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by Zigurd 29d ago
I used to commute on the redeye from Boston or New York to a Philips office on the opposite side of Amsterdam from the airport. The impressive rail network of course had a big station right at the airport. The first time I hopped in a taxi
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by Zigurd 29d ago
It's a common practice for the dispatch software used in both company issued and personal smart mobile devices to log accelerometer data and score the drivers for smooth driving. Whether that's a reliable proxy for safety is anoth
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by Zigurd 29d ago
If you make the wrong decision about which car to buy, your insurance can cost hundreds of dollars a month. Cutting that substantially is as good as banning non-automated driving. Cars that aren't automated will plummet in value. The t
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
If you bought a house on Clarion Alley, would you be a douche bag and paint over the murals? That's the actual question about this situation. What is your hypothetical about?
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
It doesn't deserve a response. It's self refuting. The likeliest situation is there was no formal arrangement. The decent thing to do was to come to an arrangement whether there was a previous arrangement or not. You can be perfec
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
Has anyone Loopt sama into this discussion?
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
Or people outside the US distrusting US technology? There is a confluence of trends pointing away from US based tech. It will take a crazy amount of work to restore trust.
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
Only after being refueled by 15 other giant rockets.
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
Optimus robots will arrive in Robo taxis to install your Tesla solar roof which will also receive Internet and XAI LLM service from orbiting data centers. When? By the end of the year.
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
A lot of people also forget that the Bill of Rights is a list of thou shalt nots addressed to the government. In other words it doesn't just claim to not be a list of everyone's rights, it is structured and written to not be such
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
Sometimes the comparison can't be made directly because the US Constitution embodies the concept of unenumerated rights.
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
It seems nonsensical that the government could have the power to lie to and defraud the people while poisoning them. That just renders other rights meaningless.
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
Some software companies sort of stumble into treating their customers as hostages while others make an art form of it. Computer Associates, which is part of Broadcom now, has been doing that for decades.
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
These ads are aimed at the board members of IBM's customers. IBM has been doing this for ages. I might think IBM is a high margin body shop with a veneer of innovative-ish projects like Watson that are almost comically out of step with
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
Even cops that are well intended, that most people would call good, are hopelessly under trained regarding civil rights. A lot of have them have delusions of being some kind of detective and being clever about deceiving you into giving up y
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
Prosecutors are insufficiently independent from cops. The job of prosecutor is often as political steppingstone. Prosecuting cops isn't compatible with that.
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
Anything can be made to go away.
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
They also fit startup logic in a peculiarly perverted way: try all the nasty stuff compartmentalized into a low stakes stealth mode start up, then become an acquisition target once you've got the perverted PMF of having a benign lookin
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
Try FOIAing a body cam, and filing a complaint. You might get action before the next Ice Age. Record a cop doing something blatantly illegal and try finding a willing prosecutor. In practice there's no accountability.
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
Remote control is such a bad idea Waymos are never remote driven. Sometimes a human has to pick from a set of choices, but the Waymo driver hardware executes the selected choice. Starlink latency, while better than most satellite data laten
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
There's lots of AI capex that is low risk. If it ends up being under utilized companies like Amazon and Google will adjust their capex plans. When they say things like under spending is riskier than overspending, for them, that's
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
Iowa Electronic Markets still exists. No need to give the commercial prediction markets any leeway.
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
I started making TikTok's about starship because the project management was such a smelly crock of cheese. Starship stacks project risk on top of project risk, and the delays show it. By stacking I mean that the project risks can'
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
Don't normalize stupidity and gratuitous belligerence.
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
In practical terms commercial prediction markets are unregulated gambling. That's where the money comes from. Stapling a vitamin C packet to your cigarette box doesn't diminish that you're selling cigarettes.
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
palmotea really wants to torque hN's literal mindednes, don't they? This is one place where the joke gets funnier as it gets explained.
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
It's also an obvious and cynical regulatory dodge. Prediction markets make the bulk of their profit from sports betting.
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
Alternatively, impose regulatory requirements to keep the 99% who aren't you safe from big tech companies making decisions for their own convenience.
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by Zigurd 1mo ago
That would be one way to do it but the problem isn't confined to email. Losing an online identity means losing, in practical terms, access to a wide range of government services and regulatorily required filings. Total bans are conveni
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Tesla Sets a Launch Date for the Cybercab(gizmodo.com)
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