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Can confirm they do this in Canada too. Though I'm not sure they have much of a presence outside of Quebec. It was very cool to try, and very much a "why doesn't everyone do this?"…

7 letter words are too long. I'm finding trouble thinking of any.

I'll add on that speeding is the biggest contributing factor in accidents. And accident outcomes get exponentially worse above 30mph. For every 10 mph of increased speed, the risk …

> you can wake your Steam Machine without leaving your couch. [using the built in steam controller wireless adapter]. This one simple thing is the only thing that makes my SteamDec…

I don't hate Dyson because it's trendy, I hate Dyson because my $700 vacuum wont pick up cheerios; a common spill with toddlers.

Somewhat related: I wanted to track watch time, and perhaps set a time limit with Plex and HomeAssistant. Has anyone come up with a solution I can cheat off of?

It also ignores that they often own the suppliers. "Woops, our supplies raised the price, so we need to too."

Maybe a dumb question, but why? I don't like that it exists, but isn't it self-contained? The main reason for cleaning it up seems to be quoted as [1], which oversimplfies to 'anim…

I feel this way for photography, about filtering. If you take 1000 photos, only show people your 20-50 best. Now you are a good photographer.

The most important part is this article is that this is the mean . The median net worth is $192,900 (as per the article). This just shows there is an extreme wealth disparity.

Yes, but not directly. If you listen to the last FOMC meeting, Powell mentions there will likely be significant weakening of the labor market and a rise of unemployment. As well as…

If you look on their website ( https://www.aerominetechnologies.com/ ) you can see there is a downward facing turbine hidden underneath

supposedly about a 1/3 of mortgages are variable in Canada. But more importantly, fixed mortgages are almost all 5 year terms (or less). That is, every 5 years you have to renew yo…

I don't know if it's moores law. except for servers, CPUs are mostly running near idle. My intuition would say tech saturation would make more of a difference. That is, worldwide p…

My theory behind this is there are many BTC holders with cap gains (or assets acquired through illegal methods) that can't easily cash out, and El Salvador's BTC support was a grab…

I think what's missing here is in case 1, it's not just the amount of money, but how much money is chasing each available good. You can imagine if the money supply doubles, a loaf …

and a commercial real estate crash would be bad for the company's bottom line

For those questioning the feasibility, 100% electric school buses are already on the road in Montreal. I see them frequently, and they seem to handle our crappy roads and winters f…

I think with everything that is going on, everyone should be aware of the Russian book "Foundations of Geopolitics"[0]. It is a textbook that basically gives a blueprint on how the…

One thing I haven't seen mention much is real estate. The "back-to-office" militants are usually corporate, and there's a lot of corporate money tried up with office real estate th…

This only makes sense if you have positive-risk-adjusted-return investments you've been waiting to make. If you already have too much cash with no where to put it, borrowing more c…

"all that kenetic energy released when jumping off a building was formerly potential energy stored when walking up the stairs. How can that lead to life destroying conditions when …

There's a huge difference between warming over a couple tens of thousands of years (natural rate), and warming over a couple of decades (our current trajectory). That difference is…

It looks like this is focused on primarily on executables, but there is a mention of libraries. I was looking into WASM libraries recently, specifically WebAssembly Interface Types…

> "We don't sell your data and never will." Because your data is now freely available on the blockchain, forever.