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by mertd 8y ago
Or where drivers: - could refuse service based on factors like customer's race without repercussions. - accept nothing but cash as payment. - take the "scenic" route when they realize you're from out of town. I'm no
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by mertd 8y ago
Do the percent fluctuations really matter if the final amount is still an absurd amount to the seller?
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by mertd 8y ago
They are just saying don't take medical action based on our results and hold us liable.
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by mertd 8y ago
What is preventing a company with a self-driving fleet purchasing a few parking lots or cutting deals with them? The cost of it would be a rounding error next to their investment in a self driving fleet.
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by mertd 8y ago
What privacy would you be giving up? Amazon will know that you have light bulbs in your home?
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by mertd 8y ago
Nitpicking here. The element you can touch is not the lens. It is a protective cover.
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by mertd 8y ago
The reader boards work like a circular buffer. If you pay attention to where the pointer is, you may even jump ahead a few spots by entering the right queue.
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by mertd 8y ago
Why is is hard to make affordable? Not every urban core needs to be Manhattan. Look at smaller European cities.
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by mertd 8y ago
It is artificial in the sense that there really isn't a good reason why the supply shouldn't be going up.
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by mertd 8y ago
It is unclear how index funds would function without someone doing price discovery (i.e., active investors).
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by mertd 8y ago
It reads very similar to the infamous NYT review[1]. [1] https://nyti.ms/W3HSCZ [2] Tesla's response: https://www.tesla.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive
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by mertd 8y ago
No they don't. Pizza steel thing is quite heavy (~15lbs).
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by mertd 8y ago
Cars, whether they will drive themselves or not, are getting a lot smarter. Voice assistants are growing very fast although they probably won't become high margin devices. I would like to see the gap between the iPad and the Kindle bri
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by mertd 8y ago
If you're in a rent controlled market like SF, there is no reason to take on that risk. Just rent.
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by mertd 8y ago
Are they buying them with leverage (i.e. mortgage) though?
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by mertd 8y ago
What leverage do they have against a monopoly? Turn off their fridge?
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by mertd 8y ago
If you don't have them, you're almost certainly not doing great
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by mertd 8y ago
You must be talking about the Scoot motorcycles. I don't see the little scooters lasting from Pier 1 to GGP and back.
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by mertd 8y ago
This is discussed in the article. Maybe read before commenting?
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by mertd 8y ago
Careful what you wish for. With net neutrality gone, you might end up having to get cable tv style "sports" bundles.
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by mertd 8y ago
The truck in front is blocking the wind though, which is the point. Assuming she was going all out to fight the leftover wind, it probably felt like 40mph.
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by mertd 8y ago
You'd prefer paid reviews over ads? Ads are honest. You know who paid for them and the intent is clear.
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by mertd 8y ago
The key word in the parent post is "adaptive". With adaptive CC, you don't do anything in stop and go traffic other than minor steering. The car just keeps about a car length distance with the car in front. It is very nice co
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by mertd 8y ago
I was in the same boat as the op. Dove in head first into a software engineering role. Ended up working with the only true 10x'er I have known to this day. Nothing improves you faster than getting feedback from someone like that.
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by mertd 8y ago
> Something you do once, report it and it is done. I have been having a hard time getting comfortable with that idea. There is usually "a lot of" untested and unreviewed code in the notebook that produces the analysis.
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by mertd 8y ago
But the commute isn't the thing that absolved you from those responsibilities. I suppose you either stopped doing them or outsourced them, which you could have also done in your commuteless life.
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by mertd 8y ago
Absolutely do not lie unless you want the offer rescinded. A lot of companies will ask for exactly that after the offer is accepted and it is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
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by mertd 8y ago
I wonder how anti-smoking campaign would have played out today when a good chunk of population can't be convinced that vaccines are a good thing.
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by mertd 8y ago
Can we save the hyperbole? It is no more privacy invasive than using toll roads or using a credit card anywhere.
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by mertd 8y ago
He went due to securities fraud but one could argue that, if it weren't due to the drug price thing, he could have flown under the radar, since the investors didn't lose any money.

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