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Is there any regime where this is more efficient than spokes? I'd imagine that at high speed there's an aerodynamic advantage (possibly similar to a track/TT disk wheel?), but I can't imagine the bearings being better than current bikes. But bearing loss might (???) just scale linear with speed, so probably a win from aero in the end. But this isn't counting weight, which I imagine is worse (but doesn't matter much at high speed on flat ground).

From skimming TFA, it's not that the numbers are fake per se, it's that they're wildly misinterpreted.

Job cuts coincided with minimum wage laws, however, they also coincided with seasonal reduction in workforce. So it's entirely expected that that would happen.

Adjusting for seasonal expectations --- which you absolutely must do for a proper comparison --- gives you the opposite conclusion, and emphatically does not point to the minimum wage having a negative causal link to fast-food employment numbers.

Too lazy to look up everyone, but all votes against were from Democrats: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Senate

I audited a class on the topic. The professor said something like, "Some folks think evolution isn't a fact, it's just a theory --- but they have it backwards! It is a fact...but it's a lousy theory."

You're not just being inconsiderate to your landlord, though --- 'Monster' fatberg found blocking east London sewer

Perhaps the endorphin hit from sticking it to your landlord makes it all worthwhile.

It's famous for its sustain.

--- Nigel Tufnel

I went with "cheap mikrotik router + cheap used enterprise APs (3x Aruba 325)," and I've been pretty happy.

What hardware you running for pfSense?

Please be direct and stop beating around the Bush.

I thought that's the accepted definition of a "New York Minute" --- the time between the light turning green and the cabbie behind laying on their horn...

I've heard that RawTherapee is good, but not quite on the same level.

I'd definitely recommend getting a credit report (not from the websites that advertise with an insane jingle, but from the actual credit bureaus --- you're entitled to a free report). Mine had debt from a relative with a similar name; I was able to get that removed. They will also tell you in more detail what goes in to calculating it.

I agree that it's not perfect, and often very opaque, but you should be able to get some understanding of why she doesn't have good credit.

...except that it used to be that your ability to secure a loan was based on where you went to school, how firm your handshake was, and if you happened to have the right skin color and sex organs.

The current system certainly isn't perfect; and if you're denied a loan you have a legal right (in the US) to know the reason.

There are systemic issues, to be sure. But the nominal goal is absolutely better than what we used to have.

I think there's a bit of a difference paying cash vs. card --- with cash, rounding errors basically mean, "this money will go to a cause rather than get lost in my couch cushions." With a card, the rounding errors add up --- for the charity, yes, but also for the customer.

I think another point is, why isn't the large corporation using their rounding errors instead of mine?

But to each their own of course.

I usually suppress output of either wget (-q) or of tar (no v flag), otherwise I think the output gets mangled and looks funny (you see both download progress and files being extracted).

Or the lines are "separation of Church and State," and the car is a lifted RAM 2500 parked diagonally across them...

When I'm feeling cool and downloading a *.tar* file, I'll wget to stdout, and tar from stdin. Archive gets extracted on the fly.

I have (successfully!) written an .iso to CD this way, too (pipe wget to cdrecord). Fun stuff.

Right --- not immune to congestion at all. Unlike ATT fiber, where we had 300Mbps (symmetric I think)...but if you log in to the modem it reported a gigabit link. Starting a download, you could often get more than 300Mbps, but it would slowly fall in line with bandwidth policies.

With Sonic, my gigabit connection would get north of 900Mbps (iperf3), both ways, to a nearby university computer. I miss it.

Not every ISP! Where I live there's an awesome ISP, Sonic, which is pro-NN, and last I heard only offers "best effort" service --- which means there's no throttling your link, no paid tiers; if the fiber and hardware can support 10Gbps symmetric, then that's what you get.

Sadly, they're not the norm. And sadly, not offered at my address.

Yeah...it's pretty funny to see a bird running around with an apparently broken wing and then as soon as you're out of threat range they fly away.

Probably because we don't dead reckon off the position of the gas pedal, but rather, our mental shortcut is, "clutch is furthest left pedal."

As others have said, brake on automatic tends to be a wide pedal. Pedals on a smaller car or sports car tend to be small and very close together for heel and toe and whatnot.