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by mwint 3y ago
Indeed - but it's much easier to get a collective of people to discuss something once in general terms ("property rights") than every little decision ("we can't build the factory until we agree on the color of the p
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by mwint 3y ago
Thanks! I'll look into it.
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by mwint 3y ago
It makes no sense in a world where collectives of people can make sane decisions in a timely manner. We don't live in that world - for anything to get done, there must be a very small group of people with authority to decide what color
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by mwint 3y ago
Very interested in this, if I could find something 50% faster with 80% the functionality/maturity of Rails I’d do all new projects in it.
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by mwint 3y ago
GP: don’t say, the HN crowd will move in and your land will be 10x more expensive. However, please tell me only :)
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by mwint 3y ago
> No one wants to be cruising a highway in a Fiat 500, feeling vulnerable as everyone else lords above them in Tahoes, Expeditions, and Escalades. Actually, it's more that I don't want to be cruising the highway in a Fiat 500,
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by mwint 3y ago
You're being downvoted, presumably because bird man bad, but this is 100% correct.
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by mwint 3y ago
From your use of kilometers, I’m guessing you’re not in the US. Feels like that’s a double whammy because: 1) The insane distances in the US are what make a Leaf unusable as an only-car, reducing demand (and thus resale price) 2) I can’t do
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by mwint 3y ago
Personally, I went from a fully-owned 1997 near-mint Honda Civic to a 2014 Leaf. It handles all my driving needs (and the family still has a gas car for the _very_ rare long trip). I ran all the numbers in a big spreadsheet and determined t
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by mwint 3y ago
A Used Nissan Leaf with ~70-80mi range can be had in the US in the $6-10k range. My family has two, they're amazing for everything within a ~30mi radius (which, it turns out, is 98%+ of driving we do)
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by mwint 3y ago
GP is probably talking about EV main batteries, not the lead-acid 12v accessory/starter batteries.
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by mwint 3y ago
You know what this means... there was some dude in a boat this morning who was very disappointed he didn't get to shoot holes in a rocket. I would pay lots of money to have that job.
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by mwint 3y ago
It's a difference between "definition of success" and "the plan". They can't just say "we want to get off the pad and whatever happens afterwards, meh", they have to point it somewhere. So they plan o
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by mwint 3y ago
I wonder if, after seeing that performance, they'll decide to weaken (or more accurately, remove extra weight from) structure they don't need.
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by mwint 3y ago
He's been saying this for literally years. That the pad is stage 0 and if they don't blow up the pad, they're happy. I think he said the exact same thing about the first Falcon Heavy launch.
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by mwint 3y ago
My guess was for this flight it was "once off the pad, we will fly as long as it doesn't leave the envelope" since it's all about data collection.
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by mwint 3y ago
More likely, holddowns on the pad until everything was stabilized. Probably takes a few seconds to vector/throttle the other engines to compensate for the lost ones. E: convery's reply below makes much more sense.
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by mwint 3y ago
Only if you’re not growing.
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by mwint 3y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted, I think this phone service is amazing and I'm saving it to my contacts. I now wish to find a bunch of them with different 'accents'.
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by mwint 3y ago
Our reaction destroyed the workforce equilibrium. It's a subtle but important difference.
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by mwint 3y ago
You aren’t explaining it, you’re just repeating the same tired informationless phrase we were all subjected to for those ~2.75 years (after they stopped saying masks do nothing)
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by mwint 3y ago
On a Mac, just keep up with software updates and think really hard before overriding security warnings. Also, don’t irritate any nation states.
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by mwint 3y ago
9c USD per kWh over here in the NW USA. Hydro seems to be amazing for prices, whatever environment impacts it may have.
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by mwint 4y ago
There is zero chance TSMC doesn't get blown up the moment the Chinese cross some secret US-determined line.
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by mwint 4y ago
Does anyone know what happens next? I assume Apple has a plan for stolen stuff, knows all the taken serial numbers, and those devices aren’t going to be much good to anyone?
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by mwint 4y ago
All speculation - attacker could have been spooked by something after the stabbing, could have been high on $substance. Could have been a hit. Not really profitable for us to speculate on it in this thread, IMO.
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by mwint 4y ago
My neighbor’s car was stolen, he knew where it was to within meters from the tracker, in Oakland. SF police and Oakland police bounced him back and forth until they eventually found the car on their own, totaled, after being used in a crime
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by mwint 4y ago
You will own nothing, and be happy, all within a 10-mile radius.
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by mwint 4y ago
Used to work for a BigCo printer maker. This is true. You wouldn’t believe the things people print on, there are racks and racks of weird papers from around the world. Tested at different temps/humidities (matters for the electrostatic
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by mwint 4y ago
How are you measuring this? SO often sees a drop in traffic on/around spring break. However, there is a broader falling trend in traffic dating back to ~2019, if I remember correctly.

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