erobbins

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by erobbins 7y ago
> Because the U.S. economy is primarily internally driven; trade is only about 15% of GDP. So more important than the balance of trade is how that trade impacts the domestic economy. That's almost scarier, really. It's a big sh
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by erobbins 7y ago
For me personally, "meaningful" can be replaced by "interesting". I don't really care if what I'm doing has any meaning whatsoever, I want it to be interesting and tap into my strengths. Note also, this had not
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by erobbins 7y ago
We are now entering the trough of disillusionment. In a few years some real novel and amazing companies will emerge and drones will find their useful place in society.
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by erobbins 7y ago
Neither do most of the drivers, unfortunately. They are going to be the ones holding the bag at the end.
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by erobbins 7y ago
've been a subscriber for some time and they are great. No junk, no ads, no pitches, just news.
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by erobbins 7y ago
Right, eventually the drivers will figure out that they are the losers in this scheme. People really don't understand just how much it costs to own a car, especially one you drive 30k miles a year.
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by erobbins 7y ago
With a functional government, regulations enable the regulators to punish people who do these things.
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by erobbins 7y ago
Can not agree more. Anyone wonder why IC starts at level 3 but managers start at level 5? It's not because they're separate but equal.
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by erobbins 7y ago
I've survived for years drinking mostly iced tea, with a soda in the morning instead of coffee. I can count the number of times I drink plain water in a week on one hand (after exercise, basically)
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by erobbins 7y ago
Fusion as a power source is only 30 years away now :)
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by erobbins 7y ago
It's deceptively comfortable :) You can very quickly find yourself dehydrated and in a bad state.
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by erobbins 7y ago
There's no faster (or more convenient) way of getting anywhere outside of a city than driving. It's point to point, and runs on my schedule.
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by erobbins 7y ago
I punted my work issued one back and asked for a 2015. The new keyboard is an abomination.
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by erobbins 7y ago
:) Our "billionaire" president paid his son's Boy Scouts fees with charity money rather than his own. People with that kind of money are usually SUPER cheap and REALLY attached to every dollar.
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by erobbins 7y ago
as long as there is a positive pressure differential between the helium lines and the tank, all is well. Also, there's no valve for the water hammer effect to destroy now :)
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by erobbins 7y ago
I worked for a company that had Florida (and other state) DMV data and that's exactly what we did.
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by erobbins 7y ago
The problem is you can't form one when you need it, because then it's too late. You have to do it ahead of time, when you think you probably don't need it, because that's when you have the upper hand.
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by erobbins 7y ago
It's more dangerous, and I trust distributed systems (humans) more than a monolith (waymo). Sure, an individual human may from time to time screw up, but there aren't any defects present in every single person just waiting for the
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by erobbins 7y ago
Uber and the entire gig economy is a blight on society, where a poorly skilled labor force are exploited for gain by a wealthy few with little hope of improvement.
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by erobbins 7y ago
Driving is not dangerous. Millions of people drive hundreds of millions of miles a day in the US, and the number of deaths is a statistical blip.
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by erobbins 7y ago
Autonomous driving is the new nuclear fusion. It's a couple decades away.
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by erobbins 7y ago
Disclaimer: I worked there for 2 years Phil Libin was more concerned about stroking his ego and turning the company into a lifestyle brand like apple than actually improving the product.
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by erobbins 7y ago
I prefer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h0Qvc6_MfQ :)
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by erobbins 7y ago
This is awesome. I'm sure he will be opposed by congress, as they get a ton of money dumped in their pockets by pharma and insurance companies. Might be the first time I'll be on his side lol.
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by erobbins 7y ago
I think this "study" is crap. On one side, you have armed terrorists threatening a state legislature, and on the other side you have... what? The gap isn't in perception, it's in civilized behavior.
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by erobbins 7y ago
Assuming battery swaps are the aviation "norm", it might be possible to design the aircraft so that the batteries could be jettisoned in an emergency. This would also give much better glide performance for the emergency, and make
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by erobbins 7y ago
Elon Musk? I'm not sure which one you're describing here.
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by erobbins 7y ago
His point is that the external threat of barbarians or whatever is what held together civilizations like Rome. They had an external threat to rally together against. Here in the US the period after 9/11 was very similar, or after Pearl
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by erobbins 7y ago
Maybe, but having an electronic system on an airliner that can't be disabled could potentially lead to a fire that can't be extinguished and that's why you can shut down every system as the pilot.
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by erobbins 7y ago
Understood :) I had this idea myself but had no real way of pulling it off. I have believed for a long time that the real wins in autonomous vehicles would come from long haul trucking, but the last mile problem would really seal the deal.

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