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Ironically, it's regulation that made them like this. Obama-era emissions rules stipulated that trucks had to get a certain fuel economy, unless they were heavy duty trucks, which …

Trick I learned from an old wrench: overestimate time and cost, then when you deliver something in half the time and half the cost they'll think you're twice the mechanic. I'm not …

Makes you smarter too. Your brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells, and alcohol tends to kill the weakest brain cells first. It's like culling the herd, you spee…

Interesting to see you guys talking about this, I just read something with Adam Curtis where he was describing Britain right now as being like the USSR before it collapsed. Disillu…

The talk in the trade is that asbestos is way overblown and it mostly affected people installing it in ships for the Navy. They worked in tight spaces with lots of asbestos in the …

I keep reading this submition's title as "Where do journalists go to die?" Like there's some obscure place that aging journalists make a pilgrimage to after they've completed their…

>there is also always the specter of future uses against your interests. This. The danger isn't even necessarily that we gain some crazy ability to predict things about a person fr…

Don't forget the sleep timer. Such a simple QoL improvement, and none of the TVs I've owned in the past 10-15 years have had one. Seems like every TV had it when I was a kid (or at…

Not sure why this was down voted. If you're hauling, the lightning gets very little mileage. If you've got a camper trailer, you're not going far from home, even if the campsite ha…

There's better resources if you just want to know about Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem tbh. GEB is neat because of all the other ideas he ties into it.

I think decentralized networks essentially provide another opportunity for businesses. Look at email, or web browsers and how centralized they are now. Make an app for a decentrali…

> Citrix [...] hospitals My stomach just turned.

The metaphor I use to think about burnout is imagining your energy as a lithium ion battery. You can occasionally charge it to 100% and run it down to 0% without any real degradati…