ptaipale

74 ms·

781.
by ptaipale 10y ago
It doesn't lubricate; also gasoline or alcohol doesn't do much there. 4-stroke engines have oil chamber to do it. Nitrogen emissions from the burning process tend to contaminate the oil a bit but overall, CNG and bi-fuel cars are
782.
by ptaipale 10y ago
Over here in Europe, car burglaries are common, and often insurance covers burglary to a locker (as locker is meant for safe storage) but not burglary to a car (as a car is not).
783.
by ptaipale 10y ago
Indeed. But it seems to be what burglars often do: if they are frustrated by security, they do some vandalism.
784.
by ptaipale 10y ago
Sometimes in China, the thing is not lack for things being forbidden, it's the lack of enforcement culture.
785.
by ptaipale 10y ago
It's not new. I had a 4-hour wait at the terminal to get to a KLM plane in Chengdu a bit over 10 years ago, this was perhaps 2006. The reason became clear when they informed us upon boarding that "the in-flight entertainment syst
786.
by ptaipale 10y ago
Is that a sarcastic joke? Cars are obvious targets for burgling. At least over here, insurance companies won't pay anything if you leave it in the car and it gets burgled.
787.
by ptaipale 10y ago
I guess the idea of a cable lock here is to use it so that it attaches the bottom or backside of the hard case to the inside of the locker, so that the cable lock is only accessible from inside the hard case. This is, after all, how safes a
788.
by ptaipale 10y ago
The description applies very much to TXL as well.
789.
by ptaipale 10y ago
Yes. I was very confused when I got a rental car in the U.S. in about 2004 and it had a separate switch and yellow indicator light for "OD". In Europe such a thing was so ancient history that I'd never seen one and I had to r
790.
by ptaipale 10y ago
However, Miele has a reputation that they don't care about warranty; if it breaks, even after warranty, they may fix it for free unless it's clear you've done something wrong (like it breaks because you didn't do regular
791.
by ptaipale 10y ago
That is partially true, of course. Energy saving makes devices more complex, thus they have more things that can be broken. However, it is also clear that e.g. control electronics is simply not made to last. E.g. they use the cheapest of el
792.
by ptaipale 10y ago
HDMI won't be going away any time soon. You can replace the receiver, and keep the good display. Yes, TV broadcast standards will change. Over here, we lost analog TV a few years ago, and in about three years we'll lose DVB-T on o
793.
by ptaipale 10y ago
True. BER is in a class of its own.
794.
by ptaipale 10y ago
I think a lot of it has to do with the way politicians make decisions. They are not professional project managers, they primarily manage their own career and advance their ideologies and political ambitions. If a public project is expensiv
795.
by ptaipale 10y ago
And this site reports the current status: http://istderberschonfertig.de/ Latest updates are that the new manager mentioned in Bloomberg article, Karsten Mühlenfeld, has fired technical director Jörg Marks, and that right a
796.
by ptaipale 10y ago
They want to scare the investors away, and instead they want to force others to pay for new housing for them. That doesn't sound entirely reasonable.
797.
by ptaipale 10y ago
I guess it is because people see it as necessary in order to build relationships, and have a name. But it looks like it's time to draw a line.
798.
by ptaipale 10y ago
That's exactly what the original post said: he won't do it any more.
799.
by ptaipale 10y ago
It might be worth testing what makes one feel better. But you should do it with a blind study, to avoid bias and placebo effect. It could indeed be that Roundup causes prolbems , although rationally thinking, the pesticides used in organi
800.
by ptaipale 10y ago
I would think your friends have been diagnosed with coeliac disease, which has been known since 19th century and for which the mechanism was found in 1950's. The gluten sensitivity mentioned in this article is a different disorder.
801.
by ptaipale 10y ago
Just for the note, "organic" does not mean "herbicide and pesticide free". It means "using only herbicides and pesticides approved by the governing body". Frequently quoted in HN: https://blogs.scien
802.
by ptaipale 10y ago
When I sit in the same cabin, and I'm buckled up, the previous poster (or his body parts) will be bouncing all over the seats of the same cabin, which is a danger to me. So I still prefer that he also buckles up.
803.
by ptaipale 10y ago
Indeed. I feel naked if I start to cycle without a helmet (even though they are not strictly mandatory here, the law says you should wear one but there are no penalties for not wearing it.)
804.
by ptaipale 10y ago
Bicycle helmets are a compromise of course; a heavier helmet would give better protection but would be very cumbersome. But even light helmets give a lot of protection against very simple, silly accidents, like not noticing a bump on the ro
805.
by ptaipale 10y ago
Depends on jurisdiction, but I think over here, the store owners give it routinely, firstly because it is in their best interests (to catch criminals in the area) and secondly, because if they wouldn't, a judge would anyway give the o
806.
by ptaipale 10y ago
If you bother to read it, you will find that it completely demolishes your argument. Wikipedia summarizes it: "The case is widely cited or referenced by the anti-GM community in the context of a fear of a company claiming ownership of
807.
by ptaipale 10y ago
All big companies surely influence, or "manipulate" or "lobby" politics. Like everyone does. About that "driving farmers out of business with spurious lawsuits", every instance of Monsanto-bashing I've see
808.
by ptaipale 10y ago
Yep. Instead, they allow things like copper and, until recently, rotenone. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/httpblogs...
809.
by ptaipale 10y ago
But why pick on Monsanto? I wonder if they have even a two-digit percentage of the global glyphosate market. And there are many other herbicides, many of them much worse that glyphosate.
810.
by ptaipale 10y ago
People are regularly making claims like "Monsanto has near monopoly on global food supply", apparently because activist web sites repeat such claims and people start believing them when they hear them often enough. In reality, Mon

More ›