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by staunch 4y ago
So ignorance. That does seem like Tesla's responsibility. Tesla should probably show the worst behaving FSD videos on YouTube (like this one) before it can be enabled.
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by staunch 4y ago
It may be ethical if it really does lead to saving many lives by advancing the state of the art more quickly than it otherwise would have. And given how many people are drunk while intoxicated or using smartphones, it seems like a relativ
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by staunch 4y ago
So you're comparing the very first prototype cars to the technology present in millions of Teslas? Seems like a very contorted analogy and makes no real sense.
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by staunch 4y ago
Sure, stupidity must account for some large percentage. I guess I'm curious about the other reasons.
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by staunch 4y ago
Sure, novelty makes sense. That would explain why a reasonable person might try it out for a few minutes in a dry, daytime, low speed, low traffic area.
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by staunch 4y ago
Not really. Even early on cars were quite fast and priced around the same as horses and a carriage, and without the hassle of dealing with horses. They did tend to break down a lot but were quite usable. Tesla FSD is much, much worse than j
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by staunch 4y ago
I understand why Tesla would let users beta test for them. It might even be ethical, taking a big picture view, but I don't understand what kind of person would use volunteer to be a beta tester. Is it about laziness, thrill seeking, i
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by staunch 4y ago
This isn't something one can actually recommend, right? It's not officially supported, probably not super well tested(?), could easily break at any point, won't work with various plugins/tools, etc. It'd be great of
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by staunch 4y ago
Crassus, Caesar's very close ally/friend, had just recently destroyed his own (fairly weak) reputation as a general and died fighting in Parthia. That had to be on Caesar's mind because it was a major motivation for his own e
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by staunch 4y ago
> That doesn't sound like the way a man who intended to commit suicide by assassination would chose to spend his final months. My read on Caesar is that he's the kind of person that would absolutely never commit suicide direc
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by staunch 4y ago
> In 44 BC, at the age of 56, Caesar was as energetic as ever. The core premise of this counterfactual seems highly dubious. Caesar spent his entire adult life under incredible amounts of toil and stress. He likely suffered from variou
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by staunch 4y ago
Thanks, that seems like an interesting approach.
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by staunch 4y ago
The thing that scared me off this option is the that the incredible SQLite test suite can't be run against the Go translation, IIRC. But I also really don't like using cgo, for all the reasons stated elsewhere. So these days I gen
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by staunch 4y ago
Every person is a bit of a dick in one way or another. And people who have done high impact things in their lives will have greater opportunity to have made mistakes, no matter how good, ethical, or smart they are. Most elite celebrities, p
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by staunch 4y ago
Haha. And I even changed it from leech to leach and back again. English defeats me again!
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by staunch 4y ago
I did reply in a sibling thread to a similar comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31345710 But c'mon. You're really just playing dumb. We all know what SpaceX/Tesla and Apple have done, and (I think)
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by staunch 4y ago
The claim was that Musk's companies haven't "built" anything. Versions of Starship have clearly been built and launched, even if the project is still in development. It's a very real project and anyone can watch its
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by staunch 4y ago
> OK I challenge you to try to engage and bring constructive evidence then What kind of evidence would convince you? Wikipedia has summaries. Of course, they necessarily lack the context required to deeply understand the topic. https:
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by staunch 4y ago
> "There are people who evaluate these people's contributions differently than I do" That would presume we're talking about people with approximately equivalent knowledge that simply come to different, but reasonabl
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by staunch 4y ago
> What’s with so much hostility? There's a popular and cynical meme that people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are just marketing bullshitters that don't actually do anything useful. It's laughably false and easily dispro
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by staunch 4y ago
It's not merely "gushing" to be excited about new technology breakthroughs. And Musk, through his companies, is actively delivering today on Starlink, Tesla, Dragon, and Starship to name a few big ones. This meme that he&#x27
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by staunch 4y ago
The theory seems to be that the lack of minerals in RO water might serve to leech minerals from one's body. I think there's also some concern RO water might leech from cooking vessels and organic compounds in plastic tubing, etc.
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by staunch 4y ago
What about the potential mineral leeching issue with RO? I use a RO filter and mix it with 30% glass bottled water, both for taste and in hopes of avoiding any potential issue with leeching. I searched a bit but found nothing useful on the
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by staunch 4y ago
No one hates middlemen more than other middlemen.
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by staunch 4y ago
Thanks, but seems like they're all out of stock too? https://lenscoffee.com/coffee-by-type/liberica/
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by staunch 4y ago
Liberica seems hard to buy. And by that I mean I couldn't find any decent options on Amazon. Anyone know how to buy whole beans in the US?
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by staunch 4y ago
1. BECOME RELAXED: Take care of the fundamental issues in your life, health, finances, burnout, or whatever else might be preventing you from being relaxed enough to focus your mind. Eat, sleep, and exercise well. Consider this an absolute
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by staunch 4y ago
How do network effects apply here? Do you mean to refer to compounding growth? It's true that wealth begets wealth. Zuckerberg's kids are billionaires without having to do anything. Bill Gates would've been rich even if he ha
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by staunch 4y ago
No doubt Bill Gates had massive privilege (in the traditional sense the word). He came from an upper class family with particularly powerful connections. The same is true of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk to a possibly lesser extent. But alm
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by staunch 4y ago
> You have to be cautious in knowing what sort of things can trigger an irreversible failure. Sure, but that's a matter of judgement. Pessimists predict failure where success is possible and even likely. So one reasonable definiti

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