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Thanks, great to see they're subcontracting a local firm...but in hindsight it's probably the only practical solution. Renewable projects like these can get past the pro-coal industry rhetoric of "they took our jobs" wit
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Does Tesla outsource installation to third parties and just have their engineers on site to monitor for quality and testing? Just wondering, between this and the installation in Adelaide (Australia), how they can manage multiple medium to l
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NASA proposes building artificial magnetic field to restore Mars’ atmosphere: https://www.universetoday.com/134052/nasa-proposes-magnetic-...
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Reading into the Qualcomm dispute, I suspect it's not for performance reasons but instead shaving off features/paying licenses for hardware that they don't use. Plus you probably don't want to be handing over large wads
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The materials price isn't indicative of cost unless you know what assembly, shipping, replacements, 3rd party retail margins, R&D etc costs. Given Apple have designed their own chips since the A5 (with the A4 optimised by Intrinsit
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A verbose way of saying don't blame the drug, blame the shortcomings or trauma in one's life that created the impulse to abuse a drug . The article also touches on how something pleasurable doesn't become a drug until it b
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> xenophobes, racists and very easily collectively agree not to speak about stuff they dislike / feel threatens some imaginary dominance / endanger their prejudices You've just described most groups of people, particular
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> here are the amount of calories that some of these foods provide for $1 The glycemic index shows that calories are worth little if they blow your blood sugar through the roof and then send it crashing as flour-derived food stuffs usu
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I remember as a kid reading an expose on Pine Gap (ECHELON listening post in Australia) in an old Playboy. I think it was from the late 70's? So I can say for certain, from a fairly young age, that I read it for the articles.
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(Breaking some HN etiquette here but I think a large portion of responses so far have been from people who've only scanned the introduction - there are some good bits in the article, you'll just need to skip the first few paragrap
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While this article focuses on DSLR type cameras, one that I find odd is the lack of phase detection autofocus on compact/superzoom cameras that use 1/2.3" (7.66mm x 6.17mm) sensors when we've had it in our phones for 3-4
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My guess: your own spies were monitoring your own diplomats, not dissimilar to what happened to the Senate Intelligence Committee [1], just with injuries this time. I wonder if the CIA disagreed or were concerned with what seemed like a Pop
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My DC05 purchased ~2004 is still going strong. I can't think of another device except my Sony amp that has lasted that long.
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At the end of my post I suggested it be standardised at the browser level for this purpose. Just because the implementation sucks now doesn't mean it has to always suck.
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> why is this not a potential legitimate business model? I was thinking the same thing the other day when I first heard about it. One of the main issues with existing subscription models is that some people only want to consume a small f
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There's a bar at Narita past security but just before all of the high-end duty-free stores that I love to sit in because the smokers section, enclosed in a glass cube, is usually empty and they serve 1 litre steins of Kirin for not muc
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> the more obvious assumption seems to be that economic output can support more middlemen, so I'm curious what data they used to argue that it works the other way around. That was my conclusion as well - when times are good you do
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> Shouldn’t the image taken at ISO 6400 show more noise than the image taken at ISO 1600? If the exposures were the same brightness, yes. But these images were not taken with the same exposure. The first image started with twice as much
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> Other drug users who dislike hallucinogens and instead prefer drugs like cocaine, heroin and MDMA are less hippies and more partiers who like drugs because they make them feel good rather than giving them access to some spiritual conn
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Based on your hunch do you think the FOX04 peptide, which in mice showed promising results in destroying senescent cells and reducing arterial plaques, might be a solution? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOXO4 http:&#x
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> "You can be right or you can be happy." To flesh this point out beyond just being agreeable , you can both do a cost-benefit analysis on whether something is worth arguing about. A lot of the time you or your partner are jus
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I don't necessarily agree with your final points. Often tools will be branded and stylised, but as long as they hold utility they're more honest than "articles of self" or items that you didn't create, have no relat
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> How interesting are we though? It's kind of a pointless question. There's value in gaining and sharing knowledge that allows you to analyse and interpret the machinations world so that you can make educated decisions rather t
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You make the mistake of thinking Apple cares about market share. Their philosophy has always been to take the largest share of profit [1], with their phone market share hovering around 10% depending on country. Similarly their computer mark
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Apple has never been a company that serves everyone, hence the reason they have a only a minor market share. They care about aesthetics and ease of use - which is why there isn't the tractor equivalent of a smart phone in their lineup.
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> Because outsourcing car manufacturing doesn't make much sense. #1 It allows you to focus on design as opposed to supply chain management. #2 If the supply chain is centralised where production takes place then that bit of missing
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Whether a Japanese company is closed off software-wise or not doesn't make a difference in terms of hardware profitability. Sony's camera sensor business is doing particularly well due to their sensors being in almost every flagsh
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You make a good point but my question still stands, why couldn't they design it in California and outsource manufacturing to Hon Hai/Foxconn the way they do with their phones? Unlike Tesla, sourcing the parts wouldn't be Appl
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> a consumer electronics company that wants to enter the automotive industry. I'd argue electric cars paired with automation are as near consumer electronics as they are to the automotive industry. Shedding the engine, transmissio
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> Ah, but that's on the hardware side. Japan is excellent at hardware [...] I have a hunch that AI and automation, in the future, will emphasizing hardware a bit less [...] it's not a 100% proprietary locked-down atmospher

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