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Unclear how that makes him a terrible human being. Obama was against school choice, but he and all his children went to private schools. Does that hypocrisy make Obama a terrible human being?
That's only hypocrisy if you misrepresent what "school choice" is a debate about. The argument isn't "should you be able to send your kids to private schools?", it's "should you be able to take tax revenue from the public system with you when you do?"
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When moving to the US we decided to not skimp out on the vacuum and went with a Dyson Ball Animal 2 (an almost $500). It's one of the worst vacuums I've ever used. It's clunky, has poor suction and is a pain in the ass to empty/clean. I don't know if it's because it's an upright or if it's just a bad vacuum. Every canister style vacuum I've used in the past have been a pleasure to use compared to the Dyson. I even pr…
You probably should of did a little bit of research an got a Miele.
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Xlerators are an auditory health hazard. You can hear them running outside the gym before you can hear the music blaring.
All hand dryers are a health hazard. They're a wet, warm, bacteria incubator that can then aerosolize the bacteria. In contrast, the mechanical action of drying your hands with a paper towel is an additional antibacterial step.
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I never understood the appeal of the Dyson 'bladeless' desk fans. They have fan blades, they're just in the base. The novelty isn't worth the $272 (current amazon price) to me.
The real "benefit" of the bladeless fan is that it produces continuous wind rather than choppy wind. It's not exactly something you notice until you learn about it though. Then suddenly you start notice that regular fans actually are choppy.
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> Because it's 2.5 kilowatt blower making 78 dB of noise, according to the technical spec under that link. With these parameters, you should be able to dry your hands in 5 seconds while keeping them a meter away. This is a really bizarre statement. You throw some numbers up and then say “obviously it should work how I said”. But it’s not obvious at all. Those numbers don’t intuitively tell me that it should my hands…
My statement is this: I've used a sub-2kW blower that could dry hands in below 10 seconds, was loud but not painful, and if you somehow made it portable, it could double as a leaf blower in a pinch. 1 meter from the nozzle the stream was still powerful enough to dry hands faster than ambient air. So the numbers people throw around this thread are weird, they imply unrealisticly wet hands, or ridiculously inefficient…
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It's 12 times and leaves quite a mess
That's what the sink is for.
I'm surprised at this - seems bizarre that it's a 'great product' but isn't commercially viable in any way? As an aside, I really can't understand why people are so enthusiastic about Dyson products - I find them to be poor to use and poor performers. My gf has a dyson vacuum cleaner (a v6, I think), and it's terrible. Battery life is minimal, the suction is poor compared to anything I've used in the past, all the no…
Sure it's kind of cool to skip having to have replace vacuum bags, but it's much more of a pain to have to replace the entire unit because of a relatively minor problem.
So I think it's mostly just good marketing and attractive products and consumers who don't look at the reliability/expected lifetime before purchase.
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There was this TED talk once about shaking your hands twice to only need one towel. I've been doing it ever since and an Airblade will dry my hands in 10 seconds.
Only it was twelve times.