teachrdan

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by teachrdan 14d ago
> they just have to be good enough on a narrow set of tasks to be worth the trouble Depends on the context. If they are to work around human beings, particularly in the home, then they must be safe... to work around humans. If a humanoid
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by teachrdan 17d ago
> What can I as an individual actually do to stop this? Short of becoming the Luigi of the environmental movement, there is nothing an individual can do. You have to take part in some kind of ongoing collective action. This can include j
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by teachrdan 20d ago
This is a false dichotomy. I personally believe that strategic tariffs should be used to protect our national interests, including providing meaningful employment. This administration has no interest in strategic tariffs. Instead, they are
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by teachrdan 21d ago
When the threat of winning in court is reduced, you get weaker settlements. These two factors are directly related to one another.
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by teachrdan 22d ago
> He was involved in DOGE, which did nothing but catch fraud and cut worthless spending. Elon wasn't just involved with DOGE, he was responsible for it. And Elon said he would cut $2 TRILLION in federal spending before ultimately cl
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by teachrdan 26d ago
I signed up for one of these years ago and ultimately replaced my whole roof and got PV cells on the roof before they were ever available to me in the East Bay. Any HNers have experience with honest to god Tesla solar roof tiles?
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Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users(techcrunch.com)
4 points by teachrdan 26d ago|0 comments
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by teachrdan 28d ago
I wonder if he's accounting for "shrinkflation" and other ways we get less for our money in addition to prices going up in absolute dollars.
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by teachrdan 28d ago
> Yes, I want better perks when the going gets rough Maybe you're not understanding what we're saying. There have been numerous comments remarking on flights that were delayed or canceled due to corporate decisions, which reduc
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by teachrdan 28d ago
> Ramzi Yousef (Philippine Airlines Flight 434) and Ahmed Ressam (the 'Millennium Bomber') both had them. This is like a statistics 101 question. Google says that Casio has sold over 100M F-91W's since 1989. Let's rou
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by teachrdan 29d ago
> They lost a similar amount in 2020 I wouldn't be surprised that an airline lost money in one of the worst travel years of all time (due to Covid). Cursory searching shows United made more than $3,000,000,000 in 2024. So even if 20
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by teachrdan 29d ago
> I've had plenty of bad airline experiences and wished they gave me more for my trouble, but clearly they are unable to at current margins. It's weird to see people simp for the airline industry. A cursory google search shows
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Uber's Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: 'What Were You Wearing?'(nytimes.com)
43 points by teachrdan 1mo ago|5 comments
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by teachrdan 2mo ago
Nit: I believe this originated with locomotives, predating aircraft by quite a bit!
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by teachrdan 2mo ago
> that might appear to be incentive to improve quality Their goal isn't to provide high quality care. Their goal is to increase profits. It's not hard to imagine how improved quality would lead them to spend more money. (faster
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by teachrdan 2mo ago
I blame Star Wars, kinda. Watching it with my kid, I can't help but notice that everywhere they travel in space -- even by accident -- they end up by a planet that can support human life in terms of temperature, atmosphere, and gravity
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by teachrdan 2mo ago
I made a fun app to share text information with your friends in a persistent, pretty format. You compose a text message, choose fonts and colors (or keep defaults), and save and/or share it via text message, etc. I realized after the f
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by teachrdan 2mo ago
I know this is supposed to be a joke, but you are making a category error if you conflate hitting your thumb with a hammer with running a nuclear power plant. One of the problems with nuclear is that, for practical and security reasons, you
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by teachrdan 2mo ago
> Turkiye not China in this case. Not sure if you're referring to Syria or Iran, but the article explictly states that the solar in Syria is coming from China: "Syria’s high level of solar panels reflects the combination of a b
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by teachrdan 2mo ago
> far left silicon valley ideologes [sic] This is a trope that's more than a few years out of date. Silicon Valley is run by Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, and many other executives who are completely devo
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by teachrdan 2mo ago
> There hasn't been a time when developers have been more disconnected from their audience than now. I'm curious what you mean by this. It seems like gamers have never been more vocal and there have never been more avenues (soc
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by teachrdan 3mo ago
You missed mentioning the title of her book about General Patraeus: "All In." That's an ironic biography name second only to the one about Jerry Sandusky, the Penn State football coach later convicted of child sexual abuse: &
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by teachrdan 3mo ago
> Honestly, I am surprised it is only 350 deaths per year. Isn't this exactly why we need to know how many deaths there are -- so we can judge the level of risk we face?
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by teachrdan 3mo ago
> I watched a union refuse to support a colleague of mine. Why? Because the people in the union were competing against him for resources and they wanted him gone. And they succeeded. I've never really liked unions after that Wait un
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by teachrdan 3mo ago
With all due respect, do you consider yourself, with ~55 active tenants/leases, to be a "small landlord"?
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by teachrdan 3mo ago
Fun fact: The version Normal Rockwell painted shows Rosie stepping on a copy of Mein Kampf. Good times! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RosieTheRiveter.jpg
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by teachrdan 3mo ago
> It confirms your political priors while ironically making you feel smug about your scientific knowledge. You are making the same error. Other Republicans (if not Trump) indeed criticized government-funded research into the screwworm li
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by teachrdan 4mo ago
> "did you look at the PR I pushed yesterday, do you think this is something we can get into production soon?" ChatGPT, look at the status of the PR and compare it to the flow chart of how we merge into production. Check agains
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by teachrdan 4mo ago
Musk could spend 10 or even 100 billion on more down to Earth efforts without affecting his quality of life in the slightest. Instead he's promoting a self-serving idea, one that relies entirely on his own rocket-company infrastructure
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by teachrdan 4mo ago
Billionaires could trivially fund uncontroversial projects like planting trees or solar electrification, especially in the developing world, both of which would help stop global warming. But I'm not holding my breath waiting for Elon o

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