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> The pedanty here is insane.

One person's pedant is another person's clear conscience. There's massive disagreement in the self-driving debate as to the extent to which we are dealing with safety critical systems. As you can no doubt tell, I'm firmly on the safety critical side.

I've a fair bit of experience with designing and shipping critical infrastructure for emergency services. One has to ship, but in my experience the majority of people don't have the necessary eye for detail to make a safe system. This is why we have process: to allow fallible people to ship safe systems (and to avoid delusion in the minority who do have an eye for detail). The self-driving field is still developing their processes, so they have to be conservative with their shipping.

Many of those arguing for self-driving are under estimating the safety of a typical human driver. The bar that a self-driving system has to meet is very high. If conditions are easy for a self-driving car then they are probably easy and safe for a human as well.

Accidents are skewed towards a subset of poor conditions involving speed, alcohol and fatigue. Is it fair to replace a safe driver that avoids speed, alcohol and fatigue with a system that whilst safer than average is still less safe than the specific circumstance?

Maybe an interim use of self-driving technology is to have the person driving, and the self-driving system in a co-driver/critique mode acting as an "unsafe driving detector"?
You'll probably be found out as successful.

For me, just talking about it with trusted peers helps. Inside your company, if you completely trust some coworkers, or outside the company, if you don't.
"think"? The manufacturer specifies the interval, and you best follow it if you'd like your warranty honored.
My latex foam mattress has a 25 year full warranty. If it sags or cimpresses more than 1 inch, I can have it replaced. 25 year warranties aren't out if the ordinary now.
If Tesla relies so heavily on lane markers, someone may very well perform "a hit" on one or more Tesla owners by painting some adversarial lane lines. They could even tuned to the spectral response of the Tesla sensor pack.
> At some point im going to be forced to build the damn thing myself if the market is going to refuse to sell anything sensible.

Why wait? If all you want is a simple platform, you couldn’t beat the price of buying and cutting some wood yourself.
(Plenty functional, not that comfortable)
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The Pax Americana has never been free of contentiousness or outright war. People (especially young people) forget how fragile things were prior to the fall of the USSR. The complete US dominance of the '90s and '00s is not the norm. And just as the Soviet house of cards collapsed, there's no guarantee that China's ascendancy is indefinite. Russia's posturing right now is a veil for its domestic strife and decrepit military, they are not much of a force.
I’d be interested in seeing pics and info, especially your washable shikibuton. Or if not maybe pointers to the research you did to make it.
who cares they have pics containing drunk pics online? is the employer supposed to dictate my morality?
It could be a technique they use to filter out all the junk traffic.
There are plenty of parks and squares with benches all around the city open areas with places to sit isn’t a problem in London.

You just usually need to get off the high street.
I’m confused about this hypothetical- when ot starts raining or in any other adverse condition thousands of truck loads are just parked and delayed until it improves? I don’t see how this would put anyone out of work.
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I meant mass transportation in the general sense, cars, busses, trains, planes. I just kind of typed the wrong thing.

This article[1] claims Falcon 9 launch list price is $61.2 million and "Musk said the fuel used on a Falcon 9 is between $200,000 and $300,000."

So the fuel cost is 0.5% of the launch price.

It could be argued that if we stop using oil for transportation the price of oil derived kerosene and methane could go up as production scales down and fewer refineries sell in to the market.

1. http://spacenews.com/spacexs-reusable-falcon-9-what-are-the-...
The record store I worked at in college (this was the 1989-ish timeframe) had a TicketMaster machine. This was a CRT computer terminal, modem, leased-line, and a custom ticket printer. The surcharge was $2 per ticket, and presumably TicketMaster was making a profit on that, even after paying our cut.

These days, they have fees that can easily exceed $20 per ticket, and they don't have any of that custom hardware or phone line overhead anymore (I think they even charge you to print your own ticket) - how do they justify that except via monopoly power?
It is absolutely not that simple. We are a marketing company working with hundreds of publishers and this is a constant struggle.

It's splitting whatever little dev time they have on yet another format that adds nothing to the already universally accessible "web" version.
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This used to be the greater purpose of University. Not even total freedom from bias, but at least being willing to listen.
Unless you tell it not to, ping will try a reverse lookup on the IP you are pinging in order to display that to you in the output. It's a good idea to keep that in mind when you ping something, especially if you notice the first ping is abnormally slow.
Of course it's a marketing ploy! Mattresses are a great example of an area where the marketing ploys are really an inescapable part of the perception of value. If you think you're buying a great, innovative mattress design, you'll probably continue to believe that unless it's quite bad.

