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by abalone 8y ago
This stat is widely misunderstood. Tesla rolled out Collision Avoidance Assist and Autopilot around the same time. These variables were not isolated by the NHTSA.[1] It is likely that collision avoidance was the major factor in the crash ra
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by abalone 8y ago
But don't Tesla's have Collision Avoidance Assist on by default? That's a distinct feature from autopilot. That's primarily what helps out in situations that you've noted. Autopilot basically adds autosteering to th
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by abalone 8y ago
The difference is in the compare. A collision avoidance system is there to help correct driver errors, so even if it only works 50% of the time it is still a massive reduction in the accident rate. Whereas with autopilot the expectation is
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by abalone 8y ago
One doesn't have to be quite that cynical. Tesla's goal could genuinely be getting to Level 4/5 autonomy ASAP. My question is whether there is actually any immediate customer benefit to Level 2 autonomy that doesn't tech
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by abalone 8y ago
I keep wondering what the customer benefit of Level 2 autopilot is if not to lower your attention and relax your mind. Tesla's "out" is that drivers are supposed to retain full attention and oversight of the autopilot system
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by abalone 8y ago
American media has vigorous criticism within a certain range (roughly the Democrat-Republican spectrum), but it is supportive of common elite interests. For example you will find the NYT rarely criticized on moral grounds the wars that the
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by abalone 8y ago
I highly recommend reading Chomsky or Herman’s work directly and drawing your own conclusions. It is extensively footnoted with primary sources.[1] I grew up in a conservative environment. One day I came across some of Chomsky’s speeches on
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by abalone 8y ago
That is not "plainly more compelling." There is no undo button for GMOs -- once they are out in the wild there's no eradicating them. For well over half a century we have understood that most famines are a result of entitleme
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by abalone 8y ago
It might be helpful to identify a third kind of car, which is a manual car with automated collision avoidance. Oftentimes such features are lumped in with autonomous driving, which leads to claims about autonomous driving safety. But they c
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by abalone 8y ago
> The real strain in driving is the mental strain, and that is why people turn it on. Exactly. If people were actually complying with autopilot’s TOS it wouldn’t actually be more relaxing. But then it wouldn’t be a compelling feature.
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by abalone 8y ago
So if I understand correctly, you’re saying it allows you to pay less attention to the car in front of you and more to the traffic around you. Yeah, you’re absolutely not supposed to do that (in a Tesla at least). You’re supposed to pay 100
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by abalone 8y ago
How is “concentrating on the overall traffic” substantially different than concentrating during regular driving, unless it is less focused or attentive somehow? Aren’t you taking your attention away to a degree from the nitty gritty of trac
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by abalone 8y ago
Ok, so micro-adjustments are automated. But those don’t require much force and it’s certainly not constant. The only constant load is the attention required. I.e. paying attention to straying from the lane. Thus if you’re feeling a big reli
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by abalone 8y ago
I am not talking about ACC. I’m talking about autosteering. But it’s interesting you concede the primary benefit is paying less attention. If you did that in a Tesla you would be violating the TOS and be responsible for resulting accidents.
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by abalone 8y ago
But you don’t “constantly” exert force on the steering wheel. You only exert force when turning. Otherwise you are just resting your hands on it, same as autopilot. It’s not like the accelerator pedal at all. Again the only significant redu
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by abalone 8y ago
Help me understand. How does it lower the strain of driving if you have to remain 100% as attentive anyway? Or are you actually less than 100%.
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by abalone 8y ago
The underlying reasoning about Yelp's argument here is not that great: > There are three problems with this argument [that the answer box is anticompetitive]... First, the answer box originally included content scraped from sources
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by abalone 8y ago
You don't have to disable iCloud to do regular local backups.
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by abalone 8y ago
So the device is locked because Activation Lock (Find My iPad) was enabled. But the root problem is the AppleID lockout. > Apple will not unlock her iCloud account... even though she has never forgotten her password. This is news to me
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by abalone 8y ago
Because you "vet" sellers. Somehow. Infinitely easily. For the rest of us mere mortals, the consumer protections offered by cards are an essential foundation of Internet commerce.
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by abalone 8y ago
So you think people who get defrauded on the Internet are "dumb". I can see why you like cryptocurrency.
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by abalone 8y ago
False. Random sellers on internet forums are not easy to vet at all. The whole point of chargebacks is you don't have to vet the seller.
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by abalone 8y ago
OP is an ex-Coinbase engineer, so no. That's just a lazy dismissal.
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by abalone 8y ago
It's like you've never been ripped off by someone selling you a watch on an internet forum.
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by abalone 8y ago
> I doubt the YIMBY movement is going to solve the problem, because they have alienated many lower-income voters. I think you're right and part of the problem is reflected in your comment. YIMBYs are supremely confident in its dia
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by abalone 8y ago
Yes but not necessarily market-rate developments that accelerate gentrification and displacement. BMR housing, for sure.
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by abalone 8y ago
So the reason "blacks [and] hispanics" are impoverished in California is because of... environmental protections. HN community, why are you dignifying this straight-up trolling with a response?
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by abalone 8y ago
tl;dr Only chlorine bleach and certain washers with a "sanitize" setting reliably sanitize laundry. With bleach you have to make sure you add it to the water at the right time which a malfunctioning dispenser can fail to do (and y
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by abalone 8y ago
Missing context: this is catching up to last year's iCloud pricing (200GB for $2.99, 2TB for $9.99). Not sure how the new support feature compares to free/paid Apple support options. Not a lot of details on it yet.
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by abalone 8y ago
In case you are wondering, this technique probably doesn't work against security-hardened chips. But other might, like what nation-states can afford. "More security-focused mircocontrollers like the ones used in hardware security

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