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by peeters 8y ago
It's 2018, does CSS supported by modern browsers still lack the basic building blocks of reuse? Why am I being asked to choose between class="resources" (and having to know how to center a div in that resources class) and cl
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by peeters 8y ago
> There’s no rational economic reason to force your janitors into non-competes I would argue there's a rational economic reason (reducing competition for the labour pool so you can pay them less) but not a morally acceptable nor e
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by peeters 8y ago
They're sharing what they can obviously, but the platform will be different. There are a lot of cars that are like 90% similar, especially sedans and crossovers sharing the same platform. To that extent, the Model X apparently used t
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by peeters 8y ago
It's a lot harder to quantify "ramp-up" for these models too, because they almost never have a bare starting point. E.g. CX-3 is (IIRC) based on the Mazda2 platform, so do you include the preceding Mazda2 ramp-up in the numb
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by peeters 8y ago
Also I believe the seats are all custom shaped for each astronaut's body. I'm sure in dire circumstances they could use a capsule that wasn't designed for them, but it's very much a case of each astronaut having a very
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by peeters 8y ago
A single modern CPU can crunch more numbers in a second than every person living on earth combined. Sure there may be things that it's not capable of, but most things it is capable of, it's usually 8-10 orders of magnitude more
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by peeters 8y ago
One is saying how much computers use of a global resource pool, the other is how much brains use of their host body. They're completely different things so it doesn't make sense to compare those two percentages. If you wanted to
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by peeters 8y ago
The question is, does causality require time? I understand that physics can give us a definition of time as far as "happens-before" relationships go, but are "happens-before" and "happens-because-of" necessari
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by peeters 8y ago
Are border agents allowed to read your diary? What if you put a simple lock on it?
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by peeters 8y ago
The shares would lose value via dilution or via a new $20 million debt, this is just an easy way to get the cash on hand.
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by peeters 8y ago
Or invent the next phase of targeted ads. Figure out (algorithmically/via tracking) what the person wants and just ship it to them. If they don't want it they can ship it back. Basically Columbia House but for everything.
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by peeters 8y ago
I always wonder what someone's supposed to do to not violate this. Like their checkout process naturally takes one click. So now they're forced to add some arbitrary intermediate screen to not violate the patent?
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by peeters 8y ago
Why whenever some software service goes down is there somebody chastising everyone for trusting a third party? That's how the world works. I trust the cities to keep the roads open. I trust the province to keep the hospitals staffed
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by peeters 8y ago
> Inbox on the other hand is very opinionated. It was designed around the idea that your inbox is a to-do list, and everything from the UI to features like pinning, snooze, and reminders is built around that assumption. Yeah this is a ma
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by peeters 8y ago
I said most premium models have hill assist, not that all models with hill assist are premium.
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by peeters 8y ago
This reminds me of the Yoga Bera quote, (paraphrasing) "that place is so busy, nobody goes there any more." If manual was universal, then everybody used to know how to drive it. The situation you describe wouldn't have mad
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by peeters 8y ago
Just a note on that, most premium manual models come with hill assist these days. Automatically applies the brake while you accelerate from a stop.
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by peeters 8y ago
I love my stick shift, and echo others that it increases my engagement level, but I'm at the point of buying my next car and I know it'll be automatic. Too many companies don't try to push any advanced technology into their m
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by peeters 8y ago
Interesting thought. Note that getting off 300 km up would not put you in orbit; you would lack the orbital velocity required for that. So if you get off there you'd have to burn around 8 km/s of delta-v, which is quite a bit of
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by peeters 8y ago
I mean the work has already been done for a heck of a lot of those films though right? A quick search shows oldies.com having 500+ movies from the 60s available in blu-ray. I would assume the rights to those digitalizations belong to th
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by peeters 8y ago
Granted my source for this is The Newsroom , but IIRC contempt of court is a tool that can only be used coercively, and not punitively. In other words, if you refuse to give your password, you could be detained indefinitely for contempt.
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by peeters 8y ago
Would it not be possible to add a tooltip to the top bar on hover when it has this styling? Or maybe a link to the relevant discussion thread? It's awkward to see this in the morning and then have to go search recent HN posts for &qu
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by peeters 8y ago
Hmm, interesting. I thought we were just talking about voting shares. Musk has said current shareholders would be able to hold on to their shares. Do you think behind that statement he implied "but will lose voting status"?
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by peeters 8y ago
I'm overall a fan of Tesla and SpaceX, but there are a number of valid criticisms you could make against Musk: Occasionally childish relationship with his investors. Unfoundedly calling a diver a pedophile after he attacked Musk'
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by peeters 8y ago
I'm a newbie when it comes to calls and puts, couldn't they just fill their shorts now (no pun intended, I seriously don't know the terminology) if they're worried about it? Tesla closed at $370.
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by peeters 8y ago
Yeah I mean it's certainly subjective and I aligned the numbers to fall at 10 degree boundaries. But that's roughly where I fall. Anything above freezing and I'll usually prefer a sweater with a light jacket to a full winte
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by peeters 8y ago
> Articles/Bylaws would likely give Musk control, even though he only holds 20%. But Articles and Bylaws can be rewritten at the whim of the majority shareholder, no? I don't doubt that's how it would be initially structu
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by peeters 8y ago
What, timed with an announcement of a merger between Blue Origin and SpaceX? :)
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by peeters 8y ago
So there's the real story. Who is this financer (or group) with ~40 billion in capital that is willing to bet long on Tesla? That's really interesting to me, if Musk is being truthful here.
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by peeters 8y ago
The main difference though is sell to whom ? In the case of a public company, you sell your shares via the market to whomever will buy them. In the case of a private company, you're selling the shares back to the company, and the va

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