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by volkl48 7y ago
Their sales/deals are often the lowest price going, particularly their combo deals. For non-sale stuff, they're usually in a competitive ballpark, although I wouldn't necessarily say cheaper, and I don't have to worry ab
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Not suggesting it can be used for recreational purposes without likely winding up causing more harm than alcohol, but: Meth (actual meth, not a different amphetamine) can be prescribed. It's typically under the brand name Desoxyn in th
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Which is not the norm in any developed economy where the average person can even consider owning a car.
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For a little more of a history lesson: Much of the core of Boston is artificial land added at various times throughout history. The seemingly crazy street layouts and orientations (especially in the Downtown/North End areas) make much
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The D/Riverside Line of the Green Line is a recycled former heavy rail line, it was not originally built as a streetcar/light rail line. The ironwork, old stone bridges and stationhouses and such are very nice, but are thanks to t
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I think most of the things you mention are minor fringe activities unlikely to be more than a rounding error in overall pollution. I can't find an exact % for how many people in CA heat with wood, but it looks to be <3%. It could be
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No, people are poisoning themselves. ~40% of the US population is obese and in total, ~72% of the US population is overweight (including those classified as obese). Every doctor I know would prefer you to eat and move/exercise appropri
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I imagine you don't know the answer, but I'm curious as to if these studies were controlled for screen glare. Dark themes/backgrounds have far worse issues with screen glare from badly configured room lighting than light ones
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Is this data talking about a "cure" where people no longer would be labeled as having depression at all, or are we talking about clinically significant improvements/better than placebo results?
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The current (post ~2015 or so) Precision models aren't like that. They're pretty sleek and competitive. No socketed CPU or externally accessible disk drives, but you do get easily replaceable RAM, drives and battery if you're
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If you're dealing with Apple/an Authorized Service Provider, there is a replacement method available to them to get data off of a failing system. (Uses the USB-C ports and DFU mode). Anecdotally, it does work on some boards that a
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To date, the answer to that question appears to be: Sternly worded letters, which will be promptly ignored. There's no actual enforcement mechanisms against an entity that does not exist in the EU and has no financial exposure to it. T
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Your general position that Americans often don't get a lot of vacation time by the norms of developed countries isn't wrong, but your choice of data is. That table is 23 years out of date, and it was only for employees at "sm
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A substantial part of the problem in the US regarding transit projects is also lack of practice and atrophy of experience and capability. In the past 50 years, we didn't build those sorts of projects frequently. When we did, they were
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It's pretty easy to point to the obvious societal and economic benefits to the population of all of those examples. Does the book explain why it believes said benefits are outweighed by their use in allowing the government to actually
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There is the question of what we are trying to optimize for. If you are trying to attain maximum safety for a belted passenger, then no, current passenger seatbelts are not optimal. This is clearly evident from the far better seatbelts and
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A lot of times in those instances the guys are only there for the peak hours or when the site is active. The light lets them leave the site with only the single lane open and not require overnight staffing. Some of the reasons are: - When t
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Is this a serious question? Because Iraq is a chaotic mess where we are generally impressed if it isn't literally exploding. It's not that shutting the internet off is acceptable, it's that compared to everything else that ha
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In at least some cases, yes. https://support.apple.com/applecare-enterprise-service I do not know what the criteria are to be able to get on that program, though.
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Your post reads to me a lot like just getting away from everything in a setting where you couldn't be tempted otherwise was what you found beneficial. Which is great, but makes me wonder if the meditation aspect isn't what's
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> The survival rates for collisions on highway speeds are in single digits no matter what you do. As in what, a head-on collision between vehicles traveling at 70mph? Yeah, that's not likely to end well. It's also a highly unco
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The puzzle piece you are missing is topography. Load up a topo map of the state sometime. Nearly all of it is a twisted, practically fractal landscape of hills/mountains. And unlike some other regions known for mountains (like New Engl
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> Dehumidifiers are far more energy efficient (removes the hot water droplets suspended in air to cool air temp) Do you have some sort of citation for that? Because a dehumidifier is pretty much an air conditioner that doesn't make
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The seemingly eternal problem in the NYC metro area is the timing of the highway revolt. There's a bunch of giant pieces of infrastructure that were built to serve those intended highways. That's not to say I wish the highways wer
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Maybe not a 4 year old, but NYC kids grow up way more independent than in many places in the US. Middle school kids taking public transit by themselves is pretty normal.
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As with many things, a high deductible plan makes sense in theory and does not work very well for the average person in reality. To walk through some but by no means all of the problems: - The average person is bad with money. Always has
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I describe Cities:Skylines as a "city painter". You can make nice looking things in it, but there's little challenge and most of the mechanics don't have a lot of depth. I'd suggest looking at SimCity 4 for the peak
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The USPS receives no federal funding. It does get various breaks a private company wouldn't that you can argue amount to subsidies, such as not having to pay taxes. And it does have what amounts to a government-enforced monopoly on cer
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I'll also mention that when much of the population is transient like that, it'll even affect the people who aren't. Most everyone I knew growing up doesn't live where we grew up anymore. They're scattered everywhere
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Yeah. I keep an eye on ISO-NE's (New England's grid) real-time charts (so as to reduce my impact on peak load days), and the daily peak load in summer up here is typically 17:30-18:30 or so, not the middle of the day when solar is

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