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Comment · 1 year ago
Unfortunately, the trend seems to be that as manufacturability of a product increases, repairability decreases. A simple example is the heavy use of fragile, easily broken clips to hold on parts that used to be held on with bolts and screws.
Comment · 1 year ago
How do they attach those bond wires? Seems difficult and fiddly!
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't understand this service. I feel it takes away from the experience. One of the few hobbies that gets you outside and under the stars and learning to navigate the sky and its motions was already being reduced to pressing a few buttons on a laptop connected to the scope. Now, you don't even leave your house?
Comment · 1 year ago
I was taking taurine 1000 mg per day but stopped when I heard a plausible link to colon cancer. Having a strong family history, it wasn't worth the risk.
Eagerly awaiting the results of this trial: https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.2024.42.16_suppl.TPS363...
Uncertain though how they will separate the effects of the taurine from all the other stuff including sugar that is contained in energy drinks.
I think this is a hard theory to pin down as it might depend on how much taurine producing bacteria an individual has in their gut B. wadsworthia, so two people could have very different outcomes while taking the same amount of taurine.
Comment · 1 year ago
Apologies for the double post. I got a "link expired" error when submitting so assumed the original post had not succeeded.
Comment · 1 year ago
It appears that the trial is still ongoing:
https://www.cancer.gov/research/participate/clinical-trials-...
The theory is that the taurine added to the drinks is feeding gut bacteria that then produce hydrogen sulfide that damages the intestinal lining.
Comment · 1 year ago
It appears that the trial is still ongoing:
https://www.cancer.gov/research/participate/clinical-trials-...
The theory is that the taurine added to the drinks is feeding gut bacteria that then produce hydrogen sulfide that damages the intestinal lining.
Comment · 1 year ago
If Tesla Insurance is paying out for parts to fix damaged Teslas aren't Tesla effectively paying themselves and so recouping some of the paid out monies? Sure, it goes on a different balance sheet, but it's all Tesla in the end.
On second thought maybe this loss ratio is based on buying parts at cost from the auto division and so there is still a loss there to Tesla who has to supply them from China or whereever.
Comment · 1 year ago
Two interesting things I took away from that were first that the uncertainty and constant changes of mind by the President on the actual rates and lack of reliable communications were almost as harmful as the tariffs. Second, that there is a "snowball effect" in that you often have to pre-pay, so you take out more loans at a worse interest rate to make your order and then if because costs went up, you order fewer items as well as being hit with a higher per-item cost.
The whole thing is a mess and shows how incompetent the current implementation is.
Comment · 1 year ago
Non lite version:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/the-shining-photo-ident...
Comment · 1 year ago
In the realm of fiction, they released edited versions of Roald Dahl books that were more politically correct and designed to be less frightening to the fragile children of today.
Comment · 1 year ago
I like it! I spent an enjoyable 10 minutes clicking around and checking out what battles took place at various places I have lived in the US and Europe. Is there any way of adding country/US State boundaries for the more geographically-challenged among us? I can usually find my way around using the coastline and following rivers, but I get lost in the middle of large continents occasionally.
Comment · 1 year ago
Prime customers tend to buy more stuff from Amazon, so they get you that way maybe.