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The autopilot is still in beta and warns drivers to still pay attention to the road.

As long as drivers have control, they are responsible for the vehicle. Only after we remove steering wheels, the accelerator, and brakes; and have a fully autonomous system should the car manufacturers (or software manufacturers) be blamed.
When we applaud the AirBnBs and Ubers for going around regulation to get the outcome we want, isn't it inevitable that many will use some to exact the outcome they want but that violates social rules we thought were in place?
You're confusing the central focus of importance.

Why would anybody care about the audio playing device in terms of 60-80 years? Especially in this age, in which technology is rapidly improving. I very specifically do not want to be using a 2005 iPod in 2050.

My digital music files are good forever in theory. They're made of bits. All I need to do is occasionally move them to new cheap hardware and maybe back them up in the cloud for practically free. I could store ten copies of my music library for $50 on usb sticks or similar, and replace it every year just for fun, without being concerned for the expense. Lots of ways digital files can be lost or destroyed? Sure, and they're still radically more secure (go make a dozen copies of your record albums) and easier to keep than physical records. The sole annoyance with digital media, is that I have to re-back it up very rarely, which takes a matter of minutes.
This is a great technique, at one point I had proposed to Google's economist that once they had the last 100 years of newspapers digitized, one could go through the advertisements in them to compute a variations on price indexes and compare them. In particular how important was energy and food? or rent? or substitution of goods?

I got interested in the question at a young age when my mother showed me a picture of a grocery store, where new york strip steak was on sale for 10 cents a pound. And I asked why it cost so much more for steak when I was looking at the picture versus when it was taken. And I got the "simple" explanation of inflation, "Things cost more now."

The real value of the work being done by Cavallo though will be later water when you have both 100 years of prices and the detailed news stream to go along with it. People have a wide variety of opinions about whether or not abandoning the Bretton Woods system had the effect on prices that some claim or if other factors were to blame.

I expect we will see truly actionable economic insights from projects like these.
Some people could refuse to lend the place without seeing profile pictures, so you will have to make that "show phony profile pictures", which is in the category of poor idea.
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Being emotionally invested in the well-being of others has its costs, especially when looking deeper into things exposes you to injustice you could have ignored before.
As long as resource scarcity exists racism/*-isms are inevitable. Its the simplest strategy human mind can conjure - divide and conquer, divide up some resources with members of my group, and use them.

Extremely cheap energy (fusion power maybe?) might solve it for good by alleviating survival worries in the human psyche, no amount of regulation or rules can.

Edit: resource scarcity from the perspective of the human psyche, which affects worries about survival. The unconscious worries about there not being enough stuff, so that you might as well divide it up with your group.
I see a pattern here: everything that slows aging increases the chance of cancer.

Take e.g. anti-oxidants, which fight ageing agents (free radicals) but cause cancer to spread faster.

Take reducing the role of telomeres, which stops putting a limit on cell division (thus allowing cell replacement on old people as it happens on young people), causes any appearance of cancer to spread way more quickly.
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> And sure it's nice (if you live in one of these places) to be able to drive to the huge grocery store and pick from 8 different kinds of mustard

It's not. It's a disaster. It takes you 30 minutes just to grab some toothpaste if you run out. The NOVA suburbs are utterly dysfunctional and traffic is near a breaking point. It's often faster to drive to DC from Annapolis than from Great Falls or Reston (despite the latter being half the distance).
That would be a terrible argument, but ok.
Not control over other people, but control over situations that put you in an emotional state -- where possible, at least. Death is one thing we can't control.

Also, I'm not sure if you know what IMHO means, but it stands for "in my humble opinion". I don't need a citation to have opinions, I have wisdom and experience. And they've shown time and time again that people who put a majority of their emotional state in other peoples' hands are quite often disappointed and live messy, uncontrolled lives.
There's a difference between hotels (which have limited damages guest are capable of, which are insured against same, and which have protocols for handling these issues) and somebody renting out a room in their home/apartment.

Remember, you're effectively inviting over people into your home. Your safe space. Your nest. It seems really, really weird that somebody would do that without at least knowing what the person looks like.

And that's before you even get into the security issues of having to blindly trust AirBNB (or somebody claiming to be related to AirBNB) that this rando is authorized.
As us Alaskan's can attest, light can have a huge impact on general mood. Many of us suffer from "Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)", and purchase lights to combat it's effects.

This is the first I've heard of light being used as a more widespread treatment option. Very interesting.
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You likely couldn't get self-focusing in a vacuum by gravitational lensing. Pair production would likely dominate the process first and kill your energy density.
Yes, since 2011.

