It's open source so you could run it on your own hardware for free.
You have a complaint or question? Just check out their discord where you can talk to engineers working there instead of some outsourced chat bot.
They just figured out the minimum you would have to do to control a car and are making incremental improvements with the insane business strategy of charging more than it takes for them to build it.
Oh and if you're a business executive and want to partner, you can schedule a 30 minute phone call with comma's VP of Business Development for $1,000!
> Apart from a criminal streak, Hotz shares with Raskolnikov, Dostoyevsky’s antihero, a predilection for instrumental reason and an urge to test his own mettle, to know himself by knowing his limits. As a young adult Hotz allowed himself to become addicted to prescription opiates almost as an experience in self-mastery. “I did it, I was addicted, and I quit,” he told me. “I think I had to have that experience. I don’t think I ever could have been the type who never tried it. Because in some ways I feel that if I’m not strong enough to defeat that and overcome it…” He paused for several beats before assuring me he’d never want anyone to follow his example. “In order to quit,” he continued, “it required me to rethink what I wanted out of life. After that, one of the biggest things that changed is I stopped caring about money.”
https://return.life/2022/03/07/george-hotz-comma-ride-or-die...
I assure you some people try themselves - and I do not see what is not "normal" about it. To experience, voluntary, then grow, is the norm.
-- either you go along well, hence that she agrees with your opinion is a weak test;
-- or you married her to test yourself, which would prove my point.
TND; QED. /J
Normal is what reflects the norm. That natural, observational norm (type, mode) and deontic, optimal norm ("as it should be") so typically ("normally") diverge, so the latter is found in the standard deviation, comes from the very point that was raised initially: growth («To experience, voluntarily, then grow, is the norm»), or the point where you are in it, proceeding towards the right extreme.
There is no escape from the norm (and its negative), you see: if good, then optimal norm, peripheral in the curve; if lacky, then observational norm in the centre. And between the two there is a sort of a continuity, thresholds aside...
That the "world" looks so abnormal, the bad way (hence you can call 'abnormal' the normal), is justified in such framework - especially when you look at it as a playground. And we just say, ok, if it were possible just to reduce the collateral damage...
I'm doing better now! The buprenorphine injection has made my life so much better.
Of course my trauma was one of the real driving forces behind that "experiment" and thought process. Really, my "lets find out what its like" was a rationalisation it seems.
I've got massive respect for everybody who addresses their own problems and fixes them. Way too many people only look for the problem in other people, but it's never that simple.
If I have a rare disease, I don't care if the doctor is nice. I want them to get the diagnosis correct.
Van Gogh painted brilliantly. And he cut off his ear.
Eminem is a great rapper. His themes can be violent.
Disruptiveness, for lack of a better term. These are people who are well-acquainted with finding the boundaries of systems and barreling through them.
A whole amateur dissection of this guy's personality. It's so bloody awkward, just comment on the work and move on.
But it's great to know HN readers are all such paragons of virtue.