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by rohit2412 8y ago
I keep on seeing this opinion that if China doesn't grow at 8%+ rate, there'll be a revolution. Where does this idea come from? China went through not just minimal growth, but policies that killed tens of millions in the 1950-70s.
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If that were the only options, we could choose the second. But you have the option of assistive technologies. Have the human drive and the machine supervise it. The mistakes made when the human falls asleep can be prevented. The mistakes th
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by rohit2412 8y ago
Because it is not just about adversarial samples. How about old Lane markings, some paint spillover, contrasting color in asphalt, tire marks in snow conditions? They'll all come across as new lanes. These Lane keeping assist systems a
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by rohit2412 8y ago
And what exactly are they comparing. Just because Lane keeping assist reduced accidents doesn't mean that we remove human drivers. As long as the driver has to keep hand on the wheel like autopilot, it remains an assistive technology,
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by rohit2412 8y ago
And this is how the CEO advertises it https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-breaks-tesla-autop...
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by rohit2412 8y ago
We know how it ends though. We'll see them roll out an error-prone stop-sign+traffic-light detection as fsd beta, and everyone will act like that was what was promised. Just like Lane keeping assist is "autopilot".
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by rohit2412 8y ago
Maybe you can tell Elon musk to be more self aware too. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-breaks-tesla-autop...
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by rohit2412 8y ago
That's unbelievable. Romania's GDP per capita PPP is 25k$, same as Greece and turkey. How Is Romania so undeveloped? Some of the things about railways and road connectivity are even better in poor country like India
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by rohit2412 8y ago
I'm not sure of the numbers, but. Cut 7 to 3, cut 500$ to 200$ say by rounding. Save 300$ per car. How many cars do you need to recoup the 100 million$? 100m/300= 300k cars. Just one year of model3 production.
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by rohit2412 8y ago
Why not adopt
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by rohit2412 8y ago
Your article says that Nathan Phillips, the activist agrees. There is even a video backing this claim. What if the PR firm is saying the truth?
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by rohit2412 8y ago
I say we should shut down the "kinda self driving but not when it counts" systems, and have them only for accident protection. Basically "self driving only when absolutely needed"
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by rohit2412 8y ago
I get down voted everytime I say this, but the only reason Tesla's sell so much is because of these lies and the futuristic hype.
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by rohit2412 8y ago
Not him, but compared to an unassisted human, a human supervised autosteer might be better. This is no condonation for driverless autosteer though. But what we should compare to is a supervised steer to a assisted human. So autosteer with L
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by rohit2412 8y ago
Then instead of admitting students who didn't prepare for reasons of ignorance and lack of guidance, you give better guidance. Would you award me a fields medal, just because I didn't achieve anything since I wasn't taught an
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by rohit2412 8y ago
Well then the obvious solution is to make downtown driving expensive. Charge money to enter downtown
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by rohit2412 8y ago
I wish we see some other ev succeed without Elon musk. Because till then it is very likely that only lies and hype makes mass market interested in EVs. Because without the lies about fsd, self driving and the futuristic hype, Tesla might no
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by rohit2412 8y ago
This! So much this! I remember a interview by Elon musk at a conference called CODE where he espoused that driverless cars are solved because all you need to do is get a car to stay in Lane and brake safely at low speeds. And everybody bou
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by rohit2412 8y ago
Well, aren't transistors vavles for electric flow, that is valves for electrons
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Because current AI does not seem as good at generalizing as humans?
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by rohit2412 8y ago
Fair enough. I am a bit fed up of hearing "all religions are equal and peaceful", something which is objectively false. I have been flagged once and can be banned for "religious flamewar". I didn't know hackernews h
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by rohit2412 8y ago
Then you also lead people to theocracy. There are positions one can take between "all religions are peaceful, good, and true", and "kill the religious"
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by rohit2412 8y ago
I'm not talking about the currency, but it's monetary value. As such, you can imagine australia and China trading in us dollars. Is free trade always beneficial for Australians? If you still want to consider only usd and USA and C
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As an atheist Indian (Hindu family), I think ideologies can be criticized. If you can paint Nazis and white supremacy beliefs in a broad brush, so can you criticize religions which unequivocally sentence people to hell for leaving the relig
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by rohit2412 8y ago
I dont think new atheism proponents like Dawkins and hitchens propose religious persecution like communists. Looking for social change towards atheism, like a third-wave atheism is very different from imposing atheism on people.
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I don't think so. China remained subservient enough during the cultural revolution and the great leap forward. It's going to be easy now for the party to remain in control.
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by rohit2412 8y ago
When Buddhists persecute Muslims in Myanmar, it isn't because Buddha told them to do so. But when Muslims persecute yazidis, it is because Mohammed did so, and Quran has verses allowing it. To stop with the craziness, one should look a
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by rohit2412 8y ago
I don't think I ever implied that free trade is always harmful. Just that at times tariffs and protectionism may be beneficial. The onus is on the other side which claims that free trade is always beneficial, and any tariffs or protect
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I feel this is true only at an individual level, but is not true for a collective level. Take two choices, you can either buy a 15$ tshirt in your local country, or a 10$ tshirt from another country. At an individual level it makes sense to
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by rohit2412 8y ago
> The Bible is merely psychologically profound. Sure, I think everyone agrees that some wisdom is to be found in ancient texts. Along with a whole crock of false claims. When you say you believe in God, you are making claims which are un

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