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IIHS: Model S has higher collision claim frequencies than comparable luxury cars(iihs.org)
118 points by otalp 9y ago|164 comments
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by otalp 9y ago
I think there's automatic collision avoidance always on that uses the autopilot sensors. So even if you're not actively using autopilot, the car can avoid hitting an obstacle it sees on the road.
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by otalp 9y ago
The author is a pm at Amazon
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by otalp 9y ago
I meant the feel and responsiveness of the trackpad rather than size.
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by otalp 9y ago
Thinkpads are great, I just wish they'd update the design to make it look less 2006ish. Also a bigger trackpad with responsiveness that can compete with the macs. It's been so many years, I don't know why other manufacturers
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by otalp 9y ago
Ironically Autopilot 2 is better than Autopilot 3, so older Teslas would be one car.
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by otalp 9y ago
Tesla has Apple-like brand value without the Apple-like manufacturing efficiency or profit margin. For Tesla's stock price to be worth the current value they need to at some point be making industry-high profit on every car sold - so f
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by otalp 9y ago
What's interesting with pencil support is if it'll affect sales of the iPad pro. The processors are now comparable for everyday tasks, so is the better speaker + screen worth 600+ dollars? That is in addition to spending $200+ on
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by otalp 9y ago
Tuition was free for in-state students during America's peak post war years in California and other places. It's not like it's completely alien to America. Nobody is advocating "throwing money" at the issue but you
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by otalp 9y ago
I fail to see how this will seriously damage them. They already own the two biggest alternatives to facebook - Instagram for pictures and WhatsApp for communication. More people are using their services than ever before and more people are
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by otalp 9y ago
It's not like Google is a privacy haven for people who care about that sort of thing.
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by otalp 9y ago
Personally I think there may be better ways to spend money, but it's interesting that tuition-free college, which is the norm in europe, is considered something the US "can't afford" while a 700 billion dollar increase i
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by otalp 9y ago
For all the talk of "fiscal conservatism", Reagan was the first post-war president to drastically increase the national debt - he increased the debt by 186% due to insane deficit spending.[1] After Bush Sr. added another 1.5 trill
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by otalp 9y ago
This template is very good, you can edit it in a good pdf reader: https://github.com/mnjul/html-resume/blob/master/firefox_res...
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by otalp 9y ago
How do you find your clients?
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by otalp 9y ago
Not OP but Tesla's stock is certainly overvalued(Musk said so himself). Their future depends on if they can scale without QA issues - so far even producing a few hundred model 3s a week they seem to be struggling with defects and probl
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by otalp 9y ago
oops
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by otalp 9y ago
Very Relevant video on what the discussions about 'the ethics of self driving cars' miss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozcaLnTuidU Summary: We spend too much time talking about what decision the car should make
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by otalp 9y ago
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by otalp 9y ago
His last comment on the Internet is relevant to Hacker News.. someone asked him about unemployment due to automation and the rise of technology[1]: "If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are dist
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by otalp 9y ago
It does say something depressing about our laws that he got sent to prison for the thing where he lied to rich people while still making them money rather than the thing where he extorted sick poor people...which is still fully legal even i
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by otalp 9y ago
I didn't join twitter due to Trump, but I kept going there to see if his ludicrous tweets were real, when one day I decided on a whim to create an account since I liked the design compared to Reddit and Facebook. I found a lot of good
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by otalp 9y ago
There will always be new children who will go to youtube and find the most popular youtuber...unless he gets burnt out or feels he has enough money, he's going to keep raking it in.
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by otalp 9y ago
Depends. If you desperately need the money, you probably should. If not, wait for a few years and hope for another frenzy.
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by otalp 9y ago
>The fact that barely a quarter of women work—a share that has seen a precipitous decline in the past decade Wait, fewer women are working in India over time? Why is that?
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by otalp 9y ago
> I can't get any Dems to pay attention to this. Because they are all funded by corporations who want, as Alan Greenspan put it, "worker anxiety" to keep profits high. They gave Trump 37 billions more in the military budge
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Inside the secret world of the corporate spies who infiltrate protests(theguardian.com)
1 points by otalp 9y ago|0 comments
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by otalp 9y ago
Jeff Hamerbacher, the guy who coined the term Data Science, also said "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”
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by otalp 9y ago
Yeah, this is a perfect example of Betteridge's law: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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by otalp 9y ago
Interestingly in analysis of both children and grandmasters, IQ was negatively correlated with chess skills amongst elite players in the group.

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