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boatmansloth
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Comment #28005618
NSW basically did a fake lockdown and took their sweet time in even getting to that point. Other states like Victoria and South Australia have locked down quick, hard, and within t…
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Comment #27946146
Nobody in this thread can spell brakes it seems. The regenerative braking is done in the electric motor, not the calliper/disc. Nothing has changed there.
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Comment #27125410
I had the same problem, changing the 'keyring' bit to a smaller one I had laying around helped a lot but it is still bulky.
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Comment #26869796
I suffered some mental issues that began in 2012 and peaked in February this year. I _knew_ I should go and see a doctor but always because of my "intelligence" convinced myself th…
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Comment #26719864
> I don't quite get how the loss could have such an effect. The main damage to the business was the revealing of the fraud and driving away the people who were going to buy it. Nob…
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Comment #26705250
> Its a promise about the future. Which they haven’t yet delivered on, so the car doesn’t have full self driving. > yes you do need to pay attention Part of their promise is that i…
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Comment #26696234
I have all the hardware “required” to win a formula one Grand Prix. Have I won a formula one Grand Prix? I’ll believe they have all the hardware required when they deliver on the p…
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Comment #26695454
> Can you currently sit in a Tesla and go from A to B safely without paying attention to the car? No. End of story, it doesn't have "full" self driving. They have not delivered on …
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Comment #26695224
Even reading it that way says 'not here yet'.
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Comment #26694998
What's promised in that paragraph as a whole is stress free leaving the car to do its thing, even when you're not in it. What is in the videos on youtube is the driver needing to b…
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Comment #26694908
But it isn't what was promised in the paragraph above. Ergo, no full self driving.
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Comment #26694792
Funny, I prefer this page: https://www.tesla.com/autopilot "Full Self-Driving Capability All new Tesla cars have the hardware needed in the future for full self-driving in almost a…
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Comment #26462862
It's possible, but your scale is severely limited as you have to actively moderate your site. You also have to build a culture where users value their position in the community and…
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Comment #26431615
Do you have data the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare doesn't have? https://www.aihw.gov.au/suicide-self-harm-monitoring/data/co... In NSW suicide fell by 5% last year: …
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Comment #26220812
I dunno dude, the guy is a law professor. Do you have something more compelling for me to read instead? No insult to you but right now I'm running in to the 'guy on the internet ha…
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Comment #26220592
> In the US, the States are explicitly prohibited from closing their borders as a matter of Constitutional law This appears to be wrong: https://www.justsecurity.org/69770/can-gove…
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Comment #26220519
The states didn't agree on anything - when a state had an outbreak other states independently chose to close the border to them and administered border passes until the outbreak su…
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Comment #26220005
The federal government didn't close the state borders in Australia, the state governments did. Australia is a federation just like the USA.
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Comment #26190967
I literally came here to comment that the very first bug I had to chase down in a production system in my first job was caused by this! There was a 'fuzzy' search field available t…
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Comment #26059705
I didn't touch my phone for the whole month of November last year instead using my apple watch. I left it plugged in at home out of sight. In my country there is no covid so life w…