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by pilom 14y ago
I would be very surprised if 90% of vehicles use drum brakes on the rear wheels (at least in the US). Every car that myself, my parents, my wife, her parents, have ever owned (except for one) has had disk brakes on the rear wheels. While I
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by pilom 14y ago
Should be "any front-wheel drive car." It looks to me that they replace the rear axle with 2 electric motors (one on each side). I don't think they could install this on a car with powered rear wheels.
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by pilom 14y ago
You're correct they don't. But the Host Guarantee does cover up to $1,000,000 in property damage. Given that there is not property involved in Vayable activities, I think that some type of comparable protection of guides is required. As a "
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by pilom 14y ago
I love the idea behind Vayable. I would love to be a guide with them. I am a whitewater rafting guide in Denver and could take people down rivers that commercial rafting companies wont go to, but until they offer Liability coverage to guide
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by pilom 14y ago
"it's almost never about "protecting US against threats", but about "attacking others"" I'd like to see your sources. I think you might be confusing bills like SOPA and CISPA as actual cyber bills. Most of the actual cyber bills I've read a
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by pilom 14y ago
I work for one of the companies listed in this article as a "Cyber Security Engineer." I have 2 issues with this article. First, the vast majority of cyber security work is defence. I would guess the percentage of people working defence is
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by pilom 14y ago
The attack was on a phone call message for 2-factor authentication "Your one time password is XXXXXX. Please use this to login now" not an RSA token.
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by pilom 14y ago
The drones the original article talks about aren't missles, they aren't even predators or global hawks. They are the target practice drones the navy shoots with their own missiles for air to air combat exercises.
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by pilom 14y ago
Very true, but the fact that the author is paying a distribution fee an order of magnitude more than the $.27 seems pretty fishy.
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by pilom 14y ago
Over a cell phone network a user would pay about $0.27 to download a 18MB file. There is no way an author should have to pay an order of magnitude more.
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by pilom 14y ago
If you use the end user cost you can get a high end estimate for total cost of 3g service. $30 for 2GB of data makes $0.015/MB * 18.1 MB file makes for a total cost to user of $0.27 for delivery.
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by pilom 14y ago
It says this wont be released for a few weeks. How hard would it be for a game dev to make this and release before them?
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by pilom 14y ago
Lawyer up! Lots of lawyers would take this one without up front payment. Settle and move on with your life.
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by pilom 14y ago
Atlas rockets and the future Falcon Heavy from SpaceX are able to carry more, bigger, heavier payloads than the space shuttle ever could. What makes the Shuttle unique is that it could bring stuff back from space. Hubble could have gone up
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by pilom 14y ago
"Ethics are what you do when no one is watching."
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by pilom 14y ago
"and don't give you reliable ways to know when to stop testing" Stopping a test when you reach a "statistically significant" result is the wrong way to do A/B testing. In both multi-armed bandit and A/B testing you need to set ahead of time
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by pilom 14y ago
I got a very different impression of this method than you did because I saw it as, just as with an A/B test, when you make a major change to the site, you reset your counters. This makes your point #2 mute. As for number 5, why couldn't you
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by pilom 14y ago
I agree with you on the 401k business, that was silly. As for consolidation, just for your information, consolidating federal loans changed in 2006 when federal loans went to all fixed rates. It used to be, with variable rate student loans
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by pilom 14y ago
By crazy high rates do you mean the 6.8% that federal stafford loans were when he was in school? Or the 8.5% that Graduate plus loans were during that period? If not, what conservative investments to you have?
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by pilom 14y ago
They are designed to be held down on the launch pad operating at full power for up to 20 seconds (looking for source) before being released so that they can verify all systems are operating correctly before it is in the air.
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by pilom 14y ago
My bet is it closes somewhere between $35 and $45. The owners pushed back against the bankers at every turn to push for a higher price. If they don't price at the start of the day effectively, the original shareholders lose money to the ban
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by pilom 14y ago
So if the users have their data and the app is open-sourced, what prevents someone from starting the app up again (besides the friction to users)?
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by pilom 14y ago
I think what krschultz is saying is that if you have the skills to be successful without a college degree, you also are likely to have the skills to get a scholarship to a decent school. They are a somewhat similar skillset and going to col
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by pilom 14y ago
It used to be you could only get those features by purchasing Apples $50/year add on which included turn by turn and device locator functionality (parents could track children or you could catch a thief after your phone was stolen). Not sur
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by pilom 14y ago
Sounds like it was just censored in schools with a NetNanny type internet filter. What's the voting age in Germany again?
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by pilom 14y ago
Google apps for business for the possibility of gmail support, Amazon web services, Amazon Prime, Netflix
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by pilom 14y ago
Thanks, I missed the "Yearly revenue" bit at the start of that line. My bad.
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by pilom 14y ago
I stand corrected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22_Raptor . If you divide the number of aircraft built by the amount spent on the program, the GAO puts that at $412 million per plane. You can still buy more than 3 F-35's for each F-22.
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by pilom 14y ago
While I can't hear above 16KHz, lots of people can hear up to 20KHz without any trouble. To them this would sound like the highest pitch ringing you could imagine. And don't let any dogs in the room, this would be a continuous dog whistle t
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by pilom 14y ago
I think a lot of people underestimate the differences between the F-22 and the F-35 on a price standpoint. The F-22 costs $2 billion per plane. The F-35 at $18X million per plan is a pittance in comparison for 80% of the capabilities.

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