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by hx87 10y ago
You can crack the fuel to go from heavier to lighter grade, and use Fischer-Tropsch process to go the other way.
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by hx87 10y ago
87UL and 93UL aren't much more expensive than automotive gas, since it's pretty much the same thing. It's 100+ octane leaded gas that's expensive, and it'll stay that way until general aviation gets out of its carbu
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by hx87 10y ago
The whole "everybody drives jacked up SUVs" thing we have here makes it worse.
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by hx87 10y ago
Unless your cost of electricity is so low that resistance heating beats heat pumps and natural gas for long term costs, inefficient lighting is an awful way to heat your space.
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by hx87 10y ago
Japanese romanization is fairly standardized. Even if it weren't, creating in your mind a new alphabet for a new language using characters you already know isn't that much work compared to learning a new alphabet, and it's a
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by hx87 10y ago
Your reply deflects from the parent's statement. Sure, a lot of westerners supported the Bolsheviks, but that doesn't mean Jacob Schiff was one of them. > It must be nice living in this world where official truth always === tru
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by hx87 10y ago
In the USA, all passenger rail outside the northeast is not electrified and freight lines are a strict superset of passenger lines.
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by hx87 10y ago
The US has to transport goods and people longer distances, so all other things being equal US transportation will be more energy intensive. However, having the US switch over to the German mode of transportation, where goods move on trucks
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by hx87 10y ago
> America has only about 5x the freight rail traffic of Europe, while Europe has over 100x the passenger ridership that America has. I don't think the freight advantage (if it can be called that) justifies the disadvantage of our re
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by hx87 10y ago
In order to have both we need segregated passenger and freight rail systems, which is extremely expensive. AFAIK, China is the only country to have both, and avoids the high costs through a mix of weak property rights, lax environmental reg
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by hx87 10y ago
Pretty simple actually--our rail system is optimized for freight, not passenger transport while our road and airway systems are the opposite. While this does mean rail transport is dreadfully slow and full of delays (since a car of wheat is
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by hx87 10y ago
Same thing here in Boston--three story detached houses, with one apartment per story, are the most popular form of housing here, and yet have been illegal to build for the past 100 years (with a few exceptions) due to being too dense for si
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by hx87 10y ago
Might as well make it available to everyone then. If we can't have privacy we should at least have transparency.
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by hx87 10y ago
"The reason I don't think Accord will NOT go well" = "The reason I think the Accord will go well" Your statement made more sense before the edit.
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by hx87 10y ago
> One of the things about the model 3 that bothered me was that there was only one display between the driver and passenger. That's been a problem with low-end Toyotas for years, starting with Scion back in 2004. Apparently Toyota w
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by hx87 10y ago
Certainly true of the libertarian right, but not of the social conservative right, who have been rather inconsistent in opposing "FCC legislating TV language and obscenity" and "DEA or Department of Health legislating control
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by hx87 10y ago
Chinese people will be fine since all Chinese URLs are either ASCII compliant or use Chinese characters, which can't be confused with any ASCII characters. Russians would definitely be pissed though.
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by hx87 10y ago
China and India don't pose a problem since Pinyin uses standard ASCII characters and neither Chinese characters nor Brahmic scripts have any symbols that resemble ASCII characters.
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by hx87 10y ago
It's free marketing for them, so it makes sense they'd charge you for its absence or give you a discount for permissions. Better framing would be: NO (-$0) YES (-$3.00)
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by hx87 10y ago
The ideal is in the attribute, not the object it is attached to. With respect to interfaces, if the problem is that we use gestures that we don't in real life, then the solution is to implement ones that are closer to those in real lif
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by hx87 10y ago
If you can recognize a flaw, you also know what could be improved since you're comparing the flawed attribute to some non-flawed or less-flawed ideal. You might not know how to get there, but you at least know where "there" i
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by hx87 10y ago
It isn't legitimate to do so without at least offering some idea of how the object of criticism could be improved though. If you criticize something, that means you know it could be better in some way, and you should at least point out
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by hx87 10y ago
> This is going by the current us vs them mentality of the police forces. If that is so, then at least if both "us" and "them" are heavily armed cops with warrior mentalities, they'd focus less of their aggressio
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by hx87 10y ago
> Recall that direct interference in a nominally lawful police activity is obstruction of justice and itself a prosecutable crime. This is the metapolice we're talking about, not the police. The metapolice have no jurisdiction over
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by hx87 10y ago
They also incentivize you to get your shit together before terrible things happen. After all, that's 50% of what punishments are for.
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by hx87 10y ago
> boring but necessary work Sounds like a fantastic job for machines! Humor aside, even with UBI you will always increase your income and wealth if you put in extra work, unless some current schemes where your income stagnates or even fa
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by hx87 10y ago
It's become the social networking equivalent of Upworthy.
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by hx87 10y ago
Engine braking imposes negligible wear and tear on the engine. Instead of fuel-air explosions driving the pistons up and down, the pistons inefficiently compress and expand air at ambient temperature and pressure. Sure, extended use might t
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by hx87 10y ago
Ordinary citizens.
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by hx87 10y ago
Not any more expensive than paying all the wages under the current system. Besides, it gets rid of the current welfare system's eligibility-determining bureaucracy, so it might even be cheaper.

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