morogop

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by morogop 8y ago
"We've accepted one thing that turned out to be bad; so we must accept all future bad things". This is a snarky but accurate restatement of your (commonly professed) belief.
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by morogop 8y ago
at least you're still employed, so hopefully you can publish something better next time. The problem is made worse by the fact that no journal wants to publish studies where it was shown that some factor probably _doesn't_ matter.
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by morogop 9y ago
You've hit upon one of the most obvious ways to improve the safety of these systems. Deploy the systems more broadly, without giving them active control. Then, you can start to identify situations where the driver's actions were
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by morogop 9y ago
HN was a great place back then. I made many useful professional contacts, and had a lot of interesting and deep conversations. It was like (site that shall not be named) is today, except with a bit more focus on turning the tech into a bu
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by morogop 9y ago
or he had it as an LLC, but made a mistake along the way that pierced the corporate veil. Or as a small business, he was just straight-up forced to pierce the corporate veil. (banks do this to small biz all the time).
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by morogop 9y ago
Group policies are still very expensive by international standards. The markets were broken before Obamacare, and are just getting worse. It's vile.
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by morogop 9y ago
It is often illegal to vote via absentee ballot if you are physically present in the jurisdiction on the day of the vote. Many people who followed your advice would be "guilty" of voter fraud.
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by morogop 9y ago
His arrogance is orthogonal to the issue. The issue is that he was obviously lying. He claimed he was weeks away from autonomous cars. If this was true, he would've sold the tech for a staggering pile of cash. Instead, all the eviden
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by morogop 9y ago
If you mean what you say: buy this thing, install it on your car, and use it daily. I dare you. Oh right, you'd never do that, because some tiny part of you knows that George Hotz was lying his ass off about his tech, and that you&#x27
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by morogop 9y ago
That's nonsense. if his claims were true, he could've sold the lot for nine or ten figures to somebody who was willing to deal with NHTSA. It is exceedingly foolish to believe George Hotz's extremely obvious lies. George Ho