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My understanding is that the initial Mini models were made with Peugeot engines, which were underpowered and pretty unreliable. At some point BMW switched Minis over to use a Beemer engine, at which point quality improved dramatically. Mini has been on an upward trend since (as has BMW).

Anecdotally, someone in my family has a Mini with the BMW engine, and it’s been ticking along just fine. Maintenance is expensive though.

I do not think that Subaru models outside of the BRZ or Solterra have Toyota parts.

It’s to distract from the government’s unwillingness to hold a public inquiry into China’s election meddling.

“The rules on making multinationals pay taxes where they operate - known as "pillar one" of the agreement - would apply to global companies with at least a 10% profit margin. Twenty percent of any profit above that would be reallocated and taxed in the countries where they operate, according to the G7 communiqué.”

How will taxing authorities determine which companies meet the 10% profit margin threshold? Which jurisdiction is this threshold calculated in for multinationals?

I went through the same flow and was convinced it was expressly designed to make setting one’s preferences impossible.

I also wanted to know which UX/UI designers put together the password reset process, which was pretty infuriating.

It’s mind-blowing to me that a 3-year car is considered aging.

Anecdote time: my parents bought a secondhand 93 Toyota Corolla that I inherited and drove until 2011. They continued using it until 2018, and got rid of it. It was still running. A few plastic internals had failed and the engine was rough, but still going. It easily had another 5ish years on it.

I once read (or heard?) that the reason why Twitter has such outsize importance is because a lot of journalists use it. They’re on it a lot, follow a lot of people, use it to discover what issues are blowing up...

I’m sure that’s not the only reason, but I thought it an interesting idea.

“The study still does not address a worrisome mutation in the South African variant, called the E484K mutation.”

Yes, we have. Specifically:

1. LIST 2. PUT 3. LIST

would trigger situations where (3) wouldn't include the object inserted in (2). This is well-known however.

Hmm. I use 1Password with a vault we both share. Works great.

One edge is being reclad in blue glass as we speak.

Sadly.

I was unable to figure out how to get this to work with an iMac as a secondary display :(

Looked wonderful though!

Are you referring to Indochino? (https://www.indochino.com/)

I think the OP got confused - as I did - on the position of Toronto on the lakes. We both didn’t realize that Toronto is in the same box as New York.

I’m fairly sure Toronto is larger than Chicago...

EDIT: Yeah, back in 2013: https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2013/03/05/torontos_p... - and I’m pretty sure it’s almost at or crossed the 3M mark (COVID may have tossed a wrench in the latter).

Ah. It’s because Toronto is in the same box as _New York_ - my bad!

I like going to the grocery store.

No.

We’ll see the same reaction that people had when witnessing extreme weather events: focus on the immediate problem, and refuse to engage with larger issues on the basis that “it’s too political”. For extreme weather events citizens and authorities showed an aversion to discussing “Is it climate change?”, and “How should we deal with climate change?”, etc.

I don’t consider this a positive.

I would, on balance, prefer to have a language with a smaller feature set that limits the amount of syntactic variability in the code I see. This, I believe, allows me to focus on the problem, not on the language features the person is using to solve the problem.

With Rust it always feels like there are changes and, at times it feels exhausting having to ‘keep up’. It also means that there’s high variability in the code you see in the wild.

You've never heard of WeWork? They also acquired Meetup and Conductor?

Specific conspiracy theories aside, it’s unsurprising that a lot of people - hell, even I! - find the course of events surprising.

The man had a dubious source of income, was offered an incredibly irregular plea deal, all sorts of theories abounded about his having information on other connected people, attempted suicide in jail, was (surprisingly) taken _off_ suicide watch, and then died conveniently. Seems like quite the chain of coincidences.

My (conspiratorial) take is that they’re making noises about this so that politicians can step in and pressure the FAA into approving their modifications. Talking about blue-collar job losses and economic impacts has the amazing effect of cutting through politicians’ radar on both sides of the aisle.

Alternatively, I’d like to see companies like Boeing feel the effects of cutting corners recklessly.

The key point: major changes were made:

1. Very late in the design process

2. After construction had started (!)

I mean, politicians or not, the moment you start making major changes during buildout you’re going to have problems, regardless of what you’re building.

The company I work at does not fire people for introducing bugs (everyone introduces bugs at some point and time). We try to find out what failures in our process (dev, test, release) contributed to the failure and try fix them. Some of the causes may be large, so it takes us time to get the organizational commitment and focus to work on them, but we do act.

I have (personally) been fortunate never to have worked with an “S”, so I think the author is being overbroad.

As many other posters have noted this is a Quebec bill, and has (sadly) been a long time coming.

My personal opinion is that this is making a mountain out a molehill. And, I don’t think this is the right way to encourage integration (if anything, I suspect it’ll engender resentment, can’t prove it). I’m disappointed that the Quebec government pursued this.

People do complain about high rents in NY and Toronto, but - and this is a big one - homeowners vote consistently and so politicians listen to them.

I would _speculate_ that:

1. renters are more transient, so are less invested in the community

2. most people don’t make the connection between restrictive zoning policies and rent prices

3. It’s politically unpalatable to be shown as “against homeowners”, especially given how much ownership is prized

* in the most superficial way possible.

I mean, the reason why people don’t work at banks is because:

- tech is still seen a cost center

- processes for change are onerous

- heavy focus on maintenance

- teams have non-uniform quality

- politics

- ...

None of which can be solved by furniture placement.

It’s a negotiating tactic.

It’s not ironic if one understands that his larger motivation is to “privatize the profits and socialize the costs” as opposed to a coherent worldview about the role of government in providing services.

There was a book [1] written about the myth that there are ethical consumers. Basically, no matter what people _say_ convenience, cost and other factors win out on the whole. I heard about the book in a recent Planet Money episode [2].

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/management/bu...

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/01/18/686665609/epis...