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by sagarm 6y ago
Concrete example of how our laws prioritize driver convenience to a comic degree: in California if traffic typically travels above the speed limit on a certain road, the speed limit there must be increased. A similar law for pedestrians mig
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by sagarm 6y ago
This seems like a very high level spec, not a library or toolkit. There's also zero mention of practical concerns like protocol evolution, a canonical wire encoding etc.
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by sagarm 6y ago
It's product segmentation. NVidia dominates the ML space, so they don't have to worry much about competitive pressures. Increasing the efficiency of ML engineers is definitely worth at least $1500 them and their employers, so why
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by sagarm 6y ago
When the click fraud decision is made and when the decision is communicated are different things. When combating fraud, communicating the result of fraud decisions gives fraudsters information they can use to evade fraud protections. The fa
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by sagarm 6y ago
IMO a Netflix without original content would have a much harder time attracting new subscribers and retaining existing ones. They'd have to pay exorbitant rates for proven hits rather than paying less cash up front and offering creativ
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by sagarm 6y ago
I'm also a Tesla skeptic, but when it comes to the core business of making electric cars that people want to buy they are clearly delivering. Other companies are simply not competitive yet. While other companies made electric cars over
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by sagarm 6y ago
Identity theft itself is an example of regulatory failure. How is it my problem that you gave someone a loan based on practically public information? They should have to prove, beyond simply an SSN, that an individual is responsible for the
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by sagarm 6y ago
In the special election for D5, Preston won by like ~100 votes.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Check the port for dust.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Apple definitely did not lead on USB-C. Premium Android and Windows laptops standardized on USB-C long before.
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by sagarm 6y ago
There's significant daylight between the prog and moderate coalitions in SF -- at least if you care about anything on their platforms. Again, if your focus is policing people's sex lives and consensual relationships, it'll al
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by sagarm 6y ago
Local elections in SF are actually quite competitive, thanks to both jungle primaries and ranked choice voting. Of course, if you e.g. are a single issue voter that cares only that women who has consensual sex not have the option to termina
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by sagarm 6y ago
The actual reason people are leaving the city are high rents and small apartments. How the hell do you work from home when you're sharing a place with roommates? And affording extra space for an office given current rents is a huge pro
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by sagarm 6y ago
It's worth mentioning both. The United States is, after all, not the most populous country in the world.
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by sagarm 6y ago
The United States has a common law system, which relies heavily l heavily on court precedent. https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/lawschool/pre-law/intro-to-... .
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by sagarm 6y ago
Why were you driving in downtown in the first place? It's one of the few parts of the city that are well served by transit.
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by sagarm 6y ago
In California, if you can sign up online they must allow you to cancel purely online as well.
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by sagarm 6y ago
See: Houston. Homes were built in areas that would be intentionally flooded in an extreme weather event like Harvey.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Elon Musk has a reputation for overselling and underdelivering, so there doesn't mean much.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Source control is well worth the learning curve. Git is harder to learn than most, though. I hear Mercurial is easier to learn; maybe give it a try?
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by sagarm 6y ago
Isn't the esp8266 much lower power than the esp32?
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by sagarm 6y ago
Whataboutism.
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by sagarm 6y ago
OK, then require the externalities to be mitigated rather than priced. Then the market can find a price for mitigation.
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by sagarm 6y ago
The Tesla deployment in Australia is a good example of how lithium is possibly one of the best grid stabilization technologies out there. However, this particular market was apparently paying exorbitant rates for grid stabilization services
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by sagarm 6y ago
This is simply not true. Education, healthcare, and housing costs have far outpaced inflation.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Exactly why there need to be regulations for tire noise.
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by sagarm 6y ago
The ACA (aka Obamacare) made it so insurance companies can't discriminate on the basis of pre-existing conditions. Check the exchange in her state for options.
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by sagarm 6y ago
> Safe Handling of Aliases Er, why wouldn't you just use automatic storage duration? That would look even simpler than the Vale implementation and have the same benefits: class BigClass { A a; B b{&a}; C c{&a
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by sagarm 6y ago
Those big tech companies already have international offices. Why wouldn't they have just expanded those offices? Investing in education etc is not really the job of companies in our capitalist system. They could not capture enough of t
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by sagarm 6y ago
> My comp sci degree has the same utility as anyone else that didn't go to Ivy League / Stanford. Based on my experience going from one state school to another, there can be a night and day difference in access between even sta

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