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Drunk_Engineer

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    Comment #48668599

    US. Here are 2017 numbers (ok...only 96% that year). https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

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    Comment #48668524

    Same author, same BS.

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    Comment #48640835

    "one study suggests that helmet use may reduce the risk of head injury by 83%" That one study has been thoroughly debunked...yet decades later it still gets cited. https://www.seat…

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    Comment #48638714

    99% of bike fatalities involve car crashes. There is no styrofoam helmet which will protect against that, and the VaTech test notably does not model that type of crash. To my knowl…

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    Comment #48401611

    My son took CS10 a couple years ago, and even I (Masters in EECS from UCB) struggled with some really obtuse multiple-guess questions he showed me on the homeworks. Much of the cla…

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    Comment #48388331

    Enterprise Mac still has occasional problems -- mainly due to Microsoft crapware IT departments insist on installing.

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    Comment #48375308

    A series of Youtube videos critical of Battleborn batteries has now led to a lawsuit by Dragonfly Energy. https://diysolarforum.com/threads/battleborn-batteries-suein...

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    Comment #48350883

    The CBOSS fiasco, which added $200 million in costs, certainly can't be blamed on Atherton.

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    Comment #48350218

    There are some trials underway testing that hypothesis.

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    Comment #47811587

    An almost identical security issue in iterm2 reported 6 years ago: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/09/iterm2-critical...

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    Comment #47454186

    Nice idea, except the actual mapper site requires a google login to view.

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    Comment #47353333

    I can find only a single paper making this claim about marathoners. And that study has attracted a lot of criticism.

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    Comment #47315356

    By that you mean the fines should be made much higher, right? Because traffic crashes have a huge economic cost.

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    Comment #47315260

    > they cannot use that fact against you to prove it was in fact you driving- they have to prove that independently. 5th amendment protections are much weaker for civil cases though…

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    Comment #47201108

    For those who don't get the joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpEF6QPSVJE

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    Comment #46755935

    IANAL but she could also have a good case that it will be impossible for her to get a fair trial. Some potential jurors will have seen these doctored photos. With the prosecution p…

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    Comment #46662801

    Trust and transparency: https://betrusted.io

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    Comment #46528752

    Possibly related: https://badspot.us/Brown-Ring-of-Quality.html

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    Comment #45005968

    Yes, but local permitting is a complete shitshow. For example, I should be able to plug in a simple balcony-solar system, but my PUC prohibits the technology.

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    Comment #44847519

    Literally car-brained.

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    Comment #44820830

    So Retinox5 from Star Trek?

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    Comment #44616607

    https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/cobb-county/marietta-hotel-...

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    Comment #44313598

    That was the second one (Reloaded). Filmed in downtown Oakland and Alameda Naval air station.