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by falcolas 3y ago
> While sloping front ends did not reduce the risk posed by vehicles with the tallest hoods, they did make a difference for vehicles with hood heights of 30-40 inches And these benefits is fairly likely to immediately be countered by a l
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by falcolas 3y ago
We’re not. OPEC makes up around 11% of our oil supply. A very different scenario than we had in the 70s.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Side effect it’s free of connected BS. So far… "So far" is the right qualifier. As electric scooter rentals have clearly shown, it's trivial to add in the connected BS.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Bluetooth implementations are trash. They really are. > Playback randomly starting when not told to... Yup. Toyota and Subaru are particularly egregious about this. Something about using old cable/ipod implementations which wou
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by falcolas 3y ago
Apparently they didn't move the needle enough. So perhaps it's a more accurate to say that the exclusives cost Epic much more than they ever returned. In money and trust.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Meta: Someone please correct me. The outside of the Sphere is pretty damned awesome, with its interactive elements and novelty. I'd visit Vegas just to watch it, not that they'd make any money off me for that. The inside looks lik
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by falcolas 3y ago
I get the feeling that offshoring this would have disastrous consequences.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Absolutely. I knew one company who mined the Twitter firehose for events to sell to news stations and the government who had over 60% of the events identified and surfaced by dedicated employees, and 100% of the AI identified events were ve
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by falcolas 3y ago
Amazon's co-mingled inventory really does mean you have no idea who you're getting a product from. It could be sold from Amazon in your order, and you can still get a knock-off because they're mixed in with the genuine produc
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by falcolas 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5S5QCOEzek Mythbusters vs. Moose (rubber) It's sobering.
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by falcolas 3y ago
All but one of mine. The one has a plastic braid "protecting" the cable, which hides any potentially useful markings. I just had to go through the "do I have any good HDMI cables" dance, and the answer was effectively no
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by falcolas 3y ago
1) 7kg is on the featherweight end of the bike scale - that is not representative of most bikes on the road 2) A fair bit when you include the 80kg rider going at 24kph into an unaware pedestrian.
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by falcolas 3y ago
The $10 to $14 is coming (for me) in December. I've been paying long enough I believe I was grandfathered past the increase you mentioned.
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by falcolas 3y ago
I've been paying for premium for years now - at least 6 years. I think the problem for me now, and why I'm canceling it shortly, is their push to raise the price by 40% in the coming months. The value for that new price is just no
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by falcolas 3y ago
They're comparing base trim for the Model 3 with the average price paid across all ICE vehicles. It's a useful thing to note, but it's not a realistic comparison for what people will actually want to buy (especially when one
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by falcolas 3y ago
How hard is it really to have two queues based on your input type? Not to mention, there will always be a huge overlap between ok kb/mouse players and good controller players. This leads me to believe that normal skill based matching w
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by falcolas 3y ago
The Xbox is a computer. It natively supports keyboards and mice. Just give up on this idea of an anachronistic “console experience” already. It’s just holding players and games back.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Does a person really have to be "better" than you to act as some sort of authority in a particular context? No. And you're correct, IMO, that people can swap into roles without being jerks about it. And I don't thin
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by falcolas 3y ago
Do you not believe that 5-8 years is enough time for a child to think about whether they want their bodies to look like how their minds already feel?
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by falcolas 3y ago
If it's just puberty blockers, as I claim in the previous comment, correct. Which is to say, up to the age of 15, there are no permanent changes. From 15 - the point where they start hormone therapy, that's anywhere between 5-10 y
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by falcolas 3y ago
Transitioning as a child is a series of steps. It starts with social transitioning below age 10. Puberty blockers from around 10 to 15. Hormone treatments from 15 onward. Some opt to continue to top/bottom surgery, usually after the ag
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by falcolas 3y ago
Did you know that most gender affirming surgeries for minors are breast enlargements and reductions for cis girls (born as a girl, not transitioning)?
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by falcolas 3y ago
A bit more data - at the start of the conflict, some 47% of the residents in Gaza were children (under 18). Hamas gained power in Gaza in 2005 and 2006. Another way to put it, almost half of the residents were not even alive or babies when
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by falcolas 3y ago
The obvious conclusion to a policy of unconditionally supporting our "ally" in the middle east.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Yes, especially with the huge cost of living increases, particularly in college, food, and housing.
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by falcolas 3y ago
For better or worse, Urban dwellers are the majority in the US - the "Fuck Cars" blanket statements get a bit frustrating to see as someone in a rural environment. > Maintaining a huge road network with relatively low utilizati
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Farmers get a pass since they are producing things on the land. And the people who maintain farmers' equipment? Purchasers of farmers' goods? The people who sell food to farmers? The people who maintain infrastructure? Mail?
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by falcolas 3y ago
To be clear, "how rude" is intended as a humorous way to indicate that I own one. Societal wealth indicator trends are stupid in many ways, and what car you own is just the latest stupidity. I'll happily laugh my way past the
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by falcolas 3y ago
A 2 hour round trip commute in the weather does not compare favorably to a 30 minute round trip commute in a conditioned space. Source: I did such a commute. It sucked royally. Nothing like finishing a shift tired and still looking forward
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by falcolas 3y ago
In the rural US, you'd have maybe 1-2 people per hour who would take said public transit route. Most hours, you'd have zero.

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