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by Edmond 7y ago
We can start with the fact that fines are not means tested so a speeding ticket for someone driving x miles over the speed limit is the same for a Ferrari driver (likely a rich person) and someone who would having trouble covering a $400 ex
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by Edmond 7y ago
I have owned cars for over 20 yrs so I have a pretty good sense of just what a hole in my pocket the whole thing is :) There are all sorts of costs associated with car ownership beyond mere purchase cost and repairs...things like fines asso
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by Edmond 7y ago
One perhaps not so hidden cost of American life that I wish someone prominent would seriously investigate is the cost associated with car ownership. I suspect over the course of a lifetime car ownership could easily be the most ruinous fina
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Shankar Abaji Bhisey:The Forgotten Indian Inventor Who Dazzled London(bbc.com)
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by Edmond 7y ago
Detractors of self-driving cars are always eager to lap up a story like this as proof that it will never happen or it would take decades...."Years" doesn't mean decades, even 10 yrs is a relative short time, i owned my last c
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Show HN: Build web apps like it is 2019, with Vue and Vuetify
1 points by Edmond 7y ago|0 comments
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by Edmond 7y ago
Bullshit jobs :) These are jobs that are useful sometimes, mostly not. At best you can say they keep an eye on the organization.
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by Edmond 7y ago
Maybe referring to Physicists and Mathematicians googling is a bit glib but almost certainly they do a whole lot of "Googling" by way of being familiar with what others have done...it is the only way to be effective. Knowing how t
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by Edmond 7y ago
Class is definitely a part of it but it is unfortunately obscured by Race. If it were merely a class divide you would expect poor whites to align themselves with other groups that are disproportionately targeted by law enforcement but that
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by Edmond 7y ago
The way to understand American policing is very simple, "Race". In general this is true of many other things about America that may not make sense to Europeans. All other explanations are extraneous at best and more likely, dising
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The Invisible Victims(marieclaire.com)
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by Edmond 7y ago
"There's not really much of a difference between the web today and the "Best viewed in IE" web, and that's sad. There's a difference in developer goodwill, and of course things aren't as buggy as they were
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A farm in Missouri got $2.8M in Trump trade war money(newfoodeconomy.org)
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by Edmond 7y ago
I think the point of the survey was to gauge prejudice as opposed to determining if people knew the difference between numbers written in Arabic versus Arabic Numerals (Base 10 number system). I suspect the biased responses were of the knee
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by Edmond 7y ago
Veep's Jonah Ryan definitely is afraid of them :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=embMAtagQiU
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Who’s Afraid of Arabic Numerals?(nytimes.com)
9 points by Edmond 7y ago|14 comments
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by Edmond 7y ago
Not yet but it wouldn't surprise me if Mazda is cooking up a hybrid version...point still remains, Telsa doesn't have much of moat left vis-a-vis other auto makers.
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by Edmond 7y ago
I think it is more likely that Telsa is simply grossly over valued, even with the recent collapse of its market value. I used to be quite bullish on Telsa...until I bought a 2019 Mazda 3 this past weekend. It is basically a Telsa that cost
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by Edmond 7y ago
Akamai has Prolexic...it is what kept GitHub up.
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by Edmond 7y ago
30% improvement in anything is likely to be considered significant, not "moderate".
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by Edmond 8y ago
I am afraid you're making quite a statement there on behalf of all Africans...This African completely disagrees :)
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by Edmond 8y ago
My response was in relation to a VC funded startup business, that is very different from the "small business" segment you're referring to. There are loads of "small business" entities out there who get government bu
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by Edmond 8y ago
The federal government is generally biased in favor of large entities that'll be around in 20 yrs because that is the timescale over which the government operates, which is why their technology is always significantly behind. As a star
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by Edmond 8y ago
One way to think of the composition versus inheritance debate is to view inheritance as a relation specification, while composition is how you implement (ie mixin=copy some props from A-to-B) the relation. The problem is that languages such
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by Edmond 8y ago
that story is from 2006.
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by Edmond 8y ago
I had read Terry's story and was sadden by it. I see no conflict between the two approaches....As far as I am concerned, progress is progress. I have been watching the CIDLib videos (ie CQC) and it appears to be a comprehensive IoT typ
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by Edmond 8y ago
I don't do C++ anymore but for folks interested in C++ and what the project is describing, I'd urge dropping the knee-jerk prejudice against the license terms and actually try to see what it is all about. Unless they are crazy, so
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Notes from the Field: Tetanus in an Unvaccinated Child – Oregon, 2017(cdc.gov)
2 points by Edmond 8y ago|1 comments
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by Edmond 8y ago
I think this is just a variation of Hypenitis as discussed here: https://blog.codesolvent.com/2016/10/hype-on-hacknews-and-si...
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by Edmond 8y ago
there is another way to tackle this but it takes a lot more work than a DnD editor can deliver: Showcase: https://youtu.be/hgFkzrqxDcs https://youtu.be/IpX47gAe150 Demos: https://youtu.be/u6

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