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by jayjay71 10y ago
Oddly enough, the answer might be yes. Tesla is under investigation by the NHTSA for their fatal autopilot crash some months ago, in addition to a homicide investigation by the Florida Highway Patrol. I really doubt anything criminal will
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by jayjay71 10y ago
I was wondering when someone was going to mention Proto Labs. I don't have nearly as much experience as you, but I think you make a great point. I tried Plethora about a year ago and was disappointed it couldn't make a single par
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by jayjay71 10y ago
hyperMILL is absolutely fantastic for complicated projects, but like you said it is usually overkill.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
This was a while ago so I don't remember the specifics, but the reason the conversion was special is the lawyer was able to do it in a few days instead of several months. These issues are specific to Pennsylvania, which has really awf
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Yes, you can register an LLC or C Corp in any state, but the reason people do things a certain way is usually because of taxes. You don't want to get double taxed (the specifics are nuanced and vary from state to state). If I were to
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by jayjay71 10y ago
They insisted the previous corporation had to first be dissolved. I am not a lawyer, but I believe this is just standard practice. I suppose it's because there can be objections from investors in the original LLC if you take money in
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by jayjay71 10y ago
I started my company as an LLC. Since it began in Pennsylvania, I registered as a PA LLC. Welp, I applied to Y Combinator and they accepted me, but it turns out they won't invest in LLC companies. I figure, no biggie, I'll just
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Apparently San Francisco disagrees. https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/uber-ordered-to-stop-self-...
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Interesting. My guess is Uber is just planning on paying the inevitable fines as is their modus operandi. I wonder how much an infraction like this costs? I doubt there's any precedent.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
You are correct! I meant to say receptive. Too late to edit it now.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
I'm curious what their first product will be and when it will be available. Chris Urmson stated the goal was to release a self-driving vehicle by 2020, after pushing it back from their original goal of 2017, and this was just before h
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by jayjay71 10y ago
There is absolutely no way Uber will have fully self-driving cars in a few years (a car that picks you up without a driver). If anything is going to save Uber, it's going to be Otto. Self-driving trucks are a much easier technical pr
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by jayjay71 10y ago
The YC Fellowship got axed. From what I understand, they're replacing it with an online course (similar to their startup videos/lectures) and it does not include any funding.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Obviously this is a complex issue, but in general I've found introspective people are the saddest. People that live in the moment are often the happiest. http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3501
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Shred Video ( http://shredvideo.com/ ) is trying to solve the editing problem.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
There is at least 1 other death in China where autopilot is cited as the cause, and there are many other accidents in China which are not widely reported in the United States (it's easy to find several on Google though, many of which a
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by jayjay71 10y ago
There's actually a great way to track that - look at the cost of a Chipotle burrito in different cities. The price for a burrito in San Francisco went up with perfect correlation when the wage increased in San Francisco. The reason i
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by jayjay71 10y ago
How does a lack of transparency help?
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by jayjay71 10y ago
I like you.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Tesla spun bad statistics to make that claim. They're comparing highway driving to all driving, and highway driving is statistically safer. They're also ignoring demographics, as Tesla owners tend to be affluent and older. If y
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by jayjay71 10y ago
It's worth mentioning that Google lost most of their team working on self-driving cars this year. In fact, I think every person in charge (Thrun, Levandowski, Urmson, plus whoever else) has left.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
That's a really cool paper. While I wouldn't say they're doing better than a human (I really think they're twisting semantics with that one), it is impressive and I hope to see a lot more progress in this area. Thank y
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by jayjay71 10y ago
What's the $100 chair? I'd love a nice chair that doesn't cost $1000.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
I'll give you 10 to 1 odds on that if you want to bet.
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by jayjay71 10y ago
I don't see how that solves the weather problem, unless you're limiting yourself to cities with nice weather. Even then - all cities have bad weather occasionally. I'm not arguing against progress. I think it's great p
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by jayjay71 10y ago
That certainly seems like the idea for Tesla - collect all the data from the cars in real-world condition and use it for training. I think it's brilliant. Time will tell to see how well they can leverage that data. Having a better s
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by jayjay71 10y ago
This is with the caveat that the weather is nice and you're in one of Google's specially mapped areas. As I understand it - and I never worked at Google and I keep waiting for someone who does to correct me on it - those maps are
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Well I also used to work with the team that's now at Uber (I worked at the National Robotics Engineering Center which is where they got almost all of their initial 40 engineers), and some of the guys I used to work with went to Google
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by jayjay71 10y ago
In theory, sure. But you're effectively saying computers have to process vision as well as humans, which some experts think is comparable to solving AI. I'm not saying Tesla won't make a lot of progress, but considering how
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by jayjay71 10y ago
Now that is an interesting parallel.

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