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by donw 3y ago
> Simple, mechanical cars (and trucks) don’t seem to exist anymore. It’s a shame. New ones were made illegal during the Obama administration, and the Bush administration destroyed a bunch of the old ones with "Cash for Clunkers&quot
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by donw 3y ago
200k+ was common, even in the 80s, if you followed the recommended maintenance schedule. Lots of people... don't.
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by donw 3y ago
Totally. Prima facie bullshit. Problem is that the "I F@#$king Love Science" crowd doesn't actually know how anything about science or math, so they'll buy pretty much anything backed up by even low-quality technobabble.
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by donw 3y ago
It's called a "Go" (合) in Japanese, and is equivalent to 3/4 cup (180mL).
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by donw 3y ago
Mozilla is in whatever business Google pays them to be in.
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by donw 3y ago
Thing is, nobody in the right mind back in 1850 or whathaveyou would have thought of "walking across private land to get somewhere" as some sort of civil or criminal trespass. That's... how you got places. If you actually dam
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by donw 3y ago
Brave is my daily driver. Haven't seen an ad in... years. For crypto or otherwise.
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by donw 3y ago
It’s also about lifetime. Internal combustion engines, with a bit of inexpensive maintenance, can be used for many decades. When batteries catch up on both fronts, the game definitely changes.
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by donw 4y ago
Excellent point. Check out Project Farm on YouTube to get a sense of what the average farmer is like in terms of engineering mindset. They would love this. Farmers are smart . When your combine breaks during harvest, you can't just
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by donw 4y ago
That is a relationship away from which you run, not walk.
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by donw 4y ago
Have worked in government. The real answer is more that there's a billion committees, each of which has something they absolutely have to push through, because they have to do something to solve the problem. Also: The paperwork is
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by donw 4y ago
The process is the punishment. And then there's more punishment afterwards.
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by donw 4y ago
Not even those. Replenishment for what we've expended in Ukraine is on a 5-10 year timeframe at present.
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by donw 4y ago
Exactly. The risk to which we expose kids must ramp from "as close to zero as we can make it" for newborns, to "non-permanent injuries are acceptable" during childhood, and, while this is incredibly unpopular, "seri
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by donw 4y ago
I read this as "HSBC to Arm Silicon Valley Bank", which is an entirely different customer-management strategy.
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by donw 4y ago
“There has been no rapid change on college campuses in the past five years.” We have always been at war with Oceana.
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by donw 4y ago
I would have liked to see Montana.
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by donw 4y ago
If one can't bother learning the language of the country in which they live, any opinion one might have on that country can be safely discarded.
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by donw 4y ago
There’s a YouTube series where an amateur cook re-creates recipes from various historical periods. Tasting History with Max Miller is definitely worth a watch: https://m.youtube.com/@TastingHistory/videos He’s very up-
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by donw 4y ago
Because the existing system actively fights reform.
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by donw 4y ago
They are required by law in Japan. Germany too, I believe.
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by donw 4y ago
There are civil, if not criminal, penalties for suddenly swerving into another car without justification.
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by donw 4y ago
Why'd you go for the Taco over a Tundra?
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by donw 4y ago
I love that band.
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by donw 4y ago
My only criticism is that Ruby doesn't need more features. ES6 suffers from this disease to a fairly extreme degree, and you can see this schism in the JS community back to the semicolon war in the early 2000s. Kotlin as well, unfortun
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by donw 4y ago
> ... so you all might as well socialize together and be "friends" even if you don't really actually like each other all that much. Learning to get along with other people, not just the people you like, and not just the pe
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by donw 4y ago
Should be a cakewalk given FTX’s campaign donations.
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by donw 4y ago
It’s Mutually Assured Chess. It’s a curious game. The only way to win is not to play.
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by donw 4y ago
One of the apartments that I used to rent was owned by a large Japanese firm, specifically for the purpose of renting out at a substantial discount to its employees.
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by donw 4y ago
No, you can’t. 50sqm is a large apartment for a single person. Without checking, I’d guess somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 man per month. A part time janitor would gross half that.

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