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by ilyagr 9y ago
I've driven both the Bolt and the Volt on electric power. The Volt is far more pleasant to drive, the Bolt's turning and acceleration feel weird. I also think the volt looks better (though not good). Other than that, Bolt seems gr
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What are there flaws in the Bitcoin as digital gold analogy? I don't follow r/Bitcoin and would appreciate a summary. From my limited level of understanding, it seems that the only differences are that you know that Bitcoin has no
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by ilyagr 9y ago
I'm more terrified of bioweapons targeted at people with some specific gene and attached to a flu virus. Genocide at a push of a button, orders of magnitude cheaper than a nuclear weapon, no materials other than standard lab equipment
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Thank you for the link! A quote from the interview: > The wave comes to us and by the time it gets to us, because it’s billions of light years, the squeezing and stretching is much less than 500%. It’s more like a part in 10 to the 21 or
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by ilyagr 9y ago
In case you haven't seen this before, worth a look: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetch_Hetchy#Hetch_Hetchy_Pr...
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San Francisco's tap water is pumped from Yosemite. It tastes great to me. There now enough water there for all of the Bay area, so in many municipalities (e.g. Sunnyvale, I think) water tastes terrible.
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According to https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000618/end-to-end-encryption , they are. Not sure who is wrong or lying. Or perhaps the"latest version" of WhatsApp will be prohibited.
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More generally, every computer eventually has to interact with the outside world, which is global and mutable. Human mind have a much easier time dealing with things which are as immutable as possible. For instance, a physical law like the
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by ilyagr 9y ago
"Chose” might not be the right word here. The dmz between the Koreas approximates how far the Soviet tanks got through the Japanese-occupied Korea at the end of world war 2 before acknowledging the Japanese surrender. In this sense, No
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Perhaps you should make chapter 3 free too? That's the kind of material is want to see before I decide if I like the language or the book. Of course, you might have a good reason not to do it, but that was my first thought when looking
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by ilyagr 9y ago
It's written by a Google employee, and therefore Google owns all rights to it. However, in all other respects it's just an open source project written and supported in the authors' free time.
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I wonder if somebody could translate from accounting-speak. What is EBITDA? Where does this PE multiple come from?
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My favorite math joke, imagine a professor speaking: "I explained it in my seminar, but they didn't seem to understand. So, I had to explain it again, and again they didn't get it. I ended up explaining it a third time, and b
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by ilyagr 9y ago
My guess is that people calling you also have to pay high prices per minute, as is common in Europe. So, the price doesn't include incoming calls. Not sure whether Canada world like US or like Europe.
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I tried to buy a Mazda car outright. I was told that it would be 2000 dollars more expensive unless I finance. I then asked if I can get the loan and immediately pay it off, and the dealership became sad. Apparently, Mazda financing gives t
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by ilyagr 9y ago
Did you just translate the grandparent comment into silicon-valley-speak? It means the same thing, but sounds so much more marketable :)
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by ilyagr 10y ago
Vanguard seems to have gone a bit too far with cost-cutting in the customer services department. One of my most frustrating recent experiences was dealing with Vanguard's website and customer service. There were all kinds of issues, so
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by ilyagr 10y ago
Do, if Apple becomes or buys a motor vehicle manufacturer, they are exempt? If their self driving car project gains steam, this is in the realm of possibility.
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The downside of Google art project is that you aren't supposed to download the images.
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See also Google art project, with tons of pictures from many museums in insanely high resolution: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/category/artis... I find it awesome.
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The CO2 is released when (and if) the tree rots.
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This is a great idea. I'd recommend looking at a refurbished surface pro 3, those shouldn't be that expensive by now.
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There fact that is not a consequence of statistics is that we observe the universe to not be in the state of maximal entropy. That is sufficient to explain asymmetry of time, I think. The mystery is -- why wasn't the universe in a st
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This is not true now, see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12824447 Not sure if it was true before.
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By making it one of the conditions for licensing the specification and permission to use the USB trademark to you.
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Why doesn't the USB consortium standardize (and, ideally, enforce) labeling of ports and cables by capabilities? Kind of like washing instructions labels on clothes, only printed on the cable. The ports on a laptop wouldn't have t
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by ilyagr 11y ago
I think your point is quite interesting to think about, but I do not think that is a good way to think about history. What would happen if the US didn't invade Iraq is impossible to know. Your comment seems to suppose that there were t
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by ilyagr 11y ago
There is an awesome summary by Emili Lakdawala at the Planetary Society (as is often the case with such news). http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/0120095...
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Prison labor in America(theatlantic.com)
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Some commentary by the author: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/a-look-i...

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