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by jwagenet 2y ago
The desire to have a diverse and up to date wardrobe has changed whether someone is willing to only have one dress and if it is worth repairing. It’s not that people need to buy new every season, they want to. This puts downward pressure on
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I doubt the sears catalog shirt was made by the thousands sitting on warehouse shelves.
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Housing might be the major wealth store for the middle class (although I doubt the lower class is collectively storing much wealth in housing), but its the rich who own most of the land and collect rent from most of the lower class and some
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I feel like you are trying to draw a false equivalence in both directions to create a loaded question. Obviously the parent is comparing housing of approximately similar value, with different densities and local amenities. My answer is neit
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Or perhaps a manufacturer has determined the customer isn’t willing to pay a premium for the engineering or material costs required to increase lifespan.
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I think consumer math and statistics should be required alternatives to precalc and calc. Maybe even algebra 2.
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I think it’s more that management in this space is very traditional and from a business perspective there’s not much downside to a subscription. The individual engineers don’t really have a choice in cad package anyway and frankly, the alte
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It seems like fruit are preferable due to fiber, sugar content equal.
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Realistically, how many people need and really expect high quality color prints? I’m sure the tech has improved marginally, but I was always disappointed as a kid with inkjet photo prints compared to professional prints. Most people would b
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How is this different than patenting physical designs in practice? If someone develops a novel game mechanic there isn’t really a reason they shouldn’t be able to exclusively capitalize on it if someone else can patent something “irl”. If N
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Note that there are other environmental trade-offs to be made. Cotton is know for requiring tons of pesticides. Wool production also often involves pesticides and neuro-toxic dyes. In Let My People Go Surfing Yvon Chouinard claims using “
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Be aware, aluminum bottles (and cans, although they have recycle-ability benefits over plastic) usually have plastic liners. Glass (with its weight and durability problems), stainless, and titanium are good.
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Less cars. Obviously they will continue to exist, but reducing car miles by: prioritizing mass transit, walking, and biking. Encouraging large companies and businesses to locate with density near stations and urban centers rather in suburbi
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https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/ Also links a number of variations. Another font is “Simplex”, which I think is often still found in CAD products.
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The blog has a toggle for darkmode and some of their images are black text with a transparent background. When darkmode is toggled, the text is effectively invisible, so in this case it seems to be an oversight of the blog.
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Maybe it’s different in embedded, but as a mech e: any moderately complex hardware project will likely cost orders of magnitude more than a software project to prototype and manufacture. Off the self electronic parts have become much cheape
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While men having to pay is potentially no fun, I think it is definitely men that “make this place this way”. Men act entitled to whatever woman they find attractive. They accordingly act aggressively, don’t respect boundaries both on and of
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by jwagenet 2y ago
Location: New York, New York Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Matlab, Javascript, Arduino, Solidworks/MCAD Résumé/CV: http://www.jonathanwagenet.me/resume/ Email: jonathanwagenet [at]
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Suburbs are absolutely not dense enough for great transit, and the per capita coverage is bad enough the expense isn’t worth it. They can get sparse bus or light rail coverage and thats it. Great transit offers coverage for stops every mile
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As far as I can tell, PEMDAS has nothing to do with the calculator itself and is just the rules we’ve arrived at for how to read and write equations in a consistent way.
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For food delivery, I imagine going back to pre-apps and have restaurant employed couriers for local takeout could be beneficial for both parties.
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The issue in the US is that there is no price regulation for different procedures (other than Medicare), plus the providers (hospital chains) are intertwined* with insurance. The end result is everyone charges as much as they can and the pr
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To the contrary of you last statement, my understanding is that alcohol and drug use is down and cigarettes are up among young people.
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Impressive, if just to reduce pollution from cigarette butts. And even more impressive if it is executed: > In November, a proposal in Britain to phase out smoking by young people passed its first parliamentary hurdle […] > The bill
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I think the political pipeline is too slow for local activism to meaningfully impact state and national politics. People want to see change now, or at least progress in a 1-2 year timeframe.
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Yes, of course, but that’s if you are eating out frequently, have a recent model year car payment, have a pretty loose leisure budget (or lack of), live in above average cost of housing, etc. Raising your spending to you means doesn’t make
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The with respect to Amtrak, shorter line trains on the east coast and CA capital corridor these trains are commuter trains and often have more ownership/priority on the rails so they are more frequent and punctual. If you took metro no
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This isn’t really a relevant concern for online games since speed running is mostly rehearsed play with predictable game mechanics, not inhuman response to novel stimulus.
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> For decades, and for most devices, it was trivial to find replacement parts and/or swap out identical parts… This seems like a stretch for anything other than cars, pcs, and large appliances. I doubt this has been true for a long
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Photos taken on the camera, shared to you, or “saved to photos” will live in the Photos app. The files app primarily contains things you download from your web browser, including images downloaded and not “saved to photos” and images extrac

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