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by codex 13y ago
The LEAF has sold 70,000 copies worldwide. Based on sales volume, you could argue Nissan is the electric car leader.
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by codex 13y ago
If this project is like the other Kickstarter projects I've backed, it will meet its funding goal then be delayed by months and months, if not years, with letters of apology sent every month or so. It's a shame because Kickstarte
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by codex 13y ago
I believe they all do; the LEAF's is described here: http://www.johnwmorehead.com/new-nissan-leaf-rare-earth-elec...
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by codex 13y ago
No other electric car manufacturer can make this claim, as the rest use permanent magnets in their motors despite the higher cost. Why, I don't know.
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by codex 13y ago
Yep, society cooperates with law enforcement. It's been that way for about six or seven thousand years. In this case it was in response to search warrants. If you're not outraged, you've been paying enough attention.
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by codex 13y ago
What about PayPal?
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by codex 13y ago
Designing a system to resist law enforcement is not the only way to make a system that resists insider attacks. In fact, it's a terrible way. Banks have figured out how to comply with the law, allowing law enforcement to seize bank a
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by codex 13y ago
I agree. However, people who fail also have terrible insights; for some, that contributed to their failure. And there's no reason to believe the specific reasons for their failure will be applicable to you. In the NFL, teams which l
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by codex 13y ago
Children share the same genes and epigenetics as ther ancestors. Likely it's the source of their consciousness. So really, parents and children can be considered the same organism, only running with different inputs. Why shouldn&#x2
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by codex 13y ago
More advice from a failed YC company (an acquhire is not a success). I understand the desire to salvage something from the experience, but I only take advise from those more successful than I am. There are so many of those.
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by codex 13y ago
Cities have been "in" since the industrial revolution. What's different this time?
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by codex 13y ago
This kind of housing boom is a direct result of the concentration of wealth in the top 1%. As wealth concentrates, the things that rich people buy inflate in price.
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by codex 13y ago
For credit cards, some of the cost is prepaid interest. If a consumer pays their card on time, they don't get charged interest--however the bank loaned them money from the day of the transaction until they either get paid with the sam
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by codex 13y ago
Fundamentally, having more registers increases the speed of light delays in accessing the register. If it did not, we would just operate on main memory itself. However, two few registers and you lose the ability to perform complex computa
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by codex 13y ago
Usually the implicit assumption with O notation is that n may go to infinity. Time and the number of operations are equivalent here: as proof, just define the operation as "move an information-carrying photon a tiny distance episilon&q
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by codex 13y ago
This implies that an object will be unavailable while it is being passsed between threads. How fast is that? With a mutex, it's as fast as shared memory.
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by codex 13y ago
A simple thought experiment suffices here. What is the shape which holds the most physical bits while minimizing the overall latency for random access? It's a sphere. Each bit occupies a space packed within that sphere. The radius
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by codex 13y ago
Has the number of tiny trivial startups increased lately? Judging from demo days, I would say yes. The startup is the the new garage band. If you like what you hear, we're selling CDs after the show.
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by codex 13y ago
The New Yorker recently ran an article with a bevy of scientific studies on redshirting [1] which confirm Gladwell's latest thesis that adversity improves performance. The relative overachievement of immigrant populations tends to sup
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by codex 13y ago
Chabris dismisses the Alter & Oppenheimer study because no "exact" replications have been done that "he has found," but then proceeds to give weight to a similar study, which failed to replicate the findings, even th
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by codex 13y ago
This can occur when an influx of high paying jobs raises prices but the original, poorer inhabitants are unwilling to move out. Eventually the median income rises as people retire, die or can no longer afford the property tax on their now-
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by codex 13y ago
The market-god spin is that San Francisco has an advanced economy, with advanced jobs, which is why there are so few poor paying ones.
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by codex 13y ago
To me, a related supposition is more interesting: if you put a human in an environment which minics closely their recent evolutionary history, will previously-missing environmental triggers boost intelligence (or any other bodily function?)
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by codex 13y ago
I think that should civilization collapse a lot of behaviors will begin to make a lot of sense. Hopefully that never occurs.
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by codex 13y ago
Unfortunately, refusing to talk to the police makes it vastly more probable that you are involved in criminal activity. So, while you are perfectly within your rights, the police are doing their job to regard you with an extra level of sus
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by codex 13y ago
The constitution of the US only guarantees freedom from unreasonable search. Reasonable search is absolutely authorized.
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by codex 13y ago
Communication is a little iffy as many artists don't write be understood; their lyrics are intentionally opaque so as to seem mysterious, and allow the listener to project onto them. Agreed that music is a form of expression, but so i
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by codex 13y ago
Is this product z-wave compatible?
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by codex 13y ago
Music will never die, and music is a form of mating display, so being a musician is good from a mating standpoint--it gets you laid. But the economics if the business have always been poor since the dawn of recorded music. If recorded mus
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by codex 13y ago
I would be more concerned with the RAM these libraries consumed. Some may just use code pages, but others may use large amounts of BSS.

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