cjhopman

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by cjhopman 8y ago
Your expectations of HN users does not match reality.
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I expect that his recommendations are a good indication of how seriously Waymo takes safety.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Only if you interpret what they are saying in the way that they intended you to, despite the fact that it's not what they are explicitly saying. When they say "Facebook were disguising ‘sponsored posts’ as regular posts", all
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Those are called paddle shifters, not pedal. In the e-tron, they control the aggressiveness of the regenerative braking.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Yeah, that seemed unexpectedly flippant/dismissive. But a couple things: 1. If you look at the docs, that's from Exhibit 44 which indicates that it's actually an excerpt from a messenger discussion, not email 2. Twitter had p
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by cjhopman 8y ago
It's the voat/gab for youtube.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
> as easy to use as cryptos would be great news ...
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by cjhopman 8y ago
> but strongly conservative when it comes to issues of regulation, taxation and so forth. That doesn't match what the study claimed. At the very least, they found SV "elites" and students to be for liberal taxation polici
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by cjhopman 8y ago
"But please lets look at the facts. [...] They fired Stamos" They didn't fire Stamos.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
> A social media company getting the Senate leader of one of the 2 major parties in the US on their side is a huge fucking deal. Odd then that in the many comments on this very website discussing the original article ( https://
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by cjhopman 8y ago
> * hiring Republican lobbyists to make a good name for FB ??? There's an entire paragraph in her post about that. > * Sen. Schumer’s apparently personal involvement in protecting FB True, she didn't address that. It doesn&#
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Very, very few retired CHP are getting $200k/year. The average CHP pension is <$100k/year and is worth $2.6 million. Only about 1000 retired CHP are getting more than $100k/year. The average Googler should be making 300-40
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Is this a joke? Tesla doesn't make their own cells. They buy them from Panasonic.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Oh please. Smoking marijuana is illegal in every part of the US but every so-called "defender of free speech" that I've met would be totally up in arms about a host shutting down a site for being involved in that.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
That's a rather liberal definition of the word. From brittanica, "Genocide: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race." I don't think "
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Usually when people make these statements, they don't actually mean it. If Gab were strictly a child porn site, would it be okay if Joyent stopped serving them? If yes, then your absolutist statement isn't actually what you mean a
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by cjhopman 8y ago
WTF are you talking about? Tesla buys their batteries from a third party.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
You're off by multiple orders of magnitude.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
The total misrepresentation by the comment of what the article claims? Par for the course for hn.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
"Interviews" doesn't actually appear in the text of the article or its title. What does appear in the text is a very clear description of where the information came from. "We spoke to several former Googlers to find out
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Google's is more impressive: https://www.google.com/search?q=15+billion+divided+by+minute... Or even better: https://www.google.com/search?q=%2415+billion+per+year+in+do...
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Right. They definitely didn't understand that these passed out people were drunk. They probably just got lucky including "Legless" in the title. From Collins dictionary "If you say that someone is legless, you mean that
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by cjhopman 8y ago
That would make for a pretty terrible device. It would mean no web browser. No software that wasn't carefully vetted. Probably no app ecosystem at all. I mean, go for it, but you're serving a very small market at that point.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
But giving up CEO wasn't part of the original deal he turned down. This one is strictly worse.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
> Tesla had quite the ambitious Model 3 production goal for this quarter They claimed to be able to consistently make 5000/week at the beginning of the quarter and that they'd be at 6000/week in August. 50000/quarter
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Really? That surprises me considering that Onavo was doing that well before Facebook bought them: https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/08/onavo-insights/
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by cjhopman 8y ago
... wait, what? ClassPass is making money?
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by cjhopman 8y ago
Did you read the article? You didn't even have to get that far into it: "Wednesday’s losses were led by Ether, the second-largest virtual currency. It fell 6 percent to $171.15 at 7:50 a.m. in New York, extending this month’s retr
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Uber has since then abandoned a lot of those markets that don't use Latin scripts.
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by cjhopman 8y ago
I didn't realize that the standards of the web specified anything about how an address bar should be displayed (or, for that matter, that it specified anything about an address bar even existing).

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