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by bigbubba 6y ago
Vaults without cameras is beyond incompetence. I hope the investigators are open to the possibility that these vaults were set up to fail by management.
692.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Is that absurd? Systems should prevent mistakes, unless the part needed to implement that is a hundred dollars or so? That seems like quite the walk-back. Courts order alcoholics to install these things, they're established availabl
693.
by bigbubba 6y ago
You know it's totally feasible to make a car that won't turn on for drunk people. Should those systems be installed on all cars, in pursuit of creating systems that don't permit stupid actions? Maybe such a breathalyzer inte
694.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Does anything truly 'suck'? When you drink a milkshake with a straw, the milkshake is pushed up your straw by the atmosphere..
695.
by bigbubba 6y ago
> Expecting to go anywhere and speak English is rude. I would just like to clear this up: I do not support the notion of any universal language, and that includes English. My observation that English is relatively more universal than
696.
by bigbubba 6y ago
I think the universal language would gradually extinguish other languages. The more universal a language becomes, the more powerful the network effects get.
697.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Cam-out seems like an ex post facto justification to me. Henry Ford would have picked Robertson if not for the licensing trouble. Robertson's lack of a cam-out 'feature' wasn't the reason.
698.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Cynthia, cinder, cyrillic... I wonder why scythe is spelled with an S...
699.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Same reason Americans use Phillips head screws instead of something sensible like square drive. Network effects. It may not be ideal but you can get by with it, and most other people are using it as well. Some might look north wistfully,
700.
by bigbubba 6y ago
The number of people who succeed is all that matters because that's all that moves you closer to the finish line of 'universal.' It doesn't matter if Esperanto is the most pleasurable language to learn if approximately
701.
by bigbubba 6y ago
I understand that point of view, but desiring the creation of a universal language makes one an aspirational conqueror. The whole premise of 'a universal language for world peace' is oppressive (and for that reason I don't s
702.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Not really; maybe for a particularly motivated individual but not on the large scale. You'll have more succeeds teaching English to large numbers of people because more people will be motivated to learn it, because learning English pr
703.
by bigbubba 6y ago
I agree, but for the same reasons shouldn't Esperanto just be English or Spanish? Way more people are familiar with these systems than Esperanto.
704.
by bigbubba 6y ago
The value proposition of Esperanto never made sense to me. If the goal were merely to get everybody speaking the same language to achieve world peace, then the efforts of pragmatists would go towards teaching more people English, since tha
705.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Ernst & Young are one of the 'Big Four' but it used to be one of the 'Big Five' until Enron and Arthur Anderson went down. Will it soon be the 'Big Three'?
706.
by bigbubba 6y ago
They have quite a few videos where they make things. Their videos get recommended to me alongside videos from machinists and fabricators.
707.
by bigbubba 6y ago
'Watson' is just a brand that IBM uses for a variety of unrelated bullshit.
708.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Does this mean you agree in principle with George Bush's 'free speech zones' aka "you can say what you like, but you have to do it over there where nobody will hear you" ? https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
709.
by bigbubba 6y ago
I suppose so. I was thinking more along the lines of his name not appearing in this discussion's title means people searching his name might not find this discussion.
710.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Not just for show; doing it this way likely spares that person's SEO.
711.
by bigbubba 6y ago
They used this system in Seattle a few days in a row to announce the daytime curfews instated during the rioting this summer.
712.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Maybe those ten accused people have the problem, or maybe their accusor has the problem. It's just as likely that somebody throwing around insults like 'bot' is the person with the problem. If I call somebody a jackass, may
713.
by bigbubba 6y ago
People ignore what @Jack says because he has a record of saying dumb shit that doesn't pass the sniff test.
714.
by bigbubba 6y ago
For every real bot there are probably 10 people accused of being bots because the accuser can't cope with people who disagree with them. In this respect 'bot' has become the new 'troll.'
715.
by bigbubba 6y ago
> Driverless cars are going to be much better than driverful cars in cities since they [WILL] follow the rules and behave predictably You missed this word. Presently they do not behave predictably and consequently sometimes do not fol
716.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Alternative title: GM receives a permit to use the general public as unsuspecting guinea pigs in their potentially lethal experiments.
717.
by bigbubba 6y ago
> Filing an SAR usually comes (99.99%) along with suspending the account. You're missing half of the analysis. What percentage of account suspensions are preceded by an SAR filing? (Probably not many.)
718.
by bigbubba 6y ago
If you are implying deliberate misdirection by ATC, then I do not agree. It's more likely ATC prompted the pilot with the jetpack possibility because they believe it's happened before recently in that area. I think ATC, expecti
719.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Probably because Europeans either made little worth attributing to aliens OR in cases where they did (Rome, Greece, later cathedrals, etc) lots of contemporary documentation exists today. In cases where an impressive structure in Europe was
720.
by bigbubba 6y ago
Worse: This sort of thing has happened to a lot more than just one guy. One in seven billion is way too optimistic.

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