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by donarb 8y ago
The very first line in the article: "Tesla Inc. TSLA -2.08% has asked some suppliers to refund a portion of what the electric-car company has spent previously, ..." That is a refund, you can't explain it any other way.
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by donarb 8y ago
The really tragic thing is that the father of the killed 10 year old was a Kansas legislator who voted for a cap on damages (max $300K) when someone is killed due to negligence. A quirk in Kansas law allows for Kansans injured by out-of-sta
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by donarb 8y ago
The warrant was only withdrawn because without being able to interview Assange, the investigators cannot move forward. They have also reserved the right to reopen the case should Assange return to Sweden before the statute of limitations ex
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by donarb 8y ago
Just an FYI, Best Buy sells appliances as well. Not sure if every store lets you take them home right there though.
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by donarb 8y ago
Isn't a forestry handbook a "random appeal to authority"?
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by donarb 8y ago
I would think this sort of thing would be of interest to gun owners as well. Some of the stores that are in the malls in the article sell sporting goods, including hunting gear.
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by donarb 8y ago
Non-pay walled link http://outline.com/EZZ2gX
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Bank of England refuses to release donor names, cites GDPR(ft.com)
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by donarb 8y ago
I do that as well with my AppleTV. I live in an apartment so I don't want to crank up the volume watching movies and bother the neighbors. And with my AirPods, I can get up and go to the kitchen to get something to eat and not miss a s
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by donarb 8y ago
Here on Hacker News I’ve read the opposite. Whenever any new technology product is offered by Amazon the refrain is always “that can be replicated with x, y, z”.
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by donarb 8y ago
Police departments have started to get smart about technology. The Seattle Police Department now has a division focusing on data analysis. This came out of a consent decree with the Justice Department to study compliance for use-of-force in
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by donarb 8y ago
Of those that you listed only Patriot is produced by Amazon. American Gods comes from Starz, Preacher is from AMC and The Expanse comes from the SyFy channel.
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by donarb 8y ago
If you remove the block signaling system and use in-cab signaling, you still need to know where the back of the train is. Otherwise a train could run into the back of another in the fog or heavy rainstorm. Currently, railroads use FREDs (fl
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by donarb 8y ago
You don't want to lock up the wheels in an emergency. Locked wheels will skid on the rails, creating flat spots on the wheel. Later, if not repaired, the rotating wheel can hammer the rail at the flat spot, causing the rail to break.
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by donarb 8y ago
All the bikes in Seattle (Lime, Ofo and Spin) are dockless and GPS tracked so you can find a bike anytime using their app.
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by donarb 8y ago
Along with blowing dust, pollen, birds, rodents, etc. Factories don't need to be clean roomed like they do for computer chips, but you'd think it would be closed to the outside elements.
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by donarb 8y ago
Every Seatteite should know the names of the downtown streets with this mnemonic - “JJesus CChrist MMade SSeattle UUnder PProtest” From south to north the streets are: James John Cherry Columbia Madison Marion Spring Seneca University Union
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by donarb 8y ago
And replace it with what, function keys? Keys which are thicker than the screen that replaced them and has far more functionality in a smaller footprint?
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by donarb 8y ago
This design was actually developed by Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Center in partnership with DARPA.
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by donarb 8y ago
Because it costs money to store and inventory small parts. It needs a sku and a price for the part, then a sku/price for the repair/replacement. How many small rubber feet should an Apple Store keep in stock for the occasional cus
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by donarb 8y ago
imgur.com hosts quite a few NSFW images. A company's firewall might be blocking images coming from there.
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by donarb 8y ago
Blame it on Microsoft, :-) http://www.businessinsider.com/fortnite-nintendo-switch-ps4-...
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by donarb 8y ago
McDonald's already has ordering kiosks in some of its restaurants. They also have a mobile app that allows you to order and pay before you walk in the door, just show up and walk out with your food.
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by donarb 8y ago
> heard it second hand from someone who works for AMC And no red flags went off?
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by donarb 8y ago
This one incident is not the cause of Uber being behind schedule. They shut down their program in California because they didn't want to follow the rules. So Uber moves to a state with lax rules and a woman paid for it with her life. I
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by donarb 8y ago
> Textmate doesn't auto fill the search box Not sure how it works exactly with Textmate, but for most Mac editors, you double click a word, cmd-E to place the word in the search box, then cmd-G to find again. This saves time because
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by donarb 8y ago
But that jump in ridership is also lots of people heading to/from the airport. I live in Ballard and twice in the past year I have ridden cross town to the UW station and then rode the light rail to the airport. Lots cheaper than an Ub
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by donarb 8y ago
Another reason that the right side mirror is higher is to prevent hitting passengers as the bus pulls up to a stop. Passengers tend to step up to the curb where the front door opens up as the bus approaches.
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by donarb 8y ago
Exactly, Apple has 1B devices that can run Metal on their GPUs, why shouldn't they write their own library?
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by donarb 8y ago
Metal is used by more than just games. Apple needed a robust, scalable library for its GPUs, across 4 different platforms that could handle more than just graphics. It is now the heart of Core ML, used for machine learning, as well a few ot

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