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by jakelarkin 8y ago
the ugliness is intentional, and i think this was even acknowledge by bmw execs to an extent. the margins on EV are comparitively very low, the (battery) supply chain is fragile. less profit + production headaches = don't make the
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
Q3 2018: 41.3 (0.7%) Q3 2017: 41.0 (1.5%) Q3 2016: 40.4 (-15%) Q3 2015: 47.5 (35%) Q3 2014: 35.2 (13%) seems pretty flat to me
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
"inauthentic behavior" is an strange way to put it. propaganda, information warfare, disinformation, incitement, false flags, fake news ;)
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
cheaper yes but I think they are also perpetuated because they satisfy the egos of leadership. There's the visual satisfaction of seeing rows and rows of their diligent workers, and managers can easily inspect anyone's availabil
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
guessing this also has to do with the fact that most American homes are single-family wood framed structures, so the relative importance to people is perhaps higher.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
after 5-6 languages and coming back to Python I would say the worst things are - large and inconsistent stdlib api, - extremely wordy but somehow still vague documentation - overwrought build/packaging system (although tooling has impr
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
mobile app installs growth must be a KPI for pitch decks / funding.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
look into discharging wife's student debt due to permanent disability. pursue divorce as legal strategy if it helps obtaining relief
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
human drivers routinely do things that are not justifiable by vehicle physics (e.g. stopping distances) because they have a comparatively sophisticated and unconscious understanding of our physical world, how changes may develop and how ot
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
its probably insanely expensive/complex to revisit the cheap commodity touchpad hardware and the crappy drivers that already available. & doesn't pencil out with the razor thin margins for PC laptops
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
some differences by region but most mobile phone companies get your location passively, store it and optionally hand it off to the government or sell it to interested corporate buyers.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
construction labor is seemingly entering a vicious cycle where workers can't afford to live near where the most new homes are needed.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
... and that self-driving car will make its passengers car sick and get rear ended by the human driver behind it. those types of twitchy driving mechanics aren't normal and don't share the road well with normal humans. The physic
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
you can break it down to various expert-system subproblems - perfect cv image classification (+ low visibility ) - anticipating behavior of bikers, children, elderly, animals, near roads - responding to human non-verbal communication - res
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
deciding how/when to make panic stop or evasive maneuvers without routinely becoming a hazard requires advanced AI determining the path of travel through lanes markings that suddenly fade out while moving in 70mph on a busy freeway req
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
the best software engineering company in the world has spent over a decade and hundreds of $millions on this problem and they are still stuck in a private beta in the easiest road environment they could find. what does that tell you abo
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
normal driving requires anticipating the behavior of other humans who may or may not entire your path of travel or anticipating unseen obstacles. it has less to do with "reaction times" than one would think. Humans routinely over
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
self driving systems cant well reason about untrained scenarios or the intent of other humans on the road. I think the people have grossly underestimated how driving in an uncontrolled environment is really a general AI problem, which we&#
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
that's not wrong but for the sake of argument perhaps its better to look at the DoD budget through the political lens ... its a corrupt jobs program in which the government funnels money to a broad swath of American states and countie
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
have thought about this as well ... there's just so much runway to more effectively monetize the core audience. a lot of businesses are still figuring out how powerful facebook ads are and how to leverage them. fb revenue still gro
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
nit: Jane Kim a SF supervisor did not have a vote a California State Senate bill
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
interesting data point on its performance but the reason decision makers might be cloud happy is amazon has the resources to scale this to thousands of RPS and develop the backend codebase up to hundreds of engineer contributions for many
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
progressive taxation for a safety net is great. let's just apply it equally across income/wealth bands. why should our laws give a few lucky poor people hugely valuable rental subsidies and give many other equally poor people n
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
certainly its also dysfunctional that we legislate that random property owners must provide the safety net for the poor & elderly.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
Nevada figure probably includes taxes paid by casinos. Income taxes are closer to 5%.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
how hard is it to put a location based speed governor on the train instead of using antiquated mechanical signals to enforce max speeds? or is that just too much common sense for the MTA?
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
not if the local planning department refuses to issue demolition permits for the existing structures
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
not at the cost of decent housing options for people across a broad range of lower/middle incomes and also not accommodating baseline population growth regionally.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
85%+ of available water in California goes to commercial agriculture SF residents use 50 gallons/day of water. Compared to 85 gal/day average across the state.
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by jakelarkin 8y ago
NIMBYs deploy a range of shifting rhetorical arguments (concern trolling, strawman etc) but in my observation the principle motivation is fear of change and the negative externalities of increasing population ... traffic, parking, what if t

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