resolutebat

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by resolutebat 2y ago
A luminary icon much like Frank Zappa's Sheikh Yerbouti.
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by resolutebat 2y ago
Traffic fatalities in Thailand are the highest in SE Asia and 73% of them are on motorcycles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
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by resolutebat 2y ago
Until recently this was a pain in the ass, because you could only adjust wiper speed via the touchscreen. This was literally my #1 problem with Tesla's UI. However, they recently rolled out a software update that lets you adjust the wi
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Starliner capsule's first astronaut mission cleared for June 1 liftoff(space.com)
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by resolutebat 2y ago
In a place like Singapore, where a taxi ride is $10 but a Corolla starts from $100,000, the equation will strongly favor robotaxis for everyone.
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by resolutebat 2y ago
In many countries, taxis are often specifically exempted from child seat mandates. Doesn't make them any safer, but it's not necessarily illegal.
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by resolutebat 2y ago
Government EV subsidies in China are being tapered off rapidly, they don't need them any more. https://dialogue.earth/en/business/life-after-subsidies-for-...
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by resolutebat 2y ago
These are now commercially available and my kids wear them. It's a basically invisible pattern of dots, not a visible blur, and both have stopped the progression of their myopia in their tracks. https://www.essilor.com&#x2F
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by resolutebat 2y ago
Sigh, this old trope again. The Chinese government stopped subsidizing EV purchases in 2022. There are some tax breaks, but they're also getting phased out. Neither is or was ever all that different from the various EV subsidies foun
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by resolutebat 2y ago
Yes.
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by resolutebat 2y ago
Thousands of years of history and culture, preserved in an app until the next incompatible Android/iOS release renders it inaccessible to anybody. Sigh.
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by resolutebat 2y ago
People (well, teenagers) wil.wear headphones to the dinner table if you let them.
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by resolutebat 2y ago
A plastic car cover. Cheap to make, bulky to transport.
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by resolutebat 2y ago
Evergrande sold promises of houses, FTX and Lantian sold promises of huge investment gains. But if you buy something on Temu, it's actually delivered to you in a week. The worst case is that the unsustainable growth is propped by VC m
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by resolutebat 2y ago
What's ridiculous is not the item that costs $10 at the factory gate and is sold at $17 on Temu, but that Amazon dropshippers want $170 for it. I've personally purchased an item that's $2 (two) when purchased in bulk on Aliba
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by resolutebat 2y ago
FactoryFactoryImpl
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by resolutebat 2y ago
Adopting policies is one thing, but is SF actually giving housing first to the homeless? Because my rough understanding is that the answer to that is "no".
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by resolutebat 2y ago
> Using AI machines rather than doctors to harvest organs also promises to save money. What? AI does indeed "loom over" many parts of medical practice, but dissecting cadavers is not one of them. However, the author is appar
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by resolutebat 2y ago
Ras el-Hekma is to the west of Alexandria, nowhere close to the Sinai.
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by resolutebat 2y ago
That's a pretty low bar, and more importantly, Egyptian debt is by and large not in Egyptian pounds, meaning they can't just print their way out of trouble.
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by resolutebat 2y ago
> the museum itself is intended to change how the world sees Egypt, and how Egypt sees the world. Similarly grandiose claims were made for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (2002), which has failed to do either. If anything, given Egypt&#x2
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by resolutebat 2y ago
Yes, they do, and it's available as a service in Australia: https://mobileevcharging.com.au/
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by resolutebat 2y ago
There were no criminal penalties, this was a civil case.
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by resolutebat 2y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40419760 (flagged for unclear reasons tho)
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by resolutebat 2y ago
Effective clickbait, since we're both commenting on it here.
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by resolutebat 2y ago
The domesticated chicken (Gallus domesticus) is a "curated" version of the Red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) which lives wild in the tropics, can fly short distances and is still entirely capable of breeding with chickens. The parks
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by resolutebat 2y ago
Context for the non-Aussies in the audience: Jo Nova is a prominent antivax/anti-climate change/anti-science fruitcake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne_Nova
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by resolutebat 2y ago
TL;DR of the court cases: the fisherman was guilty of damages to the tune of $1.2M, and his insurance cover was voided because his act was so reckless. Funnily enough, the cable owners (Telus) tried to thread the needle of making the owne
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by resolutebat 2y ago
- The users were the original arty-crafty people selling actually handmade products - Businesses come in to exploit the users by flipping AliExpress crap at 10x margins, Etsy does nothing to stop this because $$$ - Etsy realizes they could
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by resolutebat 2y ago
Japan is incredibly mountainous, of course the transport links are near the coasts because that's the flat part where people actually live. There are sea walls etc built to guard coastal towns, but the size of the tsunami overwhelmed

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