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by cameldrv 3y ago
I don't think Kauffman is making any claims about consciousness here. I agree that consciousness is a big mystery. Kauffman's theory (haven't yet read this paper, but have read a lot of his other work), is that self-replica
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Adding a hinge there would be extra weight, but probably more importantly, the plug door is convertible to an emergency exit, so you want the hardware to be similar to the emergency exit door. For those, the door comes completely off and y
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I've heard Spirit has had a lot of problems, but likewise Boeing itself is not immune to this. A few years back the Boeing South Carolina plant was having a very consistent problem with foreign objects (wrenches, parts, etc) being lef
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by cameldrv 3y ago
No, it's fundamentally impossible. He wants to be able to control his lights from his phone, and that's impossible if the lights have no power. The only way for his lights to have power at all times is for the light switch to be
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Yes, this would be the optimal vulcan way to take this. In the human world, peoples stake a chunk of their identity with the company they work for, and when they get fired, that part of their identity is lost. The right, human way to deal
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The problem is that a light switch multiplexes/conflates power and control. The signal that the bulb is supposed to turn off is that it doesn't have power anymore. Smart light bulbs need power even if the signal from the switch
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Yep, I remember staying over at a friends's apartment that had just installed hue lightbulbs everywhere, and then put tape over their normal light switches. As he's putting the sheets on the pull-out couch, he says "if you g
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I'm not a media outlet. Friends of mine with Teslas that have been in accidents had large bills. Auto insurance for Teslas is expensive for this reason. As for the fuel cost, it depends where you live. In California, if you have PG&
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Teslas are extremely expensive to own. As the article says, collision repairs are extremely expensive, partially because of the design, partially because Tesla essentially fully controls the repair market. Also as mentioned in the article
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Requiring the user to login to unsubscribe also has the nice effect of requiring them to know the password, otherwise they have to go through the reset procedure. Of course you need to be really secure and do 2FA as well. Hey, if this redu
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by cameldrv 3y ago
There are liquid sensors in the ports, and if a drop of water gets on them, they will turn red and Apple will refuse to honor your warranty. Apple claims the iPhone is waterproof to 6 meters for 30 minutes, but if you put your phone in one
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Absolutely. There have been several airline explosive decompressions in the past 50 years. The fatal ones have each had one fatality, even with crazy damage to the plane (look up Aloha 243) If you figure this incident "should"
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The 737MAX is not going away. There are about 1400 of them flying and another 6000 orders. Boeing obviously has some serious quality problems that need to get fixed, but since the grounding in 2019, the MAX has done something like 1.5 mil
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by cameldrv 3y ago
IMO it's dirty pool for Apple to advertise their products as waterproof (IP68) and then even if a drop of water gets on the external case, they will refuse to honor the warranty, even if the water has nothing to do with the problem. Th
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Bad timing for Boeing, a 737MAX just had an explosive decompression. I bet they don't get their waiver now.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Yes, they both have an experimental airworthiness certificate, but when the FAA issues an experimental certificate, it comes with operating limitations (technically part of the airworthiness cert). The operating limitations you get depend
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Even whether an aircraft should be issued a type certificate is a judgment call. The regulations are not perfectly precise, and there is always going going be a certain amount of back and forth on interpretation and waivers and alternate m
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I wonder what it would take to make this cheap. It would be wonderful if you could just buy some analyzer gadget where you could just throw something in a blender, pull out a sample, put it in the machine, and 5 minutes later it would tell
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by cameldrv 3y ago
That's not how the FAA views it. There's no such thing as "safe to fly" or "not safe to fly." There are simply probabilities of accidents in different conditions. What constitutes an acceptable probability o
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by cameldrv 3y ago
There is tons of plastic in a food factory. For example, lots of liquids flow through plastic tubing which is proven to leach phthalates. This is not going to happen with a whole potato you cook yourself using metal cookware and utensils.
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Most of the energy from driving at highway speeds is coming from aerodynamic drag, and as you say, the Teslas are highly optimized, and the average camper trailer is not really at all. With a gas vehicle this isn't too big of a deal b
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I don't know how we went from "you have to travel to Las Vegas or Atlantic City to gamble" to "You can gamble 24/7 on a device that's always with you." Anti-gambling laws were put in place for very well u
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by cameldrv 3y ago
You're right, that's a good option for the washer. For the rest I have no idea...
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by cameldrv 3y ago
I agree with your philosophy, but I don't think you necessarily need to directly admit to it. When they ask how fast you were going, you can say something like "To be honest, officer, I'm not sure -- I was a little distracte
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by cameldrv 3y ago
Thinking back to growing up, we had an electric stove, washer, dryer, dishwasher, and refrigerator. All were purchased from '79-82 or so. 1. Stove died in about 2007 2. Washer/dryer were replaced with something "better"
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by cameldrv 3y ago
IMO the movie is making the point that Oppenheimer's security clearance review was politically motivated and essentially baseless. There's also a scene where Oppenheimer demands that workers without a clear need to know be told w
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by cameldrv 3y ago
The new owner isn't beholden to promises made by the prior management, the company is. Just because ownership of a company changes hands doesn't mean that prior obligations of the company are voided. Now, if, during the course of
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by cameldrv 3y ago
They also bamboozled the voters. In 2019 the CA legislature passed AB5 in reaction to Uber being independent contractors. AB5 applies to tons of other industries too, including software development. It's extremely difficult to write
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by cameldrv 3y ago
You'll notice. I was in New York and wanted to get a good pizza. I called the place my friend recommended to place a delivery order, and it arrived 40 minutes late and cold. To add insult to injury, we didn't get some of the ot
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by cameldrv 3y ago
There are different playbooks, but one is to take a declining business and cut unprofitable parts until it becomes (at least temporarily) profitable. The debt has a higher interest rate that reflects the risk of the strategy not being succ

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