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by xixi77 11y ago
And immediately follows that with an example where "four hits is no less likely to happen by chance than two hits and two misses or three hits and one miss" (perhaps if he said "two hits followed by two misses", but that
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by xixi77 11y ago
It's a pretty cool vehicle, but with the $3MM price tag I'm not sure how suitable it is for an infantry carrier... But I agree, this type of vehicles are surely going to get more common.
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by xixi77 11y ago
= One of the most interesting cold war AFVs was an M113 chassis with a cherry picker and 15 TOW missiles on it. Armor is nice, but a hill is even nicer. = Interesting, never heard of that one! Any links by any chance? I would be curious to
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by xixi77 11y ago
= What I've read is that many units stopped using tracers altogether on pure fighters because their different ballistics at long range meant that they were not useful. = You mean stopped using tracers against fighter aircraft, or stopp
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by xixi77 11y ago
Thanks for noting Musk's clarification, this did leave me confused for a moment. The difference between what they are trying to do is indeed quite huge. I feel still a bit unclear on this though: hasn't SpaceX been trying to land
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by xixi77 11y ago
There's always been the third kind, those that would take action to change their surroundings -- either directly, or by surrounding themselves with like-minded people. At least the second method seems to have become much easier with th
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by xixi77 11y ago
There are all kinds of ideologies on the internet; the outrage cycle is annoying but I'm not sure it's consequential -- after all, it only matters for those who care about the opinion of the currently outraged or are otherwise aff
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by xixi77 11y ago
"I love the access it gives me to all sorts of information, and how it connects me with people I would have never been able to hear from before. I hate how it also contains spaces for people to easily gather to abuse and harass people.
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by xixi77 11y ago
civil asset forfeiture is getting there, though. What good is access to courts, if a conviction in that court is not needed to confiscate your property? After all, the Soviet block had courts too...
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by xixi77 11y ago
What about range and recharging speed though? I would imagine hydrogen would have an advantage there...
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by xixi77 11y ago
Some independence is a good thing as insurance for the case of a trade (or actual) war and such, but beyond that, there is little reason to pursue it -- after all the most independent nation out there is probably north korea :)
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by xixi77 11y ago
yeah, it's definitely a commodity. but same can be said about other speculative commodities such as gold or silver, and they've been used as currencies (ok, not quite, but close enough) for thousands of years :) not to mention tha
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by xixi77 11y ago
Since this is about an amount of $100m, I'd say the above suggestion (theoretically) offers much more protection than FDIC, which only covers losses up to $250k iirc... I suspect that at the moment it may be more difficult to find an i
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by xixi77 11y ago
This is awesome, and I really hope more companies do this. I wonder though: from the few reviews I've looked at, it seems that the main complaint is that the cable does not identify itself as a legacy connector, and can result in the d
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by xixi77 11y ago
"Each unit lost to commercial short-term renting costs the city somewhere between $250,000 and $300,000 a piece"?!?! This makes absolutely no sense to me, and the linked slides don't make it any clearer.
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Apple made the iPhone 6s nearly waterproof and didn't tell anyone(engadget.com)
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by xixi77 11y ago
Regarding battery life TSMC vs. Samsung chips, the link given in the other article ( http://browser.primatelabs.com/battery3/search?dir=desc&page... ) seems quite conclusive -- sorting by score, ratings in both 6s+ a
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by xixi77 11y ago
Seriously, I do not need to read up on this, I was there. But one does not really need to have first-hand experience to see the deliberate deception in klein's "shock doctrine" and the like: for example, different countries i
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by xixi77 11y ago
I would not use words "poor execution" to describe a process that achieved its exact intended effect. Nor does it have anything whatsoever to do with any American economic advisors. It only looks like a failure if we assume that t
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by xixi77 11y ago
You are grossly overstating the influence of the "us economic advice", which was zero. The mafioso oligarchs needed and used none of it.
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by xixi77 11y ago
Well, if you actually look at the article, they, for example, find a statistically significant 7% drop in robberies (with up to 27% in a specific hour).
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by xixi77 11y ago
Well, (1) it's an easy way to solve the coordination problem, and (2) is MUCH lower cost through having to update every single instance where a person or organization's working hours are mentioned :)
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by xixi77 11y ago
It does make sense though. I would love for everyone to change typical working hours to 6 to 3 instead of the current 8 to 5, but it seems unlikely. Perhaps I'm subjective here -- but really, how often do you hear people complain about
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by xixi77 11y ago
Care to explain why?
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by xixi77 11y ago
Historically, all such "carrying capacity" estimates have been shown wrong. What makes you believe the 7.7 one is any better?
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by xixi77 11y ago
This is all true; I kinda wonder what prevents dealers from doing this with used and "certified pre-owned" vehicles...
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by xixi77 11y ago
Aren't Apple stores owned by Apple though? If they are, when you go to an Apple store to look at things and then buy online, the store owner (Apple) is still happy because it's getting paid just the same.
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by xixi77 11y ago
I would certainly not buy a laptop sight unseen -- you can't really evaluate things like how the keyboard/pointer device/etc. feel from a picture, or how the screen looks in sunlight, or if that 0.1" width reduction is w
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by xixi77 11y ago
The question is, how do you know how much is to be gained, unless you try? Just because you see most customers being on high speed connections most of the time doesn't mean much: for one, it could be because otherwise it's so bad
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by xixi77 11y ago
I am in Chicago, and it is not uncommon to see the connection (AT&T in this case) drop all the way to Edge inside buildings.

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