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by ggreer 6y ago
It should be noted that that site is run by a group of pseudonymous people who do not hide the fact that they have been shorting Tesla for years. They count every death involving a Tesla. If someone jumps in front of a manually piloted Tesl
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by ggreer 6y ago
Exactly. Why do those books get a pass? They encourage readers to do abhorrent things such as keep slaves and behead nonbelievers. If we're going to censor books because they cause people to hate others, then major religious texts shou
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by ggreer 6y ago
> An important part of the regulation is that the landlord cannot raise the rent when a new tenant moves in - the rent is locked for the unit, not the tenant. This prevents situations like New York, where you are essentially unable to mo
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by ggreer 6y ago
Using the word has been taboo for a very long time, but mentioning it has not been. Plenty of respectable people have mentioned the word and kept their careers. Here's a talk that linguist Steven Pinker gave at Google in 2007 where
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by ggreer 6y ago
I was using the simplified definition of the rapture that the parent poster was most likely referencing. I’m aware that different sects have different beliefs about what happens to nonbelievers. Still, the vast majority of Christians do not
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One big difference is that the Christian rapture only rewards believers and punishes nonbelievers with eternal torture. The goal of transhumanism is to allow everyone to live as long and as healthy of a life as possible. Also transhumanis
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by ggreer 6y ago
There are other ways to trigger the wipers: - Half-press the button on the left stalk to trigger the wipers once. Fully press it to do wipers with fluid. - Press the voice command button (right scroll button on the steering wheel) and say &
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by ggreer 6y ago
Most people who know about that case are mistaken about certain crucial facts. The collusion was that some companies agreed not to cold call each other's employees.[1] Hiring was still allowed, as were other recruiting methods such as
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by ggreer 6y ago
We can't be completely sure, but the assets, sales, and employee numbers look reasonable to me. The only weird corporate structure I found was Studio Ghibli. Their museum's store (but not the museum itself) is run by Mammayuto Co.
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by ggreer 6y ago
> (b) we allow businesses to profit wildly while not paying enough (by exploiting (a)), because we have the taboo that not meddling with the market is the best course of action. A more englightened society that didn't pay too much a
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by ggreer 6y ago
I saw what I'm almost certain was a syntax error but when I guessed GPT-2, it said I was wrong. I really wish the site let me view my previous guesses.
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by ggreer 6y ago
> Now Swan, an epidemiologist at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, has written a book, “Count Down,” that will be published on Tuesday and sounds a warning bell. This article is a submarine[1] for some guy’s book. 1. http:/&#
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by ggreer 6y ago
Yes sometimes emulators have bugs, but they do a good enough job that most people aren't willing to go to the trouble of using the original hardware. Also emulators can unlock new capabilities such as better graphics.[1] Human brains a
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by ggreer 6y ago
In the case of a warp drive we care about a physical result (FTL travel), not a computational result. We already have emulators and virtual machines for lots of old hardware and software. If I play a Super Nintendo game on my laptop, it&#x2
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by ggreer 6y ago
The $80M doesn't cover the launch costs. That would be part of the $2.4B for the overall rover project. For comparison: SpaceX's entire Falcon 1 program cost $90M over 6 years. That was to develop two new rocket engines (Merlin &a
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by ggreer 6y ago
If it was made with off-the-shelf parts then it's a testament to how wasteful NASA has become. Building that helicopter took them 6 years and $80 million.[1] 1. See page 20 of the launch press kit: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov&#
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by ggreer 6y ago
The police weren't using Ring to do any sort of blanket surveillance of protesters. They were investigating crimes. All requests from the LAPD referenced specific case numbers. See page 22 of this pdf[1] for an example. I've trans
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by ggreer 6y ago
That post explains how it might be possible for someone with 10% of mining power (and 100% of legal power) to block certain transactions. Nowhere in that post does it claim that such an attack has succeeded or that mining pools are collabor
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by ggreer 6y ago
Ulbrich was never convicted of a violent crime. (Though plenty of evidence did show he tried to commit murder-for-hire.) He was convicted of money laundering, conspiracy to commit computer hacking, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics.[1] Fo
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by ggreer 6y ago
Are you sure? Most gun enthusiasts at tech companies are in the closet. Had I known just how much my bosses hate guns (all the way up to the CEO), I would have kept my mouth shut about my hobby. It would be an amazing coincidence if none of
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by ggreer 6y ago
Current 3D printed guns like the FGC-9[1] make use of standard metal parts that can be bought at a hardware store. The bolt requires a single weld, though people have made weldless bolts[2]. The barrel is a metal tube that you can buy at a
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by ggreer 6y ago
> It is a requirement that businesses operating in the US accept payment in US dollars. People and businesses in the US have to pay the US government in US dollars, but there's no law requiring that a business accept any particular
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by ggreer 6y ago
If a doctor prescribes a drug for a condition not approved by the FDA, they open themselves to legal liability.
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The FDA approved propranolol in 1973, but not for treatment of hypertension or angina. It wasn't until 1978 that they allowed beta blockers to treat those diseases (which are the bulk of lives saved by beta blockers). The WaPo article
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Taking the median of public opinion does not result in an accurate understanding of reality. The FDA optimizes for minimizing scandals, not for helping people. That’s why they kill 100x more people by not approving good things than they do
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In total, Thalidomide caused around 2,000 deaths and 10,000 birth defects. Compare that to the 100,000 people that the FDA killed by not approving a single beta blocker sooner. The FDA waited until 1981 to let doctors prescribe Timolol to p
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by ggreer 6y ago
At least 60 of those Americans were sent up on the Russian Soyuz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_human_spacefli... Also, How are you doing the math to get a 4.4% fatality rate? The numbers are much lowe
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by ggreer 6y ago
Charging time is a non-issue nowadays. Last weekend I drove from Portland to Spokane and back (almost 400 miles each way). I entered my destination on the Tesla's giant touchscreen. The car figured out the route and the one charging st
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It warms the battery so that it can charge faster. A cold battery can't charge/discharge as quickly.
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by ggreer 6y ago
The same logic applies to most phones, every voice assistant, and to most cars sold today. Tesla isn't even the first car company to collect all this data. GM did it with OnStar.

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