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by Phlarp 10y ago
A more aggressive charge cycle will affect battery life-cycle, but even the Super-Chargers don't pack enough current for it to be really detrimental. 110v is just woefully inadequate for charging a pack that large.
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by Phlarp 10y ago
This seems to be the case, at 926 karma I have comment downvotes but no vouch button yet.
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by Phlarp 10y ago
There will, of course, be a fleet of space faring repair robots with infinite delta-v that can zip around the solar system and patch these things up! Doesn't a pluto orbit sized energy collection unit leave a lot of energy on the table
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by Phlarp 10y ago
Where are you going to find the material to build a sphere around a star the size of Pluto's orbit? How are you going to arrange this material into energy harvesting equipment in a way that results in a net positive energy outcome?
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by Phlarp 10y ago
Satoshi is the exception, not the rule. Becoming famous and staying anonymous are diametrically opposed.
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by Phlarp 10y ago
Hah, tell that to our current crop of presidential candidates!
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by Phlarp 10y ago
Of course few people quit google or facebook to go work for amazon unless it's a Marissa Mayer-esque jump in the org chart. The real question to ask is how many individual technical contributors does Amazon lose to the others?
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by Phlarp 10y ago
Hearing that the recruiter more or less committed to a 170K+ range, only to waste significant amounts of interviewee time before rendering a below market offer is really concerning. Amazon is in direct competition for talent with Google, Fa
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by Phlarp 10y ago
How many finance professionals were saying "I don't want to look down on struggling homeowners, but from a macroeconomic standpoint the housing loan "crisis" is at least an order of magnitude smaller than the early 2000&
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by Phlarp 10y ago
As a data sample of one, roughly 2.5 years post graduation: I've found "quality of life" to be far higher in the professional world than it ever was as a student. Managers are generally more reasonable than stodgy tenure tra
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by Phlarp 10y ago
As someone who works for an employer who has only very recently begun embracing proper compensation and benefit packages, articles like this are awesome as they draw attention to how far most US based employers still have to come. I think i
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by Phlarp 10y ago
This is true, but there is still a rampant hyperbole in the ad-tech industry that firms can simply write a check to Google and be handed raw data to mine against. This simply isn't the case. Plenty of firms will sell you consumer data
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by Phlarp 10y ago
iPhones have a single Li-ion cell and the phone itself sips power compared to an aircraft motor. For a slightly more apt comparison-- try flying your DJI phantom on a cold winter day. It won't last long.
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by Phlarp 10y ago
Stop over-analyzing this, and quit feeling "dishonest" calling yourself senior. Just do it. Start referring to yourself and seeing yourself as a senior software engineer and the paycheck is likely to follow-- regardless of your te
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by Phlarp 10y ago
Law enforcement has specific tools that do precisely this. Google "USB mouse jigglers" for more info. They also have gear that can splice into the power cord of a live machine without interrupting the flow-- the combination of the
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by Phlarp 10y ago
Is this another point in the bucket for password managers? Harder to leak any timing related information when a browser plugin auto-fills the form...
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by Phlarp 10y ago
Spin off a shell corp for each individual patent that is litigated, if a loss ever occurs, the only thing "on the line" in a bankruptcy is the single patent that presumably just lost. IANAL, but I suspect this is exceedingly rare.
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by Phlarp 10y ago
A smart manager would know better than to open their company up to potential employment litigation. Unpaid wages are one of the few offenses that can "pierce the corporate veil" and leave founders/owners personally liable.
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by Phlarp 10y ago
IANAL: Wouldn't any evidence gained from 'mental-health clinical records' be inadmissible anyway? Something about doctor-patient confidentiality? Come to think of it, shouldn't these records as a whole also be inadmissib
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by Phlarp 10y ago
Tesla and SpaceX are both massive exceptions to the rule, not examples of the norm. You are not Tesla or SpaceX.
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by Phlarp 10y ago
On the other hand, "Henry Ford got smacked for it" speaks loud enough to stop most executives and their corporate lawyers from testing the waters. Even if some time has passed.
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by Phlarp 10y ago
The intent of my comment was to draw attention to the other side of this coin. >You are allowed to use any opening in the law to save on taxes, but not lie. The other side of that is: If you (as a C(ETF)O of a company) do not use every o
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by Phlarp 10y ago
Some may consider avoiding taxes to be unethical, others might say not avoiding them would violate a fiduciary duty.
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by Phlarp 10y ago
At least he had the stones to post his opinions under the flag of his own identity.
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by Phlarp 10y ago
Zuck tried to do the same with Snapchat a long time (2012 or 2013?) ago but most accounts of the situation have Evan scoffing at the $3 billion offer. Surely he (Zuck) will run out of cash and stock with which to make $20 billion dollar acq
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by Phlarp 10y ago
More and more it seems the entire excersize is just elaborate cover for Evan and Mark to have a dick measuring contest. Evan: "I'm coming for you, you know you'll have to buy it all sooner or later, try not to insult me with
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by Phlarp 10y ago
Isn't this what people said about Facebook when they were at this stage? I feel as though that has failed to materialize, and their new demographic is "relatives over 50 desperate to appear 'hip'"
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by Phlarp 10y ago
From a shareholder perspective I think she did a marvelous job: The task at hand was never to turn around Yahoo! into a Google-esque profitable tech power house, the task was to protect the shiny glass box in the lobby full of BABA.
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by Phlarp 10y ago
Got a big payday, advanced the resume significantly and had two children. I think she should be applauded for those things personally, even if Yahoo was a sinking ship she couldn't save.
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by Phlarp 10y ago
We can navel gaze at Yahoo as a company all we want, but I think Marissa's accomplishments as an individual should not be overlooked. She largely got to write her own ticket at Yahoo and had two healthy children while moving from a mid

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