raisin_churn

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by raisin_churn 4y ago
Indeed, they undermine their own argument that it has utility: "People naturally try to sort themselves into work that they are good at, where how they think works best." So why then would an employer need to know your allegedly a
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
As a non-geologist, it seems plausible to me that gold that was somehow subsumed into the mantle in New Zealand could migrate to Iceland in the span of thousands of years. As Sméagol pointed out, though, gold coming up in the magma would be
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
Assuming most people use the combo modem/router (WAP, technically, since this entire thread is an exercise in pedantry) provided by their ISP, this makes sense from a non-technical user's perspective, if Comcast always ships hardw
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
Criticism that SLS is unfit for the intended mission profile is misguided. SLS never had an intended mission profile. The mandate was always to build a rocket in these places and with these contractors and at fabulous expense, and any notio
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
Don't be ridiculous. The video narrator specifies that the gold on the basalt must have been present locally at the eruption, but as anyone can tell you who has read the Silmarillion seventeen times and memorized every single historica
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
As a non-professional who attempts to adhere to scientific forms of knowledge, I think this is a far better (and shorter) analysis than the article. The word "politics" has a very ugly connotation right now, and probably for much
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
> With three wheels these obviously aren't bicycles. Perhaps someone Dutch can correct me if I'm wrong, but from my understanding, bakfiets is Dutch for a bin-in-the-front style cargo bicycle (Google translates it as "bin
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
It's from Ninebot, a Chinese company that bought Segway a couple years ago. They seem to be one of the biggest e-scooter manufacturers, including many sold under other brand names. I think the model he has is F40. The biggest drawback
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
> Most Dutch don't even bother with a bakfiets for children (bakfietsen are actually kind of top of the market and mostly used by more affluent parents). Just a (safe!) seat on the Dutch style rear carrier. Yes, this seems ideal to
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
And indeed in my city where bicycle theft is very common, so are smash and grabs and catalytic converter theft against cars with high-value catalytic converters (anything that meets CARB's poorly named Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle st
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
I found it equally bewildering when I heard the claim, but perhaps because gun violence is overwhelmingly perpetrated by young men, and in the neighborhoods most impacted by gun violence, young men are also the overwhelming majority of bicy
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
If you don't have children and live in a relatively flat city, the car-replacement bicycle is even cheaper: any half-decent used mountain bike off craigslist, throw a pannier rack on the back of it and a pair of pannier bags, and never
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
It's still the bicycle. In my city in just the last year, I've seen bicycling accused of causing gentrification (along with Little Free Libraries), traffic, juvenile delinquency, gun violence, falling tax revenues, poor road maint
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
> This can be easily achieved through folders in a bookmarks toolbar. For example I have a folder called 'News' with my top 4 sites. When I open the browser, I just right-click on the 'News' folder, click on "ope
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
It is not uncommon for unhoused people to lose all their possessions, so even if purchasing multiple hardware security keys wasn't a huge financial hurdle, the recovery model I use (Yubikey on my keychain, two in my safe, mail one to m
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
You don't think car makers have a vested interest in there being a robust secondary market for their cars? If I have a choice between a $50k car that will have a $25k resale value after 5 years, and one that will have a $10k resale val
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
If MBAs weren't economically efficient, the market wouldn't make so many of them and companies wouldn't pay them so much.
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
A significant percentage of single-family and rowhouses in DC are older Preister's, the actually historic ones by about a century. My own house is a couple years newer than his, 1919 I think. I just put up solar panels without any NIMB
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
Okay, engineering time costs money. Absolutely staggering amounts of engineering time were spent ensuring that the extremely intricate, highly prone-to-failure deployment process would be successful. With a larger payload diameter, the mirr
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
This has nothing to do with Musk. A larger payload fairing diameter means fewer/no elements of the mirror have to be folded up for launch, means reducing or completely avoiding the multi-hundred step deployment procedure, the design of
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by raisin_churn 4y ago
Part of the huge cost to develop it was getting a mechanism that could deploy the mirror segments into a large enough array with sufficient accuracy, a task that would be dramatically simplified by a a launch platform with a wider fairing a