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With this level of control, you're probably right. But if you get the control solved and no human inside it would at least be as interesting as a horse or dog race.

The point of running and walking is simply that driving only works on sufficiently flat surfaces and is only efficient if the friction of that can be reduced, e.g. using flattening and asphalt. Running on sand or snow or otherwise loose underground, with big feet to distribute weight, is always going to be more efficient than rolling, we just can't control such systems.

But try doing a safari. A 6 hour drive across "flat" savannah, after which you look at the map and see you've travelled 30km, and used up something 1-2% of the lifespan of the 4x4 you were in (axle will need replacement after 50-70 such rides because it'll be shocked to pieces), that ride will cure you of the notion that driving is efficient.

And that's flat savannah, really, on photographs it looks really flat an driveable. And at the height of the dry season there are areas where that's even kind of true. Not many though. When you think about other biomes like forests, rocky mountainous areas, swamps (or really anything even a bit wetter than dry savannah, like almost all of Western Europe). Without roads, cars go nowhere.

But after dozens of billions of dollars of infrastructure investment per state, it can be tolerably efficient in densely populated areas. Even such efforts unlock something like 20% of the state at best.

Most people just happen to have spent their entire life in such an area and then extrapolate their direct experience to cover everything.

Then there's "reach". The truth is, even in dense cities, specifically built for car traffic, walkers can reach far more locations than cars ever will, even the smallest most agile car you've ever seen. And even there you see people using power equipment costing millions to compensate for the fact that cars, vans, ... can't navigate something like a building site.

Walkers are the future, at some point.
Same reasoning in Minneapolis.

"I want to thank you for ruining our city," said Donna Azarian, an Eden Prairie resident, during the city's public hearing. She said that the city doesn't have the density to support light rail and that it will "bring crime to our city." Her comments were met with audience applause..."
In the end, stop signs end up being treated like yield signs.

This definitely varies based on where in the US you are. In California almost no one comes to a complete stop. (That's probably why rolling through a stop sign is called a "California Roll"). But in many other parts of the country people do, even if there are no cars around.
Google has become an OSP. All they need to do is start using their monopoly on ccTLDs to create dark web google services that you can only get to via Google internet connections. If they switched their core services over to that, they could require you use a Google tunnel to use their services.

By also sending all non-Google traffic through the tunnel ("for improved speed!" remember when AOL included SpeedBooster Technology?) they'd control a majority of all non-search internet traffic, like AOL without the disks. And they wouldn't even have to bill you because they'd get an unlimited supply of ad data.
A few years ago there was a lot of gas drilling in the area...

Haha I zoomed the map view out a bit: you're not kidding! That's a lot of drill sites!
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I found the interview to be valuable, too, for the reasons you say. I should have mentioned that; good point.

> This is like a kid asking their parents how the marriage is going.

Only to a limited degree. A good journalist asks challenging questions and gets their interviewee to talk. The board member was anonymous, after all, so they could have spoken more openly and even generally about these kinds of problems. The interviewer asked easy questions and the board member painted a nice picture. (In fairness, I don't have a right to expect more (or anything at all) from some guy's blog; it's not the NY Times; so a genuine thank you is owed to Jay Shah!)
AMP as a "feature" is really just there to prevent you from leaving search results and google's sites.

It's a cover up for further closing down the open web and helping them bump ad revenue.

Hopefully you guy already know that.
Blockchains, in part, provide the following value proposition:

Provable [X] without a central authority.

[X] can be the following:

Ex.

Currency - Bitcoin

Computation - Ethereum

Anonymous currency - ZCash

Storage - Filecoin

etc.

Most of us would agree that central authority is too strong in many aspects of the economy and technology. The key question is for what values of [X] does the value proposition make sense? The core technology is less than 10 years old, anyone being too confidant in where this road goes should put it in a larger timeline. Besides not losing your money, as hackers we can only explore what may be possible.
May be it would be possible to improve rollover safety by putting additional pillars inside the car, for example between chair backs?
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Americans don't do yield signs very well except in the most obvious situations that shouldn't even need yield signs, like highway on ramps, and intersections with islands creating curved right turn lanes. Americans barely have competency at four way stops, the main way who goes next is figured out is someone launching from a rolling stop before the others. There's also often hand waiving, honking, and lights flashing because people are just plain ignorant the actual law, or even common sense.