* https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-terminal/commit/e1d641726cf0d...
You're moving the goal-posts. I don't think that being rude or hurting feelings should cross their mind.

Bringing a gun escalates things immediately. If I was in that home and I was carrying a gun, and if a handful of people abruptly came in with assault rifles, I'm liable to react very differently because it's such an affront to what feels reasonable. I think it's more reasonable to think that this is a terrorist attack and to react accordingly, rather than the reality of people acting as an agent of the government bringing deadly force in droves because someone grabbed a file from a public FTP server.

If I had seen 5 men in suits and shades peacefully walk in without any kind of weapon, I'm not going to think anything of it. They're putting themselves at risk. It makes no sense.

And the honest answer as to, "why?" is that the people who kick in doors are complete meatheads who think that morality and legality strictly align. They think if someone has broken the law, they deserve anything that is coming. They don't care about anyone's safety, they care about taking baddies.
Once something like this happens, AirBnB puts a "I'm a racist" sticker on the host's profile? I mean, if you're going to say it's better to avoid the racist host before it occurs, maybe avoid it just a touch sooner so the guest doesn't even make contact in the first place? Oh and make the profile public of course.
Well, it's all built out and no existing property owner wants to have a 5-story monstrosity go up next door. The city is trying to prioritize condos and ADUs but that's a slow process.

It's not an easy problem to solve.
I went to UCSC from 2010-2014. One of the most amazing experiences.

The town itself is riddled with problems -- many people either love it or hate it. It's infrastructure cannot handle it's popularity. I would argue it's housing issues are even worse than San Francisco's if you're a student. I know many students who live out of their van, and not just to be grungey and cool.

I would return if I had the opportunity, but I feel like as a non-student I would look at it with a more critical eye.
I don't think the sentiment was "die racists die!", but rather, "well, those backwards thinking assholes from the pre-60s are dying off anyway -- might as well wait em out".
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But they are already cashing in for publishing anything, with additional small charges like few hundred bucks for going over the page limit and big charges like a couple thousand for making the article openly accessible.
One thing I noticed is that the breakup basically drowned out all the other triggers for crying.
If you can get access to an office with ethernet you can get 800mbits+. Certainly made use of that my last quarter there.
After staying up for 3 days straight coding with caffeine, I had a cry spell. It was like a religious experience.
The big problem is building batteries that could absorb some buttload-Joules of energy in a fraction of a second. IIRC some researchers tried (just with metal rods instead of lasers) and all they got was expensive fireworks.
While that's certainly true, it's a bit of a cop-out to suggest that as the optimal solution.

Hotels have their place, but for extended vacations, having an entire home at your disposal can really change the quality of the vacation. More space to spread out and relax, a kitchen so you can cook some meals, etc.
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."

- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Yeah, you can get hurt. For sure, be wise about who you become emotionally dependent on. But not having your emotions entangled with another's is to miss one of the great joys of being alive.
That's what I mean -- they're trying to be consoles artificially. Vive has the Steam platform, Oculus has theirs.
I can't help but think that in this matter EFF (which I generally support) is far off the mark - at least re what the FCC is actually doing. Here's a quote from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler:

"There is nothing in here that allows third parties to disaggregate cable content or sell advertising around it... It takes the same system that goes to the cable box today with the same structures and moves it through a different box requiring the same structures. As a result, existing copyrights and programming agreements are unaffected, consumer privacy is protected, emergency alerts are passed through and child protection laws are unaffected. Nothing in this proposal slows down or stops cable innovation."

In other words, the current copyright aggreements don't insist on a particular box, so the FCC is able to step in to insist on more competition in that regard - thus preventing cable companies from leveraging someone else's legitimate monopoly into a different unsanctioned monopoly of their own.

But could copyrightholders could be that specific? Could they insist on a particular means of reproduction (as they could with a printer.) Maybe.

However note that long established law finds that after you broadcast a copyrighted work, this narrows your rights. For example, see this perhaps extreme view of a recent EU decision:
https://falkvinge.net/2015/05/05/a-year-ago-the-european-sup...
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I find it the opposite. Now I do get fired up about certain things (I'm not dead inside), but I've found that ever since I stopped getting emotional during things like arguments, they've become far easier and even more enjoyable.

