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by tzs 3d ago
It's not the same because it is indiscriminate.
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by tzs 3d ago
> Isn't that exactly what Flock are doing to tens of thousands of people a day? So why the double-standard. It's not the same thing. Flock cameras have terrible privacy implications but at least when I pass by one of them they
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by tzs 3d ago
> A person attaching hundreds of thousands of cameras to poles calling the police to report this act is what is noteworthy That's one seriously impressive person. If they started as soon as Flock was founded and spend 40 hours a wee
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by tzs 4d ago
Note my comment was in response to someone questioning the very notion of prizes for mathematics problems. These prizes were created over a quarter century ago.
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by tzs 4d ago
Any you spent more time writing that comment than it would have taken to click the "SPICE" link next to that pony image logo, wait the ~1 second it takes to load, and read the first sentence which would have told you what it is.
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by tzs 4d ago
> Mathematicians know that you can make problems arbitrarily complex, and declaring problems with large prizes attached to them can lead to a lot of competition and drama. Yes, you can make problems arbitrarily complex. But the prize pro
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by tzs 5d ago
"Top engineering school" probably makes a big difference. I too went to a top STEM school (Caltech). Most STEM classes were taught at a fast pace, and later classes assumed you knew the material from your early classes well. Occas
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by tzs 5d ago
Read up on Musk's Tennessee data center for an example of the kind of pollution under discussion.
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by tzs 5d ago
The article is about air pollution. Also, your last two paragraphs are completely bogus because you overlooked something important: scale. AI data centers are being built at a massively higher rate than data centers were being built a few y
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by tzs 6d ago
I fun little exercise is to work out what would be different if we found aliens that also used 12 tone equal temperament, and also used a subset of 7 of those 12 notes to make their major scale, and also followed the same convention that we
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by tzs 7d ago
Everquest has made a lot of changes over the years that have turned it into an excellent game (solo or group) even if you stick to free play. You can't reasonably reach the top levels that way, but the top level is so much higher nowad
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by tzs 7d ago
You were talking about the hardware costs to support self-driving. The God's Eye B compute hardware is similar to the compute hardware in current consumer Tesla cars and the sensor hardware is a superset (more cameras plus LiDAR, radar
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by tzs 7d ago
Latinx actually is comparable to what Trump is doing. It is outsiders trying to force a word on a community that doesn't want it. Only about 4% of the US Hispanic population uses it, 75% say it should not be used, and half have never e
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by tzs 7d ago
That's ridiculous. It is perfectly reasonable to live a normal life by the current standards of the world while advocating for political change that will change those standards to be better for the environment.
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by tzs 7d ago
The God's Eye B system of BYD adds under $600 to the BoM. The 5 millimeter-wave radars and 12 ultrasonic sensors are $100-150. LiDAR is $150-200. The 12 cameras, control unit, and 300 TOPs of computing is $150-200. This computing is co
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by tzs 7d ago
That's not really a useful comparison. First, our current city driving environments were designed for being used by humans, so take into account human strengths and weaknesses. Second, that kid has spent 16 years in such an environment
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by tzs 8d ago
Update. Looking at the stats in day view instead of week view, the downloads for their release week were actually around [1] 1.259 million, using 2026-08-26 as the release date. That's the date in the release notes. However, if we take
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by tzs 8d ago
Something isn't adding up. Here's what the Document Foundation says about 26.8 [1]: > 1,031,162 downloads > This is the highest number of downloads in the first week of any LibreOffice release! These are just stats from our
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by tzs 8d ago
> Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless It is the first to break a million in a week. Even if it has been steadily going up most people would consider passing that number interesting.
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by tzs 9d ago
With postponement you then can get the opposite problem of people getting stuck in their houses because if they sold they would have a huge deferred tax. The approach in Washington works well. There is a senior property tax exemption based
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by tzs 9d ago
>> The 14th not covering clean water at the time it was written is not because they didn't have germ theory. > That was the legal theory upthread. Which I contest. Who argued that?
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by tzs 9d ago
Yes. Both GAF and CertainTeed, the #1 (30% of the market) and #3 (15% of the market) shingle makers in the US, both have solar shingles. Their solar shingles looks like regular shingles and install on the roof the same way as regular shingl
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by tzs 9d ago
> Reading a stop sign and deciding whether to stop is a City-Streets function, and that’s FSD. Basic Autopilot is built as a highway lane-keeping system, and it does not respond to stop signs. So a driver-assist car verified engaged as i
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by tzs 9d ago
That makes no sense. The 14th not covering clean water at the time it was written is not because they didn't have germ theory. The comparison to the 2nd also makes no sense. First, machine guns come up in arguments about reducing the s
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by tzs 9d ago
I'm not sure why you think the Ninth Amendment is relevant here. It just establishes that there are rights not listed in the Constitution. It provides no help whatsoever in determine what those rights are. If you want to know more on
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by tzs 9d ago
At most that will just get it dismissed against some individual plaintiffs. It won't affect their case against the city and any companies such as the engineering firm that was a defendant in this particular lawsuit.
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by tzs 9d ago
The court ruling is here [1]. While this article is way better than the one from yesterday, it does have some big problems. Better to just take a look at the ruling itself. Note that it contains two opinions. First is the majority opinion,
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by tzs 9d ago
The article left off part of part of what the court said, which was (emphasis added): > Rather, the remedy for Plaintiffs’ injuries lies in pursuing tort claims , electing representatives who will better manage the public-water system,
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by tzs 9d ago
Wait a second...Trump, Hegseth, and various Republican lawmakers have repeatedly said that Iran started a war with the US 47 years ago and that he is going to finish it. Trump also called it a war in his Truth Social video announcing the at
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by tzs 9d ago
Probably many mathematicians want answers to the questions from the page: > This AI advancement raises the following questions: (a) How much can AI speed up the process from ideation to peer-reviewed publication? (b) What is the role of

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