grecy

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by grecy 3y ago
Scale makes no difference. You make a law (or regulation or whatever) and each bank does the work. Who cares if there are 4 or 4000, each bank just does it. US Banks are forced to do new things all the time to remain compliant (PCI anyone?)
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by grecy 3y ago
> most other countries got started decades later due to a lot of factors but mostly either poverty, being behind the iron curtain, or lack of access to reliable computers You are completely ignoring many countries here that have had in
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by grecy 3y ago
I strongly disagree with your premise. Current situation: 125 people are killed every single day Future autonomous situation: 100 people are killed every single day I don't care who they are, what they were doing or why they were kille
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by grecy 3y ago
> Imagine a scenario where on roads with 100% human driving, the most of the people that are killed are PCP addled people running naked across freeways where they aren't expected to be I don't think it's helpful to intro
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by grecy 3y ago
> I don't believe that partially automated driving, as shown by Autopilot is fit for human use. People will rely on it as if it's fully automated and more accidents like this will happen. Keep in mind 125 people are killed on
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by grecy 3y ago
At this point you have to assume they're being malicious....
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by grecy 3y ago
> Cheaper to pay them to move They are not going to move. Period. I know this sounds snarky, but in all honesty if you had been to Alaska you would understand. > Perhaps we should not be subsidizing folks where it costs $1M to deli
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by grecy 3y ago
> just roll out fiber I worked provisioning internet for the Telco that serves basically all of Northern Canada. 33% of Canada's landmass and only 0.3% of its population. We're not talking about cities or even towns here, we&
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by grecy 3y ago
I kept getting lost in the diversions so much I felt they took away from the story. I'd love to read a version with them all removed. I feel like it would be 1/4 as long.
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by grecy 3y ago
> Running traditional wired service is the more practical and permanent solution Not when you're 50+ miles from the nearest anything. Don't think of people that live kind of near a town and still get LTE. Think of people that
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by grecy 3y ago
> It was No. It was never designed or advertised to offer "faster than fibre" connections to end users, and all along Musk and maintained it makes absolutely no sense for a person to use Starlink if they already have access t
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by grecy 3y ago
> Starlink success, and to that extent, SpaceX, are arguably tied to government money. Citation please. The government are paying SpaceX as a customer, they're not giving them free money. Also note they're paying them a lot l
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by grecy 3y ago
Starlink was never designed to be faster than fibre, and it was certainly never designed or intended for use by people that ave access to fibre (or cable, or LTE for that matter). SpaceX have re-iterated this on many, many occasions. Anyone
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by grecy 3y ago
Sure, but when 99% of buyers walk into a dealer to actually buy a vehicle, they're told, and they're negotiating, and their budget is all entirely based on monthly payments. To a degree it doesn't even matter what the MSRP ac
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by grecy 3y ago
> How much does it cost them to lose a starship lower stage? About the same as every rocket that has ever been launched in all of history. i.e. even when they are successful, every rocket in history before SpaceX's Falcon 9 "
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by grecy 3y ago
> This doesn't mean HG work was play or that they had it better than you Of course it doesn't, and at no point did I remotely say anything like HG people had it better than me. I was simply offering my life experiences that I
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Ford cutting 2024 F-150 Lightning production plans by half(autonews.com)
28 points by grecy 3y ago|86 comments
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by grecy 3y ago
This resonates very strongly with me. When I lived in the Yukon working as a Software Engineer I got into moose and bison hunting, I help friends build off-grid log cabin houses, I harvested wild berries, caught a freezer full of salmon eve
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by grecy 3y ago
They still do. Flooding so much land is a nuisance for farming and for road access.
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by grecy 3y ago
Absolutely. From the Munro interview it sounds like Tesla currently have one Model Y coming off the line every 42 seconds, and they're aiming to halve that. From what was said, the second best in the industry right now is about one veh
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Tesla: Recent Washington Post article is particularly egregious in misstatements(twitter.com)
3 points by grecy 3y ago|2 comments
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by grecy 3y ago
It will be fascinating to see how much this changes after Tesla put their next-gen vehicle into mass production. They talked the big talk at Investor Day this year, and Elon said it again this past week that "The revolution in manufact
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by grecy 3y ago
You should watch what is happening in British Colombia, Canada right now. They have decriminalized possessing less than 2.5 grams of - Opioids (such as heroin, morphine, and fentanyl) - Crack and powder cocaine - Methamphetamine (Meth) - MD
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by grecy 3y ago
Absolutely. Google even announced Google Fiber was coming to some cities.... then the incumbents stepped up and offered affordable Fiber connections... then years later Google retracted the promise it was coming, and now will not offer fibe
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by grecy 3y ago
To force the incumbents to do better. Same reason they originally created Chrome - they needed a browser that was faster and enabled more complex web apps, and they were sicks of the offerings at the time, so they built their own.
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by grecy 3y ago
> I’m old enough to have used RCS, CVS, SVN, then finally Git I'm old enough to have used CVS, SVN and then a bit of git. I remember the big selling point to go from CVS to SNV was "you can put binaries in there!" ... wh
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by grecy 3y ago
> As for Qantas, near the end it mentions the plane was repaired at great cost Indeed. Qantas has been ranked the safest airline int he world almost every year since forever [1] I clearly remember when QF32 happened and everyone was ut
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by grecy 3y ago
And the oil companies
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by grecy 3y ago
Just take the vehicle. Permanently. Sell it and put the money into food banks
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Tesla Model Y 2nd in new vehicle registrations in the US, overtaking Toyota RAV4(twitter.com)
51 points by grecy 3y ago|79 comments

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