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by maratd 8y ago
> I disagree that evolution can be "understood" by one person readily explaining it to someone else. Darwin did just fine in the Origin of Species ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species )
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by maratd 8y ago
You've made a couple of points here. With regard to the Pizzagate incident, using the same set of arguments, I can claim that fringe leftist publications resulted in the Congressional baseball shooting where people were actually hurt.
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by maratd 8y ago
That’s a list of speech that can be justifiably repressed by the government . It doesn’t apply here. We’re talking about private parties and about speech that doesn’t meet those thresholds, but is nevertheless reprehensible.
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by maratd 8y ago
> Its obscene, flagrant garbage. It is. So what? > there isn't a place for that kind of conduct on platforms with any kind of standards. Flag it as "obscene, flagrant garbage" and hide it. Allow the user to decide. If t
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by maratd 8y ago
> the environment is not something the market will automatically solve Not quite true. The market can easily solve for it. You just have to internalize the external costs. Usually done through taxes (ie carbon tax).
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by maratd 8y ago
You would have learned the same if you had lived in those neighborhoods instead of simply swinging by. Of course, most people choose to segregate, but you always have the option in NYC.
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by maratd 8y ago
> but it is not enough. Not enough for what? It's clearly enough for millions to live very comfortably.
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by maratd 8y ago
> I am sure that much of that take-home pay is offset by higher medical costs and the need for more retirement savings This is not true. Those same workers get most or all of their insurance costs covered by the company. Same goes for re
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by maratd 8y ago
This is a terrible idea for numerous reasons. You will be personally liable for any defects in the work. If you get dragged into court, it can ruin you for life. You will be unable to take advantage of tax benefits that would accrue to you
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by maratd 8y ago
> licensing, certification You're a business now and this is upkeep. Business expense. You would receive training and licensing under normal circumstances through your job. > life insurance This is provided as a benefit by most b
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by maratd 8y ago
If you work at home, while those things would need to be done anyway, should be piped through your business to some extent since your business is taking advantage of those resources. 2.5x is the golden rule. You will need to double the sa
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by maratd 8y ago
> They need to standardize package sizes. Both services already do this. They provide free boxes for you to use of standard sizes. So if you choose to ship in another dimension, you're bearing that cost. They incentivize you to use
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by maratd 8y ago
Neither company commented on the situation with any detail. However, that account was not disputed by either party.
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by maratd 8y ago
Yes, after Mobileye (now Intel) learned there was an internal Tesla effort to replace them.
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by maratd 8y ago
Peretend I said something politically incorrect and insert your outrage below this comment. Be sure to use some derogatory adjectives, unrelated to anything previously said, to describe me.
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by maratd 8y ago
Focus on leaving a high fidelity fossil.
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by maratd 8y ago
> Tesla's Autopilot seems to be little more than the same lane keeping and adaptive cruise control everyone else has with the safety tolerances lowered a whole lot, to the detriment of several dead drivers. It seems that way to you
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by maratd 9y ago
> Alas, there were statistics posted here on HN in one of the Tesla accident threads 3 year period, 6 years ago. Zero citations, just a blank statement. Not only that, it's not believable. The Honda Odyssey sells in the hundreds of
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by maratd 9y ago
> But what does it have to do with there being quite a few (better selling, cheaper) models with 0 fatalities? Pretty sure there are no car models out there with 0 fatalities that have been released for more than a year. How much are you
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by maratd 9y ago
It's definitely every few minutes. I can attest to that from personal experience. Alternatively, you can just keep your hands on the wheel and then the warning doesn't come up.
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by maratd 9y ago
Well, it's either a "glorified golf cart" or you're a short seller with a financial incentive to spread the nonsense in your post. I'm going to bet on the latter =)
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by maratd 9y ago
You don't see those headlines because short sellers aren't obsessed with those brands like they are with Tesla. Not because those brands are actually safer or don't have accidents. "Tesla is, by a wide margin, the No. 1
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by maratd 9y ago
> If Tesla had called this something like "lane-assist adaptive cruise control" I think your average Joe would have had much more realistic expectations around how the technology actually functions. Which would be foolish on th
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by maratd 9y ago
> Does that not trigger an audible alarm by default in a Tesla No. That's a standard warning that triggers every few minutes if the car can't sense your hands on the wheel. If you don't place your hands on the wheel at tha
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by maratd 9y ago
You're right. I touched on this a little bit. Your estimation skills have to be top notch. If they're not, work hourly for an agency so that they bear the risk. Use that time to hone your estimation skills. Even then, multiply you
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by maratd 9y ago
> More specifically, don't do fixed cost contracts. Strongly disagree. I've been doing fixed cost contracts for a very long time with great success. You just need to know what you're doing. > They misalign all the incen
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by maratd 9y ago
It is when you do it publicly and announce it to the world.
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by maratd 9y ago
> No benevolent dictatorship has ever existed. I can quibble with this just a little. A truly benevolent dictator will recognize how harmful dictatorship is and will immediately remove himself from it. http://msa.maryland.gov&
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by maratd 9y ago
> Yet another of China's many advantages Yes, you can fire everyone in China, throw them in a work camp, take their property for the greater good, etc. Funny thing happens when you walk all over people that way for the "greater
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by maratd 9y ago
> After you've been coding for almost 2 decades across multiple industries, coding becomes predictable and tedious. Move out of your comfort zone and take on some projects outside of your established expertise. > Unlike many othe

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