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by mdorazio 4y ago
Twitter was already failing, just in slow motion. 10 out of the last 12 years, including last year, the company lost money. I never saw the management team propose or execute on a legitimate path to sustainable profitability, either. Elo
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I've worked for several OEMs and have talked to dealers about this a bit. Here's a quick run-down. No domestic OEM sprang into existence with billions of dollars in the bank to spin up a nationwide network of showrooms and repair
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I think it's pretty well established at this point that many VCs are gullible herd animals swayed by people who are good at sales and check the right boxes. SBF is just the latest in a long line with recent notables Elizabeth Holmes a
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Unpopular opinion: I wish this law extended to startups using VC cash to offer products at artificially low prices. When done at sufficient scale (ex. Uber), it massively distorts markets and is very much anticompetitive, even if consumers
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by mdorazio 4y ago
For those interested in languages... After studying Chinese (Mandarin), Esperanto has always struck me as being not all that great for a constructed language. Chinese is somewhat remarkable in that if you ignore the logographic writing sys
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I'm confused... this is basically the same as molten salt, just with sand instead of salt. Molten salt has been around for a very long time and is how solar thermal power plants store energy and continue to generate power after dark.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
The data does not support your statement. For example: https://www.geotab.com/time-to-commute/ Sure, if you cherry pick the worst possible commutes in the worst commuting cities you're going to find pockets of ~1
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by mdorazio 4y ago
An hour commute to work is most definitely not acceptable to most, especially post-pandemic. Median commute in the US is about 26 minutes and many people are now used to working from home some or all of the time. Hour-long commutes ar
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Here you go: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29691763/ The effect is most pronounced for double spacers like myself, for whom the exact opposite is true of your first argument.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Given the frequency of tornados and hail in Texas I’m not convinced this is a large discrepancy in this particular contractor’s case.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
You need to look at this from a game theory perspective since there are more than two parties involved. If company A pays for forklift training but can’t pay as high salaries as a result, but company B does not offer training and offers the
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Most ISPs offer a static IP address as an add-on or higher-cost service. Might vary depending on where you live, though.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I didn't see it in this page, but previous announcements put the battery life at 1-2 hours (unverified). I know it's fun to hate on Meta, but this honestly looks like it resolves most of the gripes I had with the Quest 2, aside fr
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Me as well.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Your first video is Magic Leap 1 unless I missed something. The second two are about what you can expect, though, and pretty close to what you got with the Hololens 2 a couple years ago, except with better FoV and performance. For me pers
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I'm hoping you're trolling. I funded Star Citizen when it was announced on Kickstarter in 2012. As of the email I got yesterday, development status is at "Live Version ALPHA 3.17.2". If I'm being generous, it&#x2
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by mdorazio 4y ago
What gets me is how Jack Welch was held up as an amazing businessman and model for corporate flexibility for years while his changes utterly destroyed GE's future for short-term gains. I'd argue the same thing about the Clinton a
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I'm getting kind of tired of these poorly-informed journalist hit pieces. Yes, self-driving cars are only ready in a handful of locations and still have some kinks to work out. No, that does not mean they are decades away or that the
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by mdorazio 4y ago
See here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1002780107 It has to do with true randomness in the measurement aspect, not with human free will.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I think there are multiple things going on here that the professor doesn’t seem to grasp: 1) The pandemic response of schools completely disrupted the learning level and style of an entire generation of kids for two years, and we’re now see
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Ignore the other answers to you - they're referring to refined products, not crude. Straight from the strategic reserve FAQ, crude oil doesn't really degrade if stored properly: https://www.energy.gov/ceser/s
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I would argue the HN monoculture very much has its own brand of propaganda and influencers (see: pg), you just happen to agree with it.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Japanese economists are at least hopeful it will help: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/09/18/business/japane...
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by mdorazio 4y ago
I'm guessing a lot of commenters didn't actually read/listen to the entirety of this. Here's a summary: - Globally, there's a drop in fertility rates - The reasons for this are complicated, but the interview seems
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by mdorazio 4y ago
The B in UBI is pretty important and seems to be at odds with what you're thinking. It's meant to be a basic income that guarantees you won't starve or be homeless somewhere in the country. That's it. A backup to
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by mdorazio 4y ago
450 watt TDP? I feel like a crazy person every time a new generation of GPU comes out and raises the bar on power consumption and heat generation. How is this ok?
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by mdorazio 4y ago
90% of the video you linked is the sinister-looking closeup. It looks an awful lot like you cherry picked the few seconds not of that view.
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Your arena would have to be very rough for legs to have an advantage over squishy wheels or treads. Legs in a melee robot are just too fragile.
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by mdorazio 4y ago
For FSD, Elon is a master hype man and absolutely awful at understanding the complexity of areas outside his expertise. FSD, the "Alien Dreadnought" factory failure, $30k Model 3, cargo to Mars in 2022, etc. Those of us in the t
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by mdorazio 4y ago
Compared to what? In California I was paying a full 35% effective tax rate on top of something like 3000 a year in health insurance/deductibles and still had a sizable homeless camp on my street. Plus if I wanted to go back to school

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