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by icedistilled 3y ago
People like to say self driving cars are safer than human drivers - but the human drivers that tend to do the most unsafe antics seem to be the humans that are least likely to make use of self driving cars.
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by icedistilled 3y ago
> "It also means people have to live in dense apartments instead of spread out suburbs and semi rural living." > "I mean not having to be in close quarters with other humans." Suburbs tend to be sterile and devoid
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by icedistilled 3y ago
as in a name of a version other than the well known casu martzu?
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by icedistilled 3y ago
Well if you're objection is that public transportation currently sucks, yes that's the problem. It doesn't have to. That's the point. That might be the first time I've seen privacy as a main objection. Not sure how
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by icedistilled 3y ago
Goldman sach's other savings account, Marcus by goldman sachs gives you 4.40% right now. Depending on the deal with apple, the 4.15% through apple could be worse for GS, but it would also be worse for you. (Not to mention, treasuries a
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by icedistilled 3y ago
Current headline starts "is california's wildfire fire season *finally* over?" I've never seen 'finally' used to mean over early and uneventfully.
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by icedistilled 3y ago
A more accurate term would be water bandits rather than pirates.
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by icedistilled 3y ago
This sounds wasteful and like it won't work well unless the space is air and moisture impervious.
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by icedistilled 3y ago
"Going on an on about things" one finds interesting is not the same as marketing oneself. I don't know if this is what you're referring to by the phrase 'going on and on' but the phrase makes me think of my cow
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by icedistilled 3y ago
"the vast majority of investors are not willing to accept anything less than "the highest possible returns legally achievable"" One important correction because they definitely aren't getting the highest return by t
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by icedistilled 3y ago
this is actually a huge issue with a lot of important jobs in america - they aren't valued commensurate to the work and value. So many fields that require high skills and a lot of education pay far too little compared to software/
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by icedistilled 3y ago
turning on and adjusting the defroster on a ford edge rental is insanely dangerous. turning on the defroster to full blast takes one touch screen yes, but no one leaves it on full blast. Adjusting the fan speed requires poking a small icon
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by icedistilled 3y ago
Guess giving mark Zuckerberg a something like a 1.7% mortgage rate was a bad idea. Yeah first republic literally did that. Not sure how that would make any business sense, the execs should be subjected to massive claw backs.
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by icedistilled 3y ago
The line doesn't have to get longer. The grader is incorrect under their own logic. Raspberries could be an unimaginable luxury, say on a moon colony or a very poor country unsuited to berry or fruit growth. Without knowing the value o
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by icedistilled 3y ago
No. Other whole foods in SF have a guard at the door. Are they armed? I don't know but they have a guard. No one is bothered. Most big stores in SF seem to have security. Target has multiple that stand by the doors.
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by icedistilled 3y ago
The sad thing is, that for finding actually useful info instead of SEO spam drivel and copy pasted identical articles just phrased slightly differently, adding 'reddit' to google search is still the best way. Speaks loudly about t
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by icedistilled 3y ago
With WFH, WeWork could do hot vacation spots and do well
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by icedistilled 3y ago
if the crime stats showed the same rate per sq mile for two cities, one with a population of 1M and the other 100k, would you want to go to the 100K city or the 1M city?
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by icedistilled 3y ago
while the thefts do effect businesses, the walgreens ceo later said he'd overblown them - perhaps it made a nice excuse to close stores and raise prices' https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Report-Top-
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by icedistilled 3y ago
People really do try to shoot messengers to make themselves feel better.
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by icedistilled 3y ago
Wolfram alpha first told it converting the energy content of U-238 to food calories was undefined. So chatgpt decided to get wolfram alpha to tell it the energy content of U-238 if it were to be completely nuclear fissioned. It then states
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by icedistilled 3y ago
Please Note, the connotation of 'Insane' in the title is insane as in 'is a lunatic' not as in 'is insanely cool'. Wolfram alpha said converting U-238 to food calories was nonsensical, but chat gpt decided it w
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by icedistilled 3y ago
That is a naive/odd way to look at RD spend and factory building - especially when without it one goes the way of horse carriages. Although since most businesses have long ago slashed their R&D for short term stock gains, it makes
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by icedistilled 4y ago
Counterpoint, if one doesn't have their own baseline model how does one know the vendor is providing value. Yeah having a whole big team create the internal baseline is not cost effective, but having at least one or two people work on
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by icedistilled 4y ago
That's a unique perspective.
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by icedistilled 4y ago
If he was a FDIC decisionmaker, then yes he would have needed to recuse. He's the governor of CA and the FDIC just stopped major portions of california's economy from exploding. Of course he'd going to cheer that. It would be
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by icedistilled 4y ago
Yes exactly any country flying outside their 12 nautical mile airspace boundary is a sign of devious intent said no one ever. Oh wait but why is russia flying outside their 12 mi radius!!
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by icedistilled 4y ago
This reporting rings of "A democratic leaning judge can't rule on republicans due to bias" and vice versa.
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by icedistilled 4y ago
I'm pretty sure there would have been a run some other large banks had they not taken these measures. I've gotten several emails from a major regional bank basically saying "WERE FINE TRUST US" over the last few days and
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by icedistilled 4y ago
Missing some important data pieces: is it a giant house or small house? Is it heating/cooling the entire house including the spare bedroom(s) or zone ac/heating.

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