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by thereisnospork 11d ago
The world needs better economic policy and regulation so non Chinese ODMs can compete on price/quality.
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by thereisnospork 17d ago
"everyone" still drives -- the problem has very much not yet been solved. Could it be solved in other ways? Sure, but it hasn't. Why it hasn't is an interesting question but that's out of scope.
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by thereisnospork 17d ago
The difficulty in getting to an agreement on what "responsible" means, and on how a "failure" should be handled means that said experiment will never occur. Nothing is ever safe enough and no failure is acceptable -- so
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by thereisnospork 25d ago
Carbon fiber and 3d printed titanium is probably where I'd start for materials to design a high end vacuum to be light/strong/durable. Injected molded magnesium alloy would also be a candidate if production qty was high enoug
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by thereisnospork 25d ago
Well if we got enough people together it would be pretty cheap, maybe 15 or 20 bucks or so with inflation. And we could fill the movie upfront, and create some previews and launch an advertising campaign -- that'd certainly help drum u
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by thereisnospork 1mo ago
From a consumer POV it is -- even if only read as 'not under-engineered'. In an over engineered thing margin is left on the table which the consumer gets to take advantage of. Noting that in the real world items are often exposed
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by thereisnospork 2mo ago
"Stand to the right on an escalator" "Put trash in a trashcan and not on the ground" That wasn't complicated. And took 30seconds. Are there a lot of rules? Of course. Is knowing them all in advance possible? Of cour
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by thereisnospork 2mo ago
What qualifies as good manners varies from situation to situation, but the concept of acting with good manners is hardly complicated (conform to the expected behavior of the situation). Enforcment is a matter of encoding the rules and then
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by thereisnospork 2mo ago
There was just an outbreak at Taco Bell - should we fine Yum! Brands out of existence. liquidate their assets and imprison the executives, like some people elsewhere in the discussion seem to be advocating for? Should we add a few billion
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by thereisnospork 2mo ago
How are Tech companies fighting public transit? At least in these parts a relatively high fraction of their employees commute by (private) bus. I can only presume that Tech companies would prefer the government provide safe, clean, and time
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by thereisnospork 2mo ago
This is America, anything you do pisses people off[0]. The problem is that the rest of us listen to them because it is easier to understand one person's complaint than the distributed pain of electricity being a penny per kwh more expe
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by thereisnospork 2mo ago
You seem to be missing the underlying reason(s) why tech nerds are, well, tech nerds. 0dd to be angry about tech nerds being tech nerdy about things.
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by thereisnospork 3mo ago
When the government proscribes discretionary permitting to those items you mentioned corruption and scarcity follow. It is exorbitantly expensive and difficult to build a house, a powerplant, or a mine in this country. For which we all curr
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by thereisnospork 3mo ago
Cooling demand is only fractional with respect to the load: cooling 1MW of heat will only cost a few 10's to low 100's of kW, depending on the specifics. 10-20% overhead on cooling is probably a close enough estimate for napkin ma
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by thereisnospork 3mo ago
>This idea that Americans are genetically pre-ordained to be fat seems like fanciful thinking. The idea that it being genetic or not should matter is odd? Who cares why people are fat? They inarguably are fat and will by all available
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by thereisnospork 3mo ago
Nonsense, one not just as easily say they are overweight because they aren't taking enough GLP-1 agonists. A patient with scurvy is proscribed vitamin C - they might even need to take it for the rest of their lives to stay healthy. Woe
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by thereisnospork 4mo ago
For those of us at home who need to decide which team to root for its very much relevant when and what bills a party sponsors.
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by thereisnospork 4mo ago
You as an individual? Probably not, but you could lobby your local government to, for instance, require any such dataset taken from information in the public be subject to the freedom of information act.
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by thereisnospork 4mo ago
Pretty much. The discretionary nature of permitting, and other add-ons like CEQA, pose an enormous, and worse, unpredictable, burden on attempting to start a business in many places. It'd be one thing if the requirements were merely on
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by thereisnospork 4mo ago
The point that it is a reasonable comparison: being able to reasonably compare the performance of a lump of silicon to a human being at a complex task in the real world means the Overton window has shifted, massively, from say 5 years ago.
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by thereisnospork 4mo ago
What 3 year old is judging the depth of a puddle before jumping in? Regardless, consider what you are saying: how can you seriously compare a computer to a (young) human and your response is disappointment that the AI doesn't quite mea
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by thereisnospork 4mo ago
Replace agent with 'direct report' and you've just described middle management. For better or worse, companies have always run on non deterministic tasks doled out by persons who barely understand the work.
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by thereisnospork 5mo ago
>any vulnerability in any software available for inspection is going to be instant public knowledge. Or at least public among anybody who matters. Shouldn't this naturally lead to a state where all (new) code is vulnerability-free?
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by thereisnospork 5mo ago
>Some level of permitting reform is warranted but I would think hard about whether you want to adopt China's policies. Given the current geopolitical trajectories we are going to be adopting their policies one way or another.
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by thereisnospork 5mo ago
And the meaning of the truism you so adoitly picked up on is that at reasonable projections trimet and similar public transit will be uncompetitive in price (and service) relative to self driving EVs. Ergo it is correct to deprioritize thei
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by thereisnospork 5mo ago
Assuming an average fare of 2.47$ per to make the math even, that's 6.00$/ride total cost. When a company / government gets the cost per mile to run a fleet of autonomous EV's down to ~60cents/mile or so, which is a
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by thereisnospork 5mo ago
How many tax dollars go into subsidizing a public transit ride? Varies from place to place but it's not insignificant.
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by thereisnospork 5mo ago
Because the regulations, set by those with vested interest in real estate, make it difficult to build more housing. Otherwise anyone with any sense would undercut the existing housing stock and turn a 100k investment in concrete and timber
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by thereisnospork 6mo ago
Ianal, usual disclaimers, etc. The design files don't qualify for copyright protections, they describe the design which (maybe) qualifies for copyright protections.[0] The artistic design of a specific keyboard can certainly be copyrig
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by thereisnospork 6mo ago
Humans. Humans repeatedly violate traffic laws. Humans behind the wheel are killing 10's of thousands every year. Yet we keep giving these drugged up meatbags licenses.

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