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by laurentoget 9y ago
Inches, Feet, & Miles are very practical units. Centimeters, and Meters much less so. Really? Do you know how much easier it is to compute surfaces and volumes in metric systems compared to imperial? Concrete example. Figure how much so
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by laurentoget 10y ago
Regardless of his guilt or innocence, the way this was investigated, prosecuted and litigated by the state would not make me feel comfortable investing in Georgia. This is a pretty sad story for Atlanta and its ambition of becoming a center
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by laurentoget 10y ago
Prions were the cause of the BSE cattle disease. more commonly known as mad cow disease in europe some years ago, which was blamed on cattle being fed animal products. It killed a couple hundred human and millions of animals either died or
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by laurentoget 10y ago
Car accidents kill people. The amount of those claims is not fixed and will increase when every fatality can lead to a wrongful death civil case.
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by laurentoget 10y ago
My real question is whether they will be able to convince american customers to give up one of their most prized status symbols. It feels from this webpage their main argument will be safety, so I guess we will find out how much human life
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by laurentoget 10y ago
The risk may decrease but liability may increase, as this is a risk you are taking deliberately if you decide to drive your car instead of getting a safe self driving car like everybody else.
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by laurentoget 10y ago
I suspect some bearded guy at AMD is having his 'i told you so' hour of glory sometime this week.
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by laurentoget 10y ago
Definitely the other way around. Most french CEOs come from those engineering schools.
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by laurentoget 10y ago
It is 3 weeks of US military budget.
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by laurentoget 10y ago
France and Germany both have expensive labour and regulations, yet they have working trains.
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by laurentoget 10y ago
I do not know much about real estate cost but it is interesting to see someone blaming a $50,000 regulatory fee for the $400,000 or so difference in median house cost between CA and other states.
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by laurentoget 10y ago
People did have children and they lived in cities before suburbs were developed in the 1940s and 1950s, though, so it has to be possible.
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by laurentoget 10y ago
the burkini ban was issued by a few mayors and strongly rejected by the judicial system. most french people could not care less.
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by laurentoget 10y ago
2c a minute using google voice i think
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by laurentoget 10y ago
Not sure we qualify as a startup anymore, but if you are into innovative enterprise databases, LogicBlox is hiring: http://www.logicblox.com/us/#career-anchor
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by laurentoget 10y ago
This does not sound legal to me, though.
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by laurentoget 10y ago
None of those other countries think of themselves as 'The Land of the Free', though, or routinely invades other country on the pretext of restoring human rights.
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by laurentoget 10y ago
These APIs are notoriously hard to get right and coherent, and releasing at such an early stage will make it hard to change anything when building up on this. That said I do not know of any cross platform library in C, so this does seem to
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by laurentoget 10y ago
Presumable automated trucks will kill less people than human operated ones, so the insurance will be cheaper. I am sure the companies who will operate those trucks and the manufacturers can figure a way to divide liability. They seem to be
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by laurentoget 10y ago
that does not help the first victim.
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by laurentoget 10y ago
The uber review system is a good protection against a driver who is rude or unprofessional to most of their customer. It does not do anything against a repeat sex offender who will randomly assault a customer every few months. Fingerprintin
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by laurentoget 10y ago
As others have pointed, the UPS Stores provide fingerprinting services in many places.
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by laurentoget 10y ago
People who drive for Lyft/Uber need a newer car with insurance and registration. The cost and regulatory burden of getting a background check is not significant in comparison to a car payment.
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by laurentoget 10y ago
Have you ever had to get a background check? I have. The FBI background check requires ink fingerprints which you get at a police station. Takes 15 minutes and I think $10. Georgia State background check accepts an electronic livescan which
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by laurentoget 10y ago
I really think the fingerprinting is a red herring. I think they were just trying to set a precedent to simplify their regulatory landscape.
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by laurentoget 10y ago
You need fingerprints for a number of occupations including real estate agents, teachers and foster parents. There are multiple businesses offering fingerprinting services. It takes 10 minutes and I think it cost me $12 last time i had to d
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by laurentoget 11y ago
Not surprisingly, if its training material was scraped from the web, it is biased toward cats, as my experiment also indicated: http://imgur.com/z4zQLzz
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by laurentoget 11y ago
Can someone remind me why i am supposed to need an internet connection to score a piece of music?
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by laurentoget 11y ago
Is it just me or there has been a wave of posts about Austin on HN? Is it the pre-SXSW anxiety?
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by laurentoget 11y ago
i would be a great moment to post a link to it.

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