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by unishark 5y ago
> Why not send a bicyclist to deliver pizza then? Ok. But when this bike takes up exactly as much space in the bike lane as the robot would have, what have we gained? Theoretically the robot could take up less space since it doesn't
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by unishark 5y ago
What agenda is the US interference pursuing? Some agendas could be positive things for the country, like supporting pro-democracy movements. Meanwhile, as for mastering tactics, all China has to do is similarly support activists and opposit
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by unishark 5y ago
I think it's mainly a matter of speed. A little 15 mph robot just fits best in the bike lane. If the robot was a 30 mph moped, then they belong in the street. Also, if e-bikes and bike-speed robots become really numerous in the bike la
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by unishark 5y ago
I'd say it's a little more rational. People have different life experiences and have reached different conclusions. When they see other people making claims which they "know" from experience to be wrong, they point them
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by unishark 5y ago
There's too much cynicism everywhere nowadays. It seems that modern society has become full-on technophobic. Even HN discussions, which you'd think would be a bunch of technophiles. However, the headline and original twitter thre
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then the surprise twist during credits, while walking home after narrowly winning the suit against Google due to an impassioned statement on the stand, he murders someone!
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by unishark 5y ago
Math problems aren't technical problems? Do you mean it's a mathematically-impossible technical problem? Noise and obfuscation can be added to the data such that the unique person it identifies doesn't exist. For example chan
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by unishark 5y ago
Seems to me like experts are just following the herd advocating the things most politically palpable. For example, the public likes travel restrictions, and (a sizeable subset of them) become viciously outraged over herd immunity, so whatev
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by unishark 5y ago
No one here is proposing we give this data to insurers. The poster I responded to is proposing we deny medical science this data, and that we remain remain sicker and more ignorant about health, because otherwise the discoveries medical sci
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It is interesting to view as a kind of state machine though I don't know about treating it as a meme. Certainly a cold calculation. I've long thought that US immigration queues reflects the simple fact that from an individual pers
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I have lived in places where I had a lower opinion of my congressperson than of the rest of congress, and where the majority voted the opposite direction from myself on laws and ballot measures. I still found the local news to be much more
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by unishark 5y ago
Is that sarcasm? I don't know many people who'd describe the US immigration system as welcoming. But sure, hypocrisy is often the result of nice consistent reasoning. Bend the law in favor of those we want to favor and against tho
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Dictators tend to be a lot more willing to sacrifice masses of their people to preserve their rule than the subjects are to take that particular path, even if surrendering to the Nazis did sometimes lead to an equally-bad outcome as fightin
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So medical science could figure out the health consequence of all your dietary and recreational decisions with amazing granularity, and your take is this is a negative thing because of the possibility of higher insurance rates?
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by unishark 5y ago
Suppose your assets lost 70 percent of their value soon after the tax year ended. Now your net worth is 300k while your tax bill is 400k, and you can only slowly get the over-payment back by deducting it against your current taxes. We are a
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And what if no other country wants to accept you? Perhaps you have leprosy or advocate crazy political views or something. When someone immigrates illegally as a child we don't dare kick them out because that would be evil and cruel, t
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Punishing someone more than they deserve in order to communicate a point to others, strikes me as a kind of political agenda, not justice.
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I don't think its selective enforcement so much as different crimes that can appear superficially to fit the same facts. Filing late because you made a mistake will cost you interest plus possibly a penalty relating to the amount. Tax
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by unishark 5y ago
I'd say the standard in civil suits is the lowest ethically possible in judging people. It merely requires the claim to be more likely to be true that not. Below that, you're saying the claim is most likely false based on the evid
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by unishark 5y ago
You mean like people judging others on Twitter based on gossip and quotes out of context? Society could do a lot better by imitating the justice system standards a bit more. The system was created that way for important ethical reasons.
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The poster you responded to (or should I say ranted at) told you nothing about their beliefs in regards to other animals.
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by unishark 5y ago
This is prophetic patents, another unwanted side effect of the system. I'd say it's the norm in every niche nowadays. As soon as any technological idea becomes well-known, say some research idea getting hyped in the media (e.g., q
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by unishark 5y ago
> The saddest part of the idea of "trolling" as a "business" is that it has spread into other areas, outside IT. I'd say the business idea was created by the govt. Finding new ways to profit via exploiting the l
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by unishark 5y ago
If you can provide a product with those features at lower cost the market would still reward you. But yes any description of economics is necessarily a simplification. For example market segments where people intentionally pay more for the
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Korea can accept whatever certifications it wants. This is Korea refusing to accept the test results performed at the China offices of a US company. "Korea only acknowledges test results from the US-based BACL through an agreement with
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> The other option is to help the low achieving students so that more of them can participate in that winner take all economy. I'm not sure how to argue that this latter option is preferable since it seems so obvious to me that it&#
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So rather than putting students that learn slowly into classes that move slowly, you keep them in normal classes where they drag along lost behind everyone else, and possibly drag the rest of the class down with them. I don't see how t
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Prop 13 protects people who got in early. Median house prices in SF have been over a million for close to a decade. I'd think they have plenty enough suckers by now paying five-figures in property taxes.
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also spend lots of class time repeating background material students should already know.
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I have no doubt that it would cost millions. If it's important enough to do, it's important enough to spend extra on a (supposedly) reliable and secure system with some massive 24/7 maintenance contract. Unlike convenience st

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