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by yowzadave 2y ago
They tend to be non-software-engineering companies that decided they want to do a bit of software dev. These jobs can be good in some ways (varied job tasks, exposure to different fields of expertise, good work/life balance) and bad in
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Seems like something we could ask an AI assistant to do—just stall them endlessly until they go insane.
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by yowzadave 2y ago
But I think the point people have made (correctly!) is that TSLA's price is detached from any normal way we have for pricing a car company. Their market cap is 160% that of Toyota, despite selling 16% as many cars. How are they ever go
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by yowzadave 2y ago
You should familiarize yourself with the actual research on this topic, since ill-informed speculation on well-studied topics doesn't contribute to a helpful discussion. The subject you want to study is called "marginal propensity
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Poor people spend a larger share of their income (and therefore put it to productive use stimulating the economy, hiring people, etc). Rich people tend to hoard their pile, and spend a smaller portion of it.
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Why would Google and Apple even want something like this built into the core experience of using their phones? Like MKBHD has shown, they are slow, inaccurate, and of limited utility—the actual “useful” features are all speculative at the m
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by yowzadave 2y ago
> the driver will have to deal with the knowledge that they killed an entire family by accident Do you think the term "accident" accurately describes what happened? In that particular case, the driver of an SUV was speeding on
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by yowzadave 2y ago
And the only thing worse thank driving in Houston is walking! It’s easy to find yourself in amid a sea of highways with no real way of walking in or out.
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by yowzadave 2y ago
Classic essay by Tom Junod about the moral virtue of standing in line: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a15636/whitewater...
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by yowzadave 2y ago
I’ve always hated the Clear logo. To me, it’s a visual representation of the old experiment where you use a drop of soap to clear a scattering of pepper on the surface of water. The implication is that you, the Clear customer, can rid yours
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by yowzadave 2y ago
You just tell the TSA agent that you want to opt out of the body scanner. They then find an agent of your gender to do a pat-down screening and a swab to test for trace chemicals. It takes about 3 minutes assuming they have an agent availab
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by yowzadave 3y ago
Yeah, I live in New York City, which is much more walkable than the suburb that I grew up in…but still feels less viable for letting my kids range freely. There are just so many more cars, and there is always construction and/or otherw
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by yowzadave 3y ago
> It's why Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own American movies to German Funny that they were worried about Schwarzenegger speaking German with a strong accent, given that he speaks English with such a strong ac
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by yowzadave 3y ago
Two kids! (A girl, named Exa, in addition to X).
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by yowzadave 3y ago
The underlying data was posted to HN about 10 months ago, with the headline "World’s oceans at record high temperature for 80 consecutive days": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36187203 We've set a recor
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The Climate Charts Are Not Okay(splinter.com)
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Jia Tan and SocialCyber(cybersecpolitics.blogspot.com)
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by yowzadave 3y ago
Presumably Amazon ended the program because it was not profitable and had no prospect of becoming profitable soon. If it was already fully automated and only employed humans for QC and/or AI training purposes, then it's hard to se
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by yowzadave 3y ago
Why would anyone want to steal the filler? I had assumed people did this for some inscrutable SEO reason
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by yowzadave 3y ago
I used to work as an architect. As far as I am aware, AI/automation has so far only made inroads in the earliest "concept" phases--image-making, concept massing, conceptual space-planning, etc. That is only the first, shortes
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by yowzadave 3y ago
If we outsource the job of art-making to bots, what will remain for humans to do? Given that there are so many jobs that involve real drudgery, it’s odd to me that we’re trying so hard to automate the fun/rewarding/creative parts,
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by yowzadave 3y ago
Could this problem be solved by using the old Scandinavian family name etymology (i.e., patronymic/matronymic surnames rather than heritable family names)?
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by yowzadave 3y ago
Someone will release a microwave with zero buttons. "Hey Siri, microwave for one minute and 30 seconds."
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by yowzadave 3y ago
I thought this article was going to be about the ambiguous name, "Daylight Saving Time"--it's not at all obvious from the name which setting is "Daylight Saving Time" and which is "Standard Time", to the p
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by yowzadave 3y ago
By “a long time”, I’m sure GP meant “a lot longer than smartphones,” given the topic of this thread
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by yowzadave 3y ago
It seems like this is the same pattern that we've seen happen more broadly in the tech industry over the past year--the big tech companies think they can juice the bottom line by reducing headcount, and the increased profitability will
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by yowzadave 3y ago
> it's just modifying the past I'm not sure what you mean by this; obviously the "history" of the book is known and not being suppressed. Nobody is denying the origin of the book; if it had been a significant historic
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by yowzadave 3y ago
Seems like it would make a lot more sense to just make the park free?
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by yowzadave 3y ago
Unlike hands, you can't visually inspect your butt as you wash it to ensure that it's clean—you just have to trust that it's working. I do see the attraction to being able spot-check with toilet paper to see that things are c
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by yowzadave 3y ago
The full title is 88 characters, and HN limits titles to 80 characters. I think the abbreviation submitted is probably the one that best captures the meaning of the original; the quote marks imply that it is an allegation.

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