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by marvin 5y ago
If you're evaluating the system as a L5 autonomous driving system. Not if you're evaluating it as a safety assistance feature.
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by marvin 5y ago
If it's so easy, there must be a reason why Tesla's team hasn't accomplished it. They're not idiots.
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by marvin 5y ago
It's probably not worth the effort providing any form of defense of any part of Musk's role in this, but his team did ask the British lead divers whether they should carry on working on the sub (well, underwater transportation tan
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by marvin 5y ago
As for 3: BMW, like most of the transportation industry, is unwilling to make the massive investment in battery production required to profitably be able to switch their production from fossil to renewable. This reluctance obviously extends
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by marvin 5y ago
I didn't read your link, but the "thrust" in thrust to weight ratio generally refers to the force that the engine produces. Therefore, it isn't a brilliant analogy to compare the thrust of a helicopter rotor (which does
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by marvin 5y ago
This is nonsensical. Glider pilots (no engine!) fly aerobatics programs all the time, in planes with curved wings. If the pilot is a bit of a masochist, they could fly upside down for half an hour in still air given enough altitude. The var
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by marvin 5y ago
I'm confused. I was in a plane that flew upside-down, and it didn't fall down. Am also a pilot.
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by marvin 5y ago
I love this philosophical point. There is a sense of imperialism in forcing cultural and lifestyle changes over «your way of doing things is objectively wrong because of reasons so and so (child mortality, income, age expectancy etc)». And
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by marvin 5y ago
They might have been perfectly okay in the Manhattan Project doing varied but unplanned fast-paced research, as a WWII fighter pilot, doing subsea welding for the oil industry, being a scout in any number of military forces, being a profess
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by marvin 5y ago
It might have been unhelpful way of formulating the response, especially in the light of OP's comments about getting treatment for anxiety and depression. But the comment was probably meant to highlight that there's a sense of amb
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by marvin 5y ago
Plus, look at an aerial photograph of a non-metropolitan area and see how much of it is covered by buildings. Not a whole lot. With the current global population, real estate is generally scarce only because there is local democratic consen
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by marvin 5y ago
The demand for gold jewelry is in very large part due to its price and scarcity. You don't see people flaunting their cubic zirconia jewelry even though it's optically at least as nice as diamond.
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by marvin 5y ago
Elon Musk is a lot of things, but stupid isn't one of them. I'd be willing to bet that Tesla continuously looks at the state of LIDAR tech and evaluates whether it's at the point where it will be feasible to put it in a mass-
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by marvin 5y ago
This is a deeper philosophical question than it might seem initially, and in the HN crowd the answer might be different from me than what you'd expect. Most people here are smart, hard-working and aspire to be high performers in whatev
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by marvin 5y ago
Norway. I've only done this with a single employer over multiple years, but I've received offers from at least four others where I was clear about a 4-day week (with 20% reduced salary) being a requirement for me. I've of c
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by marvin 5y ago
I've worked 4 days a week (for 20% less pay) for years now. It's without a question the biggest positive change in standard of living and life quality I could buy with this money. Will never regularly 5 days a week again unless I
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by marvin 5y ago
It would be a disaster to enter a military conflict with an adversary that has autonomous weapons if you don’t have at least effective countermeasures yourself. I suppose nuclear states could in principle rest on their laurels, but at least
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by marvin 5y ago
I'm not familiar with Stripe's situation, but there are non-public markets available for this kind of stock sale. You just can't buy from them unless you're already rich. I'd guess that long-term employees do have
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by marvin 5y ago
I've been following this movement for well over a decade now, and it's not a heterogenous community. You see the entire spectrum, from people who just want to get really rich and indulge in expensive hobbies like keeping their own
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by marvin 5y ago
I have been thinking the same thing for some time now. Unfortunately, I wouldn't hold my breath. If they are able to stay private, they probably will. It's easier to build a business when you don't have to deal with the hassl
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by marvin 5y ago
Huh. Funny that you mention it. I decided this exact same thing for myself this winter, and just started. Same reasoning too. Is it only among technologists who have great recent returns in the stock market, or is this a wider trend?
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by marvin 5y ago
I assume it was just to make the argument more pointed; I skipped over the word "female" by accident and the message is unchanged. If you wouldn't want to make this kind of discouragement with women founders, you wouldn'
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by marvin 5y ago
This was an approximation of Norway's rules and was not a load of bullshit. Briefly, firing someone is only allowed if their position is no longer necessary and no alternative position exists, the company needs to reduce its headcount
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by marvin 5y ago
This was actually illegal in Norway until recently. It is legal now, though, and you're right that this is an option. For in-demand professions like software engineers, such a scheme actually requires salaries that are comparable to th
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by marvin 5y ago
Norway's public healthcare isn't terrible at all. There are some painful cases where a well-insured US individual would get better treatment, and there are frequently waiting lines of a few months, but for the vast majority it wor
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by marvin 5y ago
I'm as big a fan of the European businesses that succeed as anyone, but the car industry would still have been dragging its feet if Tesla hadn't provided a credible threat to eat most of their market share.
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by marvin 5y ago
Giving two written warnings two weeks apart for one of the five objective reasons that are grounds for firing, then firing with a three month notice period is by definition harder than saying "you're fired, please leave the buildi
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by marvin 5y ago
You'd have to argue why suicide rates that are measured to be higher trumps scientific attempts at directly measuring happiness. The latter does indeed rank Southern Europe lower than both Northern Europe and the United States. https:
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by marvin 5y ago
The stock market thinks it's building one right now, however.
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by marvin 5y ago
They've actually done a masterful job of finding this balance. I've been on reddit for 15 years and would have quit if they didn't leave the old interface available.

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