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by MattRix 5y ago
How is the car saving the passenger by driving through the crowd? That seems like an entirely imaginary scenario. In almost any real world scenario the solution is going to be to apply the brakes and come to a stop.
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I agree, driver monitoring should absolutely be a core part of self driving systems. This is something that George Hotz (Comma.ai) is getting right, and Tesla is getting wrong. The problem is that Elon/Tesla has the hubris to think tha
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by MattRix 5y ago
Yes, those (very rare, mostly hypothetical) situations are trolley problems, but OP was making an entirely different argument, referring to self driving as a whole being a form of trolley problem. I think the concerns of self driving “moral
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by MattRix 5y ago
This is a trolley problem as much as seatbelts and airbags are. The number of people who get into car accidents is staggering, and it’s certainly not just drunk and tired drivers. Drive assist features like lane keeping already make driving
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To be clear, human driving that is augmented by “AI” (lane following, collision detection, blind spot warnings, etc) is much safer than human driving alone. I
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Good question! There are a few things. First, you can’t make a table that doesn’t have specifically typed vertical columns, which means a bunch of layouts just aren’t possible (you can kind of fake it with all text columns, but it gets mess
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Yup, that’s how they present it, though in reality it’s pretty clunky as a project management tool, and you’d almost always be better off using a purpose-built solution. Notion makes a decent tool for a personal/organizational wiki but
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by MattRix 5y ago
Along the same lines, the fact that they don’t have any simple inline tables that aren’t “databases” is annoying. Sometimes I don’t want a database or a spreadsheet, just a simple inline table with a few columns.
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Seeing websites as just being a tool to get you to the thing “that does matter” is a shame. There’s a place for that for sure, but that’s all the modern web is now. I miss the time when the site itself was an expression of the person who ma
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There are already many sources of outdoor air quality data, you can find maps like this, for example: https://aqicn.org/map/world/ Monitoring household/office/school indoor air quality seems to be a rela
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by MattRix 5y ago
Just discovered that the Box link I posted in my other comment actually still does work, it just doesn’t work on mobile for some reason.
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Skyward is a great light read by him, but note that it’s sci-fi, not fantasy.
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There’s nothing wrong with exclusives. They aren’t any more “anti-consumer” than first party titles (like Valve’s own Half-Life, Portal, etc)
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Why would they choose 12% and not 25% or 20% then? Either of those would be better than Steam. Calling exclusives “anti-consumer” is basically nonsense. Exclusives have been a mainstay of the gaming world for ages. The actual harm they caus
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by MattRix 5y ago
It used to be in a public documents folder on Box. The link doesn’t seem to be working anymore so maybe they took it down for the weekend (or permanently) https://app.box.com/s/6b9wmjvr582c95uzma1136exumk6p989/fold
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by MattRix 5y ago
There should definitely be efforts made to figure out how to tax those billionaires (and there are!), but that doesn’t mean that those making $400k shouldn’t be taxed way more as well. Let’s be honest, your life won’t change in any meaningf
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These taxes affect people who are making $400k+, so yeah, they can handle paying more taxes.
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No they wouldn’t. They already run their own store where they take 12%. Tim Sweeney has been a vocal supporter of open platforms/markets for many years. This action is costing Epic TONS of money. In no way does it make financial sense
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You can’t just boil an entire life down to a single metric like being happy/content. Many things (like freedom) may even decrease “happiness” yet also have deeper value.
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Oh please, now you see yourself as persecuted by the “woke orthodoxy”. Do you really deny that you have privilege? You’re both white and male, aren’t you? The way you talk actually says a lot more about you than you’re aware of.
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by MattRix 5y ago
There is no personal attack here, I am referring to anyone who uses “cancel culture” as a bad thing.
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The word “civilized” is doing a lot of heavy lifting for you there. White supremacy is still very real in America and throughout the rest of the world. The idea that you’d brush off someone asking about white supremacy in the same way as a
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If someone asks you “do you denounce white supremacy?”, and you stay silent… many people (myself included) would see that as a form of endorsement. I don’t need any additional context, and I don’t see it as being any kind of logical fallacy
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I am not talking about silence at all times, but specifically silence at times when someone is given the opportunity to speak up about an issue and chooses not to.
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The “special interest” is not actually unrelated. A company can become better and more successful while also becoming more diverse. The very fact that you see becoming more diverse as coming at the expense of being more successful shows you
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I don’t get it.
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There are certain issues (like this one) where silence has historically been used as a form of endorsement. It is certainly not irrational to perceive it as being an endorsement.
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The article contains multiple interpretations of what was said, including the one the parent comment used.
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You say that as if the team spent literally all their work time debating these issues during those months.
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I feel like you have a misunderstanding. Most of the work of a D&I group like this is pushing for diversity and inclusion issues in their workplace , not in the country at large. And why shouldn’t they? There are places and organizatio

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