm aware of supports or provides a similar s
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by cc439 8y ago
>the pharmas can create the appearance of innovation and modest new revenues nearly indefinitely even when their pipelines are in actuality quite sparse and breakthrough innovation is absent. this ability to churn old stuff buys them tim
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by cc439 8y ago
But I swear these X-ray specs are legit and that you can learn to be a ventriloquist in only 5 days!

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