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by pandaman 3y ago
Homes do the same. In both cases, though, if you don't want people to build something you need to exercise power, not freedom. Freedom of choice does not entitle you to others not doing something.
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by pandaman 3y ago
"Freedom of choice" is literally that, a freedom to make a choice, nobody is restricting you from it. Having many choices to make is not a freedom, it's power.
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by pandaman 3y ago
I am sure qualified to tell if somebody is trying to break into my house, it's not rocket science. Even you seem to be able to tell, as, I imagine, you are not handling your valuables to anybody passing by?
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by pandaman 3y ago
Auto loans are often subsidized and have very nice terms. People who understand inflation and interest rates often take advantage of this.
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by pandaman 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danegeld#:~:text=Danegeld%20... .
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by pandaman 3y ago
I am not sure what are you talking about: Windows laptops had the same hardware and similar gestures since, at least, 2013. The vast majority of Windows laptops don't have buttons on touchpad (the Thinkpad in this thread actually does
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by pandaman 3y ago
Tastes differ. My work MacBook unlocks with a fingerprint (with random sensitivity, if my hands are too dry, for example, it does not register) even in 2024. My Windows laptops had been unlocking with face recognition for 10 years or so. I
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by pandaman 3y ago
>which makes services more expensive because things are simply further apart So does adding sewer, water and electricity too. And think of all the density we could get if could get rid of inner walls and stuff people together into one ro
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by pandaman 3y ago
Things you consider luxury may not be such for others and vice versa. You cannot really state your opinions as a fact and expect everyone to agree.
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by pandaman 3y ago
>that depreciates by 30% the very second you drive off the dealership Nobody would underwrite loans for new cars with low down payment and low interest if this had been true. Also we would see the year old cars with low mileage selling w
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by pandaman 3y ago
It's for builders mainly. On a construction site you might not have a wall outlet near every place where you do work and running extension cords is dangerous both due to tripping and to the shock hazard when a cord gets damaged. Many c
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by pandaman 3y ago
There is the market segmentation to be considered: Ryobi is owned by the same holding that owns Milwaukee so they make sure a Ryobi tool does not perform on par with a more expensive Milwaukee equivalent. So if you do, say, electrical work,
583.
by pandaman 3y ago
Hilti does not have many tools for lumber construction, specializing in commercial steel and concrete technology. Festool has more woodworking tools though, I'd imagine you use a nail gun/stapler the most when building a movie set
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by pandaman 3y ago
Texas levies property taxes now?
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by pandaman 3y ago
CR has a different opinion, in their recent rating Mini is #3 and BMW itself is #9 in the predicted reliability out of 30 brands (I don't give a link because it requires subscription).
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by pandaman 3y ago
> What's the point of educating people and equipping them with everything they need to be successful in the US, advance the US (including creating lots of jobs) and then deporting them right after? Making money for the schools where
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by pandaman 3y ago
In California rent control is established by a referendum so it requires either another referendum to repeal or a some large majority in the legislature (which is unlikely to pass since the legislators understand that it's likely to be
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by pandaman 3y ago
If your time is worth $0 then walking is cheaper, even at the federal minimum wage it's $1.80-2.40 per mile.
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by pandaman 3y ago
I don't see where am I. Your opinion is that retail is not nuisance is, you know, just your opinion. American zoning is literally based on nuisance - SFH zoning excludes nuisance sources such as multi-family housing and retail, multi-f
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by pandaman 3y ago
So correct me if I get you incorrectly. 1. "NIMBY" is a Redditism for people who are apparently obsessed with the value of their property and do not allow dense residential construction only because the value of their property wil
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by pandaman 3y ago
It's not very effective as you need to move the nozzle very close to the leaf to suck it in. Meanwhile, a decent hand-held blower moves leaves from 20 feet away. I have such a vacuum and use it after I've piled up the leaves with
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by pandaman 3y ago
No, the reason we use logarithmic scale for noise is because "loudness" is logarithmic i.e. as the power of sound grows exponentially the perceived loudness grows linearly, so 80 db is 15% as loud as 70db (it is 10x more power tho
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by pandaman 3y ago
Zoning is already on the nuisance basis in many places in the US. It means local shops cannot pop up in residential neighborhoods if nobody wants to live near such a shop. If residents are fine with traffic, noise and pests they can vote fo
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by pandaman 3y ago
People in your circle will be aligned with you on many things, that's how they got in your circle in the first place. Here is a list of 10 best selling vehicles in 2022 [0], only two of these are sedans, but both of those come with scr
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by pandaman 3y ago
You cannot build anything on-site "dirt cheap". Check out labor and materials costs in construction. This is why all these "tiny houses" are brought up, apparently they are built off-site and do not cost nearly as much a
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by pandaman 3y ago
>I'm honestly curious how CloudFlare will handle reference checks for these people Just like every other company: confirm the start date, the end date, and the job title. Nobody in their sane mind will give anything else.
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by pandaman 3y ago
>I never have trouble telling it what street I'm going to. Well, good for you, perhaps you are the person the voice models had been trained on. >And no. I never go into the menus for the AC. I do it though voice. What about the p
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by pandaman 3y ago
>It doesn't need an idrive button. It has voice. Every car has voice, it just does not work well in the US because street and establishment names are often not real words in English, people don't know how they are pronounced an
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by pandaman 3y ago
The reasoning is reverted: people want houses where they won't be bothered by neighbors and won't bother neighbors thus they limit density via zoning. They don't build houses on big lots just so they had a reason to drive.
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by pandaman 3y ago
The afore-mentioned Austin had free-for-all "urban camping" 2019-2021 [1]. It took a referendum and a bunch of lawsuits to repeal. 1. https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/homeless/austin-camp

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