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by legitster 5mo ago
> The thinking at Disney is presumably that they invested a lot of money in FiveThirtyEight and were left with nothing to show for it. But to my mind, however much they spent on FiveThirtyEight, they never invested a dollar in it. There
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> I literally cannot think of a worse way to enforce this than letting the federal government collect the tax and then distribute it to the states as they see fit. I mean, this is more or less how it already works with all the federal de
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by legitster 5mo ago
Individuals would have to track miles out of state or off of public roads. It sounds like it would be easy but states would open themselves up to endless nickel-and-diming or fraud.
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by legitster 5mo ago
Gas has a nice linear relationship with road usage. (Farms can currently buy tax exempt gas and diesel explicitly for this reason). A lot of states have experimented with mileage-based tracking for EVs but there is no realistic way to do it
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by legitster 5mo ago
I want to set aside the author's disdain and polemics for a second: - The federal gas tax is low and unchanged. States have their own gas taxes in addition that do go up and have done so a lot in the last several decades. - The curre
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by legitster 5mo ago
Quora has a similarly baffling UI. You're reading one thread trying to find a useful response and it mixes in random answers to other threads. Who the hell thinks this is a good idea? The only thing I can figure out is some "exper
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by legitster 5mo ago
> I still don't understand why this should even be relevant in cases like this. The thing is basically a generic OBD dongle, right? The same thing every DIY and shade tree mechanic uses to read codes and run service procedures. The
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by legitster 5mo ago
I think the difference is that a knife is more or less used for what the manufacturer advertises it for. Something similar has happened with gun manufacturers regularly. It's relatively easy to make a semi-automatic user-convertible in
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by legitster 5mo ago
I was on a bike ride with my young kid. We were going up a hill and being passed by a lifted diesel truck. I could tell that the driver was desperately working the throttle to avoid accidentally blowing smoke in my kids' face. Congratu
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by legitster 5mo ago
It's worth pointing out that EZ Lynk is a sleezy company that originally tried to hide behind a Section 230 protection (lol). Their more recent legal defense of the product was throwing their own users under the bus: "we can'
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by legitster 5mo ago
> Sounds to me they're saying they don't have this already, but why is this investigation happening in the first place then? They probably have tons of data and testimony from witnesses who use the product illegally. You can
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by legitster 5mo ago
I don't think there's anything to apologize for. Buying a professional tool with tens of thousands of hours of potential runtime and 1000lb+ of torque is wasteful. A Ryobi tool will realistically last for the many decades you need
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The big thing that happened to power tools was Lithium-Ion batteries. All of these companies competed when they were still corded electric tools. You could just make a really good drill or saw or router. Interchangeable batteries got really
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by legitster 5mo ago
> No. It should help a person develop into a free, thoughtful, well-rounded human being. This is the goal of a primary education. But society need us to hand down collective knowledge. Economic output is one way to measure that. But more
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by legitster 5mo ago
The embargo on Cuba is unbelievably silly in 2026: - The Cold War is over and Cuba poses no security risk - Florida is no longer a swing state and appeasing Cuban Americans is not a worthwhile political move - We are willing to ally with mu
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by legitster 5mo ago
> U.S. President Donald Trump resumed ramping up a six-decade-old American ecomonic embargo on Cuba in January after cutting off its main supply of oil from Venezuela and threatening sanctions on Mexico, its second largest supply, and an
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by legitster 5mo ago
> But just days before the bombshell finding could be released, Fauci 'injected himself' into the probe and 'significantly influenced' intelligence officials to drop their conclusion. Fauci was then head of the Nation
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by legitster 5mo ago
I don't think it's so much a religious lobbying thing as it is a consent and liability thing. If you're a processor (payment or otherwise), you have to be absolutely sure there's no CP or non-consensual content on there.
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by legitster 5mo ago
One of the underrated topics about space right now is the potential supply of rockets outstrips demand by a lot. We're simply out things we can profitably send to space so SpaceX and others are trying to come up with ideas to induce de
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by legitster 5mo ago
Theoretically, if you draw down on a well or aquifer too far, you might start getting dirty or muddy water. It happened to us on our well regularly in the summer. But it staining the clothes? That doesn't make sense. I'd take it w
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by legitster 5mo ago
Going all the way back to the hostage crisis, the US never really held up their end of the deal. We were also quietly making inroads with the revolutionary government of Iran and then secretly backed Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war in 1
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This is the story overall of strategic bombing campaigns. All they do is strengthen the resolve of the recipient country and rally people to the flag. Before using the nuclear weapons on Japan, we literally firebombed every city in Japan BU
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BTW, the conflict is unlikely to resolve soon. The US has literally never honored a deal with Iran. Iran has no reason to negotiate with the US. The US either has to back down, put boots on the ground, or sit and wait. If the government
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Public sector unions are inherently problematic. The argument for a union is that they keep a company in check and the two balance each other at the negotiating table. Public sector unions negotiate against voters and tax payers. There is r
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by legitster 5mo ago
Referral query strings are not for tracking though. The person putting them on the links gets nothing out of them. There is no PII being shared. They are purely added out of courtesy. If I am handing out maps to your address, letting people
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What's interesting is that none of these sites have a "search" feature. Which is an important accessibility feature and a clear and legitimate use case for a query string.
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But... like... that's a weird hill to die on. > If I wanted to know I’d look at the Referer header; and if it isn’t there, it’s probably for a good reason. You abuse your users by adding that to the link. The reason is that the refe
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by legitster 5mo ago
>(these query params are tracking information) Query strings are useful for way more than just tracking. Saving and servicing search queries is a way more common use case. So assuming it's only useful for tracking is very mislea
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Query strings are awesome. Especially for one-page applications. I build a lot of internal applications, and one of my golden UI rules is that a user should be able to share their URL and other users should be able to see exactly what the s
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by legitster 5mo ago
> American capitalism, for all its defects, was always a mass oriented endeavour in constrast with Continental Europe. I think it's important to call out that the "capitalism = more stuff" idea is a bit of historical revis

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