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by vl 7y ago
I’m going to buy Model 3 Performance, but I’m still going to keep my M3, because, guess what, unlike gas stations, there are no supercharges next to the racetracks. So going for a track day in Model 3 is a really tricky proposition.
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by vl 7y ago
M2 Competition, while overpriced (like all BMWs), is universally beloved by owners.
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by vl 7y ago
How is this an achievement? I drove from London to Edinburgh with no stops for fuel in a diesel car. Hybrid presumably should do better.
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by vl 7y ago
There is historic reason for this : all carriers and phone makers see messaging experience as critical and want to control it themselves. Google didn't have enough pull to make messaging mandatory part of default google apps bundle. Th
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by vl 7y ago
My exact sentiment about The Game of Thrones.
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KLM to fund the design of radical new “Flying-V” aircraft(aerotime.aero)
3 points by vl 7y ago|0 comments
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by vl 7y ago
This is the exception though, you caught the end of the tail. People joining Google now are not going to experience this. Moreover to be in the situation you described even in the given time frame one had to be fortunate to be on the "
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by vl 7y ago
It's completely different mode of failure - when part of search is down somewhere, it's just routed to the same service in other location. If part of the GCP is down anywhere, some customers are affected. Since original Google inf
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by vl 7y ago
If it's true, it will be one of the biggest medical breakthroughs! Shifts like this happen and lead to huge difference in people's lives. Now mostly forgotten, but it was believed that ulcers are caused by stress and food and not
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by vl 7y ago
I have no idea what my Uber rating is, who do you even know?
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Amazon Is Poised to Unleash a Purge of Small Wholesale Suppliers(bloomberg.com)
164 points by vl 7y ago|161 comments
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by vl 7y ago
Traditional autopilot is a fancy cruise control for the airplane, so name is actually pretty apt.
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by vl 7y ago
If we ever saw a successful CIA operation this is it. I bet in twenty years we'll be reading how it was all organized.
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by vl 7y ago
Modern multi-stage Furnaces/ACs/heat pumps need intelligent thermostats to control them in the first place. When there is more control needed than simply on/off, if used with dumb thermostat (or, ironically, Nest) modern equi
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by vl 7y ago
This is huge organization, assuming that something coherent is going on is unwarranted. Most likely people who made decision to deny didn’t even know about indicator not being installed By default in the first place.
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by vl 7y ago
>after being told not to-- would put their nondescript FOB security key card in their wallet. But what specifically are they supposed to do with the security key card? What mode of securing and transportation do you envision?
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by vl 7y ago
Ironically, one google search away: there is a surreal leaked video of company-wide meeting after Trump Election: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-googl... Google's response: &
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by vl 8y ago
Schmidt's involvement with US's politics is strange, especially for the business leader: he met with Assange, he went to North Korea. There was a hilarious moment at the company meeting when rank-and-file learned from the news tha
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by vl 8y ago
Another thing is jitter. By design flying satellites are going to create jitter, and even with good latency, it can be bad for stable video streaming, video calls, etc.
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by vl 8y ago
"Never" is an overstatement, since both Rome and Greece had some forms of democracy.
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by vl 8y ago
Around 40 you realize that you'll die relatively soon, so a lot of things come into perspective and stop worry you. Yolo attitude helps to live happier.
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by vl 8y ago
It justifies telescopes on the really high orbit, but not on the Moon: unless telescope is manufactured on the Moon, logistics of flying large telescope there and safely landing it are so complex, that it’s way easier to leave in Earth’s or
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by vl 8y ago
Yes and no. Compiler is checked in with the (Windows) source code and is periodically updated/patched as project goes along. When SDK or DDK is released, it's the same compiler at some specific version.
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by vl 8y ago
She was pushed out for her support of the DOD deal. Once she made this “mistake in judgement” the writing was on the wall.
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by vl 8y ago
Even better question if currently well-known leaked video of US gunship firing and killing children among others and now hosted on YouTube should be taken down. How YouTube and Facebook should know which videos to take down?
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by vl 8y ago
This is not a best way to compare it: brain neurons do orders of magnitudes less operations per second. Current Google's TPU clusters are 10 petaflops, with new ones being 1 exoflops. We can estimate 100Hz frequency for brain, so 100 *
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by vl 8y ago
What is FIRE?
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by vl 8y ago
I use my old iPhone as secondary phone. Dual SIM, while attractive, doesn't work for this scenario (loosing primary phone). I'm looking at Ting as primary contender for secondary SIM, but was hoping to see more suggestions. :)
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Ask HN: Provider for Secondary Phone?
1 points by vl 8y ago|2 comments
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by vl 8y ago
Warby Parkers are cheaply designed: nose pads are not affixed with screws, and thus are prone to being lost. Most (all?) hinges are rigid, without spring suspension. It’s kind of ridiculous for these prices (compare with Zenni and Costco).

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