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by random4369 8y ago
> Also that whole "Android" thing happened. Yeah, and Google made their opinion of Java quite clear by adding first-party support for Kotlin. As for Java being popular because it has mindshare, you are agreeing with my original
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by random4369 8y ago
C# ticks all the same boxes and is much better from a language point of view. The only reason Java still exists is because it created a generation of professionals who only know Java, only do Java, and won't learn anything else. That g
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by random4369 8y ago
There's nothing impossible about it. It's merely a question of resources. Pervasive surveillance+ML coupled with an implanted device which incapacitates an individual would get you there. Fast forward to an Elon Musk future where
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by random4369 8y ago
You can stop 100% of crimes with a 100% effective law enforcement mechanism. The term for that is authoritarian dystopia. Our ancestors recognised this a long time ago, and recognised that there's an intrinsic balance between individua
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by random4369 8y ago
Yes it is. In fact a pretty thorough study was carried out in Denmark which showed that forcing bicycle helmets has such a big impact on the number of people cycling, that it overall increases the healthcare spending in the country. They di
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by random4369 8y ago
[Citation needed]
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by random4369 8y ago
Again, the jury was never out about vaccines, there's no scientific research claiming they are harmful. This scenario is not analogous to the grandparent post where scientific consensus is being actively manipulated by vested interests
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by random4369 8y ago
On what planet is the jury out about vaccines and autism? There's not a single research paper suggesting a link between those. You are falsely conflating scientific consensus with public opinion.
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by random4369 8y ago
Every time the jury is out on a topic where one side has a vested interest and a billion dollar budget to protect it, you can be reasonably sure what the outcome will be. See: pesticides and bees, fossil fuels and climate change, food packa
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by random4369 8y ago
I'm a bit confused about this. What if the target is HDFS? Why this dependency on SQL databases for ETL?
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by random4369 8y ago
> We can still have electric trucks for the last mile I think you're grossly underestimating how spread out truck destinations are. You would have to have a very extensive rail network to get cargo anywhere near all the destinations
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by random4369 8y ago
There's a few reasons, but they're all becoming irrelevant. I'm going to focus on Sony as the exemplar mirrorless player because I'm most familiar with them. Mostly, it's because mirrorless lenses were garbage compa
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by random4369 8y ago
There's a huge bandwidth bottleneck on both input and output sides. Your imagination of what a neural lace would do is too limited. It wouldn't be 3d, it wouldn't be auditory. It would be having a perfect recollection of e
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by random4369 8y ago
> SV as a whole is substantially a creation of military spending. This is a national budget problem. If you're in the tech world long enough, it becomes pretty clear that the only way to get Big funding is through military affiliati
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by random4369 8y ago
> Just state you won't hesitate to report obvious criminal activity Bypassing censorship is a criminal activity in a number of countries. Pick censorship or pick an internet with illegal content. You can't have a world with nei
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by random4369 8y ago
There are two critical differences. 1: The handover latency (time from AP requesting handover to time pilot takes over) is measured in seconds to tens of seconds. AP is designed to give up a long time before any possible issues occur. Contr
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by random4369 8y ago
> It's widely known that RADAR systems are not able to detect stationary objects What the fuck? That's not at all how radar works. It has no such limitation.
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by random4369 8y ago
300k is laughable. 2-3M is a more plausible figure if you want to finance two people purely off passive income.
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by random4369 8y ago
> As a company that deals with data analysis, Kaggle can surely tell between different levels of user participation. Kaggle outsources data analysis to bright students willing to work for a tiny fraction of their actual worth. Their busi
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by random4369 8y ago
`women are no longer being raped by their husbands` -> `state censorship is justified` Amazing mental gymnastics.
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by random4369 8y ago
It's sad how little progress we've made in terms of freedom of speech and expression. In the 1800s the church was the censorship machine, with sex as the main vector. Today it's the government, still with sex as the main vect
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by random4369 8y ago
What are you smoking?
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by random4369 8y ago
People can only candidly speak their minds on touchy subjects through anonymity. What a shock, if only we came up with a name for this effect a long time ago? If only that very effect wasn't so ironically relevant to the subject at han
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by random4369 8y ago
There's an infinite space of solutions to your particular problem, but your chosen solution is totalitarian surveillance in the workplace because an intern got offended? I avoid workplaces which force shit like this. So do all the good
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by random4369 9y ago
The power consumption of computing the kalman filter is negligible compared to the power consumption of the gps module. I thought that ios and android did this already for a long time.
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by random4369 9y ago
No, that's bullshit. It's physically impossible for a human to intervene on the timescales involved in motor accidents. Autonomy that requires an ever-vigilant driver to be ready to intervene at any second is literally worse than
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by random4369 9y ago
I really hope you're wrong. If the legal system doesn't distinguish between cruise control and SAE level 3 autonomy, the legal system needs to get its shit together.
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Google and Facebook don't qualify for first amendment protections(theguardian.com)
3 points by random4369 9y ago|0 comments
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by random4369 9y ago
They probably didn't train it on 3d renders. Training it on 3d renders would likely hurt its ability to handle real photos.
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by random4369 9y ago
I'm not convinced an uncensored Google would encourage democratic reforms. Google US is comparatively much more 'open' but democratic process is also failing there due to other pressures.

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