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by aylmao 3y ago
> It arrives faster because there are more of them I think you’re overestimating how many people will buy Teslas. Also, how many people who own Teslas would robotaxi it. A company might do it as a business, but it’d just take waking up o
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by aylmao 3y ago
Even if this were a given (and it isn’t), I think it’s unlikely Tesla robotaxis capture the transport market like that. There’s a lot of cars to replace. Capturing 10% of yearly car sales, worldwide, is already a very tall order. Capturing
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by aylmao 3y ago
Ah yeah! Browser ball is a classic!
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by aylmao 3y ago
I'm old enough to remember a bunch of demos using window position/dimensions from back in the day. I remember one with a physics simulation. I can't remember if it was liquid or just a bunch of solids, but you could drop thin
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by aylmao 3y ago
I'm sure it can be attributed to a lot of factors. Geographically, the USA has a lot of space, so it's relatively easy to sprawl. Some places have to be more space-efficient. Ideologically, the USA has always been about individual
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by aylmao 3y ago
Yes, most lines actually (10 out of 12) [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-tyred_metro
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by aylmao 3y ago
It isn't just a "Canadian" problem. You see that all over the USA too. Also, why the hostility? I've never met a Canadian that expressed a sense superiority about not being part of the USA. I've met plenty who are p
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by aylmao 3y ago
I like the NYC subway for a lot of reasons, but man is it in a bad state. Chambers street station for example. Last time I was there it looked similar, if not worse than in this 2015 photo [1]. Comparing it to the second busiest metro in th
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by aylmao 3y ago
Depends on your definition of success, but yes a lot of companies aim to maximize the monetary gain of shareholders
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by aylmao 3y ago
When people say Metro I think the Mexico City Metro. "Metro" is not only used to brand the trains, but also the BRT service ("Metrobús"). When people mention The Tube I do think London though. I haven't heard anyone
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by aylmao 3y ago
> New rich people come along and some rich people get poor This is an overly simplistic look, and disregards a lot of history where, unsurprisingly, the reason there was wealth redistribution wasn't "innovation" but govern
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by aylmao 3y ago
They're playing with Good Kid! A few years back I was in a tech interview in San Francisco, and after the fact I hung out with other candidates in the city. One of them was from Canada and told us he played in a band. This is the band!
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by aylmao 3y ago
As you mentioned, I'd attribute this to the cost and not the material. In Latin America having "exposed concrete" walls or ceilings is it's a whole trend right now. The look of course involves nicer, well-worked cement,
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by aylmao 3y ago
In Latin America hollow brick is often used for walls. I'm not in the construction business, but I'm guessing it has to do with cost, insulation, and the ease of breaking in a crevice to lay conduit lines. If you want to install a
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by aylmao 3y ago
+1. In Mexico there's a "Medicine" major, which is longer than other majors, but not as long as doing a 4 year undergrad degree followed by a 4 years of med-school. I've always found interesting and a little pointless th
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by aylmao 3y ago
Lean 4 is a programming language and theorem prover, and has nothing to do with LLMs as far as I know though.
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by aylmao 3y ago
Lean 4 is a theorem prover, and has nothing to do with LLMs as far as I know though.
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by aylmao 3y ago
I met a friend in England not long ago, and she was quite distressed about how poorly things are going there. She was particularly distressed because this wasn't only the case in England, but "the whole world"— "everythi
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by aylmao 3y ago
I found the article interesting as someone born and raised in Latin America. It's not uncommon to see colorful houses here and street art. It leads me to wonder if areas with houses painted in bright colors are noteworthy at a global s
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by aylmao 3y ago
Wow, I would've thought these were run on a local model. This sounds like it could get expensive for them quickly, and if I understand correctly these features are available for free? I guess it's only a matter of time until they
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by aylmao 3y ago
> you’d miss the telescopes if they went away. This is simplifying the issue too much. Mauna Kea is the most sacred mountain in Hawaiian culture, Arecibo wasn't built in particularly special land as far as I know.
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by aylmao 3y ago
This reference took me back, it's been a minute hahah
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by aylmao 3y ago
Is this causation or correlation? Those "free countries" seem to correlate pretty closely with colonial powers. Scarcity necessitates tighter control. "Freedom" is easier to guarantee in prosperity. Also, at a global sca
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by aylmao 3y ago
There's a lot to be said about this— I want to bring up the conversation around exports. I'm no expert, but I was having a look at these. The primary export of the UK are services, making almost half (~48%) of their total [1]. I c
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by aylmao 3y ago
I was recently in the UK and a friend there expressed a similar pessimistic sentiment— "things are really bad here, the whole world is going down the drain". Back where I'm from, things aren't looking as bleak as they ar
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by aylmao 3y ago
I'm from a country where the government has several institutions to provide healthcare. It's not the absolute best, and depending on the institution one qualifies for it might not be quickest or cover all conditions. As administra
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by aylmao 3y ago
Unfortunately, this is not a far-fetched possibility in this case, given the rarity of helium.
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by aylmao 3y ago
Huh, the video does mention they were in the process of privatizing it (at around 4:10 [1]) planning to be "stepping out of the helium activity and transferring it to private entities" by 2021 (guess it got delayed due to COVID?).
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by aylmao 3y ago
I can't assure you you haven't, since the only way to tell would be via the source code, but for what its worth, I've installed a lot of other applications that ask for permission to "control your computer", includi
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China to launch $40B state fund to boost chip industry(reuters.com)
6 points by aylmao 3y ago|2 comments

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