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by nguoi 7y ago
>Except the government does even need to do that. And perhaps it won't, if enough of the people that make it up read articles like this to ignore the very powerful automotive lobby
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by nguoi 7y ago
Not like a human can, actually. Fixed cameras are fixed relative to the bodywork, necks are not. OTOH, if I move my head it's usually to get around a blind spot, something cameras have less of an issue with.
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by nguoi 7y ago
When a tree falls over a river, it creates a rudimentary bridge, as has happened for longer than humans have existed. Yet, while we can create huge suspension bridges from steel, we can't create wood.
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by nguoi 7y ago
Not fully mitigated for humans, it's more dangerous to drive at night.
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by nguoi 7y ago
Shipping vehicles has been a solved problem for a century, shipping autonomous vehicles has not. Although they are taking the money for it, Tesla are not shipping autonomous vehicles.
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by nguoi 7y ago
That's such an exciting sentiment to hear, that open source could beat the economic incentives of propriety software. It's so far from what you would have heard in 1999.
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by nguoi 7y ago
Well Fedora users are the beta testers, right?
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by nguoi 7y ago
Total freedom of speech would imply that you're allowed to make movies about cartoon mice and publish information about military designs. No country has total freedom.
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by nguoi 7y ago
Wow, they were almost struck off last year
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by nguoi 7y ago
Private companies in the UK file accounts publicly every year. It's an exchange for creating a legal concept that allows someone to absolve themselves of any liability for their company's obligations. I know companies in Germany d
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by nguoi 7y ago
I have no idea what the colour of her skin has to do with this story
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by nguoi 7y ago
>A game can easily get up to 50 GB these days Final Fantasy XV is the biggest I've seen, 100GB recommended on Steam. No doubt there's even bigger.
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by nguoi 7y ago
You don't have a time machine. Economic indicators work every time - until they don't. >Notice how even getting close to zero spread can sometimes be followed by a recession. But a negative spread always does. Everything since
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by nguoi 7y ago
Recessions make people lose their jobs
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by nguoi 7y ago
>unemployment hits a low right before the recession You have your causal link the wrong way around
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by nguoi 7y ago
Because that recession might turn into another Nikkei
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by nguoi 7y ago
When installing a new OS recently, I struggled to find a definitive view on what to do with swap. There's no data about it, just superstition, and the thread about this yesterday was full of people saying nobody uses it. Maybe I can in
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by nguoi 7y ago
>how much do the Linux community gets back? Almost all of the contribution: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2016/08/the-top-10-deve... And almost all of the money: https://www.linuxfoundati
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by nguoi 7y ago
Tax air travel proportional to its negative externalities - you can start by taxing the fuel like we have to for cars - and suddenly the price difference becomes well worth spending a few more hours in relative comfort.
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by nguoi 7y ago
On that note, why should someone want to contribute to a project controlled by a single company if they don't need those contributions for their business? Many open source projects are far removed from the ideal of a disjoint group hac
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by nguoi 7y ago
Good writers are outliers, most books will sound immature. When the author's gatekeeping would get rid of much of Shakespeare's output, maybe it's too much?
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by nguoi 7y ago
I'd guess that bin bags are more likely to make it to landfill (full of other things that need to go to landfill) than to end up in rivers, etc. Since we are still throwing things in landfills for the foreseeable future and bin bag usa
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by nguoi 7y ago
The headline would suggest they don't need to because people already do. To counter your anecdote, I no longer use plastic bags at all.
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by nguoi 7y ago
>source in the open That's not a normal sentence construction though, it sounds tortured. You may be able to see through my windows into my home: that doesn't mean my home is open to you.
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by nguoi 7y ago
>I’m also sure that lots of folks don’t truly understand blue collar working conditions in other industries. I do agree with this. I briefly had a few blue collar jobs: it's hard for workers to assert their existing rights, cultural
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by nguoi 7y ago
Even the bot in this blog does fuzzing
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by nguoi 7y ago
To be picky, that is unfalsifiable. I think you're probably correct but shaming the engineers in the hopes they'll stop it has repeatedly failed to work: that's why this isn't a thread about VW. IMHO it's because ac
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by nguoi 7y ago
It reminds me of the reaction to the Five Eyes reveal. If someone had presented it as a conspiracy theory beforehand and asked me if I thought it was happening, I'd have said it probably was. It's probably quite easy to justify to
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by nguoi 7y ago
RISC architectures have existed for about 4 decades.
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by nguoi 7y ago
Yes, though I admit my choice is influenced by wanting to learn to be better at using Rust, not by what is best for the task I write C at work: to me Rust is fun for playing with a more functional style. The type system makes refactoring ea

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