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by jjav 2y ago
This is unfortunately a pretty naive view of how politics and power works. Yes there are some high-profile instances of Apple refusing to assist. Since you've heard about those, it is only because there is no gag order on them, which m
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Given the current government has blown off an unanimous 9-0 supreme court decision, right now I can't feel too optimistic there will even be more elections.
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> The resistance is actually the violation of federal law. Your misunderstanding seems to be to think that the word of the president is the law, like in a dictatorship. In the US system of separation of powers, that's not how it is
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> first two, while mutually distant, still have more in common with each other than with any other bands Not really. People in the oligarch sphere have unimaginable power. If they need a law they buy it through politicians and lobbyists.
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I think the current state of affair has exposed a fundamental bug in the consitution. Sure, the US has three branches of government that are supposed to be checks and balances on each other. Which has, mostly, worked really great. But turns
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> What if the cars were made really light? That is the best answer. For a little while in the 80s (remnants of the fuel crisis of the 70s) this was the trend. Go light and then efficiency is guaranteed. Combine with a small efficient eng
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> I thought to write a 'house manual'. Maybe knock up a little website. > But, no. I can't. Because this is what we refer to as 'common sense'. Can I teach a stranger common sense? Those hidden details about t
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Then the solution is obvious. The government can pay this doctor their 300K salary directly out of taxes and we cut out everyone else. Win/win for everyone who matters.
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> When I reach those, I’d expect them to pay the remainder. They won't. "Out of pocket maximum" means something completely different to the insurance company than it does to any normal person. Out of every dollar you pay o
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> Even if you eliminated all profit margins of insurers you only decrease medical costs in the US by a tiny fraction This is completely wrong. A general practicioner doctor is unlikely to be making much more than 300K, or $144/hr. B
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> when do we get a truly user-serviceable automobile, something like a four-wheeled motorized version of a Fairphone or Librem Those used to be ubiquitous! Today none are available. Buy a largely any car from the 60s and it will be fully
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> Let's compare UK and USA electricity prices. The USA is a huge place with prices all over the map. Here are PG&E electricity prices in California from my recent bill: peak: 53.0 + 18.3 = 71.3 c/kWh partpeak: 51.3 + 11
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> If they can compel you to divulge the password, then they can compel you to restore from backup in front of them. Of course, if your backup is to a US-based cloud service, they already have full access to it.
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> Loosing a $1k anything would not be something I could just shrug my shoulders and just turn around and immediately replace it. I'd suggest that if $1K is a big deal to lose, one should not spend such an ungodly amount on a phone.
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> I’m petrified of the restore being imperfect in some way. A lot of this is from anchoring important things to your phone. I practice, and strong recommend, avoiding that as much as possible. Your phone should be entirely disposable. If
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Bits on a storage device can never (in anywhere remotely resembling a free society) be a crime by itself. Therefore, there is no justifiable reason for unfettered access to it. If someone has done a crime, they must have done something, o
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> Individuals should have a right to build exactly what they want on their own property, and to charge whatever they want to tenants. You say individuals, but this would get abused by megacorporations buying up everything and building wh
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> For many engineers (and me of course) this can be the most rewarding way to work. Agreed, this is also the world I grew up in. Nothing is as rewarding as working on something where you have ownership to set the direction and deliver. F
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> I've seen so many posts of $.30 per kwh or even more, as high as $.36. It is way more than that! Here are my PG&E prices from a recent bill (numbers are transmission + generation): peak: 53.0 + 18.3 = 71.3 c/kWh partp
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> every electric outlet which can provide 2500watts ( 110v x 25A ) 110v outlets are usually 15amp
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> I just don’t buy this argument as a reason people don’t want EVs. These descriptions are unrealistic to our experience. We're on our third EV, so plenty of experience with this. It's always a pain to go anywhere outside a sma
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> Bonds and stocks tend to have an inverse correlation. Careful with this, it's not always true and which kind and duration of bonds is important.
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> If you're unemployed and living on whatever odd jobs and government assistance you can get, tariffs won't make one bit of difference in your life. Of course it will, since price inflation is going to hit the low (or no) incom
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No, you actually want to get as much credit as you can, and never use it. Available but unused credit helps your credit score.
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At least in the US with the regulations here, there is no good reason to ever use a debit card. Credit cards are superior in every way. Paying by credit card gets you: A 0% loan for 4-6 weeks. Not huge but it's free money. Better fraud
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> I wonder if there is a market for secured credit cards with low interest. Maybe backed by a HELOC or stock portfolio. I would think the overlap between people who need to carry a balance on their credit card and those who have a HELOC
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> If I were to increase the time from my door to ~5-6 minutes then the number of grocery stores would become 6x. Maybe I walk too slow? Actually never measured my walking speed but looks like about 3mph is average. So 5 minutes covers 40
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If you watch the video, it would be blatantly obvious to any human that it is just a big poster across the road, completely fake. No human would fall for that but tesla does.
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> I have two grocery stores within 1 minute walk from my front door I'm curious about the physical arrangement that makes this possible? Here (California) the walk from its parking lot to the grocery store is about 1 minute, so havi
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> Apps are sandboxed. I don't see how it's possible. How many phone apps there are these days that are strictly local storage and don't communicate externally to anywhere? It's all cloud cloud cloud, which means it is

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