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All people in public places in Wuhan are now required to wear masks(twitter.com)
1 points by stopads 7y ago|0 comments
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by stopads 7y ago
I also refuse to complete captchas because I'm not interested in giving a trillion dollar company my free labor to help train their models. I'm really close to just defaulting JavaScript off entirely, the web is becoming so much w
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by stopads 7y ago
I've complained about many companies that are devoting even more resources to buybacks on this very forum, including Chevron, Texas Instruments, Google and Oracle. Google in particular has been the trendsetter, everyone else is trying
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by stopads 7y ago
No, the current buyback madness (at least at these levels) is a very recent invention of the past decade and quite abnormal. We can go back to reinvesting in companies and employees and research tomorrow if we want to. But this would requir
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by stopads 7y ago
I'm almost there, after reading about how much Boeing has spent on stock buybacks (5x all of R&D over the past six years) I think I'm going to start looking into which model typically services a route and avoid all modern Boei
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by stopads 7y ago
Not everyone is a young male with minimal obligations to take care of other humans.
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by stopads 7y ago
So you're arguing that we'd all be better off without MCAS? And that this whole thing is the fault of regulators? If so, this line of thinking is utterly absurd.
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by stopads 7y ago
Nobody in Kansas is wasting their time trying to dig a pointless hole to China, they are all pinching every penny and coming up with every hack, innovation, and shortcut they can to get by. The fact that you think people who failed must be
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by stopads 7y ago
This is 90% of science these days, just keep tweaking numbers in the model until it fits with what you want to see. The why and the how is not really something we have the capability or tooling to tackle. I got bored with physics really qui
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by stopads 7y ago
I don't understand the distinction? Why is it important?
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by stopads 7y ago
I come from a very rough rural town in Kansas, I've personally known dozens of people who worked super hard their whole lives and still died in poverty and despair. I'm not sure what the correlation is between hard work and succes
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by stopads 7y ago
I think we should add a new stat for C-level execs on financial websites, in addition to compensation and tenure and whatnot we should have a "body count" number listed. Maybe add this to crunchbase as well?
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by stopads 7y ago
MCAS is the dumb bandaid they invented to save money on pilot retraining. Turns out that bandaid was so poorly built it killed people. In the 777x It's not exact same software system, but the exact same "cheapest option on the men
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by stopads 7y ago
Because it's called "autopilot" and Tesla has already fraudulently sold millions of people on the false claim that it is an autopilot for your car. Gating or segmenting how it works exposes this falsehood immediately. We were
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Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'(thedrive.com)
486 points by stopads 7y ago|897 comments
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by stopads 7y ago
Google and other large tech giants have been working on precisely that sort of AI with those types of data for at least 10 years now. They are famous for tinkering with their hiring process based on mountains of data, with mostly bad result
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by stopads 7y ago
I had a moment of excitement when Google announced their practical quantum computing breakthrough, then I instantly realized it meant they will just find a way to track me at a quantum level and anticipate my consumer targeting brand prefer
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by stopads 7y ago
I would love to see tech pivot away from being an industry that is 100% about tracking & advertising more and more every year and towards something, anything that was an actual real new product or service. We used to take it for granted
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by stopads 7y ago
It's pretty wild that he was there since 2002, he's practically a founder.
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Hackers Are Breaking Directly into Telecom Companies to Take over Phone Numbers(vice.com)
8 points by stopads 7y ago|0 comments
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Boeing 737 Max supplier Spirit Aerosystems to cut 2,800 jobs(cnbc.com)
2 points by stopads 7y ago|0 comments
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by stopads 7y ago
People are drinking less and less every year, this is a real thing with lots of data and has no correlation with religion. This is Denver, one of the first cities in the world to decriminalize marijuana and the first state to legalize it co
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A new generation of Denver bars is targeting people who don’t drink(theknow.denverpost.com)
2 points by stopads 7y ago|7 comments
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Australia's severe wildfires were predicted by the government over a decade ago(newsweek.com)
71 points by stopads 7y ago|29 comments
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Australia Reservists Are Called Up as Blazes Spread(nytimes.com)
2 points by stopads 7y ago|0 comments
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Pay Is Rising Fastest for Low Earners. One Reason? Minimum Wages(nytimes.com)
1 points by stopads 7y ago|0 comments
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by stopads 7y ago
The one thing about getting old that I really enjoy is telling people about how things used to be and having them not believe me. Like how I browsed the web for years before it had any advertising on it. This week it's the story about
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by stopads 7y ago
Aren't we supposed to need congressional approval to start a war? So many things I was taught in civics class turned out to be complete fiction.
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by stopads 7y ago
Well they are pretending to be a tech company to wall street and consumers, so someone is lying.
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by stopads 7y ago
A former Tesla software engineer posted a thread on twitter a few months ago describing their development/release process and it was a total mess of hacky bad practices that barely worked at all. It does not seem like software is much

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