yock

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by yock 2y ago
That would be a heck of a fun thing to build. Seems to require a heat gun though, which puts it out of my reach for now.
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by yock 2y ago
It's good to go into radio with an idea of what you want to do with it, then find a community of hams who enjoy doing that. People chase distant contacts, they practice emergency communications, they run low-power stations from remote
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by yock 8y ago
> Aerodynamic stalls are something you learn in your first ten hours of training as a private pilot... In fact the CFI who taught my introductory flight demonstrated a stall and recovery.
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by yock 8y ago
No container is perfect and a slow leak of evaporated gasoline into the enclosed space of your trunk is a fire waiting to happen.
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by yock 8y ago
> Perfectly fixable items are going in the trash Which results in the refrigerant being released anyway once the item deteriorates enough.
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by yock 8y ago
Why do you value that over your individuality?
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by yock 8y ago
> Police officials say she had arrived at the complex after working a full shift and was still in full uniform when she entered the victim's apartment, thinking it was her home. > "It was, like, police talk: 'Open up! O
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by yock 8y ago
It isn't illegal to be hated, at least not yet. You seem awfully eager to coerce your neighbors into behaving in a way consistent with your personal values.
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by yock 8y ago
It's altogether worse than that because at the very least most city dwellers are being taxed to support these transit services. They can't exactly opt out of supporting it.
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by yock 8y ago
They still had a person in the car who was supposed to be operating, in effect, as an emergency braking system.
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by yock 8y ago
The devil is in the details, so they say, but what you describe is not negligence. They didn't disable a safety feature and do nothing, they replaced a safety feature with something else. You'd need to make the case that this some
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by yock 8y ago
> it can’t possibly cost anywhere near $10k per subscriber to build out fiber normally, even in small cities, can it? I don't know, because I don't possess any expertise in the matter. What I do have is a history of watching pu
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by yock 8y ago
> A much simpler (and more plausible) solution to chapium's problem is simply getting rid of the electoral college. Which would then require that a candidate only pander to an even smaller number of densely populated cities. It woul
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by yock 8y ago
Which makes for a pretty compelling reason as to why Charter hasn't done it themselves.
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by yock 8y ago
> In 5-10 years we may have a 300 person 1 hr transport from sydney to New York by way of the BFR. Is your average human's health and safety really compatible with the acceleration required for ballistic travel?
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by yock 8y ago
It seems that the humans in this thread are equally bad at it, considering the clamor for government force over an infinitesimally small number of admittedly tragic events.
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by yock 8y ago
> ...how many CO deaths from accidentally leaving the car running in the garage were happening before the introduction of key fobs vs. now. The great thing about the free market is that information spurs innovation. News stories like the
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by yock 8y ago
> Which ISPs are so bad that you want to use external services, which are further in distance than your ISP, for speed? When I upgraded my WiFi equipment at home a month ago I thought it was defective. Multiple times every day I'd s
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by yock 8y ago
Who cares? It's all just gatekeeping. Keep doing what you enjoy doing and don't worry about what categories other people put you in.
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by yock 9y ago
> Break the monopolies Can you explain what makes Youtube and Github monopolies when both have competitors in the market? > Force them to respect my rights, similar to the government. What rights do you think you have that they are vi
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by yock 9y ago
When you cherry pick quotes from the source it sounds contradictory. What I meant, and what I feel was clear when taken in context, is that alternatives exist in this particular case . However if you do not think those alternatives are via
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by yock 9y ago
Alternatives exist, what you're complaining about is that they're not popular. You aren't entitled to viable alternatives. If a private business acts in a way contrary to your beliefs, your only option is to stop using them.
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by yock 9y ago
> "Capitalism" doesn't make any decisions. It's _emergent behavior_. People make all kinds of decisions and bets and tradeoffs, some of which work better than others and "win". > Overall, it's a pre
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by yock 9y ago
> Why is having people doing forms of “make work” worse than letting people waste away into despair? How would you suggest choosing who gets to do the "make work" versus who must toil away at the necessary? How would you sugges
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by yock 9y ago
> Now, it's definitely sad when people lose their jobs, but that's kind of the devil's bargain we've made with capitalism. It's not so much a "bargain" as it is how we discover which jobs are useful. Ca
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by yock 9y ago
> granting of patents should be conditioned on the good they do society. Perhaps that's the standard, according to some, that is upheld today? Whose opinion shall we then use to uphold such a standard?
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by yock 9y ago
Why not abolish the patent system altogether? Don't allow private companies to use government force to monopolize ideas in the first place.
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by yock 9y ago
Just speculation, but might there be regulations regarding the labeling of alcoholic beverages for sale that prevent accepting crooked labels or even price reductions?
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by yock 9y ago
This seems to be a greater indictment of taxation in general rather than the notion of an asset created to represent something of value in the market. An unscrupulous state actor could manipulate this system to their advantage.
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by yock 9y ago
> This situation has a lot of parallels for me to the situation they faced with IBM and the G5. That's a great observation, and having witnessed the PowerPC -> Intel migration I'm disappointed I didn't make it myself.

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