NamTaf

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by NamTaf 10y ago
I wouldn't know if that performance comes precisely because they violate those laws or not, so I'll take your word for it. Per my sibling comment, I wasn't dismissing those valid criticisms for their flouting of the laws. I w
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by NamTaf 10y ago
I wasn't dismissing the criticisms; in fact I tried to disclaim that. My point was that notwithstanding the valid criticisms, they appear to be producing cars that in my mind would appeal to consumers so it doesn't surprise me if
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by NamTaf 10y ago
For all the criticism about their cheating of metrics and rules, I recently hired a VW Polo Diesel for a month to drive around Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and France and found it to be a comfortable, performant, nimble and all-round decen
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Right, I misunderstood what you were saying. Also, yes, the hyperloop isn't directly relevant to Mars for that very reason - the atmosphere is annoyingly thin from a reentry point of view (enough that you have to protect against heatin
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Yes, I was talking about other radiation, eg: UV. That said, 5m of rock is way overkill for UV rays since they're blocked by opaque objects. It would be perhaps more helpful in its ability to weather small meteor impacts that routinely
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Radiation, I believe. Mars has barely enough atmosphere to protect from the various things Earth's atmosphere protects us from, so we have to go underground (or come up with some hefty structure) to not get gradually scorched. Also, my
727.
by NamTaf 10y ago
The test had intended to fire the missile towards the Atlantic. After launch, it turned around and flew the other way towards Florida. From the sibling posts's response I made: According to the Sunday Times, the unarmed Trident II D5
728.
by NamTaf 10y ago
This is the latest from the BBC over it: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38714047 Specifically this part describing how May dodged the question multiple times. The 'vote' being the vote by Parliament on whether to
729.
by NamTaf 10y ago
Brisbane, 10 days, AUD$3000 hangs Firefox and I had to crash out (50.1.0 x64 EME-free). It doesn't if I drop the price cap down to AUD$1500. It doesn't if I do the same search in Chrome, though the scrollbar becomes very small. Ch
730.
by NamTaf 10y ago
Building on this comment as a mech eng who works in metal construction of heavy industry, it's also to do with the economies of scale and profit margins. As you reduce the purchase price, you need to increase volume to ensure profits.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
That'd be because, like Australia, there's a very isolated ecosystem there that could be decimated by unintentionally bringing in diseased fruit from overseas. Australia has similarly strict rules on bringing food items, etc. in b
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by NamTaf 10y ago
I say it without any understatement that Icefrog is probably the best game-balancing developer ever.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
How they listen to their community? It took literally years for a sandbox mode and replays to be implemented, both of which the community carried on about for ages. For a game that wants to grow in professional competitive circles, those f
734.
by NamTaf 10y ago
I've railed on about the safety issues of autopilot before and how I'm not entirely comfortable with the pace they've developed compared to the considerations of human-machine interfaces and driver attentiveness, particularly
735.
by NamTaf 10y ago
At the very least in a legal standpoint that's not true, because with a human driver it's far easier to define fault (which in turn allows for the issue to be resolved) than if two autopilots happen to collide. Who pays for what t
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by NamTaf 10y ago
This. There's nothing else because any other task requires diverting mental focus away from the act of constantly assessing the changing environment around your car. That by definition leads to slower reaction times.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Drafters (the guys who draw engineering drawings) love it because you very rarely but just enough have to type lowercase letters (such as units, like 3mm) whilst all other text must be in capitals. Thus, you just use shift to shift it to
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Good lord it's atrocious. Either I see the :/ face or I consciously feel my brain strain to parse it in full because decades of web experience have taught me to ignore the left side of the :// unless I'm specificall
739.
by NamTaf 10y ago
I don't think it's as black and white as that. Maybe the NSA spying on some overseas entities isn't strictly illegal. But to understand the bigger picture of their all-encompassing reach and sheer pervasiveness better emph
740.
by NamTaf 10y ago
How is it? My salary gives a per annum rate. I have a flextime system where if I work >38 hours in a week I get a 1:1 credit of those hours to take off later, and I don't lose any pay whatsoever for it. In the same vein, this deal m
741.
by NamTaf 10y ago
The use cases between both groups may be substantially different. Understanding this helps us not draw conclusions from 'how HN users use stuff' and incorrectly applying them to 'how all users use stuff'.
742.
by NamTaf 10y ago
That's a symptom of broken governmental policy, not so much imaginary value. People still need to buy houses for them to sell, so it's not like the property bubble isn't backed by real money. It's just that people are pl
743.
by NamTaf 10y ago
I think you are. I interpret that as the estimates for each year are quoted in 2010 dollars unless noted and that those estimates (that is, the ones for each year) refer to actuals in each of those years. Then they are summed to produce the
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by NamTaf 10y ago
French employees aren't paid on their standard holidays? It also seems strange that if you're working over the 35/hr week baseline and being compensated for it by extra leave, that you would not be paid during that leave. Aft
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Fun fact: the CSIRO is the only Australian organisation to have a 2nd level domain name, lacking the .com and just using .au. This is because they were the first organisation to use a domain name in Australia and got in before the regulatio
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by NamTaf 10y ago
BI doesn't do much for its credibility when immediately below this article is: "NOW WATCH: Forget the iPhone 7 — here are 11 reasons the next iPhone will blow everyone away"
747.
by NamTaf 10y ago
No one outside of trendy Bay Area tech startups respect the 'headphones = DND' social guideline. Open offices suck for this reason because people just take it as open season to come up to your desk whenever they want to ask a ques
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Question from someone who hasn't been to the US in 2 decades: Is the MJ culture of the US where it's legalised (Colorado, LA, etc.) such that you get coffeeshops like the Netherlands, or is it more a dispensery style arrangement w
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Yes. They cannot serve alcohol but otherwise they can serve snacks and other non-alcoholic drinks. I enjoyed a decent espresso coffee and some juice. Culturally, it's a place where people come to e.g.: play a game or three of chess wit
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by NamTaf 10y ago
This was also my experience when I visited a few months ago. I didn't once get approached on the streets, but I certainly noticed that the RLD was a different culture (including one guy approaching someone else as a 'friend'

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