erobbins

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by erobbins 5y ago
He was at Facebook since 2012... has got to be rich. I gotta wonder why not just retire completely at that point, or at least start your own company? For those of us not in that situation it's a lot harder, especially if you want to wo
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by erobbins 6y ago
Don't steal from rich people is the secret. Madoff made a rookie mistake.
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by erobbins 7y ago
> This needs to work on an intubated patient, and be able to maintain a sanitary environment, neither of which it'll probably be able to do to the extent required by health and safety regulations. I totally agree with you... but in
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by erobbins 7y ago
I'm impressed. Maybe those guys in Italy who 3d printed the valves can 3d print some of these components. I'm guessing the doctors there would be willing to try anything at this point.
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by erobbins 7y ago
If this gets extremely bad, many people will change their view. Unfortunately for them it will be too late.
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by erobbins 7y ago
Pretty sure we're being invaded by a trillion trillion invisible soldiers.
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by erobbins 7y ago
1 month salary for every full time employee is not anywhere near that. Especially capped at 1/12 of 100k/year
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by erobbins 7y ago
Honestly I'd like to see a 1 month quarantine, with the US government guaranteeing the wages of everyone in the workforce for that time. Something like 100% up to 50k/year, 75% of 50-100k, and cap it there. It would cost a few hun
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by erobbins 7y ago
Flying cars are always poor cars and poor airplanes.
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by erobbins 7y ago
Should cars prevent people from running red lights? There are a few unusual circumstances when this is something you want to do intentionally and knowing the risks.
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by erobbins 7y ago
which tcp/ip? There would be 10, all with incomplete feature sets and poor reliability.
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by erobbins 7y ago
> Everyone I met at the onsite was kind of an asshole. that was my google onsite experience in 2013. I haven't been back and wouldn't try again.
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by erobbins 7y ago
I agree with you. I think freeway travel can be 99% automated in the very near future. I also think that's where the MAJOR wins will come from. Long haul trucking can flow 24/7 at that point, with the drivers keeping their jobs an
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by erobbins 7y ago
We've already seen this in aviation actually. AF447 is a good example of flying a plane into the ground because of reliance on automation and lack of experience hand flying. There's a really great YouTube video called "Childr
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by erobbins 7y ago
The thing with other activities (diving, flying are great examples) is that when a problem occurs, you generally have minutes to analyze what's happening and decide on a solution. If my dive computer goes on the fritz, I can decide to
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by erobbins 7y ago
I've been beating this drum for years (but I'm a nobody, so it's like pissing in the wind): 1. Anything less than 100% FULL automation is MORE dangerous than manual driving, because the "driver" will almost certainl
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by erobbins 7y ago
I vote for that option as well. So far, I have been killed exactly zero times in car crashes. All the empirical evidence tells me that there's no need to surrender control to a computer. If I die in a crash, perhaps I'll change my
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by erobbins 7y ago
This strikes me as Boeing lobbyists trying to pay people to create doubt. "Maybe it's not the plane, maybe the pilots are inferior to AMERICAN pilots, yeehaw!"
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by erobbins 7y ago
Do you believe this person suffered $60k in damages by not being able to buy a coffee?
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by erobbins 7y ago
What a joke... floundering company CEO added to successful company board. Really? Dropbox management is atrocious, they succeeded in spite of themselves.
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by erobbins 7y ago
You're right, it's just that the things I enjoy doing (and do well) aren't valuable to anyone else... golf doesn't pay if you're in the top 1%, you have to be in the top .001% :) With the skills I have that do pay w
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by erobbins 7y ago
It's like a brain dump from my head. I can 100% identify with everything this guy says. I've been fighting this since I can remember, certainly over 20 years. I thought I was the only one who never looked at grades/feedback&#
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by erobbins 7y ago
Well, those are 2 of the 3 reasons I got a surface instead of a new MacBook when my 2013 finally died. Regular USB was the 3rd (and least important)
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by erobbins 7y ago
I have an Audi S8, and it's "holy fucking shit" fast... but the exhaust is so quiet :( It's quite an engineering achievement actually, that big V8 is moving a ton of air. I wish they hadn't done quite so well.
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by erobbins 7y ago
> And when I say lead, very often you may not have formal hierarchical power over the people that you need to influence; but instead of you have to pursuade them to share your vision and go along with your plan. This is the worst part of
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by erobbins 7y ago
Kinda like IBM, no one ever got fired for using an 8 foot rod in a situation where a 5 foot rod was to code.
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by erobbins 7y ago
Unfortunate about SWA, but united is and for 20 years now has been trash anyway.
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by erobbins 7y ago
Doesn't this mean it should either be broken up or nationalized?
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by erobbins 7y ago
"developing a procedure to send counties regularly updated lists of felons on their rolls who have unpaid fines and fees, but it has no timetable as to when it will be ready" Oh, I know when it'll be ready. About 2 weeks befo
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by erobbins 7y ago
I'm not the type of person who makes things happen. Especially if I can now fail in a public and embarrassing way having told people my plans. If I keep things to myself I end up generally doing better.

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