Just bought a C-Max and the plug-in option was a much bigger factor than the Ford nameplate. When I went shopping I knew I was looking only at plug-ins (since I started driving to work after the transit system pissed me off one too many times) but my use case didn’t suit a full electric car. I looked at the Volt,…

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Whether or not his assortment of cars is viewed as blight or as a collection (though looking at the state of most of those vehicles I’d skew towards blight), I do wonder about the judgement forcing him to sell his cars. I know that locally, if somebody privately sells too many cars, the government forces them to get a…

I doubt that number includes marketing. For an OK programmer you aren’t paying any less than $6k per month, and a good programmer you’re probably paying closer to $7.5k per month. Once the other costs are amortized over the number of employees, $10k per person per month sounds pretty reasonable just to develop the…

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For anybody else that’s interested,

The AFK farmers aren’t playing the game. They’re just earning points so that they can buy loot boxes and sell them on the marketplace.

Any chance we could get a direct link to the NTSB findings? Every link in the article is a link to another Jalopnik article while I’d really like to read the actual findings.

If the gameplay is the focus of the game, I’d agree. Open strategy games like Factorio, Anno, or Civ games can be quite different based on the choices the player makes and are ripe for Let’s Play videos. However the game in question, Firewatch, is a very linear, narrated experience. The player might take a different…

I’m just happy that the M6 GTLM is gone. That car really seemed like an anchor holding the various endurance series back unless it received huge BoP benefits. Hopefully this one can play with 911s, Corvettes, and GTs without running extra power, extra fuel, and less weight.

About halfway down one of the first articles there’s a chart of Warranty vs Non-Warranty book hours. The times aren’t even close for some jobs. The main seal cover gaskets are nearly half the hours for warranty work, and the head gaskets subtract about 7 hours for warranty work. Either the non-warranty customers are…

Most sliding glass doors can be lifted out of the channel with minimal effort. Hell, I need to do that to my house every time I have furniture delivered since my front door opens into a tiny entryway that’s not big enough to handle couches or fridges. I only need to unscrew two pieces of weatherstripping and…

I’ll be picking up my C-Max Energi next weekend. Only 12 km from my driveway to work, but it’s a 30 minute drive vs a 70 minute trip by bus and subway. The C-Max has about a 35 km electric range so I shouldn’t need to burn much gas at all, and I’m lucky enough to own a house with a single car driveway close to an…

Good idea! I’d imagine a pair of headless dogs or goats staring through the firewall would generate some power, and then you wouldn’t have to worry about the logistics of laying a wight down. Just connect their front and rear pedals to a common shaft via belts and then reverse the direction by using a simple crossed…

I wonder whether the wight needs to be standing or if they can be laid down and still provide appropriate motion through the crankshaft. If they could be laid down, you would only need a box about 3 ft long and a foot or 2 high (not much bigger than a Model A hood) which could provide better weight distribution,…

I’m pretty sure those are manufacturer chassis codes rather than VIN segments. For example, everybody knows what I’m talking about when I say a BMW E46, but the actual VIN would be more like WBAEV13293F######

If so, what’s the purpose of the NCDC’s NLRB complaint? What law is being broken when individual dealerships sign blanket contracts that apply to their employees, regardless of who’s negotiating the contract?

From one of the prior articles, it sounds like some of these dealerships don’t even recognize the union even though their employees voted one in.

Addicks looks like it’s crested the spillway, but it looks like Barker’s still got a couple of feet to go (or else their sensor tops out at 99.94' since it’s held there for quite a while).

According to this article from Propublica, since 1989 there have been 8 rare storms that hit Houston. Five were ‘1 in 100' storms and three were even rarer than that.