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by freyr 7y ago
What is Xeni Jardin claiming? That she brought the story to the NYT but they buried it because Ito was on the board? Why didn't she take it elsewhere? Edit: I was looking for a bit more context than a random tweet. Had to search throug
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by freyr 7y ago
To be fair, I don't think the Leaf looks bad . The Tesla just looks more like a "conventionally attractive" higher end sedan.
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From his MIT Media Lab bio: In Japan, he was a founder of Digital Garage and helped establish and later became CEO of the country’s first commercial Internet service provider. Probably netted him enough to set the rest in motion. Still, l
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by freyr 7y ago
Ito reminds me of Epstein in that I have no idea how either got their money. Wikipedia must be skipping over some important details, but it describes him as a two-time college dropout, a nightclub manager in Japan, (EDIT: nevermind, mystery
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by freyr 7y ago
I'd expect more than "a bit" for the extra $45,000+. Tesla wins in the looks department, though.
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by freyr 7y ago
Buzzfeed and Buzzfeed News are not one in the same, and Buzzfeed News does do real journalism. See, for example, this series of articles on Vladimir Putin's ties to a killing campaign on British and American soil: https://ww
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by freyr 7y ago
Isn't "taking Saudi money" Uber's current business model?
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by freyr 7y ago
In the U.S., moving from the city to the suburbs is probably the best thing you can do to ensure decent public schooling. For instance, a recent list of top ranked public high schools from US News and World Report: Academic Magnet Hig
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by freyr 7y ago
It's not how much pizza you can eat. Think how many slice a person typically eats at a team lunch in a professional setting. It's usually a few slices. A large pizza has around 8 slices, so with two pizzas, that covers 6-10 peop
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by freyr 7y ago
> Finland and Denmark being beer while Sweden and Norway is wine Finland and Norway are beer, Sweden and Denmark are wine.
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by freyr 7y ago
He says at the outset that he’s responsible for the art and everything is done to his specifications. Maybe art just isn’t where his talent lies. I actually wonder if he couldn’t make 2x or more by investing in the art. His previous efforts
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by freyr 7y ago
It's weird that we lag so far behind in some areas, even when we help develop the technology.
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by freyr 7y ago
Thanks, I'll try that brilliant logic on my wife. "Sure, hun, the Porsche was expensive, but it's not that much in regard to all the money spent in the world!"
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That drives the costs down, sure, but then you end up with food that's been sitting around as the driver goes from restaurant to restaurant and then travels from house to house.
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> They paid $544m more to drivers to deliver food than they took in. Why? Maybe it's just not a very profitable business to send some guy in a Prius across town to pick up a burrito, then drive back across town to deliver said bur
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by freyr 7y ago
Besides the R&D, they hired an army of SV software engineers at top-of-market rate.
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> The smartest people I know are itching to work at startups. What's stopping them? In my experience, the people who actually want to work at startups tend to be either (a) very young engineers, who have more risk tolerance and
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by freyr 7y ago
Do people really think this way, besides young people and tech managers? I'm over 35 and my productivity and capacity to learn new things has only continued to grow over time. It's true that many exceptional artifacts have been pr
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by freyr 7y ago
We read about it ten years ago. We read about it today. We'll be reading about it ten years from now. It's always right around the corner. We should have a Manhattan Project for baldness. Bring the best and brightest minds in the
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by freyr 7y ago
The dictionary starts with those 60 words, like axioms in mathematics. Then it builds up a vocabulary on top of them. Left is defined this way: [X is on the right side of your body.] = X is on this side of your body: Most people write usin
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by freyr 7y ago
For someone so obsessed with language, I never understood why his writing is so cryptic. I haven't read the original, but in translation, his writing seems almost purposefully ambiguous. To people here versed in philosophy, was there r
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by freyr 7y ago
The point is, users can not be redirected from your app to any out-of-app purchase system by any means, according to Apple's App Store Review Guidelines ( https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelin
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by freyr 7y ago
Again, per person costs don't matter if they are unsuccessful. And concentration camps? I'm not sure you know what a concentration camp is.
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Efficient in what sense? Lower cost? That doesn't seem likely in a city like San Francisco, where the cost of real-estate, construction, labor is sky high and the housing supply is extremely limited. Helping more people? In that sense,
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by freyr 7y ago
Considering that C++ has evolved a lot over the years (and grown quite large), what are good resources for a programmer to get started with the language in 2019? I've heard Accelerated C++ is a good introduction, but it's quite ol
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by freyr 7y ago
Wrong. Alameda County, 43% increase in homeless population in two years. San Francisco, 17% increase. Orange County, 42% increase. Kern County, 50% increase. In Seattle/King County, 28% increase in the chronically homeless population f
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by freyr 7y ago
Why do support services need to be located in a city? What support services cannot be offered outside of a city? The reality is that many of the visible homeless living in the city center are addicts, and they congregate in city centers, in
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by freyr 7y ago
It's acknowledged that there's a housing crisis. There's also an opioid crisis, and a crisis in care for the mentally ill. I don't think OP would challenge any of that, but he's addressing a much more specific point
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> yet I don't see many people particularly keen on dropping out Just open your eyes. Look around Seattle, or San Francisco, or Los Angeles, or San Diego or any other city with mild weather, lenient law enforcement, and generous we
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by freyr 7y ago
Go is a language you can pick up in a relatively short amount of time. The syntax is in the vein of C and Python, so it's probably familiar. The language itself is fairly small, and the focus is on simplicity over expressiveness. If yo

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