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by ckastner 8y ago
> You don't have to fight traffic A public bus has to fight the same traffic a private car would (my example) > you don't have to find parking Neither would a car with driver (my example) > you can read or watch videos wh
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by ckastner 8y ago
Over the limited options they clearly have. Show me the person with the freedom to go where they want , do what they want , would choose to wait for the crowded bus rather than some eco-friendly quiet car with air-conditioning and your
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by ckastner 8y ago
> Public transport is against freedom? I got to say, that is creative. It's a clever word play. > If someone has the freedom to go where they want, do what they want [...] then they’re not going to choose public transit. This
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by ckastner 8y ago
> Looking forward to having a great week with you as we charge up the super exciting ramp to 5000 Model 3 cars per week! This was actually the most surprising part to me -- it appears that they believe that they will actually make the 5K
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by ckastner 8y ago
Fraud itself, by definition, is a gain, so that cannot be what did them in. It's the consequences of getting caught that do you in. The consequences can be fines, the consequences may be legal liabilities, etc. But in some industries,
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by ckastner 8y ago
At the risk of sounding too pedantic: wasn't it the reputational damage that did Enron and Arther Andersen in, eventually? I'm hairsplitting this because in certain industries, reputational risk is a much stronger deterrent that l
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by ckastner 8y ago
>> One that wants to manipulate your mind > Like your post here? Or my present reply to it? And so on... Except that Twitter thrives on controversy. There's controversy on HN as well, but escalations lead to flagging of co
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by ckastner 8y ago
> We collect information from and about the computers, phones, connected TVs [emphasis mine] Personally, I find this even more disturbing. Does this "only" apply to TVs where a user is logged on, or are they also building sha
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by ckastner 8y ago
Well, this is going to get interesting. Blaming the customer might have worked for regular AutoPilot because of that legal footnote that AutoPilot-the-product is it not intended to be used as autopilot-the-concept , but good luck blami
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by ckastner 8y ago
> This guy is saying what Musk wants to hear. Apparently Musk heard it (or something similar), because Tesla is rolling out the first self-driving features in August: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17282006
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by ckastner 8y ago
> So human drivers wouldn't crash here? Or a good, attentive, best-case human driver wouldn't crash here? I'd argue that a Reasonable Person [1] wouldn't crash here. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by ckastner 8y ago
It must also never be worse than humans. In this case, it very clearly was.
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by ckastner 8y ago
> This is the Tesla self-crashing car in action. Remember how it works. It visually recognizes rear ends of cars using a BW camera I'm sure Tesla's engineers are qualified and it is certainly easy to second-guess them, but it i
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by ckastner 8y ago
> Clearly something went wrong here, but they lept to blaming everyone else instead of working to find the flaw. Precisely. As I mentioned in another comment: Autopilot indisputably failed. They are (understandbly) shifting the discussio
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by ckastner 8y ago
> His hands were not detected on the steering wheel for the final six seconds prior to the crash. > Tesla has said that Huang received warnings to put his hands on the wheel, but according to the NTSB, these warnings came more than
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by ckastner 8y ago
Can anyone disclose how extensively this is used within Google? Their primary SCM and code review system is internal (and not git), as far as I'm aware.
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by ckastner 8y ago
If you check the history of README.md, you'll see that this process was initiated in December 2017 -- well before the GitHub acquisition announced this week.
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by ckastner 8y ago
> the entire FB and Google business models cannot suddenly change to move away from user data collection Google's business is a bit more diversified than Facebook's, though, especially considering their expansion into providi
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by ckastner 8y ago
Yet another quarter has almost passed and, according to the Bloomberg estimate [1], Tesla will yet again miss their goal of producing 5.000 cars a week -- by far. In the most recent week, it was about half that, 2.560. I guess some some peo
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by ckastner 8y ago
The point I was trying to make was that there was a time, not too long ago, when Microsoft was actively hostile towards open source (and all of their money-making products where closed source). As to your point, it is possible for an en
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by ckastner 8y ago
Slide 10: Microsoft <hearts> Open Source. It's really amazing how much Microsoft has changed (to the positive) since Ballmer stepped down as CEO.
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by ckastner 8y ago
It's a long article and I admit to not heaving read it in its entirety, but... > There are overcapacities in the banking sector of some countries” in the Eurozone. Which country could he have been talking about? Germany boasts by fa
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by ckastner 8y ago
"Legitimate interest" works for regular data (Article 8). You cannot claim "legitimate interest" for sensitive data (Article 9), such as political and religious views, or sexual orientation.
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by ckastner 8y ago
> "The GDPR explicitly allows any data processing that is strictly necessary for the service - but using the data additionally for advertisement or to sell it on needs the users' free opt-in consent" This is the key point.
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by ckastner 8y ago
> Did you forget the next paragraph, where they clearly state that it is not yet available Where does it clearly say that? "may very widely by jurisdiction", "it is not possible to know" are anything but clear.
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by ckastner 8y ago
With regards to Tesla's liability, I don't see what difference it should make whether Tesla or Mark III Construction is to blame for the accident. "I employed a negligent subcontractor" isn't really much of a legal
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by ckastner 8y ago
Funnily enough, my MacBook Air 2013 produces a buzzing sound on SSD access. It's barely audible, but it's there.
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by ckastner 8y ago
Under Linux, this can also be achieved with kpartx(8). https://linux.die.net/man/8/kpartx
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by ckastner 8y ago
> This technology will only be new once This technology is decades old, and the fact that you consider it novel indicates that it can actually be new more than once.
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by ckastner 8y ago
It's in article 83 of the GDOR: Each supervisory authority shall ensure that the imposition of administrative fines pursuant to this Article in respect of infringements of this Regulation referred to in paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 shall in

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