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by buran77 1y ago
> I really don't believe this > I don't believe > this is an artifact of people who just irrationally hate Tesla > more of the same emotionally driven desire to see a pattern Don't you find it curious that every o
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by buran77 1y ago
> 2,000 may be stretching it but it is possible if the driver is trusting enough. Yeah, trust and a lot of creative accounting of what constitutes successfully driving by itself for that long. Would you put your child in one and let it c
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by buran77 1y ago
Novelty is enough to look like "shockingly good". You were comparing "no self driving" to "some self driving". A jump from 0 to something always seems big. Standard driver assists were also impressive when they
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by buran77 1y ago
> have you tried I've heard this so many times it's starting to be a meme. The system was claimed to be very capable from the beginning, then every version was a massive improvement, and yet we're always still in very dang
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by buran77 1y ago
That's not an anecdote, it sounds like an exaggeration bordering flat out lying. A 2000 miles trip "without touching anything" to drive the car is statistically impossible for any reasonable drive (e.g. not endless straight l
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by buran77 1y ago
> The idea authoritarianism reduces crime [...] is a fallacy. Crime still happens There's a whole range between "reduces" and "eliminates", and introducing the "elimination" argument is a strawman. Auth
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by buran77 1y ago
> Resolution is limited by the size of pixels on the chip. Currently, the pixels are 100 microns wide, with 378 pixels on each chip. > the PRIMA device provides only black-and-white vision
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by buran77 1y ago
> They artificatially create capacity to make a purchase If the company did not intend to purchase anything but Nvidia used the investment to "incentivize" a purchase then this is artificially creating demand where there used t
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by buran77 1y ago
What do you do when the model you know to be best ("past experience") consistently fails to predict anything after an agent of chaos is introduced to the mix? Do you still stand by it? Can you really say past experience consistent
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by buran77 1y ago
Starlink has the precise terminal location and gets paid for the subscription for that terminal. They know where it is and who pays for it. From the article they say that they were selling a service there and stopped in order to comply with
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by buran77 1y ago
> What if a "legitimate" government is committing genocide That's an interesting question, I'll say. I can't say yes or no but I can say that the answer should be consistent. You either support genocidal regimes,
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by buran77 1y ago
> But the US (who has jurisdiction over Starlink) isn't bound by Mynamar laws, and (IMHO) shouldn't... Should everyone else be allowed to do anything they want in a country as long as it's from a distance because "you
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by buran77 1y ago
> should easily be handled by regular market forces I think we've heard this blurb so many times it should be a joke to be ridiculed by now. It usually prefaces a story about some abusive, exploitative action. > But at that point
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by buran77 1y ago
> a motor putting out 3000W to get a loaded cargo bike up a steep hill at 8 MPH Probably two reasons to avoid this. Practically, it's more expensive because not only do you have a 3kW motor but everything else must handle the increa
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by buran77 1y ago
The first statement is exactly what most investors (of any kind) say . The second is what many investors (especially professionals) are perfectly willing to do .
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by buran77 1y ago
This feels different though. Every time you turn it off and then on again it has a substantial processing cost for MS. If MS "accidentally" turns it on and then doesn't allow you to turn it off it raises the bar for them succ
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by buran77 1y ago
This guy really works in a "minefield", with trouble and powerful enemies at every step. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43985971
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by buran77 1y ago
Synology has shady business practices more recently and outdated tech stack since forever but I haven't heard anything particularly bad about reliability. For a NAS the safety of the data is the highest priority. Anything that endanger
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by buran77 1y ago
> the cameras weren't going to do any meaningful harm in Oak Park > a lot of normal, reasonable people see these cameras as a very good thing That sums up tptacek's "argumentation". It can be used to justify just a
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by buran77 1y ago
> Storage UniFi UNAS PRO: (replacing the Synology NAS) 7x 8TB Seagate IronWolf With the way Ubiquity has treated their software stack on the network side in the past years (major bugs, regressions, and updates that had to be reissued mul
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by buran77 1y ago
At the time of writing he has commented 16 times on this article and not a single time with a to-the-point answer when asked point blank what's his reasoning. I'd love to not have to guess his thoughts. We have a technology that k
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by buran77 1y ago
It was a statement that you're muddying the waters without implying whether bad faith or just a weak argument. And it was followed by the reasoning: that on a topic where the arguments against pervasive surveillance can be considered
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by buran77 1y ago
> I actually do real political work on this issue And Catholic priests preach. Some things aren't mutually exclusive and a lot of people are capable of holding conflicting ideas in their head. > I'm commenting in good faith
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by buran77 1y ago
> I do not understand this idea that it's an obvious red line. It's an invasive surveillance technology that contributes to building the pervasive surveillance day to day reality. You're muddying the waters asking "wh
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by buran77 1y ago
> I admire Garry Isn't it getting harder to say this, hearing this kind of rhetoric? "My bombs only kill the bad guys" is either hopelessly ignorant, or willfully malicious.
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by buran77 1y ago
> these are pretty well defined quantities, just hard to measure. They are "defined" conceptually, in words, not in physical quantities. It assumes we can assign a known value to any of that when we don't and likely never
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by buran77 1y ago
The equation itself makes no assumptions. But anyone trying to calculate something with it must. The last five factors in the equation will be filled in by assumptions based entirely on one data point, life on Earth. From your link: ne
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by buran77 1y ago
This is why a lot of content is hosted on large platforms that handle this risk for you. But if you don't collect any personal data on those users your exposure is minimal but technically some jurisdiction could claim you allowed acces
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by buran77 1y ago
> Definition of 'Revenue in the UK' is a bit debatable though isn't it? But I didn't say "in the UK", I said "from UK users". If Imgur monetized anything coming from a user in the UK then they ca
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by buran77 1y ago
> an independent civil service dominated by a single party is the single greatest threat to democracy Any party? I'm not sure if you realize what's coming next, or if you saw the irony as you typed this. No need for more mental

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