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How does your car insurance treat the vehicle in terms of replacement cost? Does the low FMV predominate, or the high sticker price and high cost of repairs? We've looked at doing …

> Leasing my Mach-E was the right thing, and more are doing it. Leasing made up over 35% of new EV financing in the first quarter of 2024, up significantly from 12% in 2023, accord…

I've had Siri call people randomly when I didn't even say hey Siri. It called someone I hadn't talked to in years.

This can't come soon enough. Apple has made Siri dumber over the years. I used to be able to say "Hey Siri, play Overcast" and it would play my podcasts. Now it says "I don't see a…

But how can you tell that the chlorine has been depleted by doing its job?

> According to Brian Spear, whose company handled the chemical filtration of the pools used for U.S. Olympic Swim Trials, the potent smell associated with swimming pools is the byp…

Interesting. I have noticed that my most-upvoted comments relate to legal questions, which I have relatively more expertise than most HNers (I used to be a lawyer). Although I'm no…

I guess it gives them leverage vis a vis Google? I like that it tells me what lane to be in, so it's my main mapping app. Also presumably better privacy than Google Maps.

Yes, earnouts can help bridge a valuation gap — and if the buyer is reasonable/kind, then they can create a win-win scenario. The question is whether a seller can accurately identi…

I used to be a lawyer in SV, and whenever my lawyer friends talk about earnouts, it's always in the context of what a bad deal they are for founders. Basically, they take a lot of …

Put simply: it would require a constitutional amendment, and those are hard to come by. The Constitution only sets a minimum age for offices — no maximum ages.

True, but the landed gentry (who were the only people that might end up as President) lived to be considerably older.

That would presumably already be against the law in many jurisdictions (cities, suburbs), so there wouldn't need to be an additional law to cover the situation where you're shootin…

There has to be a recognition of: • size of target • souls on board • possibility of intrusion/spying • type of projectile used A 747 is huge, filled with people, and is not spying…

> The Federal Aviation Administration punishes any shots fired at drones with the same weight as if you’d opened fire on a Boeing full of passengers. Shooting at any aircraft is ch…

> “I’ve actually run out of space,” Jacobsohn says. “I have 30 boxes in the attic. My wife wants to build an extra room on the house.” My guess is she'd actually like for him to st…

There may well be tiers like on NFLX, where some are ad-sponsored and some are not. But seeing as how rapidly the free/open models catch up to prior-generation proprietary models, …

Won't people who hate ads just choose to cut out the middleman and use 4o mini on their own?

Presumably this wouldn't work in areas that flood, but Fresno isn't one of them. I also wondered about earthquakes, which are a risk in some parts of CA.

I'm on PG&E, so we've been paying more for a while now, and with PSPS outages for the last few years to boot.