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by bdamm 7y ago
Yeah, it's one thing to ship a canister to the lunar surface and then witness a tiny bit of growth, it's quite another to actually grow using the base aggregates available on the moon. While I appreciate their experiment, it'
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by bdamm 7y ago
Because Elon's success has nothing to do with cannabis. Maybe if he had taken up smoking cannabis, he wouldn't have been successful. He certainly demonstrated that he doesn't smoke cannabis.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Sure, but that's why there are armies of programmers writing rules for self driving cars. The "theory of mind" is being developed in the form of control code. It's not easy, but it is accelerated by the data collected in
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by bdamm 7y ago
What’s a “full mental model of the immediate world”? I’d argue that nobody has anything approaching “full”. You have “enough to get by” and that’s all computers need as well. This isn’t a full sentient AI, it’s just sensing the world and na
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by bdamm 7y ago
These little steps towards usable QC keep coming. Is there a paper or doc that outlines what breakthroughs are still needed before we can consider ECC or RSA broken? Is QC interesting for signal processing? How would having a million Qbits
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by bdamm 7y ago
Pilots flying in "hard" instrument conditions also experience this. You can see the interior of the airplane, but everywhere you look outside is exactly the same shade of grey/black/white, and there's no usable data
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by bdamm 7y ago
Of course, we can just as easily blame the FAA. If it's so hard to establish a differential training program then maybe the re-certification program the FAA requires (to certify a pilot to fly a slightly different aircraft) is too oner
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by bdamm 7y ago
Yes. This is resolvable via packaging, regulation & enforcement changes. We have these same issues in pet food, baby formula, and ammunition.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Partly I think this is motivated by the law that gives tax breaks to companies that show losses. So then no big surprise that many tech companies show losses, regardless of their corporate health. Amazon is one; they've almost never sh
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by bdamm 7y ago
The freeway control regime is entirely different from a low-speed control regime required to safely maneuver in a parking lot. Where I'd expect strange things to occur would be when a car confuses a baby rolling on the asphalt with a g
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by bdamm 7y ago
As strange as it is to a pedestrian such as myself, sitting in parking lots with the climate set to your liking, the doors locked, and a media on the screen, seems to be an increasingly popular past-time. I personally don't understand
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by bdamm 7y ago
It's very odd to me that not eating mushrooms is part of Jain vegetarianism. If ever there was a case of a fruit that did no harm to harvest, it is your typical farmed mushroom and even many wild ones.
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by bdamm 7y ago
I'm a hardcore vi user and even I miss-strike the arrow keys at times when I'm not using vi. Also, remapping caps lock to escape is great but for some reason I just can't get out of the habit of sending my pinkie or left ring
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by bdamm 7y ago
That's hilarious. It's obviously about Trump as a mean-spirited real estate developer, which he is well documented to be. The character is lampooning heartless big business' effect on neighborhoods, a common American sentimen
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by bdamm 7y ago
As a younger man I took pride in not needing any technical assistance to get around in the world. Now in middle age, and with a diagnosed electrical-type heart problem, I'm pretty happy to have the gizmo help me out. This makes those r
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by bdamm 7y ago
Reference? Sesame Street is mostly apolitical, unless you consider encouraging tolerance to be political. My experience with PBS is that there's plenty of encouragement of independent thought. Yes, there's maybe too much armchair
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by bdamm 7y ago
I've met brilliant technical people from every race I've ever thought to recognize. I don't need any further argument to understand that there are brilliant individuals of all races.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Folks sometimes say two wrongs don't make a right, but when I look at this kind of thing and try to put myself in the shoes of a person that's experienced race-based bullying their entire life and are trying to edge up any way the
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by bdamm 7y ago
It's not literally hearing voices, but rather observing the flow of thoughts. You feel hungry, there's a thought. You suddenly realize you forgot someone's birthday, there's a thought. You think about that chocolate bar
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by bdamm 7y ago
Oh yes you can. It's in how and what you count.
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by bdamm 7y ago
This is more of computer science issue with languages insisting on being turing complete. I suppose governments could incentivize language designers to produce and support languages that eliminate ever larger classes of vulnerabilities by o
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by bdamm 7y ago
You're right. Discussing the shortcomings of the constitution is sort of viewed as a faux pax in American society, but the fact is that the current government, including its weaknesses, is an outcome of it. Discussions of how it could
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by bdamm 7y ago
These trucks are solving the "last mile" delivery. Do you see many USPS delivery vans on the highway? That's the market.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Then we need to start studying how to help parents have a better experience when vaccinating their children. The fact is that, as a parent, it's unsettling to watch a doctor pump vial after vial into your kid. Even immediately after bi
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by bdamm 7y ago
Bankruptcy seems quite appropriate. They not only failed to maintain the security of the data, they also provided no identity theft protection to the public (unless you asked for it), and as a company appeared to have no plan for this eve
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by bdamm 7y ago
As a software guy I have to point out that often software "engineers" overbuild and abstract the wrong stuff, doing stupid things like making everything a layer. There is way more bad code written by professional software engineer
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by bdamm 7y ago
That is really interesting! I didn't realize how unresolved this truly is.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Looking at the data with compassion, I would say that access to abortion didn't result in more abortions. In fact, the opposite occurred; access to abortions appears to have reduced the abortion rate over the long term. So if you are t
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by bdamm 7y ago
And among "other medical conditions" would sit ectopic pregnancy, which not only you cannot deliver, you cannot even allow it to get to 12 weeks or the mother could die, so no attempt at delivery would make sense. How much medical
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by bdamm 7y ago
At some point there's going be some form of court system(s) evolve out of this, or else case law is going to lay down some rough guidelines for companies like Facebook that are going to have to operate their own internal courts. I coul

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