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by kgermino 5y ago
Edit to be less snarky: I assume they do have backup generators, though I don’t know. However if the sudden increase put that much load on the grid it could drop the frequency enough to blackout the entire neighborhood. That would be bad ev
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by kgermino 5y ago
Good question. It completely untethers me from my desk. The battery life is so good I can get through an entire work day without worrying about power at any point. This frees me up to leave (e.g. for a meeting, to work in the park or just o
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by kgermino 5y ago
You actually have that option now. I don't the specifics (how you do it) but I believe you can choose from two tracks: the traditional "update to iOS15" and "stay on 14 but get security updates". It's new this
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by kgermino 5y ago
> it was only added as a result of the controversy. 3 years ago. We’re well past the point where that’s a fair complaint
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by kgermino 5y ago
I don’t think that’s what that chart says. It’s combining Government and other compulsory expenses. I haven’t reviewed the report behind the chart but I’d expect the blue bar to include things like employer paid insurance premiums.
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by kgermino 5y ago
Those neighborhoods are deeply subsidized. I don’t doubt that most Americans would like their exact house (or bigger) in a walkable neighborhood over something that’s actually be available in town today, but it’s not a purely market driven
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by kgermino 5y ago
It’s a story about it ending 3 years ago. Not sure if I agree with GP but “here’s a story of something that used to happen” doesn’t contradict “this type of thing can’t happen anymore”
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by kgermino 5y ago
In my city (Milwaukee Wi) there are plenty of areas with single family houses, less than 10 units/acre with 0-1 cars per house. It’s not that uncommon in the US, especially in poorer areas
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by kgermino 5y ago
Because your understanding is wrong. The game uses 2 dice.
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by kgermino 5y ago
Pickups are convenient any many (probably most) owners have them for good reasons, but living in a Midwestern city I run into so many "bad" pickup drivers it's hard not to get frustrated with them generally. A lot of people a
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by kgermino 5y ago
I believe windows has/had a setting where you could automatically log out if a bluetooth device was disconnected. I'm not sure how hard it'd be to do something like that on a Mac but maybe I should look into it. I think &quot
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by kgermino 6y ago
It would destroy the Mac user base if iPads were capable of running desktop class applications?
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by kgermino 6y ago
Easier said than done unfortunately. For example: it's hard to get through summer without a fan or air conditioner in your bedroom by me. A surprising number of those come with always on lights and it's not always clear until you
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by kgermino 6y ago
I completely agree, most people like their suburbs. However, I do wonder if there's a connection between American suburbanization and our mental health crisis. Modern suburbs are kind of anti-community and anti-human compared to most h
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by kgermino 6y ago
I’ve always felt that the advantage of pay toilets wasn’t that they were clean, it was that they exist . Walking around an American city trying to find a restroom can be extremely challenging, while in European cities I could almost always
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by kgermino 6y ago
> -regulating ISPs as a free market is, to be hyperbolic, a disaster. there is effectively a monopoly in most parts of the country. > all in all, this reeks of regulatory capture to me. if we're gonna have a serious discussion ab
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by kgermino 6y ago
Oh! I didn't know that. Looks like you give up the introductory offer, but the price is actually a bit better ($17/mo vs $17 every 4 weeks) and I'm perfectly fine with that. Thanks for the tip!
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by kgermino 6y ago
This is the only reason I’m not a subscriber. I have no interest in starting an open ended subscription that I have to fight to cancel. Shame too because I love the NYT, but I’m mostly able to scratch that itch with the economist, my local
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by kgermino 6y ago
> Per capita doesn't seem like the most useful measure here unless you're expecting people to spin the turbines by hand.p “Percentage of energy generated” is probably better, but per-capita is better than per-acre. Broadly spea
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by kgermino 6y ago
Not exactly, it's way more interesting than that (to me anyway)... Hertz actually did sell new shares into the price spike. They went to the bankruptcy judge and got permission to sell new shares to help pay off the creditors. Shortl
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by kgermino 6y ago
They absolutely missed out on an opportunity. You can argues it would have been unethical for them to take advantage of it. But there was an opportunity to raise a substantial amount of money, which would help the company. Unlike AMC and AA
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by kgermino 6y ago
They could just sell them on the open market (an At The Market offering). They could also sell big lots to banks which planned to immediately flip them to retail investors.
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by kgermino 6y ago
Well, voting for one thing. My mayor doesn’t have a ton of control over what the police department does; but they obviously can influence it. Similarly for the state legislature. We also have laws defining advertising standards and protecti
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by kgermino 6y ago
Can you explain that? I’m not understanding the connection?
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by kgermino 6y ago
Isn’t most residential charging done at 30amps? That’s enough to charge a car to full in a few hours and should be available in almost any house with 100 amp service a that doesn’t use electric heat.
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by kgermino 6y ago
A good office chair should last 50 years? A dining room set, sure, but an office chair is closer to white collar work boots than traditional furniture. A decade seems reasonable to be honest. In order to be comfortable and ergonomic for ~8
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by kgermino 6y ago
I guess it comes do “how widespread is the zoom outage.” I.e. is zoom down for a lot of people whose internet is otherwise fine? If my fridge in Wisconsin is down because California lost power that’s more newsworthy.
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by kgermino 6y ago
It really isn’t [very non-car friendly]. There are nice string of parks along the lake, but the loop area as a whole constantly sacrifices nice outdoor space in exchange for a bit more driving room. That’s starting to change but we’re stil
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by kgermino 6y ago
Most shootings don’t end with the victim dying. Perhaps the marginal shooters were less likely to be familiar with their gun, or not shooting as intentionally. I’m thinking about people getting frustrated and using their guns in a fight, ra
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by kgermino 6y ago
I suspect the conversation was closer to “make it rechargeable, but don’t change anything else.” You obviously can make an Apple style mouse that plugged in sensibly, but that would require changing the case and internal layout. The way the

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