BigBubbleButt

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by BigBubbleButt 6y ago
> Not a beekeeper but it’s pretty easy to connect the dots from bee extinction to ecological collapse. How is that an easy connection? Your argument essentially says without bees then nature as we know it falls apart catastrophically -
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by BigBubbleButt 6y ago
It's not that he did something weird that's interesting (everybody does weird stuff) - it's that he did it in public, on camera, while the focus of attention during some sort of exhibit. It's interesting because it'
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by BigBubbleButt 6y ago
> What's more worrying is people I speak to regularly now don't even know who he is. And if they do it's because of the toe cheese incident. I've known who Stallman is for a long time, but I had never heard about the
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
It's worse than that - they actively edit/delete negative reviews. https://qz.com/1333242/airbnb-reviews/
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
And 9 out of the top 10 American billionaires are self-made. It's amazing how you can use the same data to argue the opposite point, just on how you frame it.
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
That much is obvious. It doesn't mean I don't want to hear his perspective though.
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
> while everyone is also thinking about getting a deadly virus every time they leave the house Am I the only person who isn't worried about the coronavirus? I'm not exaggerating when I say it hasn't effected my life at al
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
An engineer was imprisoned because another engineer was spiteful. You don't consider this a dumb political decision? I consider the default judgment of "everyone goes to the gulags" to be shitty governance, and also quite s
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
Thank you! I appreciate it.
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
So the politician who sent the world's greatest rocket engineer to the gulags out of spite isn't an idiot? I'd be happy to learn more if you can point me towards some sources.
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
I always found the dichotomy of Soviet culture interesting - that engineers were the most pragmatic I've ever seen, and the politicians were just...fucking idiots. The best example being Korolev, possibly the greatest rocket designer i
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
> This thing looks like it has been made by the CEOs daugther in Powerpoint. I love this. I know only a bit about graphic design, but this new logo just looks...cheap. My first thought was a high school student made it with whatever fr
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
Lots of bullshit jobs exist for a reason other than those jobs being useful. Politicians want to create bullshit jobs because it helps them get votes. And sometimes bullshit jobs exist to enrich corporate owners for government contracts -
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
Set fire to the truck after you rob it to destroy any on-board evidence (like hard drives containing surveillance footage), only commit crimes in a wireless dead zone so no data is transmitted outside (or better yet, use a police stingray s
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
I'm not saying robbing trucks is easy. I'm saying if I were to choose between robbing a manned truck vs an unmanned truck, I would definitely rob the unmanned truck.
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
I have not thought much about robbing trucks before, but I disagree this is the same as a manned truck. I think it's much more like the difference between robbing a house that is empty and a house while the owners are home. Most burg
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
> 1) Uber is a public company now, it has not been VC funded for a long time They also typically lose around $1 billion per quarter. Unless they figure out how to be profitable, they will eventually run out of money. So really, they ar
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~bnnewton/humor/mergers.htm
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
> The funny thing is that creating a universal algorithm to convert PDFs and/or HTML to plaintext...would accrue at least as much profit [as self-driving cars] to any company that can solve it. Can you explain a bit more about why t
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
It's not fraud, it's just a bad investment. Unless Waymo is saying "we guarantee to have this technology doing this impossible thing and making a trillion dollars in revenue in 5 years" there is nothing illegal about it
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
Those disengagements are not representative of all the disengagements the vehicle makes. Basically, the company gets to decide for itself whether or not an incident is severe enough it needs to be reported. https://www.bloomberg
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
> Something is happening in the next decade or you have the responsibility to blow the whistle Blow the whistle? There's nothing unethical here - I'm just saying it won't make money. It's not like children are being
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
You realize you're talking to a guy who's actually seen the internal deadlines, all of the secret data, and a whole bunch of other stuff. And you're telling me the PR talking points as if it's something I don't alr
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
Nope. Waymo employees get Waymo stock.
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
> Waymo is already doing rides without a safety driver to passengers who have signed their NDA. Which means they're confident of their behaviour on some really difficult problems, like pedestrians. If they were confident they'd
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
It's very recent in terms of human history, but we're talking about American and Mexican history. The American Southwest wasn't settled by Mexicans until ~400 years ago.
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
> 2) $2.25B is a big round, and speaks to the level of confidence in Waymo as well as the massive cost to get to market It's a lot of money, but self-driving cars are notoriously overhyped. As someone who used to work in the indust
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
> That's only really true because the areas of the USA where the Burrito is common were part of Mexico until very recently. Texas and California were made states over 150 years ago, and Arizona and New Mexico were made states over 1
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
Are you saying Gmail didn't catch on? That's like saying nobody buys an Android phone. Gmail is the #1 email provider in the world and Android is the #1 mobile OS in the world.
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by BigBubbleButt 7y ago
I agree. I actually think Alphabet's long-term (10+ years) future is pretty grim.

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