AKSucks

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by AKSucks 5y ago
Thing is, it wasn't just one incident, it was just one incident that resulted in a death. When Ubers started self-driving it took just a few hours before there were videos on twitter and youtube of them driving right though red lights
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by AKSucks 5y ago
> He lost his eyes and face, had both of his hands amputated, and was forcibly given agonizing treatments for 14 months. I bet this was because doctors and surgeons saw him as challenge and a career/resume builder.
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by AKSucks 5y ago
Dang, I can get a countertop fryer for $180? Fried food's on the menu, boys! Quadruple bypass, here I come.
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by AKSucks 5y ago
My state gave restaurant owners a billion dollars during the pandemic. A billion dollars. During the pandemic, restaurants lobbied hard as hell against restrictions and cheated at every opportunity what restrictions they were obliged to fol
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by AKSucks 5y ago
> I would rather have nothing but chain restaurants owned by megacorps than have people working for less than a living wage. Those megacorps do everything they can to pay as little taxes as possible and get as much money out of the count
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by AKSucks 5y ago
Enforcement isn't a farce, its just focused on workers because employers are powerful and workers aren't. The reason republicans are so hardline on immigration is because "illegal" workers are really easy to coerce and e
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by AKSucks 5y ago
"Many economists assumed this was the fault of the labor seller for not having skills attractive to buyers" Given the massive redistribution of wealth in the US for the last half a century it's pretty clear that's not tr
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by AKSucks 5y ago
"If they can't give a decent wage [1] then they were not a viable business to begin with" Yep. 1000%. If your workers need to be on any form of government assistance, you're being subsidized. Mr. Factory Owner does all s
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by AKSucks 5y ago
What's exceedingly common is an focus on what they think is efficiency (or really, what they see as "waste") which they think makes them a shrewd, smart, savvy business owner. Distrust in their employees coupled with excess
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by AKSucks 5y ago
There's also the fact that Homebrew are a bunch of clowns when it comes to security. For example, they included their repo github API key in their publicly accessible jenkins site, which meant that anyone could make a commit to the rep
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by AKSucks 5y ago
Have you ever tried to open a brew issue ticket? Unless you follow the exact format of their template, your ticket is deleted almost immediately. Lat I looked the template assumed a very narrow scope of issues you could be reporting and dem
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by AKSucks 5y ago
I completely forgot about how immensely challenging it would be to keep the battery packs (and passengers) warm enough at the altitudes jetliners operate. Good point.
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by AKSucks 5y ago
"The cool thing about electric drivetrains is that you can put this specific plane motor in a train..." Because clearly the railroad industry has been sitting around twiddling its thumbs going "man, how on earth could we make
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by AKSucks 5y ago
Already done with gliders via ground-based winches, which once "bootstrapped" with enough height and forward momentum are usually self-sustaining, but you have to be in weather conditions suitable for it - thermals and such. It&#x
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by AKSucks 5y ago
Probably should have said soyuz rocket engine , my bad...though I guess it would have been more proper to say "one of the Vostok-K booster engines" of which there were four. Or maybe GE is really stretching things and referring s
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by AKSucks 5y ago
100LL is a scourge, I completely agree - but I think the sense of scale is off. 160,000 planes that spend most of their lives sitting on the ground? I just don't buy that 100LL is a significant source of lead pollution beyond people wh
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by AKSucks 5y ago
Electric flight for commercial passenger service will never happen at commercial passenger scale. Why? Energy density. Lithium ion batteries store 0.8 MJ per Kg which is fifty three times worse than kerosene. Before you say "oh well
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by AKSucks 5y ago
It's not like I have a solution, but with a sufficiently large enough Big Employer Company in a town/city, it all but guarantees a plaintiff against won't get a fair trial when damn near everyone in town or the city is 2 or l
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by AKSucks 5y ago
After appealing and not getting a reply, did you contact them via web chat or phone and ask about the status, and request that things be escalated?
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by AKSucks 5y ago
Not quite the same as an arc lamp, but in high school I did theater tech stuff for the middle school. One year the only thing the lighting rental company had for a follow spot was an HID-based unit. It was significantly larger, heavier, and
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by AKSucks 5y ago
The whole "feud" is stupid. As pointed out, Kapoor has purposefully and publicly violated the terms of sale and Semple has taken no action. I can picture the two of them sharing a laugh together in an oak-paneled study over expen