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> ... your insurance has gone up, because we found that drivers in your neighbourhood ... That's what happens now. This would be "your insurance has gone up because you are more likely to have an accident. If you drive more c
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I can't hear any difference. I think the sample music provided might not be the best - it's too electronic and processed already, my brain doesn't know what it's supposed to sound like.
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The article doesn't say what the new law requires in any way at all. How is what Spotify already pays not enough under the new law?
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London 2 main types of underground line: Subsurface (Circle, District, Metropolitan and Hammersmith and City lines), and tube. The subsurface lines were constructed by cut and cover and were made for steam engines. They are much larger than
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One thing the article doesn't mention is that the trains are more efficient because they use regenerative braking, rather than friction brakes. The friction brakes cause a lot of the heat and dust in the underground. By eliminating thi
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Being able to have your car drop you at work, go back home and take your kids to school, then go back home and park could be a huge change to life as we know it. It would also massively increase traffic compared to taking the school bus or
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Only before it opened, but the press didn't really report it very well. They posted accounts for the 3 months before they opened (minus 2 days) saying they lost $100 million in that period. The press picked up on this as "The Sphe
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This is why you can't use X (or facebook or any other social media) for news.
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So the IMAX company renamed "Omnimax" to "IMAX dome" in about the year 2000, but some of the theatres kept the old name. Watching an analog flat screen IMAX movie on a dome seems like a horrible mess, but if you digitize
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I thought that the Hindenburg was more about the materials the airship skin was made of than the Hydrogen itself. If the skin hadn't caught fire, the hydrogen wouldn't have. Also the fuel tanks caught fire, and they could have bee
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It's possible to make encryption where "sufficient resources" is of the order of all the energy in the Sun until the end of time. That's not remotely breakable, even for the government.
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All you need is an option you can set on a private repo in Github so that if you close your account or don't pay your fees for 3 months it automatically becomes public rather than gets deleted.
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And a local integration can be hostile if it's not publicly documented and they can update it / make it go away with an over the air update. What matters is that they provide proper documentation for their APIs, encourage devs to
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I think Freakonomics basically debunked the whole tulips thing. The real Tulip mania was much smaller but stories of it got exadgerated as they passed around the world. Actual business records of the claims in contemporary newspapers don&#x
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No, it does not matter if fixing a Tesla is expensive, as long as their insurance doesn't cost more than third party insurance. Quite the opposite - more expensive repairs probably means more margin for the insurers. They are going to
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I think it's totally not in the interests of dating apps for you to find a long term partner and stop using the app. They need a charging structure that is a fixed single cost, not a subscription. Ideally if you don't get a match
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Indeed. Also a larger sample doesn't help with "some bias they didn't account for", it just marginally narrows the margin of error.
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Technology connections covered them as part of this video: https://youtu.be/2z5A-COlDPk?t=330
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You can probably configure git to use this tool when it diffs sqlite files.
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You won't be storing the sqlite file in git. So you won't be storing indexes or un-vacuumed data in git. You also won't be storing a database with some of it's rows locked or anything like that. Git will be able to compr
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Repair != Maintenance. EVs do have much lower maintenance costs - they basically don't need maintenance. However, if they are damaged, they have much higher repair costs, and in Hertz' case I can see how this could dominate - I ex
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In Tesla's case, it seems that repair costs and especially time to get parts are extreme for minor accidents from what I hear. Maybe it's not the case, but I think Tesla really need to fix this perception.
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You can estimate the actual numbers based on the collision rate. Analytics is not about absolute accuracy, it's about measuring differences; things like which pages are most popular, did traffic grow when you ran a PR campaign etc.
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It's not copyrightable. It's trademarkable. Completely different thing. Just about every rule is different. E.g. anyone can copy trademarks as much as they like as long as they are using them to describe the actual trademarked thi
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I think it's more about the opposite. If you are the new owner, you don't want the old owner to continue to have access to features connected to your new domain. So as a new owner you would want to remove the tokens.
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I think geohash droid was based on this comic: https://xkcd.com/426/
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In the UK, I believe that if you organise a large event that needs police coverage, you pay the Police force to provide on-duty officers. This seems a lot less open to corruption because it would be based on a standard price list that was p
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It's not about extra staff for one late project, it's about extra staff to handle the anticipated increase in the number of projects SpaceX, Blue Origin and others are planning to be throwing their way in the next few years. They
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Other options that might work: * Launch from the roof of a vehicle * With a glider winch * Towed by another aircraft * Auxiliary engine / batteries that can be jettisoned & parachuted down
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This video by the slow-mo guys might be helpful for understanding how the Sega-style guns worked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BJU2drrtCM

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