sjruckle

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by sjruckle 9y ago
We put the new tires and brakes on the the fastest vehicles we could make, then had a professional run them around a track with a dozen other lunatics. Anything that broke was fixed forever, and relatively few lives were lost. The number th
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by sjruckle 9y ago
Except it's not like today's taxis, busses, trains or planes. It's more like riding with a friend who's never crashed their car, but sometimes will tell you "I can't handle this right now, take the wheel."
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by sjruckle 9y ago
I might. If it still works after mining for years then that tells me it'll last for a while.
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by sjruckle 9y ago
I'd rather be dependent on someone I can talk to, and whose personal wealth is a function of my ability to produce than the State who I have basically no influence over. Both ultimately have their own interests at heart, but the first
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by sjruckle 9y ago
The problem with using mirrors as radiators is that they're terrible radiators. They might be great at reflecting the sky-photons away, but they won't launch their own photons away either. Shiny things are great at reflecting inci
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by sjruckle 10y ago
Tinywall? https://tinywall.pados.hu/
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by sjruckle 11y ago
He uses the word "plants" to mean the green leafy type.
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by sjruckle 11y ago
I'm a resident of southern California, and I have realized that the CHP is a better group to encounter than the local police or sheriff. In my encounters they've always been right, always been fair, and have never escalated a situ