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by dangus 5mo ago
Doubtful. They probably just pause service when it rains. Miami weather is ideal most of the time. These self-driving companies have made very little progress on dealing with weather for how long they’ve spent on the problem.
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by dangus 5mo ago
I feel like re-reading this sentence a few times sends me right to the twilight zone of AI psychosis. It’s 2026 and self-driving cars can’t tell the difference between a puddle and a flooded street, something a 3 year old can do. Google lit
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by dangus 5mo ago
As a friend’s company is right now going through layoffs to end human support for their customers, I was thinking about how maybe AI is just going to make these cost-cutting companies vulnerable. You put smart, often underemployed people ou
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by dangus 5mo ago
Basically, you’re saying “we can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.” Vaping and smoking are two essentially separate health concerns. Why can’t we focus on both at the same time? Are we cognitively impaired as a society and public health
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by dangus 5mo ago
JetBrains to my understanding like a traditional IDE similar to Visual Studio (classic) that comes with a lot of stuff in the box that lighter weight text editor inspired development environments don’t have. It is completely expected that i
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by dangus 5mo ago
We don’t actually know the lung cancer rates of vaping yet because the population of people who have been doing it for 30+ years is zero. I’m not even advocating for banning vapes, just maybe not having free market capitalism for new potent
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by dangus 5mo ago
Did you scroll down at all? I’m counting at least 5 risks that are not nicotine.
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by dangus 5mo ago
> Fear of getting sued by your customers into bankruptcy is an effective regulation on putting harmful substances into your vape. Not really: https://mjalterlaw.com/the-ford-pinto-memo-the-cost-to-repai...
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by dangus 5mo ago
This is essentially Tesla’s looming biggest problem: they just don’t compete in enough model segments. No tiny city car hatchback for volume in Europe, no three row SUV for American families, no commercial delivery vehicles (the ideal EV us
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by dangus 5mo ago
KeePass is such a backwards step in usability and features that I don’t even consider it a competitor. The whole reason I moved to 1Password was to get away from how easy it was to accidentally lose data with the KeePass clients. For exampl
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by dangus 5mo ago
I think they’re doing it because of your exact behavior: one-click unsubscribe links are easy to do even if you’re on mobile and aren’t giving the process your full attention. Making you enter your email is a barrier. They already know your
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by dangus 5mo ago
I think it’s both, but also they don’t even need ambitious concepts. They just need to make vehicles that compete in popular segments and become a proper full range automaker. Tesla has no 3-row SUV/family vehicle, no subcompact SUV (K
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by dangus 5mo ago
Tesla is now out of the top 10 list for EV sales in China as a brand. The Model 3 is not one of the top 5 selling EVs in Europe. Everything in the top 3 has a hatch. Sedans are more popular in the American market but they’re also a dying se
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by dangus 5mo ago
This is also representative of Tesla’s stagnation as a company. They essentially have not made a new product since the Model Y came out. No, the Cybertruck doesn’t count, I don’t think we can even consider that a product brought to completi
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by dangus 5mo ago
Still being studied, but the idea that it’s safe seems to be a very odd default. https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/e-cigarettes/health-effects.html Why would your default assumption be that putting foreign (and poorly r
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by dangus 5mo ago
I’m not sure how you could possibly argue that nicotine has mainly desirable effects. Merely being highly addictive on its own is a pretty badly overriding negative effect. Here’s a paper that talks about the negative impacts on a wide vari
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by dangus 5mo ago
In the context of the alternative which was “nobody really smokes or vapes” it’s not really a good outcome. Sure, smoking rates cratered. It was great. But now vaping rates have gone up and it just didn’t have to happen that way at all. G
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by dangus 5mo ago
I think your comment, perhaps unintentionally, downplays the seriousness of the January 6th coup attempt. America has since decided to essentially forget about January 6th but there was a brief period of time where pretty much everyone figu
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by dangus 5mo ago
If the silicon costs $200-300 and the company throws it away every two years that’s cheaper than a subscription. Also, how many companies will just buy an M6/M7 MacBook Pro with 32GB+ of RAM in a couple of years and get “free” AI along
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by dangus 5mo ago
So the main two complaints about this project seem to be about traffic/crashes related to construction trucks and the disruption to electrical service. Both issues are presumably temporary since they’re related to construction. It seem
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by dangus 5mo ago
Yeah, this whole discussion thread is essentially irrelevant to the underlying topic because of exactly what you said. It’s just the typical HN humble brag thread about being present and owning no technology. Awesome that these folks don’t
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by dangus 5mo ago
Yes that’s literally what I’m talking about. He made a cool site, sold it off to get enshittified, and now his main gig is grifting off of polymarket.
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by dangus 5mo ago
Bingo. There is no saving the Vision Pro. No upgrade or alien technology can make it something desirable. Meta is the best in the space and they’re scaling way back on their VR division. It’s just not working as a mainstream product. Valve
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by dangus 5mo ago
But he kind of sucks and isn’t worth following. He’s a sellout at heart, including his recent association with Polymarket. Someone cool would have never sold out a website as good as 538 used to be. Now he’s more interested in profiting off
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by dangus 5mo ago
"okay buddy you're not making very compelling arguments here" isn't even a basic contribution to the discussion. You’ve claimed to empathize with workers, but then you’ve lumped them into the same category as an aggregat
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by dangus 5mo ago
I'm impressed by the effort and the technical know-how. Another part of me is almost annoyed that Apple's complete apathy toward obvious computing use cases like this is rewarded by a project like this. I feel like Macs and macOS
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by dangus 5mo ago
If we are talking about a no-immigrant law, the whole United States would be deeply impacted. The US would have a negative net population growth without immigration. That would mean institutions of all types are going to contract in size an
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by dangus 5mo ago
This isn’t just limited to ivy leagues, the same thing happens at state schools. Many of my professors were from other countries. I literally wouldn’t have an education without immigrants.
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by dangus 5mo ago
We have never seen a presidential administration misunderstand soft power so badly. US universities were an incredible blessing to the “brand” of the USA. Foreign students come to the US, pay an inflated full sticker price, subsidizing US s
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by dangus 5mo ago
The idea that DEI is a discrimination program is a false implantation by right wing media. Discrimination is the polar opposite of what DEI programs intend to implement. Unfortunately, we’ve been fighting the tail end of the civil war for t

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