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by SolarNet 9y ago
We don't have adequate public transportation (so car + car insurance + car maintenance). And our cities were never really designed to be walk-able or bike-able. While we have compulsory health insurance not dissimilar to the German sys
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Ehhh, except that rust's borrowing system is a really great aid to prevent those sorts of things. And, one can easily make a thread responsible for deallocating the cascading objects. The point being that reference counting allows one
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by SolarNet 9y ago
> Can't make head or tail of what `zero_t` and `one_t` are about, or why they would be useful. I suspect it's the same problem C++ has/had (C++11 fixed it) with bools (see the safe bool idiom [0]). Basically treating a typ
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by SolarNet 9y ago
The braking distance at 80 mph for a modern car is 320 feet (just under 100m) the car should have been able to come to a complete stop if the software had been using the LIDAR correctly.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
> Last week, we learned from The Guardian, The New York Times and Channel 4 that Cambridge Analytica may not have deleted the data as they had certified. We immediately banned them from using any of our services. He was part of Cambridge
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by SolarNet 9y ago
The whole thing actually reminds me of Inform7, which is a natural language implementation of text adventures on a similar (albeit very old) database query language system.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Because those vehicles have licensed human operators. The malfunctions may be to blame on the manufacturer, but are also licensed and regulated. The cars have to pass certain crash test standards for example. In this case, the operator was
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by SolarNet 9y ago
My thoughts exactly, this article seems to be glorifying a murderer. I had to stop myself halfway through and do a double take of how after he had glorified this man's accomplishments, he brings out the murder bit ("surely he&#x27
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by SolarNet 9y ago
> So, if you can't back up the assertion that it's not testable, you have "effectively" lost the argument. I have backed up the assertion. I have pointed to the existing literature, and the many people who have tried
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I can't think of a test, many people haven't been able to, and neither can you apparently, until someone has a test it is effectively non-falsifiable. Science isn't about proof, if observations change (primarily improve) th
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by SolarNet 9y ago
It's non-falsifiable, which is the actual standard of science, because we don't have a test for it yet. We'd have to have something to observe and measure, something to test. As some quick examples for this specific case: * T
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by SolarNet 9y ago
But that's the difference of being against self driving cars, and a specific model of a car (for which it's manufacturer is liable). The OP was saying, to use your analogy, we still use doctors in the U.S. because it changed death
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I don't think it's the workers that are the problem, from the article they sound just as frustrated (and indeed seem to be the source of this article). The management is not in a union. How does firing the workers fix anything?
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I certainly think the cartels are worse. But both torture children soberly for economic gain. I have empathy for both situations. But just because Foxconn is legal, doesn't really make it better. Also in case anyone missed it today, co
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Foxconn has 14 year old workers. Foxconn workers commit suicide over working conditions. Foxconn has violent drunken fights between workers that injure dozens of people (including those 14 year old workers by the by). It isn't signific
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I think a lot of more progressive(?) places let drug users off because it's more or less a victimless crime (no one has to be harmed in making and distributing drugs, though some producers certainly do that, but so does any capitalisti
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Yea the poster was being hyperbolic, but the Netherlands is pretty fine with drugs for personal use. Their problems seems to be the tools the site is selling for committing other crimes (forgeries) and the larger sellers (who often have tie
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by SolarNet 9y ago
This is why I like Vernor Vinge - sci-fi authors tend to have a scientific focus based on their background, e.g. physicists tend to focus on physics world building - because he is a computer scientist and is capable of expressing ideas arou
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Nothing. However it will provide a consistent basis for translating a wider variety of systems to existing type systems.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
To all the people saying that this just keeps administrators busy. Sure, that's one way to read it, especially from an engineers perspective. But this administrative stuff is what gets open projects like these more adoption and more fu
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Type systems.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
They are definitely IOTA something, their latest tweet was about how Bitcoin will fail and IOTA will stay standing.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
The system would have to be stable for that to work.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
That will decrease it's performance as well I suspect
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Also he paid her half a million (a million in today's money) for her help. Less a wife, and more a special kind of legally protected employee.
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by SolarNet 9y ago
Show me the code (of the bootstraping system). This project is no more "beyond open source" than a History channel documentary about aliens. This is no more than a tax haven and toy for the wealthy and privileged. Put up or shut u
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by SolarNet 9y ago
No you still misunderstand. The road in the analogy is the hardware itself. And the car is the OS. The OP's point was that we have to replace the hardware, because at some point you are hacking up your car to absurd degree just to be a
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I think you misunderstand. The statement "when running unrelated processes in userspace" probably means, when running multiple threads under the same process id. Threads are "lightweight processes" in linux parlance (e.g
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by SolarNet 9y ago
More like picking special tires that can run on the shitty road. The roads are the hardware itself and their vendors (I would assume).
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by SolarNet 9y ago
I think his point was, that in general, even the terrible mutations like sickle cell serve a purpose in ensuring the survival of our species in the face of diseases like malaria (which if it was much more potent, or our population much smal

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