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by mchusma 5y ago
I've looked into becoming a B-corp. And unfortunately, it has a very specific opinion on what "good" means. It's very easy to be a horrible company and a B-corp. So it's a complete waste of time IMO.
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by mchusma 5y ago
I think almost no commercial value is at 4. I'm fact, it could be negative value. Because you need the expense of a "digital driver" and the expense of a human driver. It's basically level 5 or bust.
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by mchusma 5y ago
I continue to be shocked that there isn't more outrage that those under 12 are completely banned from getting the vaccine. IMO everything else related to covid is less important, but it's still seldom discussed besides like in the
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by mchusma 5y ago
I think if I knew you I'd happily bet this, but I don't make it a habit of randomly betting people online. I think if the bet is a robotaxis ride across Boston area by 2031, should be no problem. Frankly a Tesla could probably do
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by mchusma 5y ago
This matches the AI day extrapolation. If they are training significantly larger neural nets with dojo, and dojo is not really in production use until next year, it is likely FSD2 will be finalized only after they run some models from dojo.
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by mchusma 5y ago
Random thoughts: I thought the fact they have 1,000 data labelers was interesting. I'm unsure about their dojo efforts. Seems cool, seems better than Nvidia but not 10x better (hard to tell it's not apples to apples). For example
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by mchusma 5y ago
This. If you are going to be a legal dualolopy, then you can't cut off payments like you can't cut off power or water. Personally I breaking thei anti-trust behavior entirely, so people have options.
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by mchusma 5y ago
Not entirely, as illegal immigrants can be difficult to hire for many industries.
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by mchusma 5y ago
Rakuten is basically a scam on merchants right? By that I means they use affiliate links to make money. But most of their referred traffic comes from people checking out and saying "I use rakuten to get a discount at the places I alrea
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by mchusma 5y ago
Visa, Mastercard, and amex are a tax on the world, propped up not by being good, but by anti-competitive behavior. It's absolutely insane the fees they charge.
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by mchusma 5y ago
I believe that AVIF and JPEGXL are going to be the last "traditional codecs". But there had been good research on using neural nets for compression and decompression, and I expect the next codec to have massive improvements over t
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by mchusma 5y ago
IMO most people referring to Dyson spheres actually mean Dyson swarms (I do).
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by mchusma 5y ago
This is awesome, I am very excited for vr for work purposes. Glad to see they are making progress on the software side. I have been tentatively thinking that once resolution is high enough to really do work (probably Quest 3 will be there),
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by mchusma 5y ago
Slack's poor calling is baffling to us, and the fact that they are uninterested in making it better is obvious. The quality is so bad, we use google meet for almost everything at the company, even though we would prefer to use the nati
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by mchusma 5y ago
I liked your comment. I feel the concept we need to completely destroy is that real estate is a store of wealth. We should try for the opposite, to make housing as affordable as possible (via the free market). The main ways to do this are a
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by mchusma 5y ago
Googles duo already does this. In my experience, it's amazing. http://ai.googleblog.com/2020/04/improving-audio-quality-in-...
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by mchusma 5y ago
How low though? Lyra added significant overhead, from what I read. They said it was small but then in practice it was like 100ms or something, which given a typical ok connection is easily 50ms would put it in the perceivable range of delay
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by mchusma 5y ago
I agree. I think this is a straightforward dumb mistake, most likely.
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by mchusma 5y ago
I think that this policy, and similar ones, will likely hurt the people it purports to protect. The perception will now be reinforced that women or minorities hired to boards are to "meet quota". Also interesting that this article
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by mchusma 5y ago
People always use child porn as the backdoor excuse. Once they have the mechanism in place to censor and report content. They will for sure be requested to use this. For terrorism, hate speech, etc until it's so blurry until it's
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by mchusma 5y ago
Space is massively big. We can easily have a thousand systems like this without getting the density of an airport airspace. We should be trying to put a trillion people in space.
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by mchusma 5y ago
This is great! Nice to see technology tackle a big problem. I don't see how you should have any expectation of privacy from the government in order to get government benefits. Totally reasonable.
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by mchusma 5y ago
I think they should be more expensive too. The government shouldn't give a monopoly for cheap. Maybe $100k fee for first 5 years, with the ability to pay something like $1m to extend another 5 years would be long enough. Maybe $10M for
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by mchusma 5y ago
This is of course exactly what was expected, and why First Dose First was so clearly the right strategy until countries had plenty of supply. Good for the UK recognizing this early. The US hasn't.
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by mchusma 5y ago
The SAT is the single biggest determiner of intelligence I've come across (at least from people taking the test 10-20 years ago). It's the only number I've come across that people commonly have, and is ballpark correct. Throw
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by mchusma 5y ago
Recipe for french toast: Step 1: Learn the history of France Step 2: learn the history of toast Step 3: heat bread, eggs, milk in a pan
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by mchusma 5y ago
The US already has about 10x the number of people in jail as European countries. We need less people in jail, not more. I don't think changing the punishment from 5 years in jail to 10 years in jail would deter anyone differently. And
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by mchusma 5y ago
I like to describe this position as NIMOP: Not In My Orbital Plane. The idea that you own a view to infinity to me us more absurd than taxing me for breathing air, which is also a negative externality taken to extreme. Let's put a quad
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by mchusma 5y ago
This is an atypical time. Of course right now there is huge churn, due to covid, the pandemic unemployment benefits, and the fact that restaurants have had to quickly hire anyone with a pulse to keep up. This all leads to obvious churn. The
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by mchusma 5y ago
It's an expensive loan though. Stripes offer was about 45% APR, which was higher than Kabbage, Fundbox, and a host of other fast/easy loan providers.

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