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It may be worth pointing out: these are equivalent comparisons when testing for even numbers but cannot be extrapolated to testing for odd numbers. The reason being that a negative…

From the linked study: [1] Total operational water "footprint" of data centers in 2018: 5.13 * 10^8 m^3. Of that, indirect consumption through electricity generation: 3.83 * 10^8 m…

> ... 1906 ... to 1932 ... as the period of her infection of others ... That's still not 38 years ... I never stated that she infected others for 38 years. Being an asymptomatic ca…

The Wikipedia article doesn't cover everything. Reference for the sibling comment: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959940/

"Typhoid Mary" was an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever for at least 38 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon

> I think even the VAT is added on checkout to the price No. VAT in Germany is not charged to American servicemen and women and dependants. This is covered under the Status of Forc…

It just worked for me. Opened the "web" link in an Incognito tab on Android Chrome.

> ...Americans use 500 million plastic straws a day ... hundreds of thousands of straws are found littering coastlines around the world each year... If "hundreds of thousands" mean…

As a counterpoint, I found it to be very helpful in understanding the information presented. The animals breakdown (Chart B) contains 10 values, ranging from 1 Gt to 0.002 Gt. That…

I can't find the source for this but, as I recall, HN has a system where certain new or recent submissions are artificially promoted to a low position on the front page for a few m…

As a former car salesperson, I can tell you that, in the state of Virginia, car sales contracts are not valid until the customer has physically taken possession of the vehicle. As …

According to CNBC: > Those reservation holders must pay an additional $2,500 to turn their reservations into an order, at which point the original $1,000 deposit goes toward the ov…

Ah, thank you. I see now there are better articles. I'll update the original comment.

But the article isn't about offering deposits. It's about ordering.

Last I read, Tesla is holding $985MM in customer deposits. [1] Now they are asking for, I'm assuming, full payment for cars starting at $48,000. However, the soonest one can be del…

You started by questioning jail time, then brought in the SEC. Now you're stating the SEC doesn't deal with industrial sabotage and talking about fines, which no one else mentioned…

> the hundreds of $1000 spent just defending his short position through hiring former Herbalife people, funding legal campaigns, funding support groups You are describing entirely …

I've always seen as somewhat analogous to with in JavaScript, whose usage is strongly discouraged [1]. Recent exploits using seem to confirm that a bit. [1] https://developer.mozil…

Mods, can you change this to the original source article? https://blog.secondmeasure.com/2018/06/04/tesla-faces-accele...

> I've read 12% somewhere In the article. Musk stated 12% last August.

A quick Googling says they are Summer class of 2015.

The point I was trying to make is that, in practice, everyone will run at full optimization, since that's the point of something like Closure. It's not gzip where "good enough" exi…

It's been a while since I looked at Closure's codebase but, as I recall, the individual optimizations are not loosely overlaid, but somewhat dependent on each other and specificall…

> a global optimizing compile tends to be dominated by the O(f(x)) of the optimization passes Really good point. Closure Compiler, at least historically, rejected many valid optimi…