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Sydney Brenner, a Decipherer of the Genetic Code, Is Dead at 92(nytimes.com)
1 points by matt4077 8y ago|0 comments
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by matt4077 8y ago
We (somewhat) have. I was part of a focus/design thinking group for VW working on this. I think what’s mostly holding it back right now is the relative low prevalence of electric cars and that, as far as I can tell, we have not yet rea
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by matt4077 8y ago
Sorry, I only now got OP‘s intention. I believe it’s somewhat defensible to task only one side here with protecting the data. They have that data all the time, and it’s therefore more practical for them to explore the legality of such reque
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by matt4077 8y ago
They are fined for improperly handing over data. It seems we have already set that standard in law.
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by matt4077 8y ago
That was my reading of it, but on second thought it’s almost perfectly ambiguous. There’s a certain glibness about it that fits better with the malevolent interpretation. Plus hoping for a fine to serve as an example seems just too obvious
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by matt4077 8y ago
I, too, hope this will deter other companies from illegally handing over the customers‘ data for frivolous fishing expeditions by law enforcement.
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Battery Power's Latest Plunge in Costs Threatens Coal, Gas(about.bnef.com)
301 points by matt4077 8y ago|180 comments
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by matt4077 8y ago
I‘m sure he would have had to use violence, if his victim had not been asleep at the time.
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by matt4077 8y ago
I see no material difference in your description and the term rape. An agreement to have sex with a condom only is certainly not valid for condom-less sex. And your spurious accusation of bribery is just baffling.
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by matt4077 8y ago
I genuinely don’t get people denying even the existence of opposing arguments. I am perfectly fine with arguing against them, even in such juvenile Ayn Rand terms. But to just pretend that there is no argument whatsoever seems disingenuous.
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by matt4077 8y ago
The reason we don’t teach humans is that they are unlikely to have the capacity to make and execute such decisions in a split seconds. Computers do.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Not to mention all his trouble started when he raped (allegedly) one of his former hosts, who had also put him up for free and was generally a fan until he violated the house rules on hygiene.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Well, maybe he should not have also offended (in the law and the colloquial sense) his „real“ hosts. It’s almost as if no man is an island, and also Karma.
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by matt4077 8y ago
I cannot see this product being more than a rounding error in Amazon‘s revenue, ever. In such a light, I am surprised they keep at it despite the bad PR it has already caused. Maybe they have dug in for purely emotional reasons now, and nee
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by matt4077 8y ago
This is as good a time as ever to point out that it’s a misconception that companies are somehow legally bound to maximize shareholder value at all costs. Only some juridiction actually have any law to (broadly) that effect. In practice, co
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by matt4077 8y ago
Europe and the FAA have Cross-certification schemes. In reverse, Airbus is certified primarily in Europe. The same happens to varying degrees in medicines, appliances, etc. This is unlikely to change. It’s expected that some changes will oc
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by matt4077 8y ago
It’s polarizing only if you accept the you-should-die part one of the poles, which is sort of the problem I was getting at. I would characterize it more as reductio ad absurdum.
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by matt4077 8y ago
She never wrote anything on AI ethics, so she most definitely was invited for some other, unrelated action of hers. it‘s also not unrelated, because it speaks to her ability to evaluate facts, and to her soundness of mind.
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by matt4077 8y ago
„Some say you shouldn’t exist. Others say you have a right to live. Hard question“
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by matt4077 8y ago
The are opinions that I would vehemently disagree with, yet not consider illegitimate. The Catholic Church, for example, does and says all sorts of horrible shit. Yet they have a rich intellectual history, are somewhat consistent (i. e. aga
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by matt4077 8y ago
She was chosen for a position that does nothing but comment and publish views on issues. So yes. This seems to be strange obsession of HN: people excusing (with words) the worst possible statements (words), because „words are not actions“ o
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by matt4077 8y ago
International efforts against proliferation have been somewhat successful, even though they ultimately rely on politicians, not nuclear physicists. And in any case, a lack of knowledge regarding dual-use technology has never been the proble
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by matt4077 8y ago
The central example of AI ethics is a self-driving car deciding whom to run over. That example is perfectly possible to occure even with today’s technology. I don’t know what this continuation of playing-chess-doesn’t-take-Intelligence grip
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by matt4077 8y ago
There were a few tells one could find, at least after the fact. For example, he described a women locking her door „with three turns of the key“. That’s something that works on German locks, where the bolt keeps advancing. But the incident
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by matt4077 8y ago
Just check the bottom of this threat with “show all comments” enabled in your preferences.
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by matt4077 8y ago
You’re arguing against congestion pricing in lower Manhattan by citing the inadequacy of public transport in Sydney? In any case: in high density environments such as NY and, yes, Sydney, public transport is the obviously superior option. I
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Panama Papers helps recover more than $1.2B around the world(icij.org)
2 points by matt4077 8y ago|0 comments
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by matt4077 8y ago
Thanks for having the grace of changing your mind. And you weren’t entirely incorrect: my assertion in the top post in is thread that Boeing was working on blaming the pilots was based on something I remember reading in either the NYT or At
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by matt4077 8y ago
This was possibly expectable . But it was not expected . Per their press release:”Because of the lower than expected delivery volumes…”
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by matt4077 8y ago
FWIW in this case I appreciate the rather appropriate reply. If such comments simply disappear, it sometimes feels like all that protects HN are the two or three Moderators doing their duty. I feel more reassured by knowing the wider commun

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