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by mertd 4y ago
That would be on the same level as Satoshi's wallet address turning up in a transaction.
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by mertd 4y ago
For a second I thought you meant FTX, which also fits the bullets.
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by mertd 4y ago
Somewhat grim, but this has to be disregarding the humans who never reach the reproductive age or the ones who cannot keep their offspring alive. So there is some survivorship bias baked into the methodology.
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by mertd 4y ago
I don't know why convex mirrors aren't common. There must be a well researched reason like them leading to bad judgement of relative speed or messing up with spatial awareness of the driver. Hard disagree about backup cams. I can&
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by mertd 4y ago
7. 14 year old cars have the standard safety features of 14 years ago. That means almost surely no emergency braking, blindside warning or backup cameras.
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by mertd 4y ago
Or they would have to drop the price even more because the buyers cannot use the credit as a discount.
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by mertd 4y ago
Indeed if you hibernated in early 2021 and just woke up, the prices would look kind of same. But the other side of the coin is also interesting. Up to six months ago, they couldn't make them fast enough when they were selling the cars
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by mertd 4y ago
Good enough is good enough for the majority of the market. They don't want to hear Vienna Philharmonic's third violinist breathe, they want to listen to autotuned pop music on a pair of $20 headphones and get on with their day.
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by mertd 4y ago
I was in a rejected take off. I collected my phone from the cockpit door after it flew there from my hand. Without the seatbelt, I would have flown too. I never found out the reason. I thought they would have to report it and I could read i
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by mertd 4y ago
Pro tip: instead of paying, discretely sneak out of restaurants. Dinner for no cost :)
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by mertd 4y ago
We have the same one and used for the same purpose. The only complaint is I wish the temperature setting wasn't a rotary dial. Going back and forth between lukewarm (100) and coffee brewing temp (195) requires a lot of rotations which
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by mertd 4y ago
They also bury the trash bags under the plowed snow, which is a win-win for them because they can forget about collecting them until spring. :)
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by mertd 4y ago
Does that include all deferred maintenance they had to do after the massive wildfires?
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by mertd 4y ago
They are overpriced by around $20k for the fit and finish. Build and materials quality were ok to overlook when Teslas used to be the only sensible EV option. Now the market is full of interesting EVs. Why pay German car money to get a car
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by mertd 4y ago
There is zero proof for this xenophibic claim.
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by mertd 4y ago
Read the code? You can try to import it but you'll get a message explaining the problems with it and a link to where to find it shall you decide you'd like to use it anyway. It's the opposite of hiding.
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by mertd 4y ago
Unprotected left turns into El Camino are the worst. There is always a light two blocks away in some direction. It's in Google's backyard. How they get this one wrong is puzzling.
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by mertd 4y ago
I believe you are giving too little credit for the state of the art to Google. Transformer is a Google research invention. The main criticism could be not turning these amazing tech into products. But then nobody really did it either. ChatG
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by mertd 4y ago
Is that a fair comparison? Did everyone or anyone have unlimited options for substitute calories and nutrients without milk? How does modern factory farmed dollar per liter milk compare to the milk back then?
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by mertd 4y ago
That scheme isn't necessarily zero sum. If Yahoo simply didn't have the inventory to show certain ads but AOL did and vice versa then it would be a mutually beneficial deal that fills ad slots that would otherwise go unfulfilled.
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by mertd 4y ago
> maybe have a set day for polls, like Tuesday Oh I just remembered the good old Wii surveys. Those were fun.
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by mertd 4y ago
Reminds me of The Line, the city Saudis claim to be building.
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by mertd 4y ago
This is overly pedantic. You just need to read past the first sentence. They immediately qualify their statement. In the same font size as the headline...
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by mertd 4y ago
Fusion “Breakthrough” Won’t Lead to Practical Fusion Energy [Immediately] Happy?
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by mertd 4y ago
Even the most perfect defensive driving won't fully mitigate the unsafe driving of others though. I'd rather have them to be in autonomous vehicles.
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by mertd 4y ago
I fail to see the equivalence. These are just loans with weirdly favorable terms. If the other bank had shareholders, then this would be a breach of the fiduciary duty. Otherwise it's just bad business? Bad business != fraud.
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by mertd 4y ago
Now imagine each of the five boroughs having their own transit authority with rampant nimbyism trying to kneecap them and you get the Bay Area.
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by mertd 4y ago
But he doesn't have a sponsor segment? I enjoy his long explanations with lots of side commentary. You can find the long form narrative boring. That's ok. There is no right way to tell a story.
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by mertd 4y ago
He has a lot of videos about delivering for Amazon on his YT channel. Some are a year old. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNcYFjn42AQIX76shX1qW...
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by mertd 4y ago
I don't understand what's being covered up. Sure it is an interesting phenomenon but purely from an academic perspective. It's not like smoking became a net positive for health. It's literally the definition of non news.

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