And traffic circles? Fuck that's super confusing! Americans would rather get into accidents at a four way stop than be confused in a traffic circle. That's why traffic circles are so uncommon.
most US metros don't have workable public transit; most people drive to get from point a to point b even in our dense metros. Perhaps because even our metros are not dense enough, perhaps for other reasons. I would be open to data that showed there were more traffic deaths in dense areas where most people took public transit, but this isn't it.
Each de-mangling step decreases a "cost" metric on the text, based on its length plus the number of unusual combinations of characters. It never really decides that text is "okay", but when there's no step it can take that decreases the cost, it's done.

This is an imperfect greedy strategy, incidentally. If it takes multiple steps to fix some text, it's possible that the first step it needs to take is not the one that decreases the cost as much as possible, that it has to go through some awful-looking intermediate state so that everything falls into place for the next step. This is rare, though. I don't think I could come up with an example.
He wasn't thinking of Nietzsche when he used the word. It's trendy now to accuse libertarians of being neo-Nazis.
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According to the founder, they have been profitable since 2014.

Anecdotally, I've been seeing more and more success getting friends to switch over to DDG. This feels like early mass-adoption. It's rather exciting.
Looks promising but quite immature still.
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Truth is lies, lies is truth. How can anyone ever be legit?
That's because in America you grandma can legally teach you how to drive and so you learn all her bad habits. It's a feature, not a bug. And your driving test might cover this type of intersection or it might not. The testing is like 50 out of 5000 possible questions. Again, it's a feature (of idiocy) not a bug.

I personally know maybe one other person, who knows that the location of the stop sign defines a line perpendicular to your lane and you're supposed to stop completely before this imaginary line. Almost no one knows this is the law. And sure as fuck no one actually does it.

I'd love to have a light saber for the sole purpose of cutting off everyone's goddamn front end of their car right along this imaginary line. Oh, your front seat is in the imaginary line? So sad...
On debian at least microcode updates arent included by default you have to install the appropriate package (intel vs amd)
If China decides it doesn't want bitcoin mining, a miner won't be able to hide behind other miners...

Of course, the question is remain what authorities actually want to stop it and how much.
but we tolerated a lot more (early) death from all causes in those days, in part be cause we didn't have technology to mitigate those risks. The argument I am trying to make is that we have technology (public transit) that would mitigate those risks now, but we choose not to use it.

(My assertion is that if we had a place where we had US standard driving safety requirements but more than half the miles traveled were via public transit, we would have fewer per capita injuries. Or more generally, that the per capita injuries goes up with miles driven in cars. I have so far failed to provide statistical evidence of this.)
When I first heard the term Initial Coin Offering last year, I laughed and thought "who would be so gullible as to just give someone their money?". Well...
These incentives are often transferable tax credits. It isn’t unusual for a company to have little or no tax liability in the state offering the incentive. There are markets where the tax credits are sold to companies that do have tax liability in the state.

It’s effectively putting cash directly into the pocket of the businesses you seek to attract.
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I am in the market for a new laptop, knowing the recent Meltdown and Spectre flaws, I would prefer to buy some laptop which is not susceptible to these flaws. I will be mostly running Windows and having at least 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD is a must.
Yes, quite profitable since 2014. Turns out it doesn't take many engineers to make a search engine that doesn't track you: https://www.quora.com/Will-DuckDuckGo-get-profitable-anytime...
That is a trade-off for false negatives rather than false positives. It is not an unreasonable choice when dealing with certificates.
I thought only the US loved stop signs.
It seems to be worse in newer cars. Most cars I've driven have been older models, pre-2000, every time I have to drive a new car, I'm always surprised at how bad the visibility is, they all have tiny rear windows and massive A pillars.

I used to own an old Datsun truck from the 1980s and the A-pillar blindspot was tiny because it had small, vertical A-pillars. A-pillars are a lot thicker and a lot more angled in newer cars.

This study [1] (from 2001) here goes into some details about A-pillar blindspots and how newer cars have worse visibility. I'm sure in the 17 years since the study was performed, cars have only gotten worse.

