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by sandofsky 3y ago
I think you should try designing such an app and report back your results.
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by sandofsky 3y ago
The first party camera is designed to be operated by every human being on the planet. Redesigning it to accommodate highend workflows makes as much sense as redesigning a $50,000 cinema camera to accommodate parents who want to record their
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by sandofsky 3y ago
> Obviously this is not a real argument against what you said, but the same thing happened with smoking. They showed the link between smoking and cancer with a mountain of empirical evidence, including tests on mice. https://w
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by sandofsky 3y ago
I can't see the full study methodology without an account. That said… The challenge with running studies ethically is that you can't split your test groups into two groups and somehow induce cannabis use disorder and see if major
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by sandofsky 3y ago
Calling it a demo seems a bit of a stretch. The clearest red flag comes at 7:03, when the device translates his speech into French without him asking for it to be translated. This screams of "staged." Given the device lacks a ship
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by sandofsky 3y ago
When a Toyota hid an “unintended acceleration” bug, it was a scandal that resulted in a $1.2B fine. https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/toyota-pay-12b-hiding-deadly-...
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by sandofsky 3y ago
Their previous claim to fame: Is there anyone in the Bay Area with a child who can run in front of my car on Full Self-Driving Beta to make a point? I promise I won't run them over... (will disengage if needed) (this is
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by sandofsky 4y ago
I recall people dropping three20 long before screen sizes were an issue. I can't speak to all the issues with its design; I think I got to the part where it tried to model navigation similar to Ruby on Rails' routes and gave it a
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by sandofsky 4y ago
At the time, the hook was “You pay nothing unless you get a job,” and then lying about how many people get jobs. Since then, the central thesis of the company has been shown to not work, so it pivoted into loans at 12.5% interest. They are
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by sandofsky 4y ago
According to leaked decks: https://www.businessinsider.com/lambda-school-promised-lucra... Total cost per student was $13,000, of which $2,500 went to student acquisition (online ads?). Average revenue per students was $5,7
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by sandofsky 4y ago
I am not a lawyer, but wouldn't the issue with calculating damages be the nature of income share agreements? If a student's debt is based on their future income, damages could be $0k right now, only because they're under the
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by sandofsky 4y ago
I believe 75% was their revised number after the first set of leaks. Originally, they claimed 86%. https://web.archive.org/web/20190930144525/https://lambdasch... Some good background on their numbers ga
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BloomTech (YC S17) Faces Class Action Lawsuit for Job Claims, Unlicensed Lending(defendstudents.org)
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by sandofsky 4y ago
While previous lawsuit and arbitration cases were from individual students, this is a class action lawsuit. They're accused of lying about placement rates, operating illegally, and unlicensed lending.
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by sandofsky 4y ago
This isn’t recent. Around 2017, the building where I lived had issues with theft. Tenants knew that the (historic) front door was finicky, but AirBnB people didn’t, so they’d effectively leave it open and packages got stolen. There were oth
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by sandofsky 4y ago
I’m referring to him treating Twitter as his plaything, changing rules on a whim to suit his latest impulses, creating a whole mess of problems such as scaring advertisers away. I have to say it’s surprising the the site hasn’t had downtime
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by sandofsky 4y ago
Now that Graham’s account is unsuspended, here’s a tweet from a month ago surrounding Musk. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1591100636854374400
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by sandofsky 4y ago
In the article, he makes no breakdown like you describe. He appears to have created a straw man which he alludes to whenever once of his associates receive criticism. In light of Musk fulfilling the predictions of his worst “haters,” maybe
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by sandofsky 4y ago
If my memory serves, Graham would sometimes link to his essay when people criticized Musk. It’s hard for me to check at the moment, as Graham’s Twitter account has been suspended.
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by sandofsky 4y ago
Two years ago you published an essay that seemed to argue that criticism against Elon Musk was simply from “Haters,” jealous of his success. http://paulgraham.com/fh.html In light of recent events, have you considered updat
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by sandofsky 4y ago
I said, "After looking through Lambda School’s curriculum, I’d say students are going to struggle with very basic questions you’ll get on first phone screens," and "Out of ten student projects available, five should have fail
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by sandofsky 4y ago
> I don't know whether it's intentional or not, but you continually, over and over, take two numbers that are not the same thing whatsoever and compare them or multiply them or whatever else and it simply makes no sense. You k
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by sandofsky 4y ago
I will bet $1,000 to the charity of your choice that you will settle your personal lawsuit— the one on this very matter— before your day in court.
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by sandofsky 4y ago
> We've been over this again and again, and I know you understand that this isn't true, but don't care. The misconception comes form comparing two different measures: one that is (hired students making more than $50k/
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by sandofsky 4y ago
The "attacked by all sides" comment is quite bizarre. Every pain the company experienced was self-inflicted. They lied about how many students get jobs, which damaged their reputation and is a source of active lawsuits. They dodge
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by sandofsky 4y ago
The BPPE was formed because California was the world capital of diploma-mills in the 80's. It falls under consumer protection, similar to how California has a special bureau that punishes scummy "extended warranty" companies.
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by sandofsky 4y ago
I'm seeing many people say you've blocked them without ever having interacted with you. Many have jumped to the conclusion that you simply block people who disagree with your politics. I don't tweet about SF politics, but aft
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by sandofsky 4y ago
It looks like the author has zero connection to AirBnB and is entirely speculating on what went down based on what the company themselves wrote. You're much better off just reading AirBnB's own long, detailed series on what happen
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by sandofsky 4y ago
The way Discord tamed React Native was writing its chat view entirely native. This is the area in which users probably spend 99% of their time. Similarly, in the Facebook and Instagram apps, React Native is banned from the home timelines an
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by sandofsky 4y ago
I keep hearing the "You have go to all in" argument from React Native evangelists, but I haven't heard a reasonable explanation for why this would be. Why was Facebook able to introduce it within an existing native app? This

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