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by rplst8 9y ago
I disagree entirely. I cannot get the ingredients for most of Plated meals for what they charge. I end up with lots of spoiled food, unless I make huge batches and eat the same thing all week.
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by rplst8 9y ago
It looks like the theoretical max for rare earth is not that straight forward. See the BH(max) column here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_magnet#Magnetic_pro...
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by rplst8 9y ago
Manufacturers often use a term MTBF or "mean time between failure". I'm not sure if the 2000 hours spec is an MTBF or not, but essentially that is an average life with some standard deviation. Personally, I think a pretty bi
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by rplst8 9y ago
Spot on. This is something that is rarely mentioned, but having an extremely varied taste in music - I've noticed this exact thing.
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by rplst8 9y ago
This is the truest statement in the whole thread.
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by rplst8 9y ago
No. Absolutely not. After they were acquired by Conde Nast, it has been downhill at an amazing pace.
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by rplst8 9y ago
I don't think they "charge" your for it at the end of the lease. Leases have a "residual value" which is what they expect the car to be worth at the end of the lease, assuming it was kept in good running condition.
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by rplst8 9y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the shoddy construction part, but I'm with you on the complexity and bells and whistles. Cars from this era will be super big headaches for classic car guys in 30-40 years. The electronics are so custom
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by rplst8 9y ago
I seem to remember some law preventing businesses from refusing cash for a sale.
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by rplst8 9y ago
Why wouldn't they take cash then? If they don't have to give the incentives, that's more money in their pocket.
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by rplst8 9y ago
> Why should society subsidize someone using a piece of land, when another potential tenant will pay taxes on its true value? Subsidize? I think your concept of private property rights is under developed.
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by rplst8 9y ago
> That unearned rise in the property value should be taxed away. That is so wrongheaded I don't know where to start. Increasing property taxes is the exact reason you have older folks be forced out of their homes after having lived
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by rplst8 9y ago
> Look at all the 3 or 4 stories apartment buildings sprouting in the city right now. Most of them could be double the height without increasing construction costs per unit. I'm not sure that's correct. I think the reason that
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by rplst8 9y ago
What a Negative Nancy.
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by rplst8 9y ago
The the police should... police that .
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by rplst8 9y ago
Because the highways have never been big enough in the first place.
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by rplst8 9y ago
This is essentially what the DC region has with Virginia's Express lanes, though the difference here is only 10 MPH. The waste of space and resources that was required to put those extra lanes in, and all of the traffic control measure
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by rplst8 9y ago
I think this needs to be drilled into young drivers heads so the highways of the future have less morons on them. In fact, I think it needs to go a step further - ALWAYS stay to the right. Only move to the other lane to pass or turn left.
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by rplst8 9y ago
Agree. One thing I've never understood is why people ever thought it was a good idea to combine vehicle, foot, and bicycle traffic on essentially the same roads. Side walks are just another lane. Communities need to enforce zoning th
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by rplst8 9y ago
Fundamentally, the reason I think that homework assignments (beyond show me fizz buzz in your favorite language) are ethically wrong, is that the cost of hiring someone is the company's not the employee's. Employee's are aske
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by rplst8 10y ago
What the heck is this? http://usafacts.org/metrics/11699
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by rplst8 10y ago
> Note that this is in the 600MHz band, in the US only What's weird is that the article mentions WWTO in Chicago. WWTO is on VHF channel 10 which is around 200 MHz. WWTO was previously on UHF channel 35 which is around the 600MHz
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by rplst8 10y ago
> If they'd counted milliseconds since 1970, they would have exhausted int32_t in less than 36 minutes, and nanoseconds would have exhausted same in less than 2 seconds. Milliseconds would have lasted 24 days. Microseconds would ha
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by rplst8 10y ago
There are some tilt-shift lenses out there for APS and FF SLRs. I think Lensbaby makes A few.
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by rplst8 10y ago
No one's life can last forever. I'd like to enjoy mine eating cheese and having a glass of milk with cookies.
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by rplst8 10y ago
I think this overlooks the number of people whose commutes would go from manageable to very painful.
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by rplst8 10y ago
More people need to realize this. Not only does it allow people to put down roots and let local economies everywhere grow, think of the benefit of getting all those cars off the roads. Less CO2, less traffic, less need for new roads (a bi
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by rplst8 10y ago
Not sure why you are getting down voted. The taxes are both rates, so they do increase in amount the more you make.
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by rplst8 10y ago
> for example if a $50 device beeps whenever there's an explosive (it sniffs the air as passengers walk past it) then it can prevent unknown attacks and I'm sure you would agree that it should be installed rather than "acc
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by rplst8 10y ago
> So, suppose that someone said, "At some point we should just accept that ransoms will happen" and so simply stop supporting the FBI and let bad guys kidnap any family of billionaires whenever they want, and to have these bill

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