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How does this tighten the lock in?

> http://pool.ntp.org/ takes me to an "It works!" default Apache 2 page for an Ubuntu installation. As the comment in the issue describes, http://pool.ntp.org/ takes you to a rando…

Those go to the same place for me

>there's a difference between "www.example.com" and "example.com" Can you link to a site where these two are different?

>Tesla suck around and made electric cars cool and economically viable while the industry had it's backs turned This isn't really accurate. Nissan and GM both had electric cars 20 …

Plus you have to look at the total operating cost. Electric cars need basically no maintenance while ICEs you have oil changes and brake changes plus a more complicated engine.

>They have absolutely changed the direction of television in pretty much all respects, from release cycle, to delivery to even marketing. A lot of this is the classic play of using…

This is a rare case where the insurance company is entirely blameless. According to the article, they paid much more than what experts say is reasonable for the care provided.

You pick back and forth though, right? How does one screw up the draft so badly as to have only 10% chance of winning?

>Many games are draft wins, i.e. a >90% chance of winning solely due to the heroes you've picked. Can you explain?

Amazon Whole Foods delivery is the worst offender in this area. You finish your order and on the confirmation screen they add a tiny little line item for a preselected 10% tip. Sud…

Whole Foods allowed Amazon to move into grocery delivery much quicker and bigger than they would have otherwise. That purchase made a lot of sense because even though Whole Foods i…

It will have an impact, no doubt, but probably more like a few points higher inflation than a total crash. Either way, the point is that owing money in a currency you control is va…

Not an exam but: >An event in Dantzig's life became the origin of a famous story in 1939, while he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley. Near the beginning of a class for which Da…

The US owes China gazillion dollars. Not a gazillion dollars in services and stuff. That's a huge difference because at any point the US can create a gazillion dollars for virtuall…

Right, and my point is that you essentially can't. For my address the best you could do is narrow it down to ~30 or so homes that share the same first digit as my address. For this…

Finding a location by IP address is not always reliable. The first result when googling my IP address yields a city 1,000 miles away (other results have the correct city). Then, kn…

I think it's the price for eBooks. A good example is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Kindle - $15 Paperback (new) - $10 Paperback (used) - $6 Paperback (library) - Free The Kindle …

Tesla only raised $270 million in their IPO. They've subsequently raised more, but their initial a pretty far cry from the billions Snap/Uber needed.

You probably don't even need to do that. Facial recognition is to the point where a drone can navigate to a predefined area and find a specific person before detonating. Especially…

>Even if you manage to reduce the hard stuff to 1 mile out of 200, you still need to deal with it. I think the minimum required to deal with it is to have the car pull over when it…

I think what has changed is the shocking amount of money that recent start ups are burning. Snap burns more in a year (~$1 billion) than Facebook did in it's entire life. Uber has …

It should be a binary decision: Pose a threat to society -> Jail pending trial Not a threat -> Released pending trial There shouldn't be an option for: Pose a threat to society + R…