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1. 601.▲
   by s0rce 4y ago

   Or Steve Mann. Seems like Meta reality labs wants us all to live in that future.
2. 602.▲
   by s0rce 4y ago

   I did this often for some meetings, mostly just to discuss problems where we didn't need to take notes. Double purpose was taking the dog for a walk as well as myself.
3. 603.▲
   by s0rce 4y ago

   Isn't the proposal not to move your desk but to just get up and walk around? They specifically say simply standing isn't sufficient and the ergonomics of the standing desk isn't good anyways.
4. 604.▲
   by s0rce 4y ago

   I'm not sure if you are saying rats leave divots? The squirrels around here live in the ground and make huge holes. I don't really see many rats.
5. 605.▲
   by s0rce 4y ago

   Good point, probably not, I don't know if you could get the wear resistance with aluminum but probably steel.
6. 606.▲
   by s0rce 4y ago

   You haven't read grade 5 titanium or in combination with allusive? Gr5 titanium is quite common, many medical implants use this.
7. 607.▲
   by s0rce 4y ago

   Tiny titanium parts aren't trivial to machine and tolernaces need to be tight to get them interchangeable and have them work. Not sure if all the parts are made by conventional machining, if so, probably doable, if it needs chemical et
8. 608.▲
   by s0rce 4y ago

   I liked their stuff more when it was made in Canada. Some of it is still pretty good and if you get on sale/clearance/used its not that bad. I've had some jackets for 10 years.
9. 609.▲
   by s0rce 4y ago

   I guess to some it is, to me its just a tool. I don't want ti to be a hideous monstrosity but its not a luxury, I have a largely pointless mechanical wrist watch for that purpose. I used a Macbook Air from 2012-2020 and never really ca
10. 610.▲
    by s0rce 4y ago

    I agree, I just gave away my wife's 2007 macbook from grad school and it was a great piece of engineering. I also really like my 2004 T41p until the magnesium hinges broke in half - otherwise another great laptop. For the people saying
11. 611.▲
    by s0rce 4y ago

    Are they really duty bound to disclose this? What about fire, flood, earthquake and any other risk. My experience is they don't, other than legally mandated things like asbestos or lead.
12. 612.▲
    by s0rce 4y ago

    Going to church or other religious assembly seems like your only option, doesn't work for me though.
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    by s0rce 4y ago

    I very occasionally used the premium options but other than a nicer vehicle there really wasn't a premium service, mostly regular ubers were clear and drivers decent (on average much better than my taxi experience pre-uber). If it was
14. 614.▲
    by s0rce 4y ago

    I've got both those scams. The Zelle person sent me a fake email claiming to be from my bank and that to verify I needed to send them money so they could send me money, right...
15. 615.▲
    by s0rce 4y ago

    I had a refrigerator using propane, sadly, it didn't last very long (just a few years) before it died. It was a low end unit and repair was more than a new one, which happened to use conventional halocarbons.
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    by s0rce 4y ago

    I was really interested in getting my certification after I saw how much they wanted to charge me for refrigerant. Ended up finding someone else to do it but seemed not that difficult. Glad to know someone has done it outside the industry.
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    by s0rce 4y ago

    How is beef useful? If we truly have so little water we need to spend billions on desalination beef should be very very expensive. Huge numbers of people across the world live with beef as a rare luxury.
18. 618.▲
    by s0rce 4y ago

    There are mountains in the way though.
19. 619.▲
    by s0rce 4y ago

    Not really much different than pumping Owen's valley water to LA...
20. 620.▲
    by s0rce 4y ago

    It might be objectively better to pay someone to not grow alfalfa for export to the middle east then it is to waste water on growing it. In the end, this is likely cheaper than building desalination infrastructure to make up for the wasted
21. 621.▲
    by s0rce 4y ago

    No, just stop growing stuff we can't eat or stuff we export. And then water more efficiently with drip. This is so wildly wrong. Alfalfa is useless.
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    by s0rce 4y ago

    Beef, pasture and animal feed crops are tremendous "wastes" of water. Much of it is also exported.
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    by s0rce 4y ago

    I disagree that we should build desalination, even if we can "afford" it. There are agricultural users of water paying astronomically lower prices due to long standing water rights. It would almost certainly be cheaper to pay them
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    by s0rce 4y ago

    I'm a fan. Discovery is consistently unpleasant.
25. 625.▲
    by s0rce 4y ago

    I'm also liking strange new worlds, although the latest episode was really boring.
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    by s0rce 4y ago

    The Orville is much better.
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    by s0rce 4y ago

    I guess that was overly broad. Many rural residents (most?) are not farmers...
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    by s0rce 4y ago

    I'm tired of subsidizing rural people, the communities are unsutainable, particularly in the west where they have extreme fire risk.
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    by s0rce 4y ago

    There are quite a few records of squirrels! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=45933
30. 630.▲
    by s0rce 4y ago

    This is what I've been told but it looks like all the other responses to my comment are arguing this isn't really true and people will switch jobs to a higher paying one even if both provide sufficient income to live off.