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by throwaway90446 11y ago
I'm still trying to figure out why everyone, including Deutsche Bank, seems to think the Tesla Battery is such a great deal at $3500 for 7kwh. I can buy 18 35Ah 12v AGM batteries, plus 0 AGW conductors, for about $1350. That's
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Agreed that deflation is terrible. I hate paying lower prices for goods and services. Thankfully we have central banks to fight the scourge of lower prices.
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Could someone explain the market reaction here? When rates are lowered, it puts both competitve pressure and supply pressure on the currency. This can be seen in all historical interest rate cuts. You cut rates to weaken, and raise rates to
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
You are probably being downvoted because every single Abrahamic religion advocates violence and killing as a response to blasphemy in the basic holy texts. It's an issue of facts, not offense.
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
So basically, they are better on every possible front, and the technology has existed for a while? Yet, LWR is still the dominant design. So, what's the catch? There's clearly something preferable about Uranium LWR that causes t
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Yes. A debt crisis that the US is walking into almost exactly alike, but a decade behind. And nobody cares.
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
How adorable.
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
This isn't music, or anything like it. The article touches on the Millenials' refusal to learn anything below their chosen layer of abstraction to be a systemic risk to anything they build. It's more akin to every bridge eng
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Maybe I have a lack of imagination, but what on earth could possibly be the failure modes of floor tile?
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Because the brainwashing of Western education is that the values of the Enlightenment are the only acceptable values.
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Excellent programmers are only paid well if they have a good internal idea of their value and are able to negotiate. I've known countless great developers with terrible self-esteem and/or total inability to effectively negotiate.
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Addendum to #3: Motivation is necessary but not sufficient in software development; it is one of the professions that really does have minimum cognitive capability and working memory requirements, which current research shows to be highly n
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
I may be persuaded that the individual tasked with signing and updating the canary got drunk over the Holidays and forgot. Nobody is going to convince me that same individual went on a twenty day bender and sobered up on Christmas morning.
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Not without cause. The recent UVA scandal, the semi-recent duke lacrosse scandal, and the unconscionable number of rape convicts being exonerated and released on account of dna evidence being tested with modern methods all point to the need
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Just do vnode-based consistent hashing on the client side.
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
was perceived widely in the West Because of our propaganda. We heard all kinds of things about Russian military mobilization, conspiracy theories about who shot down the airliner, how much Putin hates gays, how horrible living conditions
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Most wells don't run at full capacity, and absolutely alter draw speeds to maximize the life and economics of a well. This is correct, but only to a point. Many producers still lease land for limited timeframes (some of them do have
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Sabotage? How, exactly? I have heard of no major corruption or performance bugs in ZFS, what am I missing?
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Unclear from their site what MagicLeap even does.
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
In both of the stories you cite, it's a case of journalists beginning with a narrative and then seeking a story to corroborate that narrative. Whether it's feel-bad narratives like "rape culture is rampant in fraternities&quo
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Unless and until our recent era of mass global travel results in a highly genetically uniform species, we will continue to have population groups that share allele groupings differently than other population groups which share different all
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Unable to reply to your other flagkilled comment, so I'll reply here. It's amusing that bringing up facts in a community ostensibly self-selected to prize discovery and reason is sufficient cause to be silenced. pg and the communi
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Physical attractiveness is not "completely subjective". There are very well established body proportions, symmetries, and other physical indicators of human attractiveness that are consistent across cultures and throughout time.
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Not sure about idyllic, but iD software started in a lakehouse in the middle of nowhere a distance out from Shreveport, LA. You don't need ready access to endless city noise, light pollution, or urban gang violence to launch a successf
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
You're probably not up to speed with the cultural expectations of the ceremony itself in the modern U.S. In terms of social signaling, an elaborate, extravagant ceremony, preceded by presentation of an outrageously expensive conflict d
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Little bit of reality for you, HN. All due respect to patio11, who has made an excellent career for himself, but outside of the usual suspects (NYC, SF, Chicago), the kind of rates he talks about will get you laughed out of almost all clien
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
I assume this is a joke? The US doesn't have mandatory data retention laws.
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
I was genuinely curious, hence my question. I did not realize HN had the requirement that all posts be run through some sort of psychic expectation filter that magically tells me the exact mental state of other people and how the post will
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
CloudFlare != CloudFront
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by throwaway90446 12y ago
Yes, CloudFlare has a full-featured DNS offering, even if you don't use their proxying services.

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