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by Slartie 9y ago
I generally agree with most of the article, but sorry, this big quote here (that the author apparently thinks of being a good punchline) is just plain wrong: > There is no single person in existence who had a problem they wanted to solve
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by Slartie 9y ago
Imagine the police people having seen their governor (who effectively is their boss, as far as I know, so he is the "hand that feeds them") repeatedly be very, very protective and favorable towards Uber and the self-driving car te
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by Slartie 9y ago
Now THAT explains a lot of that "she came from the shadows" and "a human driver could not have prevented this" and "The car didn't do anything wrong" bullcrap we've been reading from the Tempe Police
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by Slartie 9y ago
Statistics works exactly like this. What doesn't work is saying "Okay, we have one death in 3 million miles, that extrapolates to 33 deaths in 100 million miles", because it implies a silent addition of "with nearly 100%
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by Slartie 9y ago
> Though I don't know why you keep ascribing 'faith' to me. I never brought that dirty word up. I reasoned my way into my positions. In that case, what do you base your assumption on that self-driving cars will be able to
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by Slartie 9y ago
> What's the alternative position? Developing and testing the technology in actual test scenarios (build entire testing cities and fill them up with paid stuntmen and -women, if necessary) instead of in public, until you're abl
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by Slartie 9y ago
You need to have SERIOUS evidence for the claim that autonomous driving will actually be safer than human driving one day to even attempt to make this argument of yours. "Faith in technology" is not "evidence"! If your f
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by Slartie 9y ago
What is currenly being done with self-driving car testing on public roads is basically like a pharmaceutical company mixing a new experimental drug into the dishes of random people at a restaurant, which neither are compensated in any way,
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by Slartie 9y ago
> If you were a top developer, would you like to make 80k€ at a German software company, paying 33% income tax, or 160k$ at a US company paying 9.3%. Well, that depends. If I have to put more than half of that 160k$ (which is obviously a
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by Slartie 9y ago
You can make the argument with the long-term benefits. But you cannot make it without proper statistically sound evidence about the CURRENT safety of the system that you intend to test, for the simple reason that the other traffic participa
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by Slartie 9y ago
> If uber's software wasn't robust, why "test in production" when production could kill people? Because it's cheap. And Arizona lawmakers apparently don't do their job of protecting their citizens against a
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by Slartie 9y ago
I like that idea! Gonna buy a bunch of those, amplify their signal and spread them throughout the city I live in. That will ensure that there's not going to be a single crappy autonomous car being beta-tested in my vicinity! Another id
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by Slartie 9y ago
> Waymo is deploying its fleets on public roads too, which suggests to me that they think that private course tests can only get you so far. No, it just suggests that building and operating huge private courses that realistically emulate
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by Slartie 9y ago
The physical effect is known as the Lorentz force: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_force If this was not the case, we could basically generate arbitrary amounts of power from nowhere, as there was no resistance a
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by Slartie 9y ago
It definitely does. And very interesting thoughts come up, especially when you add newer developments like non-rotational-mass-based power sources (solar power, batteries, stuff like that) into the mix. Because at the moment with the high n
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by Slartie 9y ago
> Apparently to match the demand at given instance electricity plants rotate their turbines a bit faster or a bit slower instead of switching a complete plant on and off, which results in slight deviations from the 50Hz standard but it i
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by Slartie 9y ago
TouchID was definitely one of the "must-have-new-phone-now" features that also triggered a buy for me. My iPhone upgrades always happened due to killer features (for me at least) being introduced. When I upgraded, I always bought
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by Slartie 9y ago
> As I said as you accumulate wealth in Europe it's very likely that you gave a very large share of it back to the government just in the process of accumulating it. This may be true for small- to mid-sized fortunes, but not for the
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by Slartie 9y ago
I am pretty sure that the Apple lawyers were absolutely expecting this outcome, which is probably the reason why they signed such a contract. The risk was mostly on Qualcomm's side, as they were the ones writing the shady contract, whi
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by Slartie 9y ago
In that case Apple is still free to just buy a few percent of the chips they need from a different supplier, use those as well in production and in the worst case shelve the surplus chips from the Qualcomm supply agreement (if the quantitie
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by Slartie 9y ago
The point is: the price is not the only factor that matters in a buying decision. Even if you give hefty discounts, thus are the cheapest source for the parts, the buyer might want to source a percentage of parts from another supplier which
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by Slartie 9y ago
I was thinking along the lines of "a country that makes no secret of the fact that the ones who happen to have power due to their status in society (whether based on their wealth, social influence or whatever else) are free to use this
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by Slartie 9y ago
While this is true (that diplomatic immunity poses problems with some diplomats heavily abusing it, while there doesn't seem to be a good way to punish them for it), it at least is a phenomenon that can be seen as a cost to bear for a
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by Slartie 9y ago
Many typing assistance systems (like keyboards on Android or iOS) offer some kind of "emoji-text to emoji" conversion, meaning that if I type for example "pizza" I get the pizza slice emoji suggested in one of the three
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by Slartie 9y ago
WhatsApp seems to be an interesting case with regard to Emoji history anyway. Am I right that they appear to have copied Apple's emoji library at some time in the past and reused those on all platforms (except iPhone, of course) instea
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by Slartie 9y ago
I am very skeptic with regard to IOTA myself and consider it an overhyped piece of tech that probably will not deliver on any of its various promises. And CFB seems to be a questionable person as well. But...you really should not fall for t
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by Slartie 9y ago
This would require to perform any exchanging on the respective blockchains, which is not how most crypto exchanges work, for various reasons (performance, cost, missing atomicity across different blockchains, involvement of non-crypto curre
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by Slartie 9y ago
You cannot build a botnet large enough to out-hash the army of dedicated ASICs that's responsible for todays' Bitcoin hash rate. Not even a botnet that merges all personal computers in the world would be able to do that - ASICs ar
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by Slartie 9y ago
I recently pulled out my initial investment by using Kraken (in EUR via SEPA bank transfer, so my experiences only apply to that), and it was super-easy and fast. Deposits usually took 2 days to clear; the withdrawals took just one business
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by Slartie 9y ago
That highly depends on the hashing algorithm used. For Bitcoin this is SHA256, which is very well-suited for ASIC implementation. The algorithm of Ethereum was deliberately designed to be ASIC-resistant, but GPU-friendly, therefore GPUs (wh

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