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901.
by Fricken 4y ago
If I had been in hundreds of car crashes without ever needing a seatbelt then they would be roughly equivalent, I suppose.
902.
by Fricken 4y ago
I hear from 1000s of internet people who are totally triggered by my occasional lack of a helmet. My ability to avoid hitting my head using reflexive skill cultivated over many years of practice never gets the credit it deserves. It has com
903.
by Fricken 4y ago
I've had hundreds of crashes on a bike and hundreds of others crashes and wipeouts doing other activities. A helmet has never once come in handy. So I've come to believe that knowing how to wipe out, as a reflexive skill, is far m
904.
by Fricken 4y ago
More specifically, the invention of print processes suitable for reproducing photographs displaced a huge number of artists. If you go looking through glossy magazines of the 1940s, they were packed with illustrations.
905.
by Fricken 4y ago
Noise is my least favorite thing. I'll live in a tiny box so long as it's quiet.
906.
by Fricken 4y ago
For most of human history people lived in mud huts, yurts, teepees, igloos, lean-tos and the such. Generally they're all pretty small. I would say car dependent suburbs are the more extreme lifestyle. Sprawl drives the kind of consumpt
907.
by Fricken 4y ago
I'm single, with 3 bedrooms. That's 2 bedrooms and a living room that I don't use except to accumulate junk that I also don't use.
908.
by Fricken 4y ago
Nighttime temps in the Kalihari dessert can drop to around freezing and the San people have been sleeping basically naked in those conditions for thousands of years like it's no big deal. It's amazing what the body can adapt to wh
909.
by Fricken 4y ago
Unlike with Tesla and SpaceX, nobody at Twitter signed up under the auspices that taking it in the ass from Elon will help humanity get to Mars.
910.
by Fricken 4y ago
I occasionally sprint stairs. It's less impactful on the legs than flat ground sprints.
911.
by Fricken 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_universal
912.
by Fricken 4y ago
We haven't made any advances in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Total global CO2 emissions have to be going down for that to be the case. We'll be hitting a new record this year.
913.
by Fricken 4y ago
Separation of gender roles is a human universal. Meaning it is a trait observable in every human society that can be observed.
914.
by Fricken 4y ago
Bike theft rackets have sprung up in cities all over north america. The only notable thing about this article is that Burlington's problems are a cliche. A friend who lives in the same neighbourhood as myself recently had cops hanging
915.
by Fricken 4y ago
After forcing kids to spend the lion's share of their childhood sitting at a desk the mask part seems trivial.
916.
by Fricken 4y ago
As Artists gain the ability to do more with less standards and expectations will change. The arrival of the printing press, the photograph, and the rise of digital effects were all ineffectual at putting artists out of work.
917.
by Fricken 4y ago
I run into lots of climbers who took to climbing without ever being much interested in any other physical pursuit before hand. The other thing is that there are certain adaptations one has to make as a beginner to progress that you don&#x2
918.
by Fricken 4y ago
Things we take for granted like swallowing, or sneezing involve a great deal of complex and precise motor coordination that babies can do right from the get go.
919.
by Fricken 4y ago
Maybe instead of wasting energy to mine crypto, one could waste human potential instead.
920.
by Fricken 4y ago
Is it the exposure to dirt, or the lack of health care that contributes more to the excess mortality?
921.
by Fricken 4y ago
Many of the original Google self-driving car project members came over directly from Google Street view, which has since scaled all over the world. Autonomous vehicles have big scaling issues, but it's not the maps holding them back.
922.
by Fricken 4y ago
If you're relying only on cameras, then yes, that's an issue. Level 4 vehicles can locate themselves without the need for lines on the road. Everything has been carefully mapped out ahead of time.
923.
by Fricken 4y ago
Vancouver's Skytrain has been fully autonomous since, I think, the 1980s.
924.
by Fricken 4y ago
Tesla doesn't come anywhere close to having the sensor suite or compute to be taken seriously as a developer of level 4 autonomy.
925.
by Fricken 4y ago
This bullshit shows up in every HN thread on autonomous vehicles. Really only on HN. It's wrong, uninformed, and won't seem to go away. The challenges self-driving cars have nothing to do with infrastructure and everything to do w
926.
by Fricken 4y ago
The title goes to Sebastien Thrun, who led the team that won the 2005 self driving car challenge, and went on to lead the Google self-driving car project. Levandowsky was Thrun's right hand man in the Google days.
927.
by Fricken 4y ago
Anthony Levabdowski might be an asshole, but he is not poorly informed. If you've been following the public announcements in self-driving for the last decade closely then you don't assign them much value, particularly with respect
928.
by Fricken 4y ago
Yeah, that's the problem. They're never gonna get there at that rate. >In the view of Levandowski and many of the brightest minds in AI, the underlying technology isn’t just a few years’ worth of refinements away from a resolut
929.
by Fricken 4y ago
Ok, here. Let me Google that for you: https://youtu.be/rPul9WKQ6oQ
930.
by Fricken 4y ago
We"ve got robots that can fly, and kill things from the sky. What advantage would a bipedal robot have over a flying one in military applications? I don't think any.

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