They've just switched us from feeling like we can pick the right mattress through trying a dozen in a store to reading online reviews. Both are biased, but everyone needs some way to feel confident about a big purchase.
>If the comment has at least one reply, then the username will become [deleted] (or [removed]), but the comment/content will remain.

That's false. Both the content and the username will be replaced by [deleted] if the user (or a mod) asked for the comment to be deleted, and it had at least 1 reply.

Here's a test I just did:

https://www.reddit.com/r/television+none/comments/88rd9e/net...
Don’t know about Sony, but Samsung was definitely vulnerable to an NSA backdoor (ffs, probably front door put in for them).
In New Zealand, Road User Charges (RUC) are charged separately on diesel vehicles, where petrol vehicles typically pay for them at the pump.

Presumably, you would pay the RUC in the same manner for electric vehicles at some point, if it isn't already in place. (I don't own one so don't know if they're already required.)
You have own-occupation disability insurance for that. These downside risks are rather easily hedge-able. I don't quite have things set up yet, but my long-term plan involves moving to Texas, storing most of my wealth in IRAs/401(k) plans and my primary residence, and taking out own-occupation disability insurance for the time I'm still dependent on my income to make ends meet.

If something happens, my medical insurance pays for most, and then past that I spend down my emergency fund from taxable employment income and start drawing un-garnishable private disability insurance.
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Um... running 1080p on Pi for years over here.
There are test tracks. Both Waymo and Uber have publicly said that they have fake cities to test the code https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/insid...

http://www.businessinsider.com/ubers-fake-city-pittsburgh-se...
I can’t say much about the accident rate but the loss can be attributed to the fact that anything more than a scratch on a Tesla is often counted as a total loss just look at the various Tesla salvage channels on YouTube and you’ll see how silly it is.

This is what happens when no one can fix your car but Tesla and Tesla doesn’t repair what most body shops would fix in a day.
The biggest thing was the continual (and continuing) shit show that is graphics drivers on linux.
> Even so, the places that Tesla and Waymo primarily drive - while "easy" for an autonomous car - should then also be easier for human drivers. His point is that they're in fewer mistakes and human drivers.

Genuinely curious if you've come across accident statistics that break down human miles in to similar categories as the kind of miles autonomous cars drive.
Wait... do you seriously wear eye and ear protection around the clock, and not have any issue with your children not wearing helmets?

I'm not sure how you've determined that your kids are more likely to suffer head injuries in a car, but even if that were true that's a dubious line of reasoning to say the least.
Proportional to the fourth power, actually

http://www.pavementinteractive.org/equivalent-single-axle-lo...

An 18-wheeler causes 10,000 times the wear of a car, approximately.
I think the reason the 100+ day trials are successful for the companies is that it's a huge pain to box up and ship back a mattress. Also most people don't have room to hold onto the old mattress for several months while they try out the new one on trial. I imagine a lot of people therefore keep 'good enough' mattresses vs sending them back.
having been to an international fusion science conference, and a good friend having being a 30 under 30 fusion physicist, who is now at princeton advncanced fusion lab d3d and general atomics----

my beef with fusion is that people think that if we 'discover' how to pull off net positive fusion that it will suddenly result in limitless energy as opposed to a slow and centuries long process to make it profiteable.

sustainably profitable fusion is NOT likely to explode in usefulness the same way nuclear fission did.

we might discover how to sustain net positive fusion, but scaling it up in any single reactor might prove problematic and fusion may wind up being a very hair problem to improve to high levels of profitability and energy production for a long long time after fusion sustainability is 'discovered'.

from a purely economic perspective, fusion and fission have zero reason to exist for economics.

fission makes sense for fuel density for powering weaponized systems in space and at sea and remote locations.

fusion would be filling the same precise needs at best, otherwise, in a world where there is limited resources to invest in R&D for global energy research for powering cities and civilizations commercial and residential energy needs, our money should be going into making our consumption more efficient, and our existing sources better.

solar, wind, natural gas, hydroelectric, coal and other existing sources should all be made more efficient. we simply don't need to invest in 'new' energy sources like fusion. they are redundant from an economic perspective.

and energy transmission, distribution and STOREAGE all need massive amounts of new R&D investment.

that is where the economics make most sense.
It's also a tough sell since it seems like science fiction whereas roads, schools, medicare, social security, etc are current tangible needs that people understand. I'd venture to say at least 50% of the American population believes you can get sick from being outside without a jacket and so trying to explain to them why you spent most of the budget on fusion would just make people's heads explode.
A load balancer can chose the correct backend by using the SNI. So there is a use for being unencrypted.
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What would interaction of nuclear forces predict on such huge scales?
The question is how do we do that in a way that is good enough to get engagement without actually endangering anyone. Imagine the uproar when one of these chaos monkeys cause a crash because the driver didn't react in time and it's evaluation of 'safe but seemingly dangerous' was just a bit off. For other systems this is easy because the system and the response are both totally contained inside the software so fake events are easy to generate and the user responds back through the system so the response can be caught and evaluated.
My issue was not with if the access points made sense or not... my issue was with the idea that a few grand, one time, was a lot of money to keep a wifi hotspot that wasn't on an existing network running for very long.

