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by larnmar 7y ago
In classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” style, Tesla spotted an opportunity to sell a technology slightly before it was ready for the mass market, by focusing on a small and undemanding (in price-performance terms) group of consumers that the big
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by larnmar 7y ago
Despite this, it’s (judging by cars) lower income people who tend to be the idiots driving recklessly on the streets. Being passed by a shitty Honda doing 120mph is common, being passed by a new luxury car doing the same is much rarer. Why?
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by larnmar 7y ago
Why not “quantum privilege”?
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by larnmar 7y ago
For statistical purposes, the number of people whose sex and “gender” are not the same is negligible.
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by larnmar 7y ago
> Here’s the good news: you’re not an impostor Some people are, though. Sometimes, “impostor syndrome” isn’t really a syndrome, but an appropriate way to feel when you’ve been Peter-Principled your way into a position that you’re not com
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by larnmar 7y ago
I really just look forward to the day when my kid can be unsupervised in another part of the house without an appreciable probability of some stupid coin-swallowing, furniture-toppling or power plug licking death.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Sounds reasonable in cases of rape.
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by larnmar 7y ago
While I can see why someone might think that way, the problem is this: simulating quantum mechanical systems is much, much harder than simulating classical physics. From a simulator’s point of view, throwing in QM isn’t a simplification,
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by larnmar 7y ago
I think a better social norm would be: don’t share candid video of strangers. If your device happens to capture a video of someone doing something funny, and you don’t know the person so you can’t ask them for permission to post it ... just
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by larnmar 7y ago
Of course, but it’s also getting lost in the noise of what the parties themselves are doing.
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by larnmar 7y ago
For the benefit of anyone who expected that the article might actually answer the question posed in the headline, you can skip ahead to the final paragraph: > So, really, how does he do it? As Richards said in an interview posted on YouT
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by larnmar 7y ago
I suspect it’s going to become a massive shakedown racket over the next decade; groups will go to tech companies and allege their algorithms are racist/sexist/whatever, and keep complaining until paid to go away.
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by larnmar 7y ago
“Brut” (fr) and “Brute” (en) share the same Latin-via-Old-French etymology though, they’re related concepts demoting being untamed and simple (compare: “raw strength” vs “brute strength”) Furthermore, “brutal” is also a word in French, mean
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by larnmar 7y ago
Shadowbanning is reasonable and appropriate against bots, but a massive dick move when applied to humans.
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by larnmar 7y ago
I’ve also heard that this is a deliberate propaganda message being spread by the CCP though — claiming that the protests are really about economics rather than democracy.
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by larnmar 7y ago
That’s the great thing about democracy, though — you don’t have to march in the streets to effect change, you can simply vote for it.
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by larnmar 7y ago
A fairly silly article with a fairly silly thesis. There’s always protest movements going on somewhere; it would take a lot of statistics to convince me that 2019 is any kind of outlier. And there’s nothing global about the current grab-bag
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by larnmar 7y ago
You think $44K is a middle-class income?
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by larnmar 7y ago
Even when there’s nothing to suggest an election will be close, you predictably get a “polls tightening, anything could happen now!” narrative in the days before the election. I assume those stories get a lot more clicks.
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by larnmar 7y ago
It already did, in 2016.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Under what circumstances, apart from where you or a close relative has committed a crime, are you concerned that someone might identify you from your DNA?
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by larnmar 7y ago
Your DNA is 99.9% known anyway, because you’re a human. Only the remaining 0.1% varies between individuals.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Truck driving is not and has never been a middle-class occupation.
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by larnmar 7y ago
An infra-red sensor, as implemented in many public toilets, seems like a less error-prone solution to that problem. Or a pedal.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Speaking as someone who has spent his fair share of both time and money going through the correct legal process to reside in the US, I am fully in favour of the vigorous enforcement of US immigration law, but... if they’re so often present
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by larnmar 7y ago
It’s not even a population density issue, it’s just a bad planning issue. Where I live (in the middle ring of a large Australian city) we have density comparable to an American suburb, but I have several mini-downtowns within walking distan
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by larnmar 7y ago
Is gab really a “cesspool”? I just looked at it for the first time. The way people talk about it I was expecting /pol/ squared, but the parts I could see without making an account seemed surprisingly normie, more reminiscent of in
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by larnmar 7y ago
I think censorship is no longer censorship when it happens purely on the client side, it’s just filtering. As long as the tweets all continue to exist out there somewhere, someone can write a client to display them. This will, I predict, ma
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by larnmar 7y ago
That’s the thing, I’m not really sure it does. Never-ending social media political flamewars increase engagement for a few people but drive others away. Personally I deleted my twitter account and barely use Facebook any more for this reaso
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by larnmar 7y ago
Good move. Holding a conference in San Francisco these days is a pointless waste of money for attendees. I also know that a certain large scientific society moved its annual west coast meeting from San Francisco to Phoenix about a decade ag

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