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by tekknik 4y ago
So you’re trying to regulate morality?
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by tekknik 4y ago
> Anyone in the US who buys online with a credit card basically has up to 90 or even 180 day free returns. Except the average consumer rarely reverses charges. Someone doing this regularly is going to stand out and will get legal attenti
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by tekknik 4y ago
> are actually really hard to charge back, if at all This is very much not true. In fact when I’m buying something that I think there may be a need to charge back I mostly use my debit card, or a particular CC. Both are VISA. And VISA ha
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by tekknik 4y ago
> If you're buying a used car that uses rubber timing belts, and don't have solid documentation¹ that the belt was ever changed, you can look for tool marks on the timing cover bolts. You can also just check the condition of th
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by tekknik 4y ago
> Companies could absolutely design things with reusable packaging. They use non-reusable package on purpose, because customers try to scam them. It’s not that they can’t make reusable packaging, this is a feature for them.
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by tekknik 4y ago
> In my experience using the site my impression is that they would rather think I think of everything as being sold by Amazon. Or maybe they want the experience to look the same whether you’re buying from amazon or a 3p? Perhaps to avoid
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by tekknik 4y ago
> Are you "stealing" if someone delivers their tv into your possession and never asks for it back? by law no, but if this were a mom and pop operation, would you then return the TV? if so, then you know it’s wrong.
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by tekknik 4y ago
Your time is so important you can’t send an email? What company do you work for? Should we test their customer service?
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by tekknik 4y ago
> It doesn't support map/tables/dictionaries. This is actually huge. I get that there might be > some pattern where you don't want to allow this but for the majority of situations working with json api's you&#
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by tekknik 4y ago
The sound from an engine doesn’t come from it rattling, tolerances in modern engines are very tight. Sound comes from the explosions.
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by tekknik 4y ago
> I bet this saves the money, too; a muffler is an extra component you need to source and/or build. Bending some extra pipe seems a lot cheaper. Now hold on, extra length on the exhaust manifold / headers are not going to reduc
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by tekknik 4y ago
> Hence why my point wasn't about preference but rather just pointing out that there are differences one has to adapt to when switching from one platform to another (whichever direction that switch might be). Think about this from t
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by tekknik 4y ago
> You can make eggplant flour, canned, salted and pickled vegetables. Farmers grow food, they don’t process it outside what a combine does. This further increases costs as now you need mass grinders, canners, and pickling machines. >
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by tekknik 4y ago
There, this explains it, VLC actually is dual licensed under MPLv2 as well according to it’s about page. Thanks for clearing that up
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by tekknik 4y ago
from the article: “If it does prove durable, it could be a relatively cheap way to get freshwater to people in need of it.” The engineers are unsure of how long it will last and if it’s actually cost effective, yet there’s many HN comments
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by tekknik 4y ago
> few months ago This was 2 years and a few months ago, at least the article is. > wouldn't pay them and store this food In the article the plant pictured being plowed over is an eggplant, which has a storage life of about a week
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by tekknik 4y ago
I’d wholeheartedly disagree, some citizens were receiving $2-3k a month from having dependents in areas where that would cover 2 entire families bills. This in turn created massive free cash flow, which was then mostly spent.
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by tekknik 4y ago
> The preferred way to correct someone wrong on the internet is gently. Many of us have had the “citation needed” demand thrown in our face in very rude ways during the COVID vaccine debacle. It’s gonna take some years for it to settle d
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by tekknik 4y ago
> Nuclear is not cheap. It’s getting cheaper. The primary reason it’s not cheap currently is every reactor built is site specific. This will soon change with smaller reactors being built in factories then installed. > Something you ca
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by tekknik 4y ago
I wonder if those of us saying the same thing in 2021 will get an apology. Of course I know we won’t.
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by tekknik 4y ago
Many engineers have great people skills, they tend to become contractors.
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by tekknik 4y ago
> SHIFT+CTRL+LEFT_ARROW then it will select the word. If I do the equivalent in Notes (macOS) it will select the whole line, not just the word (I tested this just now too). Use option instead of control here.
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by tekknik 4y ago
It also doesn’t function the same, with the windows key being used mostly (only?) for global shortcuts like locking the machine.
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by tekknik 4y ago
> macOS keyboard shortcuts that differ in really confusing ways too. Like + Ctrl+C vs Cmd+C + Text area navigation on a Mac is totally different too. Home and End buttons behave differently. Ctrl+Arrow keys don't work. Shift+Arrow k
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by tekknik 4y ago
What would happen in Linus decided he likes MacOS better? He’s kinda stuck at this point no?
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by tekknik 4y ago
How is it deliberately incompatible? How is VLC on the app store while claiming in its about page to be GPLv2 licensed? What specific language in the GPL or App Store T&C is incompatible?
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by tekknik 4y ago
> For developers, macs are just really nice hardware eh, not quite. for me the OS is the most important part, with great hardware being icing on the cake. I’m not knocking linux, but it’s not for everyone.
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by tekknik 4y ago
So by dent I assume you’re meaning drops? How does plastic survive that better? It’ll shatter, leaving the laptop internals on the sidewalk. I’ll take a dented aluminum body over plastic thanks.
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by tekknik 4y ago
> Russia built a floating nuclear power plant. There is a lot of controversy around it. There are many floating reactors, they’re called aircraft carriers and warships. At any rate, an actual shippable reactor is available and the first
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by tekknik 4y ago
They also just got the OK from the NRC: https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/nuscale-smr-approval-nucl...

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