Try getting into a "defcon-4" style argument yet don't raise your voice, don't change your tone or tempo, and don't worry about the outcome as much -- just maintain control of your emotions. It's amazing what happens and how the other party responds.
What? Resource scarcity should discourage things like this by encouraging people to maximize profits. If I only rent my house to whites, it limits my market. My neighbor who's willing to rent to anybody is more likely to be able to get bookings and more likely to get more money.
I think the comment you're replying to might be using "documentation" to mean Stack Overflow.

I really love the PostgreSQL manual.
Or that racism is an absolute. It's not. People can reject some other people in any direction, change course for good or bad at any point in life because of experiences or media, and this has usually nothing to do with personnal conviction. Just fear.

Usually it's more about a form of unstable and contextual xenophobia.

But it's not just against people. Also about all living things, object, behavior, events...

People are label racists like it's a deep nature, while it's most likely a small symptom of poor education + a twisted defensive reaction that is bigger than that, and is not particularly linked to race.
> In a case like this, renting out the entire place when the terms of the rental is that the owner won't be there, this exception wouldn't seem to apply, though Idaho may have different rules (I'm having more trouble quickly finding a good description of Idaho's rules.)

Good luck, there's not much for rental regulations in the state of Idaho, and literally nothing for short-term rentals. It would come down to whether renting a property on AirBnB constitutes a lessor/lessee relationship, in which case the Fair Housing Act automatically kicks in.
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Tesla should take a leaf out of Airbnb's book and pay for all damages caused by a customer using Autopilot in the manner it was intended to be used.

http://mashable.com/2011/08/01/airbnb-ransackgate/#K9lVMU5w_...
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Here's a friendly thought exercise for everybody today: If HTML, CSS and JS ceased to exist, how would you re-create the web browser? Would it just be static documents again? Would you deliver bits of executable code to the browser and have it execute them?

If you want to make the thought exercise even more interesting, don't allow yourself the use of a VM. After all, just saying "we'll go back to Flash and Java" doesn't make for an interesting thought exercise. :)
For me, crying was mostly related to lack of eating and working out, lack of sleep or from too much work. The triggers were real, relationship problems, work related issues, you name it. But as long as I eat well and work out, I can take on a lot of personal problems without crying.
Everyone is saying "well obviously AirBnB can't end racism" but what have they actually done to solve their local problem? Have they sent out an email to their hosts that says "please don't discriminate based on race"? Is there a way to report hosts engaging in discriminatory practices? If so are those taken seriously?

Not being able to solve the problem 100% doesn't mean they shouldn't try to do anything.

(Now, maybe they have done a bunch of stuff, I don't know, but it seems like there's still a problem)
The notion of "protected class" specifically addresses which groups need protection and which don't, at least in the eyes of the law. Sex, race, disability are on the list. College kids are not.

This list would be a good start for AirBNB.
> However, I'm really not sure that there is a solution to this. People in general are racist/biased/sexist/thing-ist, all over the world. Trying to regulate that fact doesn't make sense (how would you even police that?)

We made a lot of progress on this a few decades ago with fair housing laws. It wasn't instant or perfect, but it absolutely was policeable. You can't police how people feel, but you can, empirically, police whether people get to act on their feelings to deny other people civil rights.

Of course, you need a working regulatory framework for such policing to be able to have an effect.
If it is, then it should be a crime to access unprotected wifi.
" big charges like a couple thousand for making the article openly accessible."

Yes, if you don't want them let them make money off your work, they won't subsidize publication and you'll need to pay. No law can change basic economics.
How is this different than the automatic transmission? Antilock brakes? Traction control? Lane departure/encroachment warnings? Adaptive cruise control?

Or even older tech like "drive by wire" (your foot isn't directly connected to the throttle bodies) or manually adjusting the choke in carbureted vehicles?

These are innovations that have happened in my lifetime. I'm sure there are even older "car and driver sharing duties" examples others can come up with.
Cruise control can also lull you into not paying attention. Autopilot is simply marketing term for "advanced cruise control" which is what this really is right now.
Property owners sometimes interact physically with the guests. Given that fact, there are a lot of reasons why the property owners should be able to see pictures of the guests. Being able to visually identify that the person you're interacting with face to face is in fact your guest, is a critical safety measure.
> basically can only be used for discriminatory purposes against protected classes

There are valid reasons to want to know what somebody looks like before allowing them into your home.
And I'll easily argue that Steve Jobs' emotional states made him miserable, well-hated, and ultimately it ended up killing him because he stubbornly took an extremely emotional physical situation and didn't approach it with a rock-like proper state of mind.

