chadgeidel

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by chadgeidel 9y ago
You may be interested in Adam's follow up with Jean Twenge on the "Adam Ruins Everything podcast" http://www.maximumfun.org/adam-ruins-everything/adam-ruins-e...
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
How many laws on the books does the average citizen break every day? Are all crimes equal? If they are not equal, does every lawbreaker deserve to be painted with the same brush? I would suggest this line of reasoning - "they are all c
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
I fail to see how the very real reduction in sulfur dioxide, lead, and CFCs is "rearranging the deck chairs". We had a problem, and fixed it. We now have another problem.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
"climate change is in comparison a moon shot" This couldn't be more apt. It took a nation-state level of engineering to make it work, but the science (broadly speaking) was pretty well known. I believe that a similar nation-s
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
My brother and father (concrete construction) would probably lay the blame on onerous regulation. They regularly complain about nit-picky engineers with their insistence on (in their words) unreasonable slavish devotion to engineering speci
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Presumably Hari https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Seldon
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
It's not a great solution, but there are several "streaming sticks" like the Roku, Chromecast, or FireTV for less than $50 you can buy and plug into your current TV.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
FYI - I just learned this trick (which was actually introduced in Windows 8 or 8.1): right click the start menu for a shortcut to a lot of system-level shortcuts (Event Viewer, System, Disk Management, etc).
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Probably not https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is...
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
I agree that we will have a different conception of privacy. I'm hopeful (but not particularly optimistic) that we can have something like David Brin's "Transparent Society" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Hmm, that's surprising. I am a bit of a track rat and figured the Miata had more aftermarket support. Flyin' Miata has a ton of parts and upgrades. I don't see a lot of Miatas on the track where I am, the ones I do see have
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
A nearly perfect car. I say "nearly" because of the slight torque dip in the mid-range. It's too bad no one is buying them because they don't have "enough power". I am waffling on either a BRZ or a MX-5. I&#x2
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Another "hidden" weight adder is the dreaded "NVH" (Noise, Vibration, and Harshness). Basically car manufacturers add "heavy stuff" to make the car quieter and ride better.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Turbocharged cars (exhaust driven) are more efficient partially because they capture waste heat from the combustion process. A manufacturer can tune the engine and gearing to have a really good "sticker" EPA economy rating, but th
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
I think this is often overlooked. Traction aids and computer control has filled in so much as horsepower and weight increases. It's absolutely mind-boggling that people drive around in giant SUVs with huge amounts of horsepower until y
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
@kmm's measurements are in Liters per 100KM. The translation is correct.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
American cars (read SUVs and Trucks) are much, much bigger. I drive a Mini Cooper (R56S) which is probably about the same size as your Astra. Most of my co-workers and non-"car guy" friends think it's impossibly small. Even &
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Thanks for that perspective. My 'outdoors' experience consists solely of day hikes and snowboarding on marked trails. Nothing even close to those extremes.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
I'm not sure if it's the possibility of death or just the release of whatever brain chemicals trigger that "rush". I certainly don't want to die when driving fast, but i'm assuming that the feeling I get is at
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Not sure about your numbers here. A million dollar mortage today represents just under $5k per month or $60k per year. that's well under the recommended 30% for a $500k income. I have a hard time believing "They can barely save fo
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
I'm with you on not getting a 'smart' TV, but this comment reeks of elitism: "Better still is to forego on television altogether but if you insist on having canned 'entertainment' (panem et circensis) beamed in
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
I'd like to "ride along" with my favorite rally team. Wow, what a great experience. Even if pre-recorded that would be simply amazing.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Machine learning can also de-anonymize that anonymous dataset. How does one protect against that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-anonymization
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Anecdotal, but I rarely get search results linking to reddit. I personally left reddit a few years ago so this may be the filter-bubble pointing me elsewhere.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Oh, goodness. Reading fail. Thank you!
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but I don't see a link to the actual "instr-count" program and I don't see a GitHub link anywhere. What does the program do? How does it divine the instruction count?
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
Does he/she have a website or a forum? I think I know folks who would be interested in this. Unless they don't want the publicity. I'm not that popular though. :-)
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
It's the law here in Colorado. I don't think it's working. People drive in the left lane (when the middle lanes are wide open) all the time.
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
This makes sense (and I have often advocated for it as well) but I would imagine enforcement would be ridiculous. I'd like to see more license classes than "Car, Car with Motorcycle rider, CDL (over 13 tons), and CDL with Trailer&
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by chadgeidel 9y ago
This kind of behavior is well understood among techies. We all know about the "DRM printer ink" issues. I think most "average joes" don't really get it. DRM on juice packs is something they can wrap their brains aro

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