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by ddeck 10y ago
I wonder the same thing about autonomous trucks. There's likely to be a significant period between the first driver-less trucks transporting goods across unpopulated areas and the vehicles being competent enough to detect the fact that
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>If Tesla just sold the Model S, they would be profitable. Margins are pretty good for each Model S. But selling just the Model S is not the plan, hence the huge cash burn. I'm curious where you draw this conclusion from. Tesla de
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>Risk factors: Certain drugs... Additional risk factor: Poorly thought out radio contests: "A 28-year-old woman found dead hours after taking part in a radio station's water-drinking contest died of water intoxication, the c
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by ddeck 10y ago
Click on the "web" link at the top of this HN page and then go to the article from Google. WSJ isn't pay walled if Google is the referrer.
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Societies are (thankfully) not homogeneous. Some women may feel comfortable going topless at beaches in countries that permit it and it may even be the norm. Does that mean that all women should be okay with that? Where do you set the bar?
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>Increasing the supply of labor should necessarily decrease wages, and vice versa. This assumes everyone is taking jobs and noone is creating them. America has a strong tradition of immigrants building businesses.
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>vs just a bank innocently managing their risk I wouldn't overthink things. Revolving credit facilities like Tesla has are very common and typically secured. It's not entirely clear to me what "firewalled" means, bu
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>What's the point of a service fee on top of the cost of your meal though? For the same reason airlines don't include mandatory charges in their fares - humans are not particularly good at rational pricing evaluation. It&#x27
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Chrome for Windows also doesn't remove the prior version when updating [1], so you typically have at least two versions on disk. [1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/KRGYQb...
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by ddeck 10y ago
>Maybe you can find it? It's this one concerning Hussain Sajwani: http://investmentpolicyhub.unctad.org/ISDS/Details/419 It seems Sajwani agreed to drop the case as part of a settlement with Egypt [1] [2
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> none of them were able to get back on track Not sure what qualifies as back on track, but all of those economies have been growing strongly since the crisis. Average annual GDP growth from 1999-2015: [1] - Malaysia: 5.2% - Thailand: 4
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Parts of the chain break regularly. Individuals, companies, and even banks go bankrupt. These outcomes are expected and swap agreements are protected by collateral under an ISMA agreement to mitigate the potential losses to counterparties s
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I'm not sure what comparison you're trying to make. These derivatives are typically used modify the cashflows of those instruments for different issuer/investor preferences. The vast majority (>90%) of that OTC derivative
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It already is: From: The effects of safety checklists in medicine: a systematic review: [1] Safety checklists appear to be effective tools for improving patient safety in various clinical settings by strengthening compliance with guideline
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>It's a hugely inefficient way to write. Agreed. Remindeds me of an anecdote from David Moser: "I was once at a luncheon with three Ph.D. students in the Chinese Department at Peking University, all native Chinese (one from
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by ddeck 10y ago
>Should a similar argument be made here? Yes, and it has been. See "DO-178C, Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification" [1] for example. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A
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I have always assumed both refer to the English word bin, which is a receptacle, box, etc. E.g. trash bin.
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>And in record time too. Didn't they show off the 30cm model like a month ago? I recall seeing the model as well as concept videos more than five years ago. E.g.: http://www.chinahush.com/2010/07/31/
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by ddeck 10y ago
Not sure about psSense, but I use this box to run VyOS [1]: https://world.taobao.com/item/520967318043.htm 1.8GHz dual core celeron, 2GB RAM, 25GB SSD, wireless + gigabit LAN, fanless and in a nice box with power suppl
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HK is a modern, high-tech city with fast internet and easy access to everything, including a lot of the brands that we're used to in America (I understand the HK versions may be substantially different). It's reported to be very
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No mention of Singapore is complete without mentioning the climate. Some may like it, but it's definitely not for everyone: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/f/ff/Singapore-Climate.p...
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I do. I think the most important question is: If your business is truly location independent and you don't have other reasons to be in HK, why choose to locate it in the city with the world's most expensive real estate? There are
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Site appears to be down. Archived at: https://web.archive.org/web/20160313135722/http://www.lights...
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The first result from googling "why do i need a bench supply?" seems informative. http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/does-a-hobbyist-need-a-ben...
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FWIW I've never had any issues with OpenVPN tunneled over SSH
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There's a few restaurants and organizations I'm aware of doing this in Hong Kong. E.g.: http://www.iveggie.com.hk/index.php/en/ I believe they were using 1000 kWh of power per day a few years ago and the
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Left conveniently not discussed in the article. Based on the drawing in the article, it looks like they use no natural lighting at all. While clearly crop dependent, even in a glass building: "The environmental writer George Monbiot c
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Keep in mind that the prior windows key/OS combination may be invalidated by MS during (or at any point after) this process, leading them to treat a running instance of the prior OS as a pirated version.
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>This is quite unfair to the public shareholders. Admittedly they may not be the same shareholders, but let's not forget that Fannie/Freddie shareholders have benefited untold billions pre-crisis by being able to fund for yea
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I am far from an expert in these matters, but as I understand it there are fair use exemptions when the purpose of the implementation is for interoperability and compatibility. Given WINE's purpose, they would seem to be on safer groun

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