John_KZ

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by John_KZ 9y ago
If you engage the autopilot in a (certified) plane at cruise level and glimpse over a topographical map of the area, you can practically fall asleep, wake up and you'll still be completely safe (until you run out of fuel). This argumen
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There's no reason that the inmates should word for free. Economically useful work is great, both for the prisoners and society. Maybe take a 50% tax cut out of minimum wage and give the prisoners the rest of the money. Put them in a
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by John_KZ 9y ago
If the cryptocrome mechanism is real, that's pretty spectacular. I thought that the idea of magnetoreception was mostly abandoned in favor of visual navigation, but I was wrong.
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Exactly. Google should have subsidiaries in each nation it operates and obey the local law - nothing more and nothing less. Canadia courts should not have an effect on Mexico, and Iranian courts should not have an effect on the US. Google c
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Another thing that the author (wisely) didn't mention is that most women choose to have children between the ages of 25-35, an age range that defines whether you're going to become just a good employee or an agressive career hunte
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Man I wish we can go back to browsing the web without cookies.
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That was easy to miss and very important.
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by John_KZ 9y ago
The uncontrolled/unchecked monetary incentive is starting to cause things to get out of controll. I recently spotted a channel that features what seems to be animal traps (for mice, snakes, fish etc). All of their videos have hundreds
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by John_KZ 9y ago
For me the realization that politicians just accept and use facebook for their own means instead of being opposed to it was a really bitter realization. I was hoping that when they started realizing the potential, they'd feel threatene
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Is attention and mood such a new concept that we need an entire article for it? Am I the only one that sees this as obvious and intuitive? You only look for what's relevant to you. There's no need to "see" the vast major
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They're being recalled. Telsa's autopilot isn't. The situation with the airbags is an exceptional circumstance and they're recalled for a slightly higher chance of malfunction. They have been on 37 million vehicles f
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by John_KZ 9y ago
>perhaps something else should be done that will incentivize the driver to disengage Autopilot. There's a very simple solution: Don't fucking include it in the car. Require the users to show up at the car dealership and sign a
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>Secondly, I struggle when thinking about if we should give airtime to a shooter's grievances, or reasons. I don't know about your way of thinking, but when a person is willing to give his life for a reason, I want to know exac
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This. This protection law is a double-edged sword. A decent solution would be to prevent things like judicial documents and government reports from appearing in search engines, and instead make them all available in a different form, which
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Saying this is transparent Aluminum is the same as saying Glass is transparent Silicon. It's not, it's just a ceramic.
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Just when I thought I was aware of all major data leak pathways, something like this comes up and it leaves me dumbfounded.
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>15 years Stopped reading.
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Is the "low profile" HUD any different than typical ones? Also why do they mix up the HMD? Is the HMD going to replace HUD by using some kind of parallax-free motion-compensating technology? I'm confused by the article.
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It's great given to where we are right now on a technological level, but until we get decent artificial muscles, all biomemetic robots will look like a spastic person having uncontrolled convulsions.
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Freaky. Are iron wool scrapers safe? Or do the fibers affect you too?
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Another article from Medium in favor of Facebook. How surprising.
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Sometimes optimization is not the optimal solution. They should have optimized their optimization methods first. Or should they?
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Unfortunately the only reasons these "bootcamps" exist is to creater cheaper workforce for tech companies. They don't provide good education, just specialization in the areas that the tech companies decided they want.
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Lasers can never replace anti-missile systems completely, simply because fog or rain will stop them. Also they're completely incapable of taking on reentry vehicles. Other energy weapons might do the trick, but they're not even in
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by John_KZ 9y ago
>A clever configuration of industrial lasers is set to finally make laser weapons practical Finally? Really? Why is this a good thing? Because star wars manchildren want to roleplay? We're looking at terrible burns and very high
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Well, I guess it's time for authenticated phonecalls.
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Open streeet map and wikimapia work fine for me. Streetview however can't be replaced for the time being and it's very useful.
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And they will get abused in the future. It's freaking me out when there's so little resistance or even negative comments on the development and adoption of such systems. This is something you'd expect the Nazis or Franco to c
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Yep, every time I read about a racial issue in the US, it turns out it's always a social/economic issue, but talking about the "working class" is implicitly prohibited in the media (thanks to the red scare) so they make
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Waiting lists for doctors can be long for non-emergencies. This applies to most countries with a public health system. Typically they are prioritized based on need, not money. Also arranging regular appointments weeks/months before

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