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That would be a heck of a fun thing to build. Seems to require a heat gun though, which puts it out of my reach for now.

It's good to go into radio with an idea of what you want to do with it, then find a community of hams who enjoy doing that. People chase distant contacts, they practice emergency c…

> Aerodynamic stalls are something you learn in your first ten hours of training as a private pilot... In fact the CFI who taught my introductory flight demonstrated a stall and re…

No container is perfect and a slow leak of evaporated gasoline into the enclosed space of your trunk is a fire waiting to happen.

> Perfectly fixable items are going in the trash Which results in the refrigerant being released anyway once the item deteriorates enough.

Why do you value that over your individuality?

> Police officials say she had arrived at the complex after working a full shift and was still in full uniform when she entered the victim's apartment, thinking it was her home. > …

It isn't illegal to be hated, at least not yet. You seem awfully eager to coerce your neighbors into behaving in a way consistent with your personal values.

It's altogether worse than that because at the very least most city dwellers are being taxed to support these transit services. They can't exactly opt out of supporting it.

They still had a person in the car who was supposed to be operating, in effect, as an emergency braking system.

The devil is in the details, so they say, but what you describe is not negligence. They didn't disable a safety feature and do nothing, they replaced a safety feature with somethin…

> it can’t possibly cost anywhere near $10k per subscriber to build out fiber normally, even in small cities, can it? I don't know, because I don't possess any expertise in the mat…

> A much simpler (and more plausible) solution to chapium's problem is simply getting rid of the electoral college. Which would then require that a candidate only pander to an even…

Which makes for a pretty compelling reason as to why Charter hasn't done it themselves.

> In 5-10 years we may have a 300 person 1 hr transport from sydney to New York by way of the BFR. Is your average human's health and safety really compatible with the acceleration…

It seems that the humans in this thread are equally bad at it, considering the clamor for government force over an infinitesimally small number of admittedly tragic events.

> ...how many CO deaths from accidentally leaving the car running in the garage were happening before the introduction of key fobs vs. now. The great thing about the free market is…

> Which ISPs are so bad that you want to use external services, which are further in distance than your ISP, for speed? When I upgraded my WiFi equipment at home a month ago I thou…

Who cares? It's all just gatekeeping. Keep doing what you enjoy doing and don't worry about what categories other people put you in.

> Break the monopolies Can you explain what makes Youtube and Github monopolies when both have competitors in the market? > Force them to respect my rights, similar to the governme…

When you cherry pick quotes from the source it sounds contradictory. What I meant, and what I feel was clear when taken in context, is that alternatives exist in this particular ca…

Alternatives exist, what you're complaining about is that they're not popular. You aren't entitled to viable alternatives. If a private business acts in a way contrary to your beli…

> "Capitalism" doesn't make any decisions. It's _emergent behavior_. People make all kinds of decisions and bets and tradeoffs, some of which work better than others and "win". > O…

> Why is having people doing forms of “make work” worse than letting people waste away into despair? How would you suggest choosing who gets to do the "make work" versus who must t…

> Now, it's definitely sad when people lose their jobs, but that's kind of the devil's bargain we've made with capitalism. It's not so much a "bargain" as it is how we discover whi…