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by jbm 3y ago
Nothing gives me more joy than watching car geeks furiously posting when they see things like this. Thank you, I had a long day at work. Daily reminder that your "super cars" are worthless. Merging onto the highway is far more im
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by jbm 3y ago
At least where I live, the battery costs were closer to 50% of the install; this convinced me to wait, as it simply makes no sense.
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by jbm 3y ago
Another point for Geyser and Floodgate. I have Minecraft on iOS, as well as two Java licenses. You can have both mixed on the same server if you are using Paper with Floodgate and Geyser. It's great; my younger child can use iOS, whi
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by jbm 3y ago
The loss of the arctic passage to the US is inevitable as Canada - the country and the provinces - are not competent, clear-eyed. More importantly, no one is going to die to prevent northern navigation because you never feel like the count
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by jbm 3y ago
I bought a used Model 3 that has the stalk and works fine. (The lack of wiper controls is absolutely ridiculous and is part of the Jonny Ive-ification of cars) As for why they are in business, it is because they were first to market with
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by jbm 3y ago
Another anecdote from me too; I was working in Japan for 12 years, and a lot of it was as a self-employed IT consultant. I don't drink and I never drank ever and was fairly well off by the end of it all. This is not a rare situation a
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by jbm 3y ago
In Calgary, I can usually get 1 gallon (~4l) for about 6 dollars. However, if you get organic or anything, you easily go past 2$ / liter (CAD).
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by jbm 3y ago
2 dollars for a gallon of milk sounds very cheap; I wonder if they meant liters (which would still not be /that/ expensive in Canada).
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by jbm 3y ago
If renewables are cheaper, then yes. If the centralized power grid is poor quality (think South Africa) or there is poor quality central government, yes.
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by jbm 3y ago
From the other extreme, I had recently asked GPT to do something similar with the text of Botchan (a famous literary work in Japan). The bullet points it gave were were somewhat accurate at points, although I would say that the timeline and
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by jbm 3y ago
I understand where you are coming from, but it isn't that simple. American investors are very, very much into overseas expansions. Assuming the cars BYD puts out really are that good (which is a big if), this could seriously damage ex
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by jbm 3y ago
I get that gut checks and feelings are what climate denialists use, and I'm aware of the inaccuracy involved. Still, it's literally all you have, unless you are going to create that "Journal of Uninteresting Results / J
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by jbm 3y ago
>> If a study doesn't pass the smell test, is not easily reproducible, and I have no personally trusted people who can vouch for the findings, then - yes - my feelings matter more. > Are you fucking stupid? They’re doing just
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by jbm 3y ago
You raise an interesting point. I used to be convinced by purely data-based and "science"-based points, but due to overly-confident sounding statistics over the past 5 years, I've stopped paying attention to it - particularl
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by jbm 3y ago
Yes I generally agree with you on most points. I don't mean to hold the provinces as blameless in this conversation. Provinces starving cities has been a thing ever since I was young and it hasn't changed. They'd rather sp
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by jbm 3y ago
The dislike of public transit emerges from other issues. Canada has its own oligarchy; if they had to use public transit, it wouldn't be a problem. Instead, private planes and private airports for them, traffic jams at YUL and YYC fo
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by jbm 3y ago
Have there been any major investments in passenger rail that I don't know about? (There has been one in Montreal that I'm aware of.) "Major" rail would not be intra-city but rather between cities, and the Canadian syste
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by jbm 3y ago
LINE is as homegrown as Tiktok with a front-end built by an American dev. It was initially owned by a Korean company (Naver), and a lot of the wikipedia article reads like a hagiography. Calling LINE a win over iMessage is a huge stretch.
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by jbm 3y ago
I agree in part with you, particularly the weird utopian beliefs people have about transit-enabled housing. I lived in Tokyo which is full of high density and the world's best public transit without the drug abuse issues in the West.
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by jbm 3y ago
I learned about that from Immortal Technique's "The 3rd World". Great song, but thankfully they didn't do that in Japan. Their real crimes are the proliferation of plastic water bottles / other microplastic garbage
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by jbm 3y ago
That's a fair point, but at this point, there are a lot of browsers with open source browsing engines and they don't have the baggage that we see here.
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by jbm 3y ago
I feel like I've gone a full 180 from my feelings on the company after reading this. Having their personal beliefs belittled by a CEO after their death is frankly disgusting. I will be switching off of Firefox, I wish I had seen this
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by jbm 3y ago
The Wiifit Balance Board is very cool and one of the very very rare cases where I tried to play with the hardware. I went through blog article after blog article, trying to figure out why I couldn't connect to it through Linux. Then I
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by jbm 3y ago
I think this is a good question and the kind I wish I thought of. Not the GP but I think in this case, "real" transparency refers to a culture in which there is no attempt to hide issues like this (internally at least); they shoul
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by jbm 3y ago
> Steve Huffman was destroying the website by killing off the API and leaving volunteer moderators Did this really happen? The site seems to be as busy as normal and with the same opinions being expressed everywhere. Don't get me w
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by jbm 3y ago
We could choose, for instance, to restrict people to single terms. I don't think long term exposure to power is actually that helpful, and it creates brand names and political careers, none of which really seems to be that helpful. I
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by jbm 3y ago
I worked at (American drink company in Japan) previously and saw what the poster may be referring to. Management Consulting sells ideas, many of them silly or not important that are marketed and packaged as era-defining. A manager who impl
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by jbm 3y ago
I loved that game, but in my friendless highschool youth I never found anyone interested in playing the version I had (the "New World Order" card game). I do remember the Talented and Gifted English teacher at my school randomly s
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by jbm 3y ago
Is this something documented? I haven't heard of this and I've been following the space for a while.
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by jbm 3y ago
My first thought was whether this could help with allergies; this seems to be a much, much bigger group of people. Sadly it didn't seem to come up in the article. Oh and yay University of Calgary!

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