(Being stubborn and illogical = emotional in this sense)

As I said elsewhere, I'm not dead inside, I still see just as much beauty out in the woods as you do. I just don't lose my mind anymore in most situations.
Even if it's true, what is he going to do with them?

Myspace has been rotting for a long time, even before Rupert Murdoch decided to waste hundreds of millions to acquire it.
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I kind of wonder if Tesla figures "Hey, once a few crashes happen people will figure it out."
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Ideally in Swift.
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Why wait if you know it is inevitable? (as would say Richard Bandler)
I think you're trying to portray this as absurd and unreasonable, but -

Dear Montgomery city bus system,

Please end racism.

Regards, A dissatisfied customer.
I think Eve Valkyrie might actually have a lot more depth, but it's hidden behind a progression system. You can pay cash money to bypass at least some of the pain of the progression system which is kind of insane considering it's a for pay game, but this has been the accepted standard in COD and Battlefield for years. At least those don't mock you by offering a pay to win (or more charitably pay to progress) option.

Certainly they could have done a lot more and given you more systems to interact with both inside and outside your ship.

I agree the software situation is dire. I tried VorpX with Aliens Isolation and there is just no comparison with other VR titles I have tried. I admit that doesn't include Chronos or The Climb which I have trouble spending the coin on for fear they are overrated tech demos instead of true AAA experiences.
There has actually been a movement since at least 2000 to stop calling accidents "accidents" because it was found to make it seem like "lol accident nothing could have been done" I can recall the word "accident" being dropped by driver instructors and such back then at least. It might even go back further.

Collision is better, but has a lot of letters so you condense it to crash.
What do they think the people who want this are going to do if they can't buy it legally? I can't imagine it didn't cross their mind that those folks are likely to just...pirate it. Awesome "anti-piracy" measure.
I also got CV1 for free from being a Kickstarter. Having a Vive, the Oculus CV1 is just a paperweight right now.

Even when Touch finally comes out, it has been under so much secrecy and so many NDAs that I'm thinking it might have significant issues.
I'd seriously be fine with hosts having a "I'm an anti-gay bigot, don't stay here" indicator prominently displayed. It's like that fine American tradition, "Irish need not apply". And I'm a Murphy. It's gross behavior but I think racists, bigots, etc. need public exposure for the full consequences of their beliefs to be realized.

I really do not want to do business with someone who's a racist even though I'm white. I don't want to do business with misgynists even though I'm not a woman. So give these hosts a permanent badge of honor for all guests to see, rather than sweeping the problem under the carpet in a way that effectively allows these cranky hosts to discriminate almost anonymously and only incidently once an implicit agreement to rent has been made (even if it's just an inquiry).
What a great study! We engineers and rational-thinking oriented people tend to disregard how our emotions affect us on a daily basis.

Makes me wonder...
Would I want a emotion tracker (app or hardware) which lets me study ME? Yes

Do I want it in the cloud or to be made money from? Not at all. An opening up of emotions opens me up to a lot of abuse.
No? Your understanding of racism is wrong, I think.

It's not a "I'm going to reserve my airbnb for my racial group only!" it's: "I'm uncomfortable letting someone of another race rent my house, because I am not familiar enough with their culture to know if they're going to wreck my house or not."

Racism & sexism are bad business practices. *-ists have to operate in a smaller labor or customer pool in order to operate. The AirBnB operator lost 30 minutes of organization in this blog, so you're either wasting time or you end hiring a lower-quality member of your own racial group.

I'll make the claim that: as long as resource scarcity exists, there is an economic pressure to be less racist.
For many purposes it would be cost prohibitive to run detailed background checks on individuals to discover every relevant fact like that, so they rely on aggregates, which works well enough.
It lessens the cognitive load in easy driving situations, such as sitting in a queue on the highway. A hand on the wheel, your foot wherever you want, eyes on the road is enough. Just knowing that the car will take care of the small things is a massive offload.

Also, you learn what your car is good at and bad at, and plan accordingly. I know my car is bad at handling drivers changing into my lane too close to me, so I take over in those situations.
Eh arguments, that's easy mode.

The exhausting part is being the rock when there's a crisis. When your spouse is freaking out about running out of money for rent. When rent is being raised and you have to figure out how to raise it less. When kids get injured and need the hospital.

Or when your team is freaking out because everything's going to shit and production is down and you're running out of time on features you promised to Big Users/Clients TM.

When everyone around you is panicking and freaking the fuck out, but somebody has to fix the situation. That's when being the rock matters.

Who even gives a shit about arguments? Arguing is for fun.
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