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by kgin 5y ago
I was OBSESSED with the first image of the toroidal station as a kid. Haven’t seen it in so long and this instantly made me feel like I was 8 years old again.
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by kgin 5y ago
2/3 of Americans don’t have and will never have a 401k or IRA.
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by kgin 5y ago
Exactly, GDP per capita is a better metric when talking about what an economic situation feels like on the ground. Absolute GDP is a very “let’s rank countries by economic power” metric.
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by kgin 5y ago
I think the joke is that a decentralized database doesn’t really solve any of the hard parts of knowing who owns what more that a sql database at the county records office. Establishing the real world legal realities of what those db record
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by kgin 5y ago
A market-based way of allocating resources to new productive ventures and rewarding those who allocate the best.
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by kgin 5y ago
Tesla and Waymo/Cruise are playing entirely different games. Tesla is trying to make a full level 5 using only vision. Waymo and Cruise are going to level 4 in HD mapped service areas using every possible sensor they can fit onto a car
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by kgin 5y ago
They’re already running without drivers. Cruise’s purpose-built vehicle (which starts service in 2023) doesn’t even have a steering wheel. https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/07/cruise-plans-to-have-tens-...
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by kgin 5y ago
Waymo and Cruise will start rolling out commercial service next year in a few cities
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by kgin 5y ago
Which parts seem least likely?
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by kgin 5y ago
We’ll be riding around in no-steering-wheel level 4 cars (with remote planning assistance when things get out of bounds) very soon. Over time, those cars will need to phone home less and less. Eventually there will be an article about the “
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by kgin 5y ago
You can’t scale exclusivity
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by kgin 5y ago
I once fell off my bike and smashed my nose pretty badly. To this day, when I trip and lose my balance for a second, I feel a shooting pain in my nose. It’s like it’s ready to start hurting again before anything touches it.
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by kgin 5y ago
Fortunately the Bogota Metro is under construction now and will be open in a few years.
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by kgin 5y ago
Individual changes at the scale of this problem aren’t literally nothing, but they’re pretty close to nothing.
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by kgin 5y ago
This Japanese/Colombian short film on that theme from a few years ago has really stuck with me >HYPER-REALITY https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs
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by kgin 5y ago
You can invest in companies that make money though. There are lots of them chugging along just fine and providing returns, dividends even. The high flying meme stocks get majority of the attention, but they’re not the majority of the marke
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by kgin 5y ago
Typescript is for big code bases and big teams. The smaller your project, the more pointless typescript will feel. Working alone on a small project, it’s a LOT of extra stuff on the screen to avoid a very specific kind of bug.
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by kgin 5y ago
All very true. The one thing that worn on me about NYC: most people leave after 5-7 years. If you stay longer than that, everyone you built relationships with early on will be gone and the ones from the middle will be planning their departu
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by kgin 5y ago
Ah, yes that’s more what I meant to say. We’ll get to a place where masks aren’t required anywhere, but we may never return to a world where masks are a weird or unusual sight.
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by kgin 5y ago
Masks became a regular fixture in Asia after original SARS. Not by regulation, but they just became an ordinary item used by people to avoid getting sick or avoid getting others sick.
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by kgin 5y ago
I just mean a one-time dose for a procedure, not an ongoing prescription.
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by kgin 5y ago
I’m curious why it seems they were seemingly conservative with the anti-anxiety meds? A large enough benzo dose would turn this from the worst day ever to a relaxing experience in just a few minutes.
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by kgin 5y ago
It sounds like you’ve had some really rough experiences. What you’ve described is absolutely not universal though. I’ve accumulated and kept very close friends though a rollercoaster of financial conditions across decades.
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by kgin 5y ago
When housing markets are extremely tight, people fear improvements. Improvements mean the neighborhood will be more desirable. More desirable neighborhood means people with more money will be interested. More people with money means higher
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by kgin 5y ago
That might be one (fairly expensive) strategy to address it. But the rest of the world doesn’t avoid the US problem because they’re all seeing nutritionists all the time.
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by kgin 5y ago
Something started in the 70s and I’ve never seen a good explanation of what it was. But you can see in the stats that obesity hit an inflection point in the mid-1970s, started going up and has never looked back. Now we’re at 80% overweight
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by kgin 5y ago
Only if you think your users are scum. Do you think your users are scum? Do you? Why do you hate your users?
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by kgin 5y ago
Yes please
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by kgin 5y ago
I’m honestly surprised this location kept 24/7 hours for so long.
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by kgin 5y ago
It’s amazing to see people want a downvote on Twitter so much that a fairly convoluted “virtual downvote” has emerged. I wonder if Twitter will ever implement a real downvote. I think it would disincentivize inflammatory posts (but inflamma

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