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The 30 minute limit had little to do with heat: https://www.fujirumors.com/yes-eu-import-duty-reason-fujifil...

I didn't buy an EV early on, when Tesla was really the best choice, because I didn't want to spend a lot of $$$ just to be an early adopter of an immature technology. I did buy an …

One of the problems is that you don't know what you're buying. You might end up with a reasonable HOA or a terrible one. Even if it looks reasonable today, it might change tomorrow…

I think we're conflating two things. A seller has to refund / replace / repair any merchandise that is defective or not as advertised, and that's true in the US and in the EU. A se…

Bail is supposed to motivate you to show up in court, or have whoever paid the bail drag you there, despite the potentially unpleasant consequences that await. Forfeiting it for ot…

To their defense: given the company's business model, there's probably no other way of handling it. They make money at a massive scale, and as an individual user, you're not worth …

Google generally does stuff like that when they believe somebody else had access to your account and made changes. This sometimes involves the attacker enrolling for (their own) 2F…

You generally still need electricity for radiant heating - there's a pump moving water through the radiators. But I think it's pretty easy to understand why it's unpopular. First, …

What I find a bit startling in this article is not as much that it rejects the old (half-baked) paradigm, but that I was holding out for that big reveal of a solid alternative... a…

And it will never be, because they will be always worried about PR, about regulators, about cannibalizing legacy business, etc. A new player who isn't held back by this has a good …

I think the examples you bring up demonstrate fairly precisely why Google should be afraid. Google is at a stage in its corporate life where they are extremely risk-averse. Risk-av…

It is pretty unusual in most parts of the world for landlords to get access to one's credit records. Credit reporting is a pretty US-specific phenomenon, even if you're applying fo…

I think we can only speculate about reasons, so everybody is gonna project. Maybe the Facebook culture is uniquely bad. Maybe Carmack isn't an effective leader. Maybe it's just how…

This is less about "customer demand" and more about having to meet minimum video length for mid-clip monetization slots. Strictly an artifact of how YouTube works.

Sounds authoritative while being wildly inaccurate?

They speed up the second part of the video. The "flying apart" bit happens at much lower speeds and would be boring to watch in extreme slow-motion.

"Your dream sounds like a manifestation of your worries and anxieties. The presence of giant butts everywhere can represent the feeling of being overwhelmed by fear and insecurity.…

This laundry basket is an example of externalities being quite reasonable, though. It lasted 20+ years and that's not an outlier for items like this. I'd wager that making it out o…

It is unlikely that you needed long exposures outdoors. The luminance levels in full sun can be easily 100x higher than indoors, with a corresponding reduction in exposure time.

Unless you look sketchy, dealerships take personal checks.

It's an ancient website, although it's both a bit too specific and not specific enough. An example of insufficient specificity: "rubber". Both silicone rubber and SBR are rubbers, …

These are remarkable photographs captured using a simple technique... but the writing seems incredibly stuffy: "Yet the photographer’s claims of 'true color' elide the degree to wh…

Sure. Buying and selling stuff that's "deplatformed" by Paypal / Zelle / Venmo (nothing illegal, their lists of prohibited items are as long as they are silly). Paying roofers and …