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by slantyyz 9y ago
I guess we should take a look at how the electric car makers do it then? They have this problem and deal with it now. Not having any experience with electric cars, I can't speak to how it's done.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Not having an electric car, does anyone know what Teslas, Volts and Leafs do? Those cars have the extra problem of having batteries out in the cold too.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Not that excessive, imo. When you pay a lot of money for a high performance phone (which is what all iPhones are when they're released), you also expect it to perform accordingly for a reasonable amount of time.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> If given the option on my old iPhone 6 plus, I would have chose to maybe have the phone shut off suddenly at 40% battery life and run at full speed. This sort of begs the question - if your phone is shutting off suddenly at 40%, is
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I'm rapidly approaching 50 myself, and while I get that what they're doing is wrong, I'm also not that upset about this either. At my age, I'm not interested in wasting my time with meat grinders that don't value wo
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> And in that hypothetical reality no one ever needs recourse to a legal system for contractual disputes I'm not saying that. But in practice, the legal system favors those who can afford the time and money to go through the pro
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> They are the victims here (assuming they are telling the truth). Aren't the real victims here the Kickstarter backers?
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> You protect yourself by having the appropriate contractual agreements in place, which the client did here. I disagree. You protect yourself by doing your necessary homework before you even sign the contracts. Contracts are helpfu
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by slantyyz 9y ago
One might make the argument that a thicker phone could be more durable and not require such a protector.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> Apple has decided that people want to buy razorthin phones I wonder what percentage people who buy those razorthin phones end up adding a millimeter or more to their phones by adding tempered glass screen protectors and cases over
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by slantyyz 9y ago
The Instant Pot models are on sale regularly. I paid $90 Canadian for mine.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> I've never been to a Chinese home that didn't have a rice cooker (huge selection bias in there but still). That's a pretty fair statement. I'm of a Chinese background, and the only people I know who don't h
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> People with their crazy rice strategies. You're making assumptions that your definition of "perfect" is the same as everyone else's. There are cultural differences with respect to the preference of the actual te
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by slantyyz 9y ago
FWIW, Instant Pot now makes a sous vide circulator too. I bought one on Black Friday, and it works pretty well (although that's from the perspective of a n00b). It's cheaper than the Anova and other big names.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> The rice sticks unlike a real rice cooker Rice doesn't stick only in rice cookers that don't have a non-stick interior pot. My parents have some older generation rice cookers that still work, and they have aluminum interi
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> Do not buy Chinese crap. It's a lottery. Most of the problematic products as they relate to reviews on Amazon are Chinese products. When I used to do incentivized reviews, all but one single company who approached me for a pr
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Well, you even have to take the Wirecutter with a grain of salt. IIRC, there was some heated debate over whether they were pay to play from some standing desk co that didn't sell through Amazon (Wirecutter makes a portion of their reve
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Zero. Because the workaround is that reviewers are asked to buy the products with their own money and then reimbursed via Paypal. Source: I used to do incentivized reviews but stopped after the rule changes. I still get asked to do the Payp
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Maybe I'm old and grumpy, but things seem pretty crazy these days on campuses. When I entered university in 1989, there was an extremely controversial professor at my school [1]. There was outrage accompanied with generally peaceful pr
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> 2. The very first reviews. These are almost always fake and unverified. No one ever looks for this but it is the most common indicator in my experience of faked reviews given how low the bar is. The unverified part is no longer tru
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> ostensibly 'on (indefinite) loan') to review. They're yours to keep, although they reserve the right to ask you to send them back within 6 months (never happened with me). You can't give them away (you're e
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> (using 100% OFF coupons so they appear as verified purchases) Don't know about ES, but on CA, at some point in mid 2016, the 100% off coupon code purchases stopped appearing as verified purchases. Instead of being dismissive a
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> The biggest problem is "I received this product in exchange for a fair and honest review" bullshit. Is Amazon doing anything to stop that? Those are legacy reviews. You're not allowed to do that anymore [source: I us
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> It's because so few care about copyright. It is seen as something dry and stodgy that only affect artists and their publishers/labels. This is because copyright relates to stuff that's usually intangible. People easi
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> Imho Steam has also regressed quite a bit in that regard, it used to be a place for good deals but increasingly feels like a platform to shovel around shovelware for badges and trading cards. Well in fairness to Steam, app stores i
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> Legality aside, whether sharing copyrighted information is amoral or not is determined by one's own values. This can even be a gray area for content creators who care about copyright, but only for their own profession. I regul
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by slantyyz 9y ago
The Unifi cloud stick isn't that much more expensive than a PI, and is probably the least amount of work to set up a dedicated controller. I use an Atom based PC stick that I had lying around to run the controller (on Windows) and it w
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> Repeaters add latency and I can't imagine any network engineer would ever recommend one. Keep in mind that these TP-Links are consumer grade hardware, and that they make sense for some use cases. Not every consumer can or want
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I'm kinda surprised that the diameter of the full-sized spare tire matches the diameter of the tires on all three cars. It would seem unlikely given the variability of rim sizes and tire aspect ratios across cars over time.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
The problem is that some of the newer cars don't even have a well for a spare, so then you have to deal with the spare eating up trunk space.

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