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.884...
right. but... some people feel it is more ethical to take chances with their own lives than with the lives of others.
I find myself with a somewhat similar problem, if not as dangerous, at four way stops often in San Francisco. When coming to a stop at an intersection where the slopes of the roads involved match certain configurations, most commonly on a road that has descended a slope to meet the intersection, my rear view mirror almost perfectly obscures the space that a car stopped at the road to my right occupies. I glance left, glance right, and see nothing, then suddenly stop short after starting to proceed as the movement reveals a vehicle that was there all along.
You sure like to put words in other people's mouth ;) Please tell me exactly what I'm thinking and what I meant -- I'm burning with curiosity at this point. And maybe together we can iteratively refine it.
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For Windows there is also this:

https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vmware-cpu-microcode-update-d...

I have never tried it though.
I've driven here late at night going from Albuquerque to Houston and back via Waco - I'd be glad if a southbound truck squared up to me. Note to others - this stretch between Groesbeck and 45 is very poorly lit.
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This CBDR problem would seem to imply that we actually don't underuse stop signs. I bet if you found a similar junction in the US you'd find a much higher rate of accidents because we're all so lousy at driving.
I think blameless post mortem works where you can take time and improve in the future. A more established process from the 80s coming from Toshiba is 5 whys, which is not exactly blameless (you do end up finding the issue), but the blame is usually on the process that needs fixing. The accident in that case is just the initial step and educating the drivers to notice the cyclist would not end up as the solution. Which I do like: people will keep making mistakes - either stop them or make the mistake obvious before it leads to the accident - punishing that driver may make us feel better but it won't improve the situation.
The times and the fashion evolve (or devolve, as it may be), and sometimes perfectly innocent things are blown away by the winds of change.

"O tempora o mores" was said by Cicero over 2,000 years ago, which - together with plenty of other evidence - suggests that this is part of human nature.

"Mate", according to you, has become an unfashionable word, but it was quite acceptable in my youth (the 70's).

For example, there was a radio quiz program when I was growing up in South Africa called "Check Your Mate!"

And when I was so clueless in my early twenties to think it would be nice to have a get-together to which I invited my then-girlfriend and some ex-girlfriends, without mentioning this to any of them (because it didn't even cross my mind), at the gathering my then-current girlfriend - without warning - bit me hard on the shoulder and hissed at me, "Don't mix your mates!"

I've also never heard anyone complain about the word "soul-mate".

All I'm saying is that we each speak from our own world view, and suggest that maybe it's fallacious to think that it's always the prevailing world view.
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Yay, System Dynamics! Contrary to the claim, this sort of thing has been actively researched since the 50s. Not sure what the “playbook” approach brings or why it could be claimed to be universal.
> other than to add to their palmares

I learned an interesting, though obscure, word today:

palmarès: a list of races a (bicycle) rider has won. (French, meaning list of achievements or list of winners).
Well, I use supermarket loyalty cards as the primary example, they've existed for years, lots and lots of people carry them, if you point out that companies are using them to track your spending habits (across multiple different industries and product categories) people don't care. They receive a tangible benefit from it (discounts) and don't perceptibly pay anything for it.
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Meltdown is fixed by applying updates, Spectre is not fixed on any x86 machine, but will be getting better by applying mitigation updates over the next months.
A roundabout is a much better solution than a stop sign. I still believe that the ubiquous stop signs in the US are there due to the oil lobby. Bringing a car to a full stop is incredibly wasteful.
Thanks. My work computer is in the legacy section (release Q4'11), so it looks like I might be getting a new one. A shame really, it's still mostly adequate, the only thing making it age are the continued bloat from Visual Studio.
The default client recommended by LE (certbot) supports multi-challenge registration/renewal. I'm pretty sure I trust their judgement over that of the Caddy project, given their (Caddy) history of weird decisions that backfire and cause user issues.
It might be wasteful, but so is killing people.

Stop signs and some speed bumps would soon slow them.
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> the location of the stop sign defines a line perpendicular to your lane and you're supposed to stop completely before this imaginary line. Almost no one knows this is the law.

I am inclined not to believe this. I have been told by a traffic cop before that if there is no marked stop line or crosswalk, there is no legally defined point where the stop must happen: it's just a "use reasonable judgment" kind of thing.

That was in NC. The following is apparently a quote from a statute in Washington State that contradicts your statement:

“every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop sign shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, before entering a marked crosswalk on the near side of the intersection or, if none, then at the point nearest the intersecting roadway where the driver has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway.”

