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by bertil 3y ago
Are you a current employee? How’s the mood internally? What was the internal take on the API price increase? Are there problems that you feel are more worrisome that are not being discussed? Is the CEO popular? Are you “marked as available
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by bertil 3y ago
There’s a large body of growth hacking specialists, working in agencies or who go from one company to another, who try anything. They get slapped on their finger a lot but pretty much never face the consequences of pushing the line. I suspe
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by bertil 3y ago
I’m astonished that Apple isn’t more proactive on those. Underwhelming apps not being downvoted and pushing people to use browser interactions will kill their ecosystem more surely than fraud. Then again, the fiasco of trying to find the Ch
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by bertil 3y ago
I’ve heard of many schemes like that, and with one exception, employees are not involved or even told this is happening. One senior executive with the budget and incentives to make a metric go up contracts an external party. The one excepti
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by bertil 3y ago
The motocycle maintenance metaphor was very popular at Facebook. Talking loudly about your accomplishment too, on the dedicated Workspace/Facebook @ Work—too much to the taste of several of my colleagues. Someone once connected the two
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by bertil 3y ago
Those seem to be mostly serious approaches, i.e. no offset on historical forests, but they include some approaches that are not as obvious as direct air capture.
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by bertil 3y ago
I had the same question. There’s an explicit breakdown in one of the graphs, Suppliers and a graph on Price Per Method. They cover both obvious approaches to Direct air capture (DAC, Electrochemical Ocean Capture) and less obvious ones (Bio
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by bertil 3y ago
“Crypto” was started by a paper that suggested solving the two-general problem, a question of coordination without trust, with a very expensive solution and sensitive to a Sybil attack. For every technology, if you ask “What problem does it
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by bertil 3y ago
I’m really surprised that Father Becker thinks this is a meaningful difference. I’m as detail-oriented as it gets, but symbols on flags and coats of arms are a notoriously hard thing to get “right” and I’m not sure they should. Noble houses
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by bertil 3y ago
Where does that electricity come from? An inefficient Diesel engine driving the dynamo.
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by bertil 3y ago
rektide is right to point at the need to over-build the pack: you need the car to be rigid without the batteries, essentially, and the battery to be sturdy on its own. You could argue that the car only goes through significant stress when t
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by bertil 3y ago
Current batteries maintain themselves warm with a heat pump to avoid that degradation. The drop is mainly the energy of activating that pump. If you have a Tesla, that’s the fridge-like noise you hear when you warm it up. Diesel engines typ
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by bertil 3y ago
There are two things you can look at: 1. The consequences of global warming You could ask people how much they’d pay to keep chocolate or coffee, bananas, pineapples, or mangoes. Most of Florida’s coastline, about half of California. There
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by bertil 3y ago
You are arguing against coal power plants. No one is disagreeing with you there.
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by bertil 3y ago
Electric engine performance drop at low temperatures is less steep than for gas engines. It’s just that people generally don’t monitor it for ICE: you have to fill up more often, but individual drivers don’t realize it. Managed fleets do, t
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by bertil 3y ago
Their estimation was based on Swedish gas prices that, like all European fossil fuels, were artificially maintained very low thanks to staggering subsidies this winter. Gas price volatility is an argument, but one that they ignored and that
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by bertil 3y ago
I also really liked the idea, but some specialists have argued it would be hard to provide rigidity. Given the load that heavy trucks have to face, this sounds like a bigger problem for trucks than for cars. I think we should focus on eithe
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by bertil 3y ago
They could buy a lot of Teslas or partner with a Waymo competitor, but I doubt anyone with a working automated fleet will need Uber’s human drivers. Acquiring riders is cheap—good PR, a handful of promo codes: branded cars all over the city
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by bertil 3y ago
Not the critical aspect of this announcement, but they are explicitly expecting autonomous food delivery. That makes sense in principle, but in practice… This will be all the wrong kinds of exciting for a while. If you are a designer with a
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by bertil 3y ago
As far as I understand it, Waymo uses remote driving when the situation isn’t clear for the AI.
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by bertil 3y ago
This is very true, but it sounds to me like a classic case of design iterations: find patterns, develop them among users, learn ways to introduce new users… A search engine, an email, chat… non of that was natural, and the first iterations
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by bertil 3y ago
I see the benefits from both for now, but I’m not capturing how they could agree on the long-term negotiation. There is so much upside in a few months for only one side of that deal… That was always the issue with Uber promising self-drivin
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by bertil 3y ago
A month ago, a father shared a very compelling story about how his young son started his own conlang and how ChatGPT was able to learn it from a few examples and converse into it. Has that trend taken over more established conlang? Would it
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by bertil 3y ago
Making either efficient requires investment, and I’m not sure that Americans have invested enough in light rail. Actually, making cars efficient doesn’t work as soon as you reach a certain scale, and I suspect that scale is less than 40k pe
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by bertil 3y ago
The most famous case for it is here: https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_the_surprising_decli... but there are a lot more cases, generally in the same direction, depending on the time frame, whether it’s city vs. c
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by bertil 3y ago
You can check actual world-wide figures, and car owners are a tiny sliver compared to any other mode of transport.
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by bertil 3y ago
In Paris, buses are a little slower than light rail, so they tend to be associated with higher status, parents with prams, and elderly people, who have more time and would rather enjoy the view. Middle-class people take the metro. The worki
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by bertil 3y ago
You want to have a more holistic view of living together. Public healthcare is part of that. Whether people in crisis are on the side of the road (and easier to ignore with a lifted car hood) or in your train car, they aren’t getting the he
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by bertil 3y ago
That’s because driving throws out all the externalities outside the window: pollution, noise, violence, the cost of roads, cutting cities with hostile canyons… Saying driving is better is like saying littering is more convenient than pickin
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by bertil 3y ago
I’ve lived in several barely finished neighbourhoods and all were walkable: Hammarby Sjöstad in Stokholm, Jätkassari in Helsinki, the new Ancoats in Manchester… All smelled of fresh paint and wet concrete. All were built with the intent to

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