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by rbobby 11y ago
Baby steps. A fully terrain aware robot will be very complicated. Breaking it down into discrete goals only makes sense.
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by rbobby 11y ago
One challenge not mentioned in the article is house maintenance. If you do not maintain your house properly its value can decrease dramatically (worst case is land value less demolition cost). If they contract out maintenance to a good firm
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by rbobby 11y ago
I would expect a tracking check from a TOR exit node to be a "clue". Might even be grounds for reasonable suspicion (would need a judge/case law to know for sure). Which is enough to isolate a package for a drug sniff. Though
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by rbobby 11y ago
Lol... the email is more than 10 years old.
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by rbobby 12y ago
It's a crazy amount of liability. If a company doesn't comply with the GPL them they don't have a license to the code, and without permission from the copyright owner they're at risk of being found to be infringing. And
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by rbobby 12y ago
Ding ding ding... all the uboot copyright owner needs is a desire to to sue and a lawyer that would take the case on a contingency basis. The company does about 600 million in revenue... so there's a lot of money there.
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by rbobby 12y ago
Kinda doubling down on the whole "they're not real canadians" thing aren't ya? Here's an interesting study from U.Ottawa in 2010: http://sciencessociales.uottawa.ca/grei-rgei/fra/documents&
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by rbobby 12y ago
> One problem was that its figures excluded the tens of thousands of Canadians (30-50% of whom estimated to buy property in Vancouver) who bought their residency through the recently defunct Immigrant Investor Program. Hold on a second.
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by rbobby 12y ago
I definitely missed the re-interview. However the full quote is: > Sofia also said that, when she was half asleep on her side, she had been aroused from slumber to feel that Assange was inside her. Which is quite different from a plain &
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by rbobby 12y ago
Note that this is a claim put forward by Assange's defense team. For what that's worth.
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by rbobby 12y ago
No it's not. Gillianseed provided a direct quote from the police interview. Did you just guess at this? Or do you have something to contradict the police interview ( http://www.nnn.se/nordic/assange/docs/p
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by rbobby 12y ago
Where are you getting "half-asleep" from? From gillianseed's translation of the actual case file "They went to sleep and she awoke with the sensation of him entering her." (see his comment in reply to yours). In man
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by rbobby 12y ago
Hopefully on day 45 you don't end up in a coma for the next 16 days. Don't mess with your health insurance.
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by rbobby 12y ago
An auto-unclose process that examined web logs for direct hits from google might be nice too. And closed question that gets N hits from google probably deserves to be reopened with a special "google wants an answer" tag. I usually
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by rbobby 12y ago
Even though they're obviously robots they somehow have landed smack dab in the middle of the uncanny valley. Maybe because the legs bend the wrong way.
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by rbobby 12y ago
Slap a saddle on it and you have a fun new vehicle.
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by rbobby 12y ago
> Just because a computer can pass the turing test, doesn't mean it can spontaneously diagnose your medical problems, design a suspension bridge or play Go. I think you may have too narrow a view of a turing test. As part of any rea
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by rbobby 12y ago
Very nice... and right at the end they ruined it: "rainfall may spread diseases like e.coli".
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by rbobby 12y ago
"Why are there so many black lines? Do they have to be black or could we use a different color?"
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by rbobby 12y ago
> the very same day that Sony Pictures' head of corporate communications, [... name removed by rbobby ...], publicly resigned from a $600,000 job. This could be a coincidence but it seems unlikely. So Schneier is repeating GotNews&#
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by rbobby 12y ago
Your prediction that basic income would eventually mean a total leveling of all incomes and your assumption that everyone would eventually do nothing are also fallacies (fallacy of the single cause? nirvana fallacy?). Basic income is not ab
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by rbobby 12y ago
> I don't think for a minute that everyone should get paid the same Conflating your concept of "everyone should get paid the same" and basic income is a logical fallacy (false equivalence?). Nothing about basic income requ
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by rbobby 12y ago
You have 30 minutes. Do you torture the guy you KNOW has had years of high level torture resistance training or do you give in and save your FAMILY? See... bullshit hypotheticals can prove the opposite point too.
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by rbobby 12y ago
I was thinking of car jacking... taking the entire car. UberLux/UberSux/UberBlack is essentially an on demand high end vehicle for thieves. They'd need a burner cell phone and stolen credit card... but that's a pretty lo
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by rbobby 12y ago
One difference with taxi cabs is that many of them have security video systems in the car. These are primarily for driver safety, but can also be for passenger safety. Some taxis also have a driver safety system that when engaged will flash
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by rbobby 12y ago
There are more possible effects than the 2 you include. Another would be the police violates your rights, plants evidence, and you are unable to prove your innocence... off to jail you go. Another would be the police violate your rights and
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by rbobby 12y ago
You're probably pretty familiar with how things appear when you intentionally cross your eyes. When you intentionally focus farther away the appearance of close items is "different"... sort of like cross eyed focus but not re
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by rbobby 12y ago
The "knowledge" is a very valuable skill/infoset. The actual driving and interacting with customers is much less valuable. So maybe the way forward is to separate the two skills. Folks with the "knowledge" could act
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by rbobby 12y ago
11% per _week_! If it sounds too good...
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by rbobby 12y ago
> or prefer not to answer the question, Depositions are sworn testimony. Even if you'd prefer not to answer the question, you have sworn to be truthful. Responding "I don't remember" to a question just because you&#x2

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