ikr678

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by ikr678 7mo ago
If an elite institution offered a low tech pathway with the right amount of gatekeeping, you could make an aspirational trend out of it.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
The lance-like down pointing shape is so that they can rotate slightly to reduce surface area exposed to hot sun (and reduce transpiration/water loss).
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by ikr678 7mo ago
You regulate other vices (alcohol, tobacco). Limiting gambling to govt owned lotteries or licenced operators is no different, you can set limits on harm, remove the profit motive if the govt operates it, and (at least where I live) the stat
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by ikr678 7mo ago
You are the traffic. In my experience, if you are trying to dodge congestion at a peak time, so is everybody else. Excepting in the first 15-20 mins after a major incident, the alternate routes end up congested and settle to an equilbrium t
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by ikr678 7mo ago
Online/App based sports betting is legal in Aus now but only through the existing licensed gaming companies.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
It was, but vape use has taken over, and once the nicotine addiction is in place people are open to smoking again. Also, they tried taxing cigarettes to the moon in Australia and created a multi billion dollar black market for them instead.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
As-a-service for infra maybe, but as-a-service for payment is here to stay.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
Another one is: Don't use GPS in your own city. Try to learn where you live. Read the map in advance if you are going somewhere new and memorise the turns. A shocking number of my coworkers plot every single trip (even to work!) and cl
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by ikr678 7mo ago
Style is entirely subjective, and not every text is looking for a refined reader.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
If I was Iran I'd leak the innocuous stuff first to let them know I had access to potentially more damning things, to try and force the US to the table.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
That problem 1%* isnt just ruining their own lives, it often spreads to everyone around them. Gambling has a lot of externalities that hit other people. Parents gambling takes away resources from children, gamblers engaging in fraud and and
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by ikr678 7mo ago
It doesn't have to be a whole-ass house party, but a good low effort method is picking a tv series, putting out some snacks and watching an episode at the same time every week with an open door policy.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
We maybe have different definitions of remote. I was referring to truckstops where there is no transmission/hv in and local microgrid generation only- these sites might be on highways that are common tourist drives but unable to suppor
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by ikr678 7mo ago
In remote areas, sudden load from fast chargers can cause a bit of trouble with the rest of the local grid. It may be that those rest stops can't yet support a fast charger without upgrading their transformers.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
They wanted to take them over.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
The ME has very low cost to produce, shipping is negligible.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
It's not price, it's availability. You construction will slam to a halt. Plumber neighbour is now hiring security dogs for his supply yard as they now have to deal with theft of pvc and PE pipe, in addition to tweakers going after
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by ikr678 7mo ago
Pre-existing conditions also continue to frame healthcare as 'insurance' against a bad thing happening to you, when it should just be a regular service like any other. You don't need 'insurance' in order to get your
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by ikr678 7mo ago
What Hollywood considers most attractive (blinding white veneers, botox, fillers, blephs, steroid use etc) is not necessarily what the rest of the world finds attractive, and for some audiences can be distracting and immersion breaking.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
The suuply chain for repair parts is still supported by oil (freight, packaging, any plastics). Better hope your vehicle is never damaged.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
Expensive to install, less expensive to maintain.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
If you use the old. site you don't get notifications.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
The point of the system is for wealthier areas to have good schools, and not be forced to contribute their property taxes towards poorer minority areas.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
Chicken and egg - this is a symptom of inequality in the schooling system. The school is trying to defend a particular status quo. If your schools were funded differently (eg not from hyper-local district property taxes, maybe redistributed
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by ikr678 7mo ago
The reason we have speed limits isnt due to vehciles being unable to 'handle' certain speeds though, it's to minimise the damage of an incident at that speed, which is entirely a matter of physics.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
Disabling device keyboard profile settings/typing suggestions/spellcheck if you are say, a paranoid criminal, will also result in lowercase/missed punctuations as seen in the Epstein emails
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by ikr678 7mo ago
Hasnt this 'casual' games market always existed? Once upon a time Zynga/Candycrush was a behemoth on the back of facebook embedded games.
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by ikr678 7mo ago
This used to be the job of the third estate, but traditional media has all been captured and the algorithms have done the rest, drowning us in a sea of content.
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by ikr678 8mo ago
I have been looking for a simple local only wysiwyg alternative to Onenote and there just.. arent any good ones? Joplin is close but everything is now markdown and I hate it, I've gone back to phyiscally writing down notes. I'm ol
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by ikr678 8mo ago
They wanted _classic_. There was an active vanilla underground private server scene. Those players all went back to Blizzard when Classic dropped.

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