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by Fricken 1y ago
I recall, in my final year of high school, in 1995, reading a Sunday op-ed about China's rising prospects. The article predicted that China would surpass the west in the mid-2020s. I never forgot that prediction, and, like clockwork, h
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I recall 8 or 9 years ago struggling to explain to Fred Lambert the technical reasons why Autopilot was only level 2, and without big changes to their strategy would only ever be capable of level 2. Fred is a sharp guy concerned with the di
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It's time to move Wikipedia from the US to a safer haven
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The other day I went down a rabbit hole reading about the history of insulin, and learned about the Canada Development Corporation: >The Canada Development Corporation was a Canadian corporation, based in Toronto, created and partly owne
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Having aptitude in mathematics was once considered the highest form of human intelligence, yet a simple pocket calculator can beat the pants off most humans at arithmetic tasks. Conversely, something we regard as simple, such as selecting a
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We're fixated on human intelligence but a computer cannot even emulate the intelligence of a honeybee or an ant.
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Driver pay comprises about 60% of the cost of owning and operating a public transit bus.
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The thing is there is any number of cities that would happily roll out the red carpet for a company like Waymo. Waymo wants the Big Apple, in spite of the political resistance. Otherwise I agree, I think robotaxis would most benefit people
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by Fricken 1y ago
Waymo has been testing in winter conditions on closed courses for almost a decade, now. Presumably they wouldn't be making moves in a place like NYC if they didn't feel ready to take it to the streets.
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Self driving car companies have been trying to get into NYC for a while now. It's a prestigious and sought after testing ground. The now defunct Cruise automation was in talks to test in NYC beginning in 2018. Cruise was welcomed by th
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The whole developed world is self-sabotaging. Environmentalists are just the messengers.
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If Waymo were operating at 1000 times the scale then I suppose their total fatalities would be somewhere in the ballpark of 0 x 1000.
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Locally we recently had a 9 year old girl die while skateboarding in front of her home. Like the vast majority of fatal skateboarding injuries, she was run down by a motor vehicle right in front of her home. The article didn't say whet
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Woz bought 2 Model 3s thinking he would be able to rent them out as robotaxis. I'm sure he's a nice guy but I have no idea why he's (still) held up as some kind of tech guru.
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No tin foil hat needed, You've adequately described the Catholic Church. Their methods, however, are starting to look a little outdated as of late. The new standard in mind control is due to arrive soon.
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Maybe you didn't get the memo. Twitter was bought by a Nazi. It's a Nazi website now.
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Here is video of the crash and quick recovery: https://youtu.be/gaFnXWGCKQE?si=UyN0iUeEZwIRQCcp&t=339
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I can't even google showtimes anymore. I'm not sure the deal, it seems local theatre companies just won't inform Google when a movie is coming out. Sometimes I hear about a movie I want to see, and I can't find out wheth
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I've been riding a fixed gear in traffic daiily for 14 years and it has never actually been necessary to panic stop in that time. I have a front rim brake and only use it on the big hill. As a hypothetical one would think it would be n
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I did get a Switch 2 and there's not really much going on in the way of new games to be getting excited about. Nintendo is really hyping up THPS3+4, which is a port of 2 games I first played before my kids were born, grew up and gradua
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Fortunately he left behind detailed instructions showing you how to make a Bob Ross original you can call your own
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He has put out 5 films in the last 7 years. Wes Anderson might just be a victim of his own productivity, his work could benefit from some scarcity. Anderson nonetheless is still quite inventive and experimental in his films, he's alway
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Software is not quality. That's probably why.
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https://archive.ph/cJL78
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There have been other war films with uncannily twinkly star studded cast lists. The Longest Day (1962) claims Sean Conery, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Henry Fonda, and Robert Mitchum amongst it's cast members. A Bridge Too Far (1977) I
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>How could we make things cheaper and fairer? I'll give the carbrains one hint
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The Vancouver Skytrain has been fully autonomous since it opened in 1986.

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