lfuller

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by lfuller 21d ago
Protecting your own country's production capacity and industry doesn't come without cost. It likely would absolutely be cheaper if we allowed our core industries to fail and be replaced wholesale with American exporters, but that&
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by lfuller 2mo ago
In Canada at least it’s not legal to charge for unlocking a carrier-locked phone as it’s considered anti-competitive.
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by lfuller 3mo ago
> And no, HN is not social media in any normal sense of the word. The pedantry involved in that comparison is extremely tiresome. This is claimed by users of Reddit regularly as well and I think most people here would consider Reddit to
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by lfuller 4mo ago
While I completely agree with you on [1] and it's tiring to have to re-litigate this issue every few years, [2] was from 2021 and doesn't reflect Canada's current policies.
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by lfuller 5mo ago
This feels like a false dichotomy. Even if sauna doesn't impact long term health in a way that can replace exercise, that doesn't mean that it doesn't improve health.
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by lfuller 5mo ago
I found that strange as well. Who were they quoting, given that the Department of War hasn’t existed since 1947 and as far as I know Jimmy Carter didn’t pretend that it still did.
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by lfuller 10mo ago
From my perspective it would make a lot more sense to only allow index fund purchases as an elected official. If the economy does well you still do well, but there would clearly be no insider trading going on. Or at least there would be les
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by lfuller 10mo ago
I was thinking the exact same thing. This is textbook untreated ADHD.
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by lfuller 1y ago
For further context, he said that the right was doing everything in their power to portray him as anything but one of them. I.e. in the absence of evidence they were attempting to pin the blame on the left.
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by lfuller 1y ago
As a local to the area, a lot of the pushback is coming from the fact that this is not a closure of public parkland, but a restriction from entering any wooded area in the province - public or private.
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by lfuller 1y ago
It’s not only crown land in this case - it’s all land, public or private.
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by lfuller 2y ago
The quote was "ultimately some responsibility lies with us to think through how those tools will be used". It's saying that we as builders have a responsibility to consider and be mindful of the impacts of what we're bui
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by lfuller 2y ago
> the more acidity flavors are extracted later The first compounds to be extracted with coffee tend to taste sharply sour, shifting to sweet and then to bitter as the brew progresses - you can actually taste this directly by sampling a b
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by lfuller 2y ago
In a world where AirPods are ubiquitous, what value does such a niche product provide? Apple could easily add the same feature to something a huge number of people already own.
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by lfuller 3y ago
That was tried in Ontario (cap and trade), but there was enough misinformation going around that the general populace thought it was just a standard tax on individuals.
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by lfuller 3y ago
I remember these kinds of comments when the first iPad came out. “It’s just a big iPod Touch”.
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by lfuller 3y ago
I would love to know what prompted that.
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by lfuller 3y ago
From my own experience seeing people switch from ICE vehicles to EVs, I would guess this comes down to people not being used to one-pedal driving / regenerative braking.
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by lfuller 3y ago
I consult for a specialty coffee shop, and in my experience the electrical ground of the machine has no impact on static generation - I doubt the burrs themselves are grounded. The amount of static you get very much depends on the specific
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by lfuller 3y ago
As I've seen several comments on this here - people have used spritzes of water to reduce static when grinding coffee for years, but the interesting part of this study was the finding that beyond reducing static, adding enough water pr
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by lfuller 3y ago
G100UL, the current unleaded alternative to 100LL, has been tested to act as a drop-in replacement for any and all aircraft engines that run on 100LL. If you can run, 100LL, you can run G100UL. The main issue is with mogas (standard car gas
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by lfuller 3y ago
They did, finally, but it shouldn't have taken this long. There was a breakdown on the regulatory side for decades.
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by lfuller 3y ago
Greg Rutkowski is most well known for his work on D&D and Magic the Gathering. You recognize his style as he was one of its pioneers.
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by lfuller 3y ago
I’m Canadian and have lived in the Atlantic provinces as well as Ontario. I have never seen anyone wear shoes inside aside from workers who are required to have steel toed boots on.
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by lfuller 4y ago
What happened to Mobx? It was my understanding that it’s still going strong.
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by lfuller 4y ago
That was a highlighted top comment speculating on why it's there.
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by lfuller 4y ago
Two of my favourite subreddits as well. Aerospace subreddits in general seem to attract a higher standard of post.
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by lfuller 4y ago
Nearly all studies regarding suburban vs. urban streets have shown that suburban streets have significantly higher rates of child deaths and injuries than urban streets.
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by lfuller 4y ago
The Interac network uses Rogers for its backbone apparently.
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by lfuller 4y ago
In my experience that’s the primary positive point of carb-restrictive diets. In general I find it extremely hard to restrict calories under a standard North American diet due to craving carb-heavy foods and feeling a constant base level of

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