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by babesh 5y ago
This comparison just sold me on how morally wrong it is what Cadillac is doing. Intentionally misleading and marketing to customers a feature called Super Cruise that is only a marginal improvement on what other cars already offer. What if
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by babesh 5y ago
Apparently, one CEO is responsible and the other isn't responsible for all marketing and ads. Hahaha
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by babesh 5y ago
And an unnamed entity ignores the marketing that says hands-free driving and excuses marketing from the engineer and from the dealer. And more, directly from Cadillac. — Cadillac website, headline description of Super Cruise https:/&#
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by babesh 5y ago
Aren't they? https://youtu.be/zq43DQ9yVJY Engineer who created it without hands on wheel! https://youtu.be/rfV8fqYaHx8 How about dealer with both hands behind their head while saying "Look ma, no
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by babesh 5y ago
In fact, the article, as read by a human, highlights Cadillac’s Super Cruise. Now the human who did actual research went to Cadillac’s site which touts “ Offered on the 2018-2020 CT6, 2021 CT4, CT5 and Escalade, and forthcoming 2023 LYRIQ,
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by babesh 5y ago
Because the comment is exactly what Tesla argues you have to do but then the unnamed called it morally wrong. Yet, when other systems are found vulnerable to driver hacking, the unnamed falls back to the same argument that Tesla uses, namel
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by babesh 5y ago
https://www.sfgate.com/coronavirus/article/Pfizer-moderna-va... Pfizer is even worse?
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by babesh 5y ago
Prediction. Tech companies are going to delay openings again or workers will remain masked for months. Former is more likely. My reasoning. They will realize that either those people are going to be masked all day or they are going to have
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by babesh 5y ago
People rather believe their side than reality. Just a little while later (same day). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28151372 Delta seems very contagious amongst the Astra Zeneca vaccinated. Those viral loads seem pret
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by babesh 5y ago
I wonder how many people agree with these statements and which ones: - The Delta variant is more virulent but less lethal than the previous variants - There will be additional variants (lambda is already here) - Certain masks are reasonably
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by babesh 5y ago
Another aspect not touched upon by either the author of this article nor of the book is multigenerational thinking common in immigrants. You KNOW you aren't getting that rich but you are trying to make a better life for your kids. Your
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by babesh 5y ago
Wait till you hear about what the IQ > 130 demographic think of the IQ <= 130 demographic and what the IQ > 140 demographic think of the IQ <= 140 demographic.
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Oh, another tidbit of understanding has to do with the size of the battery. Volume grows with the cube but surface area grows with the square. Therefore, a smaller battery would be easier to cool or may not need any cooling. A larger batter
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by babesh 5y ago
Today’s EVs are in some ways a hack. The energy contained in the battery is far less than in a tank of gasoline. To achieve range, most EVs are more aerodynamic than your average ICE car. Towing a battery out back would be horrible for aero
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by babesh 5y ago
Smoke travels pretty far and causes obvious health issues. The undergrowth due to suppressing previous fires and the additional fuel from dead trees due to droughts result in very hot fires that grow huge. The Dixie fire that is ongoing is
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by babesh 5y ago
If there is a positive correlation between admission standards and graduate ability, what you have done is lowered the average but left it above the bar (assuming that the bar isn't curved). There is still the question as to whether c
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by babesh 5y ago
Aren't there already lowered standards for graduation for many Ivy leagues? https://www.theodysseyonline.com/ivy-leagues-grade-inflation... I guess the other possibilities are that the students have gotten better or ha
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by babesh 5y ago
> the major storage providers **major**
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by babesh 5y ago
There is a Chinese company doing this. Tesla unveiled the concept years ago but decided not to do it. There are multiple reasons that battery replacement is not as good as it seems. Charging stations can be built in more locations and more
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by babesh 5y ago
I am not expert but I read that there were Ughyur uprisings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_conflict Also, I read that the US/China competition includes a US containment strategy. https://cejiss
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by babesh 5y ago
What is Dropbox Vault then? https://www.dropbox.com/features/security/vault Why only pincode protection? What about Dropbox Password? That seems to be zero knowledge? They are two separate attempts in the security
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by babesh 5y ago
Not if that application data is already part of Google services. That appears to application data for non-Google services. https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/us-national-... But I do stand corrected on non
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by babesh 5y ago
An obvious solution would be to allow third-party storage services where you can dump your device data pre-encrypted and restore from those services. Only you would have the key. It isn't hard to implement. The hard part would be getti
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by babesh 5y ago
I don’t hold the view that Apple is trying to eliminate end to end encryption. I view this as a push by governments to do so and the increasing willingness of the tech industry to work with them. This is more like Apple giving way gradually
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by babesh 5y ago
If that were the case, wouldn't this CSAM scanning system be insufficient to meet those EARN-IT requirements? You have other Apple services and third-party apps that host material on Apple's servers. For example, if a user turns o
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by babesh 5y ago
If you really believe that, then I have a bridge to sell you. The exact same safety argument can and will be applied to ALL data whether on your device or Apple's servers. Why limit to iMessage and photos? Why not Signal on your device
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by babesh 5y ago
Yes, and that path dependence isn't limited to mathematics, but people love prestige.
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by babesh 5y ago
Yes, irrational numbers were a great discovery (including how they were discovered) and the systematic treatment of math in The Elements was a better example of the advancement in approaches to knowledge and thinking. And yes, if the Pythag
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by babesh 5y ago
I think there is a trend across the world of power centers becoming more authoritarian and punitive. It is en vogue to see it in China and point them out for it. It is harder to look in the mirror and see something similar happening in the
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by babesh 5y ago
Also, rigor was romantacized. With the exception of The Elements, very little math till the last maybe 200 years had that level of rigor. Newton and Leibniz sure didn't.

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