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by resolutebat 3y ago
The problem is that whenever a human driven car reverses over a toddler or wraps around a telephone pole or veers across lanes into oncoming traffic or blows through a red light and T-bones someone, nobody cares because it happens all the t
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New York May Have Lost Transit Riders by Building a $11B Train Station(vice.com)
21 points by resolutebat 3y ago|6 comments
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by resolutebat 3y ago
While the ruling party (People's Action Party, PAP) and the neighborhood councils (People's Association, PA) are notionally distinct, in practice the two are very, very closely intertwined to such an extent that that the two are i
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Reddit's API changes will likely kill RIF and other apps, on July 1, 2023(old.reddit.com)
6 points by resolutebat 3y ago|0 comments
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by resolutebat 3y ago
Sherpas are Tibetan, and romanizing Tibetan is notoriously difficult because the modern pronunciation diverges wildly from the writing and there are many dialects to boot. “bsTan-aDzin Nor-rGyas" is the Wylie transliteration, which rep
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by resolutebat 3y ago
It's a little old-fashioned now, but quotation marks can also be used when you're quoting another language, especially a word you don't expect readers to understand. Many tourists in Istanbul visit a "hamam", or T
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by resolutebat 3y ago
The Polestar 2 glass roof is a little glass pane cut into the roof that costs $5000 extra. On the Model 3/Y, the entire roof is glass.
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by resolutebat 3y ago
The Polestar 2 is built on Volvo/Geely's CMA platform and is very similar to the ICE Volvo XC40. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Modular_Architecture_p...
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by resolutebat 3y ago
The minimalist cabin is the obvious one: it's more spacious and feels much more spacious thanks to the glass roof. I did have severe doubts about the touchscreen and lack of controls, but in practice this has been a non-issue, there a
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by resolutebat 3y ago
> Model Y is 2 times as expensive as a Corolla. Which only makes this even more remarkable. What's going to happen when the Tesla 2 comes out and sells for the same price as a Corolla?
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by resolutebat 3y ago
For comparison, here's the Tesla maintenance schedule: none.
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by resolutebat 3y ago
If you're in the market, go for a couple of test drives. The competition is mostly regular ICE cars with a battery bolted on, while Teslas are designed from ground up as EVs and it shows throughout in ways big and small. We were orig
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by resolutebat 3y ago
The Chinese car market is full of brands that don't even try to sell their cars outside China. But it's noteworthy that Tesla is a top seller there as well, second only to local juggernaut BYD in EVs. https://carnewsch
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by resolutebat 3y ago
The entire rest of the world, including Teslas outside the US, use CCS. (Yes, CHAdeMO still exists, but even the Japanese are giving up on it.) The only reason Tesla uses NACS in the US is that CCS did not exist at the time they started ro
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by resolutebat 3y ago
Letting Ford use the Tesla charging network is fine, but forcing Ford to adopt NACS is a major step in the wrong direction. The entire rest of the world has converged on CCS, including current Tesla vehicles outside the US, and even Japane
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by resolutebat 3y ago
> everyone in japan does it Nope, not even close. Quite the opposite, in fact, as Japanese offices and apartments tend to be full to the brim with crap. Partly this is by necessity, since both are also tend to be quite small and cram
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by resolutebat 3y ago
The gambling component is also effectively illegal, because you can't win money from the games directly. You can, however, win tokens, which a little shop conveniently located right next to the pachinko parlor will buy off you in exch
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by resolutebat 3y ago
Prison email, if available at all, is usually through some super locked down per pay message custom site (www.corrlinks.com seems to be a big player). You're definitely not getting access to regular Gmail if you're doing hard tim
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by resolutebat 3y ago
Continuing with the eating metaphor, here's a good story a few days ago about kudzu, a notorious weed that in the end failed to swallow the South. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35934578 I suspect we may well s
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by resolutebat 3y ago
> then it emerged: a leadership role in product engineering. So apparently the answer to "what happens after I left my SWE career" is "back to SWE".
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IRS claiming $44B from FTX bankruptcy(cointelegraph.com)
10 points by resolutebat 3y ago|0 comments
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by resolutebat 3y ago
Vertu has entered the chat: https://vertu.com/collections/signature $118,500 for a diamond-encrusted dumbphone that's still running Symbian, anyone?
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by resolutebat 3y ago
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28652367
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by resolutebat 3y ago
You should probably be directing your outrage at the platforms that are taking those costs, not the non-profit who are effectively forced into paying them. The biggest shame of the cryptocurrency debacle is that it was never able to make an
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by resolutebat 3y ago
I'm slightly disappointed this isn't about Hayes AT commands. ATDT is pretty straightforward but some of the ATS stuff can get kinda hairy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set
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Putin’s Inner Circle Criticized Kremlin’s Ukraine Strategy – and He’s Not Alone(rollingstone.com)
9 points by resolutebat 3y ago|0 comments