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by wklauss 9y ago
Or it might hit 5k...
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>However, on one front they're incredibly bad. Renewables are usually just that : a piece of infrastructure that needs to be built and needs no fuel beyond it's environment. > In other words it's capital investment taki
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no more than coal or oil.
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They need to ve very conservative in the statements and err on the side of caution. It's better for people to find out is not as bad as they thought than to find out it's worse than they thought.
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No evidence has been given to sustain this claim other than the usual collection of videos and photos with artifacts that can be easily explained as natural phenomena, weather balloon, foreign experimental aircraft or -more embarrassing- a
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> The Surface Studio is a better iMac than the iMac I'd argue that is a different iMac than the iMac. The Studio is not what the iMac aspires to be. The Studio is a very expensive all-in-one tailored to a very specific few use cases
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> Why wouldn't they just have a blue check for "identity verified" and a green check for "Valued Community Member". Because then we will be having this same conversation about Twitter mismanagement of green check
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> Yes, but the Stoics weren't "primitive" really They weren't that many either. Most of their greek / roman peers were still in the dark about common ailments and diseases, and resorted to all kinds of superstiti
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> Sure. I'm talking about universal adoption because the article is ("take over the world") Once you reach a critical mass of users, taking over the world will be inevitable, even with some of the inconveniences. Finding a
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> Is it not possible for the modern man to accept the drawbacks of modern life, including loneliness, just as stoically as the primitive man was accepting adversity and death? Primitive men weren't stoic. We attribute that quality t
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Have they suggested they'll do such a thing? I'm pretty sure that will never be the case. And if for some reason they do, change platforms then.
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Probably the same pretty much anywhere in the world. I have a hard time imagining a kid asking an adult for help and the adult refusing, even if it's a stranger.
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> There's a really, really easy solution here: don't buy an iPhone X. Or buy one if you want one and use an alphanumeric passcode if you don't like biometrics.
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It is important to take into consideration that this is not a typical day in the city. Some of the pedestrian were aware that the movie was being filmed and traffic flow was actually staged (there weren't that many cars on the streets
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It's only a matter of time before you start seeing ham cured in the same fashion but produced in other countries. US is now starting to have local production in Virginia and Texas (it takes between 2 and 3 years for a good leg of jamón
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by wklauss 9y ago
> increase production Maybe, but it's a risky bet. It takes years to cure a leg of good jamón ibérico and China is buying more today, but also investing in curing its own using the same methods and pig breeds. Same goes for the US.
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> It's bound to make the wrong face at least sometimes. I'm guessing you can cancel and try again before sending it in that case.
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I'd argue that this is even worse than the misplaced prototype. This leak confirms much of the speculation around the design of the new phone but also gives away new information about the software it will use (animojis, faceID) plus th
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by wklauss 9y ago
A lot of negativity in the comments of this article here in HN but I feel exactly the same. Tasty recipes have tremendous value because they show that cooking can be easy, that most of the time recipes are just guidelines (with the exceptio
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Oh yes, you are right on the usage of the screen. I only use spoken directions while driving and those work fine, but right now Carplay only allows audio apps.
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> So you can't use Google Maps in CarPlay Of course you can use Google Maps in Carplay. Just make sure you have location and background refresh enabled for the app and open it. It's that simple.
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It's not about quality. They're comparable for all intent and purposes. The key here is quantity. They make A LOT of them and it will take other battery manufacturers a lot of capital and time to expand production. Tesla has secur
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That is not how R&D works. There's no direct correlation between money invested vs. results obtained. You need time and a long term vision. They can start working today in hopes to catch up later but it won't be fast.
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> There was not real innovation for ages, as auto companies only did minimum to keep their profits. I wouldn't say that. ICE has improved a lot in the last 50 years and so have other elements of a car, from structural integrity to
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> We have evidence for both IIII and IV notation in classic roman archeological finds. The article doesn't say subtractive notation was not used in classic roman times, it says only that it was rare.
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> Cash will never die. I wouldn't say never. It can be marginalized to the point that it becomes annoying for vendors to rely on it and all you need is a little bit of regulatory push to stop cash. By then, most shoppers would not c
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What will be the most likely scenario now? will we see this piece drift away and melt? stay relatively close to the current area? and if it will start drifting, how far can it go with such an impressive amount of ice?
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> These types of robots prove this will not be the result and what will be the result is massive unemployment Massive unemployment for certain jobs is unavoidable at this point. Serves no purpose to condemn workers for several decades to
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> who pays the costs for australian emissions *: > - people living in australia -- 0.3% of emissions > - people living in world excluding australia -- 99.7% of emissions Not that straightforward. Effects of emissions is global,
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This machine would have been designed regardless of minimum wage salary.

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