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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
It's not about becoming a commercial pilot or truck driver either but those are a means to an end.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
> I'd say it's basically impossible that he figured out a way to refine uranium for $2000. I'm sure you could get the cost way down if you traded throughput/time. Tub grinder vs homeowner wood chipper.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
In full? 1776 In practice what happens is that some boondoggle results in a catastrophic too big to brush aside and the part of the executive branch in question decides that just not doing that thing going forward is better than the scruti
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
I live in a city that's been defunded by economic circumstance. There are simply not enough blue bodies to harass people over the petty stuff. The cops focus on violent crime and drug trafficking because staffing levels are low enoug
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
If there truly is a need to turn the valve the government should have no problem getting sufficient voluntary compliance by asking politely and publicly and articulating why such action is justified.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>How many cars reach 1 million miles without major engine work? I can think of about a dozen engine platforms off the top of my head that would reliably get there or damn close if they got the same kind of maintenance/inspection sch
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
> Until they ban all the old cars? HN is never short on comments advocating for specific policies that would sum up to that effect, so yes.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
It's about the valves. Plenty of 100+ octane unleaded fuels out there.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
They were designed in the 60s and the FAA certification process makes designing a replacement cost prohibitive with current and future sales volumes.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Irrational reactions to statistically anomalous "stranger danger" and similiar are why CPS has that power in the first place.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Seems like every discussion about anything slightly environmental had some lead related low effort comments about "it's 202x, why is leaded avgas still a thing?". I won't miss those. I won't miss the lead either.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>Women get matches, but the majority of the interest is low quality / aggressive inappropriate and they spend a lot of time filtering, blacklisting, It's not exactly surprising that the top % of men that most women keep matchin
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
> views usually espoused by people who have never, and will never work a job that could be dangerous Have you ever been on a construction site, shipyard, pit mine, etc.? They're stuck in the mud doing "everybody stand back&quot
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
High torques on small fasteners are common in electrical and hydraulic applications. But yeah, zero reason for huge amounts of torque in a computer case.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>I'd say their attempt is more akin to Snap-on with how much energy they seemed to focus on ergonomics and UX, especially the ratcheting mechanism. Snap On builds "fine" tools and sells them for premium prices because thei
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>That isn't to say you shouldn't make things safer but you have to take into account is your change a net positive over all. This is hard to do in a world where people have fundamentally incompatible belief systems.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
By the time you are reading statements like this on HN or Reddit or wherever people in whatever industry is being discussed already know that people who don't know how to evaluate the product are looking at that signal thereby making i
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
If you're spending $100 on a backpack you can afford the extra $3 that's baked into the price for a nice zipper. Peace of mind is a luxury good. People in the bottom of the market for any given class of product don't want to
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
> I’d say it’s just basic human nature really I'd say it's a learned behavior that feels that way because we live in a society that rewards it far too much and to regularly.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Unfortunately the venn diagram between "people who want a heavy remote for physical fitness reasons" and "people who will absolutely lose their minds when they find out it has lead in it no matter how safely you have encapsul
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Anyone balls deep in commodities is necessarily deeply interested in the trends for commodities that are below them in the stack, such as energy.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>Often pushing a narrative along the lines of “look how much it sucks compared to here”. Which seems nonsensical considering their readership is strongly correlated with the subset of Americans who think we should do things like Western
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>I was under the impression that doctors were getting sheepish about giving such advice in the US. Patients don't like to hear it. Seems like doctors either tell people to lose weight to cure an ear infection or they don't say
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Oh, it's definitely possible to shop weekly, especially with a modern e-bike. I used to do it with a big backpack and a shitty walamrt bike when I lived in the city because the good (read: cheap) grocery store was inconveniently locat
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>I live in a city where it’s normal to go shopping every 1-2 days >It’s not as inconvenient as it sounds because there is usually a grocery store within walking and definitely one within biking distance. I've lived exactly what y
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
WW2 was the culmination of Japan's semi-conscious effort to speed run the transition from feudal backwater to first rate world power. Considering all the stuff they had pulled off up until that point and that they exited WW2 with thei
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>but why mow it all in the first place? Because providing convenient habitat for grass dwelling rodents adjacent to your home will result in some fraction of them trying to move in.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
I'll be sure to keep your wisdom in mind next time I have to reset the way too conservatively sized circuit breaker integral to the contractor that runs in my fume extractors. Damn near anything can kill you. Context matters. In most
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Which middle class are we talking about? The plumbers and nurses or the techies and doctors? Because I think the former would justifiably be very, very, very happy to see the latter take a big haircut since the latter's money is a lar
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>why continue with the SLS? Thinly veiled welfare or a grandfathered in earmarks depending on your perspective.

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