Kadin

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by Kadin 10y ago
Otto's self driving truck system is designed as an add-on package for existing semi tractors, not as something that has to be built-in by the OEM. Passenger cars have a short enough lifespan that I doubt those sort of retrofits will be
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by Kadin 10y ago
The problem is definitely political, but I don't think it's a corporate conspiracy. Americans just don't like paying taxes, and aren't willing to pay taxes at the rates that would make Euro-style public transportation (
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by Kadin 10y ago
If that's implemented by way of some sort of public agency which obtains, analyzes, and releases sanitized versions of the data collected by self-driving cars for the benefit of the public... then sure, that sounds like something we ou
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by Kadin 10y ago
Self driving, privately owned cars, sure. There are two issues that I think get talked about together, whenever the idea of self-driving cars comes up: self-driving cars themselves, and then self-driving cars as part of an Uber-like pooled
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by Kadin 10y ago
I can totally understand doing this with a rental car, but upthread, the idea of not having a driver's license at all was being put forward in a positive light. So that means no renting a car. Without the ability to drive, you&#x27
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by Kadin 10y ago
There is probably a pretty well-defined density threshold where vehicle pooling makes sense, vs. personally owned vehicles. In cities, pooled vehicles are a no-brainer. It's probably already faster to have an Uber come get you than it
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by Kadin 10y ago
Guess we'll need to agree to disagree and see how the situation shakes out, as we run the "in vivo" experiment. In the area where I live (N. VA), there are already an astonishing (to me, anyway) number of people who drive an
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by Kadin 10y ago
> Suppose the benchmark falls 70% and the hedge fund loses 50%. Your hedge fund manager has lost half your money, but has beat the benchmark by 20% (i.e. "positive alpha"). How does a fee based on alpha work in this case? Some
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> So then you're still paying taxes twice. They're two separate taxes, paid by two different entities. Nobody is "paying taxes twice". VAT is paid by the end consumer. It is generally collected by the retailer and
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And they presumably know they're taking a risk, depending on exactly what strategies they're doing to do that, and where the income originates. People who get too clever with that sort of thing are why there are Federal prisons wi
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by Kadin 10y ago
> I still don't know why every computing device must have a color screen that plays videos. It's mainly because hardware design is more expensive than software design. I've been working for a while on a side project that&
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by Kadin 10y ago
It's more than that. If you have any regular exposure to the right side of the political spectrum in the US, porn basically came out of nowhere as a political issue fairly recently. It's always been there, but it was sort of a f
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> I'm assuming this means that Banks basically need to operate with 100% reserve ratio No, not the case at all. You can do fractional reserve banking with a foreign currency as legal tender. Heck, you can even do it with gold as l
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by Kadin 10y ago
Most banks don't have a billion customers. (There are probably a few that do, but not many.)
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> If you're running a commercial entity Making the web open only to commercial entities is a huge problem by itself. I definitely would not want to make that a premise or assumption to participate in the Internet as an equal player
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by Kadin 10y ago
I agree, and it seemed like Chrome was aiming for something like that model for a while. But then Google seems to have backed away from it. Except on ChromeOS, Chrome apps are supposed to be phased out by 2018. Personally, I am really unh
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by Kadin 10y ago
Regardless of one's thoughts on AMD, I think this is broadly true. Microsoft may do a lot of things poorly, but one thing they are good at (arguably, the only thing they're good at, hell maybe the key to their success, really) is
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by Kadin 10y ago
I was going to recommend Singh's book as well. I have an older edition of it, and some of it is certainly out of date (I think it has a whole chapter on Freenet, which may still be around but these days has been eclipsed by Tor), but
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by Kadin 10y ago
I think you are unlikely to find what you want, because the idea of the "Overton window" is not especially controversial, in the sense that it's basically a shorthand for a number of not-especially-new-or-different concepts t
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by Kadin 10y ago
I took that as fatalistic irony. Still, it's about as funny as nuclear war.
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by Kadin 10y ago
I think most people who have 'bad luck' with cars tend not to maintain them very well. I think that this is probably even reflected in car reliability statistics; there are models of cars (e.g. Ford Crown Victorias) which have ve
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by Kadin 10y ago
The post-1998 US market Beetle is a completely different car from the original. (For starters, it has the engine in the front.) But long after the original rear-engine design was discontinued in the US, they made them in Mexico for the dom
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by Kadin 10y ago
Given that he's the CEO, it seems like a more reasonable outlet would have been to have the devs fix the notification system, if it's really that trivially prone to abuse. Or, if he really has to do personal one-offs, fudge things
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by Kadin 10y ago
I am not entirely convinced that Apple has a coherent plan for the future, at least one that is stable and not shifting every few months. I mean, they clearly had some sort of iCar focus which they just shifted away from, which puts them ba
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by Kadin 10y ago
Uh, the situations are not analogous. People.cn is the website of the [People's Daily][1], which is a longstanding, official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party. Not figuratively or in the sense of having a slant or something, bu
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I've never been much of an HRC fan, but it's hard to see what she could have done differently, based on the information available. Aside from "don't be Hillary Clinton, with all the baggage that involves", of cours
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Citizens United is not the example I would have gone with. It really only effects the ability of corporations to influence politics, so its effects on citizens are indirect at best. Roe v. Wade and its predecessor cases (Griswold et al.) w
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by Kadin 10y ago
Both the Democrats, in large part, and the Republicans, in overwhelming part, made a sort of Faustian bargain starting in the early 1970s, embracing globalization in ways that were harmful to U.S. industries but, the implied promise went, w
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Florida and North Carolina were considered competitive or "tossup" states, while several of the upper Midwestern states were considered fairly safe Democrat territories, probably because they were historically dominated by unioniz
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There can be a lot of emulation overhead, depending on how the emulation is done. So the fact that the hardware is more powerful than the Wii doesn't mean you could successfully do a high-fidelity Wii emulator on it. It was only relat

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