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by wcunning 9y ago
Waymo is already partnered with Fiat-Chysler -- the current test platform is the Chrysler Pacifica. Waymo also opened an office in Livonia, MI to be near the University of Michigan MCity testing grounds and the Auburn Hills, MI headquarters
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by wcunning 9y ago
I've switched to exclusively wearing Brooks Brothers shirts from my local thrift store. They seem to survive to donation, being somewhat higher quality. I also find good winter dress coats and decent suits on a regular basis. It's
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by wcunning 9y ago
The reason you need to do it on the regional level is that you need to provide services that people are willing to pay for. I don't want to pay $35 for a burger because the waiter/waitress needs to make $100k/year or commute
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by wcunning 9y ago
This post seems somewhat light on details. You open with talking about being frustrated by open plan offices or long commutes (things that I would categorize as major traits of a working environment, likely hard to change), but then complet
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by wcunning 9y ago
Well, as a Michigander, I think of the Midwest as the Rust Belt, which I realize may be disagreeable to some, like another commenter in this thread. That said, culturally speaking, Pittsburgh has far more in common with Cleveland than with
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by wcunning 9y ago
Three of the top ten richest public universities in the United states, by endowment, are in the Midwest, potentially 5 if you want to count Pennsylvania as part of the Midwest (4 if you count Pittsburgh, 5 if you count Pittsburgh and Penn S
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by wcunning 9y ago
A lot of that, in the specific case of milk, is that farther out from cities you can sell it fast enough to make sense. Milk is, legally speaking, "good" for about 2 weeks from the time it comes out of the cow. If you're in a
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by wcunning 9y ago
I for one prefer to not have my pipes freeze solid and burst, so I heat my house to a minimum of 60 all the time, and the "unheated" basement (which has no vents from the furnace, merely the furnace itself and radiant heat from th
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by wcunning 9y ago
I went there, along with several of my friends. Most of them now work for Amazon, several in the extant Detroit office and commute there from just outside Ann Arbor. You'd be surprised at how easy an hour commute is in South-east Michi
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by wcunning 9y ago
Amazon already has a fairly sizeable office in Downtown Detroit, and a huge number of Canadians from Windsor working there. Would it make more sense to expand that?
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by wcunning 9y ago
Inkster is giving property away, but rent in the desirable neighborhoods of Detroit is well over a grand a month. In the modern high rises with a nicely updated kitchen, you're looking at two grand. House prices in Indian Village are h
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by wcunning 9y ago
Look up the history of Theater Bizarre and go down the rabbit hole at your own leisure. Edit: Sorry that feels very google it for yourself. I don't mean it that way. That's a good starting topic to find the other crazy things that
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by wcunning 10y ago
Personally, I filled that time around grad school and killing time finding my first job by taking vocational classes at my local community college. I learned both welding and machining in my evenings, and now that's the foundation of m
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by wcunning 10y ago
Strong agreement. For specific examples, read the history of Stanley Tools or Craftsman. Compare that to the rise of Harbor Freight and the stories the old timers will tell you about Taiwanese tools from about 1975. My only argument -- real
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by wcunning 10y ago
The specific article I'm thinking of is this one: https://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/ It effectively claims that the guy couldn't repair his machines without a specialist who ha
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by wcunning 10y ago
I grew up in the farming country section of Michigan, and I knew John Deere owners and John Deere mechanics. It's not a question of wanting to rip out emissions, it's a question of wanting to be able to read OBD-II diagnostics cod
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by wcunning 10y ago
Phone Call >>>> Letter (Handwritten) > Letter (Typed) >> Email. Call your congressperson's local office and talk to someone on the phone. Offer to explain the reasoning behind the need for this law, and back that u
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by wcunning 10y ago
This especially important because you can't expect the city to have to suddenly significantly enlarge the roads or improve the traffic control measures (lights, signs, etc.) overnight. If it grows up slowly, organically, then the regul
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by wcunning 10y ago
Much as this comment is like 40% trolling and likely to lose me what little karma I have, is there an easy way to see this data in a better projection?
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by wcunning 10y ago
I've never heard of this, and yet I've read a number of think-pieces that have been on the front page lambasting the ad networks for letting sketchy ads through. If this is only the trivial end of hiding from the network's po
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by wcunning 10y ago
And up in the thumb, too. Edit: But not in Ann Arbor, the purportedly safest city in the state... Go figure.
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by wcunning 10y ago
All of these things have been working fine for me, and unlike many people, my experience is consistently that Chrome has significantly worse performance than Firefox. That said, I cannot remotely condone the removal of Xul without a firm co
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by wcunning 10y ago
The 2025 CAFE standards seem to be a dramatic rise in requirement in a short time period wherein the industry attempted to provide alternative advise and was soundly rebuffed, even outright ignored. The EPA may have once listened, but they
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by wcunning 10y ago
I'm contemplating this metaphor, and it really works well. Basically, the driving range is capacity and the acceleration/low end performance is access speed. The only problem is that the kg/kJ stored is not accelerating at th
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by wcunning 10y ago
I feel like this is at least partially attributable to how we get our entertainment too. During the postwar era, there wasn't an infinite variety of media to consume -- TV shows were on at a set time, on one of four channels, between 6
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by wcunning 10y ago
My understanding is that both Bell Labs and PARC were owned and operated solely by large corporations (AT&T and Xerox, respectively). Do you have a source on government funding of either?
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by wcunning 10y ago
GMail once ate (bypassed spam and instantly deleted it, silently) an email filled with travel itinerary for an interview, causing me to miss the flight booked for me and the company I was interviewing with to have to book a second one (~$1k
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by wcunning 11y ago
Apple Pay uses (used?) the American Express payments network. It's accepted at card terminals where they 1) have the hardware to talk to an iPhone and 2) accept Amex. The issue with Apple disintermediating the credit card networks is t
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by wcunning 11y ago
It's not so much a question of what you throw away when you move as it is a question of what you're using regularly. I'll be moving for work soon, and I'll be throwing away/donating/discarding quite a few thing
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Lawrence Lessig Enters the Presidential Race(reason.com)
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