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by abalone 9y ago
That is itself an over-summarization. Strong Towns is absolutely not against public infrastructure investment. It even concludes recommending investment in the downtown area. It is against the big box national retailer model. It is in favor
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by abalone 9y ago
> MoviePass was billed as using the gym membership model because it relied on paying customers who don't use the service. No, it's more like Groupon. Theater attendance is at an all time low thanks to Netflix.[1] This is a wa
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by abalone 9y ago
Silly question but any idea what tools were used to create the diagrams in this post?
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by abalone 9y ago
You're just doubling down on very poor reasoning. Collision avoidance can fail 50% of the time and still result in a massive 50% reduction in accidents. Whereas if autosteer fails 50% of the time while seducing drivers into paying less
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by abalone 9y ago
Nah, I was clear you were characterizing that as the most conservative interpretation of the study. Your assumption is logically flawed. To wit: > The only way for autopilot to be less safe than a human (taking the numbers from that stu
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by abalone 9y ago
And there's the conundrum. Autosteering can help you in a moment of inattention. But by nature it also encourages moments of inattention. It is far from clear that this is a net safety gain.
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by abalone 9y ago
> Let's... say that Tesla's collision warning and automatic emergency braking are responsible for the entire 40% reduction in accidents... That means that the introduction of autosteering at worst had no effect on the accident
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by abalone 9y ago
> We'll give you 2 seconds warning It's rather important to note that Tesla does not even promise that. It's clearly the impression that a great many people have including technically minded people here on HN. But that i
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by abalone 9y ago
Unfortunately I’m in the same boat. Love sonic as a company but they hiked the price of DSL up to the same as 60mbps Comcast. It’s getting harder to justify it. I’ll probably swallow my pride and switch to comcast soon. I don’t think they’r
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by abalone 9y ago
> trying to smooth over both desktop and mobile experiences with the exact same UI brush is the main reason we're left with the worst of both worlds. Exactly the opposite is true. Browser vendors are able to customize the solution
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by abalone 9y ago
My criticism is actually about lack of mobile support. I think it's not a good practice to invest years of effort solving a problem in a way that's fundamentally incompatible with mobile. Already nearly most traffic to wikipedia i
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by abalone 9y ago
You've misrepresented the reasoning. The best practice is: if you're going to tackle a major web UI problem, you should choose an approach that works for mobile (including iPads), which is already about half the traffic to wikiped
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by abalone 9y ago
There's a rule against excessive negativity but respectful, constructive criticism is an important role that HN plays here. Here's a feature that wades into what is arguably browser vendor territory, rethinking the way that hype
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by abalone 9y ago
Just look at the traffic analysis. Mobile browsers have just about eclipsed desktop and they continue to grow.[1] Mobile support is table stakes for major features these days. [1] https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards&#
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by abalone 9y ago
Why so much effort on a feature that doesn’t and probably can’t work on mobile? Were they happy enough with Safari’s 3D Touch preview which does more or less exactly this? (Only with a full screen preview so they don’t have to get into the
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by abalone 9y ago
More like designing very long Medium posts. Is there any substance to this "we invented 'enhance', a reverse dependency pattern" thing or is it just old wine in new, javascripty bottles?
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by abalone 9y ago
HN meta-analysis: You will see mostly anecdotal evidence here that facilitates confirmation bias. Whatever you think of the subject at hand, threads like this mainly serve to let people vent more than offering actual insight. (FWIW I have a
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by abalone 9y ago
I see a parallel here with Square in its early days. They would do some finely polished internal projects like this, like beautiful information dashboards, and redesigned their website like every other month. I don't want to be too cyn
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by abalone 9y ago
Look, you seem earnest here. It’s really not a big mystery. Generally, lower paying more menial jobs have been “women’s work” while men have monopolized the higher paying jobs. There are exceptions, status is a factor as well, but generally
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by abalone 9y ago
“In 1970, only 7.6% of physicians were female. Today, approximately 30% of full time physicians are women and about 50% of medical school students are female. The vast improvement in statistics is not only promising but also inspiring for o
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by abalone 9y ago
> 75% of teachers are women; 84% of nurses are women... > Don't hear much about inherent sexism in other industries. You should listen more.[1][2] [1] https://sites.psu.edu/civic/2017/02/14&#x2F
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by abalone 9y ago
> if some group of people are overrepresented in some category, it is less likely to be a coincidence; i.e., I doubt it's because the people there are just less sexist You have simply defined “overrepresentation” in a sexist manne
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by abalone 9y ago
You offer no evidence, only unsourced anecdotes. Reaching out to underrepresented groups is not the same as discriminating against massively overrepresented groups. How likely are women to apply to organizations that reflect status quo sexi
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by abalone 9y ago
But you do if it’s 50%, the actual population distribution. Yeah, not a sexist standard at all.
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by abalone 9y ago
Seriously? I’m sure you’re first to comment about the inherent sexism in 90% male engineering leadership teams. Companies that focus on seeking out qualified talent from underrepresented groups have a competitive advantage, by exploiting th
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by abalone 9y ago
No, population growth in the burbs alone does not disprove migration into the cities. As I said, skyrocketing costs in the cities are evidence of this. With respect to city transportation infrastructure, wealthier people moving in and devel
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by abalone 9y ago
Didn't say that. I said that lure of the suburbs is waning. Skyrocketing costs in cities are a symptom of that and the Vox article concedes as much.
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by abalone 9y ago
It's a decent article but at the end I found it glaringly silent on the current state of the "lure of the suburbs." Isn't that waning? That seems important here. To summarize, the article is premised on "three broad
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by abalone 9y ago
That's fine. The question is not "are there good reasons to invest in your employer." It's "are you rational enough to treat $1M equity and $1M cash the same." Also, it is uncontroversially a bad idea to invest
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by abalone 9y ago
> Another variable is whether your personal effort materially affects the outcome for the company. Well no, the question supposes you work for the company in either case. If you held $1M in cash, would you invest it all in the company

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