parkingrift

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by parkingrift 4y ago
It’s not as dire in NYC unless you’re exclusively considering Manhattan. And even in Manhattan it’s relatively “affordable” if you’re willing to live in the 160s+. Significantly less than people think, at least.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
The number of people chiming in on this article proclaiming food preferences as "wrong" or "correct" is truly astounding. No, my preferences aren't wrong. No, yours aren't wrong either. Food preferences are
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by parkingrift 4y ago
> Vegetarian here, you're wrong. Legitimately laughing out loud at this response. You're sitting there at your keyboard telling other people that their food preferences are wrong? Seriously? No one is going to take you serio
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by parkingrift 4y ago
>why would anyone go through the motions to have fake chicken when you have multitudes of vegetarian options Because meat tastes better, and I want it. If I can have that taste without an animal involved then it’s all the better. If not
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by parkingrift 4y ago
>If the West European allies are not that important then the US should plow ahead, but the consequence will be those countries will look elsewhere for partners. This comment brought to you by the year 2008. Europe did look elsewhere for
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Let’s see one for wind power, then. OP implies wind is an order of magnitude cheaper.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
It crops up because people give these absurdly misleading cost estimates for adding incremental wind power to the grid. You can’t have wind power without spending money on an equivalent amount of reliable power, and no one wants to include
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by parkingrift 4y ago
There will always be firearms. You can make them illegal but you can't make them stop existing. This is the fundamental problem with these types of suggestions. Switch to bow, it's safer! ...but the criminals (and anyone else)
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by parkingrift 4y ago
> What needs to be done is not to eliminate those actors, but rather to make our bodies resilient to potentiel pathogens. If we expose ourselves to these pathogens and wait a few thousand years we might naturally evolve to be resilient.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
This seemed so absurdly impossible that I had to look it up. I went to Edmunds and sure enough the 5-year TCO for a 2022 LR Model 3 is $115k. The 5-year TCO for a 2022 LE AWD Prius is $69k. The Model 3 is ridiculously expensive. Base pri
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by parkingrift 4y ago
There are better competitors entering the market, but none can really compare to a Model S. The upcoming Hyundia Ionic 6 will likely be the industry leader, but it hasn't released in the US and last I checked didn't have US prici
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by parkingrift 4y ago
What a hilarious and asinine way to torpedo your own brand. It seems that Mercedes and BMW want to be known as the "Spirit Airlines of electric cars." ...except at least Spirit Airlines is cheap. The Mercedes EQS sedan starts at
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by parkingrift 4y ago
He did. He directly said it was a hack in an interview with Vox. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-frie...
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Sure, but that’s just handwaving away the question. He made an effort to reach out to a journalist and reinforced the hack narrative.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
SBF publicly lied about this and called it a hack. If it was all aboveboard why would he have done that?
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but why would used car prices necessarily impact a used car dealer? Surely these dealers have to pay more to buy these cars and so their margins should be unchanged? Or is the issue that they are buying used cars and
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Granny Smith is a trash tier Apple. The skin is inedible and it is absurdly sour. It's only edible if you peel the skin, cut it up, ...and bake it in something else. Alternatively peel the skin, and dip it into something such as pea
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by parkingrift 4y ago
I don't know why the CPSC has singled out Onewheel. If they're going to try and regulate this new class of mobility they need to do better than phoning it in. This feels just as random and absurd as the clampdowns on Juul. Don&
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by parkingrift 4y ago
House price to media income ratio has breached 7x twice in the last 70 years in the US. The first was the 2008 housing bubble. The second is the time period we’re in right now. Make of that what you will. https://www.longtermtren
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by parkingrift 4y ago
We will need many scientific breakthroughs for battery to be viable for non-personal transportation. Then there’s industry, construction, agriculture, etc. These areas of the economy are responsible for about 50% of emissions. We need hydro
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Passenger vehicles account for about 16% of greenhouse gas emissions. Electric power is another 25%. The rest is industry, commercial & residential, agriculture, and other forms of transportation. It is these areas of the economy whi
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by parkingrift 4y ago
NYC spent $2.4 billion to extend one subway line 1.5 miles. I’m only jokingly suggesting this, but that’s enough to buy about 5 million electric scooters in a city of 8.5 million people.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
The stock has recovered 60% of the maybe-Twitter-related losses. The stock lost 5% of its value on November 11th, and recovered 60% of that to date which means the maybe-Twitter-related drop in value is 40% of 5%, or 2%. However, Friday al
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Rivian has produced about 14,000 cards YTD and they seem to be on-pace for annualized production of 25,000 cars. That's not an overall impressive number, but getting a car company off the ground seems quite difficult and capital inten
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by parkingrift 4y ago
>But it is difficult to "print" more cryptocurrency. Except it's not. It's trivially easy. Any exchange (or person/entity) can mint a coin, and FTX collapsed in-part because they were backed by their own coin.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Ah the “No True Scotsman” fallacy. No true crypto enthusiasts would use a centralized exchange. If they’re using an exchange, they must not be a true crypto enthusiast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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by parkingrift 4y ago
> Improve. Your. Algorithm. These established sites are now designed to show you content most profitable to them, not the content you’re most likely to like. This is why YouTube will endlessly recommend news videos to me. I’ve never wat
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by parkingrift 4y ago
8% YoY would indeed be a comical amount of inflation. I don't believe shadowstats is implying such an increase. The reason people don't believe the official CPI numbers is because the CPI numbers are not properly weighted for lif
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Startup? There are dozens of public companies on the list. You cease to be a startup when you IPO, direct list, or SPAC. At a glance I saw Twitter, Lyft, Affirm, OpenDoor, and Zillow. Probably numerous others. This site really loses its val
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by parkingrift 4y ago
>But it seems strange to argue that Germany just should have bought gas from Qatar or the US for double the price from the start. That was never on the table. The US doesn’t even have the export capacity to manage it. Germany should have

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