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by jvm 13y ago
Yeah the word hatchback comes to mind. remember the frunk though. This thing probably does have a lot of cargo capacity.
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by jvm 13y ago
Wow if the US is overpopulated Germany, with 6x the population density, must be choking on excess humanity! I was there recently though and I can't say I thought it seemed like much of a problem... http://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by jvm 13y ago
Is Facetime easier to use than hangouts video chat? How does it accomplish that?
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by jvm 13y ago
I'm not sure it virtualizes an x86 box running Windows like an emulator though.
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by jvm 13y ago
Those time stamps are from 2013, much later than parent's links from 2012, or am I missing something?
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by jvm 13y ago
Although even in that case it's important to know both pieces of information. Past some level of safety, intersections likely hit a floor where no amount of further investment will actually make them safer.
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by jvm 13y ago
> In many ways it doesn't matter if you chose it or not. Just to be clear, it doesn't matter to the project creators/authors. We don't know that for a fact, but their behavior seems to imply that. I'll admit, I f
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by jvm 13y ago
It couldn't be any worse than inkscape's official website[1], targeting designers no less! I wonder how many thousands have chosen not to install Inkscape as a result of this home page. The first time I went I assumed it was a URL
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by jvm 13y ago
Looks like Nancy Pelosi and Michelle Bachmann are both nutjobs when it comes to the NSA.
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by jvm 13y ago
Galago UltraPro: https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/galu1 - 14" screen 1920x1080 - Haswell i7 2.0Ghz 4 cores - 8 gb RAM with option to upgrade to 16 - 256 GB SSD - Weight: 3.8 lb - Ubuntu Price with these
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by jvm 13y ago
> anywhere the Hapsburgs ruled ... which is why Austria and the Netherlands are so poor and backwards??
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by jvm 13y ago
> E.g. 1 in 20 kids see someone get shot every year, so you would expect that by age seven that 7 in 20 would have, which is in fact exactly 35%. This is insane logic. Think about your 20 closest friends. Do you think that 7 of them saw
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by jvm 13y ago
My girlfriend is Canadian but this is exactly what prevents us from moving there, I love Canada as a country. But something's missing from this equation. If wages are low in Canada because there is a glut of workers relative to the num
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by jvm 13y ago
> B2C tech startups cannot takeoff in places that don't have really high densities of people because places like that wind up having the people with the mentality to use technology to get ahead/make their lives simpler. One rea
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by jvm 13y ago
> Those revolutionaries would have all been labeled terrorists today. This is one of the huge ironies about contemporary conservatives. They practically worship the founding fathers like gods, but they would have hated many of them if th
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by jvm 13y ago
Lighting 3 billion on fire is still pretty bad no?!? I started having doubts about this project when I found out technicals were skeptical, but when the bombshell dropped that it would have cost half if SNCF built it on the I-5 corridor[1]
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by jvm 13y ago
I think he specifically wants California to build this instead of wasting $100bn on the HSR project. I'm sure he'll be open to building hyperloops elsewhere as well.
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by jvm 13y ago
If you freely choose where to live, that means you get (at least) $3000 of value renting a $3000/month apartment no matter where you rent it. If it's more expensive for the same size of unit in one place or another, that means you
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by jvm 13y ago
> An MFN provision will frequently appear in contracts between wholesalers and retailers and it ensures that the wholesaler will provide the retailer with the best wholesale price. But Apple adopted it in the agency model to require that
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by jvm 13y ago
Also generalizing to all native Americans everywhere is sort of a needless display of ignorance.
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by jvm 13y ago
I wouldn't read too much into that trend, all desktop operating systems declined: http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=Mac+OS+X,+Linux,+Wind... Ubuntu really does win though among the linuxes: http://
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Vim 7.4a ready for beta testing (groups.google.com)
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by jvm 13y ago
Hybridization is actually a pretty interesting hypothesis for species differentiation in higher vertebrates, given that generations are often very long, hindering traditional accounts of evolution-through-mutation.
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by jvm 13y ago
There are two major counterpoints here. The first, which has already been mentioned, is that economists do agree on many things. The second big point is that the profession actually does (mostly) agree on monetary policy when interest rates
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by jvm 13y ago
> Editors do make a difference in your productivity - that is why people have favourites and why they have flamewars The fact that people feel strongly about something does not mean it is important. Lots of people have very strong feelin
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by jvm 13y ago
I shared a lot of your issues, and I have to say ridly[1] has really been doing it for me. They did the hierarchy really well IMO. [1] http://www.ridly.net/
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by jvm 13y ago
The zinger: > Dealers say laws passed over the decades to prevent car makers from selling directly to consumers are justified because without them auto makers could use their economic clout to sell vehicles for less than their independen
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by jvm 13y ago
I find it kind of mind-boggling to read an article like this and not mention why cities are so expensive. Is it because construction is expensive? No, it is because restrictive zoning does not permit an increase in supply, meaning nothing
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by jvm 13y ago
Are those really not dealt with via ICBMs? Why do we need the capacity to destroy them 20x over within 25 minutes when 1x with 3 hours notice would suffice? It seems like the downside risk of rogue actors or accidents causing a nuclear holo
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by jvm 13y ago
Prior discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5835310 TLDR: "Women and minorities just don't want to be successful like us, nothing to criticize here."

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