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How Apple's walled garden protects ICE(theverge.com)
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Karpathy, the celebrity AI influencer with no relevant autonomous vehicle experience, was hired to make Elon's bad predictions look good. He was an active and willing component of the scam. I'm sure he was paid handsomely. Autopil
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I was initially dismissive of the photo, but it is part of a series, titled "Study of perspective" that Weiwei has been adding to since 1995. He has been giving the finger to many symbols of imperialism and authoritarianism around
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China does not project it's power across the globe. You only listed countries China can literally spit on from within it's own borders.
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The CIA was operating for a long time in Tibet and got the Dalai Lama kicked out. Taiwan wouldn't even exist if it weren't backed by forgeign powers, namely the US and UK. The US dropped 2.7 million tons of bombs on Cambodia. The
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We could also ask why Tron sequels keep getting made. The first one lost money and so did the second.
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We didn't end slavery at all. There are more slaves now than ever. https://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/slavery/modern/modern_1.shtml
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Statistically cyclists live longer than non-cyclists.
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Maybe China's approaching demographic crisis won't be such a big deal after all.
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Empathy is not sympathy. If my sports team beats your sports team, I can empathize with your feelings of loss but I don't sympathize. We win and you lose, lol. Conversely, as someone who has never experienced a terminal disease, I&#x27
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Earning $60k/yr would put you in the global 1%.
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For most of humanity's existence nobody was poor because there was no such thing as money.
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Incoherence is a feature of fascist ideology.
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The self driving car industry has been working hard to develop practical applications for AI as it exists in it's current state. Waymo is in the lead, and has been at it since 2009. They are making it happen, but it's hard, the
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Here's "The Lighter Side of Polarization", by Dave Berg, from MAD magazine, April 1974: https://archive.org/details/mad-magazine-166-1974/page/n25/m... America is still dealing with many o
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One very important task to solve is the ability to select a box from a shelf and set it neatly on a pallet, as well as the reverse. People have been working very hard on this problem for a long time, there are impressive demos out there, ye
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I live in Edmonton, a friend of mine from London was astonished that I'd leave my bag by my chair unattended when using the bathroom at a pub. I don't even think about it, my stuff has never been nicked.
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He's saying the more a driver trusts a partially automated driving system the less likely they are to be paying attention themselves.
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When you wake up in the middle of the night shivering that's a good incentive to get up and get moving again.
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With ultralight activities you're supposed to be so exhausted by bedtime that it isn't necessary to be comfortable to fall asleep.
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Some endurance athletes do love their gummies. I'm not one of them.
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>Numerous studies show that reading is in free-fall. Even the most pessimistic twentieth-century critics of the screen-age would have struggled to predict the scale of the present crisis. Marshall McLuhan, the media theorist, began his a
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What a decade. It's hard to picture the next one being better.
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Lynch made those himself out of grey plaster. They didn't show much of Lynch's studio, but that's where he spent most of his time hanging out, making sculptures and paintings and building things. He was hands on guy who kept
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Jobs was a clear communicator who emphasized user friendly products in aesthetically pleasing boxes. If Silicon Valley wasn't the most obtuse place on earth he wouldn't have stood out nearly as hard.
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I'm not Catholic, but I recognize the seven deadly sins as valid moral precepts by any measure. Capitalism advocates for all of them excepting sloth. Get to work.
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I would argue the opposite, most of the AI slop I see is gaudy and overwrought, the result of too much flavour carelessly applied.
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The NYT has done some excellent and original reporting, there is a lot of extra information in this article: https://archive.ph/WuUNP
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Magic didn't work, maybe having a Nazi as CEO will help get Tesla to SAE level 4.
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Currently it's looking like Waymo's most viable competitors are in China, namely Pony.ai and Baidu's Apollo. Even without competition it will be a long time before Waymo is operating in most American cities.

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