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by mschy 17y ago
In practice what it means is that if you're about to crash into something, and you hit the brakes, that it hits them 100% right off the bat, instead of the 50% or 80% that most people would go for. I've not used the system in the Prius, but
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by mschy 17y ago
I've had the radar-assist cruise control for two years (complete with braking) and everything, and I view it as a first step towards automated driving. People aren't likely to accept automated driving (even if it's statistically safer than
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by mschy 17y ago
Exactly. And even when the person does manage to speak in a perfect soundbite, they're often talking to somebody who isn't an expert, and it might well get screwed up during transcription, writing or editing. The first time I talked to a r
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by mschy 17y ago
Agreed. If I want to encourage somebody to sit in a chair for 8-12 hours a day, it's reasonable for me to spend $1k on that chair. Even if I said the chairs were getting replaced every three years, it'd be a pittance. The comfort would ne
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by mschy 17y ago
Having spoke with the press, I give him a lot of latitude on that one. There are lots of explanations that come to my mind before I'd assume he's clueless.
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by mschy 17y ago
Yes. Hugely. It needs to be easily legible, and you need a clear call to action color. I'd suggest looking at successful sites that serve your target market, and looking at what colors they use. I'm guessing you'll find lots of black/blue
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by mschy 17y ago
I started running ssh on port 443 when public ssh is required, because it works more reliably when traveling. A nice side effect is that it also avoids the Rumplestiltskin attacks. That said, my preferred solution is openvpn.
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by mschy 17y ago
I don't get it but they seem to be able to get a job without doing much of anything. They're also rarely useful but that's another issue. It's incredibly strange that you view not twittering, spending time on stackoverflow, or blogging as
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by mschy 17y ago
My online cash winrate dropped to 1/3 of what it was in the "salad" days, and my variance increased substantially. My understanding is that my winrates are still very good, but the rise of massive-multi-tablers and HUDs really ruined the ga
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by mschy 17y ago
I am one. I play mid/high stakes poker, and pretty much every form of it. I funded my first startup by playing nights and weekends. These days, it's solely an avocation, but one I rather enjoy.
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by mschy 17y ago
Well, I sent them email asking what they need for power/bandwidth/rackspace, to add a node usefully. I doubt I'm the only person on HN who has large amounts of computing resources to spare. I suppose we'll see what's required to help.
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by mschy 17y ago
http://hillspost.yubin-nenga.jp/ Did you want to wait approximately 15 seconds for a splashy animation to load, so you can eventually see the home page? We hope so, because you will! http://www.ishiyamasenko.co.jp/ I've put fine whit
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by mschy 17y ago
It should open you up to: http://www.co2stats.com/certpro.php?s=1138&ref=http://ne... It's a carbon offset program for websites. For what it's worth, my company is carbon-neutral, and primarily uses "green" power sources (wind, and nu
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by mschy 17y ago
Counterparty risk is a bitch. Particularly when layered with legal and cultural risks.
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by mschy 17y ago
If you're able to get such feedback, then the communication is not yet unidirectional.
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by mschy 17y ago
I have an '08 Mercedes SL55, and a scangauge. The scanner cost $170. The codes are read through the standard obd2 port. It wouldn't be surprising if the dealerships have fancier diagnostics available via $40k machines, but they're in no w
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by mschy 17y ago
I'm a self-interested creature. I tend to stop sharing with the Internet when my expertise gets far enough to the right of the mean that the information flow becomes unidirectional, or near unidirectional. I doubt I'm alone in that.
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by mschy 17y ago
I'm pretty sure that in the US, it not only has to be false, but the person making the statement must have either known it to be false, or shown negligence in not verifying the veracity of the statement.
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by mschy 17y ago
The story conflates timelines, as does the discussion. It makes it hard to take any of it seriously. For the vast majority of the time that those products were sold, the mechanism for profit was to keep a piece of the highest risk (and hig
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by mschy 17y ago
There is no reason whatsoever to suppose they didn't know these CDO's were rubbish. The fact that they held on to the highest risk portion of them as their intended means of profiting from the sale is pretty solid evidence.
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by mschy 17y ago
What's wrong here is acting in bad faith by selling known-bad investments. I participated in this activity in that I created software systems to enable the creation, valuation, analysis and management of the securities. As such, I'm sure
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by mschy 17y ago
Bad idea. Central bank independence is negatively correlated to inflation as well as variance of inflation. As such, a situation such as the United States has (with a fairly independent central bank) tends to be quite good both at reducin
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by mschy 17y ago
If your real income is decreasing, then your real income is decreasing, no matter what currency is in use. They're essentially unrelated. The only "benefit" of inflation to employers is that it makes it easier to implement wage cuts withou
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by mschy 17y ago
One major point you seem to have missed, most people have very little of their wealth held as raw currency. Most people have wealth held in real estate, stocks, bonds, cars, businesses, retirement accounts, etc... and a comparative few b
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by mschy 17y ago
Inflation is a tax on hoarding. If you buy assets, they'll generally keep pace with inflation (with some fluctuation, depending on which assets you've bought.) If you engage in productive investment of some sort, you'll generally beat infla
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by mschy 17y ago
If I slam on my brakes for an emergency (animal in road, accident ahead, etc.), I can stop from 60mph in approximately 110-120 feet. That's not that far from a magically appearing brick wall. At 60mph, you'll cover the whole of that distan
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by mschy 17y ago
Momentum is key. Find a way to get yourself starting doing something (e.g. sign up for those language or dance classes or what not), and continuing is comparatively easy.
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by mschy 17y ago
Me too. I get a lot more done, and have a lot less stress.
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by mschy 17y ago
An MBA is a basic business toolkit. It's an opportunity to understand the basics of accounting, finance, management, business law, statistics, communication and marketing, as well as to take a few advanced classes in fields that interest y
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by mschy 17y ago
Dismal or corrective? Dismal. Right now is a bad time to graduate with an MBA. Or a degree in Engineering, Architecture, Physics, or pretty much anything else.

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