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by apparent 11mo ago
I can't tell if they're comparing apples to oranges here. For example, are the stats adjusted to account for the fact that self driving cars are only driving on roads that are not icy, whereas we human drivers drive in all kinds o
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The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course(nytimes.com)
13 points by apparent 11mo ago|5 comments
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by apparent 11mo ago
TLDR: at Stanford, 38% of undergrads are registered as having a disability. At Brown and Harvard, it's over 20%. At Amherst, it's 34%. Although not all of these students receive testing accommodations, researchers say most do.
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by apparent 11mo ago
> Ha, well this author certainly had her thesis and was looking for supporting facts. What makes you say this? Do you think she went into the assignment knowing that the rates of disability diagnosis were quite so high at Brown, Stanford
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by apparent 11mo ago
Just like uber rides funded by VC cash was great...until the VC money ran out and prices jumped to fill the gap.
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by apparent 11mo ago
There was a time when Siri would confirm before making a phone call. But now it will call anyone, including people I've literally never called (and rarely text), without confirmation. This seems like a bad outcome that is very easy to
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by apparent 11mo ago
In general, if a student can get into MIT/Stanford, he will also have been accepted to some less-competitive universities, and likely with decent scholarship. Would it be smarter to go to MIT at full price or Northeastern on a half sch
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by apparent 11mo ago
I was referring to the fact that a very small sliver of the population would be interested in running their own relay server, or even figuring out what that means. They just want to press a button and have the car turn on.
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by apparent 11mo ago
Yeah, and they made a push to rein it in back in the early aughts. As with all things grade inflation, what goes down, must come back up. I'm sure we'll be back here in 20 years having the same conversation.
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by apparent 11mo ago
The thing is, prestige and cost do not go hand in hand. The most expensive schools are not the most prestigious. I think Vanderbilt was the first school to hit the ignominious milestone of $100,000/yr, and they're not Ivy League,
851.
by apparent 11mo ago
> average college grads do better in the long run no matter how optimistically you cook the books to make the inverse seem likely This is far from true when you consider the selection bias of who goes to college, and the sheepskin effect
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by apparent 11mo ago
Academia at $80k? After a PhD, sure. There may be some grad programs where you get a stipend north of $60k, but those are probably located in very HCoL places, so you can be assured you won't be saving anything.
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by apparent 11mo ago
The numbers look very different for a private school, which could run up to $100k for tuition, room, and board. It is almost unimaginable that attending a private college could have a positive expected value at that cost. For one thing, the
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by apparent 11mo ago
The downward "is it worth it" trend over the last 12 years is partly due to the continued upward climb of college tuition. Some schools are now at $100,000/yr for tuition, room, and board. In order for this to be "worth
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by apparent 11mo ago
If you don't want to get ripped off at some grocery stores, you pretty much have to use their app to clip digital coupons.
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by apparent 11mo ago
Toward the end, there's a snippet about how a smart speaker might listen to your conversations and raise pricing when it knows you're in need of a particular item. In such a world, one might also be able to trick the system into l
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Goodbye, Price Tags. Hello, Dynamic Pricing(nytimes.com)
10 points by apparent 11mo ago|3 comments
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by apparent 11mo ago
Passively charged in the sense that the driver cannot actively force it to be charged, either while driving or by plugging it in (it cannot be plugged in). Vehicles with a stated electric-only range are typically PHEVs, which can be plugged
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by apparent 11mo ago
> They went the "mild hybrid" route, with such silly things as 21 miles of electric range "Mild hybrid" typically refers to a vehicle with a passively-charged battery pack, not a PHEV that has any material amount of e
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by apparent 11mo ago
This seems like a very HN-specific use case. It's not surprising that automakers don't have APIs that let customers host servers that they use to remotely start their vehicles. Security is obviously a huge issue, and almost no one
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by apparent 11mo ago
Are you looking to remote start from the fob, or from an app? I agree that if it's done via the fob, that shouldn't require a subscription. But I understand that something requiring a cell signal will usually be paid, one way or a
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Justice Department to Settle Lawsuit over Apartment Rental Pricing(wsj.com)
1 points by apparent 11mo ago|0 comments
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by apparent 11mo ago
Out of curiosity, what's the downside of color? The screen on the new watches is also substantially larger. AFAIK there's no discernible battery life penalty for the color watches (even with the larger screen).
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by apparent 11mo ago
Eric has hinted at wanting to build a round Pebble (like the Pebble Time Round, presumably), so hopefully things will go well with the initial batches and we'll be graced with the presence of a PTR in time for Christmas 2026.
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by apparent 11mo ago
> I don't see why you are defining success as 30 days of battery life when the baseline is charging your watch every day. Up until about 10 years ago, no one would have considered the baseline to be charging your watch every day. Ev
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by apparent 11mo ago
Good thing he isn't shipping from the US to Canada then, eh? Only the US-bound watches are shipped to the US. The rest go straight from Asia. Also, I'd be surprised if the Pebble company that was acquired by Fitbit was a Canadian
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by apparent 11mo ago
True but he does say "it is waterproofed" [1] and this is the common way of referring to this level of water resistance (IPX8, 1 meter for 30 mins). I wouldn't take it in a hot shower, but IPX8 should be good for more than be
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by apparent 11mo ago
No need to creep. It appears there is a Rivian store in Palo Alto. [1] Surely they must have one on hand in their namesake blue. 1: https://rivian.com/spaces/palo-alto
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by apparent 11mo ago
Didn't realize Garmin made monochrome solar watches. It is much cheaper. However, looks like an absolute tank, which would not fit under many shirtsleeves...
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by apparent 11mo ago
Yeah I don't need 30 days, but starting out at a week with AOD puts a pretty low ceiling on future battery life. Appreciate the pointer though. In thinking further, I realized that the buttons are actually a pretty good moat against th

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