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by cheald 11y ago
This made sense when automobiles were new and the infrastructure wasn't heavily established, but that's no longer the case. Now, car support infrastructure is so ubiquitous that you could wipe every dealership off the face of the
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by cheald 11y ago
There are starting prices, but the negotiating process is so arcane and twisted that it really only establishes a rough ballpark. Car salesmen are notorious for slipping in extra charges and making "math mistakes" that they benefi
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by cheald 11y ago
A 2-3% yearly loss in purchasing power adds up; at current inflation levels, $10,000 that sits in a checking account will be worth the equivalent of $8800 today in 5 years. Losing ~20% of your banked value per decade that it sits uninvested
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by cheald 11y ago
Unrelated to the discussion on dealerships, but a note on your height - I'm 6'10" with a 39" inseam and three kids. As you can imagine, my options are limited. The wife and I bought a Kia Soul a couple of years ago, and
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by cheald 11y ago
Car dealers also tend to be the among biggest financial contributors to local politics, too.
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by cheald 11y ago
The big difference, of course, being that when you get screwed by a prostitute, you leave happy.
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by cheald 11y ago
The real tragedy of the health care industry is that as a consumer, you have practically zero ability to price procedures and materials and to select a competitive provider based on that price. Instead, you select a provider based on "
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by cheald 11y ago
Not likely, because Apple's cash is invested elsewhere - they almost certainly don't have a giant iMattress in the back that they're stuffing it into. The "cash equivalents" listed in their financials are things lik
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by cheald 11y ago
> How would you feel if the government told you, in this awful economy, that you had too much money sitting around and should try investing it in something risky or they would take it away from you? It happens. That is, in fact, the exp
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by cheald 11y ago
The problem in dealing with governments is that they have the legal authority to change the terms of an agreement on you at their whim. There is exactly nothing that would keep Greece from taking the money and then turning around and repeal
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by cheald 11y ago
Quantcast raw numbers are usually way off, but their relative values usually aren't that out of line with reality. A big drop in Quantcast is something to take note of, barring something like measurement error. That said, I just checke
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by cheald 11y ago
Uber has "asked forgiveness rather than asking permission" - they've made themselves indispensable in the markets they serve, and it's politically risky to shut them down, because they are serving a very real need in the
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by cheald 11y ago
replaceState would be quite welcome! It's good to allow specific themes to be linkable, but it's bad to pollute the history when you click radio buttons, IMO. Other than that, though, good work. :)
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by cheald 11y ago
This is basically what stock options are. The mechanism of allocation is usually a bit different, but the basic concept is the same.
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by cheald 11y ago
> The members of a group currency all mint cryptographic tokens (coins, shares, what-have-you) at an equal rate. So what you're saying is that I can get value that someone else has paid for with their hardware and electricity bills,
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by cheald 11y ago
Using history.pushstate for each theme is really obnoxious; after clicking a few radio buttons, I had to hit "back" a dozen times to get back to this page.
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by cheald 11y ago
You can't decrypt information or validate a public key's signature with the hash of a private key. You need the actual private key unencrypted at some point; we solve this in most of our certs by encrypting them with a password th
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by cheald 11y ago
I've interviewed people for programming positions with work experience who had trouble articulating solutions to very simple problems. I don't know that I'd call them "fake programmers", but "bad programmers wh
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by cheald 11y ago
Given that said .NET technologies are open source, why does this bother you?
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by cheald 11y ago
The OSI and FSF say otherwise. http://opensource.org/osd http://opensource.org/faq#free-software > "Free software" and "open source software" are two terms for the same thing: softwar
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by cheald 11y ago
Wow, I am legitimately shocked that the fob is capable of transmitting that far. I'd have thought that the "is the key in close proximity to the car" transmitters would be intentionally range-limited. Great link, thank you.
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by cheald 11y ago
Can someone explain how this works? Naively, I'd expect that this is just a signal amplifier, which boosts the signal from the key fob to a level where the car will accept it as close enough (via inverse square law computations and a k
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by cheald 12y ago
Completely devoid of the patent discussion, Person 1 is more likely to make more money anyway . An idea without execution (either due to lack of motivation or lack of resources) doesn't make any money. Period, paragraph, full stop. &q
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by cheald 12y ago
Those are definitely great cases, but they only apply when the upstream can actually give you data that fast. My question is more - are there enough upstreams providing pipes big enough that gigabit users can actually use what they're
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by cheald 12y ago
I do have kids - 3 of them. They aren't torrenting age yet, but we certainly do more than our fair share of video streaming. Gaming is not bandwidth intensive. Downloading patches is, but that's not really sustained throughput.
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by cheald 12y ago
Can home consumers actually utilize gigabit connections to any significant degree yet? You need a sending pipe that'll accommodate you in order to actually get what you're paying for. I've got a 60mbps pipe and rarely manage
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by cheald 12y ago
Go requires knowledge of types, which already puts its cognitive complexity ahead of PHP for the typical content creator.
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by cheald 12y ago
> People should be jumping to work there and make the place better. You don't just get to sign up to work for the CIA and make things better - you'll spend years doing damn distateful things before you're ever in a posit
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by cheald 12y ago
My experience has been that JRuby 9k is slightly slower than MRI in a number of cases right now, mostly because its IR has been completely rewritten, and is still pending a performance pass. That said, it's still a huge step up from th
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by cheald 12y ago
Google holds 65% of search engine volume in the US. Or, to put it another way, they don't control about 1/3 of search volume. They hold a majority, but it's incorrect to characterize it as "Google is the internet".

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