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by birken 5y ago
I've only driven my car, but Consumer Reports tested a bunch of cars and rated Comma the best [1]. Maybe another car since then is better, but of course Comma is always getting updated and you just download the new version to your dev
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by birken 5y ago
Installation is not consumer friendly (though I'm sure any auto shop would happily install it), but functionality certainly is. My wife who is not particularly tech savvy has no problem using Comma. I have a car that isn't even t
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by birken 5y ago
Comma is far and away the best version of "automatic cruise control" that exists in any consumer car. If you think Comma is hacky then wait until you see Tesla's version, which costs $10k and only works on one brand of car!
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by birken 5y ago
As far as I'm aware, the answers to these questions is currently not known.
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by birken 5y ago
He has been constantly changing his positions and using the proceeds to invest in other companies. The benefit isn't one time, it is compounding over time, because he gets to keep investing the 20% of extra money he would have had to
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by birken 5y ago
Pfizer, a company that has contributed probably trillions of dollars to global GDP over the past 6 months, is massively underperforming the stock market when you compare pre-pandemic to now [1]. The stock price in theory should price in al
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by birken 5y ago
It looks like her TSLA stock is down from when she purchased it, because there is no corresponding sale and TSLA is trading for less than it was on 12/21/2020 (and has been for the last month... the disclosure period for trades).
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by birken 5y ago
I'm sure the employees would much rather have been laid off to stick it to the asset holders.
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by birken 5y ago
What is the purpose of your comment?
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by birken 6y ago
This lines up exactly with what Dr. Daniel Griffin talked about in the most recent clinical update podcast for TWIV [1]. Apparently aspirating makes the shot more painful, because the needle is in the body longer, and serves no benefit as
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by birken 6y ago
You can gift $15,000 per person, per year, without counting against the exemption. If you go above that you start to chip into the massive lifetime exemption. Unless you have a net worth way above $10 million dollars you don't need to
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by birken 6y ago
The lifetime gift exemption is more than $10 million dollars, so unless you are really doing a lot of gifting back and forth then you are unlikely to run into that.
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by birken 6y ago
I'm certainly not a religious expert, but from my understanding Christianity's main innovations were not monotheism or absolute morality. Those concepts had been around for a very long time and Christianity adopted those ideas th
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by birken 6y ago
Wasn't most "legitimate discussion" already happening in private already? This article is pointing out situations where even in private people might not want to give out candid feedback, which seems like a different concern
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by birken 6y ago
Currently 25% of the US population has one dose of the vaccine. That is way beyond Canada and most other countries, but the US is far from vaccinating 18 year olds.
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by birken 6y ago
In about 2 months I suspect the US is going to flooding Canada/Mexico with vaccine doses.
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by birken 6y ago
How often does the nightly news report on the person who didn't go to prison for some minor crime and was able to turn their life around via other interventions? The safest thing to do would be put everybody in prison, then there would
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by birken 6y ago
According to Google, downtown Houston is 1.84 square miles. Houston is 669 square miles. So downtown Houston represents about 0.3% of Houston. The reason it is affordable in downtown Houston is because the other 99.7% of Houston exists,
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by birken 6y ago
On an absolute basis, SF has horrifically restricted housing policy that makes it incredibly difficult to build new, denser housing. However, compared to the broader bay area, SF has incredibly progressive housing policy. It is ridiculous
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by birken 6y ago
SF is over 5x denser than Dallas, which is the densest major city in Texas. The problem with homelessness is people can't afford to live in homes. It is a lot easier to avoid homelessness when you have essentially endless space to bu
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by birken 6y ago
The laws are enforced. I haven't seen any conclusive evidence that shows Prop 47 has led to higher crime rates. In fact there are many studies which show there isn't any, while at the same time the state is saving tons of money n
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by birken 6y ago
What law are you referring to? Prop 47? There is no law which allows robberies.
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by birken 6y ago
The second link doesn't say the sample was hospitalized patients, it seems like it was patients in all conditions: > The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, included patients from ages 18 to 86 in light, moderate and seriou
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by birken 6y ago
My adaptive cruise control does work from 0-25mph and it is great, especially for bumper to bumper. You only have to watch out for cars aggressive merging in front of you (which the distance sensor doesn't always pick up) but otherwis
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by birken 6y ago
Yes I really like the Honda adaptive cruise control, especially in bumper to bumper traffic. Does a fantastic job, saves a lot of driver fatigue and other than perhaps not being as smooth and fuel efficient as I could be, works exactly h
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by birken 6y ago
You said cases were high. Case counts are going to depend on how quickly the age groups with the most cases get vaccinated, which is generally the younger population. So it is going to take a while for case counts to fall. Since a COVID d
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by birken 6y ago
First of all, talk to a lawyer, most of the people here have no clue what they are talking about. Any shareholder of the company has shareholder rights, and in fact you would get a vote on any change in ownership of the company (of course y
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by birken 6y ago
The JNJ vaccine had trials in South Africa with ~10k participants and Novavax with ~4400. In fact AZ with ~2k participants was the smallest trial. Source: https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1358486648359591937&#
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by birken 6y ago
I don't use the my Honeywell humidifier regularly, but I use it from time to time and honestly I like it more than any other humidifier I've used. I've found it very easy to keep clean, works really well at increasing the hu
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by birken 6y ago
I'm quite confident people probably over-estimate their chance of dying in a plane crash by a few orders of magnitude as well. People are careful about their own lives, which is probably a good survival mechanism. What specific poli

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