It wouldn't occur to me to just give people low end data plans, because for office environments? even the very high end data plans are not acceptable compared to a quality wifi setup. You might very well be right that the low end data plans are good enough for this use case, that the hit you take in reliability and accessibility is worth it to save some money.

This is actually... a problem that I (and I think a lot of technical people have) when looking at solutions; we want a good solution, and our every instinct shouts in horror when you suggest something trashy that is going to be broken half the time. But... as you point out, there are a lot of people who's expectations are so low that the low-end cellular data plan seems just fine.

It certainly seems to me like if you could get a good municipal wifi setup, that'd be worth a lot to the community. Of course, most of the 'community wifi' attempts I've seen have been failures, because making wifi work at scale with random users is a lot harder than it looks, but I think the win is big enough that it's worth trying again every few years, as we gain better wifi technologies.

But really? I'm a sysadmin, not a social worker. I can tell you a lot about setting up wifi access points, and about getting network access where there isn't any network access. I can't tell you what issues you are gonna have trying to give homeless people internet access, or what issues you might have trying to give them special phones (all the really cheap cellular providers around here don't allow you to bring your own device) or how reliable network access has to be in order for it to be useful to the homeless population- I just was offended by the implication that setting up a multi user WIFI AP for random users in places that don't have wired connections is cheap or easy.
Throwing money at a problem gets you "more", not "better". If your problem is that you need more scale, then throwing more money at a problem will get you that scale. If what you need is a breakthrough, feeding more money tends to lead to more heartbreak (see, e.g., Alzheimer's--we've spent several billion dollars on a cure and the only thing to show for it is that reducing amyloid plaques doesn't seem to do a damn thing). Fusion is still very much in the latter category: we don't have a working fusion reactor we need to make feasible, we have a vague sketch of one that might become a feasible reactor, if we achieve a few breakthroughs (and even then, we have several more issues to work through to actually make it economical).
The teacher also asks the student to do increasingly difficult challenges and actively provides feedback on their performance. The same should be done for self driving cars, millions of miles in ideal conditions is worthless. These cars need to be driven by bank robbers, gang members and stunt drivers for a Quentin Tarantino movie.
There little military application.
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Here's Kessler's excellent How We Got Here (pdf): http://www.andykessler.com/andy_kessler/excerpts/How_We_Got_...
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I have always viewed traditional mattress companies as very sketchy. I can't find a more authoritative source than Vox that corroborates my view, but here it is: https://www.vox.com/2015/3/5/8151607/mattress-buying-tips-sa...

Notably, mattress stores participate in the classic tactic of price inflation, as well as taking the same model of mattress and giving it a different name, making it much more difficult to comparison shop:

>For example, the popular Simmons Beautyrest line has different brand names at different stores. The "Beautyrest Recharge Allie" at Macy's is called the "Beautyrest Recharge Devonwood Luxury" at Sears, the "Recharge Signature Select Hartfield" at Mattress Firm, and the "Beautyrest Recharge Lyric Luxury" at US-Mattress.com. If customers don't realize these are names for the same mattress, it's harder for them to bargain effectively.

Then again, maybe these online mattress companies are doing the same thing too, just one step removed. At least there's no pushy sales staff when I order a bed in a box.
I wonder how they feel about base e?
I will ride and/or die with Xtreme Comforts' shredded foam pillows. They're like fifty bucks, a little more for a bigger one. My girlfriend hates them--which is fine, because it means I get two. The bed's going to look funny when we move in together: two enormous pillows on my side, two puny flat ones on hers.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00V909F1K
Only you can answer this for you.

But I would say younger, given you know yourself pretty well and have a good idea what field you want your career to be in.

Yes, kids are limiting. But they also open up the world to you again. You don’t really understand most of art, culture, society until you have kids of your own IMO. It’s not like you can’t continue to have grand experiences, you will just hopefully be having them with someone who you will have a loving relationship with until you die instead of some random person.

Also I didn’t want to be unable to ski/bike/climb etc with my kids when they are young adults because I was too old.

