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by Phlarp 8y ago
To be fair, if McDonald's did want to move into the HN snark space, buying out existing contributors would be an effective way to go about doing it.
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by Phlarp 8y ago
This isn't a "software upgrade" it's a "software lock" on your hardware that they will remove for $X
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by Phlarp 8y ago
What percentage of that 200,000 is in California? I don't think the sample size is near large enough, nor properly distributed to build a comprehensive risk model around. I'm not a subject matter expert either but I would love to
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by Phlarp 8y ago
Anecdote: last year I was repairing a bumper on my older Ford sedan, this was in Minneapolis mid winter (so tis the season for mild-severe body damage) and one of the body shops I got a quote from was also the only authorized Tesla dealersh
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by Phlarp 8y ago
Or you're just ahead of the nightmare service scenario described above and the actuaries don't know how to price it in yet. If so; Model S owners may get assessed in line with a similar price point internal combustion luxury sedan
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by Phlarp 8y ago
Then they are under US law. Just as a US citizen would be under a different legal regime in a foreign country.
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by Phlarp 8y ago
I thought the consensus on glacier was that it was optical backed storage? Has that changed?
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by Phlarp 8y ago
Don't give people ideas like this. It only leads to misery for everyone.
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by Phlarp 8y ago
"It's too late to criminalize prostitution, every is already having sex" "It's too late to criminalize possession of drugs. Half the country takes pharmaceuticals!"
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by Phlarp 8y ago
Not to mention official and unofficial benefits; health care and a police pension obviously, but also running drugs on the side, free prostitutes, bribes, immunity from other police, and near absolute power over other individuals in the reg
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by Phlarp 8y ago
Right, but the point is that particular sub would be shouting it from the rooftops regardless of the underlying truth. I think most would look at the situation and conclude that even broken clocks are right twice a day.
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by Phlarp 8y ago
I'm not sure what else you expected from /r/amd_stock.
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by Phlarp 8y ago
But this protection is meaningless if "code protect" is a single bit flip that can be downgraded with a clever mask and UV light.
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by Phlarp 8y ago
An app can't convey near the granularity of control to the driver compared to what a fully automated solution could do, and you run the risk of making the situation worse due to the driver splitting focus between paying attention to th
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by Phlarp 8y ago
5 or 10 times seems low if they have sharing agreements with other third party collection companies or the agencies they serve. 30 or even 50 impressions doesn't seem that out of the question, how often do people go to the grocery sto
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by Phlarp 8y ago
And as always, even worse-- You won't ever know if you just aren't up to snuff as an engineer / interviewer or if one or more of your interviewers, recruiters or hiring agents knows of and/or participates in such "b
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by Phlarp 8y ago
This is not how physical gold works. My understanding is that it's tightly regulated with unique identifiers for all ingots, bars, etc and the ownership of each being recorded so there is an audit trail if a diluted bar or ingot is fo
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by Phlarp 8y ago
Somewhere between 30 feet and 80 feet I would imagine. Might also imply curvature of the screen-- or lack of curve
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by Phlarp 9y ago
Really? It seems companies respond to problems that are aired in public much quicker and more thoroughly than through their official support channels. .@brand on a public twitter with enough followers to care about usually gets a pretty qui
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by Phlarp 9y ago
Apple designed ARM silicon does not preclude being vulnerable to Spectre (or other hardware level bugs). Both Intel and Apple have large talent pools of excellent silicon and lithography engineers but that hardly makes them immune to bugs,
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by Phlarp 9y ago
Maybe this was true two years ago, but I do not feel it is the case any longer.
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by Phlarp 9y ago
I had a number of very positive remote only mentors when I was younger and I give them all a large amount of credit for who and where I am now. Mentorship is important,but I don't think face to face is particularly important. Although
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by Phlarp 9y ago
IANAL but I suspect their only avenue for recourse would be private arbitration as chosen by the employer. This is pretty standard language in modern employment contracts and from what I understand very few things are capable of invalidatin
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by Phlarp 9y ago
It was not incredibly popular during it's time on the air. This is part of the reason for multi-year gaps between seasons. It has become somewhat of a post-airing success / cult classic.
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by Phlarp 9y ago
hasten? No, delay the pop if anything. Worsen? Likely
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by Phlarp 9y ago
Perfect play for the van dwelling SV crowd (or renters anywhere). What are they going to put a lien on when the most expensive thing you own is a macbook pro?
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by Phlarp 9y ago
A 30 year cop (presumably) isn't going to spend the ENTIRE career working as a beat cop on the graveyard shift in the worst parts of Baltimore or Chicago. They also rank up and/or change positions to be detectives, special investi
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by Phlarp 9y ago
And merchants.
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by Phlarp 9y ago
For many crypto enthusiasts this is a feature not a bug.
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by Phlarp 9y ago
Everyone is commenting how great their cash flow must be upthread-- regardless, it hardly matters. If supporting your customer base makes the business unprofitable then you don't (yet) have a viable business model.

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