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by mcrae 3y ago
Waymo seems to have much better PR than Cruise. For example, a Waymo killed someone's dog recently which hasn't been mentioned here at all: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/07/waymo-
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by mcrae 4y ago
I'm not sure if the economic angle is convincing, since Canada spends over $300B a year on healthcare [0]. Are you suggesting MAID was introduced to save "as much as" 0.03% of healthcare expenditure? [0] https://w
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by mcrae 4y ago
One nit: you can actually transition directly to permanent residency from TN status. The only challenge is that after you file, you can't leave the US! That's why, as you explained, generally the play is to wait to transition to a
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by mcrae 5y ago
Don't believe that using an external device helps -- the TV can detect what content is being played by sampling the video stream and creating a fingerprint. They can compare to live tv streams to detect channels, and static video files
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by mcrae 5y ago
Rampant property theft and homelessness in SF predated Chesa Boudin and the ballot initiative the article mentions. I’m not convinced that changing those two things will be a panacea to SF’s problems.
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by mcrae 5y ago
It really is as bad as it sounds. A couple anecdotes: - Some people without homes pitched a tent on the sidewalk nearby, blocking the sidewalk. The city has a moratorium on clearing tents. I recently walked by and the tent had been consumed
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by mcrae 5y ago
All this presupposes that what the AG has written is correct, and that what happened was actually illegal. Generally a court of law decides that. Since none of this has been proven, maybe it would be prudent not to throw all of the folks wh
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by mcrae 5y ago
The area around the port of long beach is rather dense residential, so in order to preserve views the city limited the height of container stacks. > "These provisions, which have been in effect for many years, were established to ad
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by mcrae 5y ago
You’re right, sorry!
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by mcrae 5y ago
What? Give me a break -- one is completely unlike the other. Listing candidates to intentionally confuse voters is completely different than (correctly!) challenging the legitimacy of voter signatures. Calling the latter a "trick"
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by mcrae 5y ago
> Our vaccine acquisition strategy was a disaster Not sure if the facts agree with you here. Canada had, at one point, the largest number of vaccines on order per capita from a number of different companies. [0] You seem to dismiss this
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by mcrae 5y ago
Clubhouse lets you collect payments to join some channels. Isn’t KYC reasonable in that case? Re: Age Verifications on Google & YouTube: this has been covered well elsewhere. Google is required to do so by EU law. Blame regulators not t
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by mcrae 5y ago
It works this way often in (north-east) Asia. Double-tap a selected floor and it unselects. Brilliant.
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by mcrae 5y ago
Interestingly the "City of London" is a specific thing that has surprising meaning [0], but used here I think it is a metonym for the financial / banking sector of the British economy. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by mcrae 6y ago
Seems like buying more data for the LTE modems already in the cars would be easier / cheaper path than building a fleet of novel satellites and launching them into space?
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by mcrae 6y ago
> It has forcibly sterilised some Uyghur women Forced sterilisation is a form of genocide [0] [0] https://asp.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_docs/Publications/Compen...
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by mcrae 6y ago
It is not the number of pardons that is unusual (and it’s unsurprising that this administration has done less work than previous ones), but the sense that these pardons are so clearly in service of Trump’s personal agenda rather than tr
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by mcrae 6y ago
> It protects the outgoing administration from political persecution Aren’t pardons generally given post-conviction? How can it be a tool to protect against an incoming administration if the victim has been convicted under the current on
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by mcrae 6y ago
Did you read the article? Or are you just regurgitating to Fox News talking points? Sweden - on both health and economic measures - has fared nearly as worse as the United States (read: not great).
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by mcrae 6y ago
As great as its image, in my view Whole Foods just isn't that great of a grocery store. They were out of ground pork the other day and the staff at the butcher counter insisted they weren't allowed to grind more pork, despite it b
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by mcrae 6y ago
I'm not American but you're off-base here. Sure, if you already have another western passport an American passport may not buy you much. But if you go to Asia or Africa, you'll find that an American passport is still the Holy
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by mcrae 6y ago
Yes but... and I'm sorry to point out the obvious, but these executives haven't been murdered by Persians. They've just been paid a relatively trivial amount to do their jobs for a few months. And who's to stay the inter
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by mcrae 6y ago
Generally it’s the shareholders approving these payments. It’s in their interest, and perhaps in the interest of the creditors as well, to have a competent management team who know the company well in place to maximise enterprise value thro
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by mcrae 6y ago
You’re assuming that there is a pool of hypothetical executives who are a) familiar with the industry, b) familiar with the company, c) available, and d) willing to earn an amount less than what the existing executives are offered here, and
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by mcrae 6y ago
My favourite is AirWay Sim [0], a massively-multiplayer online airline simulation. Incredibly detailed business sim financially — with full financial statement generation - as well as operationally. One must decide on hubs, airplane types,
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by mcrae 6y ago
Correction for the title, Trump actually called Zuckerberg and not the other way around: > Later that day, Trump phoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. During the call, Zuckerberg "expressed concerns about the tone and the rhetoric,&q
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by mcrae 6y ago
The brilliant thing about financial markets is that anyone can put their money where their mouth is. If you believe you've spotted some inefficiency, then put up some cash and enjoy your spoils.
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by mcrae 7y ago
Jeez man their mission wasn’t to solve world hunger or bring peace to the Middle East. It was a credit app that refered people to credit products. They sold to a financial company. Seems pretty consistent.
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by mcrae 7y ago
Debt isn’t dirty. There’s a reasonable case to make for having an appropriate debt load in terms of tax shields and motivating management.
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by mcrae 7y ago
I mean like, he had previously complained about the car swerving towards a barrier on the 101. He later crashed his car into the same barrier while on Autopilot which took his life. I think the intuition is that like, if a piece of techno

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