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do you have a designer on the team?

Flatness helps

Infrastructure helps more. I live in a hilly city and break a mild sweat pedaling up a hill to get home from work (no complaints, it's good cardio). e-scooters and bikes - slowly - get up the hills too, but it's a major difference (especially for scooters) doing this up on an old bumpy sidewalk vs an asphalt bike path

Flatness helps more.

In flat landscapes the e in ebike is superfluous.

It's not superfluous at all. It's been 30C+ in flat London for weeks and my ebike means I arrive at work unflustered and in my normal clothes. There are plenty of other benefits than easier hills.

Ye I might have been trying a bit too much to be a bit cocky.

Only if your goal is to transport yourself. I use my ebike for groceries, typically I'll have the motor in the lowest power setting on the way to the store, then coming back with cargo I'll have the motor turned up. I can bring back heavy bulk items that would have been painful with a pedal bike.

My parents live on a street steeper than San Francisco (we live along the base of a mountain range), my ebike eats that hill for lunch

Ebikes really help on hills. As nice as ebikes on flat land are, they improve hills so much more.

> AI is to Segway as nuke is to wet firecracker

wet firecracker won’t kill you


> produced enough content to create the false perceptions that many people were vaccine hesitant.

Many many people were vaccine hesitant. It was not a false perception that many were hesitant.

I spent a lot of time with friends and family convincing them how to think about the risks and to convince them to take the vaccine.


Yeah long before covid people were vaccine hesitant too. You just didn't really see it come to a head until covid really forced those people out of the woodwork but they were there the whole time not doing their flu shot, not keeping up with their past shots, and doing bare minimum of immunizations for school.

I think we’re talking about two different things.

What I was trying to say is that many people (who are not vaccine skeptics), were hesitant to take a covid vaccine, and their hesitancy (contrary to the article’s assertion), was not due to a handful of people who spread misinformation.


> There's no legal argument that Superman is anything but an immigrant.

Isn’t Superman an alien?




> If you save a billion dollar satellite every decade, and it costs $50 million year, you come out ahead.

Why should the (US) taxpayer foot the bill rather than the companies who operate and profit from the satellites?


Would you argue that every road should be a toll road, too?

the government already needs to track satellites to prevent its own from getting hit, and to track foreign spy satellites. IMO it would be reasonably for Congress to pass a law to allow the FAA to charge private companies who launch satellites in the US, but killing the program is just very dumb

> parents that are too busy or not tech savvy are helpless to block content without essentially forbidding their kids from using any connected device

Tough luck, I say. If you’re going to bring humans into this world, you better do a great job at it and not externalize responsibility or create a nuisance for others.


Remember that everything you have is the result of other people bringing humans into this world.

Every human being creates nuisance sometimes. The only winning move in your game is not to live.

> odd that investors are still so motivated to drop money into AI, specifically LLMs

xAI > LLM


What is their product though? It will turn into surveillance or military applications, which would explain the interest of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.

> What is their product though?

mission > product



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