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by auiya 7y ago
What do demographic differences due to immigration have to do with taking care of their people? Statements such as these come off as immensely xenophobic.
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by auiya 7y ago
Hey remember when this time last year Israeli scientists said we would have a cure for cancer within a year?[1] Yeah.... [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinseatonjefferson/2019/01/29...
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by auiya 7y ago
There IS the cost of maintaining pumps systems too, which isn't terrible, but it's not zero either.
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by auiya 7y ago
Funny to think the Romans were doing this thousands of years ago (and probably civilizations before them as well), and here we are just now coming around again to the idea of heating/cooling via cistern storage.
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by auiya 7y ago
By "hard to reach places", are you referring to difficulty due to geographic positioning, or geopolitical concerns?
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by auiya 7y ago
Drawing empathy from the victim is a common technique in interrogations such as this. The victim is wholly unaware it's happening. This is clearly the case here, the author makes no mention of being self-aware of these techniques.
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by auiya 7y ago
The US has the world's highest incarceration rate per capita. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...
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by auiya 7y ago
I feel like a lot of these videos are fake.
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by auiya 7y ago
The writer seems to exhibit copious amounts of Stockholm syndrome for his captors. From that standpoint it was a successful intelligence operation on their part. Iranian intelligence can likely count on him as an asset to answer questions
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by auiya 7y ago
Agree. I've heard WhatsApp usage worldwide is huge, but I'm in the US, and I don't know a single person who uses it.
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by auiya 7y ago
If you use the Internet, you'll never fully cut Google out of your life. They have their tendrils in damn near every aspect of the Internet whether you know it or not. https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-google-out-of-my-life-i
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by auiya 7y ago
And the US at least has a long way to go before wind/solar even come close to being the majority sources of our energy production - https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
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by auiya 7y ago
I'd much rather nuclear production operations be handled by larger plants, and storage be handled by the customer. Storage efficiency is the current weak point, not production efficiency.
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by auiya 7y ago
Probably because repeat sales in this market are non-existent? At some point you hit a plateau in demand.
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by auiya 7y ago
> founded [..] in Delaware, USA by two French founders This sets off my spidey sense. Delaware is known to be a hot bed of fly-by-night corporations and front companies used exclusively for shady dealings[1]. I'm not saying that&#
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by auiya 7y ago
> This is part of Google's attempt to de-prioritise the URL And people wonder why phishing is a thing?
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by auiya 7y ago
Or they could do what Microsoft typically does, and just buy them out. Embrace, extend, extinguish.
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by auiya 7y ago
A once-every-three-years study by the Federal Reserve Board found that in 2016, 51.9 percent of families owned stocks, either directly or as part of a fund. https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf17.p
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by auiya 7y ago
More than one-third of Americans who work full-time have no access to pensions or retirement accounts such as 401(k)s that derive their value from financial assets like stocks and bonds. The percentage of workers covered by generous define
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by auiya 7y ago
> public grocery store Where do public grocery stores exist?
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by auiya 7y ago
1) EV's will not solve this problem 2) Price is only a very small part of the adoption equation, people happily pay $80k for ICE pickup trucks for instance. 3) You didn't add this but I will - it's not clear the EV platform i
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by auiya 7y ago
Company representatives and management will outright lie to you about the things they claim the company values. Things like "people come first", "we work hard and play hard", "work/life balance is crucial&quot
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by auiya 7y ago
Have you never given your code variables tongue-in-cheek names?
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by auiya 7y ago
Tesla isn't selling 1.3 million cars per year yet like Ford, so yes, optimistic. I wasn't speaking about strictly the EV market. Why would the big automakers need to compete in the EV market when EV adoption numbers still only a
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by auiya 7y ago
"Microsoft said that the key's symbol was '_NSAKEY' because the NSA is the technical review authority for U.S. crypography export controls, and the key ensures compliance with U.S. export laws" Occam's Razor.
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by auiya 7y ago
That's roughly four times the number of 911's they sell every year, and they're all back ordered. Sounds like a successful test to me. How many Tesla Model S's are sold each year?
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by auiya 7y ago
The issue is the lack of sound dampening. It happens with any car. You can fix this retroactively with sound dampening products in any car that you feel is excessively loud inside. Some cars are worse than others. Model 3 probably just
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by auiya 7y ago
"As it turns out, through October 2019, Audi has sold about 17,500 e-Trons globally, compared to about 21,600 for the Tesla."[1] "With clients able to register their interest, Porsche has collected almost as many pre-orders a
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by auiya 7y ago
In the US, what sells the most (sadly) are pickup trucks and SUVs. The numbers aren't even close. The big automakers here know this, and have tailored their product lines accordingly. Ford is basically kept afloat singularly by F-se
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by auiya 7y ago
> The existing companies don't seem to have found a way to compete with Tesla's EVs yet If you look at actual vehicle sales, I'd say this quote is optimistic at best. Tesla is still very much fighting an uphill battle in

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