tomkarlo

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by tomkarlo 9y ago
I'm from New York.
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
That's fair. But it's also worth recognizing those 70K units may mean that some middle-income SF resident had to move to Pleasanton or something instead due to affordability, so our nice hiking proximity is their 90-minute commute
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Totally agree. However, that doesn't absolve us of trying to find solutions that are feasible within our cultural and political landscape. At least in SF, for the moment, that primarily seems to mean getting more units built within t
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-articulated_bus None of our mass transit operates near the speed limit anyway, afaik.
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
The point is you haven't solved the problem. You've just moved it to a different place. Urban sprawl is pretty well acknowledged to be a bad thing (TM) - it increases pollution, is bad for people's health, bad for the social
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Potentially, a self-driving car (or even Google Maps nav and a regular driver) would not have this problem - it would simply not drive itself into a situation where it's both in heavy snow and a place that's not safe to stop. I&#x
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
We already trust our safety to the cars in front of us - working tail lights & signals, proper securing of rooftop loads, etc. It's just a question of whether the incremental safety of knowing about hazards outweighs the potential
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Why would we expect computer vision to perform as poorly as human eyes? The input sensor is just part of the system - human eyes aren't very good sensors (narrow FOV, narrow set of usable wavelengths, etc) and the human brain isn'
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Having ridden the Google buses for 6 years, I can tell you this generally wasn't a problem. They were almost always on schedule (I'd say 95% with 2-3 minutes of planned departure) and never bunched up. You didn't really have
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
The folks who are having the most trouble living in SF - the ones who don't work in tech - often don't spend all day looking at a computer, and have to be physically present at a specific location to do their work. They're
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
He didn't use a car to commute before (I'd hope) given he was in the middle of SF. But now he likely needs one to get to the grocery, take his kids to school, etc even if he's WFH. And he's likely also using more energy
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
I think you're presuming a lot there - for example, while Manila has its problems, there's a reason people want to be there rather than the provinces. I certainly don't think it would be a better city if you took its ~13M peo
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
If we added bus lanes they way they do in other countries, it would address the traffic problem. But we always favor the lone-commuter-in-car.
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
They are in fact planning to do just that - put more office space in that zone, which will create demand for housing in SF (the nearest major residential area) rather than adding housing. And in the past, they've blocked a proposal tha
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
That's great, but it seems kind of orthogonal and non-scalable to the problem of the Bay Area housing crisis. Are you proposing that everyone in SF move to places like the Central Valley (driving up price) and start driving around cars
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Paris is twice as dense as SF, and denser than any other US city except New York. Increasing density isn't necessarily a goal, but it's a sign of a healthy city - it means people want to live there so much that they're willin
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
It's beneficial for the rest of the US to find solutions that make high density cities successful. Such locations tend to be both your cultural and economic centers, in particular due to the network effects of putting so many people in
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Honestly, having lived in both NY and SF for years, you need both - a highly dense urban core, and effective transportation from the outlying regions. If you just add transport, what will happen is what's now happening in Brooklyn - yo
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Most of the major OEMs do. The security update rate for upper tier phones runs about 75% within 3 months these days. Anyway, I was responding to the comment "Most of serious security issues still require full OS updates." This is
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
You're right. mis-replied in the thread.
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
This doesn't make any sense. It assumes there's no competition between manufacturers, and that users don't switch. If older phones were actually "better", manufacturers would just make those and steal customers from
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Most security issues are handled by security updates, which don't require a letter update. They're issued as patches, so OEMs can issue them for an older device without updating it to a new release. https://www.android
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
"If the number of hires is kept constant" is a huge IF that just doesn't hold up. If Google (or FB, or Apple) could find more candidates that met their hiring bar, they'd hire them as well. It's not a zero-sum game
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Unfortunately, we've deprecated that interview question.
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Uber did in fact have a doc with 14 key guidelines, but with drastically different contents. "Step on toes", "always be hustling" etc. The harassment issue wasn't so much a cultural value as an organizational failur
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
They're telling you the actual internal culture . Your argument here seems to be since you don't believe that, they should just tell you their corporate policies instead. Those are an entirely different thing. Work hours, vacat
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
None of these things tell you that much about a company's values or corporate culture. Consider that both Uber and Lyft could probably both say all of these things, despite having radically different internal cultures and values. A com
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
It's a throwaway account made just for this post.
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Define "until recently"... internal culture has definitely been an issue at companies for 20-30 years now - I can remember discussions about it quite commonly in the mid-90s. It's just good business; would you rather pay unha
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by tomkarlo 9y ago
Not necessarily, at least easily. Customer comms often contain PII, so they're not just widely available to anyone interested due to privacy concerns. Unless you're on a ticket related to that specific customer's issue, it&#

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