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by alex43578 24d ago
When you hail a regular taxi from Mike's Yellow Taxi, do you think you are subject to the "capricious and potentially negligent actions" of that driver, without being given a waiver to sign? Do you assume they have any additi
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by alex43578 24d ago
There's a huge legal distinction there, and it affects taxes, liability, etc. It's distinct from the lay understanding of "working for Uber". If someone is doing a Doordash delivery, runs a red light and hits someone, is
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by alex43578 24d ago
As compared to your implied view where any amount of money can appear from thin air, and law should be dictated exclusively by feelings?
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by alex43578 24d ago
It's an economic measure for what should be an economic question. Taking the statistical value of a human life as a baseline feels pretty fair, and adjusting it upwards for special circumstances seems reasonable. Are you arguing that b
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by alex43578 24d ago
That's about the closest value you'll find to what human life is economically valued at. Do you have an alternate measure that is grounded in anything?
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by alex43578 24d ago
Arbitrators going to arbitrate then. There's a reason why you want to settle before jury verdicts and opt of arbitration whenever possible.
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by alex43578 24d ago
The driver's fault. Is there any evidence it was Uber's policies or actions that caused this? The US government values a statistical life at anywhere from $7 to $12M. Is there any evidence that this woman's lifetime earnings
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by alex43578 24d ago
Uber drivers broadly are considered independent contractors. The driver as an individual stopped the car and forced them out, because they were puking in his private vehicle. It wasn't the Uber app saying stop here and get out/for
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by alex43578 24d ago
Wild that they think this is A) Uber's fault or B) worth $40M.
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by alex43578 24d ago
Is the author under the impression that foodborne diseases didn't spread under previous administrations? There's dozens of examples here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foodborne_illness_outb... Does t
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by alex43578 1mo ago
It’s an unsustainable model, but you’re proposing an unenforceable guideline. China hasn’t stopped using coal because of climate concerns. The US hasn’t stopped fracking. Africa won’t stop adding another billion people. None of those things
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by alex43578 1mo ago
You just invented the job equivalent of rent control, and all the problems that ensue from it.
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by alex43578 1mo ago
Huh? Scientists in federal government were discussing the risks of CO2 and the greenhouse effect for 30+ years before that point. There's literal White House memos from 1977 calling it out. In that time we've cycled through R&#x27
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by alex43578 1mo ago
"Given level of power" is meaningless for data centers. If they can get 50MW of power, they'll obviously try to use it as efficiently as possible to generate as much compute/value. But that's not what anyone means w
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by alex43578 1mo ago
It doesn't serve any purpose to act like they were good at their jobs before. Returning to a status quo of 5 or 15 years ago is such a mediocre goal in this space that its arguably not worth spending political capital on.
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by alex43578 1mo ago
If you subscribe to an AGI/ASI view, the stakes are different than the network effects that Uber thinks they could get. Success here would mean you could theoretically pull away from the competition so far and so fast, whether that b
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by alex43578 1mo ago
Sustainable design for datacenters is orthogonal to success in data centers. That's like saying a local bakery should become a leader in pet adoption - it'll score some feel good points, but is almost counterproductive to the actu
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by alex43578 1mo ago
The same EPA that under 5+ administrations has taken no material action to reduce the effects of climate change? Approved the widespread use of PFAS for stuff as silly as egg pans and snowboard wax, poisoning people's blood and communi
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by alex43578 1mo ago
"5-over-1 or over-1s, also known as a one-plus-five or a podium building,[1] is a type of multi-family residential building commonly found in urban areas of North America", so either you're wrong about them wanting to build
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by alex43578 1mo ago
Isn't that such little effective working space though? 4K 100% is fine, but I literally could use more effective real estate to have multiple things up.
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by alex43578 1mo ago
Not if you’re driving it from your iPhone or MacBook. You’ll still need chips, but certainly not a M series processor, coprocessor, tons of storage, etc.
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by alex43578 1mo ago
Are you running any scaling on 5K 27 or 32 6K? I have 20/20 vision and a pretty normal desk setup. I run my 32 4K at 100% scaling in Windows, and while I could maybe push it down a little smaller, some of the least PPI-aware interfaces
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by alex43578 1mo ago
What? 32 4K is 138PPI, which is better than 27in 1440P, and it's "retina" at 25in.
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by alex43578 1mo ago
How shallow is your desk? I'm on a pretty regular sized desk and have no issues with a 32in monitor. You said you wished the screens had a smaller size? You'd want a smaller than 28in screen? Wouldn't that get pretty uncomfor
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by alex43578 1mo ago
Yeah? It's just a display for sitting on the couch or in an airplane, watching videos or viewing a huge virtual desktop. Scrapping the cameras would save a ton on size, BOM, and complexity. Basically a "Pimax Dream Air" formf
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by alex43578 1mo ago
But I think you do need some level of consistency to retain customers. Churning models, especially given Apple's otherwise-excellent retention metrics and mechanisms, seems like a self-goal by almost encouraging those buyers to switch
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by alex43578 1mo ago
I think the lack of a AppleVision non-pro that was just some really good screens and a battery, hooked up to your iPhone/MBA/MBP for use as an immersive display was a miss. I tried the AVP but realized I didn't want/need
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by alex43578 1mo ago
I don't really get this monitor when a 4K 32in QD OLED exists. Running the 32in at 100% scaling will yield more usable space on the left and right, essentially the same height, way better colors, way better refresh rates, and no odditi
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by alex43578 1mo ago
Without a good way of getting it into the dataset via simulation, or a more speculative approach (world models?), edge cases and unusual circumstances could cause failures. I think my broader point is people don't do so well in unusual
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by alex43578 1mo ago
Oh yeah, I’m not saying it should be in the training data - driving into the water would be a bad data collection strategy. My point was more that a self-driving car going into water isn’t some unreasonably bad action, as people do it all t

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