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by jholman 13y ago
All existing Tesla vehicles that can use the superchargers can use them for free. Unfortunately that means no Roadsters, for reasons involving AC-vs-DC charging (c.f. Q&A at the 2013 shareholder's meeting). You also only get the
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by jholman 13y ago
Okay, 80% of your comment is replying to a framing that you chose earlier. You said Google should spend comparable amounts of effort on X and Y. In that context, I pointed out that no one spends even 10% as much effort on X as on Y, so
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by jholman 13y ago
It's not just snarky, it's preposterously unreasonable. How much work do you, personally, put into making money? At least 40 hours a week, I'm guessing, plus the time you spend on managing your investments, doing your taxes,
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by jholman 13y ago
Please take all my upvotes. This is the first useful article I've seen about PRISM, with the _possible_ exception of the scoop itself, but not excluding the existing analysis from the Guardian and WaPo. For $20M, you can't do wha
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by jholman 13y ago
Please change the obviously-incorrect title. PRISM is not involved in this suit. The suit is about the gathering of Verizon metadata. PRISM, as it has been publically alleged, has nothing to do with this. PRISM is an alleged program that
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by jholman 13y ago
> "In other news, the NSA is considering sponsoring the creation of a prime time television series featuring a secret machine that spies on what everyone in the country is doing or saying, and the machine is portrayed as the protag
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by jholman 13y ago
Nice PNG, heh. First of all, "clients" are the things that TFA labels "tmux (screen)". Each of "windows" and "panes" are things you can ignore, or not, as you find them useful. Windows are like browser tabs, panes are screen-splits. I us
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by jholman 13y ago
Every slide that says "tmux (screen)" should say "tmux (client)". This is especially true because when people who view these slides google for more information, and they google for "tmux screen", they're gonna get rants about tmux vs screen
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by jholman 13y ago
I agree that the quote suggests that gvb disagrees and thinks the analogy is wrong, or at least inferior to his analogy. I mean, gvb's alternate analogy is also a good one. Yes, writing software is like configuring the assembly line, and y
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by jholman 13y ago
Can you clarify why you believe this, or what special knowledge you have?
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by jholman 13y ago
While reading the not-very-interesting featured article, I saw a link that ultimately led me to this, which HN might find more interesting: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/barobo/linkbot-create-wi... Modular robots for education, only
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by jholman 13y ago
Some thoughts about the economics (and ethics) of games: * if a game isn't fun (to me), I shouldn't have to pay for it * if a game is fun, I should pay for it * generally, "better" games deserve more money (non-linear) * ... but I
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by jholman 13y ago
It may suggest TO YOU that "anyone wanting privacy is doing bad things", but that is not what was said, and it is not what was implied. Maybe you're projecting? Let's try a hypothetical parallel. "If you really don't want to go to jail, m
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by jholman 13y ago
> Edit 2: Honest question, how can I delete my account on HN? In your profile settings, you will find two boxes marked "maxvisit" and "minaway". If you set those to a small value (like 1) and a large value (like say 60 24 30), and then
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by jholman 13y ago
You are the one ranting about how something you disagree with is bad, actually. (The only uses of "evil" have been by you, except for venomsnake discussing censorship.) Your comments have been much more nasty, dismissive, vitriolic, and
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by jholman 13y ago
The people who originated the concept of the launch loop wanted to solve problems of launching spacecraft, thus the name. Elon Musk wants to commute faster between LA and SF, because he does that 400 mile commute 4 times a week . (Obviou
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by jholman 13y ago
My apologies for changing the subject, but do you have any evidence at all that Google has ever "voluntarily hand[ed] over [anyone's] e-mails", or was that just a random slur? Google's stated policy is to fight government requisition of dat
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by jholman 13y ago
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by jholman 13y ago
Google doesn't care about GPAs from 25 years ago. 1) No one cares what the recruiters think. If you mean interviewer that might be different. 2) My GPA was worse than that, and it was only 5 years after the fact, when Google totally-ignore
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by jholman 13y ago
I disagree. Languagelog (an eminent source of linguistic pedantry) is saying exactly what mkl is saying. His quote is in-context, I don't know what more else to say. Can you elaborate on your theory to the contrary, Stavros?
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by jholman 13y ago
Double-negative in your second sentence, and I think it's not what you meant. I wouldn't be so pedantic, except that crypto is worth being pedantic about.
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by jholman 13y ago
Your "honest question" contains several false assumptions, as you well know, Michael. Who do you think you're fooling? I'm not sure who the "unluckier 90 percent" are, because a) X is much, much smaller than 1% of the company, and b) you'r
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by jholman 13y ago
Uh. The relevant sentence of that WP article has, as its citation, a Forbes article about gamers. You take Forbes seriously, as an authority on gamer culture?
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by jholman 13y ago
"Acceptable terminology"? What does that even mean? What would it mean to be "unacceptable terminology", short of being legally prohibited hate speech? Are you asking if other HNers are offended by it? Are you asking if other HNers think
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by jholman 13y ago
Maybe there was a time in your linguistic community when those words meant that. I suggest that this is not universal. I've seen lots of people in games use "newb" in a profanity-laden attack, and I've seen people people say things like "
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by jholman 13y ago
So, it's been a few decades since I took physics (and thus pardon conceptual and terminological errors in my no-doubt-fatally-naive question).... but isn't the atomic binding energy maximized at Fe (element 26), and thus a fusion reaction
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by jholman 13y ago
Pro internet tip: use the name people have given you. In this case, either the username "saraid216", or the name given in the person's profile. And now that I've started on this topic, I'll also note that people make a lot of wrong guesses
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by jholman 13y ago
I think this article is all over the map, and I hope akharris is a better entrepreneur than writer. Though he makes one or two good points. The title is total bullshit. "Linkbait" is giving it too much credit. "Robots" is a complete head
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by jholman 13y ago
Then my apologies. =]
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by jholman 13y ago
Great quote from the book 'Net Magic', by Lee Siegel: “I’m writing a book on magic,” I explain, and I’m asked, “Real magic?” By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers. “No,” I answer: “C

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