cal5k

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by cal5k 16d ago
Valstad Shipworks | Senior Robotics Software Engineer | Austin, TX | Full-time, on-site | $165 - 210k + equity We're building the machine that builds the ships - a high-mix robotics platform for autonomous shipbuilding. If you love mak
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by cal5k 2y ago
CEO of a (different) Canadian crypto company here. Two things are simultaneously true in Canada right now: 1) the government has become unwilling/unable to actually keep repeat violent offenders in jail (and has totally failed to preve
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by cal5k 2y ago
True. I think Sam might get a "bonkers" pass because of his track record that the rest of us might not.
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by cal5k 2y ago
It's kind of admirable, though. If you start asking for $7T, only asking for $1T becomes quite reasonable ;-)
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by cal5k 2y ago
Could you drive at all in a Waymo outside of a strictly geofenced area in a handful of US cities? How about in a Tesla? They are approaching this from two fundamentally different directions.
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by cal5k 2y ago
It drives itself with zero control input from me, hands literally off the wheel and feet off the pedals. That's the definition of "full self driving". It's bizarre how people are so adamant about this when they haven&#x2
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by cal5k 2y ago
Robotaxi will use the same stack as other Tesla vehicles, which is deployed on millions of vehicles. The <$30k price point and lack of controls/supervision are the only things that truly differentiate it from a Model 3.
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by cal5k 2y ago
Yup, this. I use FSD almost every day now that it's available for Cybertruck, and it's already quite excellent. It pulls off human-like maneuvers that are kind of gobsmacking.
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by cal5k 2y ago
> In reality Tesla FSD is still in very primitive shape. From the article. Have the people saying this actually tried the most recent FSD build? I used it yesterday, and it reacted flawlessly to road construction that blocked a lane, the
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by cal5k 2y ago
Sure - if you want zero innovation. If you're a large enough entity operating in multiple jurisdictions around the world, you're exposed to such a byzantine labyrinth of laws and regulations that it's impossible not to be in
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by cal5k 2y ago
Vitalik didn't mention them by name, but given the timing it seems likely he was referring to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_sNclEgQZQ
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by cal5k 2y ago
> Another important conclusion of this is that if a politician is pro-crypto today, but they are the type of person that is either very power-seeking themselves, or willing to suck up to someone who is, then this is the direction that th
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by cal5k 2y ago
The key to keeping debit card fees down isn't to legislate a fee cap, it's to make payment rails more open and competitive. Why are regulators still attacking stablecoins, for example, when they represent one type of innovation th
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by cal5k 2y ago
A "parchment guarantee", as Scalia would say.
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by cal5k 2y ago
> Insights about the egregious behavior of Elon Musk, & about the chaotic craziness at Tesla, Inc., all with a legal slant informed by my career as a commercial trial lawyer. This is a nakedly partisan substack account. Does this rea
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by cal5k 2y ago
You forgot to mention that we can now effectively "cure" obesity with GLP-1 receptor agonists. Oh, and as a nice little bonus they also curb substance use disorder!
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by cal5k 2y ago
The supreme court has been very clear that congress can't delegate lawmaking to executive agencies. So no, I haven't forgotten that at all. As for it being a feature, you're right - I think the vast majority of legislating sh
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by cal5k 2y ago
> knowledgable, focused people do the work instead of just randomly passing laws based on their twitter feed. That's not what happens, though. Agency heads are political appointees who take their marching orders from the executive (
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by cal5k 2y ago
I'm confused by your questions. Are you suggesting that ignoring the structure of government carefully laid out in the constitution and agreed upon by every state in the union is more democratic because you like the outcome? This is
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by cal5k 2y ago
> Is it more democratic because the reps who voted on it were elected rather than appointed by people who were elected like over at those agencies? The presidency is not an elected autocracy. The extent of his powers are strictly limited
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by cal5k 2y ago
All of the new "rules" being proposed by executive agencies will be subject to court challenge, and some of them (like the FTC's non-compete "rule") will likely be subject to a preliminary injunction. The goal is to
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by cal5k 2y ago
> The primary hurdles are legal, capacity, and financing. Incredibly hand-wavy. Finance is a way to allocate scarce resources - you can't claim the "technology" is solved if you haven't figured out a way to do it cost
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by cal5k 2y ago
From that article: > Primary energy demand is going to shrink, not grow. What? Absolutely nobody is predicting a shrinking primary energy demand. You can hand-wave and say "yeah but electrification", but nobody is predicting
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by cal5k 2y ago
> Reaching net-zero-carbon emissions by 2050, as many international organizations now insist is necessary to stave off dire climate consequences, will require a rapid and massive shift in electricity-generating infrastructures. Vaclav Sm
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by cal5k 3y ago
What do you mean "going black"? That's not a technical term any grid operator uses. They have various conservation strategies to manage peak demand if it exceeds capacity, like asking for voluntary conservation and/or ro
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by cal5k 3y ago
Outside of unusually severe weather in 2022 and a subsequent outage, what is your evidence for this claim? I've been living in Texas since 2022 and the grid has anecdotally been just as reliable as anywhere else I've lived. Unusu
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by cal5k 3y ago
How do you think we feel about cookie notices?
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by cal5k 3y ago
Tesla was already built before he arrived? You don't know what you're talking about.
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by cal5k 3y ago
Not only that, but now that Okta has its paws in Auth0 they're doing really shady crap like jacking up rates by 30% on contract renewal.
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by cal5k 3y ago
> What's depressing is visiting developing countries and seeing them start to ape the worst of American car life. What a patronizing take. Cars are freedom - you can go where you like, when you like, with whom you like, and you can

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