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If you're thinking about this, then you have to consider how those business you mention make money with a similar model.

Starbucks: they don't charge $2 a coffee. I would only ever get a drip coffee and I think it's around $3, most people who are going there get drinks in the >$5 range. Plus they have a lot of traffic - more customers = less wages required for each drink

McDonalds: They charge less than $2/coffee. They charge less than $8 for a breakfast. They make their money on super high volume.

Your vision: you're enjoying lingering, enjoying the sun. You're enjoying the floor (patio) space, which means you can't have high volume unless you have a huge space, which wouldn't work with your "little shack" concept. Unless there's a nearby park or beach with free barely limited space, while also still having enough traffic to stay busy. Very limited spots that can work.

(so as with most issues regarding our urban spaces in north america, what we need to make them better is more density. :)

> and given that we are a country of common law,

technically, Quebec has civil law [1] for a portion of their legal system. If we're being pedantic :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_law

> But please, why isn't a public inquiry the correct format and what is the right format that will balance national security and public trust

I already gave you a list of 4 reasons I think a public inquiry is not the best format. You dismissed them out of hand, and without even providing your own reasons why you think it is the best method. Just because you don't trust the public service, doesn't mean other reasonable people don't, like me :)

Personally, I trust the relevant government institutions (Elections Canada, CSIS, etc) to know and address it properly. While more information being released would be good, I don't think a public inquiry is the right format.

Yes, I'm sure that's why the European commission did the same [1] a few days ago, why the US House is debating it now [2], and a number of other govt's have been considering it in the last month or two..

[1] https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/02/23/european-commi...

[2] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3876321-tiktok-ban-mak...

[3] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3845729-texas-governor... https://statescoop.com/florida-tiktok-ban-desantis-digital-r...

In the HN spirit, what would be the "strongest plausible interpretation" of why a public inquiry might not be the best solution? I can list a few to start: international relations, protection of sources and methods, unnecessary delay in addressing the issue, risking politicizing the apolitical institution of Elections Canada

I've used their grinders before and loved them, but they have some newer models since I last looked. The Q2 Looks like a great upgrade for my travel setup, and I'm at a financial place in my life where I can afford to do that (so likely will).

I have a younger relative who drinks instant or preground, maybe if I give him my hario he'll start grinding fresh

Hario Mini Mill Slim. It's not fantastic, but it's a burr grinder, and it's consistent enough for french press in my experience. Too slow for fine grind settings though. Bought one as a student ~15 years ago. Options were much more limited i.e. nonexistent at that time, but it's still my camping/travel hand grinder.

1zpresso grinders are fantastic and (as you said earlier) a buy-it-for-life thing. But if you're struggling with cost, a Hario is much better and not much more than an electric blade grinder.

> But coffee can be cheap. $100-200 BIFL hand grinder, and like $50 for a brewer + tons of paper filters

(if you're trying to do decent coffee for cheap, a $40 hand grinder and a $10 french press is fine once you get a good technique.)

None of that gets to the question of why a brake job specifically costs so much, which is why I used it as an example. Brakes are no harder to do than 3 decades ago (at least for my car). They cost a lot because of the cost of labour, primarily. Other work has different costs.

The primary basis of your argument falls flat for me though. You don't need to repair new cars as much as you did 40 years ago. You never need to mess with your carburetor, spark plugs last a decade+, other stuff tends not to fail at nearly the rate it used to. My current car has 11 years and 250000 km on it, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to do any service aside from oil changes. (aside: why would I ever want to adjust airbag timing? And yes, if I somehow need to replace an airbag, I'll happily pay someone certified to do it. And if I buy a secondhand car, I'd really like to know that the person before me couldn't change airbag timing or velocity)

I do feel a sense of foreboding when it comes to choosing my next vehicle though. I want a BEV, but they all have so much electronic junk in that I fiind to be actively detrimental. I recently drove a friend's (2017) Toyota for a weekend, some ice built up on the sensor (in the badge on the front bumper). The following day, when roads were clear, it wouldn't let me use regular cruise control because the sensor was still iced over. A different toyota wouldn't let me cross the lane lines to avoid a pothole. They'll both slow me well below the speed limit on the highway based on the car ahead of me, with no notification. I would pay more for a car with these "features" removed.

> I know that car repair costs are going up and repair rates are going down, and have been for decades. The reason is obvious:

Have you taken a car in for repair recently? I agree that the reason is obvious - parts labour costs make it no longer make sense. Just a brake job nowadays costs a thousand dollars or more (depending on car model etc), i.e. 3% of a brand new vehicle purchase price. There's no anti-features causing this, it's just labour charges increasing.

> Another big question is how much mass needs to be shipped up from earth to manufacturer solar cells.

If you take the linked page at face value, it explicitly states:

> without special substances brought from Earth.

(I suspect, like most press releases, some important details aren't being provided. Maybe dopants aren't considered "special substances")

> Why are IEA forecasts spurious?

While I don't agree with the post you're replying to, the IEA has a long history of terrible predictions with renewable energy. Not sure if they've improved recently, but for the better part of two decades, they predicted negligible growth in the solar market, even after being contradicted every single year:

https://maartensteinbuch.com/2017/06/12/photovoltaic-growth-...

Generally I agree. However, I saw negligible performance improvement from getting a ten year newer mobo/cpu/ram, so the previous trend didn't apply. I only upgraded because there were some system stability issues (probably ram caused, but buying new ddr3 ram in an attempt to fix it seemed a waste). From a performance point of view, the new GPU and SSD in 2018 were the new computer experience.

8 years is no longer forever in PC terms. It used to be you could only go a couple years before your computer could no longer run anything but that's no longer the case.

