Yes, my previous phone was a Samsung, and I dropped them because they no longer come with these two features. My current phone is a OnePlus (basically rebadged Oppo). I also considered the Moto G series, but their selection in Canada is awful.
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Similarly, for me, android's killer app is that I can still get a phone with an SD card slot and an aux jack - so my music is with me, without needing to rely on a flakey old phone rightly condemned to the junk drawer.
Was it data quantity that made that feasible? My Canadian plan is $45/month and has unlimited phone time and 6 gigs of data (which is great for my usage) and is on one of the big three carriers so coverage is great. Freedom mobile offers 20gb for $50, but their coverage is weaker (i.e. you're roaming outside of major cities). These convert to $33/$36 in USD. Both of these options look significantly cheaper than any plans I quickly see on the big US carriers, before even accounting for the roaming charges (albeit with more limited data)
Note that Ontario Power Generation, who owns all the nuclear plants in Ontario, has a positive net income of roughly 20% of gross, and is building Canada's first new nuclear plant in a couple decades. Your generalization is incorrect.
Most accidents are caused by failure to stop and failure to turn, not failure to accelerate.
> There's a reason that everyone and their brother buys an AWD vehicle and far fewer people buy snow tires.
You clearly live in a very different place than me - very few passenger vehicles are available with AWD (subarus, trucks, some SUVs). But everyone has snow tires.
> What I want you to tell me is why I should prioritize braking and steering if they're not the bottlenecks I encounter when driving in the snow
Great for you? Again, you clearly live in a place with very different conditions than I do. What about the conditions make it so that you can't accelerate, but you can turn or brake just fine?
> better straight line stopping distance and cornering ability don't actually help you because being able to controllably put power to the ground is still the bottleneck in the "is it reasonable to drive in these conditions" equation
I take this to mean the answer is no. I drive in serious winter conditions, and AWD with winter tires is great, but it doesn't matter how many wheels are applying traction when you slide into a ditch.
Note that the two aren't mutually exclusive: Artemis 3 uses [1] Starship as a major component, and it's likely that Starship will take over other parts of the works for the reason you note.
Same as everywhere else - largest demand on resources. For a hospital, the resources are staffing and equipment (rather than cpu/storage/ram). An MRI machine is cheapest when you have as many scans as possible for a given level of staffing - reducing the time per scan from 6mins to 5mins means that you can get 20 extra patients scanned per 8 hour shift (with one machine).
In support of the initial commenter's point ("Some things need to optimize for the ability to absorb peak load, not steady-state operating costs"), for hospitals, you need look no further than covid - horrendous health outcomes for routine things, because the capacity was soaked up dealing with respiratory virus. And if you disagree with that (you're wrong), look no further than a strong flu season - staffing capacity that is totally fine for a random august is nowhere near adequate. Or look at Saturday night in any Emerg - there's a huge peak in emergency medical situations from drunk people doing stupid things.
I believe there was a BFR originally [1], and it just returned later. But the real old one was the Falcon X and Falcon XX [2], which were to use the "Merlin 2" engine (giant RP/LOX engine a la the saturn V).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Mars_program#Early_heav...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Falcon_X&oldid=38...
Note that your source is very outdated. Paris just opted to ban electric rental scooters effective September.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/parisians-vote-ban-e-sc...
Close - this is the detailed background behind the plan as presented a month ago. From the executive summary (page 2):
> On March 1, 2023, Tesla presented Master Plan Part 3 – a proposed path to reach a sustainable global energy economy through end-use electrification and sustainable electricity generation and storage. This paper outlines the assumptions, sources and calculations behind that proposal. Input and conversation are welcome.
And enough money saved up to buy land in Thailand and retire at 48, without worrying about how he's going to pay for taxes for the rest of his life, or how he will buy food to supplement what he's growing in case of issues there, or...
Being a dictator means [1] to have absolute power. There are dictators that are friendly with the west and others that are not so much. Use of the term is orthogonal to whether or not a given country is an ally (other than that word choice can have ramifications)
Montenegro is regarded by a number of rankings [2] as being a hybrid regime, i.e. somewhere in between authoritarian and democratic. The results of the 2020 election [3] match that.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictator
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_regime#Measurement
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Montenegrin_parliamentary...
Cryptocurrency feels like the exact opposite of the old internet to me - it feels like a bunch of anonymous bros looking for the next sucker to scam out of money and get rich quick.
$10: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/vindriktning-air-quality-sensor...
presumably not quite feature-comparable, but the article and website are rather absent in report what exactly the "flatburn" is detecting - sounds like "fine particulate" (PM2.5? PM10?) and NO2
(And actually, all that has been done, but action isn't being taken, so now we have to solve that problem)
> your right to access your own money won’t be put at risk.
The bank accounts that were frozen were those "that funnel money to demonstrators"[1] - i.e, not their own money.
> any cause that the Canadian government may retro-actively determine to be unacceptable
This was after the invocation of the Emergencies Act, which made it clear that the actions were not permissible. And the use of the Emergencies Act was found to be justified.[2]
[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-banks-ottaw...
[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poec-report-released-friday...
You heard incorrectly. Don't accept anonymous international donations to participate in disruptive harassment so severe that it requires the federal government to invoke the emergencies act. It's a pretty damn easy bar to pass.
If your current area has 400 residents but you can still easily walk to open fields, increasing that to 1200 residents in the same area would triple potential coffee customers while maintaining the same access to countryside.
Most places with high demand like this also have prohibitions (or limited parking/operating permits) on things like coffee trucks, in my experience. Another issue with our prohibitive land use practices in north america.
Sure! The discussion was about enjoying small independent coffee shops, and how to run one profitably, so my description of "better" is w.r.t. that issue - for persons who want to run such a coffee shop, or who want to visit one. The identified issue is that per-purchase margins are fairly small, and to sustain a business it requires a lot of these small purchases. As property (mortgage/rental) costs are also high, having a small space is also important. So to get a lot of customers despite being a small space, you want to be either near a natural attraction (park, beach, etc), or near a lot of people (office building, metro station). Density helps with the latter.
> I happen to live in a low-density part of the world. It has its downsides, but on the plus side, from my home I can walk to open countryside in pretty much any direction in a few minutes.
And how many independent coffee shops can you walk to in a couple minutes?