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110,919karma·51,749submissions·October 26, 2011
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"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
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God forbid you have to copy the boarding pass while covering the SSSS with a white piece of paper =) Kidding; I've gotten the SSSS before. No fun at all.
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#shutupandtakemymoney Thank you for your hard work.
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Bandwidth =! total data transfer
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Not if I want the artist to get the music; thats what shows are for. Most of the money from online purchases go to the label.
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They better get used to $10/month vs $0 when consumers go to The Pirate Bay instead.
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Small quibble: You can also use Fedex Same Day service to get something on an airplane NOW at a much lower cost than custom critical.
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Because using 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 is less friction than having to a) setup DNS server IPs and then b) having to configure NXDOMAIN proper behavior. Isn't "friction" what all the startup folks are talk…
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Sendmail doesn't work if you're serving up your site statically from S3. Then again, their pricing is so ridiculous, its cheaper to just POST the email message via REST to a service to send the mail (…
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Tesla will have you sign a waiver: "We have the right to track your vehicle location in the event you're about to kill your $40K battery." I don't know anybody in their right mind who would say no to …
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As a Model S reservation holder, it pegs my pocketbook meter. If I'm about to lose $40K on my car because of a battery, I have no problem with them showing up in my driveway to charge the vehicle if n…
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Sounds like a design failure with what little transmission the roadster has, at least with the parking prawl not having some sort of mechanical deactivation. Elon has a bit more work to do.
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Class action my ass; OnStar can kill a car remotely whether you have the service or not. Why would I be shocked my $109K luxury electric sports car can report its location back with the rest of its re…
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Its not a solution if I have to go write the multi-platform clients myself. Dropbox > Skydrive
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Launch app; app determines location; counter appears asking how many passengers (up/down arrows); push confirm, vehicle dispatched.
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You can also use the waste heat from a nuclear generation facility to desalinate water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination "In a December 26, 2007, opinion column in the The Atlanta Journal-C…
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How is Tesla getting around franchising laws?
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This. I HATE the automated checkout lines, even though I love technology for the most part. In this case, the human wins over the metal.
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Even with multi-engine they can't run over water for the certification?
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There are solutions such that you describe, but they're FUSE filesystems for Linux, not full blown GUIs for OS X and Windows. JungleDisk uses the server functionality for maintaing state.
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Because the JungleDisk solution is clunky. You're either going to use Dropbox if you're a casual user or use a Linux filesystem in user space to interface to S3. JungleDisk is the purgatory no one wan…
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I live in Chicago. I had no problem putting $5K down on a Model S. Its good enough for my needs. If I'm traveling more than 300 miles in a day, I'm renting a car or flying.
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Doesn't backup my files on my SD card and sync with my other devices (Macbook, etc) like Dropbox does.
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I wonder if I can turn my Model S deposit into a Model X deposit after tonight.
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If anything, I would tax capital gains at 30%-40% while taxing ordinary income at 15%. Actual labor has more utility than raw capital.
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When I was at FNAL on the USCMS data team, we were able to take data from the LHC at ~40Gbps over an optical link and write it out just fine to spinning disk (which would hold it until we could shove …
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Less recurring, but still recurring. Those tapes wear out eventually.
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I've seen the tech side work. I worked at Fermilab on the USCMS side of the LHC for data taking; we had 5PB of spinning disk and tens of PB of tape in large automated tape silos with robotic arms on t…
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Yes. If I could pay $10/TB/month, request a list of files via API, and be notified via webhook when I could retrieve them (and therefore, retrieve them while they're cached on spinning media for 24 ho…
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Suggestion: Add a notify-on-failure attribute to cron jobs. If cron fails, notify via email or SMS.
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I would pay $0.10 per X cron requests (a la AWS pricing). $1/cron? Above $10-20/month, I'd just write it myself.