orourkek

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by orourkek 2y ago
Hyundai might have some great EV offerings that are cheaper, but Rivian does not have anything even close in terms of price, unless you only consider Plaid models. You can get a used model 3 for $20k now, which is good value if you put asid
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by orourkek 2y ago
> if you are in a miles country no one is converting it to km or vice versa My relatives & friends visiting from Europe often appreciate knowing such values in km/C. There are various other reasons to want to do the conversions
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by orourkek 4y ago
"Smart" TVs seem to fall into the same category. Manufacturers realized they can make much more money and hit a (much) lower price point by packaging telemetry and using/selling the data. Nowadays "dumb" TVs either
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by orourkek 5y ago
> Taking badges out of the cloud reduces points of failure by several orders of magnitude. I'm not convinced that's true, or at least certainly not an order of magnitude. Wouldn't a badge system hosted on-prem also need a
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by orourkek 5y ago
This is already a feature! https://youtu.be/zqG6AAZ5JvA?t=84
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by orourkek 5y ago
> This is what everyone in this thread seems to be missing. Google is exactly as useful to me as it was 25 years ago, in fact much more so in fact by way of several orders of magnitude more information being available on the web. > Ab
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by orourkek 5y ago
While you're correct for 2/3 words, "billionaire" is the fifth word in the article: > Joe Liemandt is the billionaire founder and CEO of Trilogy Software and ESW Capital
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by orourkek 5y ago
Not entirely true. From the article: > The Federal Reserve's easy money policies have also kept mortgage rates near historic lows, pushing up demand for housing That said, I agree with your sentiment more than the article's red
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by orourkek 5y ago
For that figure to be true you would have to ignore the requirement that you maintain awareness and control of the vehicle at all times. Autopilot !== FSD. Your car did not "drive itself," you were in control of the car 100% of th
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by orourkek 9y ago
Personally, my sell threshold is when my BTC is worth enough (after CG taxes) to pay off my student loans. Given the latest price increases, it's getting very close :)
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by orourkek 10y ago
> But look at the last 15 years of foreign policy from "statesmen". We had two wars, Obama missed seeing the rise of ISIS, Syria is a humanitarian nightmare, we had a huge financial crash, and terrorism is on the rise. There ar
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by orourkek 10y ago
Valid points, but the i3 still has a niche in the market in that it's the only series-hybrid offering out there. For certain buyers that's enough to tip the needle, 200 mile range competitors or not.
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by orourkek 10y ago
I see the current crop of "half-assed hybrid cars" as a necessary step on the road to EV market acceptance; Public charging infrastructure is not at an acceptable level for the average consumer, so automakers found a way to capita
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by orourkek 13y ago
FYI, you can change some settings for google ads[1] so that you're not shown targeted ads at all (for example). You can also block ads to have them and related ads never be shown again. [1] https://www.google.com/ads&#x
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by orourkek 13y ago
I fail to see how them building a photo organizer app has any relevance in his wish for a security minded email application. Sure, the company might know what they're doing, but nowhere in the introduction video did they discuss security -
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by orourkek 14y ago
Great point. But speaking from experience, if you're using Us-East exclusively, you're [eventually] gonna have a bad time anyways...
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by orourkek 14y ago
> So she should apologize because someone was offensive, got outed for it, and their employer felt that was reason enough to can them? No. What he said was: > I do not believe it would have been out of line for Adria to have said so
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by orourkek 14y ago
It's more of a plot hole than fan-fiction. The article is an exhaustive look at provable (written) arguments that can refute the eagles as a possibile solution to the Mordor trip. The author is trying to prove that the plot hole is, in fact
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by orourkek 14y ago
I agree, but the author's note about the Council of Elrond is extremely convincing. If Tolkien wanted to strike this plan as a possibility, he could easily have added 1-2 lines into the Council talks where they discuss (and refute) every pl
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by orourkek 14y ago
Given that the people in question are there for just days/weeks per year, their "use" of the services seems in line with the taxes they pay. Without knowing specific numbers it's hard to get exact math, but if someone pays property tax on a
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by orourkek 14y ago
I wasn't sure of this, so I looked it up: http://cms.givingpledge.org/#larry_ellison The full letter is an interesting read
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by orourkek 14y ago
Even if they do understate the issue, It's limited to US-EAST 1, and is an EBS issue. Saying that EC2 is "down" because of this is totally off the mark - I've got dozens of EBS volmes in EAST 1 that are unaffected, plus all of the other zon
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by orourkek 14y ago
It's degraded performance for some EBS volumes in a single availability zone - isn't this title a bit sensationalistic?
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by orourkek 14y ago
> the merchant's customers are probably classified as the users. I believe his subdivision of "customers" into "sellers" and "buyers" was to solve that issue - "sellers" are the merchants, and "buyers" and the sellers' customers. It all