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Stephen Fry: “The future of humanity and technology” [video](youtube.com)
38 points by jpm_sd 9y ago|18 comments
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Actually, Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock’s massacre was highly predictable(qz.com)
3 points by jpm_sd 9y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
hmmm, time to register pleasetakecareofmykids.com
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
Some research suggests that this is due to endocrine disruptor (female hormone mimicking) pollutants.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
Lifting weights can increase your internal T production.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
What if "typical" technological civilizations only go through a very brief period of broadcasting detectable TV signals and then they wire up the entire planet with leak-free fiber optic cables? Then all we can count on is intenti
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When Working from Home Doesn’t Work(theatlantic.com)
2 points by jpm_sd 9y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
Sure, I brought that up for a reason. Despite some underhanded maneuvering and cheating, the emissions-compromised cars still passed independent safety tests and I haven't heard of anyone being killed by them.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
> Can we ever trust self-driving cars if it turns out we can’t trust the people who are making them? This is a ridiculous question. Any organization may include untrustworthy people (cf. Volkswagen emissions scandal) but that does not ma
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
When the software is not that important to the success of your startup. So, not most of the time.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
I think you misspelled "best possible outcome"
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
OT, but are you from Jarnac? A good friend of mine lives in Tilloux
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
Get checked for a cartilage tear. You may need a contrast MRI, and you may need statical repair.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
To be fair, this was a terrible idea.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
I went to school with a lot of people who later became lawyers. The only ones who are happy work in patent law as inside counsel. All the other ones seem pretty miserable.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
The modern approach to adoption is "open" - we keep in touch with my kid's bio-mom on Facebook!
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
"Rest is rust" is my favorite phrasing
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
Maybe instead of UBI, we need to think more Star Trek. How about universal basic health and universal basic food?
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
> People are waking up to the idea that if they can contract themselves out to multiple clients, they can have leverage to extract their actual market rate from employers. The people who are living this lifestyle ("gig"-only, o
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
He isn't even the only me-too! https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/3/15526478/houzz-3d-ar-home-...
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Higher markups suggest an increase in “market power”(qz.com)
1 points by jpm_sd 9y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
I completely agree. In my career so far I have had six different jobs. Five of them came from personal connections with people who I had directly worked with before, either professionally or as a student. Two of them didn't even requir
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
Rob Inglis is also the fabulous narrator of the Earthsea trilogy audio books. Recently I've become a fan of Patrick Tull, who did the Aubrey/Maturin series audiobooks extremely well.
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
I have also seen ZeroMQ used for mobile robot control; it was considered for ROS 2.0 [1] before they settled on DDS [2] [1] http://design.ros2.org/articles/ros_with_zeromq.html [2] http://design.ros2.org&#x2
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Inside Waymo's Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars(theatlantic.com)
310 points by jpm_sd 9y ago|134 comments
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
see also: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-shuts-down-project-tit...
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
Typically it's somewhere between 12 and Infinity months
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
it's beautiful, but it also nearly crashed my browser, so a manual "play" button would have been nice.
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Alphabet's Green Energy Ambitions Hit Turbulence(bloomberg.com)
1 points by jpm_sd 9y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 9y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-04/alphabet-...

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