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by wnkrshm 5y ago
After they said it was technologically infeasible to combine WhatsApp with their service before the takeover (which was a condition for the takeover if one remembers), I don't trust anything they say anymore. They stated to the merger
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So if it isn't perfect, it isn't worth doing it at all? Is it better not to have GDPR and just let them not even get fined? I agree that fines are basically the only effect it had - but that does not mean it isn't a step into
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
To clarify the above post: with books, novels were probably meant specifically. Books that only served entertainment purposes.
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
"Autonomous" by Annalee Newitz fits the bill from reviews/summary, though I personally have not read it.
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
I can image that the joystick-operated mode should still have the safety overrides from a self-driven mode and they aren't sure why those safety systems didn't prevent the collision.
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
Maybe they plan to get investors on "the hardware is great, it's only the software that has to be finished" just as with FSD.
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
Absorbing obstacles will technically not protect you either from receiving any light at all. Diffraction will 'push' some light into the geometric optical shadows.
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
The difference isn't up to trench warfare, machine guns etc. It's that industrialized agriculture had been developed, and thus you could still feed millions of people who were fighting. That's what created the resiliance to p
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
We could do a lot of things right now, we could end war forever, we could feed every person on Earth, we could have medical treatment for everyone... why isn't it happening? We are not fighting a technical problem here.
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
Of his catalogue, I like Blindsight best probably, it's one of those fundamental science fiction novels that asks a new question and stays with you for a long time, without being too cerebral.
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
Blindsight by Peter Watts, it's available for free [1] (CC-License on his website), he releases all his books like that, except for the most recent one, which is only available through publishers. You can also download it on the site a
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
The change is already there, prefab build techniques lead to construction companies keeping everything in-house - from crane operators to plumbers. The building is split into parts that can be built in-house and then assembled on-site - the
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
Interesting. I had never even imagined that meditation could be so distressing. I don't know anything about Zen really, do you feel the article gives a good impression of being in a disturbed state from meditation or would you say it&#
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
Also, if you purely go by productivity, who knows, maybe the data says that people without kids and people who are sterile are just better according to the metric. While I think you can measure 'how productive is this employee' ac
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
I'm developing software for industrial machines - those machines can be used to produce parts for defense applications on one hand or for civil products/research on the other, things that enrich and save lives (e.g. cheaper high-q
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
Now is there a way to do architecture to passively remove moisture from the air...?
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
I hate Pinterest with a passion. If you want to find reference images for whatever topic, all you get is the medium res crap with a 'make an account' pop-up instead of the original source they stole it from. I think alphabet or wh
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
energy supply and other constraints (material, robustness ...) are a good explanation though - an organism can't grow out of aluminum or steel
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by wnkrshm 5y ago
Every time I see the Wikipedia/WMF donation banner again, I donate to the Internet Archive. Maybe I should give the WMF some change because they remind me to do that periodically.
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Facebook even said it wasn't possible IIRC.
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by wnkrshm 6y ago
They had to pay more for employees who could be on site at unreasonable hours.
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by wnkrshm 6y ago
Bus vs. AV: AV rider dead, lots of injuries in the bus. That's conservation of energy and momentum. Assuming some utilitaristic equation for minimizing total injury, an AV bus probably won't swerve, and probably won't brake s
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by wnkrshm 6y ago
A future where AVs exist that can replace human drivers is a future where so many requirements and drivers for personal mobility have changed as well: due to the possibility of replacing a human performing a highly complex task in situ. Tha
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by wnkrshm 6y ago
I might be wrong but that should also depend on the bitrate of the mp3 - ofc with the high bitrates of today's audio, the older cpu night struggle.
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by wnkrshm 6y ago
People fighting for their rights always seems like an attack on the comfortable majority. At one point in history people were fighting to have two days off per week, or to not have to work 17h a day, or to not have children working on machi
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by wnkrshm 6y ago
I don't think Trump damaged the office of the president or the institutions. He's actually a quality tester (or a malicious user), the flaws in the institutions were there before, he's the first to abuse them in this way. Sec
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by wnkrshm 6y ago
Most of the population of Earth lives close to the water though. Be it rivers or coasts.
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by wnkrshm 6y ago
The US is a net importer of CO2 emissions if you account for trade. Goods that cause CO2 emissions in China and Europe are imported, amounting to about 7% of the US domestic total emissions in 2017 (edit: while China is a net exporter, abou
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by wnkrshm 6y ago
Yeah I've wondered for quite a while why autogyro drones aren't popular. They should be efficient and safe - since one problem with autogyros was the noise they made due to large rotor size, drone sized ones shouldn't have th
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by wnkrshm 6y ago
Those images that don't already work because of their colors and composition have the charme of traced photos.

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