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811.
by ams6110 8y ago
Very little is going to survive once it's over 160 degrees (F). That's "well done" for meat.
812.
by ams6110 8y ago
Person dies under unusual, rare circumstances. Happens every day, there are nearly 8 billion of us. Why is this news?
813.
by ams6110 8y ago
The incentive structures are mostly the "go anywhere, anytime" convenience of owning a car. That's a pretty tough one to overcome. For me, I'd say it's impossible.
814.
by ams6110 8y ago
> This way people can live closer to work and not have to drive cars. How will they get to work? How will they get to other places? Seems pretty unrealistic to think that a large number of people will be able to arrange their lives to no
815.
by ams6110 8y ago
Beyond that, nothing online is private. And generally, nothing can be removed. There will always be bugs, mistakes, new vulnerabilities. Eventually it will get out.
816.
by ams6110 8y ago
Most people I know are getting off of Facebook, or were never on it. The only people I know who are really still active are people using it to market themselves/their business, and are not there because they care about Facebook, but be
817.
by ams6110 8y ago
> doesn't even follow its own made-up rules One must first know the rules, in order to break them. Strunk & White, introduced to me by my sophomore year high school English teacher, is the reason I enjoy writing at all. Prior
818.
by ams6110 8y ago
Any airplane with a nose wheel lands that way.
819.
by ams6110 8y ago
Vonnegut was a favorite of my senior-year high school English teacher. She assigned several of his books.
820.
by ams6110 8y ago
Many businesses do work on common sense and honor, just not those that employ lawyers.
821.
by ams6110 8y ago
And who in the government of a small town is competent to design such an architecture? Who is competent to hire a competent company to design such an architecture? In the case of my town the answer is nobody. Our municipal internet project
822.
by ams6110 8y ago
> means other than pay increases Hence the saying: "they pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work."
823.
by ams6110 8y ago
There's no budget, and hasn't been for years. Just a stream of continuing resolutions to keep feeding the locust
824.
by ams6110 8y ago
Question, are Uber drivers penalized for speeding or hard cornering, stopping, etc. that would indicate aggressive driving? I would assume Uber could know this based on GPS and accelerometer readings from the driver's app.
825.
by ams6110 8y ago
Pre-digital, the film from spy satellites was parachuted to earth and captured mid-air by recovery aircraft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-air_retrieval
826.
by ams6110 8y ago
Hardware is a ruthlessly competitive business and profit margins are very thin.
827.
by ams6110 8y ago
Let's be honest, the chance of a multi-million dollar payoff for an employee is low regardless. Young entry-level devs are optimistic and also vulnerable to believing a line of bullshit on how much their options might be worth some day
828.
by ams6110 8y ago
So you're going to whitelist every mortgage broker, car dealer, apartment manager, etc who might need to pull a credit report? Doesn't sound practical.
829.
by ams6110 8y ago
For me, trying to put myself in the mind of an aspiring/learning electronics hacker -- yes. I want to rummage through bins. I want to touch the components. I don't want to stare at a computer screen trying to conjure up the proper
830.
by ams6110 8y ago
Audi is already a well-established brand that has immediate recognition in the market. All established brands are working on EVs. All of them.
831.
by ams6110 8y ago
In this vehicle they control the regenerative braking, i.e. make it more or less aggressive.
832.
by ams6110 8y ago
When I was a senior at university, my friends and I all had a wall at our apartments covered with our rejection letters. Back then (if they gave you the courtesy of a reply) they were sent on paper in the mail. So yes, it's always been
833.
by ams6110 8y ago
I'm not sure there are really viable alternatives. If all you need is a big CRUD database, sure there are alternatives, but there always were. Anyone buying Oracle for that was throwing money away. If your enterprise is more fully comm
834.
by ams6110 8y ago
That's true, universities for example will often use Intel compilers on academic licenses, other sites may use other performance-oriented commercial compilers such as PGI.
835.
by ams6110 8y ago
Useless on an airplane tray table.
836.
by ams6110 8y ago
Yeah really cops should not be using personal cell phones on duty. Don't know why this is allowed. Everything should be sent thru police radio and recorded.
837.
by ams6110 8y ago
I think very few people actually worry about it. That's not representative of the people who post here, but just looking around at how people live and the cars they drive and the homes they build and businesses running 24x7 with all th
838.
by ams6110 8y ago
You can't do anything individually, other than vote for people who represent your point of view. The sorts of things that would make a difference, such as international agreements on CO2, can only be enacted by governments. You can dri
839.
by ams6110 8y ago
That is good to hear as I typically only consider used cars and other than range, concerns about how the battery capacity holds up long term have kept me from really considering EVs. What do you drive? Tesla? Leaf? Something else?
840.
by ams6110 8y ago
And (B) is an issue. It's essentially deflationary economics. Why spend money now when it will be cheaper/more profitable next year? Once pricing on batteries stabilizes, you'll probably see more people willing to commit to b

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