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by dekhn 622 days ago
Generally, if I'm driving in SF (which I do on occasion) and somebody is making an ass of themselves int he middle of the street, I don't do anything. Moving the car often prompts such people to spend even more time in the street.

I don't work at Google. Why do you think I work at Google (I worked at Google, but not on self-driving cars; I am sympathetic to their mission, but also skeptical about the product's future). And even so, why would that matter? All I'm doing is pointing out there are systemic problems and having a driver in the car really wouldn't have addressed any of those.
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Nicksil 622 days ago
>I don't work at Google. Why do you think I work at Google [...]

>[...] I worked at Google

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jerlam 621 days ago
It's in the past tense.
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Nicksil 621 days ago
Right. They asked why I thought they worked at Google and it's because they said they worked at Google.
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dekhn 621 days ago
As I said, I don't work at google. I worked at Google. I'm mainly curious how people identify me on HN (I've gotten email from folks who looked at my submissions to figure out my real life identity).

The reason I'm defending waymo is not that I worked at Google. It's that I think self-driving cars are a good idea and I don't want to see them invalidated through viral social media and "think of the children" press articles.

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Nicksil 621 days ago
You asked why I thought you worked at Google and it's because you said as much.
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dekhn 621 days ago
I think you must be misreading. You brought this up in the first place when you said "Should probably also disclose you work for Google when making such a statement about one of its products.". Before that, I did not say anything about Google, or imply that I worked there, in any way. The thread clearly shows this.
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Nicksil 621 days ago
>I think you must be misreading. You brought this up in the first place when you said "Should probably also disclose you work for Google when making such a statement about one of its products.". Before that, I did not say anything about Google, or imply that I worked there, in any way. The thread clearly shows this.

Oh c'mon; are you just trolling now? Of course you didn't say that in this thread, but you did say it lol.

I mean, do you think I just made a wild guess that some random HN user worked for Google and happened to be right?

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dekhn 621 days ago
Yes, I did (originally) believe you made a wild guess. The alternatives (including what appears to be the actual truth... that you saw a comment I made some time ago on another thread) all seemed lower probability to me.
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