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by ripe 4y ago
> non-productive Speculative investments tend to get punished at the end of the cycle by losing all value, thus punishing those invested in it and restoring order. To be precise, the investors who are left holding at the end of the cycle
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by ripe 4y ago
From the article: The company said it plans to provide employers tools to educate employees on bitcoin, which the U.S. Department of Labor last month warned is a risky option for retirement plan participants.
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Fidelity Investments to offer Bitcoin in 401(k)(bizjournals.com)
3 points by ripe 4y ago|1 comments
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by ripe 5y ago
I agree with your point that Netflix UX is terrible. But what do you mean "canceling all of its best shows"? It's not Netflix's fault if the studios pulled their licenses for their content, for their own streaming servic
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by ripe 5y ago
It's sad that we cannot own titles but are forced to rent them from these streaming services that can't seem to get their shit together. (Not blaming Netflix per se; this is a pox on all their houses). Used to be nice in the DVD d
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by ripe 5y ago
I once described it as "like blue cheese, minus the cheese." An American who first tasted vegemite at age 40---and loved it! If you've never tasted it, you owe it to yourself to try it once.
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by ripe 5y ago
Very much this. The enormous arbitrary power that employers wield and have always wielded, is one of the sacred cows of capitalism. Underprivileged people have had to deal with being fired (or never even being hired) for irrelevant reasons
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by ripe 5y ago
Excellent point. Critics have often remarked that movies about Hollywood tend to get Oscars just because of the subject matter, which Academy members like. Also, a less cynical example: some movies are about something new: you might see peo
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by ripe 5y ago
This factory looks no different from any other big German auto facility. Maybe a little sparsely populated right now, probably because it's still growing. If you visit any Mercedes or BMW or Audi plant, you'll see the same big ora
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by ripe 5y ago
It's true that carmakers have made self-repair inconvenient or impossible nowadays. But wear and tear impacts all cars operated in the real world, not just gasoline cars. An EV is not magical, just another type of vehicle. Its most fre
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by ripe 5y ago
"So now everyone can recreate your statements."... "remember us? We're a verb now." Hahahaha! I wish this weren't true.
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by ripe 5y ago
IMO Zakaria’s take on the history, ramifications, and possible solutions of the invasion of Ukraine are the most compelling I have read anywhere. One of his points is that as a status quo power, China naturally belongs with the rest of the
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by ripe 5y ago
“China and Russia are very different in this way. Russia benefits from international instability. It’s an oil state. Oil prices go up. It seeks to undermine international institutions and cooperation. China, as a general principle, does not
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by ripe 5y ago
“First, the era ended slowly, and then it ended all at once. It ended slowly as China rose in power, in wealth. And then it ended all at once with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the sharp revitalization of the NATO alliance, to some degre
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New world era –- Russia and China versus the rest? Fareed Zakaria interview(nytimes.com)
7 points by ripe 5y ago|5 comments
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by ripe 5y ago
“Despite the gulf between them, both Amazon and the Postal Service function as part of a much larger and much more insidious global supply chain... Beside its environmental costs, the system also depends on the exploitation of myriad worker
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Stuffing Ourselves: The Tyranny of Logistics(thedriftmag.com)
14 points by ripe 5y ago|4 comments
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by ripe 5y ago
You're absolutely correct. For the design of everyday things, we naturally want similar things to look similar in some way. The similarities can be surprisingly subtle, yet we appreciate them without being able to describe them. Back i
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by ripe 5y ago
For others like me who had no idea what "OBS" in the title refers to: It's open-source software for video recording and live streaming. https://obsproject.com/
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by ripe 5y ago
I’m like you. I got grandfathered into their old 2-disks-a-month plan that costs 5 dollars. I do enjoy putting movies on my queue and then getting pleasantly surprised a few months later when I receive them. Too bad their fantastic DVD cata
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by ripe 5y ago
Yes! I learned BASIC on the BBC Micro. You turned it on, and you got a BASIC interpreter. It was the most painless, most fun experience. Graphics, sound,, etc., were all available by reading the User Guide. I couldn't have afforded buy
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by ripe 5y ago
> And it needs to somehow compete with the rest of the world, gone are the days that you are sat in front of a disconnected computer with not much else to do but experiment and learn - it can't wait to be discovered it needs to drag
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by ripe 5y ago
Forget about the emissions issue, I just hate driving and having to depend on its supporting infrastructure (repair shops, gas stations, insurance...) for my day-to-day needs. I live in a US suburb. Can't even get a sandwich or buy mil
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by ripe 5y ago
The concluding para from your Nature article says the opposite of what you're claiming, and supports the person you're replying to: "the persistence of antibody production, whether elicited by vaccination or by infection, doe
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by ripe 5y ago
Ah, I think I understand the question better now. Thanks for clarifying it. > Everything points to the conclusion that solving the self driving problem for that specific operational domain, congested highway, is almost just as hard as so
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by ripe 5y ago
Right. What Mercedes has done here is to recognize and target that value. They took the automated driving capabilities, added more sensors, and did the engineering and regulatory legwork around it to make it robust when entering, operating
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by ripe 5y ago
Full self-driving (not the Tesla FSD fud, but actual Level 5) is probably not possible with all the current roads and the current approach (bigger and bigger ML models with more and more data). If that's what you mean, then I agree wit
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by ripe 5y ago
> If an automated car can handle all that safely without reverting to human assistance, what exactly can't it handle, and why is it not full self driving? The answer is in the article, and in the definition of Level 3: the automated
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by ripe 5y ago
A news item about Mercedes-Benz's Drive Pilot feature was shared on HN recently: [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29517459 ] I'm trying to explain to non-technical people why this feature is a major milestone
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Why Level-3 Autonomy is a major milestone in self-driving cars(robotsinplainenglish.com)
37 points by ripe 5y ago|71 comments

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