razorunreal

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by razorunreal 9y ago
I think it will go much faster than people realise, because the big blocker to infrastructure changes that make self driving easier is the fact that there are no self driving cars. Once they have a foothold somewhere, with caveats and limit
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by razorunreal 9y ago
Don't think about the cars, look at the charging network. I think it's plausible that all the big car companies realise that nobody will buy their electric models unless they license Tesla's charging infrastructure. They can
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by razorunreal 9y ago
I guess we would know because animals don't tend to have much more bone than they need. You should be able to estimate the mass of an animal based on the size and structure of it's leg bones (and whether you think it lives it&#x27
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by razorunreal 9y ago
That's less comforting when you realise that cyanobacteria likely caused an iceball phase, nearly wiping itself out in the process.
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by razorunreal 9y ago
It's probably not that they think you are wrong or can't be trusted. Think of it like defending a thesis. A typical code review process for me is to just ask the author a bunch of questions. If they have satisfying answers then gr
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by razorunreal 9y ago
If you can explain why it is OK for car insurance to charge differently by gender, but by race is not OK, I will be impressed.
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by razorunreal 9y ago
That's another problem that doesn't need to exist. I never saw a fire hydrant until I arrived in the states, because the smart thing to do is put it under a hatch somewhere in the road.
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by razorunreal 9y ago
I think you should read some early retirement blogs. If you have a good job (seems likely around here) and you don't value much stuff then you can choose to work a lot less than 70% of your productive life. After all, if it's trul
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by razorunreal 9y ago
Pretty sure he's not the only worker involved in shipping your item.
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by razorunreal 9y ago
There are plenty of possible charity improvements, but I think anyone who has accidentally sent an email should understand what this really needs: A countdown timer in the 10-30 second range with a clear, bold description of what it will do
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by razorunreal 9y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to have a clause in your will stating that if any family member sues any other family member, the whole lot goes to charity. Bonus points if you can get a legal professional to utter the words "and you
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by razorunreal 9y ago
As much as I appreciate the guy, I don't think he thought this one through. A simple back of the envelope calculation would reveal just how hard it is to compete with a subway in terms of people per hour for a given width of road/
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by razorunreal 9y ago
It definitely still had BSPs. UT2003 had terrain rendering that seemed custom (not likely octrees but could have used quadtrees for all I know) and much more of the environmental detail was made up of static meshes (meshes were culled based
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by razorunreal 9y ago
In case anyone was considering sending him $10, no, his hypothetical code would not be running on the Google login page. Google does not pull in external dependencies willy nilly like that.
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by razorunreal 9y ago
No, I to think he's saying that -0.01 applies to everyone. Each individual choice is actually causing a loss of 80 million in utility (vs a gain of 1), but that loss is mostly borne by other people, so they are individually better off
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by razorunreal 9y ago
Why would feeding power back to the grid be any different from charging? When the battery gets full you'd plug in and mostly discharge it.
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by razorunreal 9y ago
Well, after a few cars get stuck (or crash) it will show up on the mapping system as blocked and the remaining cars will find another route. I'm semi-joking, but human drivers do that more than we would like to admit. Just needs a chee
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by razorunreal 9y ago
I was expecting something like "so we sent her to the local neighborhood school and did what we could to make our own community better", but no, apparently the change you want to see in the world is that Dad should do everything?
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by razorunreal 9y ago
I think you've hit it on the head. Mostly you shouldn't be trying to codify what a scraper is, you should be collecting little utilities that are useful for building scrapers. The more lego-like the better.
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by razorunreal 9y ago
>The train situation isn't going to get better by people being selfish and gaining a few extra minutes at the expense of everyone else's. Doesn't that pretty much sum up the New York experience though? If everyone could no
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by razorunreal 9y ago
This "half baked" idea is just proportional representation. It's not like they invented it, and it seems to work well enough in New Zealand, in fact most complaints seem to be that it isn't perfectly proportional.
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by razorunreal 9y ago
Breaks the back button.
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by razorunreal 9y ago
We're talking about severance pay that they were paid in the course of being fired. It's not clear to me that it should have been paid in the first place.
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by razorunreal 9y ago
If that's true that just makes me angrier because a far better solution would be to improve the currency, like Canada and many other countries did long ago.
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by razorunreal 9y ago
There is, it's called project tango and they have had development devices for sale for a while (probably a year or so).
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by razorunreal 9y ago
That seems like an unnecessarily abstract way of saying "make good choices". Drug abuse seems straight forwardly defined as using a drug for purposes other than as prescribed. Not following the schedule or following it when it is
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by razorunreal 10y ago
Similarly (arguably worse) someone can create a drop box account using your email address and there is no verification nor mechanism to say that it is not yours. Their support will repeatedly bug you to use an automated system, and of cours
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by razorunreal 10y ago
Even if US colleges are better than 98% of the world (which I doubt, it seems like you conveniently forgot Canada, Europe, Australia, etc.) employers are mostly using that degree as a box tick. Convincing students they need the exhorbitantl
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by razorunreal 10y ago
That powers are sometimes used for good does not imply the existence of those powers is a net positive.
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by razorunreal 10y ago
An investment isn't necessarily something that is expected to go up in value, it is something that is expected to make you money. If I buy a house and rent it out, and the value of the house also tracks inflation, it made me money thro

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