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by ssmoot 10y ago
As a side note: I'm not a botanist or anything. This is just what I've read. But I remember growing up there being clover everywhere. It was vibrant, green, felt great under foot and flourished even in South Texas. You don't
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by ssmoot 10y ago
Why so much copper? Motor windings? High current wiring? Some massive heatsinks?
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by ssmoot 10y ago
I don't mean to suggest people abusing them isn't something to address. I just don't think the answer is to make it difficult or inconvenient for people who don't have that issue. I suppose in the same way I think having
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by ssmoot 10y ago
I assumed you were replying to my comment you quoted. Sounds like we misunderstood each other.
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by ssmoot 10y ago
> I also don't think you have much personal experience people who have been addicted to opiates. I said as much. Which is a good enough reason to be suspicious of prohibition for me. And to be clear, I'd find it very difficult
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by ssmoot 10y ago
I find this isn't true at all. Especially after the new rules on it a couple years ago. What used to be routine now is looked at with suspicion IME. And if you have any pain at all after a medical procedure, I see no good reason respon
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by ssmoot 10y ago
It's not like I've never taken it. Like I said, feels very hyperbolic. It's like you're suggesting marijuana has no negative downsides at all when millions of people risk their freedom on a routine basis to consume it. P
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by ssmoot 10y ago
I don't get this mentality at all. I would guess a majority of adults in the US have had Vicodin or similar and I don't know anyone personally who ever got addicted. In some it causes nausea. You don't like it, fine. But I do
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by ssmoot 10y ago
If these numbers are even close to accurate, this should be the top post. It's no use for everyone to argue over wether a completely implausible idea is financially competitive on a small scale when the implication is we're talkin
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by ssmoot 10y ago
Is there an alternative to platinum yet? Fuel cells sound really neat, and I had no idea you could actually by your own until a couple days ago. But the estimate of a small continuous use unit needing to have the catalyst replaced up to ann
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by ssmoot 10y ago
That's a huge factor I hadn't considered. Thanks.
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by ssmoot 10y ago
I guess the implication being there'd be a massive number of charge spots and you could swipe your card to pull off the grid what your home is putting on. But this would mean turning a car-park with just 40 plugs into needing 1,600 amp
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by ssmoot 10y ago
None that I've worked at. And aren't small businesses the biggest category of employer?
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by ssmoot 10y ago
Your car isn't at the house while solar is being produced though for many/most people right? This seems unrealistic.
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by ssmoot 10y ago
That's over 3 Powerwalls every second. And I've got to think you're not going to see more than 75% original capacity in ten years as a best case? I'm not as concerned about the factory as the supply chain, can we actuall
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by ssmoot 10y ago
It'd take over 1 BILLION Powerwalls to store half the daily usage in the US (using old usage numbers off Wikipedia). I wonder if there's enough raw materials to make that realistic. And how to you manage recycling, repair, replace
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by ssmoot 10y ago
My wife's Nissan Quest has an "air cleaning" mode it turns on occasionally. No idea if it really does anything, but it's got a big HEPA filter.
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by ssmoot 10y ago
> I care And that's cool for you. My MIL is the same way. Wouldn't live without a security system. I'm not one of those people so I don't want to pay those prices. > BTW, I only pay $58/month for full monitori
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by ssmoot 10y ago
I don't much care if police or fire is dispatched while we're out of the house. That's what insurance is for. I much prefer having the ability to monitor myself without an exorbitant monthly fee (I'm guessing it varies,
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by ssmoot 10y ago
My Nest has saved me money and helped the power grid and the environment. I don't think that one is a good example of complexity for it's own sake. Plus using the Nest is just a lot nicer than the expensive pure garbage that came
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by ssmoot 10y ago
That's not really a scaling problem though. It's an availability one. Cassandra just doesn't compromise on it. You have alternatives, and it doesn't really have to mean a whole lot of extra work until you get to "cr
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by ssmoot 10y ago
To piggyback: If your library is a single source file and spec, I'm going to vendor it. Not add a dependency on it. I'll probably do that in my "utility" library to keep my actual application project as light as possible
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by ssmoot 10y ago
Great point. In the time before Dropbox, S3, etc Email was THE way to share your 50Mb zip file. And routinely having to clean your mailbox because you ran out of storage was a huge pain.
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by ssmoot 10y ago
Most SPAs feel substantially slower IME. The users didn't demand this. They were perfectly happy when you delivered a website that performed a full-round trip in 50ms a decade ago containing more data than your average SPA can handle b
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by ssmoot 10y ago
That seems like a reasonable effort. Thanks.
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by ssmoot 10y ago
It's also regressive.
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by ssmoot 10y ago
I can't think of any downsides of an optional type checker. Can you? Just curious if there's an argument I hadn't heard before.
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by ssmoot 10y ago
Boredom? I dunno. Didn't feel like watching TV I guess. Since he/she cited a specific case however, doesn't seem like "strawman" qualifies. A company representative is notified of cancellation. A company offering a
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by ssmoot 10y ago
You're trying to claim fees for services not rendered for a pre-paid monthly service are rightfully yours (again without addressing the email) because you've made a claim in a ToS. And you think that'd stand up in small claim
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by ssmoot 10y ago
If they signed a contract you might have a point. And you didn't special order anything. Your argument here is all kinds of moving goal posts. Bottom line: Unless you have an actual contract, don't expect to win. And even then, be

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