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by codex 13y ago
Tesla removed the console and now users want it back. Was this a bad design choice on Tesla's part?
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by codex 13y ago
Nissan has this feature too; Nissan's implementation is a bit better in that they use four cameras.
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by codex 13y ago
Cameras offer meaningful range improvements for electric vehicles by cutting aerodynamic drag. I hope they make it to production.
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by codex 13y ago
Because the interview process is structured to "raise the bar" but is also highly random. As with any tech company, you have to run the gauntlet to get a hire. It's politically easier to have candidates reinterview when the
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by codex 13y ago
Rather than use a BR to make sure that a group doesn't compromise on quality, why not just have interviewers interview candidates outside of their group, or interview them for a generalist pool which are assigned to groups later, or ra
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by codex 13y ago
I imagine using a bar raiser increases the randomness of the interview process at Amazon, as it effectively reduces the number of interviewers down to one in the veto case. Thus, more noise. However, reducing the false negative rate isn&#
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by codex 13y ago
Is grit truly innate, or can it be changed through circumstance? In other words, can combat in a hellhole develop grit in some people?
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by codex 13y ago
I don't see much potential upside. This is not a scalable business.
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by codex 13y ago
Through Prim, these Stanford grads invented low paying jobs with long hours, even by YC standards. I wish somebody would have told them what a terrible idea this is in advance--but more likely than not it would have fallen on deaf ears. P
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by codex 13y ago
A shorter audition: ask people to write code on a whiteboard or a laptop during a day long interview.
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by codex 13y ago
Mormons typically fast one day a week, no? What other concrete examples of culture do Mormons manifest? CORRECTION: It's actually one day a month.
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by codex 13y ago
How so you test for national inflation on a small or even medium scale?
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by codex 13y ago
Most of the poor are renters. If you gave everyone $12k more a year, why wouldn't everyone's rent (and other expenses) simply rise by $12K?
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by codex 13y ago
This is the wrong approach. BMW has the right idea here: define an interface that lets a user's smartphone paint a car's built in LCD(s) and receive input from its joysticks. Then the car becomes agnostic to ever changing netw
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by codex 13y ago
The real question is: has an human looked at Congressional metadata, or are they likely to do so? This question was not asked because, given the data protections in place, the answer is likely no.
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by codex 13y ago
Free post-secondary education is a reasonable idea for the advanced economies of today. However, if the public pays for post-secondary education, then the allocation of majors should be in the public interest. Graduating a surplus of Engl
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by codex 13y ago
According to the coroner's report [1], both his girlfriend and his friend told the police he had a history if opiate and cocaine use. [1] http://cdn2.sbnation.com/assets/3803095/barnaby_jack_autopsy...
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by codex 13y ago
It's my impression that kids don't really start to pay off until you're in your fifties and sixties.
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by codex 13y ago
What a nasty piece of trash. It doesn't do young techies any favors.
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by codex 13y ago
It bears mentioning that the sugar content of modern fruit is much higher than that of Paleolithic fruit. It's been bred to be sweeter and larger.
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by codex 13y ago
If Emacs moves to git, can we call it by its proper name: git/Emacs?
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by codex 13y ago
The entire GNU project is like a house that looked so mod in 1971, but now has peeling paint, stained concrete, shag carpeting that smells pretty funky, and a crazy old relative that haunts the place. "Renovation" is changing the
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by codex 13y ago
As far as I know, none of the NSA's practices have been ruled unconstitutional. At best, the courts have sent mixed signals, and the collection of metadata was explicitly decreed constitutional by a precious Supreme Court ruling.
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by codex 13y ago
In other words, you're underemployed and don't have small children--prime circumstances to foster Internet anxiety addiction.
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by codex 13y ago
Startups are all about risking failure to push the envelope. The military, on the other hand, is apparently not allowed.
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by codex 13y ago
I'm considering it only from a currency regulation standpoint, as per the article. But it's easy enough to make sure that you may deposit or withdraw money only from a local bank account, in the local currency, which you must hav
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by codex 13y ago
I don't see Bitcoin as an alternative currency. I see it more as a bank account held in a foreign currency. These exist today.
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by codex 13y ago
Without Linux, Android would have used something else; likely BSD. iOS is a variant of BSD as well, albeit with a different kernel core.
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by codex 13y ago
In most locations you can get 4-hour support by buying AppleCare Premium.
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by codex 13y ago
Surprise feature: 512GB of DRAM associated with the SSD. Is this a write cache? If so, is it battery backed?

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