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by bertil 4y ago
There’s something endearing about someone famous saying that their talent isn’t fit for what people want them to do, and still, somehow, nail it anyway.
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by bertil 4y ago
I think you are overlooking the deadly pollution and the unjustifiable violence.
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by bertil 4y ago
Art would be doing something like the Blair Witch Project , that is trying to maintain the credibility of the fiction but still has a producer listed on IMDb. This is a bad lie.
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by bertil 4y ago
In those cases, it was easy to blame either the horse or the professional rider. Cars were driven by wealthy people who could not face that kind of responsibilities — see _The Great Gatsby_.
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by bertil 4y ago
> How do you know what happens in practice? I’ve done consulting work for that industry. > What information are you thinking of that isn’t considered private? Statistical distribution of the absolute jerk. People who race, and distrac
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by bertil 4y ago
> safer drivers paying less is perhaps equivalent to dangerous drivers paying more That’s not what happens in practice: drivers concerned about their privacy don’t use those apps, not those who drive the most carefully. Subscribers remai
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by bertil 4y ago
I’m surprised that all this web of data hasn’t led to the most meaningful and significant improvement we still need in the car industry: have people who drive dangerous pay more for their insurance. It takes very little time near a road to
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by bertil 4y ago
Atmospheric science isn’t belief: unless we rapidly change energy, transport, and construction practices, most humans will face existential threats in the next five years to ten years one way or another. That part is not for debate. A lot o
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by bertil 4y ago
Atmospheric capture today is far too energy-intensive to justify the effort. It’s likely far cheaper as of now to capture it from existing plants mixed with N2 and other gases at the plant, compress and liquefy it for purity, and truck or p
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by bertil 4y ago
The most likely outcome would be a ban on net new CO2 in the atmosphere, enforced by the army of any country that has insurance companies unwilling to pay for the destruction of half of any cities next to a coastline, a 15-m wall around the
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by bertil 4y ago
I haven’t check the math, but in sunny places like Nevada it is reasonable to drive an electric car that is entirely powered by solar panels on top of your garage. And run a modern house. There’s a lot of fudging factors like a tiny 1m2 pan
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by bertil 4y ago
> yet the psyche wards aren't overflowing with people made sick by their trips. [Citation needed. Because, yes there is.]
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by bertil 4y ago
Most of the setup described here includes conditions similar to sensory-deprivation tanks. Those can induce hallucination without psychedelics. More importantly, I would match the amount of therapy: all those offer an astounding level of di
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by bertil 4y ago
The drug is nowhere as innocuous as the people selling you make you think. You can tell surgeons that they need to ride a bike before they should operate on people after crashes but you won’t have a great reaction either.
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by bertil 4y ago
Hippies were white. I believe that spared them the bulk of Nixon’s wrath.
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by bertil 4y ago
I understand that a lot of readers of HN like solutions and read those stories with enthusiasm. But they are often that: stories, anecdotes. They rarely include properly set-up double-blind trials, even if the same actors could easily set t
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by bertil 4y ago
Train transport is far less, about seven times less , intensive per passenger than cars. Trains allow the production of CO2 to be centralised into a few power plants, owned by a handful of companies that are easy to monitor, regulate, and
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by bertil 4y ago
That’s the distinction that I make between having a complex set of KPIs that cover all the organization (which tend to alienate any challenge, what the author laments) and simple team objectives (that are only relevant for the team, and int
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by bertil 4y ago
Metrics-driven organization (aka KPIs or what the author calls Spreadsheet mentality) is what I do for a living: I’ve seen companies die by it, and companies succeed thanks to it. It’s meant to do one thing: clarify everyone’s role in a lar
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by bertil 4y ago
Netflix makes a far more obvious sin: not having “who is watching” as boolean choices. If I am watching with my partner, I want both of our accounts to mark that series as viewed. And I really want Netflix to tell me what I’m watching with
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by bertil 4y ago
I think that the main issue is less the technique (although… yes, please use RL if you can) and more the lack of data. Browsing gives very little insight: dwell-time is a poor proxy for interest, and mixes horrid ideas that are so bad they
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by bertil 4y ago
I’ve had many recruiters think they can try to sell me on the job _after_ I’ve told them it would be half of my compensation… And, look, I’d love to join a Series A start-up that offers a ton of early stock in a promising idea; I’m typicall
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by bertil 4y ago
I could try to ask companies to list their salary but it’s a fight I’m not going to win, at least not alone. So instead, I stay mine. The vast majority of any applications for me for the last 10 years have started with an incoming message f
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by bertil 4y ago
Sounds like it, but I'm not sure why they would run it for so long.
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by bertil 4y ago
I was talking about Google Maps on iOS. There are countless instances where it will refuse to work without a connection; there's even a modal pop-up to scold you for not having a connection, rather than trigger a dedicated mode like ot
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I wish more companies cared about making their product accessible with poor connection, but also no connection at all. Google Maps is probably the most egregious example of that: you are likely to need it outside of your usual Wifi, and pos
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by bertil 4y ago
The fee is the most common issue cited by employers. I generally respond (as a candidate) to get a sense of the problem. I can assure you that bad representation is the biggest problem. It’s not uncommon for recruiters to say something real
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by bertil 4y ago
https://aptera.us https://lightyear.one https://sonomotors.com/en/sion/
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by bertil 4y ago
I actually imagine that electric cars will be even more compelling for long-range — not because batteries will become that much better, but because of a quirk from electric car manufacturers: they care about aerodynamic performance, a lot m
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by bertil 4y ago
Previous success doesn’t just reveal inherent quality, it’s also a learning experience: people who have succeeded know the amount of work, frustration, and personal transformation that goes into founding a company and successful growth. The

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