webdood90

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by webdood90 3y ago
> a few miles of subway in the LA metro area, for example, costs on the order of double digit billions and takes a decade plus Then don't build trains - busses work fine. > In huge areas of the country where it's snowy in th
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> I hate waiting for busses or taking the transit options This is a far easier problem to solve than self driving vehicles
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by webdood90 3y ago
> we could probably get rid of >50% of all cars on the road I've seen this argument before but it doesn't make sense to me. In some subset of situations, yes, this would be the case. But 8-9a or 5-6p there is a surge of dema
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by webdood90 3y ago
Look to join neighborhood associations that influence city policy. Reach out to your council person or the mayor, depending on how big your city is. Talk to neighbors.
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by webdood90 3y ago
> This site infuriates me sometimes at the complete and utter lack of understanding of most of the United States Most of the US in what capacity? Square miles? Because the majority of the population lives in Cities. I love reading commen
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by webdood90 3y ago
if you're not already, you should advocate for the infrastructure in your city. these things do not happen on their own, we must push for the future we desire.
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by webdood90 3y ago
great, so why troll this thread with your redundant viewpoint?
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I would pay money to never see X used as an example of how to run your business ever again
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by webdood90 3y ago
> So what? if you're asking this question then we don't have anything to talk about
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> I believe bad people should be allowed to make money yeah, misleading people on the internet is big business
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by webdood90 3y ago
only took 7 years of collecting pay checks for you to become conscious nothing will change until people stop enabling meta with their labor
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> Those types don't care about performance, website footprints, smooth scrolling, etc they don't care because their _users_ don't care. I find these discussions are always led by engineers, shaking their fists at clouds. n
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> Perhaps the discussion should be around improving this benefit for everyone? Red herring You're participating in mental gymnastics to validate what is essentially poor leadership. Why?
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You: > Essentially they're doing what you do when you train a neural network, only that instead of adjusting weights connecting "neurons", you adjust the shape and position of gaussians, and the coefficients of spherical h
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by webdood90 3y ago
education prevents people from doing a lot of dumb things, yes
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that's why I said it's hard
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it's less about children that will ultimately contribute and more about parents that are incapable of providing for their children
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by webdood90 3y ago
I participate in the economy, I pay taxes, I don't break laws.
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by webdood90 3y ago
I personally didn't have that "ah ha" moment with crypto/blockchain, but I understand your point. to me AI is different - it's current iteration is useful, today. just this year alone it has improved at an insane pa
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I really don't understand replies like this. This is just the beginning. It is a tiny, tiny view into this new technology. Nobody with an ounce of intelligence looked at the first iPhone and thought "ah well it's just another
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or is it having children?
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by webdood90 3y ago
I suspect the lines are typically drawn between introverts and extroverts, so it's unfair to generalize here. I work remote and we don't have an office near me, but I'd love to go back. My job is where I spend the majority of
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by webdood90 3y ago
do you also enjoy bailouts?
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all of those trivial improvements for the low price of half a trillion dollars in bailouts
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I didn't think it was possible but banking shills apparently exist > If one wants free enterprise and reap its benefits who wants this from banking??? > one has to allow high profits for companies and see if competition takes car
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IMO You should be upset with capitalism, not the company.
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40% of the general population? sure for desirable employers with competitive pay, I'd guess closer to 80%.
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so then you're saying it's an execution issue, not a flawed concept. a lot of people are giving Martin flack that the idea sucks when the reality is they're implementing it poorly or inappropriately.
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by webdood90 3y ago
great example of why hiring in tech is broken. decision makers making blanket generalizations because candidates don't fit the mold they've invented in their own minds using only their personal experience as a baseline. tech exper
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by webdood90 3y ago
I don't see value in worrying about it. We definitely can't stop it from happening. Yeah, it's gonna suck for us, but it's gonna suck more for a lot of other jobs a lot sooner.

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