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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
>Gas cars got fast out of nowhere because it moves units and CAD changed everything for engine design. Gas cars got fast because sufficiently high quality computer control matured to the point where making a high power for its size/
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
Education won't fix broken incentives namely a lack of consequences for bad behavior. If anything shrinking the pool will only worsen it.
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
I appreciate the gesture but let's be real here. It's not like the requirement ever mattered. Just like a white house internship, nobody was getting a job as a congressional staffer without a recommendation from someone worth li
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
Ideologues everywhere use statistics as a pretext for their lies. Water is wet. More breaking news at 11.
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
Your line of reasoning reeks of Europe worship with a token exception for obfuscation purposes. There are tons and tons of people who live in places like Boston and SF and Chicago without cars and do not feel any worse off for doing so. I
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
>Living without a car in those cities is severely limiting; I tried to do that in two of those and felt it was very difficult to buy groceries and get to work quickly and do easy recreation things on the weekend. So now we're just s
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
I think what you mean to say is that there are few "medium" cities in the US where "techie and richer" people elect to voluntarily live without a car. You absolutely can live without a car in a lot of these cities but if
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
Are they measuring "reading ability for the real world" or are we talking "analyze any interpret fiction literature" type reading skills? Serious question. Because I feel like "real world reading" stopped aft
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
That's just a textbook appeal to emotion. Most of their calls are mundane stuff. And they leave a pretty decently wide path of destruction in doing that. We're talking like mundane situations where there is no urgency and no nee
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
Anyone talking up firefighters like this clearly hasn't been around them much. They're boys with toys that they don't frequently get to use and they work for the government. Follow the incentives. They'll do their jobs
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
Skateboard and fire extinguisher.
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
I'm rate limited for not towing the line so I wasn't gonna burn a reply on it. The LCS is basically the Navy's Orion but worse. Like Orion it's congressionally mandated garbage. Unlike Orion the Navy DGAF about it, pu
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
Maybe this will finally be the boondoggle that closes the base that for the past 20yr has done nothing other than get used as a bargaining chip to get the vote of MA legislators in budget negotiations.
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
The problem with answering these questions is that they're always being circled by reflective vest wearing and clipboard toting vultures and you'll wind up fighting with them if you try and give a real answer.
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
>Most folks on HN realize that "the military", in the sense of "the current general and admirals", have damn little influence over these outsourcing, single-sourcing, etc. decisions. That is mostly controlled by Congr
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
>You build bike infrastructure in the places where you want more of them, not the places where you have more of them. Or as we say in the active transportation advocacy business, they didn’t count swimmers to decide to build the Golden G
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
I assume they're talking about trace amounts being used in primers and detonators.
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
I get that this sort of headline makes for a great circle jerk but let's be real here, the military isn't as stupid as HN likes to imply. Rife with perverse incentives that keep things from being done ideally? Yes, but not stupi
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
>You can put duct tape over your federally mandated backup camera display if you really believe they're so distracting that they cause you to run over more people in reverse. >But maybe you should just stay off the road instead,
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
The whole reporting rate thing is mostly irrelevant IMO. It's the relative rate of property crime vs violent crime that matters. Violent crime is not generally directed at a broad of a cross section of the population like property cr
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
>with visuals that would feel much more at home in a climate shock video nowadays That's likely because there's huge overlap between "climate shock video" and "video from decades past when big industry was visibl
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
Yes. I am. That guy (and everyone else involved) probably has ten times blood on his hands as a result of "wE doN't need TO CarE aBOUT REaR vIsIBILITY BeCaUsE we have a BACKup CaMERa" engineering and touch screen distractio
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
Few that wouldn't have been saved by Suburbans and Excursions going out of vogue with the upper middle class in favor of 4Runner, Pilots and a myriad of crossovers.
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
Touch screens are great for stuff that needs to be cleaned though so ER doctors are probably stuck with them.
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
It won't just be cheaper entertainment. It'll be cheaper "literally every video content that includes humans". I suspect this will result in an increased production value or quality of the lower tiers the same way that
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
Bullshit. Straight bullshit. Stop it. Short of maybe, maybe, landing a fully laden C5 on everglade highway or redefining landing to include crashes where the tires happen to be the first bit to crash you are going to have a hell of a time
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
This is exactly the kind of thing a lien is perfect for. Slap a lien on it with a reasonable interest rate and call it good. Sales have to be registered publicly so it's not like it's hard to collect.
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
This is misleading. Road weight limits are for wear and tear reasons, not safety. The actual "failure" loads are orders (yes, plural) of magnitude higher and most failures aren't the kind of catastrophic thing that people on
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
This. Even if dealers don't "go away" as many want the shift to a "put in your order" model over 2020-2022 definitely gave OEMs a lot more visibility into what people want vs what dealers want to stock their lots w
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by dsfyu404ed 3y ago
The demographics who both buy new cars and buy EV in 2016-present wouldn't be caught dead buying something from GM. No wonder it went over about as well as the Subaru Baja. Slap a Toyota or maybe Honda badge on the grill and the Bolt&

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