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_sy_

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About _sy_

CEO & co-founder @instamotor. Formerly @nest, @stanford.

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    Comment #16327327

    Probably the end of Nest as we know it.

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    Comment #15873450

    A good, recent, and comprehensive primer on intelligence explosion and its theoretical implication: "Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" by MIT physicist M…

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    Comment #15608292

    Ubuntu 17.10. Also running a Nvidia 1080 Ti. Everything is liquid cooled. Works like a charm

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    Comment #15604921

    Instamotor | San Francisco, CA | Front-End / Full-Stack Engineer, Swift Engineer, Kotlin Engineer, Elixir/Ruby Backend Engineer | Full-time, ONSITE | www.instamotor.com We are a ca…

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    Comment #15546054

    same. TR 1950X over here.

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    Comment #15494234

    I can confirm that it tastes best when you wait. I occasionally go Ahi fishing off the shore of Kauai with friends, and they usually ice it right away and wait a couple of days bef…

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    Comment #15492587

    Instamotor. met right here :)

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    Comment #14364542

    The Instamotor Android app is entirely built using Kotlin.

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    Comment #14170155

    At Instamotor we use Elastic Search, Redis, and S3 for files/photos. In my previous job (Nest), we looked at a decent number of options and ended up going with Cassandra.

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    Comment #13803677

    happy to! email me at sy@instamotor.com

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    Comment #13803541

    Instamotor (marketplace + fintech, San Francisco) is on there and we're hiring engineers :) jobs@instamotor.com

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    Comment #13302280

    Instamotor | Fullstack Engineer & Frontend Engineer & PR-lead & Content-Writers | San Francisco | Full-Time Instamotor is building the world's largest marketplace for cars and the …

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    Comment #8044963

    Thanks for restoring sanity :)

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    Comment #8044767

    Got a good chatbot api/library to recommend? PS: your kickstarter project rocks. We are donating!

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    Comment #8044689

    Yeah we did that too, but we wanted to find a way to distribute it so making it an app was easier.

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    Comment #8040965

    I'll venture to guess they're running off of AWS. CL blocks ec2 us-east ip's. So it probably wouldn't work.

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    Comment #8040960

    I ran it for about 2 weeks. No issues. The frequency is low too.

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    Comment #7829717

    Instamotor -- San Francisco, CA -- H-1B/F-1 OK Instamotor.com aims to be the world's first completely decentralized and distributed car dealership. Since our launch on Hacker News,…

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    Comment #7680071

    Instamotor -- San Francisco, CA && Remote -- H-1B/F-1 OK Instamotor.com aims to be the world's first completely decentralized and distributed car dealership. Since our launch on Ha…

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    Comment #7536033

    Bay Area only for now. We'd love to expand later on.

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    Comment #7536018

    Hi Darren -- I agree with you. I will go ahead and fix it. We are still on the fence as to what is the right amount to charge for our service, but less than 5% is the goal.

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    Comment #7536004

    we got a lot of comment on how confusing this section is. We'll do another pass at it soon. Thanks for feedback! ps: was everything ok and clear enough?

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    Comment #7535999

    hey Peter, sy here from Instamotor. I think Trucar is kind of supposed to do that. Not sure if we'll ever jump into that particular segment.

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    Comment #7535565

    Oups! I'm really short on sleep and I accidentally copy-pasted the wrong URL earlier. Thank you for all your help!!