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by sgustard 9y ago
I think the concepts of L1-L4 don't have much meaning in the absence of an environment where the machine is constantly reacting to the behavior of other actors and environmental hazards.
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by sgustard 9y ago
"Our data shows that Tesla owners have driven this same stretch of highway [thousands of times with no trouble]" reads as a denial, implying the crash was a one-off non-reproducible fluke, which the video certainly disproves.
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by sgustard 9y ago
Great question, and this article echoes the answer below: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20... But then: why not as many furniture ads?
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by sgustard 9y ago
Yes, back when CoffeeScript was in vogue the ? operator handled this case nicely: cond? && otherValue
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by sgustard 9y ago
Both this comment and the parent are clearly false; the e-Golf looks just like a gas Golf.
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by sgustard 9y ago
I probably have things to hide, but: I ignore ads. I don't click on political news. I pretty much ignore everything except my friends' vacation photos. Please tell me in concrete terms a specific downside to staying on Faceboo
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by sgustard 9y ago
People care, but assume it's inevitable. The government knows everything about me since I have to pay taxes. Likewise the banks because I have to keep my money somewhere. Likewise my cell provider because I need a phone to participate
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by sgustard 9y ago
The car can begin to brake right away, and must certainly be expected to have a faster reaction time than a human. Whether it started to brake seems like the most important question here.
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by sgustard 9y ago
Did the car stop itself after the accident? Are autonomous cars programmed with a "we've just hit something, stop and pull over" mode? Which sensors on the car even know if it has hit something?
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by sgustard 9y ago
I think the reason is (d), that most employees believe in the company's mission and do not think they are working for an unethical company, but instead that the company is being unfairly portrayed.
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by sgustard 9y ago
Take the simple and common case of a startup storing personal data on an AWS-hosted service. Can you account for who at Amazon has access to that AWS instance, how many physical copies of the data may exist in Amazon's data centers, ho
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by sgustard 9y ago
I haven't found an LED yet that works in my dimmable ceiling fixture, where I can dim it to the lowest possible level and get a pleasing light. The incandescent gives a very dim, warm orange glow which is great for movie watching or ot
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The Feds Can Now (Probably) Unlock Every iPhone Model in Existence(forbes.com)
20 points by sgustard 9y ago|3 comments
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by sgustard 9y ago
I live in a fully Mac/iOS household, and I had no idea until I saw this article that Apple Music was a thing that competes with Spotify. That's probably due to iTunes and iCloud being such a confusing mess that I just don't u
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by sgustard 9y ago
I have a robot vacuum, but: it doesn't do corners. It doesn't do steps. It doesn't get along with cats. It's orders of magnitude less effective than a human vacuum pilot. Yet this is also a problem that's orders of
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by sgustard 9y ago
How do you know when you hit the peak, though? I remember thinking we'd hit peak mobile phone with Nokia and Motorola putting out slightly-smaller devices each year. Then the iPhone came along.
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by sgustard 9y ago
Here's the support contact form. Some folks should try it and report back with their experience as to response time and quality. https://support.google.com/waze/carpool/contact/ridewith_hel...
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by sgustard 9y ago
And yet every hiring manager on here can tell you stories of hiring someone who passed all the screens, but on the job could not write a single line of competent code. The industry provides too much cover to fake it with a title that sounds
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by sgustard 9y ago
"It will be illegal to ask prospective employees for their salary history" Interesting - haven't we all been asked that?
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by sgustard 9y ago
Can either of you define "great demographics" in a way that is not overtly racist? I mean really, move to Sweden to get away from the criminals?
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by sgustard 9y ago
They are discriminating against age, not experience. A 25-year-old with 10 years of experience (elite teen hacker!) is far more attractive than a 50-year-old with 10 years of experience (second-career washout).
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by sgustard 9y ago
var x; 0+x => NaN is the gateway to frustration.
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by sgustard 9y ago
The classic "how many gas stations are there in the USA?" type of interview question seem exactly like an IQ test and not at all relevant to job requirements.
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by sgustard 9y ago
It's clear from the exchange that the CS rep wasn't a native English speaker, and I'd guess they're an outsourced contractor, certainly not in regular contact with actual employees. The entire goal of that department is
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by sgustard 9y ago
Or how the TSA has people sneak guns onto planes and fails to catch them 80% of the time.
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by sgustard 9y ago
Headlines like "Airbnb hosts violently murder houseguest, police say" have stuck with me.
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Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A.(nytimes.com)
311 points by sgustard 9y ago|178 comments
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Cancer Doctors Cite Risks of Drinking Alcohol(nytimes.com)
3 points by sgustard 9y ago|0 comments
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by sgustard 9y ago
Of course you should make your own judgment of the validity of the source. In this case, it would seem to be a difficult task to invent all of this. "The Paradise Papers is a global investigation into the offshore activities of some of
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by sgustard 9y ago
Sure there are, I was an early investor in udbbGxls.

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