URSpider94

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by URSpider94 5y ago
That’s not the meaningful comparison, because Twitter has no control over what people do on their own, whereas their algorithm was introducing bias into photos with no recourse for the people posting the images. I would argue that a 7% pref
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by URSpider94 5y ago
So, am I missing it or does the article not say what happens with Twitter’s motion to quash the subpoena?
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by URSpider94 5y ago
At this point, destroying the positioning network/s would be mutually assured destruction. Pretty much every country relies on those networks equally for controlling their own vehicles and weaponry.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Inflation is, by definition, an increase in price of goods. Increasing stock prices are not inflation. In fact, in an inflationary market, stocks usually suffer because people make more money by investing in loans and bonds, which will pay
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by URSpider94 5y ago
This is something that’s much easier in the suburbs - if I wanted to, I could stash three giant trash bags in my garage, eventually toss them in my minivan and drive the 5 miles to the recycling center, which is about the same as my ordinar
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by URSpider94 5y ago
This is different but related. China has no ability to influence GPS accuracy within its borders. What they do is manipulate all of the authoritative maps available so that GPS coordinates won’t map cleanly to the digital waypoints in the m
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Factually true. Shutting down travel from China (at least for Chinese nationals, but not for Americans) after the virus was already openly spreading inside the country, and NOT shutting down travel from Europe, which was having a massive ou
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by URSpider94 5y ago
I kind of miss the arbitrage that used to come when the price of subway tokens would go up. People would inevitably go in and buy hundreds of dollars in tokens and then hoard them for years. You can in theory do the same thing with “forever
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Why do you say impossible? I can take them to my local recycling center which is open 9-5 every day of the year except Christmas, New Years Day and Thanksgiving, and they will gladly pay me back the deposit.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
It’s hard to appreciate just how strict the lockdown measures in places like New Zealand and Taiwan have been. People are driven from the airport directly to a hotel, then someone comes and checks on them and they monitor the front door. Ev
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Many people do, actually. They argue that fasting “reprograms your metabolism” or changes how your body digests food or the like. If you think of it as a different way to effect caloric restriction, then you’re on the right track.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Common, but not universal. It’s much more common in smaller startups, and often fades away as companies scale and costs go up nonlinearly. At a 20 person company, you can throw a pile of burritos on the conference room table. At 10k employe
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Studies have shown that any weight loss benefits of intermittent fasting correlate directly to how many fewer calories you eat, and nothing else.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
I’ve noticed this as well - the hotspot just pops back on, even after I’ve disabled it.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Because they aren’t testing it, it’s a driver assistance system that is not capable of driving a car, and a human must always be in command of the vehicle. If a human were driving this car, they would have seen they were about to plow into
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by URSpider94 5y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2020/10/28/new-te... tl;dr - driving with AP on is very slightly less safe than driving with it on, probably by a statistically insignificant amount. It’s
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Yes, there absolutely is. Fortunately, Tesla does not sell any automated driving capable cars. All of their systems are classified as “Level 2,” meaning that they are driver assistance systems and the human driver must always be in full com
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by URSpider94 5y ago
The data don’t bear that out. If you compare accident rates for highway miles, Tesla’s are not any safer than other cars, even though nearly all of them have autopilot.
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by URSpider94 5y ago
My guess is that Tesla is running an object classifier on the two front-facing cameras in parallel, and then measuring the parallax of the objects, not of the features of the image. As such, if it can’t recognize something in front of the c
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by URSpider94 5y ago
After thinking about this, I think they’ve created a false dichotomy here. As an employee who is heavily compensated with stock, I’ve experienced “golden handcuffs,” where my annual compensation, including vesting shares, is much higher tha
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Presumably, "the top candidates" will be assessed as being higher-level employees, and will get better offers commensurate with their level? They aren't saying that everyone will get the same offer , just that the offer you
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by URSpider94 5y ago
By that logic, why don't they just pay everyone five million dollars a year? Doing anything less is just squeezing employees. I learned from my first startup CEO, the number one cost for almost any company is payroll. If you can't
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by URSpider94 5y ago
You can say that for yourself, but it's just not realistic. Lots of people are about to learn this the hard way as SV companies start to roll out their remote-work plans. Companies are going to pay you less money if you choose to live
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Why is #1 a concern? If your BTC appreciated vs USD while you held it, then you'll owe tax on it. If it declined, then you can claim a loss to offset other gains. It's just paperwork. I would imagine that any BTC wallet services w
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Amazon is a marketplace. There is no price vetting. If a third party wants to sell beans on Amazon for more money than they cost elsewhere, that’s not Amazon’s problem. They do not set prices for third-party sellers. In fact, most of those
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by URSpider94 5y ago
… and even then MAP isn’t enforceable, seeing as how it is basically price fixing, which is illegal. MAP agreements typically don’t say anything about the selling price, they more typically govern marketing funds provided by the manufacture
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by URSpider94 5y ago
The difference between amateur and professional grillers is that professionals use instant-read thermometers for everything. One, because the difference between a rare and medium-rare steak is only about 5F internal temperature, which is to
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by URSpider94 5y ago
To provide the correlate to @simondotau’s answer: in cooking, density hardly ever matters. All recipes should actually be solely in units of weight, never in units of volume. Professional chefs, and especially professional bakers, work sole
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by URSpider94 5y ago
Not true. There’s a principle called “first sale doctrine” that basically says that IP rights are exhausted in the first sale of an item. So, as long as they are buying legally made copies of the product, then the company has no legal recou
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by URSpider94 5y ago
This isn’t an Amazon issue, per se. I remember shopping for SLR’s from the back pages of Popular Photography in the 1980’s - all of the best deals were gray market imports.

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