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by woeirua 5y ago
> It would be cool to decide on a framework where FSD is tested/approved to be not perfect but better than the average human Just watch the YouTube videos from beta drivers (which are cherrypicked to be most flattering to Tesla). Th
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by woeirua 5y ago
If the Feds clamp down on this, but not on FSD, then we'll know for sure that we have meme regulators. One of these is marginally worse than having access to a modern smartphone. The other literally drives the car, and has proven repea
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by woeirua 5y ago
Lead plumbing should absolutely be removed where its found. Lead paint... Is a different story. As long as its not chipping or easily accessible it's not really that much of a problem.
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by woeirua 5y ago
There are estimates that put the total annual RE transaction value in the US at > $1.5 trillion. Blackrock, Opendoor, Offerpad, etc. are small potatoes compared to the overall size of the market.
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by woeirua 5y ago
1 - The most recent estimates that I've seen suggest that institutional buyers are still a small portion of the market overall. I have seen no evidence, anywhere, to suggest that institutional players alone could keep home prices growi
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by woeirua 5y ago
I think most people in this thread should read this report [1]. It's quite eye opening to see how a small change in interest rates exerts strong downward pressure on housing prices because of how many buyers get priced out. Essentially
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by woeirua 5y ago
I wonder how hard it would be to engineer a material that you can put on top of the hidden camera lens that would greatly diffuse the specific frequency range of light that these ToF sensors use while permitting mostly visible light through
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by woeirua 5y ago
The only way to effectively address the college tuition bubble is going to be for Congress to pass a law that caps the amount of student loans that someone can draw to be proportional to their expected salary over X years on a per-school, p
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by woeirua 5y ago
Given the price inelasticity of college, the money to cover these defaults would probably just come from other students. They'd just hike tuition to cover the risk. A much better solution is to revoke the ability of students at specif
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by woeirua 5y ago
Not sure I would expect an optical guidance system... Would be pretty much useless >50% of the time (during night, or cloudy periods). More likely to be infrared. Carrier's are big and probably have an obvious thermal contrast again
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by woeirua 5y ago
Making a to-scale mockup and then targeting it with ballistic missiles would help them understand the actual accuracy of their missiles under ideal conditions. Of course, hitting a moving carrier with active defenses would be much harde
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by woeirua 5y ago
This post is mostly full of hot air. Not sure how much experience this person really has in data science as they contradict themselves multiple times. I think the execs at Zillow bear almost all of the responsibility for this. The harsh rea
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by woeirua 5y ago
I actually don’t think you should be renting right now. Even if house prices were to fall by 20% tomorrow it would still be cheaper to own than to rent in most cities right now. That may not be true as interest rates move higher down the ro
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by woeirua 5y ago
Sound doesn't travel as well through the air, but it still does. The primary reason that you can't do it from the air is that the surface of the ocean is a big irregular reflector of acoustic energy from the air, so the overwhelmi
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by woeirua 5y ago
This is kind of a big deal in the real estate sector. The only reason that Zillow would sell everything right now is if they believed that the carrying costs of the properties until they (eventually) sell would eat all of their profits. The
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by woeirua 5y ago
Radar does not penetrate through brine water. Other remote sensing techniques have such poor resolution that they are relatively useless for this task. Unfortunately, sonar based bathymetry is really the best tool for this task and that mea
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by woeirua 5y ago
I think Zillow is facing a big potential loss on these properties. The homes that I've seen on the market in my area through Zillow/OpenDoor have been exceptionally poor quality and grossly overpriced. They've been steadily m
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by woeirua 5y ago
Meanwhile Colorado is in the top 5 states for educational attainment, and the fittest state in the Union (for many years now). It's interesting that altitude has a noticeable effect on birth weight, but it clearly doesn't really a
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by woeirua 5y ago
Not clear that’s the case. BEV will become more common as production ramps up. Unit costs will come down. No way BEV are the dominant form of transportation at a sales price >$40k.
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by woeirua 5y ago
In many rural areas, there are no other growing tax bases. Indeed the population in rural areas is declining overall as people move to cities for better opportunities.
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by woeirua 5y ago
You are obviously totally ignorant about how the leasing process works. Leases are auctioned off to the highest bidder.
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by woeirua 5y ago
The simplest solution here is to require users to present government recognized credentials when signing up for accounts. Users can then create pseudonymous accounts that preserve some notion of anonymity, but when they become abusive the u
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by woeirua 5y ago
The potential for a massive jump in battery chemistry is why I personally have not purchased a BEV yet. I'm leasing a LEAF, which has been great overall, but I'm not going to buy until the battery chemistry is settled here in a fe
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by woeirua 5y ago
This is not a problem if you're transparent about what you're doing. If you say, the AI/ML will do this, but we're still perfecting the algorithm so we have humans assist it right now. No problem.
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by woeirua 5y ago
I'm short Tesla the FSD tech company. Tesla the electric car company is crushing for now at least. It'll be interesting to see if that holds true as VW, Ford and GM are starting to come on strong. But the real competition doesn&#x
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by woeirua 5y ago
Most areas, especially in the contiguous United States, have already been explored to some extent. These ultra cheap leases reflect the fact that the likelihood of economically producing hydrocarbons in this area is extremely unlikely.
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by woeirua 5y ago
While this is an interesting idea, it's pretty comical to think that conservationists could ever come up with enough money to seriously outbid oil and gas companies in lucrative areas. The only reason this person was able to get this
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by woeirua 5y ago
How is this different from a video game?
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by woeirua 5y ago
At the rate we're going there will eventually be armed conflict in the western US over water. Large municipalities and maybe even the federal government need to put together a plan to buy out farmers after we have to turn off their tap
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Facebook Whistleblower Complaint [pdf](cdn.arstechnica.net)
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