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Pretty sure that this is not going to work very well - Time taken to heat a wire is probably slower than a servo motor. Energy taken to heat the wire is also likely to be more than that required by an electric motor. Also, this seems to be for a front 2 ring derailleur - which noone even uses anymore. If you tried to make this work for a modern rear derailleur, you'd need a lot of wire.

What??!! What I'm hearing when you say "If you factor out all those deaths" is "Old people don't count". Economically they may not have as much impact as younger people, but they provide richness to family and community life that can't be replaced.

So I guess my point is - you can't factor out those 10x people. Because they are dead.

Give them a break - English is probably not their first language.

And this is one of the reasons why C++ is a mess.

Pretty sure that the cost of energy underpins almost everything we do or produce. I can't think of a single example that doesn't have a large energy component. For example, health insurance is made up of the cost of paying people and creating medicines - and ultimately, it comes back to food, extracting raw materials and paying down debt, all of which are affected by the price of energy. So dropping energy costs will eventually make most stuff cheaper (or make more money for rich people :( )

People who just say "Hi" to me often don't get an answer at all.

I don't want to risk someone interrupting my chain of thought with some request that I can't / don't want to act on.

But if I respond to a "Hi" and then decide that I don't want to deal with the actual question, that's perceived as rude.

If you ask the question straight out, then I can decide to respond or not.

The German panzers were better than any comparable tanks at the start of WWII, but they were still a bunch of Nazis.

I like to use a conflict analogy: A drug is a weapon exploiting one weakness of the enemy. A vaccine is a visual identification of the enemy, passed on to special forces (your immune system). A single weakness can often be changed easily, but it's harder to shake off special forces.

Who cares about their loss if Elon is blasting cars into space? How can you get better marketing than that?

Good point - I suppose I really meant they are channelled in certain "girly" directions when you could argue that there are other valid (and also "girly") directions also. And yes, I will support whatever way they choose to express themselves. Gender issues are tough!

As a proud dad of 3 incredible girls, I am very glad this product exists. I understand the argument that it would be great to not have gendered products at all meaning kids could choose what they want without any outside influence.

Unfortunately, we don't live in that world yet (and it could be a while off) In the meantime, I can now buy a product that:

1. Encourages my girls to get into STEM. 2. Is not a hard sell.

My girls are socialized to like girly stuff. I am only partly responsible for this - the outside pressures and influences on my children are huge and very hard to resist.

So you could argue that this product is a compromise, but it's one I'll gladly make.

I thought one of the main benefits of riding a bike was taking the load off your hips/knees/ankles. Which this bike mostly negates. Plus it's probably pretty expensive, given it's an e-bike.

Your commute is costing you around 10K per year, just for direct costs such as car and fuel. Then you have indirect costs such as: -lost time which you can probably put a dollar figure on (esp if you are using some of that time for a side project that may one day have value) Then finally there are the intangible costs: -lower fitness, meaning more sickness, more medical bills. -a less fullfilling relationship with your wife and kids -stress of the commute, also contributing to poor health.

Basically you should go to your boss, if possible and ask to work from home - you could even take a 10K pay cut and it would make no difference financially.

I've worked from home for 10+ years and it's great. You should do it if at all possible.

They don't need concrete information - it's not a criminal trail. Simply the knowledge of the existence of a program is easily enough to derail it.

@gragas I think to some extent, all of us are racist. Plus, unconscious bias is pretty much ubiquitous. I think you have to be more specific that saying that you are not racist.

This is an ad for Ancestry.com. Why is this article here?

Bittersweet, but mostly bitter?

That is not correct. Blendle in the Netherlands is growing in leaps and bounds and has 250000 users who PAY to read good content. https://launch.blendle.com/

Just did a search on the online naughty or nice checker and yep, my email address is there. Looks like more than the NSA hacked this DB. Now I'm just waiting for the extortion requests to roll in.

If I was sitting in Lituya Bay, I'd probably be more concerned about how high I had to be to avoid the wave. To quote myself: "Shoreline height is a complex process governed by local bathymetry and topography"

There was a much more recent, bigger one in Alaska: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami