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Yes, brake lights are illuminated under any deceleration above a certain threshold, or application of the brake pedal.

This is a good point. This is also somewhat dependent on how a particular country does mortgages. The USA does 30-year fixed rate, but that is not the norm in most countries. The m…

As an addendum to 4., I believe emergency service vehicles are also allowed to use the tram tracks.

I think this comes down to market economics more than product design. Many manufacturers have been production limited by cell supply for a long time. You _could_ make cars with ext…

Eh, sometimes thats not an option if the an onramp doesn't create a new lane. I've lived and driven in California, Western Europe and New Zealand. Many (not all) California onramps…

The front window on a Tesla M3/Y sits behind the bright trim attached to the exterior of car (there is no frame around the top and sides of the glass). Normally the glass will drop…

> I keep seeing people on the street with n95 mask walking alone Those people might be sick (either with covid/the flu/cold etc) and using the mask as a signal to others "please do…

Same issue with my spouse. Solved it by buying a fancy manual espresso machine, and me learning to steam the milk to the correct temperature by feel. For tea we have an adjustable …

Sets off the alarm (an in a Tesla, gives you a phone notification) whenever a window is broken, or something enters the vehicle while it is locked. In an American car (at least las…

As the article points out, it remains to be seen if this is for self-driving use or in-cabin. Europe requires interior intrusion sensors in passenger vehicles, which afaik can be r…

Could be, but it's also likely that 1x big HVAC is more efficient than 10x smaller units.

I applied for ~50ish jobs online when I graduated (90% at overseas firms). Only one company (FAANG-ish) sent me a response, and that's where I ended up getting a job.

I value the small amount of retail in my little downtown main street. There is a reasonably sized ace hardware within 5 minutes walk, and I'm there almost every week to pick up lig…

I find it weird that the two are directly tied together. In my hometown, property taxes are proportional the overall market and the cities budget. E.g. during 2020 my house valuati…

> Pretty sure an HOA could fairly easily collect this data I agree, but on a large scale this would mean that every HOA needs to have access to someone who can/is willing to do thi…

Maybe it's time to change the meaning of YIMBY from "Yes In My Back Yard" to "Yes In Marc's Back Yard"?

Doesn't Prop 13 also apply to commercial property? And second/third/30th houses? I think they smuggled a bear in as a rabbit with this one.

NZ doesn't do 30 year fixed mortgages like the USA does, so I presume this effects things a lot when interest rates go up? The bipartisan "medium density residential standard" legi…

I use this! Intermittently, mostly when I'm moving to a new location, or for family events. But it's great otherwise. Even just using it as a "news feed", scrolling through a list …

Last time I went hiking in Yosemite, and there were people who would hike all the way to a pretty spot (like, 4hr+ hike), change into a dress/suit/etc that they had packed, get som…

Interestingly enough, I can't send the appspot link in FB messenger, it thinks its spam and blocks the message.

Another side to this is, how possible it it actually to acquire a team of "superstars"? If you work at a big, well paying company maybe. But for anything non-FAANG, you might not h…

Are fords engineers unionized? if not, you might be comparing apples and oranges. None of the Tesla layoffs so far have effected hourly positions, and they are still hiring plenty …

Look at the incentives. Spotify pays more for more popular artists. If you assume popularity is roughly "better", they want to keep costs low by playing cheaper (worse) music, exce…

Being gratuitously anti-social in a pub or supermarket already has consequences, name tags or not (you'll get kicked out). It doesn't matter if people know your name or not, they'l…