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by swalling 3y ago
The existence doesn't annoy me. It's the sanctimonious tone that this should be the norm, when it's clearly not even remotely built for the reality of how families actually live, despite their marketing. The actual solution
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by swalling 3y ago
You are weird. I am a born-and-raised PNW resident and a very small proportion of the population can tolerate having to wear a rain suit to bike home from work or go to the grocery store for 6-8 months of the year.
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by swalling 3y ago
Try telling a family who needs to haul multiple children, dogs, and gear for even short trips to the park for soccer practice that they should use a tiny city car instead of a van or SUV. You buy vehicles for the life and city you have, not
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by swalling 3y ago
It doesn't take comprehensive statistical analysis to conclude that a brand new car that comes with an electronic immobilizer, alarm system, and remote GPS-based location monitoring is less likely to be stolen than your 1999 Honda Acco
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by swalling 3y ago
Used cars are actually much more likely to be stolen, especially if lack modern features like chip keys, immobilizers, and GPS tracking services. In US cities, the most stolen cars are all 15-20+ year old models. If you buy a new Toyota for
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by swalling 3y ago
That still doesn’t prove that accounting audits should prevent a bank run. The more likely culprit here is what the FDIC called out in its report, namely a failure of oversight and a loosened regulatory regime.
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by swalling 3y ago
KPMG audits more US banks than any other firm. This article is like saying that all dead people drank water before their demise.
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by swalling 3y ago
This is very common among endurance athletes. It's extremely difficult to consistently recover from a >1,000-2,000 calorie deficit every time you do a weekly long run or ride. Glycogen reabsorption is optimally effective for only a
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by swalling 3y ago
It's not just a longterm effect of VO2max improvements, which is a physiological metric that is quite slow to improve and realistically has upper limits based on your age and sex. It's also that aerobic exercise acutely improves b
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by swalling 3y ago
Indian drivers honk incessantly. It’s widely believed that driving there without honking frequently is unsafe, because concepts like lanes and signaling are… loosely followed, to put it mildly. Honking in North America or Europe either mean
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The Death of Downtown? [pdf](downtownrecovery.com)
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by swalling 3y ago
The issue is not purebred dogs. It’s breeding purely for conformation (how the dog looks) rather than for health, longevity, and performance. A good counterpoint to the idea that most purebred dogs have health issues are gundog breeds that
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by swalling 3y ago
The Silicon Valley version of this is the SF2G (San Francisco to Google) bike route. https://sf2g.com/ Instead of riding miserable Caltrain or driving the 101, biking 40 miles with friends is an absolute pleasure, even if y
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by swalling 3y ago
Potatoes produce the highest level of satiety compared to other carbs. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6267283/ Combined with fats via frying or baking, and it's not a joke that they would m
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by swalling 3y ago
Gotcha. I think I never dug into it because normal people generally don’t want to write in Markdown. The effort in doing that and manually managing cloud sync isn’t worth it. Apple needs to build it with WYSIWYG and have it work out of the
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by swalling 3y ago
Say it with me now: immigration. Who do you think most landscapers, house painters, and roofers employ already?
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by swalling 3y ago
It’s true that the organizational model of the file system and desktop metaphor should be usable for this. There’s another huge gap though: documents in your local machine don’t have easy to use hypertext. Apple Notes app is very nice, bu
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by swalling 3y ago
There may also be municipalities that will die because they cannot sustain the financial burden of doing so or which are just simply located in totally unrealistic places for their current use. For instance, the small towns bordering Tulare
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by swalling 3y ago
Turns out that outside the HN startup bubble there are a lot of perfectly nice women who don’t have white collar careers who still want husbands. Electricians and plumbers generally marry women like elementary school teachers, nurses, house
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by swalling 3y ago
This is total nonsense. By your 60s, a smart person who has been in the trades since their early 20s should own an independent business or at the very least manage a team of people / apprentices who can do the heavy lifting. This is no
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by swalling 3y ago
If a link is paywalled and/or the content is not able to be crawled/archived for a reader mode, a browser that warned me before I wasted time opening a tab whose content is totally inaccessible would be appreciated. Contextual loc
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by swalling 3y ago
Your conclusion may have been correct about your dog, but extending that to all dogs is pretty large and ridiculous leap. Dogs view their people as family members (which is what a pack is), and many other people’s dogs get to have a healt
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by swalling 3y ago
Say that to dogs, who have co-evolved with humans over thousands of years to a level that not only do they look completely different from wolves, but they can happily digest food that a wolf cannot. Dogs like to be with people. Even free-ro
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by swalling 3y ago
It's not just rural Americans. Japanese 4WD vans, SUVs, and trucks are super hot among Portland hipsters looking for city-friendly vehicles for cargo or road tripping. There are some importers here locally that this is all they do now,
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by swalling 3y ago
There is a big difference between one digital camera per household and one in the pocket of every person at all times.
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by swalling 3y ago
Yes, it democratized access and made everyone a photographer, which also had the effect of nuking the bottom tiers of paid professional photography / stock photos, and turned them into something people do mainly for intrinsic motivatio
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by swalling 3y ago
Photography is a great example here, because it seems pretty possible that generative models do to writing what smartphones did to photography.
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by swalling 3y ago
Unless it massively changes between now and launch (which is possible) Tesla is only going to outperform traditional trucks on one functional vector, which is speed and acceleration, but they don't outperform other EVs on that front.
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by swalling 3y ago
We have all seen one, it’s called YouTube. Jay Leno hit the nail on the head “this doesn’t look anything like a pickup truck” which is exactly what the problem was with the Aztek. Crossovers are a huge market but the totally ridiculous body
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by swalling 3y ago
The current product is not even remotely one that can compete in the market. It has to be redesigned, or they’re going to end up shipping the Pontiac Aztek of EV trucks.

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