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>I don't have an exact name for it, but I can see the difference between my older neighbor and what he values in his Porsche vs what I value in my Model S. More interest in the driving experience rather than just a form of transport
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>I mean, you can't be sure they're lying. Odds are nonzero that 38 ppl were looking at that flight I suggest you click on the link, they absolutely are lying. They're using JS to generate a random number between 28 and 45.
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They're hugely popular amongst auto enthusiasts. Not only do "race shops" sell crate engines, but most OEM's sell them too. For example, here are Chevy's offerings. https://www.chevrolet.com/performa
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Interesting. From what I've read is it fair to say that you're not primarily concerned with the driving experience, but rather the convenience a Tesla provides and supporting them as a brand? I hope I'm not at all coming off
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I think a lot of it has to do with their control of the brand and subsequently the distribution, which they even acknowledged in the most recent episode. Stan was writing a movie script while a Chinese govt official was looking over his sho
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>I'd never in my life have thought I'd have bought a car > $50,000 and here I am with a AWD LR Model 3 and loving it! My other car was a 2011 Ford Fiesta. If you don't want to purchase one, don't do a test drive Wh
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>Then they're not great engineers. That's fine at the beginning, but in a long run, they need to care or they'll cause issues. What kinds of issues do you think will happen? Isn't the whole point of having devops/
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>If you don't have the incentives in place, then many people will find excuses to not commit. MOOCs are lacking those incentives. I haven't researched this, but I would guess the $6,600+ cost has more to do with the high comple
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>Blind is one of the worst. Useful for information, but super toxic for comparison Blind seems more like 4chan parading around as linkedin, and I haven't found much substance there at all. It seems like a bunch of recent college gra
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Not sure that I agree. I think said comment is more of an observation that software engineers have a larger representation here than other engineering disciplines, but this list isn't exclusively beneficial to software engineering prin
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Thanks for the list. There are a lot of great suggestions here, but I think the scope is much wider than just senior engineers for a majority of the items. Here are a few that I think are especially important for junior level engineers. • Q
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>I’m always amused when the frameworks being used advertise things like “We make coding fun!” I understand where they're coming from having dealt with a few legacy frameworkless spaghetti code bases that have no documentation. Give
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Maybe "browser" was too specific. Replace that with an "organization" and that's Mozilla. They make firefox, but they're more than just an application, they're a group of applications developers that are p
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> Nearly as disturbing as the number of people who tell me they use free VPNs. This is absolutely not an apples to apples comparison, but why is it outrageous to believe there couldn't be a free VPN that focuses on privacy when ther
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8y ago
Unless he didn't mean to use the word "stunted", I would say yes.
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>Some behaviors are instinctive, some are taught, some are the result of emotional conditioning (hence people taming and domesticating animals). You agree with me.
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>animals display species-oriented preference in their dietary range, and that for some animals this preference can be emotionally/socially based. If there is any species-oriented preferences outside of taste and availability, it
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>Dogs raised alongside cats never even try to eat them to begin with. You don't need to teach them it's not allowed. That's an absurd statement. While tempers of dogs vary from one to the next just like humans, I vehementl
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>It's not quite what you're looking for, but animals have at least been shown to exhibit preference of what species animals they will eat. Occam's razor says that most wild animals exhibit preference of what species they&#
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I don't see many people cross shopping Tesla and Kia, unless Tesla makes an extremely barebones Model 3 that is more economy car-like than the vehicles they've previously made. The Model S may not have the interior of an S Class,
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The Model 3 sits alone in its own market segment at the moment. Buyers know exactly what they want because there's literally nothing else to want without spending significantly more. The i3 is a joke, the Model S and Model X are signif
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Yes? That's the "why" of the cost, not the "why" of people willing to buy sight unseen. The latter is explained by enthusiasts when it comes to lower end cars, as I mentioned. There are plenty of higher end cars tha
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The difference between what? An enthusiast and a rich person looking to show off?
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> And the interesting thing is that 90% of buyers for cars $200k+ don't even try them out before buying. >The guess in the industry is that those people literally see an article or an ad for a new Lambo(or whatever) and they just
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You're just going to ignore the remaining 2/3 of the post where I said the following? >You could buy used equipment for a family of 5 for under $1000. Check out craigslist in some mountain towns, you can find higher end equipme
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You guys are overcomplicating things. Frameworks generally force you to structure your code a certain way. Both frameworks and libraries provided added functionality so you don't have to code it. A library will not force you to structu
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> A library is something you call from your code. A framework is something that calls your code. Libraries and frameworks do both of those things. A library is something you can call from your code, but is it not calling your code if it
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>Having a lot of disposable income helps, too. It's not that expensive unless you have to travel far enough warranting an overnight stay. I was able to afford decent equipment and lift passes from working a cashier job in high schoo
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>Today not so much because Apple hardware prices have skyrocketed. He said >I, as a consumer, would gladly pay good money to be able to use Outlook and the MS Office suite. You can do that on a Mac.
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Why not Mac? Best of both worlds.
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