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by Maybestring 8y ago
The state emissions tests are only meant to catch cars polluting above something like circa-1980 emissions limits. Even flagrantly cheating, a modern car is no where near dirty enough to fail the tailpipe check.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
There is the assumption that those stamps won't be used. I have a few, I'm not collecting them, I just don't go through stamps very fast.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
I thought mathematics couldn't be patented, or are visualization methods exempt?
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by Maybestring 8y ago
I would bet poor correlation between a static seatbelt pull test and an actual crash.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
>The ends do not justify the means. The means are the ends. An organization that disregards safety during product development is not going to have the culture required to actually produce a product that improves safety.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
The boogyman isn't the sabeteur, it's the mysterious cabal of oil barons and short sellers that put him up to it.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
>No sci-fi writer predicted bitcoin mining. Diamond age had a distributed tuple space, which was kind of similar in effect, enclaves that made their living off of work their computers did for digital pay.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
Article says 5000mph, so the launch is well below orbital velocity.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
Drag being a factor of velocity squared means diminishing returns for increasing launch velocity, but there's no hard limit.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
Like many mental illnesses, the severity of the illness varies considerably. A single manic episode is the diagnostic requirement.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
I also wouldn't be surprised. Results in transfer learning from synthetic to real world vision tasks suggest to me that if you could train this system with (for example) GTA-V as the environment, it may work reasonably well in the real
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by Maybestring 8y ago
No review of the XPS-13 is complete without mentioning that plugging/unplugging the power cord turns on audio distortion effects.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
At least at this stage, Chicago isn't paying for it. So... why not?
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by Maybestring 8y ago
>And they lack the angular resolution to determine whether stuff is directly ahead, or off to one side. Sounds like my Grandma. For her safety, and everyone else's, she doesn't drive any more.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
It's simply that the people doing the development only get to use VBA. Not that having a chemical engineer teach themself C# over their lunch break is going to turn out great software... Having worked at a big company as a mechanical e
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by Maybestring 8y ago
It will be good to have a global option. But I wouldn't bet on Starlink being competitive in urban areas.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
It gets hot going through the fuel pump.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
The cheating code is probably necessary. There are dozens of higher emission modes that an engine may go into to prevent damage in certain situations. E.g. low ambient pressure, high coolant temperature, slow wastegate response...
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by Maybestring 8y ago
Any evidence for that? I have a hard time believing people are moving to 'Rain City' to live outside.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
https://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/f... Friedman argued it was good for corporations to be greedy, and corporate America liked that idea.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
Daimler didn't fail to pass tests, and they didn't cheat on the tests. They are (apparently) entering a (high emission) engine protection mode at a time that is not allowed. It isn't impossible that their excuse, they read th
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by Maybestring 8y ago
Netflix pays for bandwidth on their end, and I pay for it on mine.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
>Maybe. But also realize you have to protect patents. So if they do not which clearly they do not then no issue. That's trademarks.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
>Possibly inappropriate - but why do people immediately link suicide and mental illness? Because suicide is almost always preceded by years of mental health problems.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
>-Is pursuing an AI that kills 10 bad guys but saves 20 good ones overall bad? It's irrelevant. The swordsmith doesn't get to choose who gets cut down. Does anyone think it's possible to build autonomous weapons that can&#
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by Maybestring 8y ago
>All it takes is for one of those people to disagree, build them, and then we all must have them. A killbot is (more or less) a mobile booby trap. If we have a problem with madmen leaving booby traps around, we can't solve that by l
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by Maybestring 8y ago
I'm not sure it's in Tesla's financial interest. Misleading statements give the plaintiffs more room to argue for punitive damages, and California juries have awarded tremendous punitive damages on auto companies.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
>This kind of stuff is why I’ve lost all faith in Tesla’s public statements. I don't understand why they would issue any statement other than, 'condolences, we're committed to safety, we're working with the NTSB to un
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by Maybestring 8y ago
This isn't money for studies, it's money for digital art projects.
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by Maybestring 8y ago
>The overall heat increase is the same That's not the case if you're comparing with AC. You have to use energy (generating more waste heat) to pump heat up a temperature gradient.

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