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by mdorazio 3y ago
> It's not misleading. It's very misleading because you're starting from the supposition of EVs rather than the actual mix of personal cars. If you choose EVs for the cars, why not choose ZEV buses that are starting to ent
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by mdorazio 3y ago
This sounds to me like a combination of survivorship bias and cost preference. You see the resilient things at your grandparents' house because those are the only things that have survived. All the poor quality things they purchased ov
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by mdorazio 3y ago
I know it's a joke, but I think it's still a good illustration: https://i.imgur.com/XLuaF0h.png From everything I've heard, Apple's org structure is a lot more focused and UX-driven from the top down tha
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Parent comment is also referencing HGTTG. Right at the beginning, in fact: "Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees
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by mdorazio 3y ago
I was hoping someone had found a better way than radiance fields to generate actual 3D models. This is creating 360 panoramic images , which are not "3D" unless I'm missing something. Still impressive tech, though.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
How old is your age group? I noticed the same thing among my friends, but then also noticed they all didn't start having kids until mid-30s. It turns out career-oriented women are choosing to start having kids much later in their lives
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Yes and no. In the US, the vast majority of Americans want to own a single family home, not a condo or apartment [1]. That brings with it the necessity of personal vehicle ownership, which then compounds urban planning and traffic issues. A
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Also never heard of it before now.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Curious how you see this playing out internationally and how you maintain this opinion in the face of Japan (double our debt raio, biggest issue is population decline). Globally, the US debt to GDP ratio is roughly in line with a good chunk
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by mdorazio 3y ago
The "easy" way to do this would be to drop the mortgage interest tax deduction for mortgages under a certain % rate. It'll never happen, though, the US has been artificially incentivizing single family home ownership since th
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Asian Americans, for one. See lawsuits here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v... And likely anyone who values true freedom of speech: https://themissingdatadepot.substack.com&#x2F
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Here's the corollary of that: how does typical DEI actually help equality of opportunity? Put another way, do you think a black student from a wealthy family in San Jose or a poor white student from rural Alabama needs more help? Now s
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by mdorazio 3y ago
A combination of supply chains, unions, dealers (they hate BEVs), support requirements for existing vehicles, cannibalization of existing vehicle lines, and (at the moment) cost of capital.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
American labor keeps getting more expensive and is just not cost competitive with Mexico. If their goal is to make a $25k car without massive automation (which failed spectacularly with the "Alien Dreadnought" -> Megatent disas
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by mdorazio 3y ago
100% agree with you, having been in and around automotive factories for years. Tesla is really capitalizing on two things here: 1) Tesla customers seem extraordinarily willing to overlook production defects and servicing/repair issues
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by mdorazio 3y ago
To me, this is kind of a good thing since it points to computers increasingly becoming akin to durable goods rather than "replace it every 2-3 years" electronics. Which they should be - your average (i.e. non-hardcore gamer and no
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by mdorazio 3y ago
> people above senior engineer (lead, principal, etc) And how many of those are there relative the general software engineering population?
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by mdorazio 3y ago
I think you misunderstood my intent. People should live wherever they want, but should bear the risk-associated cost of that choice. Which is not what happens today - State Farm is exiting the market because CA artificially limited premiums
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Can someone explain how the business model for indoor farming is supposed to work? Is it just for high-priced specialty crops? Having spent some time in central CA watching the massive scale of farming operations there I just don't see
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Unpopular opinion: Good. Now if the state of CA would also institute policy that homeowners affected by disasters will not be bailed out we can get somewhere productive. Want to live somewhere with a massive and well-known chance of wildf
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by mdorazio 3y ago
If this is the case, wouldn't you expect their grades to reflect this as well due to the generated code answering exam questions having errors?
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by mdorazio 3y ago
> Beyond that, who would even want black market nuclear fuel? Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations would absolutely want it for the dirty bomb potential.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
How would you get the correct number? I just did two Google searches and can't find the correct answer anywhere in the first page of results ("Novel The Haj chapters" and "Novel The Haj chapter list"). Even looking
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by mdorazio 3y ago
They are completely different financially. Look at this way: in a single quarter, the cash flow for a company with a loss leader strategy will still be positive because the loss product is offset by other revenue. The venture predation comp
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by mdorazio 3y ago
I could be wrong here, but I think it's to significantly increase the barrier to spam senders. Today it's dead simple and effectively free to register as many fake accounts as you want and send millions of spam messages. The new r
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by mdorazio 3y ago
I use Twilio for a friends & family only project, and just this week jumped through the hoops to register. I'm willing to suck it up and pay the $2/month because I understand the purpose of this whole thing is to reduce spam.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
> It doesn't help that most of the planned transit improvements seemingly are focused on greenification of buses rather than just getting more buses on the road to expand routes, make lines frequent enough to use for commuting, etc.
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by mdorazio 3y ago
> or if I'm working in a dystopia Going to guess you're both young and working at a tech company as opposed to a big company that also does some tech things. Prior to the rise of Agile and the decrease in waterfall-style develo
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by mdorazio 3y ago
Not OP, but I work in the industry. It's not as simple as opening the tap for three primary reasons: 1) localization, 2) operations, 3) cost. Localization means that you cannot generally (with current-state tech) ship a bunch of cars t
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by mdorazio 3y ago
> Midjourney is easier, its not better. By what measure? Midjourney v5 is massively better with every prompt topic I've thrown at it than SD. It's not even close. SD, however, is much better if you want an actual customizable t

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