Raising kids is hard. Be prepared to explore how petty and self centered you really are and be prepared to stop being like that.
I thought it was broadly the English-language format. AFAIK the comma is the thousands separator in the US, the UK, Australia and Canada.
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Answer: no. Amazon benefits the vast majority of people, and acting as if a company can get "too big" is a bit silly. It's hysteria like this that ended in the Bell split, something that undeniably harmed everyone involved.
Ideally this kind of thing should be roughly on a log scale, along the lines of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred_number, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renard_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-series_of_preferred_numbers

You can pick a coarser or finer scale depending on the particular need.

For a base twelve world, I would recommend using binary logarithms written in base twelve (“dublogs”) whenever possible; 0.1 on such a scale matches one semitone in a 12-note-per-octave equal-tempered musical scale.
Tuft and Needle’s returned mattresses are directly donated to local homeless and women's shelters.
This is what will happen:.
https://youtu.be/BVBHxxo3TKE
And not just US based brands trying to all sell the same products. I have a "joyroom design" phone charging case, shamo's phone case, yivvin wireless keyboard, powerextra camera flash, godox battery charger, auxia ring light, and all other manner of cheap Chinese whitelabel brands that didn't even take the time to consult an English speaker before coming up with a name.

And all of these products have at least 20 to 30 or more other listings of the exact same product with some other made up "brand name" on it.
Except you wouldn't use the blockchain to have control over their data", you'd use it for identity and verification. Facebook' #1 issue is fake news and Bot's. You can eliminate those problems entirely with a blockchain and smart contract that requires identity and proof of such.
That's really cool, thanks for sharing!

I saw a site that highlighted the official audiobook/ebook of "The Lean Startup" on one page. I love this as a generic solution.
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> I also think that most gamers (myself included) would be okay with PC gaming becoming more consolized.

Gamers that I know disagree and very much dislike this trend.
I'm confused by this, as well as by your parent comment. Could you make your claims more directly so I can understand them?
> Under collision and property damage liability coverages, the seven electric vehicles with exact conventional counterparts had lower claim frequencies and higher claim severities than their comparison vehicles.

I bet the higher frequency of claims is either because people who buy electrics are worse drivers or simply more litigious. Probably both.
It's a rare purchase with high profit margins and limited differentiation between brands. In other words, whatever store/vendor you go to first has a great shot at getting your business, and you'll totally forget about them by the time you next need a mattress years later.

Same reason you hear so many car dealership and insurance ads.
While it is an odd request, that's not really fair to the parent commenter. He's asking for a _neutral_ representation to be used, so that those used to both format find it easier to read. He even goes out of his way to specify that he doesn't want his format used.

It's the same reason I write dates YYYY-MM-DD, a habit I picked up after working in a large company with employees from all over the world. (Though I generally wouldn't request other people to use it as well)
We were certain we had split opinions on a softer and a firmer mattress in the store. We bought one for the master and one for the guest room just in case we changed our minds.

I think we switched them at least once, but honestly can't remember how many times, and can no longer tell which one I "really" like.

Through this process I learned... I don't actually have mattress preferences, short of it not being a bunch of rocks.

I'm sure some people actually have preferences, but I wonder if this is an area, like vodka, where you can make people feel strongly like they have preferences between two things that are barely distinct, if at all.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/02/23/588346329/epis...
Call your ISP and ask them why they're blocking access to some websites. Ask them if there are any other websites they're blocking. Tweet about it. Etc
Games got significantly more complex, relying on more abstraction layers. DirectX got significantly more popular. Console gaming exploded.
If you haven't heard of it, you may be interested in the trolley dilemma.

https://theconversation.com/the-trolley-dilemma-would-you-ki...
I highly recommend looking into Spindle Mattress. It's all latex and wool/cotton and sleeps a lot cooler than memory foam. You sort of put it together yourself (i.e. Put three thick sections of latex in a zippered cover) but this also also allows for a bit of adjustment (reorganize the layers which come in various finesses). The whole thing weighs a ton and ships in three separate boxes.
Right, nobody is going to learn how to type on a keyboard when they could just write with a pen. /s

Interfaces are supposed to make things easier, but they are not required to improve every possible application. If this interface makes just some things easier or possible at all, it will be a win.

Using a camera would require mounting it somewhere where it can see the hand at all times, which precludes mobile uses. There's also the problem of exhausting yourself by using gestural interfaces for too long, where just minimal muscle twitches would probably be more comfortable.
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A non sharded public blockchain that doesn't do some kind of validator delegation will always be bottlenecked by a single validators computational capacity, which is on the order of 100-1000. Hedera is really pushing the line on making fraudulent claims here.