Can you point to a statute somewhere supporting your claim?
You could argue that the trait we call intelligence is about how quickly efforts to learn something new result in new capabilities, rather than whether effort to learn something results in new capabilities at all. And from my (admittedly shallow) familiarity with the field, that argument seems to be substantiated.

Problem is, even if that's true, it's not a particularly useful truth to most individuals. A growth mindset is useful -- unless you're particularly unintelligent, it's probably true that your efforts to learn will have results that make you more capable, and effort can compound on effort. You should probably act as if you can become more capable than you are, even if there are degrees of inborn intelligence.
You can see this in England, with shows like Top Gear constantly featuring the latest and greatest military equipment for wow-shows.
Provable [X] without a central authority.

Under a limited set of conditions, with some cost [Y] to keep the system running. The bitcoin network is extremely expensive, for example.

The key question is for what values of [X] does the value proposition make sense?

The key question is for what values of [X] - [Y] does the value proposition make sense. And, what contextual conditions must be maintained to preserve the decentralization advantages of [X]? In other words, the transactions could be decentralized and anonymous but if you have to sign up for a centralized exchange to participate, those benefits might be moot for you.
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Poland also loves stop signs. Actually, Poland just loves signs in general which is a problem: https://d-w24.ppstatic.pl/g2/6b/6f/65/116789_1258901612_33ec...
> if the board had a fiduciary responsibility to employees first and shareholders second

I'm under the impression that in Germany, which has a highly productive economy, workers have seats on the board.
Any laptop is fine, these issues are mostly mitigated in software by browser, OS, and microcode updates. To the extent that they're only mitigated and not fixed -- there doesn't yet exist such a laptop. So if that's what you're after, wait a year or so for the new processors to come out.
Looks like they updated the microcode for every single processor they ever released, going all the way back to the Pentium.

The list includes: The Pentium 4, Pentium III, Pentium II, Pentium Pro and the original Pentium.

I didn't even know the Pentium had upgradable microcode.
«make it a 4-way stop»

You may be unaware, but 4-way stop signs are very uncommon outside of the US. In fact, in the UK they have always been formally prohibited by the Department for Transport in 2002.

As a European driver, I discovered the existence of 4-way stop signs when I moved to the US, and I have always found them dangerous in a counter intuitive way: drivers are so used to 4-way stop intersections, that they may adopt the habit of (1) doing rolling stops and (2) assuming an intersection with a stop sign is almost always a 4-way stop. Both of these 2 habits are dangerous... At least that's my personal experience. I prefer the consistency of my home country where every stop is a 2-way stop, therefore I'm never surprised by non-stopping traffic at an intersection.
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It looks like a rural road. I don't think that roundabouts are common on rural roads.
Suicide. The flu. Accidental poisoning. Each of those claim more people every year than auto accidents. And this is just the tip of the iceberg, there are many risks you face that exceed that of driving a car. Especially if you are driving a fairly modern one with a responsible level of care.

Think about this. If you want to increase your probability of dying in an car accident to about 100%, then you need to drive roughly 100,000,000 miles. Of all the things to worry about, this is pretty low.
Likewise. I don't know how many times I'd observed this phenomenon, and made the right conclusion (that thing's gonna hit me!). It was just another thing I intuitively did, without fully conciously knowing what it was or how to communicate it to others.

Knowing what it is now, and how it can happen in driving, gives me one more tool I can use to be a slightly less horribly dangerous driver on public roads.
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The doesn't seem all that large for someone with a professional degree, like a M.D. or J.D. America is the land of the free until you get to university.
You make it sound like resentment is something to be avoided. Drivers don't own the road simply because they drive. They need to share it with the other tax payers. Frankly I'm tired of having to accommodate the apparently frail emotions of someone who has chosen to aim 2000 pounds of metal at my person.
> They may even be paid to intentionally spread misinformation (anonymously, so it can't be traced back) about the mission in order to protect the secrecy of the payload.

Tinfoil hat squeezing too tight? A billion dollar for a way to find out internal mole? Think not.

Honestly, I don't fear AI coming and enslaving humans, like Musk claims... I fear Musk sending these secret satellites that are paid by with my tax dollars.
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It's about the fate of the letters, not the cat. At the end, non-conforming letters get made just so they can get exterminated. Great.