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by crunchyfrog 8y ago
Ride-Hailing Apps May Benefit Poor and Minority Communities The Most, Study Suggests.[1] Waymo has caused a single crash in 5 million miles of driving and no one was hurt.[2] They have been involved in slightly more incidents than would be
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by crunchyfrog 8y ago
If such a system existed, we would basically have no technology. Engineers, like all humans, are fallible. Those mistakes can cost lives. If an engineer made an error in designing a part for a piloted car that caused the car to fail and
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by crunchyfrog 8y ago
> Instead they are concentrating that risk into a small subset of residential streets in some poor neighborhoods. These cars already safer than human drivers and they are common on the streets around Google. So unless you mean "ris
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by crunchyfrog 8y ago
UPS drivers almost never turn left.[1]. It is both safer and more efficient to plan your route using almost only right turns. I am sure Waymo knows this but I'd guess they don't want passengers to feel like the car is taking &quot
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by crunchyfrog 8y ago
Anyone else find it strange that this person worked in sales for one company which called itself a startup despite being nearly two decades old but keeps making these sweeping generalizations about startups and tech? > Here was the bigge
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by crunchyfrog 8y ago
I think the main reason Google decided not to support DNT is that Microsoft turned it on by default in IE. Microsoft did this knowing full well that Google would be put between a rock and a hard place: either implement DNT and instantly st
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by crunchyfrog 8y ago
This is something that any number of scientists elsewhere in the world could have done but did not do because the technology is not tested and understood at a level that would make this safe. No competent ethics board would have signed off
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by crunchyfrog 8y ago
> If Einstein tried to get a cat in a carrier, and the cat didn't want to go, you know what would happen to Einstein. > > He would have to resort to a brute-force solution that has nothing to do with intelligence, and in that
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by crunchyfrog 8y ago
The argument as I understand it is more about speed limits. Human thought is limited to the speed at which the underlying chemical reactions in neurons can happen. But a simulation of a neuron is only limited by the speed of the computati
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by crunchyfrog 8y ago
Mars as a first step is definitely debatable but the importance and advantages of establishing colonies in space are clear. We can create homes in the solar system that are actually superior to life on Earth in the same way our houses are
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by crunchyfrog 8y ago
This article seems like a giant non-sequitur. Just because Silicon Valley was founded with investment from the military doesn't require they continue to take this investment. Georgetown University was saved financially by selling sla
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by crunchyfrog 8y ago
The latest report is that they sent out a body double in Khashoggi's clothes: https://www.apnews.com/2e7cc6f821a14c90bec0253fe9ae9527 It seems like they expected to throw up enough distractions that their denials would
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by crunchyfrog 8y ago
Of course the narrative has changed because Tesla's success has forced it to change but the underlying conclusion (i.e. "Tesla is doomed") has remained the same through out. It would be ridiculous if they were still running a
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by crunchyfrog 8y ago
> There are also reasons to be optimistic, for example, US corporate earnings are way up -- 2018 is up 20% over 2016 alone -- that's huge. Isn't that mainly the result of the large cuts to corporate taxes? Deficits are also up
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by crunchyfrog 8y ago
And Google is going to be in big trouble when IBM releases their search engine. It always seems like it should be easy for legacy companies to stamp out disrupters but it almost never works out like that. It is very hard to refocus giant c