JPKab

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by JPKab 5y ago
The product being used was not "Full Self Driving". He was using "Autopilot" which comes with the vehicle. FSD is a completely separate, and expensive, upgrade. Thoroughly enjoying the completely uninformed comments on
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by JPKab 5y ago
Lol. Touche my friend, touche.
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by JPKab 5y ago
He wasn't using Full Self Driving, nor was he a customer. Autopilot != FSD. Autopilot comes with the vehicle. Full Self Driving is an add-on. He was on Autopilot. But let's not the facts or details stop us.
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by JPKab 5y ago
I'm always fascinated by this urge to push individual lapses and judgment onto large and wealthy entities. I own a Tesla Model 3 and I have chosen not to purchase the full self-driving package nor do I intend to rent it. I don't
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by JPKab 5y ago
Thank you thank you thank you. Business Insider is a cancer of a business.
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by JPKab 5y ago
You're right. The article was relatively reasonable. I think I was fixated on how much it conflicts with the primary, and very aggressive, narrative push of NPR over the last 18 months. For example, this section: "Just as the v
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by JPKab 5y ago
I feel you completely on the natural immunity part. As someone who contracted the original variant less than 2 months before I was eligible for the vaccine, I've dealt with a lot of harassment for simply citing vastly superior studies
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by JPKab 5y ago
Most people are pretty calm about it. It's just there's very noisy fringe elements who are dramatically overrepresented online. It blows my mind how many otherwise smart people think that online comments are remotely representati
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by JPKab 5y ago
There is almost certainly an organized crime element interacting with the individuals performing the looting. Typically, the organized elements are at the "fencing" level, where they are paying the individuals (almost certainly m
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by JPKab 5y ago
This is illogical. Did he die? Did he suffer severe symptoms? No. What makes this different than a vaccinated person contracting the virus and having mild/no symptoms? You took a vaccine that has not been updated since it was created
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by JPKab 5y ago
You've been wrong about Omicron the entire time. You were proclaiming doom weeks ago, and crapping all over many of us pointing at the South African data. We were proven correct, you were proven wrong. No sense of humility about thi
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by JPKab 5y ago
I suggest you look at the ways universities ACTUALLY spend money. Yes, many, including my alma mater, spent lavishly on fancy new buildings. No question about that. But the primary growth of expenses at universities has been the huge gro
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by JPKab 5y ago
You're right. Nobody forced me to sign on to student loans at the age of 17. I did it voluntarily. I couldn't buy beer, or cigarettes, or lease an apartment, and my brain wasn't fully developed. But yeah, nobody forced me
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by JPKab 5y ago
My biggest regret about my 4 years at Virginia Tech is the opportunity cost. I could have been spending the years of my life where I could learn at a vastly accelerated rate compared to present learning useful things. Instead, my double ma
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by JPKab 5y ago
Something that was confusing to me while reading the paper was that there were other compounds they talked about having high potential, but didn't actually test, such as THC-A. Am I misunderstanding this part of the paper?
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by JPKab 5y ago
Amusing anecdote of my own: My wife and I are daily cannabis users. My wife far more than me. She uses it for chronic neuropathy caused by a genetic condition and has a medical card. We all caught COVID in February of 2021, before we were
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by JPKab 5y ago
You are welcome to outsource your critical thinking skills to the Federal government all you want. Meanwhile, in most of Europe, previous infection with COVID in the past 365 days (it was 180 days until recently, but was updated due to scie
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by JPKab 5y ago
Nobody exists in a vacuum when it comes to supply chains. It's a supply chain, not a supply pipe. There's only so much that can be done. Their logistics didn't suddenly get incompetent between 2019 and now.
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by JPKab 5y ago
> Ossoff's bill is superior I disagree. "Hawley's bill would have the Government Accountability Office provide oversight, whereas Ossoff would leave that to congressional ethics committees." Congressional ethics commi
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by JPKab 5y ago
Indeed on Stross lacking humility. His recent post where he talked about COVID was pretty rife with inaccuracies and assumptions, which is fine, but he presented them with this unbridled level of certainty that simply isn't available
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by JPKab 5y ago
When I caught Alpha variant in February, I took advil/ibuprofen as well on the advice of my doctor. Didn't really have a headache more than a day though. I didn't know about aspirin's side-effect blood-thinning benefit
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by JPKab 5y ago
Source? You are claiming that the IFR for COVID doubled between alpha and delta. You also didn't expand upon the numbers. Is the 2% death rate for fully vaccinated, partially vaccinated, unvaccinated? The three groups aren't r
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by JPKab 5y ago
Agreed. An obvious example of this is that the CDC numbers on COVID deaths by age. It's blatantly obvious, yet people on here wave their hand and say "1%" as if most HN readers are remotely close to 1% death rate, when it&#x
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by JPKab 5y ago
> A story from your barber is not only anecdotal, it is quite possibly based on misunderstanding - especially if the barber is inclined to distrust Government. My barber is a young, apolitical Latina. And please explain to me how the fa
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by JPKab 5y ago
You are forgetting that there really is not a 1% chance of dying of covid across all risk categories. The numbers are very clear on this: There are people who have a 1% or greater risk of dying if they catch it. Most people do not fall into
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by JPKab 5y ago
Agreed. There is also this weird fixation on being the single person who will infect another who for whatever reason is at high risk either due to obesity, not being vaccinated despite being in a high-risk group, etc. As if you're ver
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by JPKab 5y ago
Just a note for anyone reading this but if you want to take a pain reliever for covid infection, apparently aspirin is an ideal one because the feature of preventing blood clots is very useful in preventing the fairly rare but serious covid
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by JPKab 5y ago
"WE HAVE NOT been vigilant enough at the garden gate when the authorities were required to answer what it actually meant that people are hospitalized with corona and not because of corona. Because it makes a difference. A big differen
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Funny enough in 2014 I almost moved to Austin. I had an offer from a local startup. Thankfully I picked up some bad vibes in the interviews and said no. A couple of months later it turned out that the company had been fraudulently winning
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by JPKab 5y ago
I certainly haven't conducted street surveys of any kind, but yes I actually have asked people in a polite and kind manner why they are wearing mask outside. I did this when I would go pick up my son from his school and we all had to

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