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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you talking about China or the US there?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Some smarter toasters apparently have compensation for this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you're an importer or manufacturer-importer, you can choose to take a lower profit margin or make a loss to maintain the same final price. If the market is dominated by domestic competitors, you might need to do this to maintain sales.

If there's no significant domestic competitors, they're too small to sway the market, or they're also forced to raise prices due to tariffs on their supply chain, the price the market will bear goes up.

But I agree: it looks like it's mostly trying to beat the idea into farmers' thick MAGA skulls.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (6 children)

There were so many plastic miniatures in the game that tooling alone was a crushing financial burden that would cripple the merchandise line commercially before anything else was even produced.

Injection molding NREs are high? Such a well kept secret up to now. I never would have guessed.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

relevant xkcd

The thing standing in the way of your dreams is that the person having them is you.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

European governments and courts have a long history of laughing at US companies attempting to apply US labour laws on European soil. I'm sure they'll cope.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not sure that lossy compression on vectors is strictly impossible.

You can do things like store less colour information and simplify splines so that curves are less complex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, add two zeros, especially if using hard drives rather than SSD.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The question seems open to interpretation (which is bad for surveys like this).

If I visit a location that was the site of a mass shooting a few years later, have I been "physically present on the scene of a mass shooting"?

I think you could reasonably answer yes: you've been to the physical place where it happened, even if not at the time it happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Mass is not a major issue for towers, but it's a big problem for rotating parts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

All of those would also apply to turbine blade construction, except aircraft certification. You still want all the strength on the outside to get the most strength out of the material used.

You still want really good validation because these will not be inspected like aircraft are. I'm not sure if anyone will actually be getting close up with the full length of the blade surface post installation.

 

"It's a real accomplishment to mess up a ravioli recipe badly enough that the resulting incident touches all four quadrants of the NFPA hazard diamond."

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