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by sedachv 10y ago
Exactly. 1990s carbureted Japanese bikes are far superior to 1970s ones in reliability both in terms of design and manufacturing quality. But CL550s go for more than Super Blackbirds. The only reason is the steep vintage/hipster markup
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by sedachv 10y ago
As an individual consumer you are very likely to shrug off small losses because of a company acting in bad faith and move on. It is not worth your time. The management of an individual company has a large incentive for acting in bad faith b
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by sedachv 10y ago
Old side cover gaskets did, those were easy to replace. Something else was leaking before the engine rebuild, and then something else entirely started leaking after the rebuild.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Being able to directly pass s-expressions between between programs without the format/parse/typing hokey-pokey of Unix and Windows would be nice. Genera did not have programs, it is all just function calls. There was a multi-
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by sedachv 10y ago
> But this has actually proved to be very useful as it provided a standard medium of communication between programs that is both human readable and computer understandable. And ahead of its time since it automatically takes advance of mu
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by sedachv 10y ago
There is weekend wrenching and there is dealing with design flaws and poor manufacturing. Problems with the CB175 and CB550 that were not regular maintenance (carburetor/timing/valve/etc/etc) related: * fast cylinder wea
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by sedachv 10y ago
I think the parent poster is talking about the userspace. A Linux distribution like Ubuntu that uses systemd, GNOME, and NetworkManager is certainly monolithic compared to Slackware circa 1999. NetworkManager alone is a pile of garbage that
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by sedachv 10y ago
> It will be in a junkyard within ten years though. I won't be able to find those sensors in a few years. Not true. You will be able to get an aftermarket ECU that can just ignore the sensors and run in open-loop mode. That will be
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by sedachv 10y ago
Note that some of these (like ParEdit) are just macros for text-oriented editors, and not real structured editors. The earliest structure editor was Interlisp's original structure editor for teletypes, which worked on Lisp lists direct
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by sedachv 10y ago
This is true under the hood of most static language IDEs as well. If they are not using a custom compiler (like JDT Core in Eclipse) they end up implementing a partial compiler to support features beyond ctags. ctags itself is the tokenizin
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by sedachv 10y ago
You can write an interactive function that runs fill-paragraph (or whatever M-q is bound to in the mode you are using), then deletes multiple spaces (something like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8674912/ho
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I don't think somebody becomes an employee because they require you to use a hammer and not a rock to push nails into wood when building a house. While that is not the best analogy I think you should be able to expect the contract
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I just find it hard to follow the logic to how that makes them employees. The IRS has guidelines: http://www.twc.state.tx.us/news/efte/appx_d_irs_ic_test.html Arguments for drivers as employees: Behavioral Co
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by sedachv 10y ago
> It seems that taking a slightly lower fare is better than taking no far at all at a higher rate. That is not how capitalism works. Uber drivers are responsible for both fixed and variable costs. The marginal revenue of a fare might be
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by sedachv 10y ago
Forcing Black drivers to accept X requests invalidates any claims Uber has about their drivers being independent contractors instead of employees.
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by sedachv 10y ago
Good point. I always have to set whatever GPS I am trying to use to fixed scale (no auto-zoom) map view with "north is up" before things feel right.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I can't imagine why you wouldn't want navigational assistance. Here is why I look up directions in advance in almost all situations: * GPS is a distraction to maintaining awareness while driving, motorcycling, and bicycling.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> So what we should be asking the government is if it's a fundamental right, why do we require a license to get married? You have to ask this question in the context of legal history. In English common law, from which United States
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by sedachv 10y ago
Some of America's "Christian Taliban" communities support pedophilic marriage: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/10/... Others are campaigning to make polygamy
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by sedachv 10y ago
There is very clear precedent on this from the way IRS treats perks as either deductible or wage compensation. Basically if your perks are not universal to all of your employees they cease to be deductible perks and start being treated as w
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by sedachv 10y ago
Source code protection is a horrible idea and antithesis to what has made JavaScript work so far. Source-code-only is the future of software distribution. One of my long-term goals involves building a new dynamic language runtime - the plan
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by sedachv 10y ago
> In the case of UC Berkeley students, it's easier to cause property damage because an alleged Nazi (an entirely slanderous claim, btw) is given a platform to speak. This is untrue. What actually happened: -------- A partial list of
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by sedachv 10y ago
> And Conservatives would say the same thing! 'Liberals are prioritizing where people use the bathrooms over the real problem of islamic terrorism . Prioritizing pet issues over national security is disgusting!' The difference
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by sedachv 10y ago
> What you can do is compromise. If the democratic party were... Unfortunately this is the core of the issue. That first sentence should really read "What the democratic party can do is compromise" for the second sentence to fo
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by sedachv 10y ago
How is it useless and unhelpful? I am pointing out that people voted for Trump because they lack basic empathy and understanding towards other people's real problems. I like recreational shooting and was an NRA member for two years, en
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by sedachv 10y ago
I also could not get an IPSec VPN running on Debian in 2012 (I think it was FreeSWAN), while OpenVPN was no problem. I am planning to run a VPS for VPN and email again and this time looking to do all the setup with Ansible. Two roles came u
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by sedachv 10y ago
ARIN charges for IPv4 address allocation ( https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html ) and I read that below $5 a month it becomes unprofitable for hosting companies just because of the cost of leasing IP addresses. If
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by sedachv 10y ago
Your argument is basically "if it feels good, it's not rape." Disgusting and you should be ashamed of yourself.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> For which you don't kill the animal. Milk cows are continually raped for the duration of their lives: http://www.humanemyth.org/happycows.htm
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by sedachv 10y ago
> irishcoffee is taking the "don't walk there at that time, everybody knows that" position, and you're taking the "everyone should be able to walk there at any time" position. You're both right, and yet

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