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by sgustard 5y ago
It's a good point about the rollout strategy. Is this a specialty device you must order? Or is there a row of them on display at the mall next to the massage chairs?
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by sgustard 5y ago
A "wrong death rate of several percent" sounds problematic in almost any circumstance.
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by sgustard 5y ago
I've been coding for 30 years and I still have to look up syntax for case/switch statements. You ding me?
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Every Streaming Company Not Named Apple Receives a Lousy Grade on Privacy(techdirt.com)
1 points by sgustard 5y ago|0 comments
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by sgustard 5y ago
But all I want to do is read the tweets? I'm not contributing to spam if I don't even have an account.
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by sgustard 5y ago
Personally, describing it as "own a quarter of a house" is a lot more meaningful to me than comparing it in any way to a timeshare. First of all, I'm not very familiar with timeshares except as a way to get roped into a two-h
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by sgustard 5y ago
See, for example, Andrej's talk starting at the 6-minute mark. Lidar requires a pre-rendered detailed map of the lanes, traffic lights and obstacles. Vision can operate in any novel environment the car is not preprogrammed for and is t
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by sgustard 5y ago
I agree 100% with jedberg as to my own driving experience with autopilot. Works great, and I still pay complete attention because I don't want to die in a fiery crash. If you're not going to pay attention, driving a dumber car doe
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by sgustard 5y ago
> jobs of the CEO: hire and sell I would add identifying a market, conceiving a product and achieving product-market fit to that list.
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by sgustard 5y ago
Agreed. Technology has allowed abusive images to thrive and reach new consumers. Any pressure to "evolve laws with technology" will surely lead to more draconian anti-privacy measures.
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by sgustard 5y ago
Once people are mandated to return to the office, they will not tolerate working alongside unvaccinated coworkers.
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by sgustard 5y ago
If they introduced a 4th place medal, would the bronze medalists feel worse?
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by sgustard 5y ago
Much of Santa Clara county CA offers 100% carbon free electricity by default. https://www.svcleanenergy.org/
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by sgustard 5y ago
From the top of the post: "We need to curb abuses that threaten our ability to provide these services." Google has lawyers to minimize its legal liability. Turning some vapid terms of service clause into a slippery slope argument
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by sgustard 5y ago
My CS masters was also no cost to me. Working as a half-time teaching and research assistant covered my tuition. I finished in twice the usual time with no debt and valuable work experience.
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by sgustard 5y ago
> How do you figure that it's cheaper to pay those additional costs than to buy? Pushing those costs years into the future can be to my advantage. That argument applies to any loan. Leasing also gives me the option to buy the car at
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by sgustard 5y ago
From the article: "The announcement comes amid a jump in dog importation, linked to the surge in dog adoptions throughout the pandemic."
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by sgustard 5y ago
>Each year, rabies causes approximately 59,000 deaths worldwide. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6823e1.htm
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by sgustard 5y ago
The main reason many people haven't heard of it is that it was scrubbed (whitewashed, you could say) from recorded history for nearly a century.
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by sgustard 5y ago
All those problems get better as the population declines.
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by sgustard 6y ago
As a serial entrepreneur, I think the value of "advice" is overstated. Just go out there and build and fail and listen to customers and iterate. Most people don't know what they're talking about, it's just men are m
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by sgustard 6y ago
Is there a difference between calling someone a word and using the word to make a point about that word? More importantly, is it relevant for me as a non-POC to dictate how this word affects someone else?
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by sgustard 6y ago
> All the "saved space" in Apple laptops become amazingly wasted space in your bag with tons of adapters and wires It's a reasonable tradeoff. Imagine your laptop with the power supply built in instead of as an external br
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by sgustard 6y ago
Wirecutter came to similar conclusions about the Molekule: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/worst-air-purifier-w...
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Google will pay $2.5M to underpaid female engineers and overlooked Asians(theverge.com)
11 points by sgustard 6y ago|0 comments
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by sgustard 6y ago
That's cache partitioning in Chrome. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2020/10/http-cache...
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by sgustard 6y ago
This Verge article and photos are terrific as well. https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/10/12411632/public-transport...
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by sgustard 6y ago
I may not type, but I certainly shift-tab while I talk and need to reference something in another window.
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by sgustard 6y ago
I worked at Apple decades ago before Next and the return of Steve. It was glorious, fun, respectful, creative and bubbling with energy. Of course, it was nothing like the juggernaut of today. It was an upstart democracy, messy and sublime;
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by sgustard 6y ago
The app could say "we deliver from the Greek place on Main Street" to avoid using the trademark, but still be in violation of the new law. Also, many restaurants can't get a trademark. My favorite local place is "Joe&#x2

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