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by creer 2y ago
> ways to neutralize the use of VPNs Probably - unfortunately - and so we can expect buying online to become ever more cumbersome. Great /s. Although diminishing returns might save us: the platforms will focus on "most buyers&q
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by creer 2y ago
> 80% of product diversity is really just pricing discrimination in disguise Very good and yes: Think of it from the manufacturer / seller perspective. Why shouldn't it be? If the goal it to optimize profit or return (and it is
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by creer 2y ago
Yes the problem is all these different literate needs. There is a whole range of things we should want to document and encompass. From an outline idea or plan of how the software is planned to work and is currently implemented, all the way
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by creer 2y ago
> Surely they could refer the enquiry to the bar association or something in this jurisdiction. They might but in many cases wouldn't even do that because they still wouldn't get paid for it. Doesn't matter, you don't
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by creer 2y ago
> Americans surely do love to make things illegal. That's certainly not the issue here - where the secret was to avoid informing or giving time to think by skipping the fine print.
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by creer 2y ago
It's amazing how often "illegally" is the American Way. I only wish it were a joke.
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by creer 2y ago
That seems to be thing now: get some deployed mass out there. And at this point it seems that each new city is still a significant investment (well within Waymo but still). I'm still puzzled on why Waymo insists on not having any remot
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by creer 2y ago
What does "grid" have to do with anything at this point? Mapping was done a million years ago and try and see if "grid" helps you understand the lane and traffic light system in San Francisco (which tourists need to figu
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by creer 2y ago
They did pay for the PhD - perhaps even in addition to his salary. He was also rather successful and useful at TI.
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by creer 2y ago
Did you miss my "That wasn't the case for Chang"? Chang had a specific reason to be quick anyway: his promotion at Texas Instrument would wait only so long. As for other more common, younger foreign Stanford students - they c
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by creer 2y ago
See also YC Startup School and other videos in the YC channel https://www.youtube.com/@ycombinator/videos Lots of great experiences retold - from the startup world rather than some Coca Cola exec.
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by creer 2y ago
> 3 years for a EE PhD is extremely impressive. Sure, but to this day, it depends on the school. At some universities that's right out, at Stanford that's common (after a Master or two). That wasn't the case for Chang but
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by creer 2y ago
> Chang’s immense success with TSMC looks obvious only in hindsight; nobody at the time [...] saw it that way. That's fair but we can also recognize the pattern! We are now familiar with this one. Chang had noticed the need for fabs
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by creer 2y ago
This is also a common administrative punishment method: "You seem to understand that problem. Why don't you study it more in depth and return a proposal on what to do about it". Unsaid: "in addition to your current workl
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by creer 2y ago
> Too many small methods, classes or modules > Method, class and module are interchangeable in this context Class, method, functions are NOT the only way to manage cognitive load. Other ways work well for thinking developers: Formatti
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by creer 2y ago
You don't think there are already plenty of attempts out there? When someone is "disinterested enough" to publish though, note the obvious way to launch a new fund or advisor with a good track record: crank out a pile of them
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by creer 2y ago
> AGI can't legally own anything at the moment. I was responding to this. Yes an AGI could hire someone to do the stuff - but she needs money, hiring and contract kinds of thing - for that. And once she can do that, she probably doe
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by creer 2y ago
I don't know that "legally" has much to do in here. The bars to "open an account", "move money around", "hire and fire people", "create and participate in contracts" go from stupid mini
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by creer 2y ago
I think that is what I was arguing? Except the nature of work has ALREADY changed. You don't study for one specific job if you know what's good for you. You study to start building an understanding of a technical field. The grand
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by creer 2y ago
Self-chosen goal, impetus for AGIs is a fascinating area. I'm sure there are people working on and trying things in that direction already a few years ago. But I'm not familiar with publications in that area. Certainly not politic
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by creer 2y ago
You have just found a job for yourself: resistance fighter :-) Kidding aside, yes, if the AGIs priority becomes to eliminate human inefficiencies with maximum prejudice, we have a problem.
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by creer 2y ago
I hear what you are saying. And still I dispute "general solution". I argue that CAD was a general solution - which still demanded people who knew what they wanted and what they were doing. You can screw around with excellent tool
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by creer 2y ago
You are going through your studies just as a (potentially major) new class of tools is appearing. It's not the first time in history - although with more hype this time: computing, personal computing, globalisation, smart phones, chine
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by creer 2y ago
I doubt that I actively disabled webm. But yeah, it's been years of switching this or that, firefox adding or removing this or that, etc. That does add up. One of these pages seems to imply that "webm" was turned off when it
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by creer 2y ago
Aha. There's a bunch of config switches that might need tweaking. "webm" did it for me. Thanks! https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1078015 https://www.reddit.com/r/fire
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by creer 2y ago
Youtube also blocks all but the crudest resolution on firefox.
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by creer 2y ago
Hey I'm always surprised at how many pedestrians walk around all in black (or dark) with no light, no reflecting stripe, no nothing and no care in the world. Even with the best of intention of drivers, it's a death wish. And it&#x
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by creer 2y ago
Oh that's interesting thank you. Will look for it. I do believe that computers are much more likely to have attention span and sensor capacity to reliably spot pedestrians and other random wheeled traffic. The problem is "reliably
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by creer 2y ago
> And whey they do, let's hope they don't keep doing How does bringing this up help anything? It's a bug, bugs happen, bugs get fixed. Quickly when they are software bugs. As opposed to NIMBY mind bugs.
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by creer 2y ago
That would be a more reasonable trajectory for US cities: more frequent, faster main line transit plus a flood of local inexpensive automated electric vehicles. That would be compatible with the current low density.

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