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   by api 8y ago

   > the OpenPGP world has so competently failed at usability Don't you know? There's a rule that all cryptographic software must be arcane and obscure and virtually impossible to use correctly by anyone other than obsessive nerds
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   by api 8y ago

   LIDAR is not necessarily categorically mandatory, but shadow braking and other autopilot failure modes demonstrate that it or something with its capabilities are probably necessary right now to enable today's "AI" to safely d
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   by api 8y ago

   It's been an overall bad experience. Here's a rough chronology: (1) Serious and clearly visible body panel alignment issues. They got fixed, but it took a while and Tesla didn't have a loaner car. There was also a scratch on
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   by api 8y ago

   Hard braking at 80mph isn't as dangerous as not seeing a tractor trailer, but it could definitely cause a serious accident. I'm starting to understand why all the other self-drive companies use active sensors like lidar. You need
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   by api 8y ago

   I have a friend who bought a Tesla and is now asking for a buy-back. His experience has convinced me the negative hype isn't all just shorts propagandizing and "Musk fatigue." This company has huge, huge problems. When he fir
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   by api 8y ago

   > I don't agree with what I perceive as their Hobbes-ean need for total control If you asked them many would say that a state must maintain total control within its territory or someone else will fill whatever vacuum remains -- the
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   by api 8y ago

   This is really why I'm a little bearish on Tesla. It's not because of their issues, which can be overcome, but because now that the EV market has been validated other bigger, richer, and more experienced car companies are going to
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   by api 8y ago

   Hammers don't favor one kind of architecture over another. Hammers do what the people holding them make them do. The way we use our technology is a reflection of our ideas. Since the 1990s I've watched the ideas that are popular
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   by api 8y ago

   Looks like someone grafted half a headline from the 1950s onto a modern one.
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    by api 8y ago

    Go is static but doesn't encourage this. The more experienced I've become the less I find myself doing this in languages like C++ either. It's seductive until you start getting excited more about higher order reasoning about
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    by api 8y ago

    I think a civilization like ours might be hard to miss, but if they only hit e.g. stone age levels we could easily miss that. Of course it depends on the time scale. An industrial civilization 250mya might leave little traces unless you kne
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    by api 8y ago

    I've heard the related argument that cooperation between people with more differences requires more cognitive effort, so you can get a simple economic or second law of thermodynamics explanation for loneliness. More effort equals less
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    by api 8y ago

    In closed conservative cultures, people pretend to have the same interests to fit in and avoid persecution but pursue other interests in secret. I think philosophical explanations for our loneliness epidemic (found on both right and left) a
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    by api 8y ago

    It's not even hard. Gab and Voat exist. No innovation is needed to set up a social site. You can run a sizable one for less than a few hundred a month given how cheap cloud hosting has become.
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    by api 8y ago

    Part of this is the realization that backward (or forward) tens of millions of years or more is a place as awesomely distant as a star hundreds of light years away. Billions of years may as well be another galaxy. Time as well as space is
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    by api 8y ago

    That makes it a lot worse, since the high costs mean companies that don't go vertical instantly die.
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    by api 8y ago

    I also think peak valley was the 'oughts. Seems like the valley has not been producing the same number of world shattering things since then. Part of what is driving the valley's decline is its constrained size (both by geography
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    by api 8y ago

    Apparently motels are having to crack down on "extension cording" now. Park near your room, crack a window, free fill up...
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    by api 8y ago

    Meanwhile his selective tariffs on raw materials have created a greater incentive to offshore the whole pipeline. Populism seems to always be a total disaster whether it is "right" or "left."
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    by api 8y ago

    My speculation for a while is that the touch bar on the Mac is a foot in the door toward eventually replacing the entire bottom surface of the Mac with a haptic virtual keyboard. If it's done very very well it could be awesome: durab
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    by api 8y ago

    Before anyone turns this into a racist or other blanket stereotype of Chinese as superstitious, please consider that we now have to debunk flat Earth cosmology in America. Same goes for routine claims about superstition in Africa, etc.
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    Ask HN: Favorite monitors for programming?

    8 points by api 8y ago|14 comments
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    by api 8y ago

    The housing policy of the entire state seems geared toward boomers who bought property here in the 60s-90s cashing out on the backs of the young and newcomers.
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    by api 8y ago

    From the conversations I've had and from my own experience I think the ludicrous real estate cost is a larger factor than this article implies. It's tolerable if you're a just out of college bachelor/ette, but if you wan
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    by api 8y ago

    London isn't bad. China is the extreme case of this. Beijing air pollution is often at "cyberpunk dystopia" levels, and Beijing is where most of China's leadership resides. You can't say they're not experiencin
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    by api 8y ago

    Virtual tourism is like Soylent. Soylent doesn't replace good food. It replaces crappy fast food. Virtual tourism won't replace going to an art gallery for real. It replaces never going at all. I could see it really enriching the
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    by api 8y ago

    Bitcoin's innovation was trust and conflict resolution through proof of work, not linked lists of hashes.
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    by api 8y ago

    Any search algorithm will introduce some kind of bias. People will notice this bias and assume a conspiracy because humans like to read purpose and intent into everything. If all the results were white males, people would be accusing Google
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    by api 8y ago

    Our stats were within 5% of IPSec, so that's definitely an implementation issue.
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    by api 8y ago

    Intel I think, but not positive. It was a higher grade SSD. Could have been an isolated incident but it was definitely abused.