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by kemiller 6y ago
I mean, the card is shaped like a credit card so people can keep it in their wallets so there's not much excuse. It seems pretty dumb to 100% rely on a device whose battery can run out.
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by kemiller 6y ago
The sheer alien-ness of cephalopod intelligence reminds me of the current conversation about AI and whether they are "truly" thinking or just mechanistic. It's easier to see an octopus as executing a highly advanced algorithm
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The point isn't masks per se. Masks do in fact slow transmission, but there are multiple strategies which can work if everyone abides by them. But that's the issue — people won't agree to even the simple rules, no matter ho
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by kemiller 6y ago
One of Ruby's philosophies is to provide multiple ways to express the same fundamental operation so that it can conform to your thoughts instead of forcing your thoughts to conform to it. You can still do it the old way where it makes
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by kemiller 6y ago
This needs more upvotes. I agree that our fire management hasn't been great, but there is more to it than that. Climate change is driving both more fuel and deeper droughts, and making better conditions for bark beetles. There isn&#
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by kemiller 6y ago
Longevity of the finished product and/or reusability of components should be taken into account as well. We haven't really had them long enough to know this for sure, but signs are that EVs have a longer service life, which means
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by kemiller 6y ago
Yup, 4 is the key. Lucid Air is being marketed as high end luxury car, so 113kwh is totally believable. But Tesla's first-mover advantage in this case is having locked down the battery supply chain necessary to scale. It seems that mos
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by kemiller 6y ago
I'm sure HFT hedge funds are interested.
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LEO satellites have potential for very low latency over large distances which could be very valuable for multi-zone customers and Amazon itself. Lasers in a vacuum.
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It really seems like synthetic fuels using water and co2 and excess solar energy as inputs Is probably the best bet ultimately.
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Right so most plans call for living underground, at least until they can put some kind of shielding device at a Lagrange point. I assume that’s what really drives Elon’s interest in the boring company.
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That’s really weird. Is it normal to blend in sport modes? Do you have a link to more info?
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by kemiller 6y ago
Timezone and cultural compatibility still matter, as we've collectively discovered over the last 30 years. Offshoring was already happening before this and will continue to do so, but there will remain demand for people onshore. Presu
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by kemiller 6y ago
FYI you would not have to pay cap gains on your primary residence. But yes, I feel the same way. I’m stuck in a starter house because I couldn’t easily get back in the market.
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by kemiller 7y ago
I wish we had a team that cared as much for our democracy.
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by kemiller 7y ago
I should be clear. I’ve been in hybrid or management positions for many years now so it’s not a matter of trying out managing, it’s a matter of going in cold.
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by kemiller 7y ago
I am a great people manager, but it's subject to the monkey in the middle problem, which I find stressful.
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Ask HN: Joining Big Tech in One’s 40s
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As long as there are bicycles, pedestrians, pets, weird one-off accidents, there will always be a need for situational awareness.
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by kemiller 7y ago
Though, honestly, I’d still buy one.
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by kemiller 7y ago
Heads are going to roll. This is going to be hard to recover even if the truck is amazing.
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by kemiller 7y ago
It’s a great feature for those of us with older houses and narrow driveways. If anything it is too cautious.
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by kemiller 7y ago
No, office work will take on more of the practices of remote work, not the other way around.
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They do in fact look at diversity along those lines too.
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Even if it does what it says, it’s a minor improvement over existing motors once you factor in the rest of the car. The mass of the motor matters but much less than the mass of the batteries.
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Because politicians in a democracy cannot do things unilaterally.
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I don’t think that was the implication. It’s that Tesla is focused on hitting the high order bits and so has earned a little forgiveness about smaller things.
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by kemiller 7y ago
I have used and liked CarPlay and was put off by tesl not having it... until I tried Tesla’s. CarPlay is essential for routing around the horrible crap put out by most carmakers but the Tesla ui is awesome. It’s big, it’s fast, and it’s 1
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by kemiller 7y ago
I just found it in old papers and have been carrying it around hoping to remember to cash it at a bank or something. But that does t seem likely now.
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by kemiller 7y ago
Welp... I guess I can finally throw out that 20-year-old uncashed traveler's check.

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