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by cube13 14y ago
> It wasn't argument from authority – it was a response to a question as to whether I knew what these people said. For the third time in this thread: What was said? >And it's not ad hominem to say there's no point to the conversatio
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by cube13 14y ago
It would be nice if OSX's security model was extended to require the root password for any application or plugin installer that isn't handled directly within a process.
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by cube13 14y ago
> The best time is irrelevant in practice if it only happens very infrequently, under a very specific set of circumstances. This isn't a practical benchmark, though. This is an experimental performance comparison. So to ensure that yo
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by cube13 14y ago
>For undergraduates, who traditionally pay for their own tuition, or for graduate students under scholarship, they own all of their own work. This depends on what the work's being done for. If it's for a class or a credit giving resear
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by cube13 14y ago
>This proviso wouldn't have helped Swartz (13 count indictment: 2 counts 'Wire Fraud' to obtain valuables; 5 counts 'Computer Fraud' to obtain unauthorized computer access and valuables; 5 counts 'Unlawfully Obtaining Information from a
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by cube13 14y ago
>If he'd gotten 3-6 month suspended sentence, even if you thought that was a bit much for essentially incrementing numbers, you'd probably not care much. And to be fair, if he didn't do things like the AMA, he probably would have gotten
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by cube13 14y ago
>These notions lend people to conclude that what is currently happening with Apple might not be sustainable. Gruber has been consistently wrong the last few months (in fact he is always as he predicts little but Apple growth) with regar
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by cube13 14y ago
> If you throw out all the 'tit-for-tat' assumptions, it really makes sense. Google has an API for nearly everything. I could easily see this as a standardization approach. Except caldav is just a protocol. It's not an API. Google cou
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by cube13 14y ago
I agree with this. I have upvoted stories that were factually inaccurate because of the resulting discussion here. Crazy claims tend to produce some really interesting stuff.
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by cube13 14y ago
Plugging a projector or TV as well.
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by cube13 14y ago
Myself as well. The only difference is that I have a greater appetite when I'm off it. Considering that I am overweight by just about any metric, that isn't a totally bad side effect, because I don't stop eating, I just don't eat as much
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by cube13 14y ago
And more importantly, an executive order can be ignored by any subsequent presidency. This change needs to be in law for it to have any teeth. Unfortunately, that kind of stuff takes time.
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by cube13 14y ago
International regulations are pretty insane. For example, France requires you to submit your software to them for review that's supposed to take up to 2 weeks. This isn't just for product releases, it includes everything, including patche
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by cube13 14y ago
IIRC, the offramp from the highway was .3 miles from the beginning to the first turn, so if Broder missed even one of the turns, .6 miles is pretty easy to get to.
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by cube13 14y ago
Three things: 1. I didn't see any explicit signs pointing to the supercharger. Admittedly, the glare from the headlights could have obscured a couple of those, but at 25 seconds, there doesn't seem to be any reason for the driver to turn
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by cube13 14y ago
>So I say, Musk did the right thing - if you don't defend yourself, you might end up with nothing to defend. Musk didn't defend the biggest issue: The drop in charge and reported range at the overnight stop. He glossed over it complete
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by cube13 14y ago
Possible, but it seems really dangerous to make statements like that outside of normal disclosure routes. They're a publicly traded company, and the SEC really doesn't like that kind of stuff.
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by cube13 14y ago
How does the loss of a few "hundred" orders translate to a net loss of $100 million? Assuming that all of the orders are the top-end Model S or Roadsters, a few hundred loss sales would translate to lost revenue in the low tens of millions
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by cube13 14y ago
The use case that most people cite when they say that they're developing on a chrome machine is to use it as a dumb SSH terminal to their actual development machines. So they're not going to benefit from the higher performance, because all
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by cube13 14y ago
But the OS is cloud based, so you don't need the processor power or the RAM. That's the entire point of ChromeOS.
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by cube13 14y ago
They announced the complete system specs( http://www.polygon.com/2013/2/20/4009940/playstation-4-tech-... ) That's more than enough to "help" competitors. The console manufacturers don't have any reason to copy each others aesthetics, bec
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by cube13 14y ago
I think it's because of the way the unit works. The carrier itself doesn't actually attack anything. It produces and spawns interceptors which are independent and targetable(but not capable of taking orders) units, which then go out and a
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by cube13 14y ago
By straight out misquoting about what was said? That's not a good marketer.
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by cube13 14y ago
Here's the full quote of the last one: "few conclusions that are unassailable." >"People will go on contesting these points – and insisting that they know what they prove — and that’s understandable. In the matter of the Tesla Model S a
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by cube13 14y ago
I'm confused. The NYT didn't retract anything. If they acknowledged that Tesla was, in fact, 100% correct, they would have done that. Go take a look at their corrections page. So how does the editor's piece actually support any of what h
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by cube13 14y ago
>Broder published the article with emotion and without further consulting with Tesla on the cause of his bad experience. Musk immediately claimed the article was done in bad faith rather than checking the facts and opening a dialog like
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by cube13 14y ago
Rubber duck debugging may have actually been the distraction that caused pg to make the mistake, too!
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by cube13 14y ago
>I don't think that a journalist who hates Porsche 911 (one of the Top Gear guy) should be allowed to test 911 just as I don't think that guy who hates electric cars (Broder) should be allowed to test an electric vehicle. Why not? You'
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by cube13 14y ago
I think he's trading bad press now for no press in the future. Musk has now established that he's going to go after anyone that makes a negative review about the car. So why bother dealing with Tesla and Musk if something goes wrong, when
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by cube13 14y ago
Tesla is down by 3% today(DJI is down 0.3%), so it doesn't look like investors are favoring Musk here.

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