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by galdosdi 9y ago
I don't understand. I asked for a use case. You gave me a glittering generality. What concrete task that i might desire to achieve in life can be done with Facebook but not the other tools? Pretty much everyone who has a facebook has a
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by galdosdi 9y ago
I think you can still cut that budget in half. ( What are you cooking that takes up the most cost? Meat maybe?) I spend too much on food these days because I can and am lazy but when I was on top of it we spent $200 a month to feed TWO peop
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Let me start by apologizing for an insulting tone. Your reply was so thoughtful and constructive I was chagrined, so thanks. It's not about you, I'm just angry about a society that tries hard to trick people into thinking a happy
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by galdosdi 9y ago
I believe it. As a former (albeit a very unimportant L3 SRE in a distant and unrelated division with no nonpublic info whatsoever about Waymo) Googler, the only thing that impressed me about my time there was the engineering culture, which
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Strongly agree. For those who disagree and see it as personal and temporary thing rather than an inevitable incentive for these institutions, I would like to remind you of the clipper chip debacle of the 90s. Doesn't matter who's
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Does not matter. My point was not that all DMV or government is great. My point was some is good some is bad. The OP seemed (to me anyway) to be saying it's almost always bad, and that stereotype ("lol government is sooolo ineffic
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Why go from hacker to hack? I'm taking a break from the corporate software job world and thinking about what to do next, but I need something interesting to keep me busy. Many people would travel in a time of their lives like that, and
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by galdosdi 9y ago
You're almost right. It would work the first time though, if the military successfully kept the weapon's existence secret till then, and resisted the urge to use it too soon to save it for a pivotal battle. Militaries are well pra
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by galdosdi 9y ago
So what's your thesis for how Google will fail? They get a cut out of a plurality of the ad clicks on the web. Do you think people will stop using the web or stop clicking on ads or what?
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by galdosdi 9y ago
This supports my thesis waymo is building a self driving car but uber is only building a pretend self driving car (to fleece investors, who realize uber will go bankrupt if snd when anyoneother than uber achieves total success with self dri
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by galdosdi 9y ago
The hovering hand thing weirded me the hell out. You'd get terrible RSI if you actually did that all day. Try it.
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Whoa. The car couldn't even pass a stopped vehicle on its own? That's terrifying. It's glorified cruise control. I think uber is basically pretending to develop a self driving car.
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by galdosdi 9y ago
I'm about to get my hack license (taxicab operator) in NYC. I learned in taxi school yesterday that in NY, any fatality or serious injury involving a taxi (including ubers etc) triggers an instant suspension of the driver's hack l
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by galdosdi 9y ago
You are aware that Google has revenue, right?
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Name a use case I can accomplish with FB I cannot accomplish otherwise then.
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Edit: the meaning of # in C does not resemble hashtags at all. Typo.
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Exactly! I think when FB came out, the newness of being able to reconnect with a high school acquaintance you were never that close to to begin with, with such low effort, got people excited. A few years later the novelty has worn off and w
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by galdosdi 9y ago
> but even as a single, young, healthy person, $90k wouldn't feel very comfortable here. WTF???? Where the hell does your money go? I felt _very_ comfortable when I was making $75k and living in lower Manhattan walking distance from
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Big friggin whoop. Systems that already meet the "everyone is on it" requirement better than Facebook include: Plain old phone calls SMS Email
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by galdosdi 9y ago
I doubt that. The meaning of # in C does my resemble hashtags at all. I would guess it was inspired by IRC, the first popular chat system, dating back to the 70s or 80s, which uses channels named with the hashmark and which are often named
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by galdosdi 9y ago
It depends on your definition but FWIW Flour tortillas, which burritos require, were only invented very recently, after Europeans brought wheat to the americas. Wheat tortillas have caught on in some parts of mezixo, primarily near the UsA
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Ha! I've had the same experience many times as a Mexican American. Usually with Texans and Californians who visit NYC, try say, some actually authentic mexican tacos, and pronounce them lame and "inauthentic" because they do
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Ever heard of an elevated highway, ramp, flying junction, bridge, or tunnel? I mean, yeah the topology is not as complex as a pure unrestricted 3d space but it's also more complex than pure 2d space. It's a search through a space,
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by galdosdi 9y ago
What's your point exactly? The Quora poster's argument is just a rehash of the OP and also can be restated symmetricly for over speeding as for underspeeding and thus adds nothing here. It also fails to address my point about kine
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by galdosdi 9y ago
ACTUALLY, in many US states it's not just wise, but it is the law that if a vehicle is stopped in an adjacent lane you MUST either move to a further lane (if you can do so safely in time) or else at least slow down. This is because sto
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by galdosdi 9y ago
What's most troubling is it doesn't even matter if the uber car thought the slow object in the other lane was a pedestrian, a car, a tree, whatever. Even if it thought the object was say, the most "normal" thing it could
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Baloney. In most USA cities the vast majority of police officers on patrol are in radio motor patrol cars, not footposts. Are you even from the USA? Or is there a city that is an exception? Or are you repeating the trite idea that all motor
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by galdosdi 9y ago
If this is the only data point then uber self driving cars are about 50 times more dangerous than average human drivers (see numbers quoted repeatedly elsewhere; uber has driven about 2 megamiles; human average is 100 megamiles between fata
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Yeah, I have always felt that a lot of these easy reasons for crashes (texting, drinking alcohol, speeding) are, while statistically linked with crashes of course, also emphasized due to psychology -- we all want to feel like there's s
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by galdosdi 9y ago
WTF? Spoken like an inveterate speeder... it's at best equally dangerous, the effect you are speaking of happens for both higher and lower speeds. At low speeds, other cars pass you. At high speeds, you pass other cars. Either way, eve

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