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by nkoren 8y ago
Likewise, thanks for the good reply! Hope your health issues improve! I share your skepticism that AIs capable of piloting fully driverless cars are coming in the next few years. In the longer term, I'm more optimistic. There are defin
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by nkoren 8y ago
In case anybody needs another, similar rabbit hole to get lost in: http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number.html
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by nkoren 8y ago
The competition is only selling at $150-$170M today because SpaceX pushed them into it. 10 years ago, F9-class payloads would've cost $400-500M (on Western launchers; Russia and China were always cheaper). Those prices had been pretty
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by nkoren 8y ago
Fucking hell, the scrolljacking makes it completely unusable.
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by nkoren 8y ago
That's a sociopolitical question more than a technical one. I posit that: 1.) Road safety -- as far as the current operating concept of cars is concerned (eg., high speeds in mixed environments) -- is not a problem that can be "so
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by nkoren 8y ago
Agreed. Uber disabled a safety feature that would have prevented this fatality -- but that doesn't mean that the automation was therefore safe apart from Uber's mismanagement of it. It's entirely believable that had that safe
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by nkoren 8y ago
I worked on the autonomous pod system at Heathrow airport[1]. We used a very conservative control methodology; essentially the vehicle would remain stopped unless it received a positive "GO" signal from multiple independent sensor
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by nkoren 8y ago
No, it says that for the present valuation to be fair, then all those conditions must be true. But if all those conditions were true, then Tesla would control at least a quarter of the global automotive market, and its valuation would be co
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by nkoren 8y ago
So if I exist and I love my cat, there is no way my cat can prove I exist? If this is false, then I think some further axioms may be needed to differentiate the two scenarios.
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by nkoren 8y ago
That quote actually seems quite unfair to me. If "most" cars are to be electric in 10 years, and "most" of those are to be made by Tesla, then Tesla would have captured more than a quarter of the world's auto sales,
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by nkoren 8y ago
My dad clarifies that he hasn't updated this page in about 15 years. Eventually his work on this got sufficiently out of control that he founded www.imatest.com, and that's been keeping him busy ever since.
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by nkoren 8y ago
Oh wow, this is my father's site! Will try to get him here to answer questions, if anyone is interested.
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by nkoren 8y ago
It's that whole "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" thing. Jobs had reached the "laugh" point by then 15 yeas ago, the default position of the space launch industry was
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by nkoren 8y ago
They started well before then, with the Russo-Japanese war in 1904. 36 years after the Meiji restoration, they took on Russia and won. Not that military prowess should necessarily be the metric of civilisation, but Japan was/is a damne
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by nkoren 8y ago
> In the early years, companies selling video-visitation products would ask jails to sign contracts requiring them to phase out in-person visits. This seems evil. Actually evil. Inhuman, sick, psychopathically twisted, demonically evil.
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by nkoren 8y ago
Unless you're not using Windows, in which case it functionally doesn't exist. Seriously. I have never successfully connected a single call with it. (Understood that the same criticism can be levelled at Facetime etc -- which I als
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by nkoren 8y ago
From TFA: > “It is easy to have opinions without evidence,” Suri said. “It is time we tried to gather some evidence and started thinking about what the impacts truly are and how it changes people’s lives.”
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by nkoren 8y ago
It's really not that much of a stretch. Population-wise, Cincinnati is roughly comparable to Hamburg or Budapest, which have had thriving subways since 1912 and 1896 respectively. What's interesting here is America's general
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by nkoren 9y ago
Sounds like an interesting enough bloke, but I find the article's framing of him to be exasperating. Knew everything? Truly? So he could hold forth at length on the philosophy of Zhuang Zhou or Nagarjuna, or the history of the Mayan Em
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Ask HN: How to get temporary health insurance in America?
2 points by nkoren 9y ago|1 comments
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by nkoren 9y ago
Crossrail is a well-done project. But just to be clear: there were fully 68 years of feasibility and planning studies prior to getting the funding for construction. Since then, it's been laudably smooth sailing -- but if one considers
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Flux shuts down its platform(flux.io)
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by nkoren 9y ago
> I was scrolling around the world, setting directions for how to cross Russia by foot (which let me tell you in case you ever wondered, should take roughly 60 hours, depending on locations used) Huh, out of curiosity, I just checked Goo
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by nkoren 9y ago
I did my ~30th jump with a guy who was approaching 20,000 jumps. He seemed to get just as high off of it as I did. Over time, the high changes -- from a feeling of "holy shit I'm alive!" to a much more sublime appreciation
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by nkoren 9y ago
A whole Ariane5 launch costs between $165M and $220M. Divide that by two satellites and it's still more expensive, per satellite, than a Falcon 9 (at $63M) -- and the satellites can't be nearly as heavy. There are instances of th
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by nkoren 9y ago
> SpaceX hasn't reduced prices yet You keep repeating this, but it's completely untrue. Today an Ariane 5 will cost you $10,000/kg to $14,000/kg to LEO, but you can get a Falcon 9 to LEO for $2,800/kg. That'
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by nkoren 9y ago
> about the same price as competitors Um, no? The competitors have had to drop their prices very substantially in recent years, due to competition from SpaceX. Yet they're still somewhere between 50%-300% more expensive. That's
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by nkoren 9y ago
Damnit, you win this round. :-)
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by nkoren 9y ago
Arithmetic is to mathematics as typing is to being a writer. If the subject of an article is a brilliant author, then a cool new keyboard that makes it easier to type really isn't related, not even tangentially.
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by nkoren 9y ago
Yes, space is, like, infinitely bigger than people imagine it to be. However your analogy is incomplete unless those 4500 ovens are wandering the surface of the Earth at mach 25.

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