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by maratd 10y ago
No. The reason he had the experience he had was because it was a "wealthy" suburb, not because it was "white". There is a difference between correlation and causation. The root cause wasn't race, but the low volume
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> And that's exacerbated by volatility, both in demand but especially in supply This is usually dealt within the framework of commodity markets and the purchase of futures, but you won't be able to buy water there. We have abus
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> This is harder than it already being local, or apt-get install turning into apt-get source. Likely, if they find your app interesting they will keep using it directly from your URL and end up at your mercy. You have the same issues wit
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> If a single user is the only one accessing a given name, then that naming system has basically been made irrelevant. No. It's not irrelevant at all. It's how you "execute" that specific software. It serves the same
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by maratd 10y ago
> The majority of that list has nothing to do with the web There are 188 PHP web applications in that list. 60 NodeJS web applications. 86 Python web applications. 25 Ruby web applications. I can go on. You're just being silly by pr
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by maratd 10y ago
> But I've never heard of one where the majority of users actually do so https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted
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> Webapps are user-hostile What? What if I wrote it for my own use? What if it's among the thousands of web apps meant to be installed on a server you control? There's nothing inherent about the technology that requires third p
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by maratd 10y ago
Why? If you're recycling/biodegrading 100% of the old vehicle and producing the new with solar energy, you should have zero pollution.
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by maratd 10y ago
> Or is it just that electric cars and solar panels appeal to the same small segment of the population? That would show a strong correlation, but not scale well. Tesla is a luxury product company. All of their products are either luxury
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> I still don't understand the SolarCity part. People who buy electric cars are far more likely to buy solar panels. And storage batteries. And wiring they would need for the electric car. It's all directly related. So when I b
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> have very toxic-to-mine, manufacture, and dispose-of batteries. This is absolutely false. Lithium is not toxic to mine at all. It isn't even "mined". http://cleantechnica.com/2016/05/12/lit
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> Worldwide, fully-autonomous vehicles will be a public health victory on the scale of vaccines or antibiotics. While autonomy is great and will definitely save many lives, it is absolutely not on the scale of vaccines or antibiotics. No
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What the? I don't think they ever guided to that number for 2016. That's ridiculous. They're right where they should be and on target.
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Just because Clinton isn't libertarian, doesn't mean Trump is. I think the public has a basic capacity for logic and that's as basic as it gets. You know who is libertarian? Gary Johnson.
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> Given the libertarian/Randian streak that runs through silicon valley, support for Trump doesn't seem too outlandish. What? Exactly what libertarian values does Trump espouse?
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Isn't it equally presumptuous of you to assume that he is? Your only source of evidence is his financing of an aggressive lawsuit against a known asshole and his company.
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Were you talking about Thiel or Denton? It seems like you were talking about Thiel, so yes, I was correcting you.
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Actually, Gawker and Denton are the assholes. When confronting assholes, it's easy to be mis-perceived as one.
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> That was added after the negative reaction in HN & Reddit responses. It was there before I posted it to HN, although the author did modify the article after it was posted.
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> If the phrase 'tax class' doesn't come into the article you can safely discard it as nonsense. Did you even read the article? Direct quote: "That building would likely be subject to the Class 2 tax rate" And th
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Why NYC Rent Is So High (It’s Not Airbnb)(professional-troublemaker.com)
48 points by maratd 10y ago|70 comments
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> Do you disagree that Tesla is using autopilot and not 'drive assist' or something like that to make the potential think their implementation is so much better than the rest of the world? Their implementation is much better
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> it has AUTO in the name. So does autocorrect, but I don't see people complaining that banging on the keyboard doesn't produce sonnets. This whole "auto" thing is ridiculous. By the way, it's an automobile and h
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Autopilot not on during crash in PA, Musk says it would have prevented accident(electrek.co)
21 points by maratd 10y ago|24 comments
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This doesn't make sense? The editor is open source. You can install it on your computer right now. They even provide instructions on how to do it. https://github.com/c9/core They can implement it without buying th
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by maratd 10y ago
> The point of the parent was that the statistics are not better for auto pilot No, that was not his point. He said "Probably not." That's wrong. It's not probably anything. Both the parent and gp are wrong. And the n
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> Probably not. Based on what? > With one fatality, we don't have a really accurate picture of Tesla's fatality rate yet Correct. You'd need at least 32 deaths. Until then, there is no "probably" one way or th
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> Basically, the police culture seems to focus on over-policing useless things like traffic enforcement while under-policing dangerous parts of town with beat cops. This is a favored way of policing because it has a ton of advantages for
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> Mercedes seems to have capacitative touch sensing This is not correct. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv9JYqhFV-M
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It's accurate. http://electrek.co/2016/07/01/understanding-fatal-tesla-acci...

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