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by scblock 6y ago
If it's in the appropriate ROW they don't have a choice. Same as small transformers, street lights, power lines, fire hydrants, and so on. Wait until they find out the city can cut down a tree or remove landscaping in the ROW with
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by scblock 6y ago
What a terrible example to use as a comparison to two giant companies with lots of power fighting over mutually agreed to contracts.
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by scblock 6y ago
They have plenty of subscription options and push subscriptions hard on their landing page. They also have a really goofy "buy different versions depending on your camera" model. It's kind of gross, frankly, and has kept me f
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by scblock 6y ago
Personalized ads and all the awful tracking and profiling that goes with them are a plague and must be destroyed.
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by scblock 6y ago
This ex Spokane cop Frank Straub guy is a complete asshole and his responses are uniformly bullshit. In his response to every single video, no matter how shitty the cops behaved, he starts from a position of trying to make excuses for their
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by scblock 6y ago
Apple does not do the transcription online, at least not on any modern iPhone. Turn on airplane mode and disconnect wifi and give it a try yourself.
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by scblock 6y ago
This is a concept that comes up fairly often and I must stress that what works for one person may not work for everyone else, whether that's writing longhand on paper, a mechanical or electric typewriter, dedicated word processing devi
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by scblock 6y ago
Especially not trams, right? No motor vehicle has ever had a tram approach from behind them before we had bike lanes.
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by scblock 7y ago
It is true that turbine blades can't easily be recycled. It's also true that they do not represent a large waste stream. I am glad to hear people are working on better solutions.
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by scblock 7y ago
The poster I responded to edited his statement after my reply to change his "genuine question" from "do people still use film anymore" to "why do people use film". Like the original question, the poster's
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by scblock 7y ago
I see the comment I replied to was edited. It originally started off with "Genuine question: do people use film anymore" or a very similar statement. I don't believe that was a genuine question, because it is very well docume
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by scblock 7y ago
I don't know that I believe this is a "genuine question", because it's quite easy to look up that yes, people still use film, and the article itself is a clear indication that Kodak still produces and sells film. As far
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by scblock 7y ago
This is a history article, not an engineering article. It's published on the Magazine for the National Endowment of the Humanities. The article spends time discussing the perceived cultural potential of radio, as below: "Since rad
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by scblock 7y ago
I would look into Qobuz. They do streaming, but also have a download store which is relatively reasonably priced and lets you download in FLAC or other lossless format. I've purchased quite a few albums from them and been quite satisfi
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by scblock 7y ago
This is not an issue I have ever experienced. I can’t get reliable coverage in my office but planes on the ground seem to be fine (mostly Denver, Detroit, Minneapolis, Des Moines). Maybe it affect some airports more than others.
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by scblock 7y ago
I don't believe that scenario holds water. All five of the devices in the list are surveillance or spy devices which capture data that Amazon likely considers very valuable. As such, Amazon is likely selling many of these devices at co
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by scblock 7y ago
There is a choice. It might not be easy but it is right, and no monopoly is forever.
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by scblock 7y ago
I strongly agree. Web developers and app designers should work to build fast, performant web sites that use bandwidth carefully because that's good for end users. But the entire AMP approach to doing this is questionable, and as we hav
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by scblock 7y ago
Please do us a favor and consolidate all these Amazon announcements into a single announcement page link. This is ridiculous.
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by scblock 7y ago
Based on what? What a manufacturer of said robots claims? This is nothing more than marketing fluff.
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by scblock 7y ago
Most metals are relatively easily recycled. Therefore scrap metal has value as feedstock for production of new equipment. A modern wind turbine tower might have 150 metric tons of steel in it, which absolutely makes sense to recycle.
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by scblock 7y ago
Wind turbine blades, such as those used on this playground, are typically not recycled and have little scrap value. Their structure is primarily of fiberglass, some with carbon fiber, often with foam and balsa wood as well. There is some me
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by scblock 7y ago
Any movement that depends on one person to thrive is already dead.
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by scblock 7y ago
No he wasn't. He was just playing for money and for name recognition. He did absolutely nothing in the wind industry except attach his name to it. He built nothing. He developed nothing. He achieved nothing.
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by scblock 7y ago
Yep. Looks like garbage to me. Someday "unlimited" will mean it, but right now it's just code for "actually quite limited but written in small print." I'll pass.
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by scblock 7y ago
Wait, so Google once again proves how much they suck at customer service, and the conclusion is to be wary of Apple Card? That seems like a stretch.
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by scblock 7y ago
Vestas is heavily marketing their 5.6 MW platform now, and at least sending preliminary sales and design information to clients. We're probably a couple of years out from installing any that big though. The real surprise is how fast ca
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by scblock 7y ago
Enjoy your monoculture.
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by scblock 7y ago
Absolutely this. There are real issues worth real discussion, both on this post and their related Apple post. But these are the posts of a conspiracy theorist instead; they don't enable any sort of rational discussion.
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by scblock 7y ago
Yes, but not on its own, that I am aware. High accuracy GPS is is based on a combination of GPS satellite data itself with real time or post-processed positional correction using references stations which themselves are placed in a known s

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