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by 300bps 8y ago
An exposed slot for a battery could let an attacker instantly fry the lock from the outside. A long time ago I got drunk at my birthday party so my wife drove us back to the beach house we rented. She parked my car so that it was about f
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by 300bps 8y ago
Driverless cars are IMHO a classic example of technology looking for a problem to solve. My car’s utilization rate is about 8%. The remaining 92% of the time it’s sitting idle and since I work in a metropolitan area I even get to pay $19
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by 300bps 8y ago
I re-read the article twice and didn’t see him mention he didn’t have a surge suppressor. Did I miss it or are you assuming that he didn’t have a surge suppressor? As others have said, electronics can get fried by power surges while plugge
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by 300bps 8y ago
People do make biased, inaccurate, and incomplete judgements about others. But should everyone really just shut up about it and accept it? If it’s something significant, then deal with it. If it’s something insignificant, then yes it’s b
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by 300bps 8y ago
Now try being an “unaccompanied male” on a playground filled with children and see what happens. https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/police-called-after-man-... People make judgments about other people. They base them
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by 300bps 8y ago
I’m wondering why Tesla isn’t considering something like this I’m thinking it’s because they aren’t firing people at random. They’re letting go their weakest performers. This is very common and has been encouraged in business for decade
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by 300bps 8y ago
Did you get to the part where his girlfriend has multiple personalities? 21 to be exact, one of which is a rabbit. I started taking him and the article less seriously after that. Really smacks of someone who thinks they have the world fig
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by 300bps 8y ago
Real legal contracts are invalidated all the time for not meeting the basic requirements of a contract: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/contracts-basics-333...
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by 300bps 8y ago
It’s not just the monarch butterfly. Entire ecosystems are collapsing throughout the world as insects disappear followed by the birds that eat them and on and on. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/10&#x2
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by 300bps 8y ago
If that is the case, then the downvotes are misplaced. The HN Guidelines say nothing about humour (good or bad) in comments. HN Guidelines do specifically say don't talk about downvotes. https://news.ycombinator.com/n
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by 300bps 8y ago
That was a choice he made based on personal preference. It isn’t typical to use text-based window managers in Linux. FTA: But I have switched from Gnome to i3. Over the years I’ve migrated from graphical to text-based applications for mo
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by 300bps 8y ago
Background for anyone unfamiliar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art I would’ve killed for this in 1985.
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by 300bps 8y ago
so there are still some companies innovating, Apple just isn't one of them. I agree and it’s been true for some time. I was an early adopter of iPhone but went one upgrade cycle with a Windows Phone. It gave me several benefits tha
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by 300bps 8y ago
Q32018: 55,800 Model 3s delivered. Q42018: 63,100 Model 3s delivered. That's a 13% growth rate in a single quarter which is more than 50% growth rate annualized.
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by 300bps 8y ago
exogeny said... The percentage of links to your blog that you post in your comments is extremely high and extremely notable. Make of that what you will. HN uses rel=nofollow links so he's not posting links as part of some SEO plan.
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by 300bps 8y ago
I do miss those early days. I got my first modem in 1985. I racked up a $300 phone bill my first month calling bulletin boards exchanging messages and software with people all over the world. My parents took my modem from me until I pai
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by 300bps 8y ago
First Robotics is a worldwide robotics competition that was started years ago by Dean Kamen. This year’s challenge is called Rover Ruckus and simulates a Rover landing on an alien planet. There is a 30 second autonomous mode wherein one o
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by 300bps 8y ago
If you have a child, you get a tax deduction (or credit? I forget). It’s both actually! I get a deduction for each of my kids. Many people also get a tax credit of $1,000 for each of their children. I don’t qualify because of having to
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by 300bps 8y ago
My favorite article on this topic was from The Independent in 2000 that stated snowfalls in England were a thing of the past and children would not know what snow is within a few years. The Independent finally deleted the article but here’s
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by 300bps 8y ago
You can open an Ameritrade or any other brokerage account and deposit money into the account with no intention of purchasing securities. There is no dispute that the SIPC would cover your account in that instance. The only thing that has c
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by 300bps 8y ago
Not that I have any insight into Microsoft Apparently I called for this over four years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7909383
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by 300bps 8y ago
He admitted writing code to de-obfuscate the work of his coworkers and copying it. He gave several electronic devices including computers to his parents as he was being hunted by authorities. He made up ridiculous stories about how the de
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by 300bps 8y ago
Shortening light cycle times to increase revenue is evil. But one thing that is not widely known is that it is illegal to enter an intersection while the light is yellow. The only time it is legal to enter an intersection is while the lig
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by 300bps 8y ago
Some states are “owner responsibility” states which means it doesn’t matter who is driving. And going through red lights is dangerous. Wouldn’t it be better to stop doing it rather than come up with a way to outsmart the system?
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by 300bps 8y ago
Your entire first post on this topic turns out to be completely wrong yet you act like none of that happened and throw out more non-facts.
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by 300bps 8y ago
Both F8 and CTRL work for Windows 98. But it probably didn’t matter what he answered in their two-question interview.
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by 300bps 8y ago
My kids use G Suite in school but I have never seen anyone in business use it. Office (and more specifically, Office 365) are very prevalent still.
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by 300bps 8y ago
I used to use Chrome on iOS but actually switched to Microsoft Edge for my go-to browser. It works perfectly. I rarely click a web link from an outside app so going into Safari on a rare instance isn’t a problem. My ad blocking app uses a
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by 300bps 8y ago
My first computer had 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE.
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by 300bps 8y ago
It's much easier to get worldly facts like this right I don’t disagree with this simple statement per se but I disagree with its implications. You can still paint a false picture by choosing which facts to report and which to ignore.

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