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by somethoughts 1y ago
Yes - agreed if we had dedicated truck train roads. The proposal I would prefer is to do more of a time based multiplexing of the road between daytime auto traffic and night time truck train traffic. And I'm not saying autos couldn&#x
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by somethoughts 1y ago
Slight difference is that there are more lanes and there's dual usage (daytime - regular auto access, nighttime - truck train access). The benefit is to utilize existing access rights and infrastructure.
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by somethoughts 1y ago
I feel like the ideal scenario would be to prioritize self driving truck at set times and set long haul freeways (i.e. Long Beach to Las Vegas or Galveston to Dallas) during the night time when there is no regular auto traffic - for example
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by somethoughts 2y ago
It'd be an interesting strategy if you could split the organization based on departments that depend heavily on federal funds (i.e. perhaps STEM fields such as medicine and physics/hard sciences, etc.) and those that are not (and
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Been listening to All-In podcast and they've been talking like this - its really amusing to see them (and this author) get excited by what are essentially taxes with a different narrative (i.e. US sovereign wealth fund, give cash to US
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by somethoughts 2y ago
On the flip side - I find it very understandable that one might not want to have ever worked at Amazon even in its early days and instead would prefer to work (or have worked) at a much smaller, engineering focused organization.
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Found the following insightful: Lines on Maps - Oval Office Meltdown: The Trump-Zelensky Split, Europe's Response, and the Fate of the Ukraine War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD_AfqDfPek
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by somethoughts 2y ago
There's probably also a case where Putin needs to be in a position to save face in order not to be overthrown - which could be even more dangerous. On the other hand this might all just be trying to pretend there's a coherent stra
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I don't know if it's 6D chess but it probably was more of a chaos monkey/bury the lead strategy that doesn't take much brain power (i.e. flood the zone). My hot take is Matt Gaetz, the Greenland purchase and the Canada a
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Perhaps (hopefully) you are right and its just bread and circuses for us. They really are playing 6D chess and it's really about just being irrational, art of the deal style. Perhaps related to the discussion: The Scientific Art of Ne
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Cool. Wasn't aware of that. Another one is ground.news [1] which lets you compare multiple headline news articles from various sources together. [1] https://ground.news/about
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by somethoughts 2y ago
It'd be interesting if a paper could present opposing op-eds side by side by authors that are clearly the strongest on each side of the discussion. Similar to collegiate debates or the argument/rebuttal style used for the ballot
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by somethoughts 2y ago
At what point can we start calling them Texas Tech Bros? The two primary ones are pretty much living mostly in Texas and Florida at this point.
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Funny that there is an entire site dedicated to this topic/person.
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by somethoughts 2y ago
When enough of tech bros move to Texas - is there any chance we can we start referring to tech bros who live in Texas as "Texas tech bros" instead of "Silicon Valley tech bros"? Like Peter Thiel hasn't lived in Sili
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Not that this would be better but I'm surprised no ebook maker has had success in the educational market. Eink seems like it'd be great for education as it'd really only support text based distractions/bullying which wh
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Amusingly I think it's great that Elon had a very public divorce with Silicon Valley. Otherwise I could easily see this having been titled "Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from Silicon Valley based SpaceX ro
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by somethoughts 2y ago
My hot take as to the reason EE is a bit of a dead end in the US is that the options outside of the handful of primary employers are limited. It is very capital intensive to run a semiconductor fab, design chips or assemble electronics at
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Kind of interesting to imagine long term inflation due to long term lost crypto. It seems much easier to lose large amounts versus fiat currencies. Electronic money can be recovered (i.e. its given over to the government if left unclaimed
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by somethoughts 2y ago
To be honest - the great thing is that even if a small percentage of people choose the LinkedIn/Social Media shame route, it benefits everyone. Just the threat of this will probably make employers/managers think about the potenti
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I think the challenge is that some will use it as a jumping of point to change their lives and some will use it to stick to their poor lifestyle habits and expect the provider of the housing to provide free house cleaning, free maintenance
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Without seeing the underlying costs its hard to really know if this is like early Uber/Lyft where investors are trying subsidizing growth of a service in order to grow marketshare. Long term - once the local ISPs are out of business, t
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Interestingly is there a potential moral issue in the making here? What happens if/when self driving dependency is so prevalent that the majority of inhabitants in a city don't know how to drive. In addition add the fact that se
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I don't think alibaba handles grocery as far as I know - at least in the US. Probably it is most similar to Instacart/Amazon Grocery delivery but the issue with these is that they are more oriented toward high value, high convenie
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Its kind of interesting if Walmart and/or Costco has squeezed prices so low that you could potentially use it as the basis for informal neighborhood bulk buying co-op. Like an Uber app which coordinated grocery buying and splitting up
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I second this explanation. In fact its not just startups but also a lot of big tech companies were rationally taking advantage of the low interest rates to pursue speculative bets/product features. Tech CEOs were being richly rewarde
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by somethoughts 2y ago
Interestingly if I recall correctly a lot of the original talent for Chrome/Chromium originally worked at Mozilla and were poached by Google. [1] [1] https://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/09/google-chrom
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I think the difference as I see it is that Twitter/X is oriented around increasing levels of "engagement" and encouraging contributors to focus on going viral in hopes of going even more viral by reaching the "For You&qu
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by somethoughts 2y ago
I agree - short form content doesn't leave enough space to have a nuanced arguement and conversely it leaves a lot of space open for misinterpretation and encourages hot takes and mic drops over expression of cohesive thoughts.
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by somethoughts 2y ago
It'll be interesting if Twitter/X does drift rightward amongst contributors and still keeps its For You feed oriented toward "engagement" and view counts, whether or not it will just end up leading to infighting between

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