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We have both a Model Y (late-2020) and Model 3 (2022), and the 50-60% estimate definitely reflects my experience with the MY. Not so much the M3. I chalk it up to doing most of my …

Obligatory mention of Asimov's "Last Question" https://astronomy.org/moravian/C00-Last%20Question.pdf

Are you me? I have the exact same symptoms, especially the left arm pain and panic attacks. Full heart checkup and nothing was found to be wrong but I always suspected it had to do…

How has Airbnb not been sanctioned by more local governments seeking to curb this behavior? Just like Napster, Uber, and all of the other "sharing economy" apps that have popped up…

I'm all for some implementation of UBI, or more broadly, less inequality in society, but the numbers just don't add up to support it (yet). Even if you took all of the US Federal t…

Surprised this isn't higher given the demographics of HN. Another one that felt similar to me, but more focused on mass media specifically and its effect on society, was Amusing Ou…

Don't forget California also has one of the higher population growths rates in the country. There's still no serious long-term plan for how California is going to handle droughts i…

Amazing metaphor. I'm going to use that :)

Interesting take, but isn't this also the motivation for companies to automate as much of their workforce as possible? Nobody really wants to take orders at McDonald's for $9/hour …

Having attended school in California at a community college, UC, and finally an elite, private university I couldn't more agree with your characterization. I don't know how much I …

Don't believe the reviews. I was considering a position there, and did some research into the company culture (because everything else about them just seemed impossibly awesome, wi…

Privacy is dead. Not just as we knew it, but every dystopian prediction of the future where we are ID'd, tagged, and tracked at every action has already come true. Not for the sake…

You're totally missing the point of what I'm saying. They are putting themselves at a significant competitive disadvantage by incurring a drastically higher yearly operating expens…

Look man, your math is still off: You are assuming too many things and you HAVE to account for the fact that the minimum wage is going to be $70k, so the minimum average wage possi…

Yeah, I get the sense that it's just Dan too. Which means this is even more likely to fail. Don't get me wrong, I totally support this from a moral perspective and wish more compan…

Your numbers and math are wrong. There are 120 employees total and you're only accounting for salary paid directly to employees (good rule of thumb is employer pays an additional 2…

I commend the spirit of what this CEO is trying to do, but if I am an investor, director, or just even regular employee I would have serious reservations about this business strate…

Just don't forget, the primer is 3-dimensional: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgPSUer1ujM There, I just saved us like a week's worth of effort.

Oh man, my fondest early memories with computers was modifying the autoexec.bat and config.sys files so I could play DOS games. I can only describe the feeling of finally figuring …

Project Euler has something similar. After solving each challenge, you're given access to the message board for that problem where people post their code and discuss how they solve…

Haha, I love it. There was a SIGBOVIK submission a couple years ago that looked at byte patterns within video game RAM (specifically NES) to automate the playing of. Pretty enterta…

> I think Palantir is basically shit. Wait and watch. That's a pretty bold statement. I've worked with them as well, and definitely don't buy into the hype either. But when the lat…

Sounds like an equity refresh(er). Companies will grant refreshes to vested employees like you (i.e. past the 1-year cliff) to incent and award performance, and they are often give…

I really want to recommend (upvote) his post, but Medium requires me to sign in with Twitter or Facebook to do so. Great.