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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Am I misunderstanding this line: "So far, the numbers are small enough. Of the 35 billion pounds, or $45 billion, invested in these funds, just under £20 billion has been affected." What? More than half? And that's considered
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Thank you for the cogent framing of the issues. It's so easy to bash GMO skeptics for being "anti science" or stubborn vegan hippies. There are legitimate concerns to discuss.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
They can also afford cars with stronger danger features, like turbochargers. They also might be more sheltered from the consequences of their actions and likely to be reckless while driving. Your assumption may even be correct, but I don&#x
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Wouldn't it be hilarious if they were being really tacit about something like this? In an exceptional scenario, the autopilot disengages and tells the human user to take over. So maybe the autopilot drives into an untenable situation,
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
"If our imperfect software kills you, too, rest assured that we will offer our empty condolences to your family while simultaneously using technical language to absolve ourselves of any possible fault" Do you think that reassures
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
>The autopilot will avoid obstacles it can detect and the driver is expected to avoid others I'm sorry, how is that supposed to work, exactly? How does the driver know? Sounds like the driver has to avoid every obstacle - to avoid t
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
No legal expertise, but the thing that struck me is Campos' extremely flawed analogy. If we want to make comparisons to rental cars, the hosts are the rental companies. There is no third party platform to compare to AirBnB.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Maybe they had an idea and don't care? http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c1adcce2-397e-11e6-9a05-82a9b15a8e... "the piles of ballot papers told their own story about those parts of Britain that felt comfort
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
I have nothing to base this on, I always thought we could do that. The airlines just don't, because (most) passengers won't get on a plane if they don't get to hear that Air Force baritone come over the intercom and say &quot
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Ah fair enough, that makes more sense. It's definitely an unethical experiment, glad my name isn't on it either.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
How deliciously dystopian.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Not a laywer, I'm just picking nits. It seems to me when you pip install a package, you are saying "download <this thing> and run its setup.py file". What if requests did something you didn't like, something simple
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
I'm not so sure - were they forced? Could you take the maintainer of `requests` to court too? If someone types `pip install reqeusts` and gets something they maybe didn't expect, did you really force them?
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Reason #19836 not to go to Oklahoma...
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Not to say OK isn't a backwater, but at least the senator quoted in the article seems to get it: "State Sen. Kyle Loveless, R-Oklahoma City, said that removes due process and the belief that a suspect is presumed innocent until pr
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Equal rights?? We should never have given <them> shoes!
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Yeah I was disappointed when there wasn't some complicated economic phenomenon involved. They just all use one of Yahoo's products.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Some poor SREs have a shitty night ahead of them.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Ever heard the phrase "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes"? Hard to feel sympathy for tabloid writers feeling unfairly targeted.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Am I the only one who thought this part was weird? "And as if that were not enough, here’s the kicker. This was not some kind of massive high-throughput screen of the kind we so often hear about in biomedical research these days. The
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Check out this chart from the Energy Information Administration: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n3010us3m.htm If you only want 1 sigfig, I'd say the price is about $10 per thousand cubic feet over that
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
A quick distinction, you have to build all of a skyscraper but you only get to sell part of it as condos. There are hallways, janitors' closets, fire stairways, etc etc.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
I once received a parking ticket timestamped 2 in the afternoon. Funny thing is, that day I drove across the GG Bridge and went hiking - I had photographic evidence of crossing the bridge in the morning and the toll to prove I returned in t
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
>If they aren't studying it is clearly an abuse of the intent of the Visa It's a fairly victimless crime... the visas' feelings aren't being hurt, that's for sure. In this particular case especially, the Departme
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
You must not get it: they have money and he doesn't. They ought to give him the money. This is a weird shill piece, why bother printing it?
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
>Isn't that more or less what human brains do? Sure but now what are you demonstrating. "The human brain collects and interprets data". Great paper, thanks for the contribution to science.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
You're intentionally mis-understanding what he wrote. He means it isn't always the human driver's fault. Driverless cars aren't going to re-implement roads (not at first, not for a while).
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
https://goswift.ly/ My friend wrote it. Includes other modes of transportation like buses and scooter-shares.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Because the public likes pretty pictures, and NASA needs the public to be excited about space exploration.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
They also have users, a brand, and revenue. They're probably spending all that money on marketing. I'm not going to pretend to be an expert but that's part of building a company. Gotta spend money to make money.

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