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>General insurers typically won't insure modified cars, but there are specialist insurers that will.

It's illegal to drive without insurance. This effectively means that engine swaps are illegal, unless you are rich enough to afford some special insurance

Really? When you're talking about car mods, are you talking about adding chrome door handles or are you talking about LS swapping the engine?

ThinkPads use 20V chargers. USB-C supports 20V power delivery. What's the efficiency of power adapters back then compared to current gen USB-C chargers?

>Cars [...] No modifications are done

In a lot of places that is highly illegal

Trump is elected and everybody suddenly start caring about civil rights

What kind of questions is this? It will be sold to the highest bidder to cover debts of 23andMe

what are ADUs?

>Also easiest with water heater would be cranking up the temperature, but I really hate dealing with scolding water coming from taps (especially with small kids around).

Your water heater temperature isn't exactly my business but please look into sanitary norms on minimum safe temperature. Water heaters have standing water and bacteria might start living there if the temperature isn't sufficient. I think legionnaires' disease is one of the most prevalent dangers.

Increasing water heater capacity might be cheaper than increasing battery capacity.

Heat pumps have COP of 4 when reaching temperatures needed for room heating. Hot water is way hotter than that. The more the difference between outside air and heated water, the less the COP becomes. I don't expect COP of 4 at 200 fahrenheit

Can these new LEDS do proper color spectrum or are we still stuck on incandescent bulbs?

Have a feeling that Microsoft will be allowed to stay as an exception

State wanting a cut proves that the clean energy is not the number one priority

Why are solar panels subject to VAT? If it's the way of the future and we want everyone to buy and use them then why are there taxes on them?

Only at the last second of the purchase, when you're already mentally commited to buy at a lower previously advertised price

>A touchscreen button is done in software and costs nothing extra to produce

Touchscreen had to be added, during the big move from buttons to touchscreen. It didn't just appear out of thin air.

The phrase was not in quotes or prefixed with an arrow or anything

Save? Where are you getting this idea from? Move from buttons to touchscreen raised the price because touchscreens are expensive. Return to buttons will raise the price once again because buttons are extra parts.

>The first phase, which just went live, has a capacity of 200MW. The second phase, scheduled for 2026, will add an additional 100MW, bringing the total capacity to 300MW/600MWh.

Love the capacity transition from megawatts to megawatthours. This journalist definitely understands the topic

I doubt you could buy a new engine for $2k. And this whole thing that you are arguing for, it's called throwaway products

honing is part of rebuild

New engines also have thin blocks, which cannot be honed

>Almost any car can go 200,000 miles these days and exceptions

Doubt that

>Pre OBD2 cars just didn’t do that

In Eastern Europe, if the car has 200k-300k km on the odomoter, it only means one thing - the odometer is turned back. Pre OBD2 doing 500k and up is pretty normal here.

>little plastic part in the distributor

Distributor was always plastic, afaik. I'm talking about plastic water pumps on the new BMWs

Do you think the fact that new cars have engines that are not rebuildable but only replaceable is just a coincidence? With every year car manufacturers get more insight in how and when things break, thus allowing the use of more plastic parts in the engine bay

>it's really difficult to build things to last

A lot of depends on where your price point is. Do you compete with Temu or do you sell expensive things. People rarely expect cheap things to last, but if you don't compete on being the cheapest, than the product is expected to be made to last

Same as with vitamin D and covid?

>spend $15M on a team of 20+ highly competent full time developers

Implies that the browser is the mission, not some social cause is the mission

Can you .... uhmm.. use it for sexual pleasures?

>When you order food at a restaurant

once again, this is an implication that I ordered it. If you put a gun to my face and demand that I order a McBurger, that does not mean that we entered a contract.

The description of social contract does not imply that it was signed by me