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by iooi 8y ago
Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
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by iooi 8y ago
What's really insidious is that they mix well-sourced, real news with absolute trash, so if you're just looking at the headlines it's not unreasonable to think that they're all real. That is, until you click on one of t
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by iooi 8y ago
Can you give an example? Not sure what you're referring to.
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by iooi 8y ago
Please, it's arbitrary to run a private PyPi repository, all you need is a web server and a certain folder structure. If you want, you can even host everything on a private S3 and use a tiny Nginx configuration to authenticate the requ
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by iooi 8y ago
This is awesome! I had no idea .puz files were a thing. I wrote a "replica" of the NYTimes Crosswords while I was learning React [1]. https://github.com/gzzo/crosswords Demo: https://shopkeeper-cap
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by iooi 8y ago
That's not for HT though, that's the hotel's policy and they take 100% of that charge. The hotel is choosing to advertise a room for $100 with a "hidden" $30 resort fee -- not HT. Also, it's unfair to characte
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by iooi 8y ago
I use HT quite a bit. It used to be significantly cheaper 5 years ago since it was only last minute hotels. They've since expanded to work more similarly to other booking sites since you can book way in advance now. You get decent di
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by iooi 8y ago
For what it's worth, a 35% dilution per round is pretty high. If you have good traction 15% is very doable. That said, I like that it's conservative so you'll undervalue your options - it's very likely that they'll
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by iooi 8y ago
They are referring to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19275305
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by iooi 8y ago
I don't have a Twitter account, but I recommend submitting this to: https://darkpatterns.org/ This is shameful and should be called out. Price is not the same thing as cost of ownership.
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by iooi 8y ago
This is false. [1] Real income has doubled since 1970 for individuals. I'm not sure why so many people seem to think that, I'm constantly having to reply to posts like this on HN and Reddit with real data but a lot of people just
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by iooi 8y ago
On the same note, highly recommend "Being Mortal", which talks a lot about that mindset and palliative care. It can be really damaging to think in terms of winners and losers since you might end up going through a lot more pain th
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by iooi 8y ago
Perhaps there is a (small) chance that the people in charge of managing SVF's $100 billion fund have a better idea of how to manage that volume of money than you. The overhead of sourcing and dealing with 200 investments is not small:
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by iooi 8y ago
I recommend taking an Economics course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve
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by iooi 8y ago
If you want UUIDv4 in MySQL, this Stack Overflow thread is pretty useful: https://stackoverflow.com/q/32965743
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by iooi 8y ago
First result from Google: https://github.com/facebook/graphql/issues/91
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by iooi 8y ago
Did you read the article? This is the second paragraph: > The FBI reportedly arrested a Chinese national working for Apple the day before he was set to fly back to China with thousands of files on his laptop that contained Apple’s intel
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by iooi 8y ago
Your parents were on ICQ? And AIM? They set up a Myspace account? Facebook is easy to use and accessible everywhere. This is coming from someone that hasn't had a Facebook account since 2009. GP makes great points and the title to th
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by iooi 8y ago
It's pretty simple. Read the definition of terrorism under U.S Law [1]. Keep in mind, while it was a military target, they were not in a state of war. The goal of al Qaeda with this bombing was to coerce the U.S. to leave the peninsul
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by iooi 8y ago
Ok, people suck. Not much we can do about that. For all you know, the host is archiving footage and could use it for whatever nefarious purposes later on. What really isn't okay here is Airbnb's response. Indoor cameras should
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by iooi 8y ago
> Even high quality publications like the New York Times have been struggling for a decade-plus now to figure out a way just to break even online. False. "New York Times Co. Reports $24 Million Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers&
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by iooi 8y ago
Related discussion on HN about star citizen and their gross mismanagement/incompetence with their funds and time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17553371
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by iooi 8y ago
$265M was an estimate for both development and marketing, the estimate for the development alone was a bit over half, at $140M. So SC should already be over GTA V in terms of funding for development, as long as they're not forced to re
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by iooi 8y ago
> We have settled the case, with DEA reimbursing EFF $160,000 in legal fees. A judge has now dismissed the case, pursuant to the terms of a settlement. This was a hard-won victory by our legal team... It's a good time to make end of
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by iooi 8y ago
From what I understand, it's so expensive and takes so long to form a bank in the US that it's generally better to acquire a bank than start one. The capital requirements are the easy part.
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by iooi 8y ago
This sounds pretty interesting, thanks for sharing. Do you have an example you can share? Are you using node-sass-json-importer?
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by iooi 8y ago
I use CSS modules coupled with postcss (mainly for minimization and autoprefixing) and sass-loader almost exclusively. The one benefit from CSS-in-JS I can think of is when the JS needs to know of a value that would otherwise exist in CSS
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by iooi 8y ago
Somewhat related, I just found out that OSX ships with units version 1.0. The prompt gives "586 units, 56 prefixes" instead of the post's "1311 units, 63 prefixes". So if you want to try this you can `brew install g
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by iooi 8y ago
This article explains the slow speeds pretty well: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/09/nyregion/subw... Basically, it boils down to heavy consequences for operators that go too fast coupl
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by iooi 8y ago
ND: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dakota_oil_boom Alaska: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_North_Slope#Petroleum_r...

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