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by gonehome 3y ago
No worries - trying to engage in thoughtful conversation despite the internet incentivizing craziness is my goal! Fair point about existing players, I just tend to discount old large companies being able to execute for the same reasons star
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by gonehome 3y ago
Also seems unfair that my root level comment was flagged, dang?
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yes, that's why I mentioned the difficulties with fraud. There are things you can do with that too (Iris scans are one example, but there are others).
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by gonehome 3y ago
Agreed, I just have a hard time with articles I know to be uncharitable or written with an obvious bent against the subject. Maybe world coin has thought of these problems? Maybe not, but I wouldn’t trust the author to have done any due dil
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by gonehome 3y ago
The licensing discussion I heard between Ben Thompson and John Gruber on their Dithering podcast (not sure the details). Even ignoring that, I think it's still a good outcome for Tesla - they effectively own and control a large percent
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by gonehome 3y ago
Keybase was sort of trying to do this with social proof, though it's reliance on a centralized provider (keybase itself) made it brittle. I think you can get there with something like Urbit IDs that are easy to ban. If IDs are not infi
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by gonehome 3y ago
There are things you can do to verify humanity. Make a human go to a place for example (though even this has difficulties with fraud). I'm not making any specific claims about world coin other than the goal they're trying to solve
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by gonehome 3y ago
It’s licensed access iirc so they’re getting some payment for it (which they deserve for their investment in building it out despite the odds). They also charge a higher rate to non-Tesla EVs. The other benefit is if they continued to refus
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah - it's pretty wild, Tesla really committed to this a decade ago and has been chipping away at it since, the investment paid off. Even better, strategically Tesla created the "NACS" or North American Charging Standard whi
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by gonehome 3y ago
They're there if you need them - not always extremely visible though if you're not driving to one (can see the map here: https://www.tesla.com/supercharger ). If you got a Tesla you'd get a better sense for ho
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by gonehome 3y ago
Supposedly you can get some range with the Tesla at zero - it’s just a bad idea to do that. It’s a bad idea in a gas car too, my friends that have run out of gas did so because of driving on E. Though at least with gas it’s easier to bring
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by gonehome 3y ago
The national coverage of superchargers and built in routing cover the need at this point. It’s been this way for a couple years, really not something necessary to think about. Add in at home or destination charging and it’s even less releva
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by gonehome 3y ago
I don’t really get the range complaints at this point, with an ICE vehicle people rarely know their range they just look at a gauge for F to E. With the superchargers, range doesn’t really have a material effect anymore and most of the time
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by gonehome 3y ago
I wrote a blog post playing on this idea a while back (though narrowly focused on FB and social media): https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/07/14/the-serfs-of-facebook... In it the Knights were the devs, CE
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by gonehome 3y ago
Growth makes people rich, billion dollar companies create a lot of wealth and the US is a very rich country in part because of this. Some employees that capture a piece of that wealth funnel it back into more startups/growth (Silicon V
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by gonehome 3y ago
Independent of the tongue-in-cheek joke of this post, software salaries in the US are triple (or more) than those in Europe, I'd rather keep the tradeoffs we have even if that means there are downsides - the upsides are worth it. I sus
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What do I think about biometric proof of personhood?(vitalik.eth.limo)
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by gonehome 3y ago
I think PMs get a bad rap mostly because it can be less obvious when someone is bad. If you're a bad programmer and produce nothing, it'll (usually) quickly be discovered (though not always) even if you're good at talking. It
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah, the US is also mixed given its size depending on where you are. The most dangerous driving I’ve witnessed was in Jamaica and the UAE, but that was a while ago. The US does seem somewhere in-between those and Europe/uk.
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by gonehome 3y ago
I remember reading somewhere that some large percentage of people can’t understand conditionals - I found it hard to believe, but I’ve been noticing it more and more.
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by gonehome 3y ago
Can anyone get a Waymo? I signed up a long time (years?) ago and think I still don’t have access.
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by gonehome 3y ago
Sometimes the messenger is part of the problem and not a neutral actor.
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by gonehome 3y ago
While this might be true for the truly general case (though I’d bet it’s not), when you have a very constrained operating area it’s a lot less true. Waymo in Phoenix and current cruise cars in SF seem like good counter examples. The bar is
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah, I think they don’t carry passengers outside of those nighttime hours, but they are still testing them in some areas during the day (which makes sense, need to test them then if they eventually want to operate then)
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by gonehome 3y ago
I’m in SF and want them, my friends want them - we aren’t represented by the local media or reactionary politics. Same with doordash as an earlier example, endless articles about how terrible doordash and Uber are while a large percentage o
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by gonehome 3y ago
Yeah - none of this reporting can be trusted from the chronicle, the SF politics are crazy and there’s a lot of bullshit/bad-faith. I hope cruise overcomes this and the people putting traffic comes and such on the cars are stopped.
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by gonehome 3y ago
I work at Tlon (the main startup behind urbit, so disclaimer) - it's a lot easier to use urbit now than it used to be thanks to free hosting. It needs to be a lot easier still (particularly the mobile experience isn't there yet wi
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by gonehome 3y ago
This is similar to how urbit’s ID system works fwiw - the ID is tied to the computing node itself 1:1 and you can’t have an account that’s separate from a node.
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by gonehome 3y ago
I think you don’t, which is why I think federated systems built on the existing stack are doomed to fail (by recentralizing). You’re right to point out email as an example of this failure. You need urbit or something like it to fix it, the
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by gonehome 3y ago
I think for a lot of mastodon users it's more about being part of a specific ideologically aligned in-group than it is about anything else (this post touches on a lot of stuff that makes overtures to that). The irony to me is that any

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