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by lukifer 7y ago
Is that the same for 2011-2014 series? I have a Gen 1, I believe they changed things for Gen 2 (2015+).
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by lukifer 7y ago
One of the reasons I love the Volt so much is that it still drops much of the complexity of ICE cars, since the drivetrain is fully electric. It's basically just a low-range EV with a backup gas generator bolted on.
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by lukifer 7y ago
> Later, [GM] found some success with the Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid that runs on electric power but also has a backup gas engine. The car was too expensive, though... As a happy Volt owner (I've yet to met one who didn't lov
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by lukifer 7y ago
Look at it this way: if an ideologue, or otherwise motivated actor, can accomplish their goal or spin their story using facts that happen to be true, why wouldn't they? If someone is politically motivated, for example, to tighten borde
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by lukifer 7y ago
If the industrialized world can make greener tech and practices cost-effective (with or without a carbon tax), that efficiency and economy of scale will radiate out to the rest of the world in a positive feedback loop. The problem isn'
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by lukifer 7y ago
Whoa, I didn't know about solar cookers, I'm gonna look into it. Did you buy yours or make it? Any recommendations? Currently working on getting panels installed before the tax incentive expires. We get a stupid amount of sun here
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by lukifer 7y ago
> for the sole benefit of Copyright holders One can debate the moral and philosophical issues of property rights until the cows come home, but in the case of copyrights, the legal construct is unambiguously not intended exclusively to pr
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by lukifer 7y ago
Thank you thank you thank you. I've been wanting something like this for my local MP3 collection for a while. (Might also use it for an RPi music server in the car :D)
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by lukifer 7y ago
This is a problem in general with "creative destruction" vs. "too big to fail": we generally want unsound businesses of 50 employees to fail, but at 50k employees, it's such a blow to the local (or national/glo
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by lukifer 7y ago
I don't oppose the App Store existing. I use it myself, and it's generally a great experience for the reasons you describe. However, I don't think that a link that says "Click here to start your Netflix subscription&quot
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by lukifer 7y ago
It's enshrined in you and me. :) Law is not the only mechanism for upholding cultural values and norms. One important distinction is that free expression is not limited to the "right to say anything"; it also includes the rig
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by lukifer 7y ago
Other than higher gravity, what does Mars have that the moon doesn't? Both would need highly artificial habitats, with either a steady supply chain or a closed ecosystem, to support human life.
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by lukifer 7y ago
There is a moral/philosophical connection to free speech and the app store pseudo-monopolies (code as speech), but it also happens to be very concrete in Apple's case: you literally cannot tell customers through your app what othe
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by lukifer 7y ago
Assuming the "fair market value" clause is honored (to the extent such a thing is possible!), it's not quite as bad as explicit theft. Nonetheless, I take your point. While I can imagine a number of public works projects that
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by lukifer 7y ago
The legal frameworks surrounding privacy all revolve heavily around "reasonable expectations of privacy". I can't be upset if someone learns salacious information from the street through an open window; but if I close the bli
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by lukifer 7y ago
Because our voting systems are nearly all First Past The Post, voters are forced to vote strategically, based on who they think others are also likely to vote for (and their recursive assessment of those voters' assessments). In game t
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by lukifer 7y ago
There's been talk of antitrust/etc recently regarding big tech companies, from Warren and others. For better or worse, it occurred to me recently that we have no concept of eminent domain [0] when it comes to technology, data, or
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by lukifer 7y ago
It's even a problem with allies as well as adversaries; countries can potentially get around their own legal limitations by agreeing to spy on one another, and where needed to build a case, covering their tracks via parallel constructi
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by lukifer 7y ago
I think it has less to do with statistics than the feeling/perception of agency. No matter the risks associating with manual driving that are completely out of your control, driving a car can feel relatively safe because it's your
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by lukifer 7y ago
If you need to explain to non-technical friends and family exactly why this is a terrible idea, CGP Grey offers an easily digestible 5-minute primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPBH1eW28mo Computers either have unbreak
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by lukifer 7y ago
Randall Munroe was onto this years ago: https://xkcd.com/504/ I think the case is strong that encryption is equally protected by the 1st, 2nd, and 4th amendments.
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by lukifer 7y ago
Which is exactly what would happen. Low-effort E2E encryption (Signal, iMessage) primarily benefits lawful users; but bad actors are sufficiently motivated to invest the effort in getting around encryption restrictions by disguising communi
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by lukifer 7y ago
Obviously these are fuzzy terms, with different definitions based on who you ask. I would say left and right are two different approaches to the project of small-l liberalism; left wants to move rapidly and make high-risk/high-reward c
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by lukifer 7y ago
It's worth bearing in mind that when Haidt refers to problems of "political correctness", he's not talking about polite society, or political rhetoric, or what's allowed on television; he's talking about univer
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by lukifer 7y ago
Current model designs, yes; but the series from roughly 2009-2015 (and the 2011/2012 models specifically [0]) are some of the most repairable and hackable models they've made: pull the bottom panel off the Unibody frame, and all t
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by lukifer 7y ago
Why would I want to carry around another device to dangle off the side, or worse, have to futz with tethering or spotty wi-fi or latency? I'd much rather have all my stuff (music in particular) consolidated and instantly on tap.
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by lukifer 7y ago
I went for the 1.5TB, despite the storage upgrade being more than the computer itself. That storage point is my bare minimum to keep existing personal files (plus headroom); I was happy to pay it, it's a great machine. :D
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by lukifer 7y ago
Rumseld famously classified the difference between known unknowns and unknown unknowns; Zizek typically uses Rumsfeld as a jumping-off point to elucidate the concept of unknown knowns. (Though I think Zizek means it more in the sense of bel
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by lukifer 7y ago
> where Apple downgraded a newer model in such an unequivocal way Also of note: the maximum SSD capacity dropped as well. Formerly the Air could be spec'd up to 1.5 TB, now 1 TB is the max.
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by lukifer 7y ago
I'm on a 2018 MacBook Air, the only model has F-keys and Touch ID, and I love it. Once you get used to sudo using your fingerprint, it's hard to go back. :)

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