rohit89

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by rohit89 11y ago
Musk has said before that he wants people to buy a Tesla not because it is an electric car but because it is a really good car. He will keep adding features to it that make it an excellent car. Tesla may pivot to other products but not IMO
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by rohit89 11y ago
That's not the case for everyone.
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by rohit89 11y ago
I'm not sure. In my experience, you have traffic situations where everyone around you is trying to weave in and out through the smallest gaps. The car will need to get really good at predicting behavior or drive so conservatively that
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by rohit89 11y ago
It seems to me that most of your doubts stem from the financing side of things and not really from the technical ones. That's a valid point. From a technical POV, I don't think this is anywhere near unicorn territory. In fact, I t
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by rohit89 11y ago
A plane doesn't undergo stress anywhere near what a rocket goes through and we understand all the science behind it very well.
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by rohit89 11y ago
We have a lot more experience building planes of various types that can fly. This is well understood science. The difficulty with rockets are the razor thin margins and the extreme conditions it needs to handle.
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by rohit89 11y ago
Even in the case of rockets, once you work out all the kinks, you can get very high reliability. When was the last time you heard a Soyuz rocket fail or one of ULA's launch vehicles.
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by rohit89 11y ago
I don't agree. Faster travel is always better - whatever the mode of transportation. Once you hit a certain speed and price point, it will radically change the lifestyle of people. For example, the hyperloop with 30 min travel time bet
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by rohit89 11y ago
...because they really want to do it? If there's one thing I've learnt, looking at what the big companies are doing/didn't do is a really bad metric for things like this. If this was a company started by Elon, perception
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by rohit89 11y ago
How "good" he is has nothing to do with his fondness for reading. Everything points to Gates being a guy who just likes to read. Are you going to be equally suspicious to learn that billionaire Zuckerberg likes to play video games
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by rohit89 11y ago
In the case of github, they can and have taken down/blocked repos that foreign govt have found objectionable. So its not the odd offensive word here and there. Luckily, git makes it easy to have multiple copies of a repo lying around a
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by rohit89 11y ago
There is definitely a use-case for being able to play wherever without being tied to a location even when at home. Plus the fact that you don't need to install anything on the client machines.
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by rohit89 11y ago
Fair enough. I had not realized that NH could send data at a faster rate when bandwidth was available. I wondered about the point of having 8 gb storage when you had such low speeds - it would take years to download.
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by rohit89 11y ago
Maybe its time to build more then. It seems silly to be bottle-necked on things like this.
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by rohit89 11y ago
A lot of simulation already happens but simulating every imaginable scenario is impossible.
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by rohit89 11y ago
> Why do people always assume that if something is difficult to put in words it is impossible for a computer somehow? It seems like an invalid argument to me. Because if we don't really know how we are doing something, how can you t
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by rohit89 11y ago
A life well lived. RIP Sir Christopher Lee
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by rohit89 12y ago
> whether or not it could have been a black hole that consumed it (that literally happened) Lolwut?! They seriously discussed the possibility of a black hole opening up and swallowing the plane? AFAIK CNN International did not have any s
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by rohit89 12y ago
I'm a little wary of having a 100% bullet-proof tool given its potential for abuse. I also feel that anonymity should incur a certain cost. It shouldn't be as simple as simply firing up tor if you want to leak launch codes. It sho
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by rohit89 12y ago
Does this mean that if agencies from different countries get into an arms-race trying to take control of the network in such a way, it would actually make tor stronger?
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by rohit89 12y ago
I think the brand of being a Googler only applies to programmers and executives.
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by rohit89 12y ago
How about compilers having a way for us to tell it that a particular function must not be removed? It seems silly that we have to come up with hacks to work around the compiler.
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by rohit89 12y ago
Self-reliance I guess. You don't want to be depending on a third party if things get serious.
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by rohit89 12y ago
All of his posts in his new account[1] have been massively downvoted. So they are not forgiving right now. His account shows 6k+ comment karma though. That's strange unless gold gets you some karma? [1] - http://www.reddit.c
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by rohit89 12y ago
So how do calls between leaders of different countries work? Have all of them agreed upon using the encryption system? Or perhaps they have equipment that can choose which encryption system to use depending on who they are talking to?
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by rohit89 12y ago
In my case, an extra display is a huge help when I need to refer to a doc/spec/tutorial etc.
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by rohit89 12y ago
Similar thing in tennis with Federer and Nadal. Nadal's stats on clay is incredible. He's lost just 11 matches and won 270 odd in the last 9 years.
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by rohit89 12y ago
Its interesting to think how we would react if we encounter a superior alien race. It completely changes everything. Frankly, I don't think it would end well at all (even if they are benign). We are too smart/proud to let someone
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by rohit89 13y ago
Nothing specifically. They pretty much let me do my own thing. I actually got into computers when my grandfather (for his business) bought it when I was five. He bought those big yellow DOS|Windows 3.1 for Dummies books and taught me what h
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Microwave auditory effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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