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by qball 4y ago
>Yes, it says "may have" and not "has" but the implication is there, which is what the CBC & others are pushing back on. And that pushback is a lie (I think the word these days is "misinformation"), beca
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>A battery charge doesn't "go stale" Yes it does- cells slowly self-discharge when not in use and have their range affected by temperature swings to the degree that, for certain cars (mainly the Leaf), the weather will dic
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>It’s not quite true that every attacker has been thwarted. When passengers have been able to intervene, they have defended their airplane 100% of the time. When passengers have been prevented by regulatory means from defending themselve
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by qball 4y ago
>At best it'll result in the terrorist attack being moved from the airplane to the security queue. This has already happened; most terrorist attacks these days occur at malls and schoolhouses. Same memetic infection to disrupt and d
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>They will either write something workable Since when has a car company ever created workable software? The screens still lag, and the in-car integration systems are so garbage that they found it worthwhile to farm them out to tech c
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>This means that when the actual (very loud!) crash happens, your hearing is saved. The loud part is not the crash itself, but the airbag deployment; it's as loud as a rifle shot because, fundamentally, it is a rifle shot. That&
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by qball 4y ago
>The police are liable if they don't follow-up on the report Since when? The police have zero duty to protect anyone or otherwise enforce the law in any way; they already don't bother investigating a good chunk of smaller theft
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by qball 4y ago
>side/curtain airbags that made the A-pillar larger Even cars of the mid-2000s have this pillar sufficiently large to completely block the view of pedestrians and vehicles under certain conditions. This is, I'd argue, a contri
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Sufficiently advanced misguidance is indistinguishable from harassment.
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Seems like a very British solution to me (being a nation that cares little for liberty); if the police have had enough being constantly called to deal with another 10 being stolen today I'm not surprised they'd only permit company
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>I would be concerned if I see a kid walking alone without any clear purpose/destination Yeah, God fucking forbid they exercise their human right to movement in a way that offends your sensibilities.
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>I get the impression that this problem happens a lot less frequently than social media and our personal echo chambers would have us believe. You don't need modern technology for that; the 1980s panic over child abductions (which wa
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>The filtering either doesn't exist or is totally worthless. Funny; I've always found that about Amazon. And not only is their search garbage, but so are their prices- they're usually higher than if you bought directly. 6
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>What gives a bunch of people way smarter than me permission to gamble with the future of humanity? To ask the question is to answer it.
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>it's not crazy to think GPUs and GPU tech would be treated as defense equipment some day They already are. Taiwan failing to take its own defense seriously is completely rational.
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>EVs can happily scale to a much smaller size than ICE cars can No, they cannot; in fact, small size is their primary weakness . Compact car-sized EVs currently get about 200-250km of range at best - they're physically unable to
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by qball 4y ago
>Growing up my friends and I believed it would remain cheaper than other states due to the hot weather Interestingly, Arizona in particular is famous for its "snowbirds"; Canadians (and likely those living in the northern US st
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>Out-of-spec cables and chargers are definitely a problem Then maybe they should bother including one (that they know is in-spec) in the box when you buy the phone.
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>well if what you're telling them to do is buy a hot stereo out of the back of a truck, that's illegal You're dodging the question. If I buy a replacement Home button, I expect the fingerprint sensor within to work. The f
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>driving down the value of a stolen iPhone And driving up the cost of repairs. If I want to turn off the thing that bricks the identification features, there's no technical reason why I shouldn't be able to do that- my device
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>I have heard people actually say that if a kid is playing outside by themselves, then the parent should be charged with child neglect because the kid could get hurt. Giving concern trolls the ability to use the State's guns on what
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>I guess the only thing that's holding back ARM is Microsoft It's not Microsoft holding it back. It's Qualcomm. Apart from their very latest SOC (designed by a bunch of ex-Apple employees, no less) their CPUs have are sig
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by qball 4y ago
Of course not. While not strictly a ThinkPad, IBM used to make some very loud "communication devices" that Americans famously toted around the European continent in the 1940s; the largest batteries available for them still didn&#
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>Is the trackpoint really that important Yes. The arguments for it are the exact same ones Vim evangelists make (ergonomics, speed), but having the TrackPoint there applies those advantages to every other program on the system as oppose
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>What a difference a few kilometres make. Well, that or finding a company looking for applicants on TN visas. Remember, it's a 30% raise at the same published dollar value.
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>And "sharing" is kind of stupid. If you own your escooter Then it gets stolen. The main value of the rentables comes in making it so you never have to deal with that eventuality. The fact that they're far more difficult f
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by qball 4y ago
Well, they aren't making sizeable political donations nor are they able to convince the politicians they're donating to that they're going to get a big return investing in his company. Sam Bankman-Fraud is still a free man be
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>I honestly think YouTube could have stood up to the advertisers. No, YouTube was looking for an excuse to clean house. Advertisers have had the tools to stop their ads from appearing per video type for a long time now, so the claim tha
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by qball 4y ago
>But why wouldn't Apple be looking into commercial uses with deep pocket buyers instead? Because Apple has never makes things with business-to-business intent. Sure, there's iOS MDM, and what little passes for networking in
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>The cheapest 3050 in Canada is $389. It is ~10% slower than a 1070ti. Fortunately, used 1070s and RX580s are 150CAD (100USD). The combination of board prices being completely out of whack, and the performance delta of the 3080 over the

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