autobahn

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by autobahn 11y ago
AMD also released FreeSync, an open alternative to Gsync, a dynamic refresh-rate interface for monitors. The Nvidia version requires nvidia hardware and licensing and adds significant cost to the monitor, whereas freesync can be implemented
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by autobahn 11y ago
Jet's going to fail once the VC-subsidized deals go away.
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by autobahn 11y ago
Are they testing other cars beside VW?
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by autobahn 11y ago
because it introduces needless complexity into the system, reduces reliability, and just makes the firearm more expensive.
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by autobahn 11y ago
There's no market for smart guns.
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by autobahn 11y ago
[Citation Needed]
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by autobahn 11y ago
VW is a giant company and they're sitting on a giant pile of cash. Anyone that thinks this was going to kill VW is not very bright. This will affect their status perhaps as the world's #1 automaker, but they'll be around for
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by autobahn 11y ago
Just makes me so very, very glad that the right decisions were made by so many people in those trying times. I'm sure there are plenty of individual heroes whose small contributions individually and collectively prevented nuclear war t
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by autobahn 11y ago
Inaccurate headline.
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by autobahn 11y ago
Not that it was a good idea in the first place, but now most should know never to use these services. Too much potential for abuse.
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by autobahn 11y ago
no. Telecommuting was a pipe dream of the 90s. Some people do it, but at most companies the "butt in the chair employee is best employee" thing still sticks.
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by autobahn 11y ago
Seems like a common theme in "sharing economy" companies - start off with a great concept and great execution, but once they become popular, some part of them just falls apart. For uber, it's the way they treat their drivers.
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by autobahn 11y ago
40x is likely a massive overstatement. Nobody's actually released any actual numbers or data yet.
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by autobahn 11y ago
the point is, the validity of particular conspiracy theories lends no particular credence to others.
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by autobahn 11y ago
Brings up an interesting thought exercise. Let's say you do start a small mobile game company and your game blows up into a cultural phenomena like Angry Birds. And like all of these things, you know that one day in the indeterminate f
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by autobahn 11y ago
Can someone tell me, what's the actual BENEFIT to working at Amazon? Do people really go there simply because of the name? It doesn't seem like there's any reason for talent to go there as opposed to somewhere else?
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by autobahn 11y ago
Regular crops certainly won't feed the ever-expanding world population.
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by autobahn 11y ago
No, they haven't.
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by autobahn 11y ago
It's almost as if he's asking for these companies to stop innovating. Crop research isn't free, and the government can't (or won't) afford to do it. Obviously the solution is to have companies fund the research and
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by autobahn 11y ago
because somehow magically an iphone is more secure because reasons? I agree that iphone's patching model is superior to android, but your statement shows a bit of ignorance.
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by autobahn 11y ago
Just to give everyone a bit of calm, nobody's demonstrated a successful exploit with ASLR bypass. Meaning that while the vulnerable is technically exploitable, the chance of system compromise is very low on modern android phones (I thi
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by autobahn 11y ago
because canbus. It wasn't a bad design for the 1990s - it's a bad design for now, however.