serge2k

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by serge2k 10y ago
Okay so now I'm waiting 10 minutes for the car to get to me from parking.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> A fully autonomous car's utilization rate can be close to 100 So if every car is almost always at 100% how am I going to be able to instantly get a car on demand from my suburban mcmansion?
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by serge2k 10y ago
> will nullify the benefits of owning a car Except I like owning my car. I can take it where I want. When I need it, I have it. I can leave my stuff in it if I want to (e.g. if I decide to go to the park for the day I can leave my coat i
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by serge2k 10y ago
uh huh. and just what is the definition of urban area?
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by serge2k 10y ago
In america people love to complain publicly about the government.
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by serge2k 10y ago
what? The american immigration system is pretty awful. H-1B to employer sponsored green card is a really lousy system.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> But can you blame them? Yes.
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by serge2k 10y ago
You don't have to be a libertarian to not want to live under the rule of the Chinese government.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> in 5yrs bold prediction: They won't have fully autonomous cars.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> except the difficulty of finding chargers whose cables don't fray. Yup. Those charger cables are such shit. They keep working since just the insulation frays, but I have to use more and more electrical tape to keep them covered.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> Justin Trudeau, Canada's Cutie-In-Chief, ... sigh. > ...will be moving his nation towards a better voting system in 2017. well, you know, maybe. If the people want it in their fancy questionnaire. They might not though, since c
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by serge2k 10y ago
That would accomplish nothing but make engineers feel better about themselves.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> Software is simply too unpredictable. Both in development and operation You could make it much more predictable if the developer had the legal authority and obligation to sign off on all software. Fuck you I'm not putting my name
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by serge2k 10y ago
Yeah, but you have to say her now or you get bitched at for being biased.
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by serge2k 10y ago
This is possibly the most pretentious thing I've ever read.
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by serge2k 10y ago
Still a great laptop. Battery life is a bit down, but it's still good enough for day to day at home (can't use it for work. :/ ).
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by serge2k 10y ago
more like they don't want to spend twice as much trying to maintain a separate linux driver, because that's a bit ridiculous.
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by serge2k 10y ago
why does AMD need to be in the kernel? Why can't they release the way nVidia does? or open source it, develop along with upstream but don't make it part of upstream.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> I can respect your technical points and if you kept it to that, I'd be fine with it and we could have a technical discussion starting there. Why is that so unreasonable?
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by serge2k 10y ago
What if I don't want to open source it? What if I want to make money?
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by serge2k 10y ago
In Canada you can pretty easily get a work permit to stay longer and PR without jumping through 70 hoops and waiting years. The US immigration system is much shittier.
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by serge2k 10y ago
I agree, fuck everyone who doesn't go to a top school.
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by serge2k 10y ago
or they could use the online editors like they were for years.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> We are taught in an internal interviewing class (which is not mandatory unfortunately) that making sure the candidate has a great experience is just as important as getting good data on the candidate. Was that not in the mandatory one?
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by serge2k 10y ago
Amazon doesn't. Facebook and Google both give away free food, so I can't see why soda would be a problem. Microsoft has free soda and the food is fairly cheap.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> that it is one giant bubble, and the people living in that bubble don't comprehend what it is like to not be in it. It's the same at other places. Apple and Microsoft have constantly had that claim made about them.
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by serge2k 10y ago
Fi feeds in to growing android and fiber being scaled back is pretty much proof of exactly that.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> Chrome was created to be a standards based browser Then why not give money to firefox? Why not start contributing more? instead they built their own, integrated it with google stuff, and pushed it heavily for years and years.
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by serge2k 10y ago
> “No one wants to face the reality that this is an advertising company with a bunch of hobbies.” great line. > Many former X employees blame overexuberance on the part of Google’s marketing division for the hostile reception that gre
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by serge2k 10y ago
> Bill Maris, the CEO of its venture capital arm, GV isn't google ventures doing pretty well though?

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