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2y ago
> They have been fined $38m This is damages, not a fine. > for killing 8 people If this verdict stands, you can bet there will be more lawsuits coming. > which amounts to a tad over 1% of their 2023 revenue There's income stat
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2y ago
In a perfectly elastic collision between rigid bodies, any impact forces acting on the cars would have to also be transferred to the driver in both instances, but cars are neither perfectly elastic, nor do they behave like rigid bodies in a
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2y ago
This would make sense as a refutation if this was perfectly elastic rigid body physics, which wasn't precisely what we were doing here.
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2y ago
As a driver you mostly care about the amount of deceleration you will personally experience. If you have 1m of hood to work with, you're decelerating 100km/h to 0km/h over 1m in the wall case. In the hood-to-hood case, depend
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2y ago
Likely. It's a bad example to illustrate "relative speeds" (not in the "fast" sense), since it's usually set up terribly any time I read it and ends up being plain wrong if you forget to squint. As a driver I&#
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2y ago
> In school you’re taught to take your litter home with you, or deposit it in the nearest public bin. In the place I went to school they drove home this lesson by picking a class each week that would then spend the next period picking up
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2y ago
Because it somehow survived millions of years despite that massive inefficiency holding it back. Quite remarkable luck not getting out-competed to extinction.
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2y ago
Some cryptocurrency isn't a safe store of value to begin with, so he was probably ready to lose that at any moment anyways. Worse way than most to lose it, but he doesn't sound too bummed out.
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2y ago
They're fine to filter fresh university graduates. But if you have any sort of track record (previous employment/projects you can talk about, active github account), they're just insulting. They shouldn't be wasting your
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2y ago
> Contrasting this to AMD’s high degree of CPU support on even old Ryzen motherboards, it’s as if Intel introduced this incompatibility intentionally. That is because they introduced it intentionally. They don't give a rat's as
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2y ago
They're just going to crack right along with the screen. The form factor of modern phones combined with the fact that they're made from materials that will break rather than survive some deformation is a death sentence. These thin
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2y ago
> Reminds me of people who tried selling sturdy repairable phones with longer battery life. My brother buys these. They survive up to a year in his "care", rather than the usual 3-4 months of flimsier phones. They all end up wi
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2y ago
> We must prevent Texas from making a tragic, irreversible mistake. Another tragic, irreversible mistake. The man has already been on death row for two decades. Imagine spending 20 years in a cell waiting to be executed because people
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2y ago
As someone who learned the "right" way in German public school about 20 years ago, the statement "teaching people what was actually happening with subtraction" is completely indecipherable to me. Maybe I never learned wh
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2y ago
If you do it the other way around you may have to backtrack if subtracting a less significant digit from another worked out to <0. You will also have to be careful about alignment, since in one number you start from the first digit, but
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2y ago
Tabloid press but for Silicon Valley.
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2y ago
> What baffles me is that here the designers had a chance to make something truly quiet but instead they blew it and used a super-high-RPM motor-powered narrow turbine placed inside the pipe. They didn't change anything about the b
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2y ago
As far as I'm aware, none of the listed western countries (except Chile, whose status as a "western" country is dubious) allow the use of organs for 'scientific experimentation' without consent. Additionally many of
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2y ago
> But the point would be better made if some compassion was shown towards the victims instead of only ever showing compassion to the criminals. This is not about compassion for any criminals. They're dead anyways. This is about the
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2y ago
> FWIW there are western countries where the corpse of any dead human being can be used for scientific experimentation, unless specified otherwise. Examples?
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2y ago
How is that a big deal? Half the time you'd have to install the local equivalent of those ride hailing services anyways - that is if regular local cabs aren't the preferred way to get around. I use like 2-3 apps for getting around
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2y ago
I can't seem to figure out the connection between this comment and the article at hand, except that they're both about AI.
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Really only winning matters at your current rank, other metrics can be deceiving. For instance according to the tool my league account is D-tier in most metrics and gets an overall ~400/1000, except that it has a near 60% winrate ove
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2y ago
Idolizing and elevating some individuals or groups above others in a cringe-worthy fashion isn't exactly a new thing in media. It's not unlike music fandoms. Given this is the Wall Street Journal, the author either really likes
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2y ago
This industry seriously needs higher engineering standards for any software in areas like medicine. Just because you're making a medical smartphone app doesn't mean the same low standards as other smartphone apps apply to you
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2y ago
> He isn't stating a fact, from what I can tell. The actual quote in the article is "I don’t think it’s crazy to believe that half the white-collar staff at Google probably does no real work." Contrast that with "Half
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2y ago
Nonsensical comment (even these "disinformation campaigns" are press), but I'll try to find meaning where there is little to be found and humor you. You cannot let the legislative decide what constitutes an "enemy disi
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2y ago
> Ok, so how did all this unchecked exposure to propaganda workout for Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Palestine etc? Did it lead to some kind of "free thinking" utopia? You did not think this argument through. None of the af
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> In order to make up your mind correctly you need to be feed accurate information. Haha. And we're going to let the government decide what is "correct" and "accurate"? Letting whoever is currently in power contr
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>Wouldn't the Greek airline (and Greek exit immigration control) check for a valid Russian visa for a Czech passport? There's no exit stamp for EU citizens leaving the EU. Also nobody cares whether you actually have a valid vis
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