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by lsc 7y ago
relevant experience: So I've started to subscribe/unsubscribe to channels through prime. It's really easy to subscribe/unsub. I unsubscribed from HBO when game of thrones finished. But... lots of things? lots of thin
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by lsc 7y ago
>Even in the case of open-source software, with full source code and documentation available, the number of people who analyze code is miniscule. I think... we might just live in different worlds? I'm a sysadmin and I maintain compu
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by lsc 7y ago
>Without commenting on whether or not I believe the Bloomberg story, I very much doubt that "people were tearing these boards apart", doing reverse hardware-level engineering looking for an unknown. Even in the case of open-sou
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by lsc 7y ago
so by my reading of the article, it was extra chips... as I recall, it looked like some of them were hidden in the power supply (totally possible, if you can find some exploit on the I2C interface, but also probably fairly easy to detect) (
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by lsc 7y ago
Huh. so shortly after the story broke, I bought a bunch of SMCI. (It's actually the first OTC stock I've ever bought. It was easier than I thought, too... I had to call vanguard to enable OTC trading, but after that? super easy.
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by lsc 7y ago
Huh. your experience is really different from mine. To me, the fact that we survived seems like a huge accomplishment; learning about the cold war and how we did not all die violated everything else I learned in history (and, for that m
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by lsc 7y ago
I think there's a huge difference between risking bankruptcy and risking your freedom. I mean, even leaving aside the traders who trade other people's money, even if it's your cash, once you were rich, even if you go bankr
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by lsc 7y ago
You realize that "money laundering" usually isn't about tax evasion, right? it's about figuring out how to take money gotten from an illegal venture and figuring out how to make that money come from a trackably legiti
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by lsc 7y ago
What about amazon fresh? That seems like ridiculous levels of luxury to me. I mean, this is America and most of us have giant vehicles we could take to the store to get food... but amazon will deliver fresh food to your door. You don&#x2
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by lsc 7y ago
>Amazon is a shitty aggregate selling site. Yeah, that's exactly what I was complaining about. The "shipped and sold by amazon.com" experience is super luxury. For consumer goods, and a whole lot of industrial parts? I
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by lsc 7y ago
I don't own amazon (except through the indices) but I am a customer who buys almost all of my consumer goods through amazon. You are absolutely right. Amazon is a luxury brand, and amazon doesn't seem to know this. I mean..
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by lsc 7y ago
>Very few companies include bonus as a part of a software engineer's compensation (large SV companies are more or less alone in this). Bonuses are generally reserved for executives (excluding sales staff, of course) in most industri
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by lsc 7y ago
>Sillicon valley is more then google and apple It is... but the top tier companies pay dramatically more than the next tier down. Like, we're talking 30-50% difference once you count total comp. (it's interesting, base salary
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by lsc 7y ago
really? huh. I have a pretty strong preference for santa clara water, but that might be me confusing it with the Milpitas smell. I mean, there are a lot of good places to eat in Milpitas, but the Milpitas smell just really puts me off.
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by lsc 7y ago
sure, but buying random bottled water is probably about as common as buying a random brand of cigarettes. People have preferences.
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by lsc 7y ago
>I kind of want these issues to continue and get worse. Because then we will have a healthcare revolution, rather than more bandaid policy fixes. This is the justification I hear for a lot of my "bernie or bust" friends. I al
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by lsc 7y ago
most places seem to offer ceramic for sit-down customers? I mean, maybe not starbucks; most Starbucks I've been in don't really seem to have much of a sit-down area, so "for here or to go" isn't really a question.
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by lsc 7y ago
I am pretty sure that you could tell the difference between a brand of water that is distilled + minerals added and a brand of water that was not distilled in a blind taste test, especially if you drink mostly water. I think there are even
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by lsc 7y ago
People do, though; There is a thriving market for (heavy and expensive) stuff built to last a really long time. Obviously, if you want your product to be light and/or cheap, especially if (as in my case) your light product is supporti
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by lsc 7y ago
Like 180 or so? Where I live, the major cost of owning stuff is storage, so something light and compact is worth a premium, which I am paying here in terms of reduced longevity compared to a better machine. I bought with the expectation tha
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by lsc 7y ago
>However, most of the time you are working on something that is New. So I was just thinking about that today. I just bought one of those ridiculous 'incline' rowing machines; as you 'row' it lifts your body off the
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by lsc 8y ago
I mean, I suppose this doesn't really have all that much to do with automated driving. But yes, I do support much greater liability for the people or entities that operate motor vehicles. I think you should focus on civil penalties,
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by lsc 8y ago
sure, city by city and neighborhood by neighborhood... but my point is that you have a viable business, even if you only cover one city or even one neighborhood. Most of my traffic is to work and back. Assuming that you have cheap/op
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by lsc 8y ago
>Most people I know hate taxis. Uber can nearly raise prices to parity with cabs. If they are willing to let their ridership fall to just above cab ridership numbers? sure. That's the biggest problem with the market; demand is elas
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by lsc 8y ago
Controlled environment? well-maintained roads? this doesn't sound like any city I've spent much time in. I'm thinking like 101 seems reasonably straightforward, modulo the occasional construction, but once you get into san
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by lsc 8y ago
I'm... not sure you'd need a lot of network effects? I mean, you need a critical mass of drivers and riders, but they can be all in a small area and you can still provide a service. I mean, for the occasional user, sure, brand r
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by lsc 8y ago
mm. so I don't think driving in cities is easier - I mean, it's certainly harder for a human to drive in a city; I don't see any reason why it would be easier for a machine to drive in a city than in the country.
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by lsc 8y ago
so, as long as investors have appetite to lose money to buy market share? you are, of course, right. But the business cycle goes up, and the business cycle goes down. (I mean, the general trend is upwards, but if you don't think the
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by lsc 8y ago
True, but I think they are both symptoms of skimping on medical care, which I don't think people should have to do in general. (I would be happy to pay more taxes to make that happen.) I especially think people shouldn't ration me
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by lsc 8y ago
Yup, and that's about what you pay for a single person health insurance in the US that isn't very high deductible. I think my employer pays about $6K/yr for me and another $6K/yr for my partner, (I know this 'caus

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