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Nice, I got my leaf through drive green for $16K after tax & fees. Nissan's 0% financing and free state-wide charging are nice bonuses if you need them.

I've been putting 1K miles / month on it, which is my historical average.

The charging at work seals the deal. For the few times I need to charge at home I think I've spent somewhere under $30 to travel 11K miles this year (o;

Short range EVs are not for everyone but if it suits your commute, they're a no-brainer. And a hell of a lot of fun to drive (o;

Some folks, yes. This is true around the world.

Unfortunately, for too many folks... pickups are a lifestyle vehicle. Like Jeeps that never go off road or bright yellow humvee's.

Lawns and golf courses don't get rotated. They're permanent dead zones.

Here's my kids doing their bit to protect the biomass in my back yard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukZA4Y7usQk

But in all seriousness, yes.. lawns are evil. Created in Victorian Britain to demonstrate wealth.. "look at me, I can afford to have un-productive land". I try to minimise them as much as possible on my 1.5 acre lot. Veggie gardens, mushroom logs, wetland and lots of dead wood as in the video

That all said, I keep a couple of hives, this might be the last year. For the last couple of year my otherwise very healthy hives have collapsed around this very time of year, I just noticed one wasn't doing well all of a sudden.

Roughly when everyone is putting stuff on their lawns for winter, especially the golf course a 1/4 mile away. I know correlation is not causation but it's an unusual time for hives to fail, they've been working all summer building up and it is this point that they are their strongest.

Frankly, my feeling has been for a while that we, as a species, are at the end of our golden age.

ohhh you, and your 'free will'

Let’s say you were interviewing a butterfly — or a Mayfly. A Mayfly lives for four or five days. Say that Mayfly was standing on the branch of a giant Sequoia tree in California, which lives for thousands of years. If you were to ask that Mayfly, “Do you perceive this branch that you are standing on as being alive?” The Mayfly would say, “Of course not. I’ve been here my entire life, four days, and the branch hasn’t done a doggone thing.” Yet when you look at the tree in our context, it is very much alive. It started with a seed, and it grew. Well, the earth is very much like that tree, and mankind is very much like that Mayfly. If we are lucky, we will live a hundred years. We are standing on a planet that was born four and a half billion years ago. It looked very different when it was born; it evolved and has changed. Africa used to be just outside the window here. Morocco was connected to Cape Cod. Beneath this building are rocks from Africa. It’s hard to imagine that. But if you were to sit on the moon, and look at the earth and blink your eyes once every million years, it would come blossoming to life.

I can't think of an example at this scale where that happened without the incentive of disruptive competition.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely

Immediately reminded me of the Google Chrome comic

http://www.scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/

Plowing in Winter perhaps?

You're paying $200 for a nice case and the 30 minutes you saved putting Kodi & Retro Pi on a $35 computer.

I think you'll find Honda put the battery along the floor pan back in the late 90's

https://icdn-4.motor1.com/images/mgl/WAg3r/s3/honda-ev-plus....

Not quite strictly true. You can traverse the inner roundabout without having go full circle around each of the satellites.

I used to work in Hemel, I never saw an accident. Affectionately known as the 'magic roundabout' (after the children's show)

It worked surprising well, if a little 'when all you've got is circles, everything looks like a roundabout' solution.

https://goo.gl/maps/QZJzPG7wDE22

And Fiats.

The folks who do round the world solo races might beg to differ

While every case is different the 'interest saved' + federal tax saving on a 15v30yr mortgage do not compare favourably to compounding that money towards retirement.

In general terms, you're leaving ~5% on the table during the 15yr term. That 50-100k you saved could have turned into ~500k upon retirement

I think the counter point is that with gps, radar & autopilot... Yachting is there today, to a degree.

As is often the case in such a complex issue, when someone has a penny to make the will go deep on a particular viewpoint

› In doing research for a book about workers’ experiences of being unemployed for long periods, I saw how people who once had good jobs became...

Best kiteboarding tried to crack the price barrier but seem to have given up.

Kites are too manufacturing intensive. Kiteboarding and surfing are apples and oranges

That said. I have a quiver of second hand North kites for under a grand. A good board will last you 6+ seasons

Again, it's a referential catch-all for people inside tech echo chambers.

The vast vast majority of people with access to mobile phones do not have the way or means to replace them at the rate you suggest.

The refrain 'not everyone lives in SF' has become so overused I suspect you forgot to append /s

Inspired by this viral video from a few years back perhaps? https://youtu.be/daVDrGsaDME

If you have a strong hive, do you let it swarm or do you intervene and split it?

(for the uninitiated, good hives grow to the point that the queen and half the hive leave to make a new colony, then you have a 50/50 chance the original hive will raise a new queen, that the queen will mate and make it back to the hive without been eaten)

Let me expand my original statement for clarification. splitting leverages the natural process of swarming in the field of beekeeping.

As to some of the other 'interventions' you mention I politely disagree. It's sort of like saying cows are weak in Canada because farmers don't let them freeze to death in winter.

I recently had a hive attacked by ants. They lost a lot of food and brood. Do I let them head into fall and winter with little to no chance of survival? The fact the ants got into the colony was no fault of the bees, just bad luck.

There's survival of the fittest and there's animal husbandry. The two aren't completely incompatible.

This is simply not true.

As other have noted, splitting is a natural process of beekeeping.

however, I've noticed a discernible change in the beekeeping profession in the last 10 years.

To take a step back - there is a huge variation in bee characteristics from hive to hive.

What I've noticed is that package and nuc suppliers (aka bee breeders) are far less likely to treat hives. And it has become near impossible to buy 'traditional' chemical bee disease medications.

The prevailing modus operandi these days is to leverage natural evolutionary processes. I.e. let weak hive fail and therefor let undesirable genes phase out.

There's so many little details like the pretentious double barreled names and the fact that every scene has a either a mac mouse or keyboard in it (o;

They clearly nailed it, this video from the dev team shows how the understood their users and stuck to the requirements instead of the typical MS feature creep product

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxx2KcPWWZg

I think you might mean solenoid?? It's controlled by the ignition. When the key is on / car running both batteries are in parallel. When the ignition is cut, the solenoid isolates a few circuits that are wired on the backup battery side of the solenoid.

This is what I have in my vanagon. I run the radio, fridge, interior lights and some 12v / USB outlets.

http://www.gowesty.com/product-details.php?id=2418

Forgive me, I conflated a complex issue. And I also regcogise I'm generalizing.

I know more than a few people who dislike what Amazon did to their favourite local bookstore but also shop at Amazon. I'm very long AMZN and I shop at Wholefood & Trader Joes.

I'm just suggesting that (a) Bezos has smart people around him who could give him suggestions and (b) this isn't bad PR.

Paint me cynical...

He's a smart kid, a lack of insight and focus do not come to mind when I think of his ability to tackle challenges.

In other news today... a lot of middle to upper middles class people, who view Amazon as a cold corporate digital version of Walmart, just had their favourite grocery store taken over.