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by temporalparts 5y ago
Great places for Nikola to showcase their latest vehicles!
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by temporalparts 5y ago
Any article that says: > Anybody who’s ever taken an Economics 101 course knows clearly has no idea what they're talking about. Real market are far more complex than what can be described by Economics 101
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by temporalparts 5y ago
I think the recent "Staff-plus" fascination comes from the extreme dilution these past years of the "Senior" engineering role. Meaningless title inflation is real.
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by temporalparts 5y ago
The extension has a counter that'll tell you how many were removed.
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by temporalparts 5y ago
I built a chrome extension that removes duplicate tabs silently and automagically. No complex interactions required. It's removed over 9000 tabs for me personally over the course of a year and a half. https://chrome.google.c
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Drone Delivery Was Supposed to Be the Future. What Went Wrong?(youtube.com)
3 points by temporalparts 5y ago|1 comments
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by temporalparts 5y ago
Wasn't everyone (including Steve Jobs) crazy over the Segway?
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by temporalparts 5y ago
I mean the future of a lot of countries were decided by rulers pushing their citizens to breed in order to fill out more countries.
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by temporalparts 5y ago
Sounds like there's at least 70% more pollutinators. I'll show myself out and accept the downvotes.
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by temporalparts 5y ago
Have you actually done research differentiating between the risks of tobacco exposure and radiation exposure? There's no scientific evidence to suggest that small doses of radiation (< 0.1 mSv) is harmful to you, at all. In fact, th
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by temporalparts 5y ago
I've never considered subluminal warp drives, but it'd be really exciting if we can create warp drives that are some healthy fraction of c.
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by temporalparts 5y ago
They will be designing the cars with buffers, but if a crash can go through all of that AND damages the single casting chassis, which are a lot stronger, then you should thankful because you'll likely have gotten way more injured with
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by temporalparts 5y ago
Exciting! Now only if they can find the origins of the original virus.
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by temporalparts 5y ago
One of my favorite fallacies is the fallacy fallacy. Just because one used fallacious reasoning, doesn't mean they're wrong. e.g. I can give a bad reason for why 16/64 = 1/4, just cross out the 6's, but just because
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by temporalparts 5y ago
If you got a PhD from Hamburger University, you'll have even more 'Hard' skills!
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by temporalparts 5y ago
'Hard' skills from working as a McDonald's cashier remain relevant beyond restaurant business. 1. Understanding customer relationships 2. Creativity on the job: figuring out how to deal with edge cases for positive outcomes t
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by temporalparts 5y ago
Here's a random marketing video from Tesla showing off the lights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfucQM07tGQ
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by temporalparts 5y ago
I want to see the study: > Watching video twice at normal speed can benefit learning better than once at 0.5x speed You need reasonable baselines, otherwise this just says: "going through a material twice improves learning outcomes&
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by temporalparts 5y ago
I'm guessing Google VPs make ~5 mil a year, given that L8 engineers make ~1 mil a year [0] [0] levels.fyi
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by temporalparts 5y ago
> you can sue them and probably win https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...
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by temporalparts 5y ago
This might get buried, but I'll put this idea out there. Background: I'm someone who has traveled fairly regularly (> 30 countries), with some trips comprised of solo backpacking across Europe or South-East Asia. I also think I
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Ray-Ban Stories(theverge.com)
5 points by temporalparts 5y ago|0 comments
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by temporalparts 5y ago
One thing that's worth talking about is the approach that the government took. The sudden ban on a vital component of their agriculture (non-organic chemical fertilizer) had some bad non-obvious impacts. A better strategy towards the s
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by temporalparts 5y ago
I mean, not surprising. Here's an older hacker news thread about Brazil rejecting the Russian Vaccine.[0] It's so depressingly unsurprising in this post-truth era. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26975783
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by temporalparts 5y ago
> Faculty are not required to provide remote access or record lectures I don't understand this. Harvard Medical School has the same policy (or rather, none of the lectures are recorded). Why are schools asking students to choose bet
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by temporalparts 5y ago
I think it's a good point, but... what information do we use to determine intent? And aren't they subject to the errors of normal information in addition to possible ill-intended misinformation?
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by temporalparts 5y ago
Controversial, so I'm expecting downvotes. SWE is one of the most difficult professions at the highest levels. If it's so simple, then the ready supply of SWE should depress wages but that is clearly not happening.
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by temporalparts 5y ago
More spoilers: In the book, they were scared of humanity's technological growth rate. They were observing our technological advances and noticed that it was significantly faster than theirs. While they were, at the time, technologicall
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by temporalparts 5y ago
> Science is the only field where ML would truly shine and be really useful. You know that ML is a really important part of a lot of companies that aren't "Science", right? Like Google search result rankings rely on ML.
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by temporalparts 5y ago
Unrelated, but I wanted to explore an idea from the book "Good Calories, Bad Calories" [0]: Humans have evolved for a very long time as hunter and gatherers, and we have evolved to eat diet consistent with how we evolved, namely l

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