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by rapsacnz 5y ago
Pretty sure that this is not going to work very well - Time taken to heat a wire is probably slower than a servo motor. Energy taken to heat the wire is also likely to be more than that required by an electric motor. Also, this seems to be
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by rapsacnz 5y ago
What??!! What I'm hearing when you say "If you factor out all those deaths" is "Old people don't count". Economically they may not have as much impact as younger people, but they provide richness to family and
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by rapsacnz 5y ago
Give them a break - English is probably not their first language.
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by rapsacnz 6y ago
And this is one of the reasons why C++ is a mess.
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by rapsacnz 6y ago
Pretty sure that the cost of energy underpins almost everything we do or produce. I can't think of a single example that doesn't have a large energy component. For example, health insurance is made up of the cost of paying people
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by rapsacnz 6y ago
People who just say "Hi" to me often don't get an answer at all. I don't want to risk someone interrupting my chain of thought with some request that I can't / don't want to act on. But if I respond to a &
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by rapsacnz 9y ago
The German panzers were better than any comparable tanks at the start of WWII, but they were still a bunch of Nazis.
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by rapsacnz 9y ago
I like to use a conflict analogy: A drug is a weapon exploiting one weakness of the enemy. A vaccine is a visual identification of the enemy, passed on to special forces (your immune system). A single weakness can often be changed easily, b
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by rapsacnz 9y ago
Who cares about their loss if Elon is blasting cars into space? How can you get better marketing than that?
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by rapsacnz 9y ago
Good point - I suppose I really meant they are channelled in certain "girly" directions when you could argue that there are other valid (and also "girly") directions also. And yes, I will support whatever way they choose
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by rapsacnz 9y ago
As a proud dad of 3 incredible girls, I am very glad this product exists. I understand the argument that it would be great to not have gendered products at all meaning kids could choose what they want without any outside influence. Unfortun
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by rapsacnz 9y ago
I thought one of the main benefits of riding a bike was taking the load off your hips/knees/ankles. Which this bike mostly negates. Plus it's probably pretty expensive, given it's an e-bike.
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by rapsacnz 9y ago
Your commute is costing you around 10K per year, just for direct costs such as car and fuel. Then you have indirect costs such as: -lost time which you can probably put a dollar figure on (esp if you are using some of that time for a side
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by rapsacnz 10y ago
They don't need concrete information - it's not a criminal trail. Simply the knowledge of the existence of a program is easily enough to derail it.
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by rapsacnz 10y ago
@gragas I think to some extent, all of us are racist. Plus, unconscious bias is pretty much ubiquitous. I think you have to be more specific that saying that you are not racist.
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by rapsacnz 10y ago
This is an ad for Ancestry.com. Why is this article here?
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by rapsacnz 11y ago
Bittersweet, but mostly bitter?
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by rapsacnz 11y ago
That is not correct. Blendle in the Netherlands is growing in leaps and bounds and has 250000 users who PAY to read good content. https://launch.blendle.com/
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by rapsacnz 11y ago
Just did a search on the online naughty or nice checker and yep, my email address is there. Looks like more than the NSA hacked this DB. Now I'm just waiting for the extortion requests to roll in.
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by rapsacnz 11y ago
If I was sitting in Lituya Bay, I'd probably be more concerned about how high I had to be to avoid the wave. To quote myself: "Shoreline height is a complex process governed by local bathymetry and topography"
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by rapsacnz 11y ago
There was a much more recent, bigger one in Alaska: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami