GhostVII

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by GhostVII 5y ago
I don't understand why cookie popups are a website feature rather than a browser feature. Wouldn't it make far more sense to just have the browser default to disabling cookies, and show a popup if the web page wants to use them? T
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I think the bigger problem is people who are intentionally being malicious rather than people who stumble upon a bug. Just look at how many people fall for wire transfer or gift card scams. Crypto allows scammers to do that much more easily
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by GhostVII 5y ago
The problem is that it is totally possible for there to be a hidden bug in an old smart contract that everyone trusts. And only a single bug like that can destroy the entire ecosystem. It's not enough for trusted smart contracts to be
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Generally government regulations like this are going to make things more expensive, not less. So these types of regulations actually give poor people fewer options. For example, the Dodge Journey was not available in California in 2020 due
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by GhostVII 5y ago
That's why I think people should pay for their negative externalities - it doesn't matter if someone emits a tonne of CO2 if they pay enough to fund more clean energy (for example). Some kind of cap and trade system would allow us
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I really wish the government would just let me make my own decisions about how I spend my money... If I want to buy a car that gets bad mileage and an inefficient computer, let me do that. Just make me pay for the negative externalities of
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I was thinking of cases where someone fires a few shots and then everyone runs off - odds are the shell casings aren't going to be seen unless they do a careful sweep of the area, and the victims all left pretty quickly. No idea how of
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Having an 11% success rate seems pretty impressive to me. Much better than the rate of false panic alarms, for example. And I'm sure a lot of those ShotSpotter alerts were accurate, but the police didn't get there soon enough.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
If people want to live in a single family home in the suburbs, why not let them? It's not like the US is short on space. In areas where there is high demand for a particular reason (ex. NYC or the Bay Area because of the job market) I
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Which one? It's well known that Tesla upgrades your car to the latest hardware if you pay for FSD. And based on the latest FSD beta videos, there is a long way to go before Tesla is able to get a stable enough picture of the environmen
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I don't see how that is relevant though. Tesla promised every car would have the required hardware for FSD, regardless of whether you paid for FSD upfront or not. The fact that you have to upgrade in order to subscribe to FSD shows tha
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Given that Tesla already allows purchasers of FSD to upgrade their hardware for free, they are clearly aware that they promised every car would have the required hardware for FSD, and are honoring that for FSD purchasers. So I don't se
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by GhostVII 5y ago
That's not really the issue here. Tesla has advertised that all the cars they sell have the hardware required for FSD. Now that they are offering a subscription to FSD, they are telling drivers on older hardware to pay $1500 to upgrade
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Thats what this video is about, determining if the specific orbit the module is in is stable or not based on the gravity lumpiness
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I think it is fine for police to lie in interrogations to get information. If them telling lies leads them to hard evidence of the crime that's great But lying to get a confession doesn't seem fair, if you confess to a crime you
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I don't know why Tesla is so focused on self driving in cities. Seems like a far better use of time would be to get to level 3 self driving on highways (which is what other automakers seem to be trying to do). That gets you most of the
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by GhostVII 5y ago
For level 5 (which Elon promised), FSD has to go tens of thousands of miles without a collision-avoiding intervention. Right now it can't even do 10 miles. Cherry picking is completely fine because with the limited number of beta users
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Treatment has progressed slowly because it turns out that it is extremely hard to find drugs that kill cancer cells and not regular cells, given that they are almost identical. It's not some big conspiracy, there is an incredible amoun
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by GhostVII 5y ago
If you are interested in more of the history behind the different cancer treatments that we have today, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" is a fantastic book about it. Probably my favourite book of all time, a l
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by GhostVII 5y ago
I think many Americans are against more government intervention, which is what you would need for most "right to repair" efforts. To be able to repair different devices more easily, we would need legislation forcing these manufact
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by GhostVII 5y ago
If there is no copyright, what incentive is there to ever create anything digital? Adobe would never invest in Photoshop if any random person was legally able to sell copies for $1 each. A production company will never publish a book or cre
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Not particularly surprising given that Model S production was shut down for almost all of H1 to switch over to the refresh.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Important to note that this is a Tesla model S plaid, which was only released to the public a couple weeks ago in very limited quantities, and has some battery updates. Could be a coincidence or publicity stunt but this is definitely much m
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by GhostVII 5y ago
In the back seats of the model S/X the mechanical release is a cable either hidden behind the carpet, or the speaker grill. Not exactly easy or intuitive to use in an emergency. I don't really understand what was wrong with purely
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Sounds like we need another tool called "Auditor" that scans your code to see if it violates copyright laws.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Sure but if you have to audit every suggestion to see if it violates copyright laws that's not a particularly useful tool.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
You said that this will help disabled people. The only way this regulation will do that is if delivery companies actually lower their prices, which I don't think they can actually do since paying a driver to deliver food is expensive.
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by GhostVII 5y ago
You seem to be making the assumption that since the fees are high, companies like doordash are making huge profits at the expense of the consumer, and that lowering the fees will just lower their profits. I don't think that is the case
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Why is San Francisco's solution to everything to just throw in more random regulations? If delivery fees for a particular service are too high, another service can undercut them. It's a pretty crowded space. If people want to pay
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by GhostVII 5y ago
Sure, and wait a month for an empty box to show up

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