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The Autopilot Data That Reveals Why Teslas Crash(wsj.com)
2 points by gnicholas 2y ago|0 comments
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by gnicholas 2y ago
How does your car insurance treat the vehicle in terms of replacement cost? Does the low FMV predominate, or the high sticker price and high cost of repairs? We've looked at doing this as well. Our commutes are so short that a vehicle
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by gnicholas 2y ago
> Leasing my Mach-E was the right thing, and more are doing it. Leasing made up over 35% of new EV financing in the first quarter of 2024, up significantly from 12% in 2023, according to global data company Experian. It makes sense for
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I've Been Driving an EV for a Year. I Have Only One Regret(wsj.com)
2 points by gnicholas 2y ago|4 comments
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by gnicholas 2y ago
I've had Siri call people randomly when I didn't even say hey Siri. It called someone I hadn't talked to in years.
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by gnicholas 2y ago
This can't come soon enough. Apple has made Siri dumber over the years. I used to be able to say "Hey Siri, play Overcast" and it would play my podcasts. Now it says "I don't see any music by Overcast in Apple Music
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by gnicholas 2y ago
But how can you tell that the chlorine has been depleted by doing its job?
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by gnicholas 2y ago
> According to Brian Spear, whose company handled the chemical filtration of the pools used for U.S. Olympic Swim Trials, the potent smell associated with swimming pools is the byproduct of odorless chlorine reacting with organic compou
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The Dirty Secret of Olympic Swimming: Everyone Pees in the Pool(wsj.com)
3 points by gnicholas 2y ago|3 comments
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by gnicholas 2y ago
Interesting. I have noticed that my most-upvoted comments relate to legal questions, which I have relatively more expertise than most HNers (I used to be a lawyer). Although I'm not among the top commenters for law/legal/lawy
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by gnicholas 2y ago
I guess it gives them leverage vis a vis Google? I like that it tells me what lane to be in, so it's my main mapping app. Also presumably better privacy than Google Maps.
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EVs Are Cheaper Than Ever. Can Car Buyers Be Won Over?(wsj.com)
1 points by gnicholas 2y ago|0 comments
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by gnicholas 2y ago
Yes, earnouts can help bridge a valuation gap — and if the buyer is reasonable/kind, then they can create a win-win scenario. The question is whether a seller can accurately identify whether their counterparty is reasonable/kind.
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by gnicholas 2y ago
I used to be a lawyer in SV, and whenever my lawyer friends talk about earnouts, it's always in the context of what a bad deal they are for founders. Basically, they take a lot of lawyer time to negotiate, in order to make them as clo
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by gnicholas 2y ago
Put simply: it would require a constitutional amendment, and those are hard to come by. The Constitution only sets a minimum age for offices — no maximum ages.
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by gnicholas 2y ago
True, but the landed gentry (who were the only people that might end up as President) lived to be considerably older.
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by gnicholas 2y ago
That would presumably already be against the law in many jurisdictions (cities, suburbs), so there wouldn't need to be an additional law to cover the situation where you're shooting at a drone versus a squirrel.
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by gnicholas 2y ago
There has to be a recognition of: • size of target • souls on board • possibility of intrusion/spying • type of projectile used A 747 is huge, filled with people, and is not spying on you. To take it down, you would need serious artill
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by gnicholas 2y ago
> The Federal Aviation Administration punishes any shots fired at drones with the same weight as if you’d opened fire on a Boeing full of passengers. Shooting at any aircraft is charged as a felony with up to 20 years in prison as the r
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by gnicholas 2y ago
> “I’ve actually run out of space,” Jacobsohn says. “I have 30 boxes in the attic. My wife wants to build an extra room on the house.” My guess is she'd actually like for him to stop collecting this stuff.
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A Man in Silicon Valley Who's Obsessed with Failure(wsj.com)
1 points by gnicholas 2y ago|2 comments
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by gnicholas 2y ago
There may well be tiers like on NFLX, where some are ad-sponsored and some are not. But seeing as how rapidly the free/open models catch up to prior-generation proprietary models, I doubt there will be much margin or room for ads on an
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by gnicholas 2y ago
Won't people who hate ads just choose to cut out the middleman and use 4o mini on their own?
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by gnicholas 2y ago
Presumably this wouldn't work in areas that flood, but Fresno isn't one of them. I also wondered about earthquakes, which are a risk in some parts of CA.
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by gnicholas 2y ago
I'm on PG&E, so we've been paying more for a while now, and with PSPS outages for the last few years to boot.
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Get Ready to Pay More for Less-Reliable Electricity(wsj.com)
2 points by gnicholas 2y ago|1 comments
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by gnicholas 2y ago
Bingo. I expect that the "home schooling" market will balloon in coming decades, and that it will no longer be called "home schooling". It will be "independent schooling" or some such thing, and will be extreme
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by gnicholas 2y ago
> Edu software can't provide the social benefits of exclusive schools (whether they are private or public). Parents know that which is why if they can afford to, they avoid underperforming schools. Well, the underperforming school
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by gnicholas 2y ago
I agree that knowledge of local schools/teachers is helpful. But this misses the forest for the trees. My point (as another commenter who asked about parents as a market elsewhere) is that this could upend the entire education system.
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by gnicholas 2y ago
I have never understood why AWs consume so much battery at rest. I have a Garmin that lasts for several days, and I would be happy to have an AW what doesn't do all the stuff the AW does, but which is made by Apple. It could be a dumbe

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