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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
Marketing is also upping their game and masquerading their promotions as organic activity on social media. This happens to tech topics, too. As an example: about two years ago, for about a month, tech subreddits and HN were full of discussi
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
> need rare earth metals, almost all of which is mined and refined in China This is usually presented as an ace up the sleeve that China has secured through shrewd strategic thinking. In reality, rare earth metals are neither particularl
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
Is there anything preventing large players like exchanges or payment processors from adopting fractional reserves? That's effectively printing more crypto by centralized authorities.
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
> had achieved suburban middle class lives as air traffic controllers without having gone to college This sounds almost surreal in today's market. Nowadays: > Candidates typically need an associate’s or a bachelor’s degree from t
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
AstraZeneca consistently makes more than $3B in net income every year, $5B last year. EU paid 1.78€ per dose. Even if AstraZeneca loses money on every dose, let's say it costs them 20% more to produce, that's only some ~65M€ loss
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
+ for the cost of these panels and assembly/maintenance complexity, you could simply get a few extra kWh of battery, helping with range, charging speed, acceleration or regeneration
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
That's my understanding, too. On some (most?) exchanges, you're not really buying Bitcoin, you're buying a balance on that exchange - a right to withdraw or transact BTC at moment's notice. Given the amount of shady prac
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
To put things in perspective, a single Bitcoin transaction (transaction, not block), consumes roughly as much energy as driving a Tesla Model 3 from Los Angeles to New York.
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
+ focus on identifying and relieving bottlenecks
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
Obviously a personal opinion, but Ansible solves this problem really well. It does get sluggish once we're talking about more than 50 machines, though. To reliably end up with a working cluster: - spin up plain operating system VMs - s
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
I've interviewed ~50 people by now - being honest and admitting ignorance earns you minor plus points. Weaseling, dodging the questions or answering the question you wish you were asked instead of the question you were asked - those ar
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
Also, Waymo became untouchable. A lot of Google's valuation rests on pixie dust promises of transformative potential of future AI. Admitting that it won't happen anytime soon and culling Waymo would take a lot of Silicon Valley ec
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
I'd argue it's working as intended and it's the US who's the outlier. Regulations usually pop up because systems, left on their own, tend to evolve towards a spiral of undesirable social dumping and other negative outcom
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
The figure you're looking for is called 'Adjusted Household Disposable Income per capita PPP' - probably the best indicator of material standards of living there is. The word adjusted refers to the fact that in-kind transfers
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
There's also a Large Corp dynamic, where to maintain consistent user experience across the product portfolio, a common UI platform is built. The platform is then mainly driven by the requirements of the most dynamically interactive app
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
The engineering side did a great job on a complex technical task. It's satisfactory, kind of works, not great, not terrible. What boggles the mind is that nobody is able to formulate who is Stadia even meant for. Who are the target cus
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
Same whining in finance. Every loophole is ruthlessly exploited, shady tactics employed, malicious compliance or borderline fraud are commonplace. The legislature changes to address that => the actors kvetch about red tape.
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
The statistics, based on https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-how-much-uber-driv... > Uber drivers typically collect $24.77 per hour > From that, Uber takes $8.33 in commissions and fees > Vehicle expense
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
Some older Model S with 60kWh batteries also experience problems (slow acceleration, limited fast charging). The degradation is nowhere near as bad as the old Leafs, though.
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
Your first and second paragraph contradict each other. Even though Toyota doesn't offer a single BEV in their lineup, they are completely fine with the stricter emission standards. Nobody is forcing anyone to sell BEVs, what is forced
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
Barring some radical breakthrough, progress usually follow an asymptote. Waymo has reached their asymptote after perfecting their autonomous driving for over 10 years, and is still not confident enough to launch it even in their spherical-c
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
They've progressed notably in terms of total draw power and therefore battery life. Admittedly, not much of a difference when it comes to the overall system responsiveness in basic user workflows. Quoting from the article: > Ryzen 7
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
In my experience, the share of employers with culture like 'Employer 1' who pay like 'Employer 2' is much higher than the amount of all-around 'Employer 2's.
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
Pretty much every professionals' pay is proportionately lower. Doctors are paid around a 1/3 of what doctors get in the US Nurses around half Lawyers vary, but quick googling suggests it's around half to third Finance, insura
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
That's not all that uncommon in eastern Europe. I used to earn 5€/hour at my first programming gig in Slovakia. LV in the parent's post likely refers to Latvia. In fact, even in the first world countries like Italy or Spain i
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
The thing is - cars are not like computers and will never be. For most workloads a normal person performs on their computer, the hardware is ridiculously over-provisioned. Most of it is idling 90%+ of the time, the utilized portion is mostl
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
> relied extensively on extensions to implent basic features Sorry, this is a strawman. Yes, `hg shelve` is a very nice extension. But that's about the only add-on I've ever needed, while working more than 7 years on reasonably
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
The following article goes into the technical details of this phenomenon. TLDR: it's harmless, caused by an unnatural increase in volume as you move across the frequency spectrum (from great noise cancellation at low frequencies to nea
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
Like automakers in Germany, Airbus in France or Samsung in Korea, US tech sector has long been considered crown jewels and given special, lenient treatment by the regulators. However, unlike the others, instead of using this special treatme
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by throwawayzRUU6f 6y ago
I don't believe that's what the parent post meant. The state of the art climate modelling predictions output confidence intervals. If you quote the low end of the confidence interval, and claim that climate change is a manageable

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