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by mdorazio 5y ago
I think Hong Kong is a pretty good example.
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by mdorazio 5y ago
> and they're probably about as close to Waymo to true full self driving Absolutely no one actually working on the autonomous side of the automotive industry, myself included, believes this. Tesla is around the middle-bottom of the
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by mdorazio 6y ago
I’ve gotten really tired of this trope on HN because it’s basically willfully ignorant. It is exactly equivalent to saying “why do software developers get paid so much when all they do is write some code?” Code is the output, but there’s a
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Did that help you reframe your hiring strategy for the future? Curious what qualities in the second engineer both made them better and could have been revealed in an interview.
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Partially agree. A good hiring process can boost your odds of finding the “right” people, but my personal experience has been that firing well is at least as important as hiring well. Firing well is also something that most companies do ver
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Assuming you're not being facetious... Business modelling, market research, actual understanding of how businesses operate (hint: it's not code), distilling large quantities of information into useful insights, communicating effe
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Why lab created milk instead of something like oat milk? As a lactose intolerant person, I don't miss cow milk at all. Cheese substitutes mostly suck, though.
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Yup. Foundation, services, and interiors are your big line items. The shell tends to be both cheap and very quick to build with common materials.
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by mdorazio 6y ago
For you it's the best of both worlds, but for most drivers it's the worst. 1. More expensive than an equivalent ICE car 2. Less environmentally friendly than an EV 3. More complicated than either 4. Harder to fix when somethin
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Only if by “meet somebody” you mean for casual sex only. If you wanted an actual girlfriend you were (and probably still are) better off meeting through friends or in-person activities that demonstrate actual shared interests beyond getting
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by mdorazio 6y ago
I don't mind sponsored segments in general, but most of the channels I watch end up with some combination of Raid Shadow Legends, Nord VPN, SimpliSafe, Squarespace, and Raycon. It's actually refreshing when the sponsor is in some
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by mdorazio 6y ago
I remember years ago reading about this being a black hat method for exfiltrating data from computers not connected to a network. Load the "data to sound" program from an infected USB drive onto the target, then use a separate de
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by mdorazio 6y ago
More units available means lower rental prices (in general), which means renters should be able to save more money to purchase a home later. There's a big assumption baked in there that condos & houses don't get snapped up
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by mdorazio 6y ago
I'm not saying COVID doesn't have long-term impacts in certain portions of the population, but this sentence is pretty important: "However, the findings are observational, and the authors cannot rule out the possibility that
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by mdorazio 6y ago
That’s not at all what it means. Tesla is comparing scenarios where autopilot actually works (the easy, low crash rate scenarios like highway driving) to driving everywhere (including high crash rate scenarios where autopilot specifically d
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by mdorazio 6y ago
It doesn't.
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Zagreb has more population than Portland and almost as much as Austin. Not sure what size city you're looking for, but a lot of people specifically don't want a Los Angeles size sprawl.
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by mdorazio 6y ago
The author has a good point about traditional donation-based altruism not always being the most effective in achieving the end goal of ending poverty. For example, dumping hundreds of tons of second-hand clothes in African countries has a
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Similar thought from me. My personal feeling is that the best founder advice comes from people who failed at least once (preferably more than once) before succeeding. And the best employee advice comes from people who've worked at a
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Ah you’re right. I misread the parent comment. Thanks.
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by mdorazio 6y ago
That’s fair. To me the context of dropping mobility is more important than the absolute percentages.
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by mdorazio 6y ago
You and Russ both need to take a look at [1]. Socioeconomic mobility has massively fallen in the US over time. [1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/social-mobility-upwar...
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by mdorazio 6y ago
The author is almost certainly referring to real median household income, not personal income, and definitely not average (which is massively impacted by wealth gains at the top). See [1]. It depends which time periods you're compa
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by mdorazio 6y ago
I think you need to revisit your assumption about wealth inequality in The Netherlands. It’s on par with that of most of Europe, significantly lower than in the US [1]. [1] https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indicators&#x
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by mdorazio 6y ago
This is a fun counterpart to the pg post that made the front page today also. CEO-to-worker compensation ratio is an interesting data point showing that there's more to "how people get rich today" than just "tech startu
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by mdorazio 6y ago
I had the exact same thought when I read pg's statement, "Why are people starting so many more new companies than they used to, and why are they getting so rich from it?". People aren't starting so many more new compani
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by mdorazio 6y ago
I think the parent point stands, though. Using the 100 richest individuals as a proxy for measuring and commenting on wealth disparity isn't very helpful. These people have always been outliers. A meaningful discussion would look mo
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by mdorazio 6y ago
CPI and inflation metrics generally do account for housing costs [1], but the problem is inflation in housing is not evenly distributed. If you live in a coastal city or tech hub, your housing costs have likely risen much faster than the n
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by mdorazio 6y ago
Yes. Not everyone shares your preferences.
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by mdorazio 6y ago
The problem is I'm pretty sure this needs to be fixed at the national legislative level. There are somewhere between few and no electable congressional candidates who actually care enough about patents to stand up to lobbying. And the

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