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by mdasen 8y ago
There are a few things that quickly drive up ebike prices. 1) Battery size. Look at JuicedBikes' CrossCurrent S vs CrossCurrent X. While the X does have a slightly different motor, the big difference is the battery going from 614Wh t
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by mdasen 8y ago
First, I think this bike is likely a little overpriced. Right now, you can get a good mid-drive e-bike with a reasonable battery for low $2k. However, I'm guessing that $2k also seems expensive to you (frankly, it does to me as well,
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by mdasen 8y ago
I think a crucial piece of information missing (maybe you have it) is the age/condition of those homes. The US has a lot of vacant homes in low-opportunity areas that are reaching the end of their first usable life and need a lot of mo
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by mdasen 8y ago
Is this really true? Both Buffett and Gates' money didn't come from salaries or fees. For Gates, it was his ownership of Microsoft. For Buffett, it was his stewardship of Berkshire Hathaway. However, Buffett's Berkshire H
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by mdasen 8y ago
How is this different from income-based repayment of federal student loans? While there are different programs, the general idea is that you pay 10% of your "discretionary" income for 20 years with the guarantee that your payment
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by mdasen 8y ago
How come we've gone 60 years with these pills? There are women who have entire careers behind them in biology and medical science and we're still using these pills. There have been a bunch of refinements to the pill as well as a
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by mdasen 8y ago
While John Rock was involved in the development of the pill, calling him "the man behind the pill" is a bit disingenuous. Gregory Goodwin Pincus and Min Chueh Chang are the two that probably closer to that description. It should a
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by mdasen 8y ago
I think there are a few selling points. First, 5G should increase available bandwidth. Industry analysts are predicting that data usage will go up 7x between now and 2024. More speed/bandwidth can help with that. Without increasing
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by mdasen 8y ago
Ultimately, if I'm not home on Monday between 9am and 5pm, I'm not going to be home on Tuesday between 9am and 5pm. That might sound like a simplistic answer, but I want my package and I don't want to have to pick it up at t
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by mdasen 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#WebKit-ba...
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by mdasen 8y ago
It was sort-of available for Mac. IE for Windows was based on the Trident layout engine. The Mac version was based on the Tasman layout engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_(layout_engine) . While they were bo
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by mdasen 8y ago
As someone who likes responsiveness, I've always wanted BeOS to take off. However, at this time, does OS responsiveness matter? I'm running three apps right now: VSCode, Slack, and a web browser. Given that VSCode and Slack are
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by mdasen 8y ago
I hate saying this, but China has gotten itself in a position where people won't do anything to it...even where people can't do anything to it. Let's think about an individual/NGO-style boycott where you encourage a bill
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by mdasen 8y ago
Yep, the government did take a loss on GM. Sometimes investments don't pan out. Investments still aren't gifts. If it was a gift, who was it a gift to? It wasn't a gift to GM shareholders who received none of it. If the b
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by mdasen 8y ago
It's hard to say that GM made out in the bailout. Shareholders were 100% wiped out. It's not as if some fat-cat shareholders did well while laying people off. Anyone who owned stock in old-GM lost it all. It should also be note
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by mdasen 8y ago
It sounds like the ruling is quite narrow. First, Charter was looking to dismiss the case. The lower court denied the dismissal and the 9th circuit upheld the denial of the dismissal. That doesn't mean ESN wins the case, it means Co
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by mdasen 8y ago
https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/08/13/apple-appeals-aga... To be fair, another source says it’s unclear if that is $200 or $200M which is a big difference. Apple does pay $56M in property taxes per
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by mdasen 8y ago
I believe that the cost to produce a self-driving car will be coming down, but let’s look at the $250k price tag. Over 6 years, that comes to $114/day. 1 ride per hour at $5 per ride would hit $120/day. Assuming a 2 mile ride, tha
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by mdasen 8y ago
This is a key point when considering Tesla stock. In order to justify the current price, Tesla really has to become the next Toyota. Volkswagen is an $85B auto maker and the second most valuable. Tesla is already a $60B auto maker. If Te
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by mdasen 8y ago
I can go to a dealer today and grab a Chevy Bolt for under $32k with no haggling with 238 mile range. Hyundai hasn't come out with US pricing for their Kona EV yet, but in Norway they're selling it for the equivalent of $40k with
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by mdasen 8y ago
It's amazing how times change. Just a few years ago, the Boy Scouts wouldn't allow gay kids to join (2013) and wouldn't allow gay leaders (2015). Back then, people were applauding the Girl Scouts for their progressive stanc
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by mdasen 8y ago
They can't really buy one another because they're both non-profit charities. They could decide to merge, but it seems they don't want to.
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by mdasen 8y ago
I'm surprised to see AT&T acting so aggressively with its Time Warner purchase so soon. The government argued that the merger would harm consumers and competition. I expected AT&T to wait a year or two before starting to milk
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by mdasen 8y ago
L5 is one of Google's internal levels. They're putting it there to let people know where they were in Google's hierarchy and they note that it denotes Senior. From what I know, people generally start at 3 right out of schoo
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by mdasen 8y ago
Java 9 and 10 were released. Java has moved to a time-based release schedule where they release what is ready for each release rather than having things block releases forever. Every third release is a long-term-support release. It'
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by mdasen 8y ago
I think a lot of labor situations are different (not just low vs high wage). With Uber, one of the defining characteristics is that there are (basically) only two employers (Uber and Lyft). If there were hundreds of equivalent employers,
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by mdasen 8y ago
First: really slick site. I'm not so into the video which takes a while to get to the point, but the site makes it really easy to understand the point of your product (and that's something a lot of sites lack). I do have some que
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by mdasen 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact One thing you might be interested in reading about is Disparate Impact. Discrimination cases can be proven by showing that a practice has a disproportionately adverse imp
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by mdasen 8y ago
It is interesting. I haven't read all the laws, but I'd guess that the "occupy the field" standard could come into play. Basically, even when there is no direct conflict between state and federal law and even when fede
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by mdasen 8y ago
I’m wondering this as well. In the description it says that it ensures total ordering while Kafka only ensures partition ordering. I haven’t read enough to say more.

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