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by cc439 8y ago
That doesn't appear to pass the smell test. According to this* there are only 52,000 merchant ships operating globally so the thought of each ship dumping 20,000lbs of plastic overboard each year in acerage (a rough estimate based on 5
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by cc439 8y ago
"A while ago I saw a British TV show about Hitler and there they had a scene where Hitler shot his dog out of anger. From whatever I know he loved dogs but somehow the show creators thought Hitler has to be portrayed as a totally bad g
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by cc439 8y ago
What if they convert speech to text like the American intel agencies do as proved by the Snowden and Vault 7 leaks?
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by cc439 8y ago
At least you can pull the battery out of most "burner" tier dumbphones.
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by cc439 8y ago
This is one of those massive privacy violations that I cannot believe has been allowed to exist as long as it has without people making a concerted effort against it. I remember way back in the early days of Android when it was excused for
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by cc439 8y ago
That works up to a point but sometimes you need something very particular where the substitutes available are inferior to the point of being wholly undesireable (like substituting hot italian sausage made in-store for prepackaged processed
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by cc439 8y ago
Reason #1 is a big one in my experience trying out various grocery delivery services but the greatest problem IMO is in how there isn't a good way to deal with things that couldn't be found or are found to be out-of-stock. 3rd-par
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by cc439 8y ago
You've just hit the nail on the head. PPE is an annoyance, especially in the form of devices that make critical bodily functions (like breathing and dissipating heat) difficult. Regulate all you want, workers will voluntarily remove th
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by cc439 8y ago
I can tell you that Caterpillar has planned to move almost all production out of China with the majority coming back to the US. They're even spinning up casting plants that have been shuttered for over a decade because of this.
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by cc439 8y ago
I don't think this works correctly. It claims my medium sized sedan puts out roughly ~125lbs of CO2 on a 100 mile trip. Unless my car somehow generates carbon out of nothing, that's the equivalent of burning nearly 20 gallons of g
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by cc439 8y ago
This announcement comes just days after FB hired a crack team of anti-trust defense lawyers, of course it's a move to defend against potential regulation/litigation. I'm not saying their defense team caused this change either
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by cc439 8y ago
That is an apt analogy even if most people aren't going to be able to process and discuss it earnestly. You can extend the analogy even further with China's approach to social engineering, they actively pursue the censorship of co
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by cc439 8y ago
You are entirely correct, I was just using the common example at hand to make my point.
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by cc439 8y ago
The problem with "renewable energy" is that so much of it is actually Biomass energy. 30% of Germany's renewable electricity comes from Biomass plants burning pelletized wood to the point that Biomass power generation account
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by cc439 8y ago
That just screws the middle class (~$40k to $150k). The cost of waging legal warfare against the ticket will still be greater than the inflated fine while the wealthy will easily be able to afford the kind of lawyer who can get an overworke
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by cc439 8y ago
This is the funniest thing I've read in a while. I remember the rest of the world mocking the American model for cell phone plans (contract lock-in with high monthly rates in exchange for cheap uogrades) and praising the model used in
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by cc439 8y ago
How hard is it to build a vacuum/sweeper car and run half a dozen of them during the slowest times at night?
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by cc439 8y ago
What does a streetcar do that buses (or articulated buses) can't if they're provided the same traffic priority?
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by cc439 8y ago
This is my warning to those of you attempting to push the boundaries of AI; You will never achieve the utopia you desire because your creations are only 95% perfect. That kind of "perfection" will be enough to enslave us all. You&
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by cc439 8y ago
The way in which the term is used in the manufacturing industry is a different from "foolproofing" in practice. Generally, a Poka-Yoke is a step added to a process that requires an operator to stop and think about what is going on
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by cc439 8y ago
To me, that implies the possibility of there being a "wage ceiling" for people of a given skill level as the other western nations appear to be on a trajectory that will top out around the same level at which US wages have stagnat
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by cc439 8y ago
The "State's Rights" crowd is also generally synonymous with the "Rule of Law" crowd. I don't see hypocrisy in supporting the application of law as it is written while opposing the existence of said law itself.
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by cc439 8y ago
Everything else that can break is also something that can break on an electric car. Major powertrain failures are so rare as to be practically nonexistent in modern passenger cars. All the reliability that stems from an electric motors simp
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by cc439 8y ago
Car insurance doesn't cover repairs, it's actually insurance, not an all inclusive payment plan like health "insurance".
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by cc439 8y ago
>"Heh, they are even going to 7nm." The problem with quoting process nodes from different fabs is that there isn't any standard for defining the minimum feature size. IIRC, the gap between the process node's nominal a
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by cc439 8y ago
Now that is an actually reasonable markup. I guess my only concern there would be shipping, which can be insured but gets a bit pricey when you're insuring $1,200. Thanks for the link!
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by cc439 8y ago
Do you have any first hand experience with buying gold from local dealers? I've never really looked into it but the vast majority of gold dealers in my city are also pawn shops geared toward purchasing gold rather than selling it. Whil
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by cc439 8y ago
That's why it makes senss to only buy gold cast in a thin shape (like a coin). It's much harder to cast in any meaningfully large tungsten core and it significantly raises the likelihood of that fake core being discovered as one c
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by cc439 8y ago
There really hasn't been any point to recycling paper, plastic, and glass for quite some time now. Recycling glass hasn't made sense ever since local bottling plants ceased to exist in most cities, removing the system by which the
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by cc439 8y ago
>A manufacturing business That alone cuts out nearly half the country. The skilled labor economy has been hollowed out and is nearly extinct in most places. You and I live in similar places and the dream remains alive here, but it is l

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