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by nonchalance 13y ago
> If you're already fat, you're pretty much fucked. That's not true, and that's a mentality that justifies self-destructive behavior. I used to be overweight but turned it around a few years ago, and in my case it bo
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by nonchalance 13y ago
69% of statistics are made up on the spot :P The quoted number is plausible insofar as many vendors offer free shipping with purchases over $X
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by nonchalance 13y ago
The monthly fee makes it unappealing for small volume customers, and the per-transaction fee makes it unappealing for large volume customers. I'm guessing there's some intermediate range, when you are negotiating the final deal,
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted. A perfectly reasonable growth strategy would be to limit API requests for applications based on a free plan (and progressively increase the limit based on the plan chosen)
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by nonchalance 13y ago
> In order to register for the developer program, you must be on a paid plan.
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In-Browser Excel File Parser(oss.sheetjs.com)
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by nonchalance 13y ago
If they really did create two sets of disk images based on presence of Firefox, Dell could argue that the price is not for the software but for other differences between the disk images. Note that I'm not arguing about the spirit of th
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by nonchalance 13y ago
.. or that IE comes with Windows and Google pays to include Chrome in Dell computers. For example, here's a 2009 note involving Sony: http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/sony-defaults...
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by nonchalance 13y ago
It hasn't been ruled a suicide, according to WSJ: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/27/american-ceo-of-singa... > “I was informed by the Singapore police about her death,” Abrams told The Wall
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by nonchalance 13y ago
relevant: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
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by nonchalance 13y ago
I think there's a different force at play here: When the software comes with the computer, you can turn around and complain to Dell about the software. There is someone you can call, and generally it's rolled into the phone suppo
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by nonchalance 13y ago
The problem is that Mozilla's policy applies to distribution but not necessarily to installation. Since this is a legal issue, the details are very important. In this case, the process of ensuring that a functioning version of Firefox
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by nonchalance 13y ago
> Dell has responded saying that this practice is okay because the company is charging for the service and not the product.
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by nonchalance 13y ago
It's about future likelihood, not prior probability, and the fact that an issue was discovered means that the likelihood is much higher than if it were some isolated incidents. To put it differently, if it were entirely random, the pre
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by nonchalance 13y ago
I brought up the same point last week ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6703967 ) and the Model S appears to be 25x more likely to catch on fire: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6704111
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by nonchalance 13y ago
You aren't looking at the whole picture. In fault states, the insurance company would have to pay out to the other party in the case of an accident. That money needs to come from somewhere, namely the premiums, which is why they go u
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by nonchalance 13y ago
That logic makes sense if you assume the only incidents are single-car. When this happens near other cars and is deemed to be the factor behind a multi-car accident, the insurance company still has to pay out for the other participants (un
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by nonchalance 13y ago
> Unfortunately, they love "the fall of the guy" even more. Tesla went out of their way to flaunt the safety features of the car, alleging a 5.4 NHTSA score when the agency explicitly said that they don't issue scores that
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Once an open source project has enough traction, there is generally little need for outside donations (as companies that use the product will hire people that focus on using and improving the product). The challenge is making that cross-ov
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Strictly speaking, it's a community blog post. The author, Touchpoint, probably paid BOA to put the post up there: https://smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com/peopl... I guess we've found the next forb
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by nonchalance 13y ago
The first 3 digits of a zip code represent the sectional center facility code, the smallest of which is 005. One would assume that 00501 is the smallest zip code (which apparently maps to HOLTSVILLE NY ) http://pe.usps.com/
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by nonchalance 13y ago
The old-school way (cronjob + tarball) works well. A modern alternative is only allow a bot to write to the central repo. As an example, the rust guys use a bot: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/10403
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by nonchalance 13y ago
I'd argue that, since the comment regards valid input, the note should appear at the top.
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by nonchalance 13y ago
> it was only supposed to pre-pend one or two zeros when importing zip codes from CSV files. Anything with fewer than three digits is supposed to be an invalid code The true problem here lies with the poor choice of function name on the
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by nonchalance 13y ago
> old Subaru Justy whose floor pan had been rusting for years Now, if Tesla S floor pans never rust, then I'd agree with your conclusion.
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by nonchalance 13y ago
This was noted two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6692051 This is a general trend though: Tesla's overreach regarding the NHTSA rating was on the front page for more than a day, whereas NHTSA's sta
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by nonchalance 13y ago
When Tesla does it, it's lauded as bold; but when the same thing is done by Steve Jobs (antennagate), it's derided
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by nonchalance 13y ago
I'd point out that those innuendos are based on manipulative statistics: the standard is comparing the rate of car fires, but most of those 250 million cars are far older than Tesla Model S (decades as opposed to months old). A proper
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Amusing how positive stories about tesla take the top spot on HN while news of the fire was quickly flagged off the front page. Not to question what was said here, but: > Had I not been in a Tesla, that object could have punched through
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by nonchalance 13y ago
Does Indiegogo have a shot at unseating Kickstarter (or do they engage in the same tactics)?

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