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by wl 4y ago
I hope we're a long way away from VPS providers doing automated scanning for content rather than dealing with potential copyright infringement on a complaint basis.
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by wl 4y ago
Too bad some product manager had to ruin it by adding ads to those emails. Another revenue opportunity and a way to promote USPS things.
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by wl 4y ago
Electronic shifting is already the norm on bikes $5,000+. Shimano is about to introduce an electronic version of their 105 groupset, which will probably normalize electronic shifting on bikes in the $2,000+ price range. Electronic Tiagra an
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by wl 4y ago
Many is an overstatement. You only really have SRAM and Campagnolo that are making decent groupsets and of the two, SRAM is the only one that makes MTB groupsets. MicroShift is there at the lower end and is probably best avoided unless it s
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by wl 4y ago
The classes do serve a purpose. Many of these ebikes are essentially electric motorcycles that belong on the road and not on dedicated bicycle infrastructure.
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by wl 4y ago
The front derailleur stops working at a nominal 10% charge. You'll have plenty of rear shifting left on all but the longest rides. That being said, it's really easy to avoid the battery getting that low. It lasts months under norm
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by wl 4y ago
Di2 is mostly popular among the performance cycling set who likes to go fast. The ~5% drivetrain power loss you'd get from a dynamo isn't attractive in that market. Also, Di2 requires charging every couple of months. It just isn&#
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by wl 4y ago
It's nice to see they improved those by adding the plastic guard! I've got a bike with a really scuffed up fork on one side from using the old version without the guard for a few years.
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by wl 4y ago
I think you're referring to Ian Walker's study. Yes, motorists on average passed helmeted cyclists closer than non-helmeted ones. The difference in average passing distance wasn't huge (1.3 m vs. 1.2 m) and was still a safe d
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by wl 4y ago
I wear a full-face helmet on a mountain bike, too. My point is that when mountain biking, you encounter varied terrain and obstacles and you decide how to approach that based on your skill and experience. Some approaches are riskier than ot
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by wl 4y ago
Riding on roads isn't like mountain biking where you mostly control the amount of risk you take on. Riding on roads puts you at the mercy of other people's choices. I feel the need to wear a helmet anytime I'm riding on a roa
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by wl 4y ago
Are the Damage Controlman books sensitive or something?
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by wl 4y ago
That burrito definition excludes the Mission burrito, a grievous error.
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by wl 4y ago
> the term 'antisocial' has developed a decided bias in terms of its meaning, which carries legal and medical weight. Not in American English, which is why the Americans here are so confused about this whole thing. In American
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by wl 4y ago
The primary definition in the Oxford English dictionary is "opposed to sociality, averse to society or companionship." It cites a usage dating to 1797. The secondary definition given, which you claim is the only correct one, simil
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by wl 4y ago
Too bad the city of Chicago half-assed their redevelopment of Northerly Island. Half the island is still closed because the waves kept on destroying the paved trail along the eastern side. The artificial reefs and barrier islands the engine
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by wl 4y ago
The confusion is that this is mostly a British usage. Americans don't typically use "antisocial" in this way.
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by wl 4y ago
Middle-class white people aren't blameless for trashing cities. Look at any urban environment where they live in high concentrations (i.e. residential high rises) and observe that the sidewalks are a communal toilet for their dogs.
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by wl 4y ago
Configuring an autopilot is not that difficult when someone is telling you exactly what to do. It's also more likely to have a good result vs. relying on underdeveloped stick and rudder skills. In a situation where a non-pilot is press
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by wl 4y ago
Commercial airliners have autoland systems. Much less common in smaller planes.
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by wl 4y ago
Intervals are ambiguous on the staff in the traditional system. They're disambiguated by reference to the clef and key signature. The whole point of this new system is to remove that ambiguity so you don't constantly have to keep
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by wl 4y ago
AA meetings are often designated as "open" or "closed." The "open" ones are open to the public.
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by wl 4y ago
You're probably thinking of Aukey.
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by wl 4y ago
The antennas used to send signals to probes are very directional. Monitoring the uplink frequency wouldn't detect someone else sending commands to the probe unless the monitoring receiver was very close to the transmitting antenna or w
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by wl 4y ago
I vividly remember the time my apartment complex scheduled a fire inspection and chose to forego the written notification required by California law, instead replacing it with an email. Too bad their property management dashboard was incapa
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by wl 4y ago
Death is a virtually unavoidable part of working in medicine. One of the things I've heard over and over again from physicians is dealing with the first handful of deaths during medical school clinical rotations or internship after gra
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by wl 5y ago
Anesthesia on brain-dead donors is the standard of care, not because the donor is suffering at that point, but because the stresses of the harvest can harm the organs. I doubt very much that the those involved in murder by organ theft would
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by wl 5y ago
Nah, more like screeds about how liberals are out to destroy your 401k or how Joe Biden is destroying America.
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by wl 5y ago
My single data point as someone who doesn't sign up for political emails: I get FAR, FAR more conservative spam than liberal.
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by wl 5y ago
> Why should there be? Versed is a Schedule IV drug, vecuronium is not scheduled-if anything DEA scheduling is supposedly about abuse potential, not safety. Vecuronium is one of the most dangerous drugs in the hospital. It's used to

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