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by xracy 3y ago
This feels like a can of worms that Elon Musk doesn't want to open. (He might still open it, but I think it's a bad idea). NPR could make this difficult if he's gonna get pedantic, and simply retweet the time once every 30 da
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by xracy 3y ago
It's possible that I'm just missing the distinction here between passkeys and FIDO security keys. Because all of the things I'm seeing in this space fall into just one factor of authentication. I will point out that I explici
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by xracy 3y ago
Sorry... but... like... How is that not 2FA? You moved one of the factors. The possible factors are: Something you know Something you are Something you have Choose 2. A PIN would be something you know A fingerprint would be something you ar
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by xracy 3y ago
Part of the problem is that right now the most convenient use of things like yubikeys is that the most convenient use of them is just leave them in your computer wherever they may be. That makes them a pretty hard sell for any workplace env
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by xracy 4y ago
If you give me $100 I will put you first in line for my new electric "xracy-truck" when it launches in 2027. We have a perfect track record of hitting our target deliveries for all of our projects. NOTE: You aren't actually g
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by xracy 4y ago
Wow, he did it. First manned flight to space.[1] err. First Private manned flight to space. [2] Err, First completely private crew to go to space... Is that actually something we're considering a first? Can you really tell the differen
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by xracy 4y ago
Speaking of moving goalposts... What about the hyperloop? Was supposed to be a vacuum-sealed tube with driverless pods that go 600 mph. -> tunnel with driverless cars that go 60mph -> tunnel with driver cars that go 30 mph... for a bi
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by xracy 4y ago
I feel like you just saved me 22m
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by xracy 4y ago
I mean, if I could make money by announcing a limited run of any product. I would definitely keep announcing them. Certainly seems easier than building out a Truck with all of the promised capabilities.
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by xracy 4y ago
But... you're moderating after the discussions have happened. You can moderate on the outcome by the point that you flagged my comment. And the outcome is not actually a flamewar. Also, that's why there are humans moderating, not
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by xracy 4y ago
It feels like, for most practical purposes comments about "inflation lowering YoY" are missing the point that the damage is already done. Like, until costs of things actually start to go down (seems unlikely), the inflation easing
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by xracy 4y ago
I think it's an unreliable standard? Like, everything people say could incite flaming given the right situation. So saying that something could when it doesn't is an arbitrary standard. Also you can't run the statistical
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by xracy 4y ago
Also, huge one... How many cyclist -> pedestrian fatalities are there? I would bet dollars to donuts that 99.9+% of cyclist fatalities are cars hitting cyclists. (As opposed to cyclists hitting pedestrians. If there are any driver deaths
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by xracy 4y ago
Oh, cool, still more evidence than you've provided. And honestly, you can Google for peer-reviewed publications just as well as I can if you're just going to complain about my sources. Where are your "peer-reviewed publicatio
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by xracy 4y ago
I believe this is the video I was going off of to extract the info from. You can make the other argument... but can you bring the other data for it? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI&ab_channel=NotJu...
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by xracy 4y ago
I'm being real generous here that on a 4 lane road, if you want to add bikes I would just take away 1 lane of car traffic, and that would allow for bikes to be insulated from the cars in both directions. But I definitely agree with you
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by xracy 4y ago
Yeah, your trying to hide your argument in specificity makes it an "anecdote" and not anything meaningfully contributing to the conversation. So you can either find specific sources that demonstrate more than that "you feel l
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by xracy 4y ago
I don't know if you've ever been to a walkable city, but they pay for themselves. Because people don't spend all of their time driving to and from the place they want to be, they get to spend extra time shopping and growing l
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by xracy 4y ago
Citation needed for "Traffic has gotten worse over the past few years since a lot of bike lanes were put in." For one thing, it's not even a causal statement, but you're implying it is. For another bikes take up ~half th
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by xracy 4y ago
Yes, Where is the railroad networks for electric trains as a comparison against freight? Also, why do they use MPG instead of ton-miles per gallon for freight shipping costs in the doc. Nobody cares about how fuel efficient an unladen class
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by xracy 4y ago
I don't think it's about being fair or unfair... I just think it's the only pedal the Fed has. And the Fed is the only body that is able to make actions right now. Taxes would be a great vehicle for this, because they would
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by xracy 4y ago
That is one comment thread, initiated by me. Even the other discussion on the comment-thread about whether or not fanboy is derogatory, is completely unrelated, and sticking to the merits of the discussion. And I again believe that fanboy i
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by xracy 4y ago
I cannot edit my post (it has been up for too long, the site won't let me). They aren't swipes, they were an observation at the time of reading that people were gushing about the paper. I have backed my claims in other parts of th
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by xracy 4y ago
The tv show Ted Lasso introduced me the phrase: "It's the hope that kills you." And in the show they rag on it, because people take it to mean "be hopeless". While I would never want people to be hopeless, I think t
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by xracy 4y ago
No worries! I definitely tailored it to the comments after reading through a bunch of them. Normally I expect to find a lot more pushback in the comments of HN for Elon's grandiose promises, and I just wasn't seeing it here.
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by xracy 4y ago
Elon takes a lot of government money/contracts for someone trying to make things that people buy on their own...
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by xracy 4y ago
What if I told you... That Trains aren't just proof-of-concepted... They're real. And they don't require adding wires over miles of highway. I do appreciate they're thinking outside of the Battery-Electric Trucks here,
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by xracy 4y ago
Where did I call HN pro Musk and Tesla? I made a specific comment about how people on this thread were gushing about a "plan" that I still don't understand the hype about. Nothing they're doing in this "plan"
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by xracy 4y ago
The proposal is not the electrification of trains. It's the moving of trucks to trains, and then the electrification of trains. But it would depend on a lot of infrastructure investment in trains that I recognize we're not going
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by xracy 4y ago
> FYI, using "fan-boy" is kind of frowned upon on hacker news. Why? It's not derogatory. What word would you have me use in place of it? There are a bunch of people speaking very highly of Elon for what is not a very inter

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