falcolas

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by falcolas 3y ago
Should the judicial branch have greater say than a specialist when considering specialist topics? Such as food safety, medical procedures, drug approvals, thresholds for minimizing the environmental impact of millions of chemicals, aircraft
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by falcolas 3y ago
In my Star Trek-esque ideal world, post-scarcity sharing of the resources required to live. Realistically, it's a part of the reason IP is "too big to fail". The fallout would effectively destroy the US.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Low voltage circuits have constant draws attached to them. Simple circuits like keeping clocks ticking, and more complex circuits that listen for wireless keys or alarm sensors. Ideally, they can last for months with those draws, but when t
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by falcolas 3y ago
Nope. Low voltage batteries are generally a bit more susceptible to the cold, since they don't have heaters and have a lot of constant draw circuits attached to them.
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by falcolas 3y ago
I'm not disputing that, just commenting on the specific reference to wind chill. I have plenty of experience with plugging in block heaters. One nice thing is they don't have to be plugged in all night long, just for an hour or so
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by falcolas 3y ago
I remember using graphing calculators to do High School geometry. Loved it, we programmed games on it. > I'm cynical this is just an ad for Light Phones lol. It is definitely a bit over the top on the praise for it.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Yup. It accounts for some 41% of the US' GDP, and a minimum of 47 million jobs. It's also growing at a fairly fast rate. That's too much money for anybody in charge to let die. They're much more likely to nuke AI.
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by falcolas 3y ago
FWIW, the low voltage system is separate from the high voltage system in most vehicles with electric drivetrains.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Windchill doesn't affect vehicles, since it's based on additional cooling caused by wind-driven evaporation. The base temperature would matter more.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> EVs heat their cabin more efficiently than ICEs. Given that ICEs take advantage of waste heat - which they will have in abundance as long as the engine is running - I disagree. Especially since many EVs still use resistive heating (the
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by falcolas 3y ago
I have one part approval for this (back in my day, off my lawn, etc). But I also think about how many general tools cell phones replace, and the sudden added cost is a concern. Flashlight. Probably not necessary 99% of the time at a school,
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by falcolas 3y ago
The trip is about 15 or so days, with the associated fuel costs. Granted, fuel costs are distributed across tens of thousands of containers, so the delay will probably be the bigger issue.
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by falcolas 3y ago
So, I heard an argument for getting a truck instead of a car, and while I don't necessarily agree with it, I feel it's worth spreading. 1) Safety - you're more likely to survive a major accident in a truck, since you won&#x
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Independent developers bankrolling themselves Is raising money via Kickstarter or Itch.io bankrolling themselves?
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by falcolas 3y ago
Jetpens is a known dealer of stationary crack - I love them. They also put out some great videos and articles about their products, on par with some of Ars' old Mac OS reviews.
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by falcolas 3y ago
A bit of a tangent about Azarinth Healer's journey to follow, with a more generic wrapup... > To use your example, Azarinth Healer’s author significantly reduced output while working on editing the book without disclosing why they w
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Audiobooks ... Good narrators can cost a fortune To be specific, between $200 and $300 per finished hour, and a finished hour is about 9,000 words. It can cost more if you want two or more narrators to handle male/female parts (th
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by falcolas 3y ago
IMO, in the age of Kindle Unlimited, yes. I, myself, have a very hard time justifying purchases over $6. The reason is pretty simple, the higher priced books are not guaranteed to be better, just written by a more widely recognized author.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> In the niches of fantasy I read there are no traditionally published authors any more, they all monetise via patreon, kindle unlimited and audible. From what I've gleaned no traditional publisher can compete with this. I see this
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by falcolas 3y ago
Maybe my brain's just odd... but I don't see the cat-like figure in the noise. I just see noise. There are a few edges, but nothing really cat-like to my mind. My subconscious pattern recognition for faces and such has always been
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by falcolas 3y ago
As I understand it (at least in the US), your land rights are based off of relative measurements from a static (to the land) point. They often look like medallions on the ground, anchored in place by fairly sizable stakes to ensure they don
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by falcolas 3y ago
Don't forget the chicken tax. > The Chicken Tax is a 25 percent tariff on light trucks ... imposed in 1964 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importatio
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by falcolas 3y ago
You can cancel the prompt and continue in the app as normal. It's a sketchy prompt to be sure, but it's easily ignored. My uneducated guess is a keychain prompt, since I'm signed in with my apple ID via OAuth2 (with the email
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by falcolas 3y ago
You can cancel the prompt and continue on in the app as usual. It's sketchy as fuck, but I've been able to effectively ignore it for a good month now.
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by falcolas 3y ago
I'll simply repeat: People are not rational beings. Even today, we believe stories which could easily be faked. We get outraged over stories which have long been proven false. Our belief in stories can even become stronger in the face
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by falcolas 3y ago
I believe, as with most actions (and crimes), intent matters. You can take a picture of a clothed teenager and it can be perfectly and socially acceptable. Or it can be potentially illegal, based on intent. The same with images taken of nud
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by falcolas 3y ago
People have a tendency to keep ahold of their first opinions. And the first opinion will not be "this is obviously fake" - because it looks real, and we're animals first, humans second.
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by falcolas 3y ago
I hate that you're being downvoted for this. Even today, women are judged not on the facts of who they are, but by the image men (and women) create around them. They're already bullied and harassed for their virginity (or lack the
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by falcolas 3y ago
> finding that the egg suppliers had exported eggs to cut supply in the US market, as well as limiting the number of hens, reducing flocks and killing chickens earlier than they usually did. It was sufficient proof to convince a full jur
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by falcolas 3y ago
It's amusing to point out eggs as some kind of holy grail of how price moves naturally, when the two largest egg producers (Cal-Maine Foods and Rose Acre Farms) were just fined in federal court for price fixing.

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