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by hcurtiss 10mo ago
I’m actually pretty stoked about this pivot. All the advantages of an EV with gas and go optionality. Will be an awesome pickup.
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by hcurtiss 10mo ago
I saw that too. If that’s their plan, I’m pretty bullish on Ford. All the advantages of an EV with a range extender. Like the Chevy Volt version of the F-150. I’d be all over that.
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by hcurtiss 10mo ago
Isn’t it well known that they’ve lost money for every Lightning they’ve sold? Whereas the ICE F-150 is one of their most profitable sales?
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by hcurtiss 10mo ago
Same. In a Powerboost, pulling my 5000 pound boat 500 miles to north Idaho is super easy, with a single refuel. In a Lightning that would be a nightmare, recharging 4-5 times. In truth, I’m excited about Ford’s pivot. I think electric motor
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by hcurtiss 10mo ago
That’s a pretty fuzzy number. How do they value or even allocate the value of those free services?
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by hcurtiss 10mo ago
Where do you get this impression? I don’t know anybody who thinks that.
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by hcurtiss 10mo ago
Who cares? If higher wealth inequality produces a higher standard of living for the majority (note, median not mean), I’m all for it. Policy should not be driven by envy.
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by hcurtiss 10mo ago
I don’t know about that. The poor from just about every other country in the world seem desperate to live in America. While American capitalism has many faults, oppressing the bottom quintile is not one of them. The US median income is con
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by hcurtiss 10mo ago
All models have had similar instances. I particularly enjoyed Gemini’s black founders era. The “safety” teams have bent the politics of these tools in ways I don’t trust. Grok does too, but in my experience less so. This has real impacts.
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by hcurtiss 10mo ago
I'm not sure where you live, but that doesn't match my experience at all. And I think most people agree given the overwhelming majority of people who choose to drive, notwithstanding traffic and parking. The declining public tra
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by hcurtiss 10mo ago
Public transit is a dream turned nightmare consistently for seventy-five years. Autonomy will be less efficient -- but not that much less efficient given closer car spacing, speed, and remote parking -- but it will be spectacularly more co
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by hcurtiss 10mo ago
Neither of these have happened in my use. Those were both the product of some pretty aggressive prompting, and were remedied months ago.
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by hcurtiss 11mo ago
Parallels coherence mode in MacOS is similar.
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by hcurtiss 11mo ago
It seems more likely to me this is being pressed by intelligence agencies than billionaires. Billionaires have secrets too.
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by hcurtiss 1y ago
This is a great tip!
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by hcurtiss 1y ago
As a relatively long-time Kagi user (March of 2022) I would encourage people to give their LLM aggregator, Kagi Assistant, a try. It won't suffice for everyone, but having access to all of the major LLMs is super useful to me. With o
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by hcurtiss 1y ago
This has always struck me as pretty weak. Yes, paying Yandex indirectly results in paying taxes to the Russian government. But people are rarely so dogmatic about these matters. There are lots of despotic and tyrannical regimes in the wo
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by hcurtiss 1y ago
We have several prisons.
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by hcurtiss 1y ago
What evidence do you have to believe that’s true?
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by hcurtiss 1y ago
It’s not all state dollars though. There’s a Medicaid match for ACA expansion populations. The OBBB reduces that match by 10% for states that expanded the population to include unauthorized immigrants. In Oregon, to maintain that program Or
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by hcurtiss 1y ago
I had a knee injury. Called my local orthopedic clinic (seven doctors). The lady who answered the phone told me I’d need to schedule an appointment . . . to schedule the appointment. I was three weeks out from the call at which I would sche
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by hcurtiss 1y ago
Is it so different? Obesity significantly increases societal costs. And given tradeoffs, those costs add up to other people's lives. If safety were your overriding concern, you'd set the speed limit at 20 mph. Or better yet, 5.
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by hcurtiss 1y ago
Wait -- I have to pay for a breathalizer in my new vehicle because other people can't follow the law? That's BS. I don't drink alcohol and I hate everything about this.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
I don't believe any of the founders believed they were creating a "true democracy," or even that it would be desirable. Read Federalist Number 10. The modern fetishism of democracy will lead bad places.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Yes, but to the degree you believe in "democracy," then you believe the duly-elected President gets to come in and make changes, provided he's acting within the scope of the law. Trump specifically ran on the DOGE/Musk
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Neither was there before.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
It's because this particular advisor has the full backing of the duly-elected President. It's absolutely wild to me that HN refuses to acknowledge this fact. This idea that the civil servants should defy the President (and his a
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
Yes, some of us on HN do not exhibit the left wing progressive chops your comment history does.
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
It’s a fun high? Is this even a serious question?
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by hcurtiss 2y ago
I’m just not convinced homeless drug addicts are on the street because they’re shy of a house payment. The ones I’ve know have wound up there because they became drug addicts, and that addiction drove them into the abyss, exploiting family

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