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by Slartie 7y ago
The critical part is that you need to compare apples to apples - in this case, the one second delay is from the point at which the car had a clear idea of there being an obstacle in its path until it would have started to apply the brakes.
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by Slartie 7y ago
> > That triggered what Uber called “action suppression,” in which the system held off braking for one second > A hardcoded 1 second delay during a potential emergency situation. Horrifying. Also laughable, if it wasn't so hor
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by Slartie 7y ago
The actual cost of processing payment is far less than 1.5-3% - especially with debit cards (which actually implement most of what you think "is not a thing") but even when dealing with credit cards and the necessity to include so
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by Slartie 7y ago
The problem is: the Tether-USD pairing, which is the one that is supposed to always be at 1:1, is really exotic on exchanges. The only major one coming to my mind is Kraken, and even there the volume on the pair is anemic compared to the Te
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by Slartie 7y ago
The last spike in 2017, $10k-$19k, is what this article refers to as „the rally. That was not caused by ICOs, but likely by a single entity (I was witnessing it in real-time back then on multiple exchanges and the price action definitely lo
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by Slartie 7y ago
This was the reason for me to still buy AMD shares when they were deep underwater. I considered them basically immortal, because if the company ever was in existential danger, Intel would have a huge incentive to stage some kind of indirect
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by Slartie 7y ago
At the moment there is definitely a majority of people sitting in the Senate who would put their signature under an "everything is fine". My hope is that this changes, but the chances are limited, if at all existent, so: yes, by a
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by Slartie 7y ago
So a president who basically hands victory after victory to foreign governments and who effectively reduced the toolbox of the United States to shape foreign relations to "sanctions" and "tariffs" is not considered a thr
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by Slartie 7y ago
I wrote a tool for that in our company (in Java, but could be written in any language) like 10 years ago or so, which is still in heavy use as of today in multiple projects, migrating tens of thousands of (SQLServer and PostgreSQL) database
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by Slartie 7y ago
Because it was about encoding a list of things in an _attribute_. Attribute! Using nested elements is not exactly a solution for that requirement.
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by Slartie 7y ago
Not as long as this situation does not persist for too long. The market is supposed to correct such inefficiencies by dividing such failing investors from their money and conversely rewarding investors in successful and sustainable business
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by Slartie 7y ago
> it's too bad investors are climbing over each other to throw money down the long, narrow corridor that is self driving I don't consider that bad. Anyone is free to make bad investments. I do consider it bad that they haven&#x
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by Slartie 7y ago
Yes, because it was clear from the beginning that it would be just a pattern matching exercise. No reasoning necessary, no actual, deep understanding of the written text. It was always known that pattern matching would be what ML algorithms
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by Slartie 7y ago
I would bet a body part on it being way lower, especially if we do not limit it to fatal crashes only (I read that statistic quoted above as "all reported crashes", not just those with fatalities). I had two crashes in my lifetime
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by Slartie 7y ago
Well, tens of millions of tax payers consider Fox News not a News network at all, but a propaganda agent actively involved in to the coup attempt of a loosely coupled conglomerate of foreign-nation stakeholders and private domestic stakehol
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by Slartie 7y ago
How is this a catch-22 situation? It is some kind of dilemma, sure, because you have to decide between making your life easier by using powerful and convenient platform-exclusive APIs or staying more independent by trying to use as much gen
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by Slartie 7y ago
Well, nobody said that being a "pure" tech company automatically guarantees sky-high valuations, a hockeystick growth curve and the successful capture of a winner-takes-all market. Of course there must still be failures in that sp
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by Slartie 7y ago
Even though it might sound absurd, Tesla actually applied a "cloud thermostat" approach to car engineering, by which I mean that they did not refrain from using basically consumer-grade equipment for some critical functions of the
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by Slartie 7y ago
Then choose "the better product" among the myriad of banking accounts from the myriad of competing banks out there. Your problems are all problems related to bank accounts, not to the currency that gets stored in those accounts, s
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by Slartie 7y ago
The US doesn’t really have problems cutting corners when it comes to safety and pollution as well. For safety, look at the standard US power outlet and compare its safety with practically any other outlet in the world, of which all of them
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by Slartie 7y ago
What you describe is pretty much exactly one of the schemes by which a fiscal authority might ensure non-modifyability. The fiscal authority would take up the part of the timestamping service in a real world implementation of course (no gov
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by Slartie 7y ago
POS Developer here. What you describe is a so-called fiscalized POS system (at least in Germany we call them this way, not sure if there's a different English term). These must report the transactions in a cryptographically secured way
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by Slartie 7y ago
POS Developer here. Offline capability (both kinds, with regard to a store server and with regard to an internet connection out of the store) is actually a very important requirement for any serious retailer, but not necessarily 100%, in te
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by Slartie 7y ago
This will just result in you getting lots of debt collection fees and an abysmal credit rating. If you never again plan on taking part in the economy, it may be a convenient solution, though.
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by Slartie 7y ago
It's been a long time ago that I heard the last Blue Apron ad in a podcast. Seems as if the stick was handed over to a suitcase company whose "smart" suitcases cannot be checked in to flights due to batteries, that already-me
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by Slartie 7y ago
People work with prejudice, if they are aware of it or not. A bunch of companies from the tech sector have managed to earn absurdly high valuations in a short timespan by successfully monopolizing a winner-takes-all market for a service wi
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by Slartie 7y ago
We are a company with around 100-150 employees, using Mattermost in a real Enterprise setting for years now (with SSO, CI and mail integration and whatnot) and that server is being maintained by our admin team basically "on the side&qu
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by Slartie 7y ago
It is a very different kind of complexity. Games are super complex in a very limited set of boundaries (the entirely virtual world of that single game) and have very rigid timing requirements, but usually the requirements to a "release
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by Slartie 7y ago
What is the rationale behind using Windows on the servers? I'm wondering because the argument I usually hear is that someone high up in the ops team hierarchy declares "but we need everything in the AD, including all the servers,
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by Slartie 7y ago
Not "was/is", just "was". A customer that decides today doesn't care much about the iPhone legacy, but only if he/she can satisfy all their personal requirements with today's phones and ecosystems. An

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