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by tyrw 9y ago
TL;DR: Someone asked on Quora if 35 was too old. People answered no.
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by tyrw 9y ago
> Apple is the worst company for those who love freedom I'm not really pro or anti Apple, but I'm having a tough time coming up with what you might mean by this. Can you elaborate?
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by tyrw 9y ago
Is the EU tax based on revenue instead of profit? Or is basing it on revenue in this instance just supposed to make the "percentage paid" smaller to make FB and Google look worse?
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by tyrw 9y ago
*Her
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by tyrw 9y ago
The obvious logic here is that people need to have played a sport as a child to want to watch it as an adult. I'd be curious to know if there is data to back this up. Anecdotally, my dad played football growing up, while my three broth
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by tyrw 9y ago
> It belonged to Amenemhat -- which means the god "Amen Is In the Forefront" -- and his wife Amenhotep, said Mostafa Al-Waziri Is this the same origin as for the word "Amen" in Christianity?
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by tyrw 9y ago
I wouldn't say that mobile apps "won" anything, just that networks and hardware aren't fast enough yet for browser on mobile. Desktop started the same way, and just as most of the desktop apps have moved to the browser,
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by tyrw 9y ago
Answer: "Maybe your single page app is different, but the ones that I know break most of my browser’s features, such as the back and forward buttons, page refresh, bookmarking, sending a link, or opening a link in a new window or tab.&
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by tyrw 9y ago
Would you get a heart transplant to save your life?
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by tyrw 9y ago
More accurately, an operator will want lowest cost of operation. You can add complexity, cost, and failure modes to every single truck by making the battery swappable, then build infrastructure to swap the batteries, or you can just build m
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by tyrw 9y ago
Cost of fuel will also be greatly reduced for the use cases within electric range: - Removing the driver allows for more aerodynamic cab configuration, or no cab at all - Electric motors are more efficient, particularly in high-torque &#x2F
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by tyrw 9y ago
I'd also add that virtually the only compelling reason to have a single, large load like a big rig is to minimize the cost of a human driver relative to payload shipped. Without a driver, the optimal load size will likely be much diff
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by tyrw 9y ago
All of the comments re: swappable battery packs are missing the end goal. Once the driver is gone from autonomy, these fleets are going to be dirt cheap to operate. It won't make sense to swap a battery pack when you can just park one
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by tyrw 9y ago
I'd disagree here too. Trains and planes have extremely catastrophic failure modes, while cars do not. Cars have the added benefit of being able to quickly come to a stop in most situations. An even bigger driving factor (pun intended)
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by tyrw 9y ago
The argument is not that it's because how humans do it. The argument is that the entire system was designed to be consumed as visual cues.
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by tyrw 9y ago
So you believe the technology gap for assembling a human brain out of regular atoms is similar to that for navigating a road using cameras?
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by tyrw 9y ago
It seems like you're taking your own opinion as a universal truth. There are many people (myself included) who will happily ride in a well-tested autonomous vehicle, particularly if the alternative is a taxi, uber, or bus driver who is
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by tyrw 9y ago
It depends on what you're optimizing for. Others using LIDAR are optimizing for speed to market, while potentially sacrificing ability to solve the problem as fully. Musk's argument is that we know for certain that the entire ro
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by tyrw 9y ago
I have mixed feelings about these types of comparisons. On one hand, they provide some directional information. I wouldn't be surprised if a Go framework is generally faster than .NET. On the other hand, they're usually set up in
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by tyrw 9y ago
That is what's happening today, offered by the only company with the scale to do it: Amazon (It's called FBA). Then when they see your products are selling particularly well, they stock them, undercut you, and put you out of busin
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by tyrw 9y ago
I ran an ecommerce company for about a year, and one click checkout was the least of our concerns when it came to Amazon. The speed of delivery, prime benefits, brand recognition, and willingness to lose money on many if not most items are
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by tyrw 9y ago
Google has not criminalized anything, certainly not beliefs. A different word might suit your argument better.
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by tyrw 9y ago
Some examples would help here. Reading this did not bring any real world situations to mind for me.
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by tyrw 9y ago
Sorry, "badge seekers" then if you must insist on precision for the same idea. It's all fake internet points.
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by tyrw 9y ago
Just an odd take to me. HN was started by a Harvard alum based on experiences in the Harvard Computer Society, so this should be the last place that's an issue...
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by tyrw 9y ago
What is offensive about this? The fact that someone on HN went to Harvard?
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Algorithm to gauge how likely a CEO was ousted or faced pressure to step down(wsj.com)
31 points by tyrw 9y ago|24 comments
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by tyrw 9y ago
I was really hoping the article would touch on Saturn's north pole hexagon, as it completely blows my mind every time I think about it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_hexagon
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by tyrw 9y ago
I don't know if anonymity is supposed to be the differentiator here, but true anonymity is not delivered by an end product -- it's essentially a "client side" concern.
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by tyrw 9y ago
I had this happen to me 2-3 times as well. Incorrectly flagged and closed by point seekers in a hurry. It made me respect the platform less and honestly I find myself barely participating anymore after years of activity.

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