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by xethos 2y ago
And intuitively, they're likely better for brake dust pollution. Many will only have to actuate the physical brakes once per trip (to prevent calipers from seizing over time), and can use regen for the rest.
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by xethos 2y ago
> Pitchers will respond with velocity and blow up their arms They seem, from the outside, like they'll do this no matter what. Move the mound back, allow torpedo bats or don't, do you think pitchers will intentionally pass up t
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by xethos 2y ago
You mean the same American president threatening to annex the country? Because they can fuck right off, if so. I'm amazed American's don't seem to grasp this. The president is threatening annexation, and several people below
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by xethos 2y ago
Hell, the fog light body panels on my partner's Audi Q5 was press-fit. We found out it was held in with a couple plastic tabs after it went missing (presumed stolen) and we had to replace it. Even better, should it ever fly off, the pl
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by xethos 2y ago
Because the smart way (with "M" there instead) was patented. From TFA (emphasis mine): > In order to evade the patents that were assigned to the Type Writer Company , WS&B slightly changed the design of No. 2 including the
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by xethos 2y ago
The kill switch seems to stem from the lack of updates to radar-jamming for the F-16 [0]. Lack of software support also, to me, suggests dropping hardware support (and the spare parts required) sooner rather than later. Even if it remains &
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by xethos 2y ago
Probably shouldn't be buying weaponry and defense equiptment from the country toying with idea of invading us, especially considering the reliance if an aggressor in keeping thos same weapons functional. Credible threat or not, "j
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by xethos 2y ago
Agreed to everything in the first paragraph - second isn't something I can speak to as a Canadian. Came back to say you forgot the boom-bust cycle and the constant layoffs that come with it. Would like to reiterate on the stress and (c
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by xethos 2y ago
> What exactly are you suggesting? Not to reshape America into Japan, but attempt to keep the parts that are nice while integrating the best parts of other nations. America loved to claim it was a nation of immigrants; the French even se
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by xethos 2y ago
> Where on earth would I even have to go to find a place without there being any 2.4Ghz signal interference? Unironic answer: most airports. Even small ones will have avionics shops, those avionics shops will have to test Emergency Locat
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by xethos 2y ago
Trump is discussing annexation of my country. Maybe you're thinking of Imperialism 1.0?
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by xethos 2y ago
Dictating they buy one of the most expensive flights (one of the immediate ones taking off that day) probably isn't a great look either. Like so much else with law enforcement, they look like shit because of the system and incentives s
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by xethos 2y ago
I agree with you, and I think the sin tax up here in the Great White North is great. There are more externalities than just the healthcare system having more, expensive, patients. To lead with a strong argument that's less likely to be
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by xethos 2y ago
That feels to me like Spotify saying you don't own the music, you paid for a license to listen to the music; to verify the license is still valid, you must connect to the internet periodically. In this case, you do not own, or even con
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by xethos 2y ago
That's semi-reasonable in America, but less so in any country with single-payer health care. Like smoking, there are serious effects later in life that cost money to treat; this makes for a compelling case for a sin tax IMO, like we ha
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by xethos 2y ago
So I can build, sign, and install an app on iOS without paying Apple $100 every year for the privilege of running my own code? Can I install my own app from a country that's under sanctions, and will not allow VISA payments to be made
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by xethos 2y ago
This is on-par with asking how to keep using your 32-bit and PowerPC apps on MacOS. Not even OSX, but modern MacOS. The OEM is actively pulling support and working against you. There is no stable solution; at best you can have "This we
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by xethos 2y ago
> You swap out metal gears for plastic gears, for instance. Great, till the motor that drives the gears jams. When the gears are metal,the expensive part (the motor) is more likely to lose. When the gears are plastic, the motor survives
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by xethos 2y ago
If you want efficiency, then sure, remove them automatically and save everyone the time. But Americans, by and large, aren't into efficiency. If you want people to visually see where their money goes and when taxes are increased, you
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by xethos 2y ago
Yes, but that starts drifting into a discussion about company towns where one is free to leave - just as soon as the debt (owed to the company that sets your wages and determines your rent) is paid off
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by xethos 2y ago
Hardly brand new, but at least done by an actual publication. Uber will never want to publish stats for this kind of thing, so I suspect this is the best we'll get for awhile https://www.wired.com/story/priscila-
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by xethos 2y ago
One at a time. If you have the time and are interacting with the account, take the second to change it away from gMail. Insisting on doing them all immediately is setting up a Herculean task that'll almost certainly leave you demoraliz
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by xethos 2y ago
Next you'll try to tell us they made more than on Matrix movie
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by xethos 2y ago
GP's comment regarding the "Thick, bright red line on the floor" implies tax returns seeing the light of day should never happen in a democratic state. I take issue with that. I consider the terminology used in the comment to
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by xethos 2y ago
Yes, those dictatorial hellscapes of Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Or did you mean the other countries that have public tax returns? Like I'm not saying this isn't new to the US, and I'm not saying the Nordic models are perf
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by xethos 2y ago
Each say we stray further from God's light. I could rant about how dramatically heavier the new Reddit UI is, but I'd be wasting my time - the people here should presumably know why making everything heavier isn't great Or ma
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by xethos 2y ago
And while that's not an unreasonable rebuttal, my first argument (in agreement with yours) is that Google does not sell their users' information, and neither does Apple. Being up in arms about the lack of privacy from Google is
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by xethos 2y ago
Sure, but the US president and his latest asinine crusade is more political than the 3D printed robot arm that's a few links ahead of this one currently It's a gradient, where everyone has an individually-set line, I won't di
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by xethos 2y ago
Yeah, I'm sure there are no weird edge cases in America's byzantine tax laws that have been spotted and squashed in the software Sounds like fun to find and fix them all again though!
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by xethos 2y ago
Ironically one of the few wars America objectively and decidedly lost - and on their home turf no less! Terrorism is to enact political change through acts of violence; I think it's pretty inarguable that America is a changed nation wi

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