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Waymo turned its LIDAR circuit boards into jewelry and gave them to employees(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Ask HN: How to get a human to help with Facebook disabling account?
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by steve19 9y ago
Eruptions are preceded by earthquakes, venting and other events. I think there is a good chance people would evacuate from a smaller eruption (verses a life on earth extinction event)
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by steve19 9y ago
Note he said OS. As far as I understand the android fork on those phones is awful. Also the hardware is always a generation behind.
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by steve19 9y ago
Serious question: is your house insured against volcano?
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by steve19 9y ago
I suspect it's that they don't want to take the risk that not being front and center on Apple platforms could have on their business. Maybe droves Apple of users would jump ship to Bing... Or maybe they would jump ship to Android
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by steve19 10y ago
This is going to make dealers very nervous. Right now dealerships have all sorts of legal protections ... but as Uber and then self driving cars take over, these antiquated protections are slowly going to disappear.
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by steve19 10y ago
Then you get fired/don't-get-that job when someone takes offense at something "you" have written. Going random is risky. See Microsoft's Tay: http://gizmodo.com/here-are-the-microsoft-twitter-bot-s-c
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by steve19 10y ago
You have been a member of HN for a very short period of time. Please read the HN Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by steve19 10y ago
Photos of it in the ground, photos of it covered in plaster.. no photos of the actual skull itself. Frustrating.
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by steve19 10y ago
I think the debate is more Logographic vs. Alphabet, rather than Logographic vs. the Latin Alphabet. There are pros and cons. A big con with Alphabets is that words lose their meaning over times. I find reading Old English (1500 years old)
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by steve19 10y ago
Do you know what "ponce" means? It means an effeminate man. So a woman who might be wanting to start a family has the audacity to bring insect repellent with her to Brazil, and she deserves to be harassed by thousands of soccer fa
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by steve19 10y ago
The Olympics. 1. The journalists really want to travel to Rio to report on the games, so they evaluate the risks rationally and suddenly the risk does not seem so great, none of them ever plan on traveling to rural West Africa. 2. News orga
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by steve19 10y ago
Its probably because they can use alternatives like Debit Cards and PayPal. Also I am not sure if lower credit card debt means people don't have credit cards, or if they are just using them for transactions rather than accumulating deb
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by steve19 10y ago
I think the issue might be people requiring better and better products. Cost vs. utility is decreasing, but the absolute cost rises. Graphics cards are a great example. The new gtx1080 is faster, and half(?) the cost, of the previous genera
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by steve19 10y ago
But cheaper than the available stock of the tube it replaces, and more attractive with that nice aluminum base. Old Z5680M / Z568M tubes of dubious quality are selling on EBay for $200+.
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by steve19 10y ago
For the record I am STRONGLY opposed to the death penalty (for moral/religious reasons). That said, I wonder if you live in the same Texas I visit each year. The vast majority of Texans support the death penalty. A University of Texas
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by steve19 10y ago
You are correct. It is "technically only semi-arid shrub-steppe." [0] which are "Shrub-steppes are distinguishable from deserts, which are too dry to support a noticeable cover of perennial grasses or other shrubs" [1] S
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by steve19 10y ago
Disgruntled Bernie supporters seem more likely to me. While I don't agree with their methods of these hackers, the DNC was obviously colluding with HRC, and the recent hacks only show the extent. I can understand the frustration many p
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by steve19 10y ago
"When the ancient Greeks came to Europe from Egypt" As far as I know that is a fringe theory. The very early ancient Greek Minoan civilization [0] were locals. They traded with Egypt, and imported culture, which gave rise to the i
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by steve19 10y ago
I don't think that is true universally (that men prefer cats). I think it's a cultural thing. http://www.businessinsider.com.au/republicans-dog-people-dem... Where I live, it's definitely not true... or men a
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by steve19 10y ago
Who said anything about homebuilt? You have just introduced that concept. It makes no difference who makes them. Few countries make subs, but plenty of countries field them. Italy has, for example, an armed and an unarmed squadron of Predat
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by steve19 10y ago
Many countries including Italy, Turkey, China and UK. Also as another commenter said, there is little different between a drone and a cruise missile (other than reuse).
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by steve19 10y ago
Humans have a tendency to always think "it's different this time". Trucking won't disappear overnight.
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by steve19 10y ago
Is a link really pushing religion down your throat? If it was a Muslim majority country we would were discussing a link to the Quran that gives context would be useful.
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by steve19 10y ago
Patent trolls neither develop patents (or if they do it is BS maths as a process or otherwise obvious patents), nor do they use the patents themselves. They make money from licensing / extortion. Mr. Abplanalp is the opposite of a pate
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by steve19 10y ago
Seems like a good place. Ignorance is bliss. That said, it looks expensive. In my experience, nursing home care quality is correlated to cost. My grandfather died in a nursing home that resembled a palatial hotel, with lots of staff making
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by steve19 10y ago
There is no archaeological evidence, but he is mentioned in a number of books. [0] This is not unlike the Hittites, a great civilization that until recently was believed by scholars to be a Biblical myth (either not existing at all, or a ti
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by steve19 10y ago
They were equipped by the Chinese during Vietnam, and they were very well equipped by the USA in Afghanistan (the original Russian invasion). Everything the Iraq army has ended up in the hands of various resistance and terrorist groups (inc
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by steve19 10y ago
Sorry buddy, the IOC like Disney get what they want (or pay for): http://www.inta.org/TrademarkBasics/FactSheets/Pages/Protect...

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