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by ddeck 12y ago
According to the WSJ article on this, the current price is around $1500 per month. [1] Also, note that you are paying to receive an electronic feed of a company's public SEC filings, which include filings detailing purchase and sale of
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by ddeck 12y ago
I'd be interested to hear from any experts in the are on this. Why is Lidar so expensive? My vacuum cleaner has Lidar. Clearly not of the same grade as that on the Google car, but what is it that makes their unit cost tends of thousand
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by ddeck 12y ago
Definitely bigger, but not quite ten times. More like five (318 vs 65 million) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population
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by ddeck 12y ago
I'm sure they do, but I'd hazard a guess that the staff there are operational in nature and that the decision of how and when to launch there was not done locally.
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by ddeck 12y ago
Although containing zinc oxide, that product includes ingredients that I believe the parent post was looking to avoid. In particular, retinyl palmitate [1]. As an aside, the EWG's Skin Deep database is a useful place to find ingredient
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Court rules tycoon can sue Google over 'autocomplete' search suggestions(scmp.com)
1 points by ddeck 12y ago|0 comments
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Now Then – the hidden systems that've frozen time and stop us changing the world(bbc.co.uk)
135 points by ddeck 12y ago|46 comments
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by ddeck 12y ago
I would guess controlling what people other than his/her friends see.
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by ddeck 12y ago
A user (growupkids) from the industry posted on this below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8078076 >I work in commercial electrical power. No they don't. Because they aren't required to. It's all ab
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by ddeck 12y ago
>but I assume after a disaster we would massively increase the rate of production and it wouldn't be as bad as some make out Unfortunately it's not so easy. A number of the raw materials have quite limited supply and even aft
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by ddeck 12y ago
For those interested in an in-depth analysis of the risk, Lloyd's insurance produced a detailed report last year looking at this issue: Solar Storm Risk to the North American Electric Grid [PDF] http://www.lloyds.com/
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by ddeck 12y ago
You might be interested in the following post, which I found while researching which battery to buy to jump start mine: http://irobin.org/prius/startup/startup.html The required 12V startup current for a Prius tur
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by ddeck 12y ago
I'm not sure what comparison you're trying to draw. Singapore has shown that restricting the supply of vehicles will drive the price higher. Yes, owning a vehicle is extremely expensive in Singapore and many in that economy are wi
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by ddeck 12y ago
This is what annoys me about my Prius. It has a large, high voltage battery that could easily be stepped down (and in fact is, since it charges the 12V battery), and yet a separate 12V battery is required to power the electronics to start t
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by ddeck 12y ago
>Light switches don't need to be wired either Indeed, and sometimes can't be. There are a couple of locations in my home where there's insufficient depth to mount a wired switch and I instead have MK astral (z-wave) low-
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IBM Announces $3 Billion Research Initiative to Tackle Chip Grand Challenges(www-03.ibm.com)
1 points by ddeck 12y ago|0 comments
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by ddeck 12y ago
Thanks for the link, it's an interesting report. Indeed, the social insurance premiums/expenditures are not included in govt. revenue/expenditure figures, thus the disconnect. It's worth noting that ~25% (JPY29,040 billi
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by ddeck 12y ago
Who did the calculation? I'd be keen to see the breakdown. My rough estimates put the cost of JPY50k/month to the adult population at somewhere around USD 700 billion/year and JPY170k/month at USD2,400 billion, or around
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by ddeck 12y ago
That's similar to what was done (mandated by the government) last year where I live. Overseas withdrawals are disabled by default and customers must now opt-in to allow them. The customer can choose a validity period and per/day w
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by ddeck 12y ago
Foreign banks operating in the US are still going to be subject to the same restrictions, but I'm surprised this isn't already handled by non-bank remittance services. Here in Hong Kong where around 1 in 20 people is foreign domes
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by ddeck 12y ago
Interactive Brokers also offer a paper trading account that can be traded via their API just like a regular account, although you need to have an account with them. There are some limitations on specific order type/venue combinations,
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by ddeck 12y ago
>but the vast majority of Americans will never be subject to a SWAT raid or anything like it (especially if they're not involved in illegal activity). Or terrorist attacks. Or mass shootings. Or etc etc. While that's true, it
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by ddeck 12y ago
In addition, adopting the Euro would mean giving up independent monetary policy. Unilateral monetary policy across regions with disparate economic performance can be very problematic. Consider the case of Hong Kong, which has effectively ad
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by ddeck 12y ago
>Joda-Time doesn't copy 100% java.util.date but I don't know what the threshold is. I think they're safe, especially given that the process has actually come full circle now. The new date time package in Java 8 (java.tim
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by ddeck 12y ago
I just switched from Logback to Log4j2 for an application and since I was using SLF4J, there were no code changes required. Also consider the case of third-party libraries. I have dependencies in my application that are hard coded to log to
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by ddeck 12y ago
There are definitely more advantages than just the unit testing side. The Google IO talk on Guice does a pretty good job of explaining the benefits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBVJbzAagfs
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by ddeck 12y ago
Dagger is definitely more appropriate for Android applications and was developed specifically to address the issues with using something like Guice on mobile. That said, I love Guice and use it exclusively as it has a superset of features a
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by ddeck 12y ago
If you mean with respect to crime, then no. Hong Kong has one of the world's lowest crime rates and what violent crime does exist, is typically targeted (e.g. organized crime, domestic disputes). For example, the intentional homicide r
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by ddeck 13y ago
>so I'm going to take this approach whenever I get inadequate support from now on I've used a similar approach twice, both times with positive results. Once with Lenovo for an overdue laptop and once with Cathay Pacific (airl
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Crimeware Helps File Fraudulent Tax Returns(krebsonsecurity.com)
3 points by ddeck 13y ago|0 comments

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