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by hangonhn 9y ago
Even if they do show the AP is safer than a human driver, the idea that a machine/software killing people is pretty unsettling to most of us. It's one thing to have a human driver make an error and kill himself and other and anoth
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by hangonhn 9y ago
But it does speak well of journalistic independence at the WSJ.
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by hangonhn 9y ago
"History proves bottoms-up accountability delivers much better outcomes than top-down oversight." Oh I'm not so sure about that. At least for results people can see within a short amount of time, a strong, competent authorita
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by hangonhn 9y ago
Not really... That is a symptom, not the cause of the Chinese civil war(s). The arrival and the dominance of the Western powers eroded the strength and faith people had in the Qing Dynasty. The Taiping rebellion was a reaction to that but
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by hangonhn 9y ago
If you liked that, check out the book "Wealth and Power": https://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Power-Chinas-Twenty-first-Cent... It's a book on the history of these revolutions from 1850 onward.
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by hangonhn 9y ago
Popular overthrow of the government is an integral part of the historiography of China. While China never (except for very briefly) had democracy, ever since its first dynasties there was the idea of the "Mandate of Heaven". Emp
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by hangonhn 9y ago
This has nothing to do with religion or what people believe. This is about control. Religion is another source of authority, which the Chinese government will never tolerate. This is also why there is a campaign to promote the more traditio
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by hangonhn 9y ago
"It's really not surprising to such a top-heavy state being wary of something which seems like it can't be as easily controlled top-down" I don't disagree with your analysis but I think the conclusion is debatable.
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by hangonhn 9y ago
But its use in those areas is dwarfed by its use as a store of value. Or to put it a different way, its industrial, scientific, and cosmetic usage has a far smaller effect on its price than people buying it as a stable store of value.
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by hangonhn 9y ago
"the X suffered a direct impact with a narrow slice of concrete." Does anyone know if that sort of impact would be what the IIHS calls small overlap frontal crash? IIRC when they added that test in 2012, many previously very safe
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by hangonhn 9y ago
I’ve done a bit of research on this issue and the plume that is in the soil. It’s not that bad for several reasons. The contamination is TCE. TCE is a carcinogen and responsible for the “cancer spike” in the Whisman neighborhood about a mil
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by hangonhn 9y ago
I believe it is subsumption based with random walk added on top: bumper hit means turn around and wheel dangling means don't go farther. I think the more recent models have more intelligence added on top but still has the lower level s
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by hangonhn 9y ago
Hang on. That argument makes no sense. We've had subsumption architecture for a long time now( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsumption_architecture ). Subsumption architecture puts some of the intelligence in th
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by hangonhn 9y ago
It doesn't hurt current home owners as long as they are not over leveraged. It doesn't necessarily help people without houses either. When there is a recession, credit could dry up. Most people in the US can't afford to buy w
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by hangonhn 9y ago
But that is very human: we are really, really bad at grasping abstract ideas but make something concrete and we will react. I can talk about privacy with someone until their ear falls off but to most people I sound like a lunatic. Show them
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by hangonhn 9y ago
No it wasn't but neither is it in this case: "After spinning off the steel business and adding schools, it changed Jiangsu Zhongtai’s name to Beijing Kaiwen in January." They got rid of their steel business, went into educati
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by hangonhn 9y ago
"The pending purchase rankles some Westminster faculty and alumni, who question what a longtime maker of steel spans knows about running an elite school whose choirs sang with maestros Leonard Bernstein, Arturo Toscanini and Seiji Ozaw
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by hangonhn 9y ago
This is something I've been told when I worked for a hedge fund that had an office in Tokyo: Japanese regulators can raid you, download all your information, and that information can somehow end up in the hands of your rivals. It sound
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by hangonhn 9y ago
I've written thousands and thousands of lines of code at Red Rock. The wifi can be a little flaky and the seating isn't ideal but the coffee is good and the business is a non-profit. Bring a pair of headphones if you want to esca
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by hangonhn 9y ago
Man, I just now understood Ai Weiwei's statement because of your comment. China, as a civilization, has had a diminishing influence on the world, culturally speaking, since the Tang or perhaps the Song dynasty. The strictness and centr
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by hangonhn 9y ago
I think that's a bit unfair. Their ideals did inspire a number of other countries to revolution, including China. The USSR did it first and its example was emulated by other countries with some local variations. Many of the early Chine
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by hangonhn 9y ago
The British Empire is not all that long lasting compared to some of the Chinese ones that has existed in the past. China as a civilization has arguably outlived everyone. (The Roman empire, if you include the Byzantine, is arguably the long
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by hangonhn 9y ago
That's a good question. I think it has to do with a lot of food that are not calorie dense and more likely to satiate you simply taste better fresh and not so great past a certain age. On the flip side, foods that tends to taste good f
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by hangonhn 9y ago
I was in Bologna not too long ago and I was baffled by how fresh, high quality ingredients are available at affordable prices. I've seen similar quality ingredients in the Bay Area but they charge an arm and a leg for it. I don'
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by hangonhn 9y ago
However, you can see how an optical-based system should in theory work because all our roads and signs are designed based on that assumption and has never assumed LIDAR. If a human can do it optically, one can reason, so should a machine.
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by hangonhn 9y ago
I'm one of those idiots who always forgets to bring reusable bags but since they passed similar laws in my city, I've cut down on bag use, sometimes just carrying all my items. Laws like that help because groceries no longer assum
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by hangonhn 9y ago
The original Amazon Echo has a physical switch when you mute it. A friend of a friend worked on that and he is a giant security nerd so he made sure a physical switch is designed in.
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by hangonhn 9y ago
Not sure how familiar you are with the vSphere API but the whole thing is done over HTTP, which would explain why it's so string heavy. The SDKs VMware releases for various languages just papers over this.
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by hangonhn 9y ago
This may be a dumb question: How is it that in recent years small groups of programmers, sometimes just one, are able to recreate games that used to take a whole studio? Is it the availability or power of new open source tools? Did hardwar
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by hangonhn 9y ago
I really have no problem with sharing my information openly in cases my presence has an obvious effect on those around me. Letting other cars within a certain radius know where I am seems a reasonable sharing of my information. I would go a

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