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by cornellwright 8y ago
While I agree with the objective - that cars/trucks should shutdown instead of idling, I have to wonder, do we really want to a society where people are paid to report their neighbors? Sure it seems like this guy is doing everything pr
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by cornellwright 8y ago
I'm not sure that most skilled drivers to could reliably drive through SF 100,000 times in all weather without some sort of incident. Autonomous would be more impressive.
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by cornellwright 8y ago
One useful way I've heard to remember it is the rule of 3's: You can survive approximately: 3 minutes without oxygen, 3 hours of exposure (core temperature), 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food Supposedly the special forces
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Sure, it won't be phrased that way and so obvious when presented. But I guess that's my point: Have a conscience, pay attention, and don't build anything illegal or unethical. Management may be sanctioning it now, but they wo
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by cornellwright 8y ago
The other thing I'd add to this is if you look at the VW and other scandals, you'll see "rogue engineers" are the first ones executives will try to throw under the bus. Ethics aside, you're taking a huge risk in ord
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Personally, I'd like to get rid of all coins, and introduce a $0.25 note and call it a day. Round all cash payments up to the next quarter and no more metal money. Egypt has a 0.25 Egyptian Pound note. The last time I was there it was
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Genealogical Sleuthing Helps Crack Five More Cold Cases(nytimes.com)
3 points by cornellwright 8y ago|0 comments
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by cornellwright 8y ago
These are fair criticisms, but I don't think anybody has this nailed. I use a mix of Windows, Mac, and Linux, and have found myself walking around with the lid open in all three. Mac seems to handle what you describe better than everyo
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by cornellwright 8y ago
He still went back to work at the first company though. I guess this depends a lot on his personal situation as well.
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Yeah the company is lucky he wasn't well on his way to finding a job somewhere else at this point.
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Along with the boredom I'd image you have the anxiety of getting fired or laid off if someone realizes you don't actually do anything. Then when you go to get your next job you won't have anything to show for the last n years
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by cornellwright 8y ago
A lot of people recommended practicing coding problems. Along with this, I would add practice talking to people you don't know. Go to networking events and meet-ups. Offer to give mock interviews to people more junior than you. Have co
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by cornellwright 8y ago
This is completely right. I don't think people realize how much tying healthcare to full time employment hurts people and slow innovation. It makes people stick in bad situations and disadvantages small businesses both financially and
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by cornellwright 8y ago
That might be reasonable if their were real competition for high speed internet so that customers could actually vote with their feet if they didn't like their ISP doing that. I live in the Bay Area and there is only one ISP (Comcast)
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Do you market your house / front yard as a good place to do illegal things (even implicitly) and then take payment from the people doing them while turning a blind eye to whatever conduct is happening?
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A moon colony may be a reality sooner than we think(nytimes.com)
49 points by cornellwright 8y ago|32 comments
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Not the OP, but I have also interviewed and hired ex-Theranos engineers. I don't think it damaged their career prospects. So long as they can talk about the normal things you talk about at an interview they'll be fine. I feel like
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Talk to an employment lawyer. Seriously, they can help shed a lot of clarity on a situation like this. There are a lot of different ways to game out a situation like this and they depend a lot on your relationship with your boss, what outco
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Once you hire someone you have to give them a chance to be successful. As the threshold for firing someone is (rightly) much higher than simply not hiring them, fixing a false positive is much more expensive than missing out on a good cand
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by cornellwright 8y ago
Oh please. This is like the (apocryphal) saying everything that can be invented has been invented [1]. It's easy to look backwards and in hindsight say app MVPs were easy and obvious. For most ideas you should be able to distill some q
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by cornellwright 8y ago
This was one thing I really liked about driving an electric car in the winter - you can start the heater remotely through the app. Since it's an electric heater it warms up way faster than ICE. If it's plugged in, it will not even
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by cornellwright 9y ago
The press loves controversy.
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by cornellwright 9y ago
I think the previous commenter must have meant "had" as that says as of sometime before the 2012 date on that article the master password allegedly no longer worked. Still egregious if that sort of early stage stuff hung around th
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by cornellwright 9y ago
Source?
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by cornellwright 9y ago
When Jonathan Hurst (one of the cofounders) was getting his PhD, his lab was next to mine. We got to (had to) listen to his enormous jumping leg bounce for hours on end. At that point it was mounted on boom attached to a center pivot and th
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by cornellwright 9y ago
You can't "emulate lenses on a screen" unless it's a lightfield display (which it's not). With higher resolution you could correct for more lens distortion, but you still need lenses, and you won't be able to f
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by cornellwright 9y ago
When I last renewed my insurance it offered me coverage for driving for rideshare for an extra $50 per 6 months (I think - I've never driven Uber/Lyft, so I didn't look too closely). If I'm remembering it right that soun
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by cornellwright 9y ago
Yeah I've heard stories of some people doing crazy, dangerous, illegal things in small planes and just turning their transponders off. I was a passenger in a C182 once where the transponder antenna fell off midflight. It was very educa
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by cornellwright 9y ago
ATC primary radar is pretty weak. Not showing up (particularly after changing flight direction) doesn't mean much. It's very odd (and illegal) for something to be up in flight levels without a transponder though.
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by cornellwright 9y ago
If this is not a robot, then what is a robot?

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