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by wpietri 2y ago
Have they announce any numbers like that? The only thing I can recall hearing was having 72 operators for 50 vehicles, but that was back at initial launch. If I were in their shoes, especially given the Cruise debacle, I'd have continu
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by wpietri 2y ago
Yup. One million robotaxis by the end of 2020: https://www.thedrive.com/news/38129/elon-musk-promised-1-mil... In May 2019, Kai-Fu Lee said, "If there are a million Tesla robo-taxis functioning on the road in
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by wpietri 2y ago
For sure. And to me that's related to the spread of managerialism and MBA thinking. One of the fundamental beliefs in that paradigm is that management is universal; an expert manager can manage anything. (This is in the contrast to the
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by wpietri 2y ago
I think the argument is that it should look different for the sake of doing better. By, say, using modern tools and techniques rather than trying to resurrect some old parts designed in the 1970s. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org
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by wpietri 2y ago
As a kid, mainlining Heinlein, I just assumed we'd have a moonbase by now and that it would be up to something important and useful. In my 20s, I assumed that our then-primitive software engineering techniques would be refined until we
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by wpietri 3y ago
This is a super common behavior when a) the product is for other people, but b) you don't care about those other people. You'll see both in technologists (who, as you say, get fascinated by the technology or the idea) and in MBAs
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by wpietri 3y ago
Blackmail is how it ends up, yes, but the blackmail material is created through fraud, and the goal from the start is to extract money through trickery, so that part's a scam.
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by wpietri 3y ago
Ah, I missed that part. Thanks!
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by wpietri 3y ago
I'm not tone policing anything, bub. As Carrie Goldberg says, "NONCONSENSUAL PORNOGRAPHY IS SEXUAL ABUSE". [1] So I agree with that part. But NCP is used in all sorts of ways. One of those ways, this particular way here, is a
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by wpietri 3y ago
Huh. I would argue that the software remained the property of Microsoft, and so there were no tax consequences. Presumably if the Windows 95 development manager said, a year later, "Hey guys, time to give all that stuff back," the
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by wpietri 3y ago
It's true that scammers use many different techniques, and I agree that NCP is in play here. But something can be more than one thing at once. This is a scam.
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by wpietri 3y ago
It is called a scam because that's what the perps are going for. Their goal is to extract money. From the article: "The price was $300. He transferred the money via Apple Cash and pleaded to be left alone. But it wasn’t enough. No
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by wpietri 3y ago
The short answer is horniness. They are hoping to get some. And indeed, as I understand it, they've received what they think are explicit photos of someone else, so they believe they are in a reciprocal context. If people were all that
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by wpietri 3y ago
Just a few hours ago he came out with a video, "Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies?" (Versus whether it's bad products.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QztFpzKsdeA It's clearly addressing this controversy.
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by wpietri 3y ago
That's a pretty bizarre take on Vassallo's part. I have no idea what kind of ethics he's thinking of. Or whose character is being attacked. And even wilder to me was this bit: "If a single person can affect the stock pri
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by wpietri 3y ago
> The topic is about spending resources in an attempt to achieve a goal. I don't think that's the topic at all. I grew up in a high-ACE environment. Money was mostly not the problem, and to the extent that it was, relatively sm
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by wpietri 3y ago
For sure. One way I'll talk about this is, "The biggest fantasy novels I've read are project plans." Everybody coalesces around a vision quite detached from reality and then just kind of lives in it for years. It's
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by wpietri 3y ago
No, what's at question is what "genius" means. He's asserting that "'genius' was made through hard work (and some amount of luck)". This is in sharp contrast to the common notion that genius is "
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by wpietri 3y ago
I totally agree we need more actual competition, and also agree that national polarization plus a first-past-the-post system makes that unlikely in the near term. I would also love to see widespread use of RCV, but as a San Franciscan I don
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by wpietri 3y ago
For sure. I think a lot of this is just about how heavy the planning cycles are. A lot of stuff like that is developed through big, waterfall planning efforts and large outsourcing contracts. Most of the choices were made before they had th
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by wpietri 3y ago
I think there are a bunch of things causing this problem. Off the top of my head, some factors: - chronic underfunding - we all know how problems build up when maintenance is deferred - waterfall planning - Mary Poppendieck has a nice talk
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by wpietri 3y ago
Sorry, but this is incorrect: > But nobody wants to die right now, ever. No matter what they said before or what papers they signed. Plenty of people recognize when it's time. When my mom was diagnosed with glioblastoma, her surgeo
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by wpietri 3y ago
When you were a baby, many people were kind to you in ways that you don't remember. Was that also pointless? I also think this goes well beyond the relatives. Part of being in a society is caring for one another. Here I am on another c
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by wpietri 3y ago
I think the flavor of the answer says a lot. A vague negative answer will make me suspicious, as will one based in good intentions and moonbeams. But a negative answer rooted in principle and mentioning specific choices is one I'll tak
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by wpietri 3y ago
I learned about these accidentally last year and thought they were hilarious, so I bought some here: https://www.magnetsource.com/collections/cow-magnets-ru-mast... I'm neither a veterinarian nor a cow, so I don&#
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by wpietri 3y ago
For sure. During my mom's cancer treatment, these things came up too. E.g., In going through some options, her neuro-oncologist mentioned one drug, Avastin I think, which would have been something like $100k. In his estimation was unl
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by wpietri 3y ago
I think the point is that if one aspires to be a figure like Higgs, one can't just coast on "innate propensities". It requires fiendishly hard work. That really resonates with me. When I was a kid I got complimented a lot for
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by wpietri 3y ago
Some of the concerns are documented here: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson
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by wpietri 3y ago
> They did have the Treo line! Thank you for mentioning it. It makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills when people talk about how Steve Jobs invented the smartphone. I had a series of Treos starting with the Treo 270: https:&#x2F
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by wpietri 3y ago
I think you're being a little absolutist about this. Swapping out a possibly equivalent database engine does not turn anything into a unit test, which is defined by testing individual units of code in relative isolation. You can argu

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