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by sokoloff 1y ago
The factory fitment LEAF tires seem to be made of cast iron, based on the unimpressive levels of cornering grip but also on their impressive long-wearing nature. I'm likely to end up replacing mine based on age-related degradation rath
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I'd say more that it evolves rather than goes away. We've had our BEV for over a decade and it's the car we tend to choose to drive for short distance errands. We like it by all means, but when one of us needs to take the h
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> cutting fuel flow but also maximising airflow when there is zero throttle input You don't want to do this. Much of the engine braking effect is from pulling the intake air charge past the mostly closed throttle plate. On a car wit
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Despite my overall low estimation of people's ability to fluidly reason about engineering tradeoffs, I think they generally do understand this one well enough, at least for the decisions that they will face. They're only deciding
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by sokoloff 1y ago
For a Honda 2.2kW to aid with range anxiety, you'd have to split range anxiety into two categories and I think it only addresses the second/lesser of the two. Assume the car gets 4 miles per kWh delivered and the charging cycle is
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by sokoloff 1y ago
You're in luck. > The event is not rare and has taken place every month since September 2023.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
If there’s infinite of whatever you need, you don’t need needs-based allocation. It can be entirely wants-based.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
?? I'm using those six quoted terms to have a meaning the same as what Google returns as the first definition for five and the second for one (which I think is obvious to all readers from context): "functioning market" - A fu
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by sokoloff 1y ago
If the prices dropping to the cost of construction plus a 20% profit margin isn’t enough to make housing affordable then those people just literally can’t afford to buy housing. Build smaller, worse, and cheaper until they can.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Price controls work to ensure scarcity. Flooding the market with new construction (at any price level, though ideally at all sizes and quality of housing) will do more to sustainably lower prices while leaving a functioning market.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The €75 baggage fee outweighs the commission cost.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The ΔT between evaporator (typically 2-6°C while cooling) and condenser (often 40-50°C in cooling mode) is much higher than 20°C. The condenser is often almost 20°C above ambient outside temperature. The design ΔT of ~10°C is the typical re
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> Arduinos are not good for much more than babby's first microcontroller project. Baby’s first microcontroller project is exactly what they excel at and, by doing so, they made hobbyist microcontroller development vastly more access
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Surely you got many of the DNC fundraisers that breathlessly urged donors to give to the DNC to protect the right for a woman to choose? Or remember the turn out the vote campaigns to protect abortion rights? It appears to me that the possi
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by sokoloff 1y ago
And for the exact same reasons , that is just as ineffective at convincing new people to join their ranks, but rather cements support for the DNC for existing DNC members.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
It turns out when the other party runs on “we’re smarter and have better ideas than you and 25% of you are deplorable”, that people tend to increase their support for their current party rather than deciding “you know what? They’re right; w
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Democrats also do not always do what the electorate wants. How many times did they have executive and both houses since Roe v Wade without passing law to enshrine the right to abortion? Surely they could have released the Epstein list as we
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by sokoloff 1y ago
In this case, is the US company making those foreign software development-related expenditures? Or are they engaging in an arms-length B2B transaction to buy the finished product? I suspect pretty strongly that the latter will be claimed an
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by sokoloff 1y ago
You should have the same rights as the underlying situation. If I photograph you in public, where you have no reasonable expectations of privacy, you should have no expectations of privacy over the photograph’s contents nor over my commenta
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by sokoloff 1y ago
There are a lot of brainstormable scenarios about how an increase in spending on consumption would make society more productive without causing inflation. I think a lot of those fall into fanciful or wishful thinking, but the way to know wh
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> and some were literally not allowed to leave the house. For years. Where did that happen?
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by sokoloff 1y ago
It’s one measure of the impact of UBI and is particularly important if you want to support the “UBI makes society more productive and prosperous” argument that some proponents make.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The teacher is likely to spend a higher proportion of the money given to them on consumption than the law partner who paid for it. This is the positive intention of UBI, but I cannot understand how people think “some people are so low pai
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Someone is paying scrum master and social media coordinators now. I doubt that they’re being paid because their employers hate money.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
What is an “antigenic AI” or “antigenic workflow” in this context? It’s used so consistently that I’m not sure if it’s just careless editing or if it’s something new I don’t know about.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Being 15 four decades ago wasn’t a live-action Disney movie either.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
There are over 2000 watersheds in the US. It would be unusual if we didn’t see around 20 100-year floods every year.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I agree, but I’m not convinced that 100% of current Reps could pass a civics test.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I’m in favor of market forces in both cases. Show me a way that LVT can applied referencing open market transactions for unimproved land in a developed area and I’m interested to learn more about it. Grandma can decide to sell her house on
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I’m fine with (and in support of) market forces to let grandma decide that it’s worth selling her home; I’m not okay with using government mechanisms with no market reference points to price her out of it. (Raise everyone’s property tax rat

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