quickthrowman

I’ve seen Waymo cars driving around Minneapolis lately.

Why is the title written in the past tense? ARC156 is still being used in 2026, Automated Logic’s WebCTRL BAS system uses it for communication.

https://www.automatedlogic.com/en/media/AAR_CS-aug2023_tcm70...

Where I live, the quality and safety of the public schools is directly correlated to the property values in each school district. Wealthy areas have great schools with nearly perfect graduation rates. Inner ring suburbs have lower property values and less funding and more students with problems. Inner city schools have lots of funding but a lot of students with problems. The experience of students in public schools is highly variable.

The socioeconomic status of the parents of the students and the amount of money available for funding determine how good or bad public education is.

> There is not really that much deviation in intelligence among most adults.

Have you ever spent any time with anyone that makes less than $100,000 a year or didn’t graduate college?

I’ve spent time (both by choice and not by choice) talking to homeless people, mentally ill people, addicts and alcoholics, recipients of Section 8 housing vouchers, adults that aren’t fully literate, low-income service industry workers, immigrant laborers, and other marginalized groups. Some of the issues these groups face are due to mental health or impulse control problems (my own problems with that is why I spent a lot of time talking to addicts and alcoholics) but there is a wide range of intelligence in adult humans.

Idyllwild, CA is s one hour drive to San Diego and Palm Springs and a two hour drive to LA.

s/stock/bonds

Equity shares do not have ratings, bonds have ratings. Everything else is correct, if their bond ratings slip one more level they will be rated junk which may force some holders to liquidate if they’re not allowed to hold junk bonds.

Dentists have far more incentive to provide unnecessary treatments than doctors do, especially if they own their own practice. When 100% of the profits go into your own pocket and you’re playing a game of imperfect information against a layman as a trained professional, the incentives are highly misaligned against the patient in a way that doesn’t really happen with doctors that aren’t solo practitioners.

> Furthermore, we find significantly less overtreatment recommendations for patients with higher SES compared to lower SES for standard visits

I’ll make sure to wear a Rolex when I’m at the dentist, jeez. You think they’d go after people with more money for needless treatments, damn.

The procedures a dentist recommends are influenced by the amount of debt left to pay off on their clinic buildout, or paying for their second or third home. It’s basically impossible for me to trust a dentist.

I’m curious, which system are you ripping out, and what are you replacing it with? I sell and run HVAC controls installs and do business with JCI, Siemens, Honeywell, Automated Logic, and Daikin. Sometimes we install Schneider Electric, Alerton, or Distech for independent dealers.

Yeah but they were controlled with pneumatics without an internet connected front end. There was also a refrigeration tech onsite or on call.

It’s fine to leave a pneumatic HVAC control system in place as long as it’s maintained. There’s no front end that needs security updates. A 40 year old panelboard that has been maintained is similarly fine to leave existing.

When you’re exposing a microcontroller to the internet that controls the conditions that physical inventory is held in, it’s probably best to make sure you’re getting security updates.

There are probably zero consequences for nVidia trying the cheap illegal way before paying $1.5B for the books like Anthropic did in Bartz v. Anthropic.

It’s almost entirely due to the South Park episode about gingers lacking souls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Kids

That’s what I like about cats. I don’t need some dog staring at me constantly looking for direction, my cat has his own agenda that sometimes includes sitting by me.

I similarly prefer romantic partners with their own stuff going on outside of me vs someone who devotes their entire existence to me and needs to be directed.

> Physical access should be the only way to shut down a system like this.

Your opinion does not change the fact that virtually every automation system can be access remotely. It can be done safely with proper access controls.

> There's always going to be somebody on site who can control things locally.

No, there is not always someone onsite with the experience and knowledge to monitor and change the system. Grocery stores do not have staff refrigeration techs onsite, they contract that out.

I understand you’re being sarcastic, but yes, eventually technology gets better so a manufacturer refreshes their product line. This is extremely common in many industries.

They aren’t fridges, it’s a grocery store. You have obviously been in one, there are cases with a dozen doors that all open to the same cold case.

There is a ton of refrigerant piping, multiple condensing units, multiple evaporators, relays, and sensors connected to a controller that automates the refrigeration system. Not standalone refrigerators.

I shouldn’t need to list the benefits of remotely monitoring a system that can cause tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars if it fails.

Grocery stores do not use standalone refrigerators, I’m not sure why I have to keep repeating this fact when every single person has been in a grocery store and seen refrigerated cases that have a dozen or more doors.

They use cold cases and have rooftop or outdoor condensing units and evaporators inside of the cold cases/freezers/etc. There’s refrigerant piping running all over the place and there’s a bunch of sensors and relays that are automated to manage the refrigeration system.

My assumption is the Danfoss control system they’re using is EOL, it’s the grocer’s responsibility to upgrade their automation equipment if it’s unsupported.

Have you ever been to a grocery store?

These aren’t consumer refrigerators, it’s a collection of large cold rooms and cases with a bunch of refrigerant tubing and multiple condensers, evaporators, and sensors. It’s a bit more complex than a single home refrigerator.

> there is zero reason to put a refrigerator's cooling system online.

There are plenty of good reasons to do that. It’s not a consumer refrigerator, it’s a collection of evaporators and condensers and sensors that are controlled by an automation system. Remote monitoring can alert operators to problems so they can be fixed before the food spoils.

Authentication is hard.

You don’t need a FAANG salary, that just makes it easier. My net worth is nearing $1M after saving for 8 years, making less than $100,000 a year. If I exclude the ESOP equity I have, it’s still over $500,000 and that’s just maxing out 401K and Roth each year for 8 years with the market return.

Nobody understands the mechanism behind general anesthesia, yet there’s a medical speciality dedicated to practicing it and it’s done every single day for a wide variety of procedures. We have figured out how to use general anesthesia in a relatively safe way, but nobody understands why it works.

> Before injecting this cocktail into your bloodstream, would you want to know that there is at least one human cancer expert who understands the mechanism behind this cure?

No, and if that was the burden of proof required for medical treatment, every surgery would be done without general anesthesia, because we have no idea how it works.

I would imagine Terence Tao would opt for general anesthesia if he was going to have surgery where it is typically used, so the analogy is obviously flawed.

They meant HDPE but assumed it was PEX, which it isn’t. PEX is cross linked polyethylene and used for mostly indoor piping, and HDPE is high density polyethylene. Common mistake.

HDPE is used extensively in all underground utilities, including but not limited to water, sewer, gas, electric, fiber.

It has always been might makes right, are you under the impression it wasn’t that way at some point? I’m not endorsing the actions of the current administration, simply stating how global geopolitics works. There’s no such thing as a supranational organization that can force a nuclear power to do anything of consequence.

The only people that get prosecuted by the ICC are people that lose wars (no winner has ever been prosecuted) and are also from nations that do not have nuclear weapons / nuclear protection.

They do grow sugarcane in the south, it gets made into sugar. I’d guess that there’s orders of magnitude more land suitable for farming corn than there is for farming sugarcane, given the needs of sugarcane.

Easy, (e) is fraud. The rest are legal. You can choose to not do something, advertising is analogous to convincing and advertising is legal.

Collecting money from a platform by making bots play songs you created is fraud.

Making bots listen to a song without any financial incentive is not fraud.

Yes, I expect restaurant chain prices to vary based on the cost of renting the real estate and local labor costs (or a captive audience like an airport terminal). Per location pricing is fine with me, I dislike the idea of targeted pricing per customer.

Allowing people to trade their personal data for discounts like McDonalds does now is also fine by me, I just pay the full price and don’t use the app if I stop there.