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by vntok 8y ago
What do you mean? Neurons work exactly like if/then statements. If (input > level) {transmit information}
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by vntok 8y ago
Check out waymo's videos; the car detects the flashing lights + reflective fabric on the police officer's uniform, as well as the shoulder and arm gestures. Griefing is as much an issue as is police impersonation right now, that i
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by vntok 8y ago
Isn't it ethically preferrable for Waymo to push their own, better, safer system, as far as they can, rather than to improve competitor systems in a lesser way by sharing their secret sauce that competitors can only partially implement
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by vntok 8y ago
Stairs.
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by vntok 8y ago
Interesting, do you have a link? To me blockchain in Art is less useful as a way to prove some ex-nihilo ownership than as an unalterable chain of ownership transfers. Of course that works as long as noone gets their hands on Musée du Louvr
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by vntok 8y ago
I gave you a few specific examples earlier in the thread: - Art transactions: registry of origin and property transfers for any object (with authenticated certificate), currently done by lawyers & auction houses (costly, inefficient, pa
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by vntok 8y ago
Any industry or operations where intermediaries are needed becauses of a lack of trust between first parties can be desintermediated by a distributed trust network: - Art transactions: registry of origin and property transfers for any objec
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by vntok 8y ago
I agree with you on everything. > Unfortunately, this is quite a depressing finding for Firefox, because it means that all technical enhancements will not be able to move the needle much Precisely, and this is exactly what becoming irrel
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by vntok 8y ago
Have a look at the trends[0] and tell me it does not show a descent to darkness. 1. Firefox was at ~30% market share at its apex (it's now half that) 2. It got surpassed by a newcomer with no previous experience in browser making in le
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by vntok 8y ago
> I want you to think about all the technology we use every day. Our phones, desktops, laptops, are full of bugs. Hell I found bugs in the ticketing system I buy metro cards from the other day. We see display kiosk crash all the time. Th
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by vntok 8y ago
Do you seriously think that the much qualified software engineers and other specialists working on these projects are not thinking through all these points? There's a lot of problems we don't know the solutions to, but that ce
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by vntok 8y ago
> Patrick Collison, 29, and his brother John, 27, famously turned seven lines of code into a startup called Stripe, which has been valued in fundraising at $9.2 billion. And it's the first sentence no less.
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by vntok 8y ago
Complaining about it definitely won't improve the situation.
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by vntok 8y ago
Please don't generalise. I do think there are legitimate reasons to restrict and police people online and I'm certainly not alone. Who ever is?
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by vntok 8y ago
> Government-sent postmen would be able to walk past every single door in the country every morning and [deliver mail]. Replace "deliver mail" with "look through the windows and write down what they see" and the state
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by vntok 8y ago
Waymo does not "go fast and break things and ask for permission after getting caught".
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by vntok 8y ago
Of course not.
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by vntok 8y ago
No, using Whatsapp is a more efficient solution.
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by vntok 8y ago
Unicode.
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by vntok 8y ago
> after being rooted by 4 lines of JavaScript Could you provide any sort of source for this extraordinary claim of yours?
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by vntok 8y ago
"Clever UI" (read: deceptive) tricks are obviously explicitely forbidden by the GDPR.
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by vntok 8y ago
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX... > Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act establishing a freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the
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by vntok 8y ago
Well they won't die from Tesla car accidents anymore. That's something, right?
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by vntok 8y ago
If Visa or SEPA got hacked over 12 hours and then fixed the root cause, would you stop using credit cards or bank transfers altogether? I would not.
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by vntok 8y ago
No it would not. Finding a BTC double spend attack vector would be like finding a 0-day: good and maybe even profitable up until fixed, which would take hours, days at most. Have 0-days destroyed Microsoft, Android, Firefox, Electron or Chr
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by vntok 8y ago
You may build a faster car engine than your competitor's so that your team can visit and close more prospects per day. You may not blow up the tires of your competitor's car so the other team cannot visit anyone.
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by vntok 8y ago
Governments are accountable to their people. Companies are accountable to their shareholders.
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by vntok 8y ago
Explicit user consent is not the only way to get GDPR compliant
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by vntok 8y ago
Nonsense. Where in the GDPR is it specified that you are entitled to the providers' IP? Auditing compliance is done by parties trusted by both sides, certainly not by amateurs and certainly not by individual vigilantes.
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by vntok 8y ago
Don't forget the Autocrash feature.

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