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by kbos87 3y ago
Surely we can agree that the growth of a key utility in the early 2000s is pretty different from the growth of an entertainment app in 2023. The poor quality of users acquired through a moment like the one that Threads just had is pretty we
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by kbos87 3y ago
The notion that the retention curve for users on Threads is going to be a steady up and to the right line is such a pedestrian take. Any and every product that sees a massive surge of media-driven signups is then going to see a dramatic dip
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by kbos87 3y ago
What a non-story. We don’t even have a true baseline of engagement on Threads to work off.
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I don’t disagree with anything you said - I just think it’s a case of missing the forest for the trees if we single out government purchases when many of these tools are well on their way to broad availability anyway. It feels like suspicio
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by kbos87 3y ago
The focus on police & government use of this sort of technology strikes me as misguided when there are an increasing number of publicly available tools that do the same thing. I’m sure that Clearview has depth that other tools don’t, bu
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It’s far and away in the best interests of the people who live in these cities for these spaces to be repurposed. Wouldn’t want to cut off our nose to spite our face.
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by kbos87 3y ago
Anyone who has ever had to produce some sort of on-screen demo like this knows how miserable, tedious and thankless a task this can be. There was probably a better justification for their choice to use a spreadsheet than we are all imaginin
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by kbos87 3y ago
…quite likely at the cost of other important work that designers and engineers would otherwise spend their time doing. You can move chess pieces around all you want - and sometimes there are reasons to do that - but every org structure chan
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by kbos87 3y ago
Are you sure that the corporation is doing the buying? There are only a few of these and they are relatively small. There are some large property management firms (Vacasa, Evolve) who only work on behalf of individual property owners but ap
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by kbos87 3y ago
My comment relies partly on common sense (few people would likely argue that drivers are, on average, frequently distracted by their phones) and partly on my own experience having driven using Tesla FSD for thousands of miles. Forced diseng
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by kbos87 3y ago
You’ve conveniently ignored the fact that the average driver in 2023 (without any help from a driver assistance system) is severely distracted. Surpassing the level of attention and responsiveness of an average driver is a very low bar righ
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by kbos87 3y ago
There’s a real opportunity here for Meta, but their success is far from a given. To get this right they are going to need to make some product decisions that aren’t in their nature. #1 should be completely, actually bifurcating the experien
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by kbos87 3y ago
Just waiting for Tesla to offer an API of near real time street view data. They could likely already do it.
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My home was straight up robbed while I slept three years ago. The convenience store on the corner has cameras facing our property that the suspects walked directly beneath. Despite having been told this, the "detectives" never fol
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by kbos87 3y ago
There's no such thing as a device that only "saves you money" - insurers are going to use the data to give you a discount one minute, and take it away the next. My insurance already shows a line item for a "safe driver d
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by kbos87 3y ago
Just in time for the electric revolution!
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by kbos87 3y ago
The downvoting without any context or feedback as to why is so predictable on any post that’s remotely positive about Tesla on HN :)
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by kbos87 3y ago
Personally speaking I want my car quality and my car interior to be good enough, and the tech to be great. I have a year and a half old Tesla and despite all the complaining about build quality I hear, I haven’t had a single issue. The inte
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by kbos87 3y ago
I recently received phishing texts from someone pretending to be UPS telling me that my delivery had been missed and I’d need to pay to reschedule it. The website I was taken to was remarkably polished, it looked almost exactly like the rea
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They probably heard something and now know it was an implosion.
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by kbos87 3y ago
Budgets are unfortunately a zero sum game, and I have to wonder if there are much more obvious ways to save lives more efficiently with the amount of money it’s costing the US government to undertake a massive and technically complex search
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by kbos87 3y ago
Watch the episode of PBS’s Frontline that dropped last week about the danger of trucks on US roadways because of the lack of underride prevention devices. They interview several former officials at NHTSA who talk about the agency being unde
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by kbos87 3y ago
Makes you wonder how google search is still so profitable when the quality of information it returns has gotten progressively poorer.
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I’m left wondering what this comment proves? The four situations you posted were the most minor of minor annoyances when the car was being too cautious , and you’ve decided they must be cherry picked without any evidence given.
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There’s just no need for this. Tesla can detect even the most poorly defined edges of a dirt road without a problem.
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by kbos87 3y ago
What exactly do people think it means when Mercedes says they will “take liability”? Decisions about whether to prosecute a driver when something bad happens are local and state level decisions. Mercedes can’t protect you when a local prose
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by kbos87 3y ago
Mercedes can’t indemnify you. Local police and prosecutors make those decisions.
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by kbos87 3y ago
I switched to carbon steel a few years ago. There's a definite learning curve when it comes to getting them seasoned properly and a lot of people give up. But once they are seasoned, nothing sticks to them, and they need almost no main
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by kbos87 3y ago
If it’s the name we are focusing on, I agree with you - the system isn’t “full self driving”, the name is misleading, and Tesla didn’t do themselves any favors by naming it that. But if it’s how reliable and useful this feature is in practi
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by kbos87 3y ago
The delta between possible and easy makes all the difference in the world in situations like this. A periodic static screenshot obtained through an onerous process is one thing. A “productivity dashboard” packaged and distributed for the in

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