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by hnav 2y ago
The olfactory problem with waymos is that if someone gets in one dirty or foul smelling there isn't a driver to kick them out. Waymos are starting to get more ridership and some of those people are going to be absolute pigs. I gave fee
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by hnav 2y ago
Which market are you in? There are still 100s of unsold Bolts E(U)V nationwide, I have about 30 within 50 miles of me.
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by hnav 2y ago
this stands to benefit buses too because you can be better about letting them through.
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by hnav 2y ago
Nothing of the sort will happen unless we start taxing suburbanites for the externalities of their lifestyles. As the daytime cost of electricity production goes to 0, hookup costs need to be higher for SFH. Road maintenance and such should
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by hnav 2y ago
Thing is it doesn't need to be super dense, people just need to stop kicking and screaming about every development that's going to "bring riff-raff" into the neighborhood and make it "hard to park". Stop lookin
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by hnav 2y ago
Why not $SOME_OTHER_PLACE _is_ the classic NIMBY argument.
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by hnav 2y ago
No dysfunction, just teenagers offing themselves because they live in a boring suburb with pearl-clutcher, neurotic high-achiever parents.
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by hnav 2y ago
A lot of maintenance items simply don't exist in a modern full hybrid. Typically there is no accessory belt, no alternator, no starter. Filters, coils, spark plugs and engine oil will last longer since the engine doesn't run nearl
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by hnav 2y ago
The thing that mechanically totals modern crap cars (think cheap Nissans and Subarus) is often the CVT. Ford and GM have transmission problems pretty often. GP is totally right that the planetary eCVTs actually make cars way simpler. Look a
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by hnav 2y ago
It's stratification. People using their $15/mo plan would talk about how t-mobile as a whole is garbage and turn off higher end customers.
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by hnav 2y ago
I think it goes something like. 1. MVNOs allow the big carriers to maximize the utilization of their network without sullying their own brand image by having people on their lowest tier plans with de-prioritized traffic complain about the b
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by hnav 2y ago
They're saying with this architecture there's a tradeoff between training and inference cost where a 10x smaller model (much cheaper to run inference) can match a bigger model if the smaller is trained on 100x data (much more expe
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by hnav 3y ago
how do you deal with egress costs?
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by hnav 3y ago
9/11 killed 3k people
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by hnav 3y ago
Mean vs median, mean Californian is prosperous because of a big concentration of wealth at the top, median Californian is desperate. California is in a lot of ways a trendsetter and a microcosm so something to look forward to on a national
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by hnav 3y ago
Don't even have to, just tweak the maximum increase from 2% to some number that better reflects the growth of CA property values.
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by hnav 3y ago
They definitely cannot just repeal it outright, but they could give the housing marking a "soft landing" by just changing the max increase %. Let's say that we want to deal with the case of properties' real values being
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by hnav 3y ago
they should split the state into regions (groups of counties) and put the repeal on a ballot at region granularity to see if the "fuck-you-I-got-mine" set would sink each other
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by hnav 3y ago
DESFire based systems, HID iClass SE (properly installed where the reader only accepts the SE credential) are generally pretty secure.
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by hnav 3y ago
Up until recently the bar selected for some combination of intelligence and dedication with a large false-negative rate that they could afford due to the sheer number of candidates being drawn to the high compensation, prestige and intellec
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by hnav 3y ago
there are a few ways that long-polling is "least scalable" - other approaches give you locality without sticky load-balancing: let's say your application server needs to subscribe to a topic once a connection is established,
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by hnav 3y ago
projecting power you get challenged less, but when you do get challenged it’s much more likely that you won’t be able to back it up
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by hnav 3y ago
Usually those countries have some combination of lower labor costs, higher density (you can run fiber and then hang 5x as many subscribers off it) and a more lax regulatory landscape (try getting permits to dig in a US city).
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by hnav 3y ago
Starlink satellites are in LEO, they're much closer than viasat/hughesnet.
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by hnav 3y ago
Their own thing is Android Auto(motive) developed by Google.
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by hnav 3y ago
The IRS is piloting directfile.irs.gov this year, if you live in CA you can use it.
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by hnav 3y ago
the whole debacle with hyundai/kia is that they shipped cars where you can physically start it without electronics
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by hnav 3y ago
I'm sure Apple doesn't have a vested interest in making PWAs good, I am actually surprised they added webpush.
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by hnav 3y ago
We can look at the Toyota Prius since it's mass-produced and has both technologies within. The big-ticket item that usually needs fixing as the mileage goes up is the (nicad) battery pack. Upgrades (lifepo4) are available and cost in t
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by hnav 3y ago
what data shows that? Waymo IME is easily in the 90th percentile of drivers in SF.

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