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by lgbr 8y ago
> I don't see any such things. I usually browse the web from within the EU, and I have really begun to mentally filter out the popups because there's just so darn many, but on a recent trip back to the US, the difference was re
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by lgbr 8y ago
The first reason is organizational. 911 dispatch and law enforcement are two very different entities. Law enforcement pays 911 dispatch for a service (every time they push that button on their radio they pay a fee). If you have 911 calls co
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by lgbr 8y ago
> you'll still be wasting your time if you need LIDAR This is not for certain. I'm quoting Tesla's CEO, but it's suggested that LIDAR leads to optimizing for local minima. It means that LIDAR can get you 90% of the wa
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by lgbr 8y ago
> If someone is a better than average driver themselves, then by using a "better than average" but lower than his capacity auto-pilot, they increase their risk, not decrease it. This isn't a lowest common denominator issue
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by lgbr 8y ago
> Holy shit! That's a hell of a caveat! Indeed it is. To make it clear, it slams on the brakes bringing me down from 150 to 120 km/h, it doesn't come to a dead stop, so unless someone is seriously tailgating, then it'
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by lgbr 8y ago
The more the better, I find. For all the hate that Autopilot gets, it really is a game changer, and I can see consumers demanding this and similar technology in all cars from now on. A majority of the driving that I do, both per mile and pe
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by lgbr 8y ago
Because the mirror is otherwise extremely simple. There are no buttons or other electronics like you might find in the Bolt which would have OnStar.
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by lgbr 8y ago
Create a culture of migration. The United States and Canada are examples of countries where integration is wonderfully successful [1][2][3]. New citizens to the United States and Canada are welcomed in huge stadiums adorned with flags, fami
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by lgbr 8y ago
The issue with Apple's unix environment is that it comes with BSD tools. A lot of functionality that you'd expect to work doesn't end up working, which can be frustrating. You have to go through some pretty annoying steps [1]
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by lgbr 8y ago
> That's like saying that having to buy a chair is a disincentive to hiring. Is that not a bad thing? A chair might be a bad comparison, because a chair is essential to workplace ergonomics and therefore the health of employees, but
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by lgbr 8y ago
> > I'm told by a lot of experts that this is a bad idea > That probably means it's a good idea ;) This is just pure contrarianism. Experts also say it's a bad idea not to have clean drinking water, reliable electric
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by lgbr 8y ago
I'm not an Apple customer, but it's moves like these that really make me glad sometimes that it moves the industry like this. Consumers stand a lot to gain from OLED. Lower power consumption has obvious benefits such as either a l
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by lgbr 8y ago
One point I find they are missing here is how conditions in origin countries greatly affect immigration. German emigration dropped abruptly due to Bismarck's creation of the social welfare state [1]. Recent improvements in the Mexican
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by lgbr 8y ago
> And its only ~$9 a super-charge last time I checked Prices on superchargers were raised: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/12/17110904/tesla-supercharg... It's approximately $22 now, and more in
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by lgbr 8y ago
Because free supercharging easily makes up for the price difference. Some poeple use something like 4 supercharges a week, which at $20 a charge means $160/month.
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by lgbr 8y ago
> it is also likely to cannibalize sales of the Model S so the net benefit to the bottom line might be negligible I'm skeptical of this. This is like saying that BMW's 1-series cannibalizes sales of its 3-series. There's a
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by lgbr 9y ago
> Remember, no car in history ever had 500,000 pre-orders. No car even came close. If anyone expected Tesla to ramp up to that kind of production overnight, they are delusional. Although you could be pedantic about what consitutes a pre-
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by lgbr 9y ago
I find I can just go into the settings and change my country, and Spotify will happily accept this. My GeoIP nor my credit card's country seems to have had an effect on the content in my library. This is one of the joys of Spotify comp
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by lgbr 9y ago
> It doesn't make any sense at low scale, unless you want to spend endless time tinkering with the machine proper. For 3D printing this is becoming less true every day. 3D Printers are now extremely cheap, where sub-$300 printers ma
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by lgbr 9y ago
> Her main regulatory creation was a whole new agency that is completely unaccountable to the people it was supposed to serve Honest question: Is that her fault? She was just chosen to run it, but she wasn't responsible for the legi
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by lgbr 9y ago
No, Stripe forms a C Corporation which separates the company's income from your own (as opposed to an S Corporation or LLC), which will prevent Germany's Welteinkommenprinzip from having an effect on your German tax return.
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by lgbr 9y ago
> One part is obvious: would you rather starve, with no options, or starve in front of a beautiful cheesecake, just out of reach? Choices made when consequences are so extreme, especially in life or death scenarios, are often different t
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by lgbr 9y ago
I cited examples right after where you cut off the quote.
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by lgbr 9y ago
> You talk as if I am forgetting the positive contributions of U.S. interventions, but I clearly specified that sometimes the U.S. contributed to democracy, sometimes not. You said "It sounds as if the U.S. were a benefactor to the
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by lgbr 9y ago
While the US often acts reprehensibly, such as in the case of Chile, Iraq, and so on, the overwhelming majority of the international influence the US exerts is positive. The entire stability of Europe, Japan, South Korea (although Park Chun
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by lgbr 9y ago
I've found TransferWise to be slightly more expensive than CurrencyFair, however TransferWise is capable of US <-> EU transfers in both directions, whereas CurrencyFair can only handle EU -> US (I believe because CurrencyFair
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by lgbr 9y ago
For those using IOMMU, integrated GPUs are a wonderful way to separate your host machine (which uses the integrated GPU exclusively) and your virtual machine (which uses the dedicated GPU exclusively) such that you can work on a Linux host
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by lgbr 9y ago
This has been the opposite of my experience, but that's just an anecdote, go look at the most popular smart locks on Amazon. I've been using mine for a rental home, and it has paid for itself multiple times over the years by not h
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by lgbr 9y ago
The existence of Windows Phone was one of the more confusing efforts in the professional world. Microsoft had released an OS that, while itself was a capable OS, the ecosystem around it was unacceptable. The availability of apps was terribl
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by lgbr 9y ago
I have to second this. Toggl is fantastic not just for freelance time management, but for managing time spent on any project. It has a lot of features that you'd just expect to be there, like when the browser icon changes whether you&#

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