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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
The Chinese digital calipers are of questionable accuracy as the battery gets low. I much prefer a dial caliper at that price point.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Another option is new smaller models get introduced and begin their own lifecycle of bloating. For example the Honda HRV is roughly the same size and price point as the CRV was originally.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Higher liability minimums would be very regressive making support tepid among the demographics who usually want really high taxes.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
You paid half ton truck money to wind up with a midsize truck (or you got the deal of the century). Vehicle size was clearly not a priority when you made the purchase. Or at least that's what your actions say.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Tax is just one part of the cost of living picture. A couple percent state income tax difference isn't really a big deal with the feds take a much bigger cut but when you consider the long tail of $6 gas, sin taxes on your smokes, tax
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
A few of old IT guys with no fucks to give and a few "up and out" junior devs working over time can whip up a one off abomination build out of LAMP stacks and CGI scrips with a little perl thrown in and an unusable set of websites
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>I lived a somewhat similar life basically enjoying living outdoors and odd jobs and travelling and volunteering until I had a kid You could have just continued that life on a cash basis...
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Counting solids doesn't make sense unless you're evaluating ketchup powder. Ketchup itself is mostly water.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Low dose amphetamines are pretty safe. We've given a lot of them to kids with adhd over the years
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
The devil is in the details. Borrowing money almost always involves interest but there's a big difference between a government bond and an usury payday loan. Likewise I think that there is a big difference in critical thinking ability
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Funny, the demographics who post/comment on Reddit are just about the last people I want product advice from. If there was a "salty old mfer posting on a forum in 2010" search I'd be much more inclined to use that. Goog
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Once products take hold as being "good" according to the groupthink Reddit's strong rewards for parroting groupthink make it almost impossible to go against the grain and get heard to listen to anything negative. Anyone compl
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Reddit in particular with its very strong groupthink/circle jerk loop is really susceptible to this. Marketer's content gets popular/upvoted, then people parrot it, they get upvoted, repeat.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
It already is gamed. Almost anyone who has a brand targetted at high class consumers already astrotufs the living crap out of Reddit. In Reddit's case this is made even more odious by its propensity for group-think and dogpiling so yo
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
This is an incredibly naive bordering on "probably just dishonesty masquerading as ignorance" thing to say. Of course cost goes up fairly linearly with size. More rebar, more pipes, more materials, more diesel in the bulldozer, m
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Doesn't matter if you waste half the energy if it's still a cheaper way to boil water than the next best thing.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Doesn't matter. Public perception > reality. Look at hydroelectric. Terrible for ecosystems, decent number of deadly failures over the years, way better perception and less pushback from the public than fission.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>1. What's the most efficient way to boil water? Doesn't need to be the most efficient. Just more efficient per energy transferred to the water than all the other options.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Heck, if an uninvolved local sees you stealing a catalytic converter in Arkansas there's a "high enough you can't write it off" chance you'll get their footwear on your ribcage. In SF the bystanders will probably j
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>Lots of legal requirements exist to protect someone. SF is the poster child for what happens when a bunch of people incapable or unmotivated to engage in planning more than 5min into the future write a law about everyone's pet issu
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
> CO2 and other greenhouse gases are pollutants As an aside, that is going to have some weird unforeseen effects at low levels because it means that almost every car and every dwelling or heated structure emits "pollutants" and
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
I'd gladly suffer through whatever cold it took to make the improper new englanders move elsewhere, which would make me very happy.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Gamesmanship like this is counterproductive when it gets everyone on your side grouped in with whoever on your side is playing "bad cop".
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
The part that really annoys me is after these people wear out their welcome and get sufficiently marginalized the adults will have decades less with which to tackle the problems. The opportunity costs of pretending extremists like this hav
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
I don't know what fantasy world you live in but unless you have substantial evidence that the pedestrian did something wrong making the accident reasonably unavoidable by the driver you're in for a many thousands of dollars and a
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Thousands of dollars to throw bricks through windows and slash tires? Anyone who has basic opsec and is willing to cover a decently large area could be rolling in the dough at those prices.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
I used to be a janitor. I preferred if you people ignored me. I don't want to have to tiptoe around not offending the sensibilities of people I have little to nothing in common with. If I wanted to interact with you people I could h
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Yes, but mostly out of economic necessity. Unless you're building some billionaires summer cottage it's just not economically justifiable to pay for all the labor required to deviate from the standard plus all the material. If yo
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
1 is only an issue because moral panic gave legislators a blank check to write DUI laws that are so immensely broad they would be opposed in any other context. 2 is only an issue because drugs were a moral panic and people hated weed enough
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>That wasn't the people. That was the oligarchs disagreeing as to who got to own the slaves and reap the spoils of genocide. Oh come on, quit with the BS talking points. War on your territory is NEVER good for business and overall

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