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by eigenvector 6y ago
I completely agree that their methodology is not robust. But Amazon also refused to state what fraction of items go to landfill, despite making subjective claims that it's "on occasion" and the "vast majority" are l
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by eigenvector 6y ago
The flip side of this is Amazon actually refuses to inquire with delivery companies, and here in Canada, the post requires that the sender be the one to inquire. I've had several instances where the item was clearly at my local post of
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Anecdotally, Canada & US Amazon used to be like you described when they first started becoming the "everything" store but things have really declined lately. 6 or 7 years ago there was a much higher proportion of items actuall
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Interac Online appears to have been deprecated by most major Canadian banks in favour of Visa Debit. My understanding is the Visa Debit cards issued by banks like TD and Scotia are dual-mode: transactions will be processed through the Inter
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by eigenvector 6y ago
This works conceptually if you are sustainably replanting forests to feed your paper mill. In reality, your mileage may very and here in Canada, plenty of paper mills are still running off of irreplaceable primary forest.
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by eigenvector 6y ago
No, the tech in the infamous Steinway 'assault' incident was William Hupfer. Here's contemporary coverage of it in the New York Times: http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/12/07&#x2
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by eigenvector 6y ago
I'm an Indian diaspora person with no cultural connection to India. When I travel, I'm often accosted by Indian (nationality) people who immediately begin 20 questions about my background, religion, caste, language, where my grand
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by eigenvector 6y ago
The first year is $0 when you buy a new iPhone, so pro-rating wouldn't make a difference. I often sign up for trials and immediately cancel (so I don't forget about them). That way it requires a positive action on my part to keep
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by eigenvector 6y ago
YouTube is as big of a purveyor of misinformation as Facebook. I just spent two hours yesterday dissecting all manner of coronavirus misinformation my mom learned from YouTube. The insidious aspect of it is that she never went looking for t
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by eigenvector 6y ago
What happened? The power grid must not only have sufficient generation capacity to match load, it needs some extra - called spinning or operating reserve. This ensures security - the characteristic where the grid is resilient to any single
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Your comment is completely correct in general, but I'll add that based on the information released by CAISO for this incident, it appears to have been caused by insufficient generation capacity to meet demand at the state level, not co
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Sure, if you run the tap the entire time that you're hand-washing. But you can just fill the sink with water, plug it and wash many dishes with that water. I once worked with a guy who lived in a cabin without running water for most of
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by eigenvector 6y ago
You may want to consider a simple detachable hose you can connect to the faucet to fill up something external when the sink is full. I use such a thing for filling a bucket of water that can't actually fit in the sink. You will find it
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by eigenvector 6y ago
I work in the power generation industry. We have a lot of primary/secondary as well primary/standby systems. The cardinal rule is - test everything. Test it when you install and commission it, test it when part of the system chang
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Isn't deprecated actually correct here? It means the feature still works, but will be removed in the future or is no longer supported. There also be may a new implementation of it that the developer would like you to use, hence the war
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by eigenvector 6y ago
> You're talking about three different classes of device: PCs, phones, and IoT (IoS)/deep embedded. Not really, Google applies the same disposable approach to supporting ChromeOS on bog-standard x86 hardware. I have an x86 Chro
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by eigenvector 6y ago
That reminds me of the time I found an appropriately shaped bolt installed in a fuse-holder - presumably someone did not have a replacement fuse and improvised. Except that it had been 5 years since the last maintenance in this place and it
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by eigenvector 6y ago
One of the biggest reasons portable air conditioners exist is for apartments. It's something anyone can buy without having to get permission from their landlord to make modifications to the property. So I would not compare them directl
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Ordinarily when you pay $350 for headphones it is assumed that the vendor has already invested money in doing R&D to make them work properly and isn't planning to do testing on you without telling you or compensating you for it, to
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Parent comment said 'the West', not America. Public transportation and affordable healthcare are the norm in most highly developed Western democracies such as the UK, France, Sweden, etc.
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Many things in electrical and building codes aren't that risky to break one at a time, but they all contribute to safety by eliminating possible hazards. You're right that temporary protective grounding protects power workers from
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Or a small lithium battery to supply the necessary current which is already a thing you can buy on Amazon for $80 and will start any vehicle short of an excavator.
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by eigenvector 6y ago
I drive one every day that is owned by my employer and I'm amazed how many people fork over $50,000 plus the higher running costs just to utilize the truck features once or twice a year, if that. You can rent a truck for a day when you
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by eigenvector 6y ago
You could use it power a house the same way you can with any generator - using a double male end extension cord. The reason you can't find such a cord at Home Depot is that it's dangerous and a generator should only be connected t
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The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations(bloomberg.com)
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Our propensity as a society to buy garbage quality new stuff rather than good quality used stuff is frustrating. Tech savvy folks know they can find a fully competent, user-serviceable used computer for basic use on eBay for under $200, but
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by eigenvector 6y ago
I run Windows 10 on a Dell Latitude E6400 from 2008 with a 1st gen Core 2 Duo & 4GB RAM and it runs fine. Memory hungry apps like Chrome slow down pretty quick, but the OS itself is snappy.
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by eigenvector 6y ago
I just put 8 GB of RAM and an SSD in a mid-2010 Macbook Pro for a friend. The parts were free, but could be purchased for $100. Perfectly usable machine for web browsing and entertainment. It won't run Catalina, but who cares?
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by eigenvector 6y ago
> Ideally an acoustical consultant would be brought in during the design stage (just like SREs should be brought in during the design phase of a new service and not 5 minutes before it goes live), but that almost never happens, as we see
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by eigenvector 6y ago
Yes, because an electric parking meter uses only a few watts of electricity and may not even be connected to the grid (the most common ones I've seen just have a tiny solar panel). A electric vehicle charger may use 200 kW and require

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