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by pySSK 7y ago
> How does that compare to others in this space? It is quite significant. Ford is the biggest one I can think of with about a $1b each for Argo AI and Rivian. Toyota AI Ventures is only $100m.
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by pySSK 7y ago
Well, it is really scary for them. Cars buying decisions are becoming more and more about UX and entertainment experience rather than HP and engine specs and even driving experience. It is scary for them to cede control of UI and UX to Appl
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by pySSK 7y ago
The Madagascar origin doesn't make sense since the island wasn't settled until 500 CE (intersting fact: and that too was by Austronesians. Africans didn't settle Madagascar until later)
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by pySSK 7y ago
This makes so much sense! The location of the Touch Bar UI is conceptually unfriendly. We're accustomed to a touch pad closest to us but now we have two touch interfaces separated by a huge keyboard-gulf. Moving the dock to the Touch B
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by pySSK 7y ago
I thought so too but dang's post history shows knowledge of type. Maybe dang is saying that calling this a grotesque font is name calling and poster should post more on why it is one.
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by pySSK 7y ago
The name Helvetica Now seems like an April Fools' joke. The name will not age well, plus there is potential for confusion with Helvetica Neue.
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by pySSK 8y ago
It’s not that absurd. In the automotive industry, California emissions and efficiency standards become the defacto standards in the US mainly because it wouldn’t make economic sense to maintain a California model and a more polluting model.
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by pySSK 9y ago
> I could be wrong, but i suspect this company is some sort of extended flight of fancy for someone who is either good at CGI, or wealthy enough to afford a lot of it. Seems like it. Their YouTube is a treasure trove of unfundable and im
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by pySSK 9y ago
> So, using sports as a proxy is not the same as management decisions where there are no well-defined criteria or expected value. Small aside but some including me would have a problem with even using sports as a proxy. There's a sc
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by pySSK 9y ago
The international Baccalaureate uses a 7 point scale: http://www.isnsz.com/media/images/Assessment_6.width-800.png I generally like my scales to be logarithmic. At work, I made the following scale to explain diffi
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by pySSK 9y ago
I wish he had explored this concept more: > The concept of Net Neutrality is bound in the idea that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are common carriers like the phone company. Phone companies like to claim they have no knowledge of — a
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by pySSK 9y ago
R&D engineers and car designers are usually separate people from manufacturing and supply chain engineers. Now that Model 3 has been passed onto mass(-ish) production, Tesla is using those engineers to develop other products. Tesla woul
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by pySSK 9y ago
Yep, I doubt that's the reason. Modi is a Hindu nationalist, and promoting preeminence of Hindi over other Indian languages has been part of that agenda for a long time.
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by pySSK 9y ago
In China, it's Mandarin. Cantonese is mostly mostly dominant and safe in Hong Kong. It is the language of Guangdong Province (Canton) however, it's being slowly phased out by government efforts [1][2] and by demographics (it'
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by pySSK 9y ago
Yep. Look at Model 3 design. Low radiator grille: https://www.instagram.com/p/BamdM3clVU3/
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by pySSK 9y ago
They should just bring back Google Wave.
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by pySSK 10y ago
This is exactly what government and regulatory bodies are for. Markets aren't always free, and customers/consumers/individuals don't always have a choice to 'vote with their dollar'. It doesn't have to be
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by pySSK 11y ago
An L1 Visa is a cheap and easy option. It provides a relatively straightforward path to permanent residency as well.
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by pySSK 14y ago
Probably that the guy has a very high opinion of himself. Dunning-Krueger.
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by pySSK 14y ago
So, iOS can't be run on Samsung's tablets. Does this then invalidate Apple's claims?
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by pySSK 14y ago
> Wow! throughout the interview the guy looked extremely confident. I'd attribute this to Dunning-Krueger. The guy thinks he was the smartest shit in the room - "I had an aha moment, I explained it to them, I laid it out, I this, I that
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by pySSK 16y ago
I'm in, except that I don't have an idea for an app.