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by mikejb 8y ago
So if I go to the Airport in Atlanta, and in the security line I express the opinion that the TSA is full of shit, and terrorists are just desperate's people's freedom fighters, I won't have to suffer repercussions? The claim
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Im hoping not, since it's more expensive in manufacturing, and people who go through the trouble of not having their Roomba on the internet are more edge cases than normal customers. Plus consumer watchdogs and privacy groups will star
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The phone opening the access point for the router doesn't have a SIM card, and is just there to provide a WiFi connection for the Roomba to be able to control it. That way, the vacuum can't access the internet but I can still cont
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by mikejb 8y ago
I had the same concerns, particularly since I bought the 980 with the camera on it. I ended up creating an access point with my phone to set it up, and now I have an old beaten phone as controller for it that has the same access point but n
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by mikejb 8y ago
Not understanding what your competitor is thinking, but dismissing them anyways it is arrogant at best, potentially dangerous. If you choose to ignore a competitive product, you better be able to explain why that product won't endanger
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These requirements don't need to be part of the outsourcing contract. Sure, there can and probably will be some restrictions, but the reasons why a government agency doesn't employ (even former) drug users don't necessarily a
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It wasn't outsourced to the cheapest bidder; actually, limitations on govt salaries is one of the reasons to outsource: you can attract better talent with competitive offers. And plenty of whistleblowers at the CIA and NSA were direct
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If you don't trust software, don't look at reality. So many things that can directly or indirectly kill you are run by (often shitty) software, you won't leave the house again. And those systems aren't looked at as close
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I've worked on projects for the German govt before, and I was never employed by them. Points 3 and 4, possibly also 2 are handled by hiring companies to do the work.
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How compatible are they? If I send you a word document with tables and layouts and strange things, will you be able to open, modify and send it back s.t. I can open it again without everything being one big clusterfuck?
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I think the assumption is incorrect. The Microsoft Office suite is used a lot, IIUC
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I agree with you. Particularly, this sentence is a bit misleading "Face ID can be fooled by mask, which means it is not an effective security measure." It's like saying "This lock can be fooled by key, which means it is
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Whilst not applicable in this case (because the deceased is a minor), this always reminds me of how important it is to also make arrangements for your digital heritage. Facebook allows you to set a legacy contact [1], who will have some bas
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by mikejb 8y ago
Whilst not applicable in this case (because the deceased is a minor), this always reminds me of how important it is to also make arrangements for your digital heritage. Facebook allows you to set a legacy contact [1], who will have some bas
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by mikejb 8y ago
The problem is that you used the "he was asked for help" in context of "he didn't force himself on them": > Elon Musk was asked to help, he agreed to come there and now people talk about "hubris" as if
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by mikejb 8y ago
Or, you know, you could just admit that the wording was poorly chosen and caused a lot misunderstandings, and that Musk wasn't officially asked for help, but that a random stranger on Twitter asked him to do something.
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Influencing public perception by mass up-/downvoting is not a right-wing only strategy, it's in every extremists' arsenal.
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It's not misinformation, and there is more nuance to that than you think. Your phone listening to you to say "Hey Siri" is an Apple device listening to you. Yes, as for any reasonable implementation of an assistant, that dete
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Hey Siri! Are you listening to me? (I know, it's more nuanced than that, but the "my phone is a always-on microphone" isn't accurate either)
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Remember the abduction & torture system they ran for years during the Afghanistan&Iraq war? They indeed better don't complain too much about 'failure to hold human rights abusers accountable'.
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Well, either you compare optimal public transport vs optimal individual transportation, or you compare current public transport vs current individual transportation. And current individual transportation doesn't scale at all. Just obse
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IIRC, they were never deployed to roads. Instead, they were deployed in a pedestrian zone (30 panels or so). It didn't go well, issues included loose panels, failing panels, and a fire in the electronics cabinet.
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By adding a shit-ton of tracking and analytic code from 3rd parties that provide some convenience. Blog owners are worried because it's not always clear what happens through the imported 3rd-party code, and now they have to start carin
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The SpaceX comparison is a bad example. Sure they could have said "this and that happened", but there's always the point on how much you can trust the data you get at that point. I fully understand them not talking about fail
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It doesn't even have to be pride. If he now says they're switching to Lidars, all cars before sold with "self-driving hardware" and "full SDC is only a software and computer upgrade away" promises are screwed,
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This is what I thought, too, but they explicitly state "access to devices", not "access to data". Could also very well be that the author didn't distinct between the two sufficiently.
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> the world has been a safer place over the last 70 years because there's a global cop who's willing to use force to keep the peace. No, the world has become a safer place for us because we live in nations with nuclear weapon
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Dissect this sentence and tell me how I can deduce that this feature does not exist yet. Like the car is unable to do that. That's not dependent on "regulatory approval" or "software validation" - it's dependen
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And don't advertise on tesla.com/autopilot that the feature is capable of driving itself.
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The entire move is a stepping stone in learning the technology, which makes sense to me. The question on my mind is if this gives them access to VW AG, which would include Audi, Porsche, and what I place my bet/hope on: Bentley. Becaus

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