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  1. Re:Need a cheap no fills model on Tesla Model 3 Becomes Best Selling Electric Car In World (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    which he picked up cheap because of the dead battery pack, then sold on for a 3K profit after replacing them

    Wrong video for the description...but the process is the same.

  2. Re:Need a cheap no fills model on Tesla Model 3 Becomes Best Selling Electric Car In World (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It it a realistic proposition to repair the pack?

    Yes, and if you DIY it can be quite worthwhile.

    Here is a guy giving instructions for a Prius, which he picked up cheap because of the dead battery pack, then sold on for a 3K profit after replacing them. The Leaf probably has more batteries, so will cost a bit more, but should still be a similarly easy job.

  3. Re:30 member countries EU on Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless Broadband Than Countries Without It · · Score: 1

    Switzerland and Norway sometimes join in on EU things. Probably more likely than Ukraine and Turkey sneaking in while everyone is distracted with Britain leaving.

  4. The worst is "Unlimited (subject to reasonable use provisions)". Where "reasonable" is an undefined subjective term that they would like to think lets them throttle, cut off or overcharge anyone at anytime at their sole discretion.

  5. When certain services don't count against your data limit.

    Basically, running the network is a fixed cost. If they are giving away some services for free in order to poach customers from their competitors, it is logical that they are going to have to make that money back by charging more somewhere else.

  6. Re:Sort of on Bitcoin is Worth Less Than the Cost To Mine It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    There are many countries that would have lower electricity consumption than a large city.

    ... In fact, 80% of the world's countries use less electricity than Los Angeles.

  7. Re:Sort of on Bitcoin is Worth Less Than the Cost To Mine It (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    on the order of a large city (not a country as those who misquote and misunderstand the IEEE article 'absurd cost' claim, that was projection for future)

    There are many countries that would have lower electricity consumption than a large city. So there is no reason both cannot be true.

  8. Have you priced stethoscopes recently?

  9. Re: can't charge a phone on Scientists Create Super-Thin 'Sheet' That Could Charge Our Phones (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That depends on whether you consider 10 years to be too long to have to leave your phone charging to get a few hours of talk time out of it. For someone about to slip into a coma, it might work out OK.

  10. Re:masters, even doctorate, means nothing on H-1B Visa Lottery Will Now Favor Masters, Doctorate Degree Holders (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 2

    It does say "granted by US institutions", but as far as protecting against the mail-order degree mill industry goes, I don't think that helps as some of the worst offenders are US based.

  11. Re:Note he doesn't claim he was actually recorded on Lawyer Sues Apple Over FaceTime Eavesdrop Bug, Says It Let Someone Record a Sworn Testimony (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    If he wasn't actually recorded, he probably doesn't have standing. I don't remember the lawyers coming out to sue Toyota over the potential for getting mowed down by cars with stuck accelerators. They at least tracked down Toyota owners who had been involved in accidents to act as proxies.

  12. One more they forgot. on Google+ Reveals Shutdown Timeline For Consumers (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    One more milestone they forgot to mention

    On April 1 it will be widely reported that Google has cancelled the shutdown of Google+ and is instead relaunching the service with features merged in from Google Reader, Google Wave, Google Buzz, Google Inbox and Picasa.

  13. Re: no one in the usa will work for $2.15/hr 60-80 on A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won't Be 'Assembled in USA' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And unlike CNC, where the N stands for Numerical, and not the 'n' contraction of &

  14. Re:entertainment center on Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+ Promises Better Performance, Starts at $25 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    despite all the patents have already expired on February 13, 2018 and can be used freely.

    The last US patents on MPEG-2 expired then, but there are still other patents valid, potentially up until 2025 if the patent holders bother to keep paying the annual renewal fees. Which is probably why they still can't risk shipping with it enabled since the Raspberry Pi is sold worldwide.

  15. Re:There is no legitinate antitrust case on Facebook's Plan To Merge WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger Sounds a Privacy Alarm (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1
    Not really an antitrust issue, but it is a privacy issue.

    WhatsApp is promoted as a private, encrypted messaging app. Messenger is part of the Facebook advertising platform, which is almost the polar opposite. Instagram is like Twitter for cat pics, or something, I'm not sure how that fits in there.

  16. Teenage girls have confirmed: Facebook is dying on Facebook Deliberately Allowed 'Friendly Fraud' To Avoid Harming Revenue (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Last week I was sitting next to two teenage girls on a 3 hour flight. During part of their conversation, one was talking to the other about someone else who had messaged her, then got upset when she didn't reply.

    You know, I haven't even opened Facebook in like 3 months

    Actually, now that you mention it, me neither

    Who even uses Facebook anymore, anyway.

    Yeah, I'm like too busy with living my life. It was taking up so much of my time, and for what?

    Life is so much better without it, isn't it.

    This went on for some time, as conversations between teenage girls tend to, and I can't bore you with the rest of the details, as I tuned out myself, but clearly Facebook has lost this target audience.

  17. Documents related to the case were placed under seal because Facebook successfully argued that releasing them to the public could harm its business.

    I don't see the issue with Facebook's business being harmed because of the actions revealed in those documents. I'm glad the court eventually saw sense and unsealed them.

  18. Re:But Are They Real Twins? on Identical Twins Test 5 DNA Ancestry Kits, Get Different Results On Each (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 2

    Clearly not. The Yale biologist analysed them and found their DNA to be 99.6% the same. This places them somewhere on the scale between human-human (99.9% the same) and human-chimpanzee (98.8% the same). If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say that one of the twins is a neanderthal.

  19. Evidence of 300 million year old asteroid craters is many times more likely to have been destroyed. Other scientific papers have pointed to a much more chaotic solar system earlier in its history, so the trend may in fact be in the opposite direction, just the evidence no longer exists.

  20. Re:Story doesn't seem up to date on Google Maps Deterring Outback Tourists, Say Small Firms (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Leaving driving conditions aside I can't see how the went form 11 to 4 hours. The posted limits would not have changed that much in such a short time.

    Temporary road closure perhaps? There don't seem to be many options for detours, and maybe Google's algorithm isn't smart enough to figure out that they would have been better off waiting it out than trying to go around it.

  21. Re:But all the polls were biased against Trump... on Michael Cohen Says He Tried To Rig Online Polls 'at the Direction' of Donald Trump (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Hillary wasn't on the top 100 business leaders list either.

  22. Re:Story doesn't seem up to date on Google Maps Deterring Outback Tourists, Say Small Firms (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe at the time they did the search, there was a massive forest fire, or a storm coming. I'm thinking Google is smarter than some outback hick who thinks 380km is a 4 hour drive for tourists who aren't on best mates terms with the local traffic police.

  23. Re:Eromanga ? on Google Maps Deterring Outback Tourists, Say Small Firms (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Appeal to otaku? The outback is not exactly a section of their mothers basement.

  24. Re:Post-post-posrt-facebook.... on WhatsApp Now Has More Monthly Active Users Than Facebook App (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering that WhatsApp has fallen way behind its competitors in features since Facebook purchased it, I'd be surprised if it was still in a growth phase. Asian competitors like LINE and WeChat have economic ecosystems behind them now that make them profitable as well as pulling in new customers. WhatsApp on the other hand is restrained from doing anything that might compete with the parent company's main app, so they are sticking at basic messaging that pretends to be secure and private while siphoning information to government agencies.

  25. At least they didn't have Genuine People Personalities.

    The next generation of hotel robots do.