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by kbos87 5y ago
I really wonder if the pretty sudden prevalence of noise canceling tech in consumer headphones and earbuds is going to have a material impact on pedestrian safety. I think of myself as being a pretty alert pedestrian, but I had two “too clo
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by kbos87 5y ago
Agree completely. The sentiment that this is all a shell game and advertisers are being completely manipulated always seems to come from people who don’t have much domain expertise. I’d be quick to throw digital advertising to the wolves bu
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by kbos87 5y ago
It’s worth mentioning that I’m only talking about Eyesight while driving forward. The rear ARB is radar controlled and very sensitive. I’d never say it’s false alarmed, but it’s very, very sensitive. It may be a matter of preference to some
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by kbos87 5y ago
Yes, it goes into full anti-lock braking, but it only does this at the very last possible second it can be done without a collision - the driver usually gets enough time hearing an audible alarm to stop, provided there is enough time. I hav
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by kbos87 5y ago
Automatic Emergency Braking is amazing and it never gets talked about. I’ve logged 40k miles in my 2019 Subaru with Eyesight and it very reliably notices dangerous situations. Other vehicles hard stopping in front of me is the most common o
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by kbos87 5y ago
I feel the same way. I know there are purported to be disorders that affect the ability to recognize different faces, but I have to ask myself whether or not I’m much worse than the average, or if everyone is bad at it and I’m just more awa
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by kbos87 5y ago
Any discussion of regulating the use of facial recognition by government misses the point. Private industry has just as much if not more power to misuse the technology. I don’t know what a global opt out system would look like, but that’s t
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by kbos87 5y ago
This is the biggest selling point of EVs for me. Driving an EV vs an ICE car is like the difference between streaming a movie vs dealing with a VHS tape.
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by kbos87 5y ago
Im not someone with strong opinions on this sort of thing, but it has never made sense to me that I’d put a period inside quotation marks if it isn’t a part of the quote.
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by kbos87 5y ago
I’ve seen this story everywhere over the past few days. Technicalities of the warranty aside, leaving people with a bill like that on a not that old car is terrible for Tesla’s brand. This is pretty much the only thing that stops me from wa
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by kbos87 5y ago
I value liberty, but I also recognize that there are situations where action (and when needed, mandates) for the good of the collective outweigh individual liberties. Unless you choose to live in the woods disconnected from everything and e
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by kbos87 5y ago
I didn’t say young adults, though there is mounting evidence that even children can and do suffer from long term effects. For anyone who doubts the prevalence of long COVID, it isn’t hard to find the growing pile of credible research - The
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by kbos87 5y ago
The number of comments here that fall back on some sort of a slippery slope argument, based in a worry about government overreach, is really disheartening. If COVID has proven anything in the US, it's how little control the federal gov
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by kbos87 5y ago
There are so many conveniently chosen facts and holes in your argument that I don’t even know where to begin. The CDC dataset you cite above only reflects death, not the serious illness and disability ~30% of people end up with. Yes, vaccin
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by kbos87 5y ago
This is where your total loss of credibility happened, just so you know.
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by kbos87 5y ago
I think it’s perfectly acceptable to be afraid of a virus that has killed 700,000 people in the United States and leaves ~30% with long term side effects and sometimes serious, permanent disability.
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by kbos87 5y ago
Yes, it’s called looking at past evidence. No past vaccines have presented unknown side effects more than 8-10 weeks out. Viruses regularly do damage we don’t see or understand until many years later.
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by kbos87 5y ago
This probably isn’t what the OP had in mind but I’ll throw it out there since it is technically tech - I’ve seen a few well credentialed executive and speaking coaches working with tech founders/execs regularly charging north of $500&#
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by kbos87 5y ago
Thanks for pointing it out. The fact that it’s “uncool” to do this also points out that there are a lot of ways that men are oppressed by gender stereotypes and the victim-perpetrator narratives that our society has barely begun to reckon w
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by kbos87 5y ago
I found this article to be so spot on. There’s a mindset often found in tech companies that essentially comes down to “in every decision the data must win.” I see this in my day to day working at a large saas company all the time, and pushi
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by kbos87 5y ago
I don’t think that’s fair. I drive past hundreds of homeless people who are already here in the US every day. I applaud Airbnb for this move, but I also can’t ignore the fact that it’s a moment in the news cycle that determines these people
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by kbos87 5y ago
This reminds me of a thread here recently about certain power tools being sold in Home Depot stores that will need to be “activated” or they won’t work as an anti-theft measure. These particular situations aside, I don’t see a problem with
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by kbos87 5y ago
In retrospect I’ve semi-unknowingly done this, and I regret it. The parent comment is right. There are two useful outcomes - they are willing to take their credit card out, or they are willing to give you direct feedback. Everything else is
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by kbos87 5y ago
This. There are thousands of people with Teslas they bought a couple years ago who were sold on a promise of fully autonomous driving. They were told that in the not too distant future, they could sleep at home while their car was out at it
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by kbos87 5y ago
Tesla only requires periodic, light torque on the wheel while other manufacturers (Subaru, GM I believe?) have moved to eye tracking. Pretty obvious why Tesla doesn’t want to go down that path, they don’t want to invest in a strong implicat
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by kbos87 5y ago
As someone who has worked in marketing and communications in tech in the past, I can tell you that this is one of the most frustrating and common parts of the role. When a new product, or an announcement doesn’t go over well, there’s always
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by kbos87 5y ago
I don’t think many people make a decision to “smartify” their home at any one point in time. The reality is that it creeps in over time. If you are shopping for a mid to high end anything today - lighting to a dishwasher - some smart featur
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by kbos87 5y ago
This is already happening. I work for a large b2b saas company - many of our attention-oriented metrics (eg traffic, top of funnel lead generation) are off by 20-40% year over year. We are hearing that peers are seeing the same thing. Peopl
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by kbos87 5y ago
It feels like this particular incidence is the source of so much panic and misinformation. Is there news here? Yes, it appears as though we now know that vaccinated individuals can spread COVID if they get infected. But the CDC still mainta
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by kbos87 5y ago
It’s relatively simple, settled science that masks are effective against airborne pathogens, but I agree that all the rhetoric ignores the fact that masks are only as good as people are at wearing them. Visit any airport in America and you’

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