erikpukinskis

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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
Sure, yes. What relevance is that?
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
I think the laws are fine as long as they govern the words you use to describe your services and not the services themselves.
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
None of the things you listed would seem to indicate anything about your ability to employ a rigorous approach to software development equivalent to what a credentialed civil engineer does with roads. A civil engineer is not credentialed be
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
What does the but in this sentence mean?
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
I guess I share your problem, I’m not sure “balanced” is the right word. You could have two species, a single celled animal and a single celled plant and ostensibly that would be “balance”. Maybe a better word for what is at risk is “divers
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
> Moot point though because the pre-Cambrian fossil record lacks anything that could have evolved into intelligent life so quickly. Isn’t the idea that the intermediate fossils were ground away by glaciers?
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
> it is hard to imagine a culture having sufficient technological capability to cause climate change without also achieving space flight What does that get you? You can’t orbit Earth for a million years without refueling. And the rest of
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
> the survivors would have lived relatively comfortably in smaller populations in habitats A million years gives a pretty long time for unlikely events to occur that could finish the job of wiping them out. Wars and engineering accidents
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
Even on shorter timescales, there are 100+ ton milled monoliths all over the world, which are seemingly 4000+ years years old. Yet the civilizations of 4000 years ago don’t seem to have known how to mill such stones. It probably wasn’t unti
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
How could a broad generalization about the future, couched in terms whose definitions are controversial, be uncontroversial?
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
I sometimes take solace in political issues, that “at least the people who believe that will eventually die”. If that stops being the case it will lead to more political action. And potentially more force. Not sure if that’s good or bad for
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
You’re assuming aging is bad for populations. My assumption is historical learning is valuable up until some percentage of your memories are false and/or obsolete. Even in a perfectly healthy individual both happen continuously. At som
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
Is there any way to get real-time voice connections over the modern internet? Is it just a matter of setting up VOIP and then mercilessly debugging latency issues on both ends? Is FaceTime or any other commercial solution close to zero late
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
> For now, these are the states that allow the sale of raw milk at retail stores: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah, and Vermont https://www.epicurious.co
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
They’re on team gasoline, team America, team trucks, team tradition, team God gave us the Earth to reap.
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
Have you never met someone who enjoyed fucking with nerds?
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
I don’t believe there were any standard chargers that supported the voltage of the Supercharger at the time Model S was released. I think they made the right call sticking with compatibility across their vehicles. Now that there are standar
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
This is why I prefer older JavaScript to the more recent stuff, with transpiration pipelines and AI-like optimizing compilers that gnaw on giant state trees. That stuff is lovely and terse when it works. And when it doesn’t you are at a tot
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
See also: Black Mirror S04E05 “Metalhead” which coincidentally aired exactly one year ago today. https://youtu.be/xpbRBTVVAwc (Featurette)
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
#dontbetheenemy
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
Chickens and cats will also stop cleaning their bodies when they are depressed. Grooming is a good indication of mental health for these animals.
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
Are there no expert players outside of the top 100?
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
It actually feels to me that you are injecting gender controversy here. The New Yorker style guide allows the author to use he or she at their discretion. That’s been the norm for hundreds of years.
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
I share your theory. Which points to a business opportunity creating diversity-friendly companies. The trouble is, the world is still sexist and racist. So while you’d end up with a more capable workforce, your company would also be disadva
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
What would you expect a normal timeframe for an automobile startup to exhibit cash flow prowess?
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
Yeah, she seems clearly brought in to help with the safety and legal issues with the workforce. Hopefully she can help actually fix the problems and not just manage and price the fallout.
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
Right now Tesla is really the only company selling even close to volume. No one else is even trying to hit the 500k to 1m volumes Tesla is aiming for. Over the next decade several others will join them. Ellison is a butt, but he understands
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
He bought 97% of the property on the island. He does not own the island or control it politically. Essentially, he bought a pineapple farm that happens to cover most of the island.
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
Comma.ai
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by erikpukinskis 8y ago
No, advertising is paid placement. What you’re describing is PR.

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