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by staunch 6y ago
That stat seems to be very untruthy. Fatal crashes seem to be distributed much more evenly than I would've guessed. https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/overview/crashes-b...
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by staunch 6y ago
Why not just ban outsourcing to countries with poor labor laws? The commonly stated purpose of the U.S. outsourcing to China was to 1. help lift it out of poverty and 2. bring it democracy through capitalism. Goal #1 has been largely achiev
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by staunch 6y ago
Thanks. Those do seem like a good option if Ubuntu works well on them and they're reliable. They claim to support full gigabit speeds on both NICs. It doesn't look like one can actually order the 4 GB model right now though.
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by staunch 6y ago
A single gigabit interface is such a pain for anyone wanting to build a router. The best option seems to be a USB 3 gigabit ethernet interface, which may be usable, but isn't ideal. And wouldn't work on this thing, since it only h
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by staunch 6y ago
Edit: I Googled it and it was Michael Siebel that helped them get into YC. You can debate what "walked in" means but I think it's safe to say the story of Airbnb getting into YC is one of Winning Friends and Influencing Peopl
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by staunch 6y ago
I believe they were not random applicants either, but had been walked in by a YC founder. So no points to YC for choosing them out of the applicant pool on their own merits. The Airbnb founders seem to be good at Making Friends and Influenc
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by staunch 6y ago
> That first impression was not misleading. In other words, YC got lucky on Airbnb. Because YC's first impression of hundreds (or thousands) of other founders has been wrong. Basing investment decisions on first impressions may be
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by staunch 6y ago
Peter Thiel is a big part of why PayPal succeeded. PayPal enabled Elon Musk. I think Thiel also invested in various Elon Musk projects, so we probably do want more Peter Thiels.
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by staunch 6y ago
I think the amount makes all the difference. A $200 million windfall is enough for FU money AND and investing. SpaceX and Tesla would not have existed, or would have failed, had Elon Musk not have his own fortune to call upon. He had planne
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by staunch 6y ago
Imagine what we could do if it was possible to identify and fund a thousand Elon Musks with hundreds of millions each? He's eliminating gas vehicles, improving solar adoption, fixing rural internet, improving space science, making life
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by staunch 6y ago
You made the dubious claim that there aren't enough U.S. programmers. Why don't you feel the burden to back that up, rather than just blindly asserting it as fact? And you should ask yourself where you learned this "fact&quot
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by staunch 6y ago
Amazon didn't kill small businesses. We killed them by using Amazon. And I'm glad to have participated. I much prefer Amazon passing the savings of time and money to me rather than some small business owner. The small businesses I
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by staunch 6y ago
1. I think if PG was being honest with himself, he'd admit that they spend only 10 minutes interviewing because he personally wouldn't want to be stuck in a room with someone he doesn't like for longer. That's a weakness
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by staunch 6y ago
You're a victim of their big tech propaganda machine. The math proves this theory wrong in seconds. And even if it was true (it's not), FAANG have enough money to train every person they want to hire from scratch. It would just co
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by staunch 6y ago
FAANG resources are the highest in the country. They could afford to hire 100% US citizens if they chose to. Even if that made it much harder for non-FAANG companies. No one could afford to compete with them. The motivation for FAANG commit
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by staunch 6y ago
I think not. But with 2FA codes/phone numbers/IP addresses, I tend to repeat back to myself what I'm trying to remember a in a melodic way.
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by staunch 6y ago
Your post would be better without the snark and cult comment...but: 1. The Ohio class subs are quite old and no one knows with any real certainty that they remain untrackable. It's entirely possible they are being tracked through some
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by staunch 6y ago
This is why I make sure to whisper when entering my 2FA codes.
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by staunch 6y ago
The progress of human civilization may rely on the U.S. nuclear triad being invulnerable to a sneak attack. The problem is that the triad has been left to rot. The ground-based ICBMs haven't been upgraded in decades and probably don&#x
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by staunch 6y ago
We have to make sure to include highly relevant advertisements in the search results, at least 50% of the results should be ads. So there needs to be a marketplace for buying/selling ads. We can't have a search engine that is only
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by staunch 6y ago
Mileva sat for the intermediate diploma examinations in 1899, one year later than the other students in her group. Her grade average of 5.05 (scale 1–6) placed her fifth out of the six students taking the examinations that year.[6] (Einste
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by staunch 6y ago
And pilots will even callout that their action had the desired effect: "Flaps up selected" "Flaps are indicating up" There's a lot to learn from the way airplanes are engineered and operated.
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Ask HN: Why not fight social media trolls and propaganda with country flags?
1 points by staunch 6y ago|1 comments
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by staunch 6y ago
He really has done so much incredible work. I'd love a Fabrice Bellard interview/podcast/tech talk but found none when searching. If anyone has a link, please post it!
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by staunch 6y ago
An example of tricking oneself came to mind: "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." -- Linus Torvalds on comp.os.minix in 1991
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by staunch 6y ago
The light side is that they acted in a truly benevolent way towards the people they helped. They seemed enthusiastically happy to do the right thing by founders, regardless of the cost to themselves. For example, by encouraging founders to
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by staunch 6y ago
> In fact many appreciate that there is a gate keeper. Just like people "love relevant ads" that Google provides People never love gatekeepers or ads. They love secure smartphones and relevant web search results. Users enjoy
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by staunch 6y ago
That's a non sequitur and your viewpoint is vindictive, uncharitable, and unreasonable. Palmer Luckey was in his very early 20s and had never been involved in an acquisition before. He acknowledged his mistake and his explanation makes
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by staunch 6y ago
You rely on "magic" algorithms every time you fly in an airplane or drive a car. Because they're not "magic" at all but based in reality, on math and science.
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by staunch 6y ago
You're trusting that all the ballots are present, that no fake ballots have been added, and none have been tampered with, that the officials are all acting in good faith, aren't making mistakes, haven't been bribed, etc. Do y

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