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by nexuist 5y ago
5 and 4 are the result of 3 which is the result of 2 & 1. Both housing and healthcare are heavily regulated which makes it difficult to apply the tech growth model to them. I wholeheartedly believe the "Tesla of health insurance&qu
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Tesla probably makes back all the money they spend on AT&T bandwidth through the Supercharger network. As long as the math continues to work out there's no need to introduce any new fees. I will say it is kind of strange that Premi
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It was, unfortunately Full Self Driving will probably actually be full self driving before we figure out how to communicate sarcasm across the Internet
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by nexuist 5y ago
Although you probably meant it in jest, one of the buildings at my alma mater is actually named after a professor who led a coup against a previous president (some 100ish years ago) and became the president himself until he died from a hear
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by nexuist 5y ago
This is all hypotheticals of course, but is it really likely that if a major satellite was lost NASA would be willing to bankroll the construction of a second identical one? I think the whole project would be scrapped and something else dow
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by nexuist 5y ago
This is a brilliant idea and I'm curious if anyone has any opinions on why it wouldn't work. Paid overtime shifts financial responsibility to the PM who ordered overtime, because arguably a more competent PM would either push back
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by nexuist 5y ago
> The automaker got the green light to sell its Drive Pilot package for use on stretches of the country’s Autobahn network at a speed of up to 37 miles per hour, Mercedes said Dec. 9. Kind of stupid that this headline implies Mercedes is
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by nexuist 5y ago
> We need a shift to more missions, building these things more often and more on price This only very recently became financially reasonable with SpaceX. It would have been impossible for NASA to know at that time that private industry w
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by nexuist 5y ago
It is, most of the time. That's why these outages are such a big deal. Nobody would care if it went out multiple times a month.
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Everyone would've had a day off today ;)
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We don't earn better pay and benefits because we are special, brilliant people. We are given these benefits because there is a perpetual labor shortage of people who have enough tech experience to do their employers' bidding and n
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by nexuist 5y ago
Other than the drug test it didn't seem like there was a single thing OP was required to do that wouldn't be solved by automation. At my current job we set up direct deposit, filled out info for background checks, completed traini
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by nexuist 5y ago
I don't think we should get rid of Atom or anything like that, the point of my question is why the Atom contributors chose to not move on to VSC and continue to maintain Atom to the point of launching competing cloud options like Telet
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by nexuist 5y ago
Is this something we could start doing tomorrow? Do we already know how to make space kidneys and just need the space in space to do it?
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by nexuist 5y ago
Privacy and security are the same thing. When one is compromised so is the other. Any untrusted code that runs on your machine has the implicit capability of exfiltrating information that would rip apart your privacy.
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by nexuist 5y ago
A perfect encapsulation of why these privacy complaints are next to worthless. You don't trust Microsoft with telemetry but your package.json pulls in 30 packages from completely random Internet strangers who published something that l
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by nexuist 5y ago
Serious question: Why does Atom still exist? On the front page they advertise something called "Atom Teletype" which seems like a ripoff of VS Live Share (or was it the other way around?) Why aren't the Atom people working on
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by nexuist 5y ago
> Even if I'm being generous and grant them two private crewed missions per year, that's not exactly a multi-billion dollar business. Didn't each shuttle cost several billion dollars to refurnish in between launches? There
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by nexuist 5y ago
My understanding is that it is practically impossible to launch a health insurance company today, even with Google's budget, because the laws are so complex and impossible to digest that there is no way to sign up customers at a worthw
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It's a useless question anyways, because the company gains nothing by "budgeting" for death, and loses everything by settling on a real number. It's like asking Boeing how many families they expect to send payouts to in
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by nexuist 5y ago
There's a lot of effort put into this page. It makes me think the author has a personal stake in curing the disease. I'm happy this site exists.
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The problem is that this assumes academics want to change and use new methods to distribute their work. The primary goal of all academics is to secure more grants - what happens afterwards is an afterthought.
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by nexuist 5y ago
Is it not already several orders of magnitude better? The average human only drives a few thousand miles a year and experiences a varying amount of accidents during that time. FSD drives millions if not billions of miles a year, and lifetim
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by nexuist 5y ago
> You get to read your phone instead of paying attention, and the trade-off is someone might get killed. You get to drive , and the trade-off is someone might get killed. Your comment almost makes me think you haven't driven a car
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Giving up isn't how to escape apathy or idiocracy either.
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> But what drove solar adoption over the last decade is the plunging price of panels ...which was heavily subsidized by the Obama administration plowing billions of taxpayer dollars into solar R&D. We could end the reliance on gasoli
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It is a good thing. Even shitty software was underpriced back then. Developers and tech companies deserve massive ROI for the work they do. In an alternative world the Linux Foundation would have become the first trillion dollar company. Th
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Reminds me of the R/V explosion near the AT&T building last December. Seems like weird fringe guys who haven't found a way to connect to each other yet.
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> never shipped traditional commercial software as a product (which is definitely a dying breed). And why might that be? Isn't it because people realized they make way more money charging for PoCs shipped in a week than "produc
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by nexuist 5y ago
> talking about pay almost always leads to interpersonal friction, resentment, conflict, lower work productivity, and slower progress of our company toward an IPO Try this one with your SO: "Talking about chores almost always leads

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