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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Obviously so, and this doesn't contradict anything I said. But the types of people who work on AVs are quantitative enough to understand that these magnitudes can differ, and are able to process that difference instead of waving them a
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I think those are consistent with the numbers I found
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Anything that's a cheap way to get midwit upvotes is an unsolvable problem as far as I can tell.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
That's my point. Presumably Detroit doesn't have winter driving conditions in the summer, in which case robotaxis are feasible seasonally, or when there hasn't been rain/freezing conditions for X # of days, etc. Determin
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
There are already limitations by road condition. This level of control over the operating environment is part of why so many services are targeting robotaxis as their initial product.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
FWIW, I work in AV eng/research and have never heard someone say this. Most of the people I know in the space are pretty clear-headed about how dangerous human driving is. We are generally less optimistic about timing, but that was mor
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> I don’t want to read into this too far but I hope the author doesn’t blame himself for all this I dunno, the whole "business turned me into a monster" bit is a little thin given that he opens his story with a VC pitch that he
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Expensive funerals are far from "unique to the US". The US spends substantially less as a proportion of income than Japan, China, Germany, Netherlands, the UK, and New Zealand, and is within a couple percent of a half dozen oth
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I'm sorry to hear that, and thanks for sharing your thoughts. I hope your children are currently doing well. > As they would talk through what had happened, it would become apparent that it wasn't the tech - it was the people.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The ssc subreddit and diaspora
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Holy cow, did not expect to see this username on HN. hi!
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Absolutely. But the idea that this is a "totalitarian" deficiency in the country's provision of negative rights is ludicrous.
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
"Basic human decency" has always been a political position, in most countries that have a messy democracy (eg not small and very homogenous). Or at least, there have always been those who think that their belief system is obviousl
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
It's unprofessional regardless, but I don't believe it was ethnic names in particular: > current employees were so mortified by the practice that none of them would give me a single example of a name on the list. One invoked th
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> you must do exactly as your boss says without question though. You left off "if you want your boss to give you gobs of money every two weeks".
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I think you're projecting a lot of loaded meaning onto the claim, in the presence of interpretations that don't require making such broad assumptions. Parent commenter could easily have meant that corruption when it comes from loc
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
FWIW, this is not my experience at all. As just one example, I was late to a wedding event in Phoenix shortly before the pandemic, was about to call an Uber ($35), and decided to take the taxi that had just pulled up to the hotel to save a
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
From the parent comment: > But going against it would have probably upset some *local* donators In what way is it sensible to classify big tech as a _local_ donor? Hell, the very term itself implies very wide reach.
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> But that wasn't people waking past each other in the street, that was people working with each other in poorly ventilated spaces. Yes, this is my point. There were tons of people (most people?) who didn't/couldn't l
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> It's decidedly pro-mask, although I guess if warped it could be read as excusing anti-masker behavior This is exactly it. Anti-maskers/anti-restrictionists seized on the stupidity of our early mask policy (and subsequent fli
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> The "flip-flop" occurred very shortly after it was demonstrated that they were transmitted by aerosol particles. This is both false and doesn't make any sense. 1) There was ample evidence of the distinct _possibility_ of
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> Ironically, blasting the US for pausing the J&J vaccine was highly upvoted on HN, even though that was also expert decision making, and it was actually in the midst of the issue without the benefit of hindsight. I wonder why the to
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> Isn't it simple statistics? If you're on a ward with 10 people who are ill and coughing at you you'll need a mask. I addressed this in my comment: > Higher viral loads [and longer exposure] put you at higher risk, but
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
That's possible, but the route we went with got us the worst of both worlds. There were gov'ts that simply told the entire country to use scarves or sew string to cloth and put it over their mouth. Lying about the efficacy of all
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Given the impression I've gotten from your habit of replying with midwit snark to my comments, I don't suggest that you try doing so. But yes, there are plenty of fields full of intelligent, quantitative people that are better at
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> about how masks on laymen have no effect because we can't wear them right/will touch our face too much to adjust them. Whether they believed that at the time is unclear to me, but that was the theory being pushed by a bunch o
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
This excuse doesn't make any sense. Their messaging at the time was "masks aren't effective, plus we need them for healthcare workers to care for pandemic patients". If they're not effective, why would healthcare wo
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
How is this an instance of "you can't win"? Not "owning" your phone is a downside of iOS's approach, and avoiding the security issue as parent commenter mentions is an upside (ie a "win"). This martyr
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I think it's probably a broader reference to the American left's slide towards embracing censorship, of everything from ostensible misinformation to an ever-expanding definition of "violent speech". Though I don't r
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Sure, or some of us aren't so simple-minded that we only see things through the lens of the identity groups we belong to.

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