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9y ago
this whole emphasis that openai and deepmind put on human/robot collaboration is a paper thin pr move in my opinion. the robots will be better than any human, humans will not be able to contribute a single thing soon. but they try to m
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9y ago
perhaps youre right
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9y ago
i think programmers and a lot of other people get paid way too much. i used to wash dishes and the other guy who washed dishes, who worked right next to me, was an immigrant. he worked 12 hours a day every single solitary day. without him,
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9y ago
since there are robotics people in here, would someone mind linking me to videos or blogs about tearing down/talking about the motors and drivers used in cutting edge robotic arms such as those used in the automotive industry?
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9y ago
cobalt is being phased out of lithium batteries, at least at tesla.
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9y ago
you did a great job.
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9y ago
why is there no good, fast, open source text editor that is user friendly like vscode but written in a low level language?
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9y ago
no, all of these diversity programs make the assumption that women want to do and can do everything a man wants to do and can do, and they strive to make workplaces half female and half male based on that assumption alone. if want to find p
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9y ago
race does not map onto distinct phenotypes? what exactly do you mean?
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9y ago
genetics is complicated. not only is there so called junk dna, there is also epi-genetics. and even the genes that we correlate with certain diseases are not understood well. we dont understand how our dna translates into our physiology. an
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9y ago
people of different races, different skin colors, different anything, are in fact different from each other in a genetic way. every person is different from every other person on a genetic basis. i am sorry to be direct, but it is with no h
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9y ago
i absolutely hate the situation that we have found ourselves in. gender and race politics have become totally divorced from the issues of gender and race. firing people who speak their mind is not going to help women in tech and it wont hel
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9y ago
the author of the memo is completely correct and, as others have said, his memo is drastically misrepresented in the coverage it has received. he simply points out that women could have less desire to go into fields such as cs because of
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9y ago
you didnt read his memo. please cite the passage where he says that he doesnt believe females should be there. point to where he says this, whether he did so directly or as an insinuation, and explain exactly how it means that he wants fema
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9y ago
why is there no effort to make artificial tree mass? this could be done by creating genetically engineered trees that use as little resources as possible to grow as much wood as possible in lab environments. one could even go as far as powe
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9y ago
it actually does in a certain way. if at some point the lone pointer ("pointer") to that memory goes out of scope then the memory is deallocated. happens a lot.
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9y ago
the seriousness that vr and vr social apps are addressed with is dumbfounding to me. watch the video at the bottom of the page -- this is a huge joke. nobody will ever put on a headset and grab their controllers when they could just use sky
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9y ago
this is some self-help guru type of bullshit.
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10y ago
even years ago, a model s was as expensive to own, all costs accounted for over the span of seven to ten years, as a honda odyssey minivan. they are about to release a car that costs 35000 dollars.
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10y ago
whats the best country to retire in the way you have?
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10y ago
even if you took away wind i still win the argument. concentration farms are a footnote, they are going to be phased out. it has nothing to do with panels. panels have no such drawbacks and will form the backbone of domestic energy producti
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10y ago
sorry
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10y ago
uranium and plutonium dont have to be mined? if you think panels shouldnt be made because they contain elements that need to be mined then you probably also think we should stop making computers because they also contain the same element: s
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10y ago
no, actually they arent. and they dont produce radioactive waste that has be be stored for generations either. and the reactors are sometimes safe. and it only takes on bad one to do huge amounts of damage and kill tons of people. panels ha
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10y ago
this is always what they fall back on. its good in space. well this is earf mother fucker
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10y ago
fucking please. while in the army you have guaranteed housing and food every day. thats a fucking luxury compared to what people going through actual adversity deal with.
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10y ago
50 dollars is a lot of money. try being poor for a while. try being so poor that you barely survive. like, you have to ration your food. like eating one apple a day for months.
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10y ago
theres a really cool dude on youtube who makes programming videos -- he will implement a raycasting engine or crack old games or do whatever. one very common comment is "why are you not a programmer when you can program so well" a
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10y ago
people need to end this ridiculous obsession with fission for energy. solar and wind. thats all we need. all the nuclear stuff should be limited to research. when fusion is ready then we can do that. solar, wind and batteries are here and r
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10y ago
>Shares opened at $24 and traded as high as $25.42 apiece Thursday, giving the company a market valuation of about $29 billion there is no way for me to look at that and not be dumbfounded. some companies are unprofitable but still have
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