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by mwint 5y ago
I find this specific example a bit amusing. Remember when authority thought the earth was at the center of the solar system, and that was a fact and there wasn’t room for dissent? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_a
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by mwint 5y ago
Wait, did you just argue that there is zero room for dissent?
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by mwint 5y ago
Egads, the mouse thing again, I thought that myth had died. I have one. I charge it for about five minutes a month. It complains when it hits 10% and I plug it in while I make morning coffee. It’s fine. Apple has made many real mistakes, le
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by mwint 5y ago
I didn’t mean everything _is_ normal, I mean we (mostly) aren’t being forced by the government to alter our behavior on an individual level. Different things.
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by mwint 5y ago
Add Idaho to the well-armed-and-free list. While we didn’t do quite as well as Florida on the non-draconian front, things were normal-ish here far before many other states. Though the correlation is heavily confounded, obviously. Red states
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by mwint 5y ago
I looked into getting one of those once, figuring I’m a safe driver and therefore would only benefit from it. What I found on the Internet were (self selected, admittedly) stories of the presence of the device making your driving less saf
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by mwint 5y ago
US Presidential administration.
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by mwint 5y ago
I bet some of them out there do that, but so far mine haven’t. My spammers usually threaten to kill me, then hang up, then I never hear from them again. If they were using me to slow down competitors, I’d expect more call volume than I get.
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by mwint 5y ago
These are all great, but I've done none of them and get maybe 1 spam call a month. It's easy... just answer the calls and talk to them. Have a bookmark to https://www.getcreditcardnumbers.com , go along with their scrip
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by mwint 5y ago
Can you explain what you’re trying to say? I feel like I’m supposed to see something damning in these two paragraphs, but I’m not seeing it. Writing styles seem dissimilar enough that I don’t think they’re the same person, if that’s it.
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by mwint 5y ago
What can we do for those people, assuming forever-lockdowns aren’t an option?
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by mwint 5y ago
That PR needle image is shipping cars that are showing up in YouTube videos driving non-employee consumers through San Francisco with minimal intervention. Maybe it’s reckless, maybe it’s dangerous, maybe it’ll never work in $scenario. But
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by mwint 5y ago
The article says they’ll be replacing battery modules. Usually a battery pack has several modules. Might be infeasible to repair the modules, though.
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by mwint 5y ago
Agree, but they've also done things like CarPlay. They obviously saw a problem to solve there; I think it wouldn't be hard at all to see them produce first-party CarPlay hardware.
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by mwint 5y ago
My pet theory is that Apple won’t produce a car; rather, they’ll produce a car cockpit. A kit of standard, high quality parts, comprising everything a driver touches. So Ford would make a car, Apple would make the screen, steering wheel, mi
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by mwint 5y ago
I’m not concerned for two reasons… (1) Usually they think my name is the guy who had my phone number almost 10 years ago. I “correct” them to a fake name, but it shows their record keeping is not good enough to track anyone down. (2) If the
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by mwint 5y ago
Having worked in products using VoIP stuff, you’ll hit issues with 2FA requests from some apps. The big names have their own shortcodes, but many smaller apps use a generic VoIP number from Twilio or similar.
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by mwint 5y ago
I can confirm answering calls and using as much of their time as possible totally works. I’ve been doing this for a year or more now; I get excited when a spammer calls me now. It’s about a monthly affair. I have a bookmark for https:&#x2F
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by mwint 5y ago
I was once of the “this’ll be over by the end of April” people, but I didn’t mean the virus would be gone. Only that the initial response would be over (“flatten the curve”) and we’d go back to normal, accepting the deaths. I didn’t think
830.
by mwint 5y ago
Could we place some requirements on the logging companies to leave the ground in a certain state? Or would hauling off the undesirable material make logging unprofitable?
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by mwint 5y ago
Assuming you're saying "one 500-mile road trip" per year, I don't think you should let that stop you. That's one or two 10-80% charging stops max for any Tesla. I'd play with https://abetterrouteplan
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by mwint 5y ago
Maybe the fear here is the divorce scenario? I could see someone being trusted for many years up until yesterday, when they suddenly become someone you don’t want in your account.
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by mwint 5y ago
Being personally educated on the risks to to people in my demographic, I would gladly sign an ironclad “I won’t sue the company if I get covid” contract to work in an office. If that’s the company’s concern, I suspect most people who hasn’t
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by mwint 5y ago
Tire wear yes, brake pads no. I drive a Leaf and use the friction brakes so infrequently that they get sticky if I don’t switch to neutral and do a hard stop now and then. Regen braking is amazing.
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by mwint 5y ago
This is a study saying “people who say they’ve had C19 score lower on a cognitive ability test”, it does not have data on their performance prior. So there’s a ton of potential confounding factors. The article buries this in the 12th paragr
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by mwint 5y ago
The usual answer is that people making strategic decisions should be motivated to make good long-term decisions. Ownership of the company is a convenient way to do that. Though I could see an argument that a designer is making long term dec
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by mwint 5y ago
I wonder how many would have been okay with lockdowns back in March 2020, had they known that eighteen months later we’d decide that “everyone who wants to be vaccinated can be” isn’t a high enough bar to remove them.
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by mwint 5y ago
> More people have telephones where than can be reached than mailing addresses. Wow, I’ve never really thought about this. Any idea where I’d go to get (I assume very rough) numbers on people with addresses vs. phone numbers?
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by mwint 5y ago
Do we know of any FSD (not autopilot, but FSD beta) crashes so far? If not, at what point do we have to say “welp, whatever they’re doing must be working”? Frankly, I’ve been stunned at the discrepancy between erratic driving behavior clear
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by mwint 5y ago
Do you have a link to a page with VPS sizes/prices? I’m only seeing marketing stuff with no real numbers. I’m on mobile, might have something to do with it.

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