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$10,000+ is the price range for e-bikes and ultralight AXS/Di2 configurations. About the only aspect comparable to the €350 bike you describe is they have two vastly different wheels.

It’s not what you’re asking for, but the recent Scott Spark series integrates the rear shock into the carbon frame compartment, which is a neat invention.

1. SRAMs bleed kit is nice, but there are many affordable kits. 2. DOT 5.1 fluid isn’t dangerous, just protect your eyes and immediately wipe it off paint or skin. 3. Write down the bleeding instructions as a checklist. 4. Most disc noise can be quickly solved by using a rag on the rotors or pads. 5. If you have frequent rotor alignment issues then the wheel likely needs truing.

It’s straightforward and rarely messy at all. Doing a partial bleed typically takes less than 15 minutes. Sometimes longer if air really gets trapped. And low-end bleed kits cost $20-30.

If you think bleeding is daunting, wait until you need to disassemble a caliper or lever to fix a stuck piston.

I don’t think that’s hard either, which is why I disagree with the author. Most maintenance and assembly is documented and easy to learn. I only come close to getting an aneurism when truing or building damaged/uncooperative wheels.

Sorry, I didn't see your follow-up! It was just the standard Bertolli, Pompeian, and California Olive Ranch stuff found in our supermarkets. I was still learning to cook at the time, and the combination of the smoke being ventilated, indistinct, normalizable, and mildly pleasant to foul made me unaware. Some of my later housemates had to clue me in!

#1 needs to be emphasized.

8-12 years ago I knew modern C++ inside-and-out. I worked on high-performance template developer libraries. These days whenever a C++ opening comes up in my job feed, it's in game development or it requires extensive domain-specific embedded/firmware experience. I just shrug and move on.

This line of argumentation is brought forward too seldomly. It’s not solid, but as a human centrist, the only future that’s made me pause is the potential loss to human research and enjoyment if our ecosystems collapse. Animal advocates would do well to argue from opposing moral frameworks.

As a cyclist, online cyclists are among the most annoying people in the world. What’s worse is most of them aren’t even athletes.

Bash extensions are cool to have in the interpreter. I really don't think we need more than the basic POSIX shell for most scripts. I once wrote a tar replacement in it, with a restricted YAML generator and parser and a state machine — don’t judge me, I think I was manic — and the result was weirdly beautiful.

I wasn't citing or referring to anything external, just to my own experiences cooking. Still, I appreciate learning about your culture. If there are extra virgin olive oils that withstand medium-high and high heat, I'm jealous! I think I'll try experimenting with some of our local suppliers.

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> This is really the question to ask yourself: where does your information come from? Is there any evidence to the contrary?

I cooked almost exclusively with olive oil for many years. You can ask anyone in America about their experiences with it, and it will probably be the same. I can't speak about taste, but the olive oils found in our stores begin to smoke extremely easily.

I have never even setup Siri. Sometimes I've been tempted to enable it so I can say, "Siri, call 911!" if I'm assaulted or injured on the trail. I doubt it would help, but it's occasionally disconcerting when my phone isn't quickly accessible.

Sorry, yes, most food types do not require high heat.

Non-refined olive oils — even your rare low-acidity example — do have a low smoke point in practice. All store bought “extra virgin” olive oils in my experience also burn closer to 300-350 degrees fahrenheit.

Are you a vegetarian by chance? You said most people cook well below 405 degrees. Traditional American households do exceed that temperature on the grill and the stove.

When olive oil burns, the smoke isn’t always highly visible. Examine close up and from the side. The rising smoke can look a lot like heat distortion.

As a final point, for anyone still here, smoke points aren’t an automatic reason to avoid a cooking oil. Chemical stability is variably correlated, so maybe do some more reading.

Searing or frying meats on the stovetop can easily exceed 400f. Below sufficient temperature the process will take too long and the meat will dry out. A steak seared at 350f will likely have a non-charred exterior. Air frying dense meats after baking and pressure cooking also demands high heat to add a glaze and retain moisture.

Trail navigation is an overlapping skillset. You learn to recognize landmarks, topography, water flow, slopes, shadows, horizons, wind direction, and the sun/stars/moon. Maintaining an internal compass relative to a fixed location is indispensable. If you can do that you should be able to crudely reorient after moving blindfolded through switchbacks.

Casinos typically have an RTP percentage of 90-99%. Still extremely bad, but what is the average market valuation of an MTG booster pack? 10 or 15 percent?

In the very unlikely dream scenario you mention, you are alone in a disreputable nation with no connections. You are weak and a tempting target for blackmail, robbery, kidnapping, and extortion. A bounty is placed on your head by the most powerful nation in the history of the world.

You would think the failed track record of knowledgeable criminals like Gary and Ulbricht would convince the crypto-anarchist losers that their fantasies are implausible, but for some reason it never happens.

