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by mantap 7y ago
Behaviour that is racist or illegal in one place is very often acceptable in another. YouTube as a global website has to remain fair. For example, Cape Town puts on a minstrel festival every year[1]. Should YouTube ban videos of it? It is s
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by mantap 7y ago
They first introduced this keyboard in April 2015 on the new 12" and first added it to the MacBook Pro in October 2016. So they had 18 months to notice and resolve the issues.
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by mantap 7y ago
This could be largely mitigated by adding voice control for the center console functions, and probably should be for safety purposes. "Hey car, turn on the air conditioning".
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by mantap 7y ago
What is the long term benefit of UK and Ireland switching to right hand driving? I guess it would make life easier for HGVs that's the only class of vehicles that regularly uses both systems. For everyone else it would be a lot of pain
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by mantap 7y ago
It's his job to supervise the design of all major products. If he can screw up the MacBook then he is not doing his job effectively and he could potentially screw up the iPhone too.
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by mantap 7y ago
I have a feeling that Ive went off the deep end with his obsession with thinness and it reached a point with the MBP keyboards where Apple couldn't turn a blind eye anymore. Similar to Scott Forstall being forced out over the Apple Map
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by mantap 7y ago
What the hell? What if you miss your turning or want to do a u-turn? Going around more than once is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
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by mantap 7y ago
Don't people just read the arXiv? I think Hinton is being a bit old fashioned here. A paper doesn't need to be published to a journal at all to be influential.
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by mantap 7y ago
Learned helplessness runs wild at Apple. If you listen to them, they say that with the trashcan they had "designed themselves into a corner", and that's why it took them six years to design a new enclosure. As if it is beyond
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by mantap 7y ago
It's the fault of wireless charging. Premium phones used to have metal backs, but that is incompatible with wireless charging so we are cursed with glass for eternity now.
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by mantap 7y ago
What seems to have happened is that the system was originally designed with more conservative parameters. Testing showed that these parameters were insufficient to prevent a stall so they "turned it up to 11", and didn't re-e
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by mantap 7y ago
I'm not convinced. The pressure on Boeing to fix this ASAP is immense. That is not a good environment for writing safety critical software. Especially if they are doing a "broader software redesign". I don't believe that
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by mantap 7y ago
The US do a pretty bad job of being world police and have a bad habit of invading countries, changing the regime, then leaving the country to rot into anarchy. Yes the US defends its allies, don't you think that China defends its allie
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by mantap 7y ago
Not everybody wants a credit card, or is able to have one. Revolut et al provide many of the features of a credit card without having to borrow money and pay it back.
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by mantap 7y ago
European countries such as Sweden and the Netherlands are at the forefront of submitting themselves to a cashless economy, giving control of the payments infrastructure to Visa and MasterCard. So it's certainly not obvious to all Europ
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by mantap 7y ago
I agree ideally it would not be needed at all, however I believe that if Boeing decided that a new airframe would be too costly then they could have designed MCAS to be safe, by including a greater degree of hardware redundancy and an appro
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by mantap 7y ago
If it were designed correctly, it shouldn't matter if it were activated or not - it would always be safe. If it were designed correctly there would be at least 3 AoA sensors and the loss or disagreement of one would not affect the func
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by mantap 7y ago
> Europe is a special case in a book with homogenous population Even Ukrainians and Russians can find a way to create an ethnic identity strong enough that it's worth going to war with each other. Or Serbs and Croats. Europe has bee
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by mantap 7y ago
I got 80%, although I got penalized for "prostuttion" which I accepted by accident. I think it's a bit much to penalize people for accepting misspellings of real words. After all if someone wrote "In Germany prostuttion
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by mantap 7y ago
I am convinced that we have the hardware already for AGI. Can an exaFLOPS scale Google datacenter with millions of TPUs really be less capable than the 20 watt ball of jelly we all carry around? The barriers to AGI are in the algorithms. No
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by mantap 7y ago
The threat of HK is that the mainlanders might start wanting some democracy for themselves. In a way China made a mistake asking for HK back. While it was British they had a convenient boogeyman to point to, now it is part of China, Beijing
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by mantap 7y ago
It doesn't surprise me. The Chinese government isn't dumb enough to say "we want to abolish the rule of law in HK", instead they say "we want to stop rapists and murderers from escaping justice". Honestly in m
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by mantap 7y ago
I'm sure you can think of some substances that the government should control. Almost everybody accepts the prescription system where medications are only available with a doctor's permission. After that it's just arguing whi
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by mantap 7y ago
I am one such "auditory thinker". Despite learning to read music from a young age and a lot of practice, I have never been able to sight-read music. I do however have a good auditory memory and I have always been good at playing
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by mantap 7y ago
Your argument is that I shouldn't trust my privacy to Raymond Hill but I should trust it to Google?
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by mantap 7y ago
This is an absurd argument to make on this website of all websites. I sit at a desk all day and write code. Am I not a professional? How many tech companies are going to be buying $6000+ computers for their software engineering professional
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by mantap 7y ago
Imagine you live in a place that has no waste collection services. You have the same kind of inorganic waste such as plastic food packaging as people in the US, albeit a bit less. What are you going to do with your trash? You could burn it,
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by mantap 7y ago
They will have to support Macs without T2 chips for many years into the future. I predict that MacOS's premier status will be disappear before Apple manages to lock it down. The Mac app development community is dying. Apple strangled i
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by mantap 7y ago
I'm sorry but I don't believe that a product that is added to the keyboard repair program on release day is absolutely fine. Apple doesn't have confidence in the new MBP and neither should anybody else. The new MBP is basical
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by mantap 7y ago
You can install extensions manually. You have to be able to because otherwise you wouldn't be able to develop new ones.

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