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chad_con Ask HN: What Lived Up to the Hype?

The Demon’s Souls PS5 release is also just phenomenal.

Umbasa!

chad_con An update to storage policies across your Google Account

Another explanation is the address changes Google introduced. I’m not sure when, but my firstlast@gmail.com became addressable as first.last@gmail.com. Someone else originally created first.last@gmail.com and I get their emails.

chad_con American Suburbs Swell Again as a New Generation Escapes the City

Doesn’t jive with my experience either. Out of my 10 or so closest married friends, only one moved outside of the city (Atlanta). I have several friends trying to move back to Atlanta from much more expensive cities. I think cost is more important than city vs suburb. There are ridiculously expensive suburbs outside of Atlanta.

chad_con FCC report finds almost no broadband competition at 100Mbps speeds

Atlanta, GA. Comcast cable. I’m in the neighborhood for Google Fiber but I highly doubt they will finish the roll out. In the meantime, ATT has deployed lots of fiber in the area but they are slow to activate each street.

chad_con Honda system confused by Alonso taking Pouhon flat

The engines are turbocharged, not supercharged.

chad_con Dropbox Drops Photo Galleries

Dropbox lost me when they closed Carousel. I don't understand why this space is so hard.

chad_con ZFS High-Availability NAS

This is not true. Read up on mirrored vdevs. http://jrs-s.net/2015/02/06/zfs-you-should-use-mirror-vdevs-...

chad_con H.P. Lovecraft's Philosophy of Horror (2014)

Lovecraft's influence is clearly visible in one of the year's most critically acclaimed video games -- Bloodborne[1].

[1] http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/bloodborne

chad_con Volkswagen Chief Martin Winterkorn Resigns Amid Emissions Scandal

>The 4 cylinder TDI was for the economy range of vehicles

I have a 2014 Jetta TDI (4 cyl) with urea injection. I'm totally confused by the information surrounding what cars are affected.

chad_con YC Startup School Radio, Episode 1: Alexis Ohanian and Kaz Nejatian

Check out Startup -- https://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/

chad_con DoJ's Gag Order on Reason Has Been Lifted

I'm convinced Daniel Dennett has a word for it and I shall find it!

chad_con DoJ's Gag Order on Reason Has Been Lifted

>Does this kind of pandering-to-a-position have a name?

Poor debate tactics. There are no rules for engaging in debate on the Internet (or in the news).

chad_con Internetarchive.bak

Jason Scott, an archivist at archive.org (and other things) was recently a guest on The Web Ahead: http://thewebahead.net/97.

chad_con Congress Is Poised to Introduce a Bill to Fast Track TPP So It's Time to Act Now

>Likewise, the Left had the House, Senate, and President and could have passed anything they wanted for two years. Their opportunity was blown too. (Yes, resistance from the opposition could have been overcome.)

This is not quite true.

In the 107th Congress, the dems had a tie in the Senate until a Vermont Senator switched from republican to Independent. The republicans controlled both the presidency, Congress, and some would argue also the Supreme Court, during the 108th and 109th Congresses. And in the 110th, the dems held a one seat advantage in the Senate if you count Independent Sen. Bernard Sanders on their side. But the republicans made unprecedented use of the filibuster to obstruct the normal business negating any control. And until 2008, you also had a large number of Blue Dog democrats in the House who were just as likely to vote with the republicans as they were with the democrats. Plus you had a "Democrat" like Lieberman who was a keynote speaker at the republican national convention. He was hardly a reliable vote on the democrats' issues. So no, they may have held a few slim majorities on paper, but they never controlled Congress.

chad_con Why Ferrari engineers don't like turbos

No mention of water injection. A company with deep pockets can fine tune water injection, reduce heat, reduce fuel consumption, etc., on turbocharged engines.

Right now it's only popular in aftermarket, high-performance applications.

chad_con DMCA Copyright Complaint to Google

Perhaps it's the favorable environment for intellectual property litigation in East Texas [1].

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_...

chad_con Sony PlayStation Network and other game services attacked

It was a DDoS.

chad_con Tesla Model III to challenge BMW 3 Series

Yep.

chad_con Tesla Motors plans to debut cheaper car in early 2015 (2013)

The E60 M5 has an NA v10 ;-)

chad_con Facebook acquires Oculus VR

I'm not sure what your source is, but I did find a similar statement from Iribe:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/17/4439608/oculus-series-a-fu...

chad_con Ask HN: How do you share videos and pictures with your friends and family?

Thanks for the suggestion. This or box (I have 50GB through box as well) may be our last resort.

chad_con Introducing the Priceonomics Business Model: Data Crawling Services

I'm pursuing something even less structured -- forum posts. It may be a lost cause.

chad_con Introducing the Priceonomics Business Model: Data Crawling Services

Not an economist, but I have been mulling over a project surrounding scraping and pricing.

Without having access to the actual monetary transaction data, how does one know what was sold and for how much? Without this (or a mechanism by which the lister closes or updates the listing), how do you know anything was actually sold?

chad_con Google 'down,' let's do an experiment

ISP: Comcast Location: Augusta, GA