Erlangolem

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by Erlangolem 9y ago
As I said, context matters. In the context of a death, this kind of thing is doom. When someone is killed, there is also a lot of cooperation across jurisdictions.
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
If the only options you’re presenting are “move fast and break things” where those things are human lives, or introducing burdensome bureaucracy, I’ll take the bureaucracy. Time and again society chose that latter option, and it will again.
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
That kind of thing might fly in some arenas, but judges have literally no sense of humor when evidence is “lost” in a criminal case, or civil wrongful death suit. That’s more or less a quick way to lose in the worst possible way.
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Instant Apps: Google’s Latest Play to Woo Game Developers to Its Services(theverge.com)
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
I’m pretty far to the Left on the issue of immigration, but I totally agree with you. As far as I’ve seen, the H1-B system is a means for some US employers to keep wages and benefits artificially depressed, through abuse of the system.
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YouTube May Add to the Burdens of Humble Wikipedia(nytimes.com)
2 points by Erlangolem 9y ago|0 comments
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
Yeah, I lied. It worked. Bob John 02/22/1992 has access now. They get to spam the email I specifically have for useless logins. Win-win?
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
1.4 grams would be more than 4 years total world production.
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
Some other issues... Red mercury doesn’t exist. Californium isn’t used in nuclear warheads, it’s a neutron source with a short half-life. As such it can be used to startup a reactor, or more typically in neutron diffraction spectroscopy. 1.
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
Everything in the article suggests that it’s either moronic clickbait (FB tier) or disinformation. Implausible amounts of Californium, nonsense about red mercury, the bit about Al... it reeks.
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
Undermining any kind of trust in democratic institutions seems like a possible goal of these manipulations, especially if Russia is involved. It shores up the argument for “managed democracy” as Putin calls it, and gives autocrats something
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Swiss Police Replace Aging Diesel Vehicles with Tesla Model X(thedrive.com)
2 points by Erlangolem 9y ago|0 comments
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
Are most of these multiple winnners anonymous? I see quite a few names mentioned in the article. Besides, the anonymous thing only matters to giant wins, like the recent case of nearly half a billion dollars. I’d guess the scrutiny there is
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Bear Flag Robotics wants to sell an autonomous tractor for farms(techcrunch.com)
2 points by Erlangolem 9y ago|0 comments
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
In addition to the obvious scams and microscratching, I’d be surprised if this wasn’t an avenue for organized crime to launder money. The store(s) get the sales and a percentage, and the launderer gets clean money out of the other end.
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
Don’t forget that all of your friends and family who use Facebook are potentially leaking your data as well. FB has become quite the tentacled monster!
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
Maybe they’ve figured out that the level of automation they’d need exists well beyond any runway they could hope to have. More damning, they may have realized that even without drivers, their business model is not profitable.
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Japan reveals a ‘Supreme’ version of its bullet train(theverge.com)
1 points by Erlangolem 9y ago|0 comments
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Take This App and Call Me in the Morning(nytimes.com)
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Prepare Yourself for the Sound of Volcanic Thunder(atlasobscura.com)
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Who Cares About Cybersecurity?(lawfareblog.com)
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
a lot of regimes call(ed) themselves communist while being something very different. I’m not a fan of the ideology, not in the least because it always seems to fail in spectacularly ugly ways, such as Stalinism, Maoism, or that tragicomic J
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In a Slovenian Forest, Fairy Tales Come to Life(atlasobscura.com)
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
What then? The people that do search for Pinterest will find it missing, and likely assume Google screwed up/their search engine is broken. They won't know Google banned the site or what for, they'll just think 'Pintere
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
I can’t prove that, but could a sufficiently powerful AI prove it? Probably. The open questions for philosophy are a function of our present limitations, and as those limitations are overcome, the space for philosophy shrinks. I don’t think
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What Took Facebook So Long?(theatlantic.com)
3 points by Erlangolem 9y ago|0 comments
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The US Navy’s newest submarine comes with an Xbox controller(theverge.com)
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by Erlangolem 9y ago
Are you saying that you believe Richard Feynman didn’t have a working grasp of the issues at hand? Or are you saying that “philosophers of science” don’t know anything about the science they philosophize about? I’d guess that Feynman was mo

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