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781.
by viburnum 7y ago
Is going to be like The Boring Company, where they just buy Chinese parts and pass them off as their own?
782.
by viburnum 7y ago
I really tried with Haskell but for me it was just impossible to refactor code without rewriting the whole program.
783.
by viburnum 7y ago
The best result is to not claim to have an autopilot at all because they don’t work.
784.
by viburnum 7y ago
It was a little flat but it wasn’t that bad.
785.
by viburnum 7y ago
I love all the comments here saying that the hack isn’t a problem because the car didn’t crash. That’s a pretty low bar.
786.
by viburnum 7y ago
Brookings is funded by billionaires, corporations, and petrostates. Nobody would read “Billionaire Corporate Petrostate Magazine” but tart it up as an institute.edu and you might fool some suckers.
787.
by viburnum 7y ago
Anglo-Saxon? Have you not heard about the Norman conquest?
788.
by viburnum 7y ago
You can look through any mainstream micro textbook, graduate or undergrad, and in 1,000 pages won’t see a single citation to support any model empirically. Compare that to any decent physics textbook, which will link models to the experimen
789.
by viburnum 7y ago
You mean New Keynesian.
790.
by viburnum 7y ago
I don’t think it’s worth the effort trying to pin down what greatness is. I mean, what’s the point? Does being “great” make you a better person? Who is giving out gold stars for greatness? Why does it matter?
791.
by viburnum 7y ago
This is only welcome if you’re an attractive person. I used to do this all the time and thought I was pretty good at it but really people were just humoring me.
792.
by viburnum 7y ago
For me going to bed at 1am or 8pm works, but if I try anything in the middle, I just stay up until 1am.
793.
by viburnum 7y ago
I agree, ordinary bigotry is conservative.
794.
The Making of a YouTube Radical(nytimes.com)
65 points by viburnum 7y ago|144 comments
795.
by viburnum 7y ago
This is excellent. Thank you.
796.
by viburnum 7y ago
I know what kind of process generates a normal distribution, but what about power law and lognormal? I’ve googled for an answer and never found anything (just found the formula for distributions, etc).
797.
by viburnum 7y ago
I wonder if in the future products will advertise that they work independently (decoupling as a feature).
798.
Why Tesla's dashboard touch screens suck(fastcompany.com)
20 points by viburnum 7y ago|23 comments
799.
by viburnum 7y ago
And that’s after you’ve managed to find the tiny x to dismiss the cookie warning and then the email signup form that blocks 100% of the screen.
800.
by viburnum 7y ago
Just make flying more expensive.
801.
by viburnum 7y ago
I love garlic but it makes my stomach hurt so much that I can’t sleep. Don’t know what’s up with that.
802.
by viburnum 7y ago
It’s not writing one email a minute.
803.
by viburnum 7y ago
Tell us more about writing spam.
804.
by viburnum 7y ago
Most of the resources in manned space flight are devoted to not killing the astronauts. Just sending robots is way cheaper and you can do a ton more projects for the same amount of money. Landing a robot on a comet is way more interesting t
805.
by viburnum 7y ago
Because it’s a dumb idea, but everyone is in denial about how dumb it is, so just lying about future plans is the best solution for everyone.
806.
by viburnum 7y ago
Manned space flight is a dumb idea and no amount of nerd fantasies will change that. Just send robots instead.
807.
by viburnum 7y ago
The names in the credits of Japanese films often vary from person to person. Is it just personal preferences?
808.
by viburnum 7y ago
The same author makes the case for criticism in this article https://thebaffler.com/kate-takes/dont-let-people-enjoy-thin...
809.
by viburnum 7y ago
Good point
810.
by viburnum 7y ago
Use a metal pipe. Drivers care more about scratching the paint of their car than they do murdering a human.

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