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by plantain 5y ago
[citation needed] I've only ever seen this happen if you use the lower wattage charger from a 12" Macbook Air with a higher spec'd Macbook Pro.
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by plantain 5y ago
Culture can and does change, and not on evolutionary timescales but within decades - in Australia drink driving was absolutely rampant in the 60's-80's, but now it's really quite taboo. "Drink drive, bloody idiot"
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by plantain 5y ago
It still totally undermines the system. I went two hours out of town to pickup a car, expecting to pay on the spot with PayID instantly, just like dozens of times before. It triggered the mysterious 24 hour waiting period of my or their ban
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by plantain 5y ago
https://twitter.com/JodiHernandezTV/status/14622847574341754... Honestly, what is going on in the US?
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by plantain 5y ago
I'm asking on a moral level.
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by plantain 5y ago
>You are aware a catalytic converter is a wear part that is a component of the exhaust system, right? You want a block disassembly to replace a part so understood to be a wear part it’s covered by US federal warranty to 80,000 miles? You
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by plantain 5y ago
>If we had enough surveillance, police officers, and so forth to catch criminals, hold them to consequences, and deter others, I would support avoiding a stricter law like this. The fact that you don't, and that you think street exe
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by plantain 5y ago
What gives you the right to make a life-ending determination?
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by plantain 5y ago
Isn't that entirely expected with most of the population vaccinated? I imagine most car crash deaths are from those wearing seatbelts too.
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by plantain 5y ago
Are they different? Isn't macroeconomic inflationary pressure from widespread shortages?
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by plantain 5y ago
It's not due to the evolution / delta variant. [1] https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-10-04/pfizer-covi...
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by plantain 5y ago
The level of care and attention to detail isn't limited just to their 404's - I find the FT is the best paper out there for macro issues.
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by plantain 5y ago
Some people have (kinda) learnt to - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_breathing
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by plantain 5y ago
Taxes are a form of punishment, they're a tool to discourage certain behaviours relative to others. Whether roads are funded by road taxes or primary school fees doesn't matter - if we want to promote a behaviour we subsidize it;
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by plantain 5y ago
Couchsurfing.com used to be a gem, I hosted a number of people so far removed from my bubble and had a great time with them. I hope a viable successor appears.
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by plantain 5y ago
Are you describing the old system or the new system? Because that's what the UK had before, and it's what the Australian system they're trying to emulate produces too.
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by plantain 5y ago
I wish it was that low, once you account for forex + intermediate processor fees. More like 4-5%.
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by plantain 5y ago
It's missing the music! I still remember the Flying Toasters music 20 years later...
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by plantain 5y ago
Huh? LSA is doing fine. It does considerably better in basically every other jurisdiction where the licencing is typically easier and the payloads higher. “Comparing charts I see 506 registrations of LSA-type aircraft in 2020 and 358 regist
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by plantain 5y ago
The problem is the strong desire (requirement?) to accrue wealth is the foundation stone of all capitalism - if you remove reasons to pursue wealth such as desire to support your offspring, you undermine the incentive to build bigger and be
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by plantain 5y ago
These are all carefully engineered marketing exercises built to extract investor/SPAC money, with little to no chance of ever reaching the market.
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by plantain 5y ago
>NZ doesn't care about that sort of thing. Are we thinking of the same NZ? https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/covid-19-coronavirus-wea... https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/446151&#x
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by plantain 5y ago
Funny how these faults keep happening over and over again in the same set of languages.
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by plantain 5y ago
Well, as I understand it they banned anyone using IRCCloud to connect to Freenode yesterday. IRCCloud is a free bouncer service that keeps you connected longer than the life of your terminal. IRCCloud seems to be affiliated with libera? So
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by plantain 5y ago
I honestly have no idea. But it's chaos right now.
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Freenode has imploded – unannounced full services reset, database wipe
38 points by plantain 5y ago|12 comments
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by plantain 5y ago
Only true for EU-domiciled companies - https://stripe.com/docs/payouts#supported-accounts-and-settl...
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by plantain 5y ago
Except for the vast majority of countries supported by Stripe, you can only be paid in your local currency. Australian companies can only get paid in AUD. I've been getting killed on this for years, Stripe keeps saying "soon"
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by plantain 5y ago
This is going to be a sad day for Octobat ( https://www.octobat.com/ ) which I've been using happily to automate this for the last few years. Octobat may still be cheaper depending on your transaction volume.
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by plantain 5y ago
That's if your only objective is balancing. Many BMS's go far beyond that, preventing the cells from being overloaded via excessive draw, short circuited, over charged etc.

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