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LA is turning into District 9

Which UK cities? A London year travel pass costs £2,568, so public transport is hardly cheaper either, plus it’s a whole lot less convenient. Unless you enjoy spending all of your …

An annual London travel card is £2,568, and that only lets you travel around London. So why should be instead force people to buy something more expensive and less useful than a ca…

> free (paid by taxes) Free != paid by taxes I also think tax funded services are quite regressive as you have to pay for them whether you use them or not, and there are no market …

Is any unsupervised access to the internet for children ever really safe? At the risk of sounding crass, why can’t they meet in real life like human beings are supposed to?

> … many US employment contracts also insanely long … Most US employees are employed “at will” and don’t have contracts …

Most manuals tell you to inspect the oil monthly or before a long car journey. Waiting two years before realizing your engine is drinking oil is probably reckless which wouldn’t be…

Fuel and oil quality is a lot more variable in the US as it’s set at the state level, plus it’s just generally worse, so are the environmental conditions, so you have to set the gu…

Fuel and oil quality is a lot more variable in the US, so are the environmental conditions, so you have to set the guidelines according to the minimum likely to be encountered.

I used to help develop Diesel Engines before I moved into Software Engineering. If they followed anything like what we did, they would just run load cycles on the engine in a test …

Environmentally probably a good idea. From a consumer rights point of view this is going to be bad. The cynical side of me thinks this is just a way to control the after-market and…

I think you need more specialist equipment and training if you want to mess with high voltage electrical systems on BEVs.

An oil change is cheap. It’s also far better to preventatively change the oil, that way the engine is running with optimum lubrication most of the time. If you wait to change the o…

> it’s not just an awful safety culture and poor maintenance makes anything unsafe. I agree, I just felt that the original article was being disingenuous by stating that power line…

> that's what curtains are for. if you were caught doing a shameful activity because your windows were wide open and a onlooker saw, that's on you. People have a reasonable expecta…

Would you feel any differently if people were recording your activities by pointing a camera at your window from the street? Or even just pressing random doorbells to see if anyone…

> “ Yes, you’ll need transmission lines to move electrons around, but they are far less dangerous and intrusive.” Yeah … California Says PG&E Power Lines Caused Camp Fire That Kill…

I think cooperatives are an interesting idea (0). Maybe you could start one to provide a service in your community like fiber broadband, etc. For a higher risk option that’s not be…

I wonder if most of the info is sent by the payroll / HR software employers use, rather than the employer themselves and without said employers knowledge? I.e. it’s a way for the p…

I wish the quality of prose as well as underlying journalism of today’s mainstream media and newspapers matched those of yesteryear. When reading the posted article, the decline in…

Not a book recommendation, but Star Trek TNG has had a huge influence on my life and was (and still is) one of my biggest inspirations to get into engineering. It’s also filled wit…

Wouldn’t it be easier to simply invert the problem and come up with a whitelist instead? When searching for technical info there are only a handful of sites I use, namely stackover…