For an example, I usually build a PC once the older one is horribly outdated. So that was 1999, 2002, 2006, 2011, and ... Well that one has turned into the PC of Theseus. I upgraded to an SSD and $300 video card in 2018, and in 2022 I bought a new cpu/mobo/ram. Still plays games at 1440p at acceptable frame rates.

If I wanted to game at 4k 240Hz, yeah I'd probably have to spend $3500 (and it still wouldn't run that great) which just tells me that 4k gaming isn't ready for prime time

Fully 2000 km from Cold Lake to Tuktoyaktuk. Depending where the object was, there's a lot more distance in the way.

> The sentence was obviously crafted to show power

Your partial quote is highly misleading. The first two words in "Canadian and U.S. Aircraft were scrambled" changes the meaning quite dramatically. NORAD is bilateral.

> Knowing Trudeau's giant ego adds a ton of context

Oh, I didn't realize you were just here for the personal attacks.

? It doesn't transfer your posts, but it does transfer [1] all your followers, follows, bookmarks, mute lists, and block lists. That's still a lot of room for error. What happens if you and a follower transfer your accounts simultaneously? Will they get redirected properly? It is still a good test.

[1] https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-anot...

> This is really the result of the massive skills loss in the construction industry

The skills weren't lost, just no one wants to pay for them. If ten people can build ten houses in a year, but to do decorative houses they can only do five, hey suddenly the masonry costs on your house have doubled.

> You basically can't get brick work of a quality comparable to what was done 100 years ago any more.

Bricks were mostly used structurally a century ago. In about the late 1930s, most brickwork started being veneer (non-structural). Combined with dramatically increase labour costs as a proportion of overall building cost, it's pretty clear why.

If you want some decorative brickwork done, order a pallet of brick and some bags of mortar and learn how to do it yourself. Anything else is reserved for those with money to burn.

> language barrier isn't really an issue day to day. Most people in the huge urban centers (such as where you'd pick up the RV) speak English well.

This is not the general experience in Japan, and advising people to expect English speakers is misleading :) That said, you will certainly still get by, and if you're nervous about it there are definitely other (more expensive) rental options with strong English language support - one of them is linked from the blog.

That is definitely true! Very useful in the "I want to start developing stronger functional muscles" context, but will only get you to a certain point

If memory serves, last time I was lifting weights regularly, I could bench 225lb with a bar, but only 140ish (2x70lb) with dumbbells.

Using dumbbells instead of a bar also builds stronger stabilization muscles, and doesn't let your strong side compensate for weak side.

> There is wide reaching news articles about this topic, one example you can read it via google translate:

That article seems to be discussing how track works were being conducted without signal protection. Which is very different than no signals being installed.

The rest of your comment, regarding corruption scandal, seems totally possible.

> Fun fact, due to corruption Turkey's newly built suburban rail system called Marmaray does not have signalization. They accepted the project without it.

Do you have any backing for this? I couldn't find any (english language) complaints about signalization with a few searches.

> There are a lot of difference between the English and Japanese audio in Kiki

Definitely. Jiji (the cat) has a totally different character if you listen to the dub vs the original Japanese. One of the few instances where I prefer the dub... but I think it's just because I watched it that way as a child. This article [1] is convincing me to go back and give the Japanese audio another try.

[1] https://www.otaquest.com/anime-kikis-delivery-service/

This article has a couple non-sequiturs that undermine the whole argument, the biggest to me was the thrust of these two sequential paragraphs:

> the growing electric vehicle industry may help reduce carbon emissions but it will also cause a massive jump in the demand for lithium and other minerals. [...] Apart from making climate change worse,

Reducing and eliminating carbon emissions is key to climate change reduction. Other environmental impacts aren't consistently correlated with climate action.

Not different from the current system, where we elect politicians who promise not to raise taxes, so they defer maintenance on all infrastructure, until in 70 years we have to spend trillions replacing old pipes/bridges/roads that could have been kept up for decades longer with better maintenance.

Except they can't go begging to the feds, because they've also have been voted in under platforms of "minimize tax increases" for 40 years, so they're also indebted.

> electrical conduit, which I think is one of the cheapest type of beam/tube available.

There have been pretty serious PVC conduit shortages for the last year or two. In construction projects I've worked on, they've had to uprate to (much more expensive) fibreglass conduit as PVC was simply not available.

> 1. Produce/transport a bunch of electric vehicles, producing massive emissions 2. ??? 3. Somehow billions of tonnes of carbon get removed from the atmosphere

I'll revise that to be more accurate:

1. Produce/transport a bunch of electric vehicles, producing moderately more emissions than the production of equivalent gasoline vehicles would have

2. These electric vehicles release dramatically less carbon emissions per kilometer, even if the power source is itself fossil fueled

3. Billions of tonnes of carbon that would have been emitted with the status quo are not.

> I fail to see how EVs do anything to actually do something about the problem i.e. REMOVE CO2 from the atmosphere.

EVs aren't going to remove carbon from the atmosphere (and I've never heard anyone say that they will?). They simply reduce the ongoing increase of emissions from the transportation sector. They are one small piece of the climate change puzzle.

The carbon in the atmosphere can't even begin to decrease if we are continually increasing the amount we add to it.

> What I really don't understand is why don't Shell, Exxon, Chevron and their ilk get into the EV game and start setting up DC fast chargers at all of their gas stations?

At least in Canada, there has definitely been a push in this direction. Both Petro-Can[1] and Irving[2] have set up fast charging networks at their stations. Many of the Tesla Superchargers in Canada[3] are also located at various gas stations and truck stops (that specifically benefit from more restaurant customers when they use the charger).

[1] https://www.petro-canada.ca/en/personal/fuel/canadas-electri...

[2] https://www.irvingoil.com/en-US/on-the-road/electric-vehicle...

[3] https://www.tesla.com/findus