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jdminhbg

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About jdminhbg

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    Comment #49044411

    Until the past couple launches it was the ship that had the issues. Had to be blown up a couple times, failed to relight in vacuum, lost an engine and nearly failed to get to the s…

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    Comment #48828277

    Ha, mine's not an EV so I haven't hit that, but it absolutely tracks. Every part of the app feels like something that was built by a consultancy to fulfill a set of Jira tickets by…

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    Comment #48827702

    I also have the same combo of makes, and it's totally wild that people think the two are comparable technologically. The Kia is like owning a locked-down carrier dumbphone from 200…

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    Comment #48452196

    It’s in the developer beta, people are posting videos of it, e.g.: https://x.com/iupdate/status/2064078761856037112?s=46

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    Comment #46908460

    Do you happen to know, is that because it can’t recite Harry Potter, or because it’s been instructed not to recite Harry Potter?

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    Comment #46865820

    He can take out a full page Wall Street Journal ad tomorrow that says “I created hyperloop to kill CA HSR” and it will have no effect on the fact that CA HSR’s failure is 100% the …

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    Comment #46863150

    This is the funniest conspiracy theory.

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    Comment #46833177

    Not "currently," "used to": https://www.theverge.com/transportation/860935/mercedes-driv... It was way too limited to be useful to anyone.

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    Comment #46439674

    Because for all the incessant whining about "slop," multimodal AI i/o is incredibly useful. Being able to take a photo of a home repair issue, have it diagnosed, and return a diagr…

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    Comment #46382739

    > My mother grew up in the Soviet Bloc Ah yes, famous racial utopias, all of them.

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    Comment #46332677

    I think the eye contact in question was a prelude to the two of them kind of following each other around and a minor verbal altercation, so the later context shows that it was prob…

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    Comment #46250919

    > Browsing history? Search history? They want to show you things you have recently watched or looked at when you log in, rather than just random TV shows. > Age? You can give your …

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    Comment #46238002

    > Both groups are large markets that will have companies cater to them. More likely, one group is a large market that companies will cater to and the other group is a small market …

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    Comment #46064608

    The problem here is just that upthread Muromec said “it’s that I want to gatekeep” when surely they meant “don’t,” and now there’s a whole chain of misunderstanding.

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    Comment #45850975

    > as a car passenger

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    Comment #45765414

    No, the 2024 number is goosed by paying a big back tax bill after a court decision in the EU.

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    Comment #45648507

    It’s hard to think of anything less monopolized than cloud hosting. There are hundreds of providers.

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    Comment #45612866

    > These layoffs occur at such scale that it's unreasonable to assume any individual employee being "let go" has even been evaluated as an individual. There’s no reason to think tha…

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    Comment #45308734

    A decade ago there used to be a site called rubydrama.org because of how frequently the community blew up at itself.

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    Comment #45280048

    Are you sure that every restriction that’s in the model is also spelled out in the contract? If they add new ones, do they update the contract?

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    Comment #45140851

    The sentences that follow “found utility” say what that utility is: > For example, Bridge (a stablecoin orchestration platform that Stripe acquired) is used by SpaceX for managing …

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    Comment #45134704

    "Long tail markets" here means small countries with currencies you don't have any particular interest in holding. Starlink sells access in Benin and South Sudan, for example, that'…

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    Comment #45134660

    Once you buy the stablecoins, moving the money anywhere is an API call and a sub-1¢ transaction fee, rather than a cross-border wire transfer and a multi-day settlement process.

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    Comment #45134641

    > A regular log or ledger file could accomplish the same thing as a blockchain It is kind of wild how a bunch of people hyping blockchains five years ago has resulted in a thermost…