jordank
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Comment · 2 years ago
Having rented a Tesla via Hertz last year, here are some quick remembrances:
-The car was not charged fully when I rented it.
-I had to park in a pay parking lot at a shopping mall to charge the car. Charging to 100% cost me $7 but took 30 minutes of my time.
-The UX of most of the basic car functions was much harder to learn than a typical rental car. I'm sure that Tesla's UX quirks start to feel normal after a while, but I had trouble locating basic car functions and had to text with Tesla-owning friends for advice.
None of these things made me want to rent a Tesla again.
Comment · 2 years ago
Has anyone found any basic specs (e.g. around battery life) for the 01 Light device?
Comment · 4 years ago
“The tuition for full-time students who are Arizona residents will be paid for by the state at no cost to families.
Students who live in the US, but outside Arizona, will pay $9,900 per year tuition. Students who live outside the US will pay $12,900 per year.”
Comment · 5 years ago
Are there any examples of current or past successful libertarian governments?
Comment · 5 years ago
I routinely recruit highly targeted people for 1-on-1 interviews via services like userinterviews.com to help validate concepts. These services take care of incentives and scheduling, making this process fairly painless.
Comment · 6 years ago
Regarding the ice cube technique, I found some freezable bandanas on Amazon that have the same effect as holding an ice cube or using this Sony device.
Comment · 6 years ago
DuckDuckGo should also probably be on this list (and is hiring for a couple director-level technical roles IIRC).
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes, and in contrast with OP’s assertion some states are actively regulating privacy (i.e. California) and there are plenty of statehouses that would likely be amenable to regulating this issue.
It’s a mistake to think about US regulations as purely federal.
Comment · 6 years ago
One factor missing from most analyses of scooter companies are the sheer cost of insuring scooters long term. Insurance rates are likely based on the assumption that scooter companies can disclaim against any user damages (injury, death, etc) but companies can't disclaim against gross negligence and there are many, many legal actions against Lime and other scooter companies (disclaimer/source: I'm a plaintiff in one of these actions).
Failure rates are known to be fairly high and accidents are common [1]. I was on a Lime that had a brake failure and I was pretty badly injured. Lime themselves have indicated that the failure rate was around .00045%, but that's still 450 brake failures per million rides [2].
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/scooter-use-... [2] https://www.li.me/blog/safety-update-february-2019
Comment · 7 years ago
“You can build your own cards with Javascript. Game Builder comes with an extensive API that allows you to script almost everything in the game. All the code is live, so just make a change and save it, no compiling required.”
Comment · 7 years ago
It appears we are talking about place of origin of accounts, at least in my wife’s case.
Early involvement at DuckDuckGo, Evidation, and Springshot among others.
jordan at duck dot com