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by jfim 4y ago
It really depends on whether the AV companies decide to focus purely on manufacturing and developing AVs as a product (profit at the point of sale), offer them as a service (similar to "power by the hour" in aerospace), or decide
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by jfim 4y ago
Oh, I agree with you, the numbers are mind boggling. Just in the US, there are 3 trillion miles driven per year, so even capturing a small part of that (be it through automating long haul trucking, goods delivery, or robotaxi applications)
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by jfim 4y ago
Metal Gear: Survive is actually kind of fun. If you ignore the Metal Gear label and the obvious asset reuse from MGS5, it's perfectly enjoyable as its own thing. It has its flaws and it's a bit repetitive, but it's not anythi
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by jfim 4y ago
That's assuming that there's zero R&D. In practice, the fixed costs of R&D in the AV space are pretty large. If for example it takes 500 engineers that cost 250k per year to make the trucks self driving, then you're s
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by jfim 4y ago
There would probably be a lawsuit coming from Brex if that was written down, so it would just expose Google to additional liability. It's the kind of situation where the correct decision for Google is to not reveal anything, as it just
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by jfim 4y ago
They'd also switch how one orders food every 18 months, and have them migrate to the new way of ordering food. Food ordering in gmail, food ordering as an app, food ordering using a kiosk, then back to an app, then merge it into the wa
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by jfim 4y ago
I believe it should be the same brand, but they've split the business into Ford Blue (ICE vehicles) and Ford Model e (electric vehicles) in March of this year: https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna&#x2F
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by jfim 4y ago
It really depends on how one uses the software. If it's used as a learning aid to reinforce certain patterns (eg. "I went to office" -> "I went to the office"), it's fine in my opinion. After all, everyone s
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They also help a lot for people whose native language isn't English.
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by jfim 4y ago
Oh wow, I didn't even know they made an electric smart, much less a convertible one. Not sure how good the EV part of that was (the article hints that it was terrible) but the form factor is really nice.
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by jfim 4y ago
I wonder how well the interviewers would accept school projects that have been done many years ago. It'd definitely be interesting to do a code walkthrough of that, as one would still be able to explain the code, but would need to say
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by jfim 4y ago
We'd still need tens of thousands of these plants. From [0] it's mentioned that > According to Andreas Sizmann, SOLAR-JET project coordinator at BHL, a solar reactor with a 1 km2 solar field could generate 20,000 L/d of ke
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by jfim 4y ago
Haha wow, that's such an adorable car. It's unfortunate that that kind of vehicle won't ever make it to the US though.
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by jfim 4y ago
You could apply the same logic to the pirate bay, they're just providing a place to browse torrent files but they're not hosting any of the infringing files themselves, just metadata about them. The issue with Amazon is not that t
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by jfim 4y ago
There are simple observations that even non climatologists can do that show the climate warming up. For example, here's a look at the glaciers in glacier national park: https://www.nps.gov/glac/learn/nature&#x
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by jfim 4y ago
Cupertino, Mountain view, and San Jose, none of which are Sunnyvale. Also, you're kind of proving my point if your "arts projects" are stuff that comes out of large corporations.
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by jfim 4y ago
It's the same lack of diversity as mining towns. Where are the people who are not working in the tech industry? Where are the people building cool arts projects? The lack of diversity refers to the fact that way too much of the people
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by jfim 4y ago
High cost of living, the most exciting thing happening in town is the farmer's market, good schools doesn't apply to all of Sunnyvale, lack of diversity, everything that's moderately interesting is closing down (we lost weird
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by jfim 4y ago
1178. This is actually part of the base stats package in R: > qbirthday(prob = 0.5, classes = 1000000, coincident = 2) 1178 See https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/stats/versions/3.6.2...
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by jfim 4y ago
There are also Judy arrays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_array
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by jfim 4y ago
On the upside they're not quadcopters, the noise from dozens or hundreds of those flying by daily would drive people completely insane.
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by jfim 4y ago
It really depends on whether the degree is actually relevant to their employability. If one has a degree in winemaking or philosophy, does rescinding their degree have a significant impact on their employability? If not, then they could jus
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by jfim 4y ago
Just looked it up actually: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TX/htm/TX.33.htm#33.... Basically they put a tax lien on the property, they just don't collect on it while the original homeowner is oc
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by jfim 4y ago
The estate has to pay the taxes, so they can pay the taxes and keep the property, or sell it and pay the taxes using the proceeds. I believe that interest also accrues during the deferral. I'm not sure what happens in the case where th
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> They can afford high property taxes. Your elderly parents might not be able to. Texas has an interesting solution to this. Homeowners over 65 can elect to defer the payment of their property taxes indefinitely, although the taxes event
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by jfim 4y ago
It really depends what you're looking for. The train in the US isn't for reliable fast transportation, it's for relatively comfy and relaxing transportation. I did the trip from Montréal, Canada all the way to San José, Calif
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People use significantly more than two gallons of water a day, be it for flushing toilets, personal hygiene, cooking, or washing laundry and dishes.
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You might enjoy "Infrastructure: a guide to the industrial landscape" by Brian Hayes in the meantime.
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How playable is it? It seems that there are many complaints about the district system and the beaver AI being not so bright.
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Most of that is software glue, and not particularly challenging. It's necessary to run a modern company to have this kind of glue to connect systems together, but at the same time EE and ChemE are much more challenging.

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