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by decker 6y ago
I think you missed the rationale for fair use.
32.
by decker 6y ago
Funny you would use an idiomatic term like poppycock to dismiss etymology.
33.
by decker 6y ago
Given that so many ships that are run by people who can afford $300k per trip, which could pay the annual salary for a team of analysts, it's amazing you're making this comment.
34.
by decker 6y ago
Cool project. I have to wonder if it's at all economical to strap this to a raspi compute module for anything other than hobby purposes.
35.
by decker 6y ago
Don't dense urban areas tend to have tall buildings that block the sunlight?
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by decker 6y ago
Maybe I'm being old and grumpy, but is there really a point to writing python without conditional logic? Each operation is going to have all sorts of stuff going in the interpreter, and the amount of code being executed that tiny snip
37.
by decker 6y ago
There's FCC rules on how the space can be used to prevent what you are describing. Sure, this will increase the noise floor, but Amazon can't show up and start acting like they are the only ones allowed to use it.
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by decker 6y ago
There's no reason to build a LoRa mesh network if all the devices are connected on WiFi. Instead, it sounds like Amazon is building out a network of LoRa access points where their customers pay for the hardware and operate the access
39.
by decker 6y ago
Anyone have a tl; dr? The article didn't really have any sort of stated thesis at the start. I paged down and skimmed and it seemed kind of like a long rant without any sort of coherent argument. What was this all about?
40.
by decker 6y ago
Never having a tipping culture is a much different thing than having to transition from one that tips to one that does not. Did Australia have tips then do away with them at some point? If so, how did they pull it off?
41.
by decker 6y ago
Cash isn't dead. Even in a pandemic, there's a lot of stores that still accept it. This article seems more like clickbait FUD for pumping cryptocurrency.
42.
by decker 6y ago
The article doesn't say anything about the sample being admitted in a CA court, it only quotes a DA being supportive of the home test kit.
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by decker 6y ago
The author does a really poor job of providing evidence for why 1996 happens to be the date for "the end of progress" in software. Why not 1995, 1994, 1993, or the years before that? This sounds more like someone who went into t
44.
by decker 6y ago
Super Cruise is geofenced to known highways. What "road curves" are you talking about?
45.
by decker 6y ago
I don't recall any incidents where a third party was killed due to autopilot, however, I don't believe it's reasonable to extrapolate the general case performance based on prior special case performance, especially when the p
46.
by decker 6y ago
You're assuming those sacrifices will not have been in vain. What if Tesla fails to create a self driving system that's superior to human driving? What then?
47.
by decker 6y ago
I don't believe you can claim that humans kill more people than shitty AI since we haven't seen a world in which shitty AI is driving around unassisted. Given that Uber/Waymo/Cruise all have safety drivers working, it&#
48.
by decker 6y ago
The key difference is that only Tesla ships one that will autonomously kill other people.
49.
by decker 6y ago
Cool, would you volunteer to be one of the extra casualties in order to make self driving work? If not, then why volunteer others?
50.
by decker 6y ago
Given that our legal system tends to be retroactive, and Tesla seems to have pushed all legal liability onto the drivers, our only hope is that the first victim of the FSD beta manages to sue the driver into oblivion and puts up a barrier t
51.
by decker 6y ago
The part where you have to spend more than $699
52.
by decker 6y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the majority of people buying an iPhone 12 already have a mobile phone plan.
53.
by decker 6y ago
Shipping containers were standardized between 1968-1970. A device that enables efficient outsourcing to cheaper labor is a likely reason for labor wages stagnating while overall productivity rises. https://en.wikipedia.org/
54.
by decker 6y ago
This makes a lot of sense. The post definitely lacked context about whether the cable was in use or if it was just something found in the server room. It's a shame the author simply assumed other people are stupid rather than botheri
55.
by decker 6y ago
I'm disappointed they didn't talk about how they defined the demarcation between suburbs and urban areas or normalize it based on population.
56.
by decker 6y ago
So you're saying if they call it "self piloting" and not "self driving" it gets the meaning across?
57.
by decker 6y ago
I think you may have modeled the situation a bit inaccurately. To rephrase, "How many people who don't know what a shallot is and are searching Google for answers would pay $80?"
58.
by decker 6y ago
This is a complete straw man argument against C++ based on exceptions vs return codes. C++ can handle C return codes, and the compiler comment needs some data to back it up. I would give this more than a grain of salt if the author had an
59.
by decker 7y ago
And yet if you were to go out today and build the exact same product in the exact same way it wouldn't succeed. Strange.
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by decker 7y ago
Send the CEO to jail for life, only way to be sure.

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