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by galdosdi 9y ago
Judging based on anecdotal feelings, you find that it "seems the algorithm is pretty safe" But if you looked at the data (just numbers I've seen repeated a lot in this thread, heh), you'd find Uber's achieved 1 fata
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by galdosdi 9y ago
> Harvesting fruit is far more complex than driving. It's a 3D search through a complex space. Are you making a joke? "a 3D search [for a path that reaches the destination safely and legally] through complex space" is exac
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by galdosdi 9y ago
To solve this chicken and egg problem, you could build a social network that interoperates with Facebook -- use a combination of public (and undocumented browser to server) APIs to proxy communications back and forth. Then anyone who wants
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by galdosdi 9y ago
History would be repeating itself. This was one of the factors in the burning down of much of the south Bronx in the 1970s. The city was broke and asked RAND Corporation to scientifically determine the least necessary firehouses to close. T
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by galdosdi 9y ago
I agree with you point but have an interesting "but technically" exception: several states such as Colorado and Oklahoma regulate that beer sold in some places must be 4%. Many brewers make 4% compliant beer, and while labelled t
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by galdosdi 9y ago
How about, if you care so much about smashed windows, just parking your car on private property instead of taking up a piece of very valuable publicly owned real estate FOR FREE, for the low-value use of car parking, in the middle of a plac
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by galdosdi 9y ago
> If you don't understand your stack fully, things can get bulky and expensive fast. Ironically, software really does fundamentally suffer from the same problem too. It just so happens that today's hardware is so powerful relat
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by galdosdi 9y ago
You're also being extremely confusing. I really can't tell what you are actually advocating. Are you being intentionally ambiguous and vague? If all you have to say is that one can make an argument for anything, this is not very h
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Whoa, I would love to hear more. I'm a dissatisfied software engineer and have often thought about trying to move into a technical hands on field like welding, electrician, auto mechanic, etc, in the hopes it'd be more satisfying,
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by galdosdi 9y ago
I'm not sure what you're advocating so I have to guess. Are you saying, "defund all education in the US and send the money to improve education somewhere else?" If so, the below two points will cure you of this silly ide
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Those problems are hard for a reason. XKCD puts it succinctly: https://xkcd.com/1831/ > Solution: Do not connect the tunnel directly to the road network. Then how do people get there? Train? OK, then you have to pla
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by galdosdi 9y ago
I agree with both of you: (1) those who have already made it here and intend to stay, are Americans now. That's what America has always been about. Anyone who disagrees is a despicable nativist who should be deported back to Germany, E
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Yes, this is an important point that many deny! A lot of lower paying technical work requires just as much skill. But it's about supply and demand. The faux intellectual vibe in programming is purely cultural due to class associations.
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Exactly! Thank you! Assuming these are real, not nominal rates, who cares? I'd rather maybe miss out on the extra 2% than definitely miss out on the original 5%. Why be jealous? You can also hedge your bets by gradually increasing your
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Yup, it's very hard to make a good return in the competitive stock market, but easy to make a good return in the market you have exclusive monopoly access to: making investments that cut your own personal costs of living
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Oh, I see. Yeah I agree it would have been silly of Tesla to add LIDAR to the cars currently on the market, just for the sake of better training data.
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Last I heard publicly, Waymo had gotten their LIDAR kit to under $10k. And still dropping. You're telling me that a new non-driverless car for say, $15k would outsell a (otherwise identical) driverless car for $25k? The value added by
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by galdosdi 9y ago
A good example of why relying on vision alone rather than also using sensors like LIDAR is silly. Selfdriving is already going to be a hugely valuable technology even if it requires an extra few thousand dollars per vehicle for hardware. Wh
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by galdosdi 9y ago
When I hear stuff like this I'm flabbergasted. I live and work in downtown Manhattan, and it's much more affordable to get housing [1] or parking [2] than what online commenters describe about the bay area -- contrary to what ster
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by galdosdi 9y ago
> it's only a slight exaggeration to say that half of New Jersey is fully integrated suburbs of NYC) By land, yes. If measured by population, your "exaggeration" is probably even an understatement.
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Being able to sell the system is irrelevant as long as the system will last indefinitely (or say, 30 years, which approximates the same value anyway). Everything but the battery is solid state and should last indefinitely -- or certainly mo
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Given his current setup, you have a good point. However, with a setup that includes say, his refrigerator, there'll be more than enough load to ensure no collected energy is ever "wasted"
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Cool! The one thing I notice the author gets wrong is (out of modesty perhaps) claiming the system isn't very financially successful. But it actually is! > 200W system payback period: $300 / $48 = 6.5 years until payback > E
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Electrons travel way slower than the energy they transfer. Also, the grid provides alternating current, so the electrons never travel more than a few inches. So if you want to know where your electrons come from, well, they all come from th
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by galdosdi 9y ago
This is so weird. You don't drink alcohol, so you can't set foot in a bar? They serve non alcoholic drinks (and food too as often as not) you know. If anyone but yourself makes you feel weird about not drinking alcohol, the proble
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Indeed! That said, library quality, much like school quality, can vary enormously by geography. Also like school quality, it's not entirely random, there's a pattern where wealthier communities often (though not always) tend to ha
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Superficially yes. But there's no real difficulty to one of those problems, and amazing fascinating difficulty to the other. Getting JavaScript to work as a server side language is about as challenging as getting a crew cab pickup truc
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by galdosdi 9y ago
The law is enforced by humans, not by machines. "The law is the law regardless of where in the country a case is heard" is obviously false for all kinds of laws, not just this one. Different humans have different biases. I am curi
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Start by adding a whole-system black box end-to-end test, if there aren't already any good ones. Ideally fully automated and automatically run for every commit via CI, but don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, take what
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Well, I wasn't sure either, but have you seen Waymo's current state-reported stats for mean miles driven between human takeover incidents? If not, look them up, they are very impressive. If you still disagree, please elaborate on

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