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by luminiferous 8y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-3-market-share-c... Tesla has a history of drawing misleading market share graphs by comparing its cars against cars that reasonably would be considered to be in different market
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Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A(medium.com)
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by luminiferous 8y ago
If you're going to count all possible side channels as output mechanisms, then I'd imagine that it is indeed impossible to build a computer without an output mechanism. Unless you limit your scope to say, Earth, and somehow build
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by luminiferous 8y ago
By both performance and price range, I wouldn't put the STI and the RS (~$40k) in the same category as the GTI(~30k). The Golf R is more directly comparable. And with regards to the lower end market, we may be losing the Focus ST, but
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by luminiferous 9y ago
Not so, but only because of rules about the notation that are not stated. The dot in the top left (which I am assuming is one of the initial positions that the game gives you, from the darker background color) is, due to its shape, necessar
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by luminiferous 9y ago
Don't forget Ponzi schemes! Honestly there's a lot to do in EvE, since the economy is entirely player-run. You can be a miner, mining raw materials. You can be a trader, running arbitrage between different stations trying to turn
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by luminiferous 9y ago
I suspect it's because the Twitter bots inflate the user count of Twitter. It seems that even though Twitter's monetization is not the greatest, their valuation mostly comes from the number of users on Twitter. The reasoning proce
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by luminiferous 9y ago
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shieldapparel/shield-th...
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by luminiferous 9y ago
Just did, it worked pretty well. It reminds me a lot of Nintendo's thing where they automatically make a Mii based off a picture of your face, except better. If you don't like the sticker pack that was outputted, you can fix your
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by luminiferous 9y ago
Is that even "machine" learning anymore?
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by luminiferous 10y ago
Blizzard worked with DeepMind to release a SC2 API recently, see here: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/sc2/topic/20751114921 When they released an API for Brood War, an AI competition popped up shortly t
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by luminiferous 10y ago
Seriouseats did another article later about how to use a pressure cooker: http://www.seriouseats.com/2016/01/the-food-lab-pressure-coo... It's not as fast, but it's still only half an hour and the flavor
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by luminiferous 10y ago
A trick I learned from Seriouseats is that you can use a pressure cooker to carmelize onions in about half an hour. The normal stage of onion cooking where the liquid is still coming out of the onion limits the cooking temperature to about
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by luminiferous 10y ago
Just playing devil's advocate here, I think the whole venture capital/startup ecosystem is really broken. But: imagine for a second that you have a really good business model. It will be profitable beyond a certain scale. You don&
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by luminiferous 10y ago
Not OP, but I live 1.5 hours away from my job in south bay. I can stomach it for now but the commute is slowly killing me. Working in the Bay is really about balancing your rent with your willingness to commute. You can have a short commute
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by luminiferous 10y ago
I'm not sure they would go that well together; high pressure inhibits cavitation, I'm pretty sure, and cavitation is the primary mechanism by which the ultrasound method extracts the various compounds from the wood. Maybe if you u
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by luminiferous 10y ago
I wouldn't imagine so. The mechanism of action for spirits here is that the ultrasound extracts the various flavor compounds from the wood much quicker than it normally takes the alcohol solution to without ultrasound. But aged cheese&
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by luminiferous 10y ago
I'm not sure it's necessarily a good comparison, though. As I recall, Waymo's testing is mostly freeway and suburban driving. I'd be curious to see how much of their testing is done in a heavily urban environment, such a
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by luminiferous 10y ago
While I think this is necessary, I don't think it's sufficient. Sure, when your smart home device is just hooked up to some lights and maybe your thermostat, it's fine. But pretty soon (and/or possibly now, I haven'
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by luminiferous 10y ago
I think a large part of it is cultural: Tesla is seen as a tech company, and we root for tech companies. Especially when they're seen as "disrupting" and taking on entrenched companies in an industry. Personally, I do think i
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by luminiferous 10y ago
But it is like an autopilot in planes. Autopilot in planes does not do anything particularly complicated; it mostly just keeps it heading in one direction. The next part of this discourse that I've seen played out elsewhere on HN is
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by luminiferous 10y ago
My understanding of the idea is that they plan to move the weights up the hill by train, but then unload the weight. That way, with just one car, you can move multiple cars' worth of weight up the hill. Now, this bottlenecks you on how
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by luminiferous 10y ago
The Berkeley Overmind was designed for a 2010 Brood War competition. The website ( http://overmind.cs.berkeley.edu/ ), although no longer updated, still contains many videos and links to articles that describe the internals o
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by luminiferous 10y ago
The UC Berkeley AI for Brood War (designed for the 2010 AIIDE StarCraft competition) was literally named the Berkeley Overmind. http://overmind.cs.berkeley.edu/
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by luminiferous 10y ago
Wasn't this supposed drone quote said before Assange entered the Ecuadorian embassy? The quote was in 2010, but Assange wasn't at the embassy until 2012. Not to say I believe that Clinton was seriously considering assassinating As
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by luminiferous 10y ago
Neither Carplay nor Android Auto have multiple supported maps apps yet. Android Auto only allows you to use Google maps, but I don't have a problem with that since Google maps is very good. IIRC, they announced at the last Google IO th
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by luminiferous 10y ago
Not exactly a drug, but during animal testing of saccharin in the 1970s, saccharin was found to induce bladder cancer in mice in high doses. However, the mechanism of action was later found to be specific to rodents and not applicable to hu
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by luminiferous 10y ago
Right, and that's fine and good for WoSign/StartCom. But what if they handed out a one year restriction to a much larger CA like Comodo, or Symantec? And that CA decided to back-date their certificates? Then we still have the prob
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by luminiferous 10y ago
This is just Palantir's foot in the door. Other municipalities will want to follow in NYC's steps, as Palantir essentially expands the smart city market. When the market is big enough, then Palantir will start pricing in a manner
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by luminiferous 10y ago
That's what the OP is saying. Terrorists are likely to target infrastructure such as power stations, but a power outage caused by copper thieves looks much the same as a power station being taken down by terrorists.

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