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by saas_co_de 8y ago
"The utility will also spend $236.3 million on infrastructure and rebates to support electric trucks, buses and other medium or heavy-duty vehicles. Southern California Edison will spend up to $342.6 million on similar efforts." S
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by saas_co_de 8y ago
California is like a third world country. I used to work in Santa Monica in this beautiful extremely expensive office complex and yet we would have power outages on a regular basis. It is funny in a way, because it is so sad, that this supp
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by saas_co_de 8y ago
"The mostly pure CO2 can then be sold to oil fields for use in enhanced oil recovery" The CO2 is pumped under ground to force oil out. "In these applications, between one-half and two-thirds of the injected CO2 returns with t
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by saas_co_de 8y ago
It is not necessarily a question of "right" and "wrong" but what are the consequences of people seeing Google as a weapon as opposed to an information service? If the whole world begins to see Google as a weapon then the
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by saas_co_de 8y ago
Facebook only exists as a surveillance and control tool. Everything else is just a means to an end. Zuckerberg is just the front man. Once they are done with him he will be in the ditch like Travis.
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by saas_co_de 8y ago
What they really need is a Chinese smartphone running android for $50 ...
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by saas_co_de 8y ago
Yes, there is no coercion involved whatsoever when your choices are working for pennies or being homeless, hungry, in prison, or on the streets. The only difference is that the modern slave owners are smarter and so they use a form of coerc
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by saas_co_de 8y ago
Just everyone with power
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by saas_co_de 8y ago
If that is true then it would also be true that a slave and their master are on the same side.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
AlphaGo is impressive, but it is an impressive parlor trick not impressive as 'artificial intelligence' Playing a game with fixed rules and a finite set of potential states is something a computer can do. Designing the computer th
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
Exactly. They don't want any competing products so preventing the development of a standard they don't control is obvious.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
Tldr is that corporations don't want a standards body with any public input so they created their own competing body, strangled w3c, and are now saying w3c is limited to being a rubber stamp for the standards they create.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
A large amount of TV news is pure fabrication. The use of green screens, fake sound tracks, fake live shots, etc is just part of the biz. TV news is an entertainment product pretending to be a news product.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
I think you can pretty easily guess from the #deletefacebook statement of the whatsapp founder that they did not implement the protocol "correctly". Corporate statements about the security and privacy of their products usually lea
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
You are talking about providing health care. Not inventing new treatments. Those countries are all using treatments invented developed and funded by the market model which is mostly paid for by us consumers, which is part of why us prices a
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
They could do what Uber did and take responsibility, apologize and settle with the family.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
What a disgusting response.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
The driver is not responsible for defects in the vehicle
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
The unfortunate truth is that this woman got more exposure for her message by taking the action she did then would have been possible by any other means. That has some rather frightening implications for society.
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
The debate about "technical plausibility" should not even be on the table. Nowhere under US law does the government have any right to mandate that individuals must communicate via mediums that allow for surveillance. The idea that
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
> Ignoring the 2000/week spurt last week, the other 7000 Model 3 cars were made over the course of 11 weeks Exactly. The 2000 number is complete B.S. They just held back nearly finished units and the "completed" them all i
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
> They can raise any amount of liquidity with those numbers. 7.5% bond yield says no. > I have been hearing this bankruptcy coming for the last 7 years Yes, the anticipation makes it even sweeter. :) But seriously, they have been loos
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
It really reeks of desperation. They are frantically doing anything they can to keep investor confidence but all of their tricks are so worn out and tired now and their debt load and burn rate is so much higher that it isn't going to c
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
This kind of makes sense, except that we are talking about hardware devices here. The hardware is manufactured by a private party that has no obligation to follow anyone else's rules. That party may voluntarily decide to participate in
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
does the term "stealing" really apply here?
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
This is true. The rate of progress in CPU performance has slowed to a crawl and will only get slower in the future. Because the pace of innovation of fabs has slowed Intel has also lost their fab lead and GF/Samsung/TSMC should al
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
> in my experience apple software is flat out inferior and OSX is the worst It is almost absurdly bad. The only OS that still hangs, freezes, and crashes regularly. It is like Windows 98 quality wise and seems to get worse instead of bet
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
It is strange to tell this long compelling story and then half way through go, "oh, and btw, he has multiple convictions for drug dealing." While I personally would like to see all drugs legalized that does not change the fact tha
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
> When the draft results of the papers were published earlier this year, all results were labeled “equivocal,” meaning the study authors felt the data weren’t clear enough to determine if the radiation caused the health effects or not. B
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by saas_co_de 9y ago
Hetzner is the best if you care about value. If you look at the hardware they offer you can tell it is designed by people who know what they are doing and really care about getting the best bang for buck.

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