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by specialp 6y ago
I don't know why there is some immune response when pointing out anything negative about an EV at the moment. I just said that the "1000 miles per hour" charge rate is disingenuous at best. Also it is not true that the superc
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by specialp 6y ago
I think in general people know how to filter out the "Karens". Also I find that restaurants are actually overrated in general. People are more likely to give a 5 star rating to an average restaurant than vice versa. People at leas
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by specialp 6y ago
The "miles per hour" charging rate is very misleading. Yes if you wanted to charge a bunch of Teslas to 20% capacity and swap them out after a few minutes each you'd get 1000 "miles charged per hour" But as the batt
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by specialp 6y ago
It is essentially a rant with not much substance. If this was a comment on HN it would be flagged probably. Like to hit at so many things in 3-4 paragraphs you aren't making an argument for or against something, you are just making a s
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by specialp 6y ago
Buffett has always had pretty conservative holdings with Berkshire and a top tier credit rating. So in 2008 when a lot of businesses needed liquidity he came in with it on very generous terms to him making billions. For instance he loaned G
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by specialp 6y ago
I had the same experience regretting my early semesters before I discovered research. It is what most of the professors are most interested in anyway. Lectures where one is sitting in a hundred+ student hall listening should 100% be replace
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by specialp 6y ago
It is currently 10 cents an hour flat rate for the control plane. That actually saved us money. Even if you weren't going to run in HA, that is still the cost of a smallish machine to run a single master. I am not sure who running K8s
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by specialp 6y ago
I find the car rental process really difficult in Europe. It seems they are just looking to get you and give the most detailed possible inspection of cars. In the USA I have found when I return a car they just really look at it for major da
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by specialp 6y ago
There's no hate on the offering itself. Hertz would be negligent if they didn't tap a source of interest free funding at the lowest position in the bankruptcy repayment. They saw the demand for their stock and took advantage. The
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by specialp 6y ago
I think one thing that makes them stagnate is the sheer magnitude of their advertising business. Google is not interested in expanding to other things unless it is either furthering the amount of data they are collecting for advertising, or
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by specialp 6y ago
If that is your definition of "cloud" then most stuff running on AWS and other "cloud" providers isn't. I agree that Kubernetes and even containers aren't the end all. I think they are a stepping stone to true
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by specialp 6y ago
This is a pretty rational argument. Where does one draw the line with "fact checks". I don't like Trump at all. Which is why I don't like seeing "My political tribe disagrees with you" down votes. Shouldn'
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by specialp 6y ago
I found it is most useful to just use it as a "pull" resource and not allow it to push you anything. I don't care about the guy complaining about a neighbor using his leaf blower at 8am, or the person complaining the FedEx dr
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by specialp 6y ago
Yes but that is a difficult thing even in our society in the US. Then to project that to the world is harder. In the USA we have values that tend to see political censorship as evil, but in some other countries they see political criticism
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by specialp 6y ago
I'd suspect not. I sometimes will get a FB result for businesses (with nagging box for me to join Facebook taking up 33% of the screen). I Google a lot of stuff and never get results for FB groups public or private as a non Facebook us
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by specialp 6y ago
Facebook makes your content virtually inaccessible and discoverable from those outside Facebook. They are the opposite of the way things were on the open web. Medium "is easy" but they are gradually asking more and more of people
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by specialp 6y ago
There is just a problem with self curated content in general. There used to be a lot of experts making their own sites with information that was never available before. It was easy to just upload some HTML files somewhere. Now this informat
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by specialp 6y ago
Even the Abbott antibody test which is considered a good one is backed by a disturbingly small clinical study. The positive result pool had a sample size of around 75 people, and 1k negatives. I read the reagent insert for this. Then when l
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by specialp 6y ago
I think it all comes down to one thing: Shared mutable state. We can discuss what is functional and what is OOP, but in general functional programming does not mutate data in place. OOP does in general with encapsulated instantiated data in
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by specialp 6y ago
I find that GrubHub will also oversubscribe their drivers by a huge amount. We tend to support restaurants more and don't use GrubHub but a few months ago we placed an order for a Thai place near us. The restaurant called and was like
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by specialp 6y ago
Here are some quotes from the article: "Carlo was betting stacks of orange chips we called “pumpkins,” up to $10,000 per hand." "Our Big Players naturally drew attention with their wagers in the thousands." No I didn&#x2
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by specialp 6y ago
That treatment, along with the tactics used in this story like Wonging at the table, last occurred/were effective long before the author was born. Typically casinos if they are nice put you on a "flat bet" which makes countin
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by specialp 6y ago
I agree with you on that. The money is to be made telling stories about it vs doing it. Which is why I think the article is complete fiction. But the math behind counting is sound and it is indeed profitable if done right. https:/&#x2
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by specialp 6y ago
Yes smart bettors call themselves "sharps" and "AP"s (advantage players) I don't think I have ever heard an AP call themselves a card shark. This seems to be a piece of fiction as most of the terminology doesn'
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by specialp 6y ago
Card counting is romanticized but really it is almost impossible to get away with now (while making any meaningful money). The whole premise of card counting is to vary your bets where you are betting more when the count is in your favor, a
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by specialp 6y ago
To me, if you are not free to walk out the door and do whatever you please, you have an obligation to an employer, and are therefore working. I worked a college job fixing bowling equipment and they tried to make me clock out for my meals.
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by specialp 6y ago
Yes for me too. The fact that Amazon is so cheap that they want employees to sit around for 20-30 minutes after their shift unpaid to get searched to make sure they aren't stealing blew me away. It is one thing if Amazon wants to do th
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by specialp 7y ago
Italy is testing at a rate less than NY. I live in NY and I personally know over a dozen people with presumed COVID-19. Only one has been tested as he is a first responder.. The others are not in the stats. I know this is anecdotal but it a
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by specialp 7y ago
People are probably going to take the bailouts and not think at all that their "free-market" and unbridled capitalism approach is wrong. We know this because it happened in 2008. In reality it isn't unbridled capitalism becau
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by specialp 7y ago
Also if your local machine is compromised, which is much more common than people brute-forcing passwords, somebody can get your password and a 2FA code and access any account.

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