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by avalys 6y ago
Presumably, the first person who hands off the car (in a “known good” state) would also insert a photo of the odometer into the blockchain.
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by avalys 6y ago
I'm a car enthusiast, and was once a Tesla skeptic. What won me over was renting a Model 3 for a weekend, and concluding that it was a _fantastic car_. The Prius is a miserable little piece of shit for people who hate driving. The Mode
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by avalys 6y ago
Not at all. Coercing employees to vote a certain way, or penalizing them for failing to do so, would be clearly unethical. But I don’t see how a company telling their employees to vote yes on 22 is any different from an activist group telli
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by avalys 6y ago
If you think Apple phones are too expensive, you don’t have to buy one!
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by avalys 6y ago
I’m an introvert, and I find social interaction draining. I am only truly happy and relaxed when I’m alone. But I also recognize that social interaction is necessary to get work done, and I don’t expect to be truly happy and relaxed at work
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by avalys 6y ago
I enjoy his column particularly because he talks about all of this scheming and maneuvering in a straightforward and neutral way. I can decide for myself if something is immoral or offensive or whatever, I don’t need my news sources to deci
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by avalys 6y ago
This is insanity. How do they even have the authority to do this?
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by avalys 6y ago
You can opt out by not flying on that airline.
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by avalys 6y ago
I fundamentally disagree with your position. It's totally reasonable to be unsatisfied with the status quo, while still believing that talking about your politics and/or dissatisfaction at work is ineffective or counterproductive.
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by avalys 6y ago
There is a lot of wind and road noise on the highway - it's not as well-isolated as comparable luxury sports cars (BMW, Audi, etc.) No, this isn't an illusion due to the lack of engine noise, the car needs more acoustic insulation
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by avalys 6y ago
Speaking as a car nut and long-time Tesla skeptic who eventually broke down and bought a Model 3 - the car is not poorly designed, it's just not perfect , and any imperfection gets amplified by the company's high profile and the
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by avalys 6y ago
You’re right, that was a bit harsh I guess, but I’m just mirroring the attitude I perceive from the cycling community. I recently bought a road bike myself and found the entire sport obnoxiously pretentious, including the guy at the bike sh
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by avalys 6y ago
Is that really a misdiagnosis on the part of the general public, or are those terms just medical classifications for what everyone acknowledges is unacceptable behavior? Are they any less of an asshole because some doctor has carefully scr
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by avalys 6y ago
The “cut” that users get is the ability to use all Facebook services for free?
855.
by avalys 6y ago
Because many of the people developing apps for their platform rely on advertising revenue to pay the bills?
856.
by avalys 6y ago
If you rely solely on things you read online, you might think that the US cellular infrastructure is a backward, antiquated, uncompetitive, monopolistic disaster, and that the progressive and forward-thinking European societies have done fa
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by avalys 6y ago
LinkedIn, GitHub and Minecraft are all still alive and in reasonably good health.
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by avalys 6y ago
Once you’ve launched the rocket, the real fun comes - try to get to one rocket per minute. :)
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by avalys 6y ago
I tend to agree with you - but actually I love programming itself and I could do it all day without getting tired. The things that tire me out about work are poor documentation, inconsistent requirements, team politics, other people’s mista
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by avalys 6y ago
This week I’ve both been playing Factorio, and writing code for a new application. So, lots of figuring out interfaces, architecture and modularity, and how things will work together. When I change from one of these activities to the other,
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by avalys 6y ago
Is this something you struggle with when you find ants in your kitchen?
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by avalys 6y ago
Well, let’s not get carried away here. The “native population” are bugs and worms and there is no indication in the game that they’re sentient.
863.
by avalys 6y ago
Do you like games at all? Almost any game would be “more efficient” if you could just write code to declare yourself the victor. Games - for that matter, pretty much any leisure pursuit whatsoever - are not about efficiency.
864.
by avalys 6y ago
Since the game costs a straight $30 up front and has no in-app purchases, subscriptions, or ads, there’s really no incentive for the developers to use “tricks” to make it addictive. It’s just what I’d call an old-fashioned “good game.”
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by avalys 6y ago
That’s only true because the amount of radiation released by a nuclear plant in normal operation is also negligible.
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by avalys 6y ago
My first reaction reading this headline: “What could possibly be classified about eBay’s ads business?”
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by avalys 6y ago
I find The Drive's content on military and defense news to be pretty valuable and distinctive. Even if they're just an aggregator (which honestly doesn't seem the case to me, at least in this domain), they're aggregating
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by avalys 6y ago
The only thing wasteful here is paying for 16 GB of RAM and then deciding to arbitrarily restrict your primary productivity tool to using 1/8th of it.
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by avalys 6y ago
Meh. I skipped 7th grade, after being in the youngest cohort in my class already (birthday in July). I've done fine I guess - went to MIT, did some startups, got paid plenty of money, and I'm pretty happy today (COVID transient as
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by avalys 6y ago
This is such a classic physicist’s answer. It starts off promising, with a lot of context and detailed exposition which leads one to hope that perhaps it will be pulled together into an enlightening explanation at the end. But when one reac

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