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How do Darn Toughs compare? I've managed to wear through 8 pairs of costco wool socks without loosing any, so the idea of a lifetime warranty sounds promising.

Extensive regulatory capture - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_US_dealership_disputes …

Ford did try to make it up to them by offering a bevy of aftermarket add-ons for the Lightning that were sold through the dealerships. As a consumer, I wanted them to keep the EV and ICE versions as …

I think the dealership monopoly is partly to blame. Dealers get more reoccurring revenue from ICE vehicles, so they are incentivized to not stock EVs and to steer customers away from them. Ford seem…

As I understand it, many people prefer the heat pump dryers because they are easier to install. Most are 110v and don't exhaust moisture, so you can just shove one in a closet if it has sufficie…

There was a great custom order screen printing website blog where they documented their shrinkage testing. They made a pressure sensitive shirt form and then ran 30+ brands of shirts through a batter…

Reminds me of the West Wing: C.J. Cregg: Leo, we need to be investigated by someone who wants to kill us just to watch us die. We need someone perceived by the American people to be irresponsible, unt…

IIRC, the original idea was that they would pull older batteries from circulation when their capacities dipped, and then repurpose them as powerwalls, an application where weight is irrelevant. This w…

From the link: In May 2012, Los Alamos published a white paper titled “Amount of Zeolite Required to Meet the Constraints Established by the EMRTC Report RF 10-13: Application of LANL Evaporator Nitr…

I visited my childhood general store while seeing family last week. I was interested to see that the decades old 'fill your own bag with polished rocks' display had been replaced with a bin…

Harjot's initial feedback reminds me of one of my pet peeves: If I reach out and say "I love that your product does X & Y, but it would be helpful if it also did Z", please don'…

Demo video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDuxoo0kNsc

I find it fascinating that runways have to be renamed in response to magnetic north shifting over time. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/airport-runway-names-shift-ma... …

I just want a somewhat trustworthy organization to develop a "DUMB" certification. I would pay extra for a DUMB TV. I like the suggested "Don't Upload My Bits" backronym.

Would be great for the hearing impaired and CAPD sufferers when combined with Meta glasses or the like.

Yeah IIRC it was diagnosed from a brain scan, which would make it easily fact-checked during discovery in a contentious divorce.

When your customer pool is 'people with $4m to spend on a lamp', the fact that a very wealthy person considered it valuable probably holds some sway.

Looks like 3 hrs https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/incidents/yaz-eOJeARBL https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/hacker-news Strangely, nothing from the statuspal,…

From ABC - "Authorities have investigated whether his death could be connected to this weekend's Brown University shooting and, at this point, a senior law enforcement official briefed on bo…

Tangentially related, but I was surprised to learn about the lax attitude towards placebos in trials. Classes of drugs have expected side effects, so it's common to use medications with similar …

The original study had a sample size of 10. A follow-up study with n = 13,000 did not find a correlation. https://www.alzheimers.gov/news/no-association-viagra-and-ci... …

Some stores are going to a 'market price' system because the are tired of constantly printing new price tags. https://www.pcworld.com/article/2984629/ram-is-so-expe…

Apple has done a great job capturing the gifting market, which shows up in their Q4 numbers.

Zillow publishes some interesting data: https://www.zillow.com/home-values/10221/austin-tx/ https://www.zillow.com/home-values/102001/united-s…