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by ggreer 5y ago
What capabilities does GM or Ford have that Tesla doesn't? Neither GM nor Ford have rolled out automatic lane changing. Teslas have been doing that since 2019. The reason GM's Super Cruise got a higher rating by Consumer Reports w
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by ggreer 5y ago
Your summary is incorrect. The ETSC recommends that Intelligent Speed Assistance should be able to be overridden.[1] It's supposed to not accelerate as much if you're exceeding the speed limit, and if you override by pressing the
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by ggreer 5y ago
> Another reason we should tax them is that so few should really not be making the decisions for that much capital. Now apply that same logic to the US government. If you divide the federal budget by the number of elected officials, each
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by ggreer 5y ago
> [Edit] OK, I'll list one: permanent war. Depending on who you ask, conflict deaths per capita have stayed the same or declined since 1990.[1] 1991 had the first Gulf War, The Troubles, the Yugoslav campaign in Croatia, Mozambique,
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by ggreer 5y ago
In 1991, distributing encryption software was a violation of US munitions controls.[1] At the time, it was not at all clear whether encryption software would remain legal for individuals to own and use. The US government was considering man
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by ggreer 5y ago
IIRC, Stross learned about Bitcoin in 2011 when doing research for Neptune's Brood . Had he hedged his bets and bought $20 of Bitcoin before writing posts like "Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire"[1], he'd be a multimi
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by ggreer 5y ago
Apple always has the decryption key for your iCloud data. When law enforcement requests an account's data, Apple decrypts the data and sends it over. Apple's law enforcement guidelines[1] explain: > iCloud content may include e
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by ggreer 5y ago
> US has a high crime rate, because it has laws introduced specifically to increase the crime rate in specific racial groups; that’s where the War on Drugs came from. That's not true. If you released everyone convicted of a drug cri
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> These lists are handled by humans. That's also true for the no-fly list and the Terrorist Screening Database,[1] yet those are full of false positives. And unlike those lists, CSAM databases cannot be independently verified. To do
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by ggreer 5y ago
The US has a high incarceration rate because it has a high crime rate. If EU countries had US levels of crime, they'd have US levels of incarceration. Also China doesn't count Uyghurs as incarcerated despite the fact that the PRC
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by ggreer 5y ago
I don't think a smart gun has ever been sold to consumers in the US. The technology simply isn't reliable enough to be useful. The one model that a company did try to market was so expensive and unreliable[1] that no store importe
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by ggreer 5y ago
Just curious, but where do you draw the line? To use a silly example: we don't legally require every that everyone who posts an image on social media include a written description. There must be some ratio of cost to benefit at which a
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by ggreer 5y ago
By that logic, isn't every screen sharing app violating the ADA? A screen reader can't read the text on someone else's screen in Zoom, Webex, Slack, etc. Zoom even admits to this in their accessibility FAQ and encourages spea
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by ggreer 5y ago
There are several problems with that approach. First, there's not enough information in the serialized accessibility tree to reconstruct the DOM.[1] Second, the serialization format is an internal API, so there are no constraints on ba
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by ggreer 5y ago
You misread the figures. The bottom of each bar is the 10th percentile. If you draw a horizontal line, "Natural science - physical, life, and math" has its 10th percentile around 92.
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The average software developer does not have an average IQ. Look at the figures at the end of this paper[1]. Even professions like nursing have IQs averaging close to 110. "Science and engineering occupations" are around 115 avera
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by ggreer 5y ago
I can't block the topics that Twitter constantly recommends.
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> carrying for self defense makes you drastically less safe by most metrics You're probably referencing studies such as Investigating the Link Between Gun Possession and Gun Assault [1], which looked at whether people who were shot
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That's not true. First, the vast majority of pedestrian deaths are adults. In 2018, a total of 206 age 15 or younger were killed by cars. Compare that to 5,965 killed who were age 16 or older.[1] Both in absolute numbers and relative t
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by ggreer 5y ago
According to the game's about page[1], the model is based on the paper Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against COVID-19 [2]. The maximal lockdown is the combination of all the interventions studied in that pape
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by ggreer 5y ago
The wikipedia article you linked to only has one death, and it was an uninvolved person. In the 2015 Oklahoma swatting incident, the swatting victim shot the police chief, then surrendered. The cop survived and the swatting victim was not c
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by ggreer 5y ago
I get where you're coming from, but my guess is that such a law would cause more harm than benefit. Think of all the potential for abuse. Politicians (and other government officials) could use it to imprison almost anyone who protested
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I don't think fossil fuels will be economical for much longer. Per area, solar panels are cheaper than window glass. Costs are now down to $2 per watt. A decade ago it was $7 per watt. Lithium batteries are 1/10th the price they w
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Another point of comparison: the mass of Earth's atmosphere is over 5 quadrillion tons.[1] 30 billion tons is 0.0006% or 6 parts per million. These are all really big numbers so it's important to scale them down to something more
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My first thought was, "Is 2 million tons of CO2 a lot?" According to Wikipedia, "Human activities emit over 30 billion tons of CO2 per year..."[1], so that's 0.007% of yearly CO2 emissions. Germany alone emits 700 m
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First, not everyone wants to work remotely. Some people live in situations where there are too many distractions or annoyances at home. This is especially true if they have children. Second, For those who want to work remotely, this is a co
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Pretty much everything is trained on copyrighted content: machine translation software, TWDNE, DALL-E, and all the GPTs. Software people are bringing this up now because it's their ox being gored. It's the same as when furries got
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On my laptop's Core i5-10210U with mitigations=off, the demo just prints "[!] error: could not infer memory layout" until it runs out of retries. This is on Chromium 91.0.4472.106 and kernel 5.12.11-arch1-1. lscpu shows vulne
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Scott Alexander talked about this six years ago[1]: > HL Mencken once said that “the trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws ar
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