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by into_infinity 4y ago
The 30 minute limit had little to do with heat: https://www.fujirumors.com/yes-eu-import-duty-reason-fujifil...
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by into_infinity 4y ago
I didn't buy an EV early on, when Tesla was really the best choice, because I didn't want to spend a lot of $$$ just to be an early adopter of an immature technology. I did buy an EV recently, but at that point, Tesla really doesn
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by into_infinity 4y ago
One of the problems is that you don't know what you're buying. You might end up with a reasonable HOA or a terrible one. Even if it looks reasonable today, it might change tomorrow. Another problem is that HOAs are the worst possi
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by into_infinity 4y ago
I think we're conflating two things. A seller has to refund / replace / repair any merchandise that is defective or not as advertised, and that's true in the US and in the EU. A seller does not necessarily have to accept
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by into_infinity 4y ago
Bail is supposed to motivate you to show up in court, or have whoever paid the bail drag you there, despite the potentially unpleasant consequences that await. Forfeiting it for other reasons would seem like a bad idea - if the money is gon
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by into_infinity 4y ago
To their defense: given the company's business model, there's probably no other way of handling it. They make money at a massive scale, and as an individual user, you're not worth enough to provide customer support - or reall
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by into_infinity 4y ago
Google generally does stuff like that when they believe somebody else had access to your account and made changes. This sometimes involves the attacker enrolling for (their own) 2FA or changing recovery methods to lock you out. So, the acti
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by into_infinity 4y ago
You generally still need electricity for radiant heating - there's a pump moving water through the radiators. But I think it's pretty easy to understand why it's unpopular. First, AC is popular in the US, so a system that c
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by into_infinity 4y ago
What I find a bit startling in this article is not as much that it rejects the old (half-baked) paradigm, but that I was holding out for that big reveal of a solid alternative... and it never came. The article offers three choices: 1. Inves
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by into_infinity 4y ago
And it will never be, because they will be always worried about PR, about regulators, about cannibalizing legacy business, etc. A new player who isn't held back by this has a good chance of disrupting the market with inferior technolog
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by into_infinity 4y ago
I think the examples you bring up demonstrate fairly precisely why Google should be afraid. Google is at a stage in its corporate life where they are extremely risk-averse. Risk-averse to cannibalizing existing revenue, to upsetting regulat
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by into_infinity 4y ago
It is pretty unusual in most parts of the world for landlords to get access to one's credit records. Credit reporting is a pretty US-specific phenomenon, even if you're applying for a bank loan or a credit card. You usually presen
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by into_infinity 4y ago
I think we can only speculate about reasons, so everybody is gonna project. Maybe the Facebook culture is uniquely bad. Maybe Carmack isn't an effective leader. Maybe it's just how large corporations work. Maybe he was dealt a bad
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by into_infinity 4y ago
This is less about "customer demand" and more about having to meet minimum video length for mid-clip monetization slots. Strictly an artifact of how YouTube works.
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by into_infinity 4y ago
Sounds authoritative while being wildly inaccurate?
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by into_infinity 4y ago
They speed up the second part of the video. The "flying apart" bit happens at much lower speeds and would be boring to watch in extreme slow-motion.
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by into_infinity 4y ago
"Your dream sounds like a manifestation of your worries and anxieties. The presence of giant butts everywhere can represent the feeling of being overwhelmed by fear and insecurity." Indeed.
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by into_infinity 4y ago
This laundry basket is an example of externalities being quite reasonable, though. It lasted 20+ years and that's not an outlier for items like this. I'd wager that making it out of anything else would have a worse environmental i
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by into_infinity 4y ago
It is unlikely that you needed long exposures outdoors. The luminance levels in full sun can be easily 100x higher than indoors, with a corresponding reduction in exposure time.
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by into_infinity 4y ago
Unless you look sketchy, dealerships take personal checks.
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by into_infinity 4y ago
It's an ancient website, although it's both a bit too specific and not specific enough. An example of insufficient specificity: "rubber". Both silicone rubber and SBR are rubbers, but they behave very differently (and al
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by into_infinity 4y ago
These are remarkable photographs captured using a simple technique... but the writing seems incredibly stuffy: "Yet the photographer’s claims of 'true color' elide the degree to which, by virtue of his particular techniqu
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by into_infinity 4y ago
Sure. Buying and selling stuff that's "deplatformed" by Paypal / Zelle / Venmo (nothing illegal, their lists of prohibited items are as long as they are silly). Paying roofers and other local contractors who often a
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by into_infinity 4y ago
A more interesting consideration is how much data is going to be collected, retained, and monetized down the line. And probably handed over to law enforcement.
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Napoleon III served dinner on aluminum instead of gold(medium.com)
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by into_infinity 4y ago
That's pretty unfair, SBF has an MIT degree.
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by into_infinity 4y ago
Why is it a virtue to make things hard? The analogy of "if you truly want to learn programming, you have to do it with punch cards" feels apt. Instant feedback is good for learning. I sometimes feel that old-school photographers a