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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>When the 13th Amendment was proposed, one of the big compromises the South fought for was the "except as punishment for crime" clause. The south didn't really get a say in the text of the 13th since they weren't arou
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
And "trafficking" is defined to include things like "possessing the amount of weed HN types by for themselves to get the bulk discount" not just "getting on a plane with bags of coke strapped to you.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
With fentanyl being so potent these days and most guns never winding up killing anybody I wouldn't be surprised if the body count per "retail transaction" wasn't on the same order. This isn't your 70s hippie weed or
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Are there are lot of people in prison for illegal gun possession / dealing? Yes. Tons of petty criminals and low level nonviolent felons are behind bars because whatever they were doing it they did it while packing heat or had a gun
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Based on the comments in the "NYC is owed a bajillion dollars in parking tickets" thread from a couple days ago I bet you could get an easy dozen if you just dropped the phrase "five star hotel prices". People are stron
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Well first off, they do boot and impound liberally for multiple unpaid fines in addition to the usual denial of registration/license renewal for unpaid fines (though TFA says the latter changed recently but recent enough that it should
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
The moral of the story seems to be that if you don't get lucky and find your property is not abandoned by the thief then knowing where your property is doesn't help much without the capacity to bring the requisite violence (or cre
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
> How does this work? Maintenance in the first 100-150k (I really want to say ~200 but that will depend largely on the treatment the vehicle gets in the first 100) is basically nothing other than short term wear items (pads and tires) an
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Why don't you sing the praises of Egypt, Thailand or the myriad of Caribbean islands? Tourists love those places, hell they love anything as long as you keep the ugly out of view. I grew up in a first world tourist town. It was a me
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
If Brad the electrician wants to benefit from artificial barriers to entry that keep his job out of reach of Jose that raises the cost floor of a building. Now apply the same effect for every trade. Now add in the cost of dealing with obs
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
They spec cheap insulation and whatnot because after every party that they're legally required to do business (a dozen item long list of licensed trades and government entities) with gets their pound of flesh that's all there&#x27
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
This is satire, right? NYC is located at the mouth of the Hudson and one end of Long Island sound, two relatively sheltered waterways. For hundreds of years this facilitated huge amounts of resource extraction from the region. Upon this r
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Manhattan apartments are subject to a lot of the same price forces as commercial equipment. Their cost reflects the ready access to money making opportunties.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>Our homes are also designed in way that causes alienation from family members. Have you been in a house from the 1800s or early 1900s? Walls and doors everywhere. Hell, there's a good chance the kitchen sink isn't even in th
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
As EVs proliferate to work vehicles we'll likely see 2spd and maybe 3spd gearboxes for the same reason trucks have multiple gear ranges. There is a point at which a simple high/low planetary gearset with a simple engagement mecha
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
I'd just like to remind the downvoters that most early 90s compacts put down well over 40mpg with the manual, easily 50+ if you try, and around 30 no matter what you do if equipped with a 3spd auto. Depending on differences in usage p
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Sure some idiots in the Northeast can't end words with R and southerners do some weird stuff but for the most part English accents within North America are pretty much a non issue. It's diction that causes most communication prob
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
That's exactly what we do. All that mostly air filled plastic that is used to shape the bulbous front ends of modern front ends on cars and crossovers serves this purpose. If you ever look at a car and wonder why there's so much
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>Efficient in what way? Mostly that the OEM's engineers can choose to tune it to upshift or resist downshifting in situations where the average consumer with a manual would just wind it out.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Those "forward leaning grills" you're crapping on are just flimsy plastic with a bunch of air behind them. If they strike a pedestrian at any speed they deform and crumple and whatnot and the pedestrian winds up on the hood.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>Because the utility is seldom fully utilized in an urban environment, they are nearly pure fashion. Utilization of private vehicles scales with income, not with population density. HN just all tends to live in "nice" places s
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
And this is a problem because why? It's pretty perfect for the role of "something a little lesser than a small dump truck but that still does the same jobs".
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
You're assuming way to much competence and foresight and way to little evil intent.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
They'll regulatory capture that industry out of existence before it ever gets off the ground and you (you HN readers, not you personally) will vote for the politicians that will do it after telling you it's to prevent odometer fra
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
Commerce clause. (Yes I know it's not a "right" but there's no political will to ban it federally so the distinction doesn't matter much here.) And given the choice between putting up with oversized vehicles and com
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>We have rethought it extensively. There are proposals in every major city and probably nearly every neighborhood for improved street designs. But enough of those who drive through those neighborhoods oppose those improvements that they
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
They went out of favor because vehicle body design trends (largely driven by safety requirements) make them have a lot less practical space inside for a given external size. The idiots who cooked up the CAFE footprint rule that resulted in
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
> and of course critics would describe their drivers as compensating for a subconscious lacking in masculinity or something… So then the next generation grew up and bought trucks because trucks weren't constantly being shat on. And
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
You probably wouldn't know the difference between a 1980s car and a modern car if the modern amount of NVH reduction was thrown at the 1980s car.
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by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>many cyclist don't understand this because they are bad drivers So charitable of you to assume that they are only bad at driving. I find that people who don't "get" mixed traffic create uncertainty and danger for eve

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