It’s a moot point. If BTC is seized or forfeited to the US government, and the (co-)owner later transfers them out of the original wallet, it will likely only accomplish the addition of felony criminal charges. It is an assist to the federal prosecutors. Case in point, Gary Harmon, who probably wouldn’t be on trial otherwise.

Yes. To defer to the prosecution’s arguments, however, it seems that Gary was charged with the following crimes:

- removal of property to prevent seizure (18 USC 2232)

- money laundering (18 USC 1956)

- obstruction of a criminal proceeding (18 USC 1512)

- lying to federal law enforcement agents

Also, the BTC were subject to forfeiture pending the resolution of the indictment against his brother.

It may not technically be theft, but surely there’s an assortment of crimes committed by doing what he did, including but not limited to fraud, conspiracy, and interference with an investigation.

Sports are the better answer for improving physical fitness. I do moderate weightlifting and HIIT-style MTB/cycling 5-10 hours per week, and when I took up a short gig to unload shipping containers, I was far more muscular and athletic than the other workers.

The job descriptions for manual labor positions that say “It’s like getting paid for going to the gym!” is deceiving. Yes, you will develop a fortitude and lean strength. It’s very hard work. I was battered after a week. But the physical payoff isn’t worth it and the life-long risks are severe.

It’s super depressing to work alongside a 19-year-old recent high school graduate, who jokes to you about his chronic lower back problem, while he angrily tosses 2,000+ oft-heavy boxes onto the sorting line. It shouldn’t be our children doing the crippling work.

I deleted my Stadia account a few months ago, and it had $400 in purchases. I assume that I won’t be getting the refund. Oh well, RIP.

To clarify for some readers, you really only need super tall stems for major downhill sections and drops. Standard gravel bike geometries are just fine for most singletrack, even on gnarly terrain that most riders would balk at. Brake levers that are angled inward and spaced properly matters much more for instant responsiveness and precise turning control on hazardous technical terrain.

Not just that, the suggested advice to replace all instance URLs with farside.link defeats the extension’s secondary privacy feature by sending all YT/Twitter/IG URL requests to Farside’s servers.

It’s really not that much extra work to automatically rotate VPS IPs or VPN relays on an hourly or daily interval. Since most Invidious/Nitter guides don’t recommend doing this I guess it’s not very common.

Just remember that you’re still technically trackable via behavioral, configuration, or latency fingerprinting. Anonymity is a full-time academic endeavor, not a shell script one-liner.

That's the buyer's perspective of flagging. The other side is having your listings deleted because they compete with another product or violate people's incorrect expectations. If people think it's a fake, and it's not, or if it is rule bound to a category, but people aren't used to seeing it there, it gets flagged and removed. There is no one to appeal to, and sellers aren't told why their listings are removed. As someone who sells high-end stuff occasionally on the side, I would rather deal with Ebay or Facebook.

For bicycles in particular, most of the Facebook activity and impressions come from local buy and sell groups dedicated to cycling and MTB. If you live within a populated region a lot of these groups will exist. It's where much of the enthusiast market is still located, sadly.

I understand the prescription, but it’s descriptively untrue that American cyclists are climate neutral, or always better for the environment.

If you see a road cyclist athlete, chances are high that the person travels around the state/country/world, and you aren’t seeing their sport- and lifestyle- related emissions. It’s like observing someone behind a desk and claiming, “Wow! You are so climate-friendly!” even though they drove to work.

You can try to restrict the subject to the minuscule echelon of car-opposed cyclists, who nobody in our cycling communities takes seriously, but it’s a misleading look at our actual cycling culture.

No athlete is going to forgo the conveniences of flight/driving and wear themselves out before a distant meetup or race. It’s not even logistically possible. Our vehicles also carry our supplies, tools, components, and backup bikes.

Nobody is going to bikepack up 13,000 feet of elevation for 12 hours, to begin a brutal 100-mile race through the mountain passes, when they can chill in an air-conditioned SUV instead.

Is cycling instead of driving better when you can? Yes, obviously. But it’s not a complete picture.

The smug superiority that comes from message board commuter cyclists is clueless. The disdain toward drivers is a self-blow. It is hypocritical naïveté.

It just makes the reputation of cyclists unjustifiably worse.

> If you take the bike one day a year, then you're doing better in terms of the environment than someone who does it zero times a year.

This isn’t true. I think it would shock many HN nerds just how much flight and driving many athletes do. Nobody is cycling 100-3000 miles to attend a tour or enduro event. That’s not even counting the emissions from our eight-cylinder 4WDs, trucks, SUVs, vans, RVs, etc.

Just so no one gets the wrong idea: the vast majority of competitive and enthusiast cyclists and mountain bikers within the US own and use vehicles. Nearly every group affiliated cyclist I know routinely transports bikes to trails, meetups, and events. Our average carbon footprint is likely higher. Cyclists without cars are rarely met and usually the butt of jokes.

Google Docs isn’t a backup service. If ransomware or a child (or Google) deletes your synchronized documents, and you don’t have an offline or remote append-only copy, then you didn’t do enough disaster mitigation.