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by reddog 8y ago
Would it then be OK for the autonomous car DIYer to modify the software to drive a bit more aggressively? Or to always favor passenger survival over pedestrian/bicyclist survival in an emergency situation? Or maybe he just wants to use
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by reddog 8y ago
If you have an inalienable right to repair/rebuild/modify your Tesla do you also have the right to do the same to your future level 5, fully-autonomous self driving car? Rich is a true engineering rock star for pulling off what he
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by reddog 8y ago
I don't know. Look at Canada; separated by the same distance yet it remained a colony until 1931. While rebellious space colonies has been a dependable sci-fi trope since the 50's, I am skeptical things would really work out that
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by reddog 8y ago
>If anything we need more industry-specific reporting to try to show companies how ignoring climate change will impact their bottom line. The life span of the average business is about 10 years. The median employment tenure (years that
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by reddog 8y ago
I don't know. Maybe lawn care professionals know more about the best tools for lawn care than us hipster bloggers, engineer coders and Atlantic Media editors. Maybe people who have never pushed a broom or a mower for a living or, in
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by reddog 8y ago
Everything thats old is new again. Watch Downton Abby and Remains of the Day for additional tips on cost-effective personal life automation for the new techno-aristocracy.
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by reddog 8y ago
Don't fight it. These people have studied architecture and city planning at the best schools. They know whats best for you is to live in a two bedroom apartment next to the train station. Once there you will start to understand how
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by reddog 9y ago
I take your point. But its also true that if you measure violent death over the last 100 years Europe is way, way, way ahead. Around 90 million Europeans have died violently over the last century -- guns, bombs, gas, starvation -- at the
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by reddog 9y ago
As just a customer, Amazon is the closest I've gotten to Star Trek level technology. I tell Alexa what I want and two hours later a set of headphones, a box of Tide and a package of Earl Grey tea materializes on my front porch. Not q
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by reddog 9y ago
Excellent point!
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by reddog 10y ago
For perspective, it cost about $200 million to get your name on an America's Cup trophy. So as billionaire vanity projects go, this is pretty reasonable.
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by reddog 10y ago
When I am watching a Netflix movie my (download) bandwidth between me and whatever computer is serving it is much higher than 10bps. By 5 to 6 orders of magnitude. And that bandwidth has been matched perfectly by evolution to my processin
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by reddog 10y ago
Last time I looked, dumb TVs were expensive and hard to find. I assumed that is because the manufacturer can make fat bank off Netflix, Amazon, et al. by including their apps. Not to mention the possible revenue made off this kind of secr
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by reddog 10y ago
I couldn't agree more about the myopia. At the last place I worked I did a lot of interviewing of fresh outs for development and data science positions. Most of these kids came from elite schools with fine academic records. But hard
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by reddog 10y ago
You make a good point. I know I can't remember the last time I finished a recent big console game but my reason is that many of them take so damn long to finish. According to http://howlongtobeat.com/ many of these g
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by reddog 10y ago
This is its 5th launch and I love the way the logos and lettering on the outside of the rocket has not been retouched/repainted after the previous launches. You can see it's used space ship.
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by reddog 10y ago
Here's a rundown on what "OldSpace" is doing right now: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/?type=current They are in space, orbiting Jupiter and Saturn, driving around the surface of Mars, flying by Pluto
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by reddog 10y ago
It hasn't been ratified in the US. The lame duck Obama administration may have agreed to it, but it still needs to pass the senate by a two thirds vote before it becomes a treaty and binding on the US in any way. I doubt that they
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by reddog 10y ago
Fair enough. According to Wikipedia of the 26 Mercury program missions there were 6 pre 1962 Mercury program launch failures before the 6 successful manned missions. 5 of the 6 failures were test flights without payload.
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by reddog 10y ago
Right. Like I said, no catastrophic launch failures. They did build things robustly back when the US still had a manned space program. I wonder how well a SpaceX rocket would do if it was struck by lightning as it left the pad. Then agai
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by reddog 10y ago
I don't know if I agree. Aside from Challenger (I know -- a pretty big aside), what catastrophic launch failures were there with the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo program rockets? Or the Delta 2. And doesn't the old-fashion-can&#x
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by reddog 10y ago
Could the Justice Department end the party? Or is a monopoly built on the network effect exempt from antitrust laws?
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by reddog 11y ago
I love it. Tyson just said that there is a 50% chance that the intelligent design people are right.
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by reddog 11y ago
The wealth of the US middle class is already taxed heavily. In my part of the country it runs at about 3%. This tax is more commonly known as a property tax. Since the middle class carries most of its wealth in the form of equity in home
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by reddog 11y ago
Better? For those of you scoring at home, SpaceX is 1 for 4 on soft landing with spectacular landing failures for CRS-5 and CRS-6. CRS-7 exploded on the pad at launch. The Apollo program sent 8 missions TO THE MOON AND BACK with only one f
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by reddog 11y ago
Did you know that the US spends more on education than almost any other country? Only Switzerland spends more per capita and only Switzerland, Norway and Austria spend more per student. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe&
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by reddog 11y ago
You can roughly double that. Thats the cost of the extra electricity needed by the ACs to offset the heat generated by the pegged PCs.
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by reddog 11y ago
Wow. This is a tough crowd. Its not enough to generously give your time and money to charity, you have to have an effective data driven approach to your giving or you suck. And if you can bill at $500 an hour, no helping out at the soup
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by reddog 11y ago
> Also, try to read more than one study. Even if I had the time to read several studies and expertise to understand them, I couldn't afford it. Out of curiosity I just went to the Journal of Nutrition (I know nothing about it, pick
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by reddog 12y ago
Let he who is without a mobile phone in their pocket and a Facebook account cast the first stone.

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