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by commandar 11y ago
That doesn't make any sense given the way Amazon has treated the Android ecosystem for years now. This is just the most blatant, anticonsumer attempt they've made so far to forcibly leverage customers into the Fire ecosystem.
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by commandar 11y ago
Yeah, for things like restaurant deals, theoretical tipping etiquette is that you should tip based on the pre-discount total. The vast majority of people don't/don't realize that's the case, though, which makes huge half
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by commandar 11y ago
And only in the metro ATL area. The rest of the state doesn't do emissions testing.
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by commandar 11y ago
So the VW ECUs essentially have a separate map for when they detect the EPA testing.
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by commandar 11y ago
The Dutch are currently running active experiments with UBI in a few cities. They've only launched in the last few months, though, so it's too soon to say what the long-term impact will be.
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by commandar 11y ago
Healthcare costs are a problem because they can often be unpredictable and catastrophic. A UBI wouldn't fix that; you still need either an insurance or a single-payer system of some sort. The short version is that you're going to
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by commandar 11y ago
I suspect one of the side effects is that UBI would lead to a decrease in full time employment and an increase in part time employment. Basically, having a job would become a matter of making enough to live the lifestyle of your choice rath
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by commandar 11y ago
Yup, exactly why I included the minimum wage in the list of things that could be scrapped in favor of UBI.
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by commandar 11y ago
>and the ability to drastically simplify government welfare--cutting out a ton of means-tested programs and their agencies, and replacing it all with a check each month. As someone that leans left, this is one of the big arguments I make
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by commandar 11y ago
Newer safety regulations definitely help, but at the same time, I almost feel like we're reaching a point where we're at pendulum overswing to some degree. That biggest change since 2012 has been increased roof strength requiremen
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by commandar 11y ago
What exactly do you consider freeway speeds? Even in the metro ATL area which is notorious for thinking the speed limit is a suggestion, the vast majority of traffic is moving under 85 MPH.
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by commandar 11y ago
I think we may see that option go away in the next couple of years thanks to the backup camera mandate (which goes into effect in 2018). Once automakers are putting the screen in the car anyway, basic head units are probably going to go awa
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by commandar 11y ago
It's more the context of the piece I take issue with. e.g., the fact that they call out critics for saying the program is behind schedule by linking to a piece they wrote quoting a civilian contractor saying he's very confident th
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by commandar 11y ago
You know, you're totally right. I was thinking of the British Harriers for some reason.
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by commandar 11y ago
I'm honestly not familiar with their coverage, but when the first article in its defense I can find from them can pretty much be summed up as "it's doing great things for the military-industrial complex," I'm somewh
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by commandar 11y ago
From the perspective of someone that has been following the program pretty closely, I think one of the big problems is the USAF has worked quite hard at making themselves non-credible when it comes to talking publicly about the actual capab
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by commandar 11y ago
The A-10C upgrade program seems to fly in the face of that. Really, the biggest problem with the A-10 right now is that the airframes are getting old, but that's a problem with our entire aircraft inventory. e.g., the F-15 having been
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by commandar 11y ago
> It's the only way to effectively deliver close air support with a jet aircraft. Not really true. There's a reason why the A-10 is still flying and the Harrier is not.
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by commandar 11y ago
Trying to build this fighter has taken so long that our current aircraft inventory is aging out. That's a huge problem.
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by commandar 11y ago
This is all well and fine assuming you have enough F-22s. We don't. There's an infamous RAND study involving a conflict over the Strait of Taiwan: http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/rgs_d
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by commandar 11y ago
>That means it doesn't have the full mission systems suite a combat capable F-35 has. This was the equivalent of flying with both hands tied behind your back. Isn't this the entire problem with this program? The weapons avionic
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by commandar 11y ago
Both the Xbox One and the PS4 are running on very similar AMD APU platforms, with Sony opting for a variant with considerably more GPU power.
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by commandar 11y ago
As castell pointed out, I was actually making reference to the Xbox One there. I did reference the original Xbox in a later post, and I mostly had the GPU in mind there. The NV2A is close to the GeForce3 in design, but it's still not
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by commandar 11y ago
I don't know that Microsoft has ever made that claim. The original Xbox was the closest to standard PC hardware, and even it diverged somewhat from what was available on standard PCs at the time at both a hardware level and API level.
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by commandar 11y ago
I'm not sure what you're suggesting here. The X in Xbox is a leftover from its early development when it was the Direct X Box. The X in DirectX came about as shorthand for all the various DirectWhatever APIs that Microsoft was in
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by commandar 11y ago
This wasn't just a case of salary. This was a case of HR didn't even want to consider anyone that didn't exactly meet the job posting and were unequipped to evaluate what candidates came close enough. The job was for a devo
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by commandar 11y ago
Exactly this. HR wanted to hold out for a unicorn candidate when we're geographically in an area that makes finding such a candidate difficult and when the pay they were willing to offer wasn't going to attract a unicorn. Meanwhil
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by commandar 11y ago
>After harassing HR at my company, I finally made a lateral move where my manager told me he thought at the time of hiring that they needed someone and they thought I might be able scrape by, but now they want me to find someone else jus
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by commandar 11y ago
>losing two years of credits to study business. This is interesting to me because I'm a little younger than you, but considering a similar path. I feel like finishing a degree would be useful, but I'm at a point career wise tha
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by commandar 11y ago
>I'm not real sure about the rationale but I figure nuclear antiaircraft missiles would be used if the enemy was swarming. It's really more a case of guidance systems for early anti-aircraft missiles were fairly unreliable so n

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