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by taylodl 2y ago
It's owned by a Chinese company. It's America's way of giving the finger to the Feds.
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by taylodl 2y ago
Misandry
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by taylodl 2y ago
Along with woke. They're terms for things people don't like, and as such, everybody defines them differently because we all don't like different things.
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by taylodl 2y ago
The point is Elon lies about the most trivial things where it's easy to show he's lying. Elon is a habitual liar. His continual lying is starting to hurt business. When will Tesla FSD be fully functional? Why would you believe any
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by taylodl 2y ago
Which now complicates title transfer and potentially creates a buyer-beware situation. Road construction and maintenance can be paid for out of the state budget, a major point the adoption of the gas tax was to capture money from the out-of
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by taylodl 2y ago
Real prices account for CPI, not the dollar's fall against international currencies. From our perspective, the Nixon Shock appeared to have little effect. That wasn't true for our trading partners.
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by taylodl 2y ago
> More than the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War? Yes. Those were Egypt and Syria's concern, not OPEC's. > You'd be hard pressed to find the Nixon shock on the international price of oil BINGO! That's the prob
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by taylodl 2y ago
Report your mileage accrued. Yeah right. You're supposed to report your purchase price when you transfer your title, too so you pay the sales tax. People lie all the time.
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by taylodl 2y ago
I meant you're making it manifest that all roads are toll roads. I like your GPS-based toll system idea. Different roads could have different toll rates that are displayed on your device, including a meter for how much you owe, and a
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by taylodl 2y ago
> And owners already go in once a year to a mechanic for a state vehicle inspection No we don't. That's not universal for all states nor all jurisdictions within a state. If you already have an annual vehicle inspection, then
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by taylodl 2y ago
What you're really arguing for is toll roads. The quibble is over how to collect the toll.
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by taylodl 2y ago
> like the devs who insist that private/internal methods should not have unit tests Because unit tests for private/internal methods aren't required. They are tested via the testing of the public methods. If a test covera
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by taylodl 2y ago
> The Nixon Shock caused the Yom Kippur War that sparked OPEC's embargo of America [1]? Absolutely. The Yom Kippur war was the straw that broke the camel's back, but the Nixon Shock was the force supplying the tension. The Ni
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by taylodl 2y ago
I'm with you, const whenever possible. Fewer things to reason about and chase down while diagnosing issues or debugging. I also thought this was the default for a majority of developers.
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by taylodl 2y ago
It's called the Nixon Shock - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock It ultimately led to the abolishment of the Bretton Woods International Monetary System which in turn led to the Oil Shock of 1973-1974 which
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by taylodl 2y ago
Sounds to me like the United States just handed South Korea a gift.
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by taylodl 2y ago
My prediction, based off raising kids and working with teenagers? The teens are going to give a big ol' Yankee Doodle Middle Finger to Uncle Sam. They'll flock to any social media site not hosted by a US megacorp. If you don&#x2
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by taylodl 2y ago
Then you should be locked up behind bars. You're a thief, pure and simple.
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by taylodl 2y ago
Could be a couple things: 1. ASMR. Typewriters make a nice sound as you type. A lot of people like it. With regards to vinyl LPs, while growing up a friend of mine always remarked how much the static reminded him of a crackling fire. He fel
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by taylodl 2y ago
Sounds pretty pathetic, doesn't it?
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by taylodl 2y ago
And what those companies were doing 100 years ago is irrelevant compared to what Elon Musk is doing today.
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by taylodl 2y ago
So their anti-EV sentiment for the past 10 years was all BS? Got it.
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by taylodl 2y ago
This article is about 2024 sales. I suspect 2025 sales are going to be brutal.
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by taylodl 2y ago
> it’s almost like punishing users for making the choice to browse the web without ads AKA depriving content creators of their revenue. If you're saying their content isn't good enough to pay for directly, and isn't good
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by taylodl 2y ago
> I don't blame Musk for having promised full self driving 10 years ago, but after a decade, we all should know better. I do. We knew better 10 years ago. Elon simply lies continually. That's probably why he and Trump get alo
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by taylodl 2y ago
Timing is everything. There's been a procession of tech leaders prostrating themselves before Trump, and Trump hasn't even had his coronation. Now Paul Graham has joined the fray. So excuse me if I see it as a pathetic capitulatio
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by taylodl 2y ago
It takes time to develop a skill. It takes even more time to excel in that skill. It takes still more time to master that skill. Part of what we admire in art, whether it be music, literature, dance, paining or whatever, is the mastery of t
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by taylodl 2y ago
They'll do what we allow them to get away with. The quote "the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy" applies here. T
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by taylodl 2y ago
English is already the most popular development language, when you think about it. Consider your project sponsor. What language do they use to create products? English. From their perspective, they provide requirements and specifications in
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by taylodl 2y ago
Having grown up at a time where I was forced to use typewriters and listen to vinyl LP records, I don't wax so nostalgic over those old technologies. As soon as I got my Commodore 64 and my Star Gemini 10x dot matrix printer, I never

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