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by notJim 5y ago
I totally get your points on technology, but I feel like sometimes people here become so focused on the risks that they forget about the good side.
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by notJim 5y ago
It's so funny to me that HN is so skeptical of technology sometimes. Why build the internet when you get all the information you need at the local library? Why have cars when my horse provides companionship and transportation at the sa
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by notJim 5y ago
If the company has benefits that are available, they should definitely point the employee to them. That is just the humane thing to do in my view. When I had a death in my family a few years ago, I filed to use vacation time, and my boss re
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by notJim 5y ago
> Are there any places that keep under-preforming employees for half a decade, or more? Microsoft is often recommended for this, and some say Google these days too :).
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by notJim 5y ago
Companies employ people to do work . That is the fundamental nature of the relationship. Some leeway is to be expected for temporary fluctuations in the work being done. But in the long term, if the work is no longer being performed at the
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by notJim 5y ago
There's a bit of context on this Bloomberg article https://archive.is/dnT51 . Claims it was a mistake.
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by notJim 5y ago
> The most likely outcome is that very quickly all the UBI money will be going to the few landlords and soon people will need "UBI plus a job" to pay rent and make ends meet. This doesn't make sense. If it was the case, ra
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by notJim 5y ago
Note that many of the administrative hurdles could be overcome by moving the benefit to the Social Security Administration, who already have the data needed. Also, it's been a while since I looked at this, but Republican Mitt Romney ha
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by notJim 5y ago
https://archive.is/I6wrL
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by notJim 5y ago
A lot of the time, CICO sucks people are using some other metric that, for them, ends up being basically a proxy for calories. I think similarly, when people totally change their diet (going low carb or keto or whatever), it basically amoun
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by notJim 5y ago
Our foreign policy incentivizes gaining access to nuclear weapons and WMDs. It's one of the best ways to guarantee your continuing sovereignty. Nuclear countries are powerful enough that even the US is reticent to invade or destabilize
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by notJim 5y ago
Hedonic quality adjustments are necessary though. If people start buying smartphones instead of dumb flip phones, it's not a sign that there is massive inflation in telecom sector, it's a sign that they're getting a lot of va
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by notJim 5y ago
I'm not really sure the "dollar worth less" framing is super helpful, but maybe I'm wrong. I think it's a little better to specify in what context we're talking about. Actual inflation is generally low aside fr
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by notJim 5y ago
> Creating more housing doesn't "fix" the problem, because the more wealthy buy two or more houses, and are happy to leave one empty This surely can't go on forever though. People's ability and desire to consume
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by notJim 5y ago
Aren't blogs just called substacks now?
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by notJim 5y ago
> nobody can promise anything, and anyone who believes any promise is a fool. IDK, can people ever really promise something in perpetuity? People and circumstances change over a lifetime. To me it is healthier and more realistic to und
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by notJim 5y ago
To illustrate this, imagine at offer time, you're given $150k + $80k worth of stock over 4 years. That works out to $170k per year. Nice, but not even doctor money. The stock is currently $100/share, so that's 800 shares. Now
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by notJim 5y ago
Model 3 with LFP battery: 239 kW / 2139 kg = 111 W/kg Stats from here: https://ev-database.org/car/1320/Tesla-Model-3-Standard-Rang...
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by notJim 5y ago
I think most likely the person who created the video must have done it. I don't see how Tesla would own the copyright. This also isn't the first time one of these videos has gone viral, and the other ones were not taken down.
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by notJim 5y ago
I've found YouTube's defaults for a lightly-used profile (my work Google account) tend to be like Charlie Kirk/Ben Shapiro owning the libs type garbage.
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by notJim 5y ago
> Tesla will kill critical videos of FSD Examples?
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by notJim 5y ago
> I am astounded that software capable of these outputs is allowed on the roads. Well, great news for you then! Elon Musk just announced they're adding a button to allow a lot more people to get access to this beta software. https:
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by notJim 5y ago
That sign only applies to the left lane. It's to stop people from turning right from the left lane.
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by notJim 5y ago
Is this the thread where we post our usernames? I'm @deets.
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by notJim 5y ago
Oddly enough, one of their screenshots shows a URL[1], but that url doesn't actually work if you go to it. https://glass.photo/royhandy/e8ewjkla
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by notJim 5y ago
I've been thinking of making something like this for many years. It's unfortunate how hostile Instagram is towards photographers, considering it's the main place people engage with photography. Will definitely be giving this
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by notJim 5y ago
In the common language used these days, "the algorithm" refers to the sorting/reranking companies like Facebook and now Twitter do to attempt to show you posts you're most likely to engage with. I think the vast majority
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by notJim 5y ago
This seems kind of silly. Every CEO of every major company has probably sent a similar if not far, far worse email. You really think Sundar Pichai's emails are all sunshine and flowers? Capitalism rewards ruthlessness.
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by notJim 5y ago
The flammability of lithium batteries kind of freaks me out. I hope we get to non-flammable batteries soon. Imagine a future where every car in a dense parking garage is lithium BEV, and then one of them catches fire. As far as I know, thes
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by notJim 5y ago
I'm talking about on the right-hand-side, where it shows the route it's going to take. There's no indication on there it should turn right at this location. It looks like it should go straight through the intersection. I see

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