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by esalman 5y ago
My in-laws fancied a Tesla for their vacation in Austin TX. They could not even get to San Antonio, which is hardly an hour away. They had to switch it out for a regular car. Tesla basically rides on their marketing propaganda. I'll st
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by esalman 5y ago
This strategy works if you are financially disciplined, have emergency funds sorted etc. That's not how most people operate though.
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by esalman 5y ago
They win (won) my business chiefly because of checked bag policy. Even with 2 free checked bags, their prices are competitive. I do hope they recover from this mess.
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by esalman 5y ago
Very well explained, thanks!
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by esalman 5y ago
It is possible for one to influence the courts' judgment when they have more money.
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by esalman 5y ago
A lot comments claim that blue light does not affect their sleep, and the others claim it does. Well, blue light does not affect "everyone" the same way "all the time". Computer screens did not affect me until around 15
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by esalman 5y ago
Proposition to change the term "artificial intelligence" to "learned habits". There are a lot of tasks that we humans do the same way as a machine does- repeating a set of mental and/or physical patterns until it be
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by esalman 5y ago
Well, autonomous cars are able to detect obstacles on an narrow lane. That is nowhere near general intelligence.
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by esalman 5y ago
Swappable battery is a trend that should return- to both phones and electric vehicles.
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by esalman 5y ago
Yep.. a more sophisticated face detection tech would be able to predict how someone's funny face looks like. Maybe that's what this is training for.
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by esalman 5y ago
Is it that bad in California? The other reply mentioned TX, I was actually in the heart of the snowstorm last winter. We were saved from days of outage only because we were in a hospital block. So I also think it is not just California. For
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by esalman 5y ago
We used to have one hour of electricity supply followed by one hour of blackout during the day in Summer. I'm talking about 10 years back in the Indian subcontinent- halfway around the world from US where I live now. Sometimes 1 hour b
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by esalman 5y ago
A $30 accessory like this[1] is enough. [1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076G9M9JG?psc=1
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by esalman 5y ago
This is my question as well.
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by esalman 5y ago
This statement is actually quite similar to what I used to hear people say at a stock technical analysis class. In speculative financial markets, one person's loss is another person's gain. So almost no one is going to give you an
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by esalman 5y ago
White Sands National Park is absolutely gorgeous, I'd highly recommend visiting that place to anybody touring the southwestern USA.
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by esalman 5y ago
I bought an Alienware laptop in 2010. I booted it up in the shop, then packed it up thinking I've shut it down. After I got home I found out that it went to sleep in the middle of setting up process. I used it at varying capacities all
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by esalman 5y ago
Agreed. I use Windows/Android for the same reason- I know what I'm giving up but the upsides are important enough to me. I am talking about people who don't have much clues about either.
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by esalman 5y ago
Apple makes ridiculous amount of money, and many Apple fanboys I know believe their devices are hack-proof.
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by esalman 5y ago
That's a lot of money for graduate researchers who make <30k a year.
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by esalman 5y ago
With that kind of free money in its coffer, you'd think factulty and students would get a cut of the share and be better off. Yet one of the most high-profile cases of grad student suicide in recent years happened over there- https:&#
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by esalman 5y ago
Another way of saying a virus so effective, the best humanity came up with is an antidote that wears off every few months.
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by esalman 5y ago
I had fascination for Apple products until I tried to use Xcode for some development. That was back in 2010. I never tried again or bought an Apple product since. The idea of tying users down into a walled garden and control their behaviors
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by esalman 5y ago
It does not work like that. I suggest reading up on some network science literature on spreading phenomena. Here's a start: http://networksciencebook.com/chapter/10#immunization
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by esalman 5y ago
Is it just me or there is not way to download the entire book as pdf?
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by esalman 5y ago
Police like this person are lazy. They are interested in blanket wiretapping, because it is too much work to go to a judge to try to justify taking away someone's property (PC, phone etc.) to access encryption keys.
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by esalman 5y ago
I use VScode for code and text editing (mostly Latex etc.) which is also Electron. Also, I don't really use mobile apps for most social media which have working mobile web pages.
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System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot(systemerrorbook.com)
2 points by esalman 5y ago|0 comments
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by esalman 5y ago
The discussion concerns international students, not just undergraduate international students.
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by esalman 5y ago
Immigration procedures are the same for both undergrad and grad international students.

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