GhostVII

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by GhostVII 5y ago
It sounds like this is just a van fully owned and operated by an independent contractor though, not Amazon, so I don't really think it speaks to any kind of inefficiency within Amazon. Prime vans generally have graphics on the side, no
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I suspect that the slightly lower confidence in the workforce would outweigh the cost savings, Google has lots of cash.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
If a supplier changes locations I would definitely expect prices to change in future contracts. Of course the current contract shouldn't be changed if we had already agreed on a price for some number of units.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
People making hundreds of thousands of dollars complain because they don't get to keep their insane salaries when moving to less competitive areas.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Those prices are not at all representative of what an average Canadian will be spending though, so probably not relevant to the overall trend. Very few Canadians are going to be spending $40 on cooking dinner for two people unless you want
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by GhostVII 5y ago
But for big tech companies at least I don't think money is really a significant concern. It's probably better for them to pay 10x for an engineer if that engineer has twice the chance of being a very strong performer than the one
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by GhostVII 5y ago
The title says Mac pro, not MacBook pro
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I don't think that is really misleading, at least I wouldn't consider Medicare/social security as a part of my federal income tax. When I think of income tax I think of tax brackets and deductions, not payroll taxes which are
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I think it would be cool if you could have some kind of combo human+ML system, where you use ML to actually detect the different objects and track them between frames, and a human can choose what color to use for each one. In a couple shots
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Being vegetation obviously has a huge impact on your footprint, but I'd imagine that buying from a local organic farm actually has a much higher footprint than buying from a larger non-organic farm, since non-organic can grow more in a
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Yea I guess I was more thinking of a kind of blimp, where it still has some solar to allow it to maneuver around, but not to actually stay up. If the aircraft needs to stay in one place maybe that would be less efficient though, since it wo
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by GhostVII 5y ago
What's the benefit over something like a weather balloon? Pretty interesting thought, tape a few hundred micro SD cards to it and you've got some impressive bandwidth.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
It could do the opposite, borrowers may feel that the late fees justify them keeping the book for longer, since they are paying for their excess usage.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
To clarify, I wasn't saying that it literally just goes in a straight line without any additional collision avoidance logic, just that from the drivers perspective all they have to do is make sure it continues in it's lane, as opp
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by GhostVII 5y ago
We could also introduce safety features that use the FSD hardware and software, but only to avoid accidents rather than drive the car. Once you have a system that you know does a better job than humans at avoiding accidents, it is safe to i
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by GhostVII 5y ago
The problem with level 2 "FSD" is that the better it gets, the more dangerous it is because the driver gets complacent. Autopilot is already being investigated because drivers don't monitor it enough and hit emergency vehicle
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by GhostVII 5y ago
They probably designed the car with Europe regulations in mind first, and then rather than try and design an entirely new brake light for the US just took the lazy/cheap way and lit up the other two available light bars.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Just because something is annoying doesn't mean it should be regulated. Especially when that regulation is going to stifle innovation. And right now we don't have a tonne of different chargers, we have two, both of which are good
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Wait isn't unbundling the sale of the charger the thing everyone got mad at Apple for? And now they are legislating it?
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Am I the only one who thinks this is completely insane, just based on principle? How have we reached a point where we think it is OK for the government to tell me that I can't buy a phone without a specific charger. This isn't a s
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I think doing some kind of cost benefit would be preferable to just spending money on what types of death people are most afraid of, which is basically what we are doing now. I'm not saying that we need to do super intense cost benefit
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Of course high speed limits aren't the only factor in traffic deaths. But if we set every speed limit to 25mph and enforced it, I'm pretty confident we would see a significant drop. Obviously we shouldn't do that, but the poi
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by GhostVII 5y ago
But we make those choices every single day, gathering data about it doesn't change that fact. Most people who die in a car crashes would have been saved if we made the speed limit 25mph and enforced it with speed cameras, but that woul
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by GhostVII 5y ago
We should have some kind of dashboard tracking how many people die from terrorism, car crashes, heart disease, COVID, etc., and how much time and money we spend trying to prevent these deaths. We are just so terrible at evaluating risk, for
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by GhostVII 5y ago
When the majority of the country doesn't have internet access, a "currency" that you can only transact in via the internet seems like a poor choice. It makes it a lot easier for the government to track people though given tha
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Wow, based on that study masks are way less effective than I thought. They couldn't find any significant impact on COVID from cloth masks, even though the study was quite large. And increasing usage of surgical masks by 30 pp reduced t
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Sure, but I guess I'm wondering if that is just a convenient effect of the centering, or if it is actually necessary to prevent the wheels from skipping.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Are the cones mainly for keeping the train centered, or for allowing the outer wheel on a turn to be effectively larger? Not sure if the differential effect is an added benefit that isn't really necessary, or if it is the main goal of
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by GhostVII 5y ago
If the browser was to just disable the cookies API until the user allowed the site to store data in cookies, it wouldn't be something that the site would be able to ignore.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
It's also not in the interest of websites to show the cookie popups either, but they do it because they are legally required to do so. I mean I think regulating it in either place is a bit silly, but if we are going to force users to a

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