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by lsc 7y ago
eh, right now most people are massively underinsured; minimum coverage in California is like $35k, and most insurance companies won't sell you a plan with more than a half million of liability (at least not without an umbrella policy)
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by lsc 7y ago
eh, my argument is that as long as they are intelligent enough to safely get to the side of the road, I think there's a very large number of people who would be okay with a car that "broke down" every 10K miles if it was oth
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by lsc 7y ago
Actually, I think there's a huge opportunity for the incumbent car manufacturers there. Considering how much identification many consumers have with their car brands, this could work out well (maybe even better) if it were only compa
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by lsc 7y ago
sure, but I think the truck convoy companies are run a little bit more like regular companies than startups? they have a reasonable near-term goal and sales pipeline. Like, I think if you have a couple modern trucks you can go have pel
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by lsc 7y ago
I dunno. Americans seem to want these giant 4x4s even when they leave the city twice a year; they'd be better off (certainly safer... most trucks are more dangerous for other people and for the occupants) if they had a little car
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by lsc 7y ago
https://peloton-tech.com - I mean, that's just one company, I think there are a handful working on just the problem you're talking about.
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by lsc 7y ago
eh, something that only works in cities would be pretty nice for more than half of us. If you need an off road vehicle twice a year, you rent one; we have that technology already. (I mean, we're still a long ways away from level 5 i
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by lsc 7y ago
Seems like it would mostly be the manufacturers that would have to insure the cars, at least for the expensive part (liability) For me? I'm a self-driving skeptic, but... if the manufacturer was willing to properly insure it, (I mean,
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by lsc 7y ago
>Probably that with sufficient land you can sustain yourself regardless of what happens with the outside world. Sustenance farming as a baseline of human need. Producing enough in the growing season to sustain yourself through the off se
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by lsc 7y ago
>all I do is copy code from the internal codebase and patch things together until they work. this is... a big and important thing (and difficult... a lot of people re-implement rather than trying to understand what is there.) when deali
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by lsc 7y ago
I dunno, man; I think it is deeply weird how we put so much effort in to airline safety, but let anyone drive essentially anything on the road, without even requiring more than homeopathic liability insurance, and only the most cursory
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by lsc 7y ago
>Fur is a fashion meat is a core pillar in many cultures and changing that will take longer than 10 years. I think you are probably right... but I want to bring up the counterexample of smoking. I mean, smoking was never as widespread as
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by lsc 7y ago
the comment I was responding to (from you?) said: >I've only had issues twice in the last 12 months, which is often enough, for me at least, to want to carry a backup, just 'cause it's super awkward to eat and not pay, re
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by lsc 7y ago
>I've only had issues twice in the last 12 months, and in both cases the vendor blamed their equipment for the failure rather than me. that's... about what I'd expect, and personally, for a twice a year event, I'm car
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by lsc 7y ago
>It would be nice if it had NFC for payments though. I find this interesting. I mean, sure, when I'm buying online, having a unified wallet is really, really nice and saves me a lot of effort punching in my credit card with each s
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by lsc 7y ago
>It’s interesting that you specify non-fiction, presumably since part of the point of reading fiction is the process of reading itself rather than simply the plot that unfolds there's all sorts of "reduced Shakespeare" -
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by lsc 7y ago
>But sexual attraction is an important part of relationships, so going in blind is inherently risky (from a time utilization perspective). For most of us, there's also a very strong mental component to sexual attraction; I mean, s
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by lsc 7y ago
>Anyway, what sort of graduate work would you like to do and why? I actually don't have a project in mind at the moment. I have in the past wanted to do a lot more with pushing forward open source diagnostics tools, (and with prov
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by lsc 7y ago
But you asked about motive, and that's different from how I responded. I do need to get better at constrained writing, and to learn even really basic level management type writing, and while this is certainly a goal, a degree is also
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by lsc 7y ago
It involves a lot of essays... I'm learning a lot about constrained writing, something I'm pretty terrible at as-is. I mean, most of the actual information systems stuff is old hat, but there's a lot to be said for improvin
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by lsc 7y ago
I read Less as part of my "read all the Pulitzer prize for fiction novels" and I also enjoyed it quite a lot. "the road" might have been my favorite novel on the list of pulitzer prizes in my lifetime.
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by lsc 7y ago
well, the equation on the "competency based" degrees for me is essentially that they are super way less prestigious than traditional degrees, but they are the only way, as far as I can tell, to get an education without a "you
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by lsc 7y ago
So, I think about this a lot. I know a lot of really good sysadmins with no education; like of the people I consider really good sysadmins, close to half might not have degrees, and this is one of the reasons I equate my job to the tra
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by lsc 7y ago
I think That was actually an example of the benefits one can gain by being around people who are smarter and better educated than you are. That book would not have been intelligible without my smarter and better educated co author. I mean,
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by lsc 7y ago
>Some of my kids seem like they enjoy academics, but others do not. I'll be pushing the latter toward trade school. Average IBEW (electrical union) pay is about $20/hr for an apprentice and $33 for a journeyman. $40,000 to $66,
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by lsc 7y ago
nope. Complaining while you are working at a company is generally bad form (though it was something I did a lot) - I'm working deep in the bowels of a faang company and it is so cushy and so remunerative in comparison. I don&#x27
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by lsc 7y ago
>My best advice 3 year post blow up. It ain't worth it. Move on. You will save yourself pain. My own personal view, if I could go back in time, would be to tell myself to go all in. I think it had a shot, and I needed to take that
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by lsc 7y ago
Yup. We had a pretty good (20%) discount if you paid for a year up front that customers often used, so it wasn't slow to save up the cash, but it serialized a lot of processes that could have been parallelized. Testing one server w
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by lsc 7y ago
>If you have a growing business making money it should be fairly straightforward to get a loan under your business name. this is not my experience, not without a personal guarantee or collateral that holds it's value better than ser
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by lsc 7y ago
Oh man. I bootstrapped a business on the side, and quit my dajob when it got to the point where it could support me (which is to say, could pay me like 1/4 of my market value in silicon valley) - One of the clearest mistakes I made

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