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Lucid, Nuro, and Uber Partner on Next-Generation Autonomous Robotaxi Program(investor.uber.com)
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More than you ever wanted to know about jus soli in the United States(spin0r.wordpress.com)
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by tom-_- 2y ago
If art has little value, why is the annual revenue for the global entertainment industry over $2 trillion? No one is being forced to pay for a Netflix subscription. The markets have spoken and have assigned it a large value. Whether you vi
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by tom-_- 2y ago
No, the author is saying the share of revenue the distributors (tech, music industry) are receiving is misaligned with the value they're adding. Compare content creators with a SWE. They both produce the product being sold, what percen
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by tom-_- 3y ago
Close relationships can having negative value and it's apart of the question (see parenthesis). Gaining and keeping a relationship are not the same but also not particularly relevant here since the purpose is to quantify the value of
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by tom-_- 3y ago
A thought experiment for those without children approaching having one from a rational perspective. What is the value of your closest personal relationship; your mom, your spouse, your pet etc? Let's say you have a choice, for that r
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by tom-_- 3y ago
Increasing human prosperity/reducing human suffering is largely a function of technological advancement, wealth distribution and avoiding wars. All of these require a large population of educated humans to drive forward and since yours
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by tom-_- 3y ago
I think people are reading this line the wrong way. The author isn't implying Instacart is as important as the transistor, that would be ludicrous. He's simply drawing an analogy between the output of laboratories like Bell Labs
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by tom-_- 4y ago
CS fundamentals can be readily learned without obtaining a degree. If you don't think so, then you've never met a self-taught programmer and are probably (no offense) someone with limited professional experience.
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by tom-_- 4y ago
The similarities in my experience between big tech (FAANG) and big non-tech are heavy process/communication burden, deep tech debt and perf review driven culture. The main differences in tech are: Engineers seen profit centers instead
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by tom-_- 4y ago
You seem to be implying "software engineers" require much more than a business degree, in which case I believe you to be a young person (< 30) and I forgive your naivety and the trolliness of your comment. SWE is not a professi
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by tom-_- 4y ago
"You don't have to write any software to build and manage that production system." It depends on the scale and complexity of your application. At some scale/complexity, it absolutely requires writing software because yo
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by tom-_- 4y ago
The website is NOT a power plant, it's just code. In software, "operations management" is basically infrastructure automation, incident response and build and release. All of these require some software development or at le
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by tom-_- 4y ago
Site Reliability/Infrastructure/Production Engineer typically have three focusses: Managing and scaling "software infrastructure" (Kubernetes, cloud services, databases/caches, job/message brokers, etc). SREs
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by tom-_- 5y ago
1. Dangerous means causing injury, not just death. 2. How many times has autopilot disengaged and would've caused injury without human intervention?
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by tom-_- 5y ago
Blaming the technology for its misuses is always a dubious position to take. The promoters of said technology (and it's misuses) will always argue that you could say the same about <actually useful technology> which allows <so
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by tom-_- 5y ago
Ideology aside, shouldn't the fact that this hack exposed gigabytes of user data cause you to reconsider them as a reliable domain provider? Why be concerned with domain providers giving personal information to authorities when Epik ha
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by tom-_- 5y ago
Arguably in the case of Theranos, profitability was a large motivator of the fraud but the markets probably have greater corrective forces.
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by tom-_- 5y ago
I believe these are persuasive arguments to trust policymakers less but not to trust non-professionals more. Your work may be exceptional but the signal to noise ratio on public forums especially on subjects that have been politicized is ju
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by tom-_- 5y ago
So let's assume the science is bad, and policy is fraught with political motives, incompetence and distortion to persuade the public to behave in a way that policymakers assume (right or wrong) is in the collective benefit. Now let&#x2
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by tom-_- 5y ago
The paper shows employment elasticity wrt to wages is very low (Table 4, 5 page 50, 51). Sure, many workers would choose the less labor intensive Target job over the shitty Amazon warehouse job for the same wage but in many of the warehouse
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by tom-_- 5y ago
It can be a political stance, but that's for the commenter to decide, not you. It is a legal truth. Uber is not legally responsible for providing FT or benefits period. You can argue they should be but as you pointed out, regula
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by tom-_- 5y ago
Do you know how threaded comments work?
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by tom-_- 5y ago
Something tells me that a user named "BTCOG" is not here to provide rigorous objective analysis but okay lets attack the strawman. The number of bitcoin addresses with a balance is 30 million. The number of bank accounts is in th
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by tom-_- 5y ago
As a content creator, you want the platform to protect your copyright and at YouTube's scale, copyright scanners are the only way to implement this. Will they produce false positives? Of course. Do the benefits to content creators outw
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by tom-_- 5y ago
What value does crypto provide to those groups you mentioned, that cash cannot provide? If the answer is, it allows them to break laws then yes by definition they are criminals. You can argue that some of these laws are unjust, sure but tha
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by tom-_- 5y ago
What you described as the ideals of crypto maximalists largely applies to fiat currency. Individuals "own" their own USD, are able to share and use as they please within the bounds of legality. Not sure what it means to "cen
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by tom-_- 6y ago
1. Startups are a crapshoot, success is very unlikely. Treat it like a bad beat in poker or not buying $gme options at $10/share 2. Did you exercise your options? 3. How far/likely is the startup to exit? You're likely better
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by tom-_- 6y ago
There is no "they". WSB is a public subreddit. Traders, pms, hedge fund guys all participate and win often bigger because they have more to play with. They pump and dump and ride the emoji rockets like everyone else. There are onl
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by tom-_- 6y ago
Society has subsidized coal by both paying for negative externalities and through direct government investment, which is true for all waste producing energy sources. This is orthogonal to OPs claim that "we subsidized solar until it wa

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