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by mabbo 4y ago
Sign me up. I'll gladly be in the human trials for this. The potential benefits to society are huge . Economic impact: How many people each year have to take time off work because they're sick with the flu? Societal impact: how m
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by mabbo 4y ago
Nah, I just live in a very walkable area of Toronto and use my car maybe once a week at most, and then just to get groceries. Otherwise, I use transit and walk everywhere. Driving to the library would be more of a hassle than just walking.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Often when I read about physics like this, I'm reminded that there are two possibilities: Either there is no practical way for a human to ever travel faster than light; or there is . Both possibilities are fascinating. (And yes I know
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by mabbo 4y ago
Exactly. Many of these people may have twice that amount in credit card debt. And while it's great to pay that down, it won't change much immediately.
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by mabbo 4y ago
A fun side effect of all of this: if you believe in the court's ability to force Musk to buy Twitter, you should continue to buy up stock until it reaches the price Musk agreed to pay for it. If you don't believe he'll be for
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by mabbo 4y ago
The article does not say that the autopilot was on. Presume that it wasn't for a moment. 66 year old in the drivers seat. Car does something unexpected and then drives at full speed into a solid object. If this was anything other than
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by mabbo 4y ago
.... Dammit. The car is in the basement garage of the condo and basically "out of sight, out of mind". It literally never occurred to me.
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by mabbo 4y ago
I woke up yesterday to: no home internet; no mobile connection. I own no broadcast tv service. (Why yes, I am a Canadian Rogers customer). I literally started searching through my junk to see if I owned a radio of any kind, just to try to h
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by mabbo 4y ago
> Any thoughts on why this would not make sense aside from whatever Starlink’s biases & business objectives are? I suspect the market here is not individuals that want to browse YouTube and check their email. Market 1: large multi pe
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think the next step after reading that material is to just get experience in it. Consider applying to some software companies that are massive in scale. AWS, GCloud, Azure, Netflix. People whose systems need good design. Once you get in
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by mabbo 4y ago
From wikipedia, Tata Group is worth $300B. Tata Group owns 70% of TCS, which is worth $200B. Also this: > more than 70% of Tata Sons' dividends were generated by TCS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Group ht
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by mabbo 4y ago
I think what you're missing is that this is the entire point of cryptocurrencies. To be decentralized such that governments, banks, central authorities, cannot stop them. No laws, sanctions, rules, taxes, can force the crypto system to
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by mabbo 4y ago
Interestingly, TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) which many people on HN would recognize, is a publicly traded company- yet something like 70% of it's shares are owned by Tata Group, and it's a massive part of their income.
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by mabbo 4y ago
What if those trustworthy organizations were to tell you: "We trust this NIST competition result, and so should you"?
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by mabbo 4y ago
I get where you're coming from, but it doesn't hold water when you reach the scale of a company like Amazon, for the time periods we're talking about. The entire retail market is being undercut by Amazon Retail. Competition i
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by mabbo 4y ago
All the things built on top are limited to the things their creators decided were needed. They'll never be as powerful as git itself. I want a successor to git that provides as much or more power but with the intuitive usability. Is th
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by mabbo 4y ago
It's fine. It works. But it's not intuitive. A decade of near daily use of it, as the 'git guy' on most teams I'm in, and I'm still spending time searching how to do specific things. To use a UX term, there&#x2
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by mabbo 4y ago
I suspect this will go down beside the Fire Phone. Amazon just sometimes gets this idea that if they spend enough money they're sure to win. I just wish the government would finally break them up so that AWS could keep it's profit
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by mabbo 4y ago
I'm 4 months in with my first kid. Here's what I think matters. 1. Organization is key. We meal plan for the week every Sunday afternoon. We both installed ToDoIst on our phones and have a specific list of tasks for every day of t
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by mabbo 4y ago
> When I ask him what he wants to do he says "I don't know" A blogger I read a while ago (I completely forget who) wrote something about this that stuck with me: if you ask a kid if they want pancakes or cereal for breakfa
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by mabbo 4y ago
Debate shouldn't be discouraged purely out of deference to the agreed upon authority. Sometimes the random voice in the crowd can say something important. Probably not in most cases, but this isn't the sort of place we shout peopl
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by mabbo 4y ago
I was in the middle of one of these ethically questionable decisions at Amazon many years ago. Let me explain. Some people are simply sociopaths and do not care- whatever makes money and gets them promoted is fine by them. Some just ignore
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by mabbo 4y ago
Amazon as a whole is profitable, but AWS subsidizes the rest. Amazon retail loses money because it's constantly undercutting competitors, and investing heavily in further CapEx to reduce costs. If they had to pay living wages to those
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by mabbo 4y ago
That's the point I'm making.
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by mabbo 4y ago
Canadians do not refer to themselves as "American" in the same way that the Irish don't refer to themselves as "British" despite living in the "British Isles". If you insist on calling a Canadian "Ame
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by mabbo 4y ago
> being able to vote only if you pay taxes You legitimately don't see any problem with this? There's a huge swath of people who are unemployed, disabled, or otherwise unable to work. There's people with criminal records wh
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by mabbo 4y ago
Fun philosophical and likely legal debate: do people and companies have an obligation to not do things - legal things - that are to the detriment of society or the planet as a whole? And if so, how far can you take such a rule? I don't
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by mabbo 4y ago
That sounds like a lot of work, with added risks. With our system, our bills get paid with the money we have, and then when we make more money, it just goes back to the buffer account. Overflow goes into investing.
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by mabbo 4y ago
My wife grew up very close to the poverty line, with her parents always just about to lose the house. And she has this anxiety. (Edit: to be clear, she's a successful civil engineer, considered one of the best in her field locally and
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by mabbo 4y ago
I'm just happy to see more competition in this space. More competition will drive down costs and increase innovation. Give me 20 companies all trying to sell me the perfect solution for my home, please! When we reach a day that most ho

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