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by ryathal 6y ago
Government doesn't care so much about cost, but they care a great deal about being lied to. There is a far more unlimited stream of money to attack those who defraud government contracts.
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by ryathal 6y ago
Everything exists in a Goldilocks Zone, too much power can be just as bad or worse than too little power. It's far more likely that the excess power causes damage or other negative results than anything good coming from it.
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by ryathal 6y ago
Vs. storms at sea it's not a major difference, and if anything the sail boat is in better shape. The real advantage is accurate weather reports to avoid the worst of it.
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by ryathal 6y ago
The market for people who drive less than 100 miles/week isn't a good target. You have way to much completion from existing stock. There are tons of $10k or less cars out there that will always be a better option than the sticker
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by ryathal 6y ago
That's absolute best case for panels producing peak power at all daylight hours. 500 miles/year is more likely for a car parked outdoors away from shade during all daylight hours, based solely on panels not being at peak productio
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by ryathal 6y ago
A big part of the problem is the relatively hidden Meta site where the real power lies. The Meta users are often disconnected from the reality at hand. In a lot of ways it's similar to the non-coding architect problem.
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by ryathal 6y ago
Other than the massive areas of land they flood and destroy (but you don't live there right?), or the fish that can no longer swim upstream, or anyone downstream that has to deal with reduced flow...
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by ryathal 6y ago
Pistol grips are a common interface, they don't have a significant tactical improvement on their own. It is massively beneficial to have all/most weapons a soldier might be called upon to use to have the same basic setup though.
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by ryathal 6y ago
The military is pretty good at managing context. Currently no one is really deployed in a traditional combat sense and rules of engagement are very strict and each shot would be evaluated. if The U.S. were to invade Canada or vice versa the
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by ryathal 6y ago
Nationalization is probably not on the horizon with Tesla being a U.S. company. Anti-trust forcing Tesla to split their chargers and car sales is more likely than not if EVs actually become the future.
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by ryathal 6y ago
2020 was a terrible year for policy for those that value rule of law. Exceptional cases on exceptional cases were rolled out across the country and everyone has suffered from it.
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by ryathal 6y ago
County or city building departments is probably a good place to start. If you want a few chargers it's probably find an electrician and get a permit. If you want 200 chargers, you will be talking to the power company and governments, y
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by ryathal 6y ago
People going to Kroger solve the last mile problem, picking, and substituting for free. These are all expensive problems to pay for solutions on a low margin business.
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by ryathal 6y ago
I don't personally need a daily drive that long, but my last three Saturdays have been 250-350 miles.
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by ryathal 6y ago
The Bundy thing was 100% government needlessly escalating a matter, that should have been some lawyers negotiating a reasonable fees and promises to not intentionally graze on federal land. If that failed they simply could have arrested him
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by ryathal 6y ago
Why is simply being effective the bar for lockdowns? Lots of things are effective that aren't used because we understand that there are tradeoffs and other policies can bring similar effectiveness with less side effects. as the saying
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by ryathal 6y ago
For some union members the dues achieve the same result.
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by ryathal 6y ago
Do you have actual evidence or is this a gut feeling of what should be right? There is actual evidence of an armed protest being completely peaceful. Michigan had armed protestors in the Capitol building (which was legal at the time) at the
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by ryathal 6y ago
Electric cars will still need service, and if Tesla is any indication they will need a lot of it. Sure they don't need oil changes, but that's not really a big deal overall. Dealerships still make logistics easier when you pump ou
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by ryathal 6y ago
Somewhere in the late 90s to early 2000s, physical appearance was more important than actual talent for performing artists. The 70s and 80s had a fairly large amount of "ugly" artists.
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by ryathal 6y ago
Financing a 10k car is "cheap" if you have decent credit and aren't rolling negative equity from another car into that. Using average rates it represents a 10-15% additional cost over the principal, and you end up with a car
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by ryathal 6y ago
A lot of free money went to governments, my state largely squandered that money, and hoped more would come to actually help people. They used it to avoid any sort of budget cuts for the current and previous years, and even set up a tuition
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by ryathal 6y ago
Financing cars is a poverty trap. There are cars in the 1-2k range that work perfectly fine and will reliably work with minimal maintenance, and there are sub 1k cars that run ok enough that you can use as a bridge to save enough for a slig
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by ryathal 6y ago
How long ago was the dominant libertarian scene? I've been reading for about 7 years and it's definitely been heavy liberal with the occasional libertarian belief even back then. Since 2016 it's been full throated liberalism
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Intercepting mail in ballots would be quite difficult and obvious. A far simpler solution would be to simply fill out the request forms that were conveniently mailed out to every voter on the rolls in my state. This led to thousands of hous
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Michigan is crawling with engineers already just not the software kind.
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Hot desking for a day or two a week where 25% or more of that time is face to face meetings it wouldn't be a big deal to me. I get wanting "my space," but that would be my remote desk. Hot desking as a day to day thing sounds
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That's generally done with thing like feral cat populations where there is some positive effect of the feral cats existing like rodent control. Also, just killing cats is way less socially acceptable than killing pigs.
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It's not the auto companies that are bringing Detroit up for tech. They are ancient outdated behemoths working on auto focused things. There are a handful of smaller tech companies that do the sexy work for the big 3 though. It's
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by ryathal 6y ago
Then you just switch to snowmobiles...

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