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by wooster 15y ago
the tesla.com link you give is to a program they are hoping to implement in the future That link is from 2008. At least in Europe, the program has been implemented: http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-launch...
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by wooster 15y ago
The high end Mercedes luxury sedan is the S-class, for which the low end price paid is about $90,000.
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by wooster 15y ago
not including the $1000 or so fees for disposing of the toxic waste (lithium batteries are not accepted at the dump) Not in the US, at least according to the info I can find: "Lithium Ion batteries are classified by the
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by wooster 15y ago
I'm guessing the third party services are for data hosting, and the data center does CPU and database intensive processing.
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by wooster 15y ago
That said, I would never invest in Groupon, simply because I don't use the product ever. Indeed. I tend not to invest in things I don't understand. I've never understood the appeal of most of the deals on Groupon and have never b
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by wooster 15y ago
Stomach cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer in Korea. Here's a map of the death rate, which doesn't necessarily correspond to the cancer rate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stomach_cancer_world_map_-... And an article on salty
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by wooster 15y ago
The heated water is tempered with cold sea water so it's closer to the temperature of the gulf when returned. This prevents a hot water plume at the outlet, which can cause environmental problems.
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by wooster 15y ago
This comment thread, both here and on the blog post, is the best example of stop energy being directed at forward motion I've seen in a long, long time: http://www.userland.com/whatIsStopEnergy Kudos to unconed for doing something remarka
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by wooster 15y ago
You don't seem to have read the article. The search: ["a superb app for iPad and iPhone that lets you quickly and easily transfer photos and videos between iOS devices and computers – has been updated this week, to Version 2.3."] returned r
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by wooster 15y ago
There's no requirement for the sitemap to be at /sitemap.xml, or even to be named "sitemap.xml". They may have one, but since the norm is to submit them directly to a search engine (thanks for nothing, Google), sitemaps aren't typically aut
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by wooster 15y ago
I was on a team once at Apple with ~15 people on it. At one point, we found out the equivalent group at Microsoft had ~500 people. Most people I've talked to who worked elsewhere are shocked at how small the teams at Apple are.
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by wooster 15y ago
It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. That said, yeah, it doesn't increase odds of a robbery to give press tours. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/12/08/ocean... http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/11/
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by wooster 16y ago
Yes, depending on where you live. I lived in one of the newer subdivisions for a few years, and it was fine.
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by wooster 16y ago
The CIA claims the Soviets were working from a rejected Shuttle design provided as part of an engineering misinformation campaign: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
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by wooster 16y ago
Some brief background… Google Map Maker is a map crowd-sourcing project which was originally targeted at countries with poor commercial map coverage. It produces a closed end product [0]. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a map crowd-sourcing project
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by wooster 16y ago
That "vast %" was in some grants, not over the whole fund: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41221202/ns/health-health_care/ Your comment, as it stands, makes it sound like Bono is siphoning off funds, which doesn't appear to be true from the e
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by wooster 16y ago
It's funny how people who haven't built similar systems underestimate how difficult it is, Mr/Mrs Anonymous Internet Tough Person. Phone companies and financial institutions don't typically have messages which affect millions of accounts, f
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by wooster 16y ago
At the last BigCo I worked at, we would call our HR reps who did phone screens recruiters. We had no outside recruiters. Otherwise, this "someone is wrong on the Internet" stuff that just takes up space on comment threads on HN has gotten w
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by wooster 16y ago
I'd just like to point out that the phrase "skinny dipping" originated in America. We also shake hands with strangers. So, at the least, the getting naked and touching claims are questionable.
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by wooster 16y ago
In a civil trial, sure, but when the evidence unveiled in discovery could result in criminal charges, I'd think the 5th Amendment would come into play. In any case, it'd get complicated quickly.
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Biplist by Hello, Chair - Binary plist parser/generator in Python(explorapp.com)
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Part of the US antitrust settlement with Microsoft required Microsoft to disclose private APIs used in middleware and to document protocols used by its software. iBooks uses private APIs (especially in WebCore and WebKit), which Apple speci
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by wooster 16y ago
You're presupposing (jokingly, of course) allegorical meaning behind the work, which Tolkien explicitly rejected. Middle Earth was meant as a foundational myth of the British Isles. A sort of stand-in for the real history. A modern-day Beow
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by wooster 16y ago
It's unlikely they'd infringe on Tolkien's copyrights, at least in the US: Tolkien was re-editing because in that year, Ace Books in the United States published an unauthorised edition. The Fellowship came out in May 1965, the oth
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by wooster 16y ago
That's funny. We'd tell people we worked for a fruit company in Cupertino.
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Better discussion here, IMO: http://research.swtch.com/2010/03/utf-8-bits-bytes-and-benef...
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by wooster 16y ago
Searching Ngram viewer for "killer app" says maybe: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=killer+app It's hard to establish a causal relationship though. Most of the uses of "app" prior to that were shortened versions of "application
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by wooster 16y ago
As one of those single founders you hear about struggling to make things work from within their apartment or the local coffee shops: that story is overrated. It's all about the business, and the $150k investment which was offered today is a
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by wooster 16y ago
This was also on here awhile ago, with some interesting discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=477046
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by wooster 16y ago
Driving through Gilroy, I had someone light up my car repeatedly from behind with a high power laser. They must've been in another car, heading in the same direction. So, it's not just pilots. If they'd done it from the front, or got a luck

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