CabSauce

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CabSauceon How far could a spaceship go if we never ran out of thrust? (2020)

All fair points. Still an absolute page-turner. Sort of a trashy romance sci-fi novel.

CabSauceon Done with YC: Age Discrimination

Agreed. It feels like they're trying to claim that they were rejected for age... without providing any evidence. They don't want to come out and say it. But by suggesting enough, it's sure implied.

CabSauceon In Praise of PostgreSQL

Better yet, there's a website that allows you to find other websites that answer your questions.

CabSauceon NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings

I'm pretty tired of all this. If folks want don't want to get the vaccine, under the argument of personal responsibility, let them do what they want. However, if they willingly or negligently transmit covid, they should be civilly and maybe criminally liable. If they end up needing medical care, make them pay for it out of their pocket. Make them financially responsible for their decisions.

CabSauceon NSA Mobile Device Best Practices

Why stop there? You can't get hacked if you don't have electricity.

CabSauceon California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate

Decriminalization and Legalization are two pretty different things.

CabSauceon Tesla Makes More Money Trading Bitcoin Than Selling Cars

I'm not trying to defend anything... But why is changing a stance on something 'clear evidence of manipulation'? Is there evidence he traded doge before/after those tweets and the SNL appearance?

CabSauceon Psilocybin 'promising' for depression

Just mild warning for folks considering this. These companies are highly speculative. (They're also mostly down 20-30% in the last couple months.)

CabSauceon When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated

Agreed.

CabSauceon When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated

There's one set of rules/guidelines?

CabSauceon Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

That's great. Assuming the following:

- Your commute is sufficiently short

- You have facilities to shower and dress at work

- You have sufficient time to shower and dress at work

- You don't have to bring kids or sizable cargo

- Weather is sufficiently good

- You're sufficiently healthy

CabSauceon What Data Can’t Do

Wait until you find out low many studies have been published in medical journals with serious statistical flaws.

CabSauceon Small, cheap spy satellites mean there’s no hiding place

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=scott+manley+sp...

Scott Manley does great, approachable space videos and has done a few on spy satellites.

CabSauceon Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay

That's exactly what's happening...

CabSauceon Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay

Except this isn't the government 'banning' anything. And there's never been more access to information. You're just whining.

CabSauceon Ask HN: Why are e-ink note-taking devices so expensive compared to iPads?

  Don't necessarily disagree with you, but seeing as "the r word" is no longer used to refer to mentally disabled people it seems a little late...

That is a hilarious take. You must be a lawyer.

CabSauceon Drug for treating obesity cuts body weight by 20 percent

Sure, it's obviously possible. Just like it's possible to quit smoking without assistance, or quit heroin cold-turkey. So you're arguing that because it's possible, we shouldn't try to make it easier?

CabSauceon Drug for treating obesity cuts body weight by 20 percent

Do you really think people are choosing to be extremely obese?

CabSauceon Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility

I don't think anyone is saying "we don't need to investigate". They're saying "let's find evidence before we assume malintent".

CabSauceon The nihilism of r/wallstreetbets

The problem is, at least now, that you have to have a pretty good understanding already to determine if the answer you get is good advice or complete BS. There are countless comments that fundamentally don't understand the basics of a stock exchange. These are often comments that get voted up because they support a stock currently being pumped on /r/wsb.

CabSauceon Ask HN: Which companies work like Gumroad?

Interest and live on <$50k/yr?

CabSauceon Elon Musk becomes world’s richest person as wealth tops $185B

The idea that Tesla will control the EV market is pretty unrealistic. Most major auto manufacturers already have an EV that competes very well with Tesla models. Build quality and repair services are still issues for Tesla as well.

CabSauceon After spending $57M on Facebook ads, I was kicked off

This is hopefully the answer. Hopefully facebook is trying to improve their feed. It's absolute garbage.

CabSauceon FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization

Wrong? No, just early. Yahoo and AOL were really big and growing... until they weren't.

CabSauceon Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products

How do you plan on keeping out fake reviews?

CabSauceon One-third of American renters expected to miss their August payment

Wouldn't that drive rental prices up? I don't think high housing prices will be solved on the demand side.

CabSauceon TensorFlow, Keras and deep learning, without a PhD

I agree with this totally. The amount of benefit we've seen in the last 5 years due to ML model improvements is staggering. There is huge potential to apply even pre-trained models in tons of industries. BERT + fine tuning solves domain-specific NLP problems far better than the cutting edge research of a couple years ago.

That being said, the business / marketing use of terms like "AI" is way out of control.

CabSauceon Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips

Trade and money are just tools to facilitate cooperation. They incentivize agents to cooperate by sharing the value of that cooperation.

CabSauceon Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips

  In economics, ... but the power of cooperation seems to be valued much less

I'm not sure that I agree with this. The creation of firms and trade are both cooperative. They aren't altruistic though. (I'm not disagreeing with your overall point, just that cooperation isn't valued in economics.)

CabSauceon Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong

Yes. That's why we have leap seconds.