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Imho that's what makes it all the more grating: Star Trek was always on the rather "woke" end of the spectrum, and it usually managed to be there without pandering or being too condescending about it.

But this new generation of Trek seems to have completely lost that ability, while at the same time retconning large parts of the universe, and its inhabitants, to serve it's now much more simplistic moral dilemmas.

Which becomes particularly apparent when contrasted with something like The Orville. Sure, MacFarlane's humor can be an acquired taste, but I found that comedy take to be much more relatable, and truer to the "Trek spirit" than recent Trek offerings.

Maybe that has to do with the fact that The Orville also depicts a way more optimistic picture of future humanity, akin to the old Trek, while new Trek seems to be too busy to make Trek as gritty, edgy and actiony as most other media nowadays.
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Xbox Game Studios has been on a really interesting developer growth and M&A spree the last couple of years, in response to allegations that the Xbox One did not have enough first/second party exclusive titles compared to the PS4. They've made it a big part of their E3 announcements both of the last two years. They've been honoring existing publishing agreements for the most part, so it'll be months to years before it's obvious how much Microsoft has changed the landscape. (It's why Gearbox still published Compulsion's We Happy Few and Obsidian's Outer Worlds, for two instances, and per-Fig requirements/expectations Psychonauts 2 won't be Xbox exclusive but will probably be Double Fine's last title to not launch Xbox exclusive.)

(It's also partly fascinating because inXile and Obsidian have bad blood between each other and now they are both owned by Microsoft. Microsoft has said they'll keep them separated.)
Because it hasent happened? The roadrunner gag comes up every few years only to be debunked (by snopes and others). Computer vision is fooled by many things that are still very obvious to the human observer.
That's a valid point. I looked into that and it appears the policy says they'll put the video back up during the dispute but won't monetize it:

"If the policy is set to block (don't allow users to view the video on YouTube) or track (allow users to view the video without advertisements), this policy may be temporarily lifted until your dispute is resolved. Learn more about policy and claim basics. During this time, your video cannot be monetized."

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797454 (click "file a dispute", then "What happens after you dispute?"

I believe I saw somewhere that monetization is the most common rather than block or track, but can't find it now.
yea i can see it for software libs. This is a greenfield crud app that doesn't have any real users yet and still in a quasi-prototype stage.
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Are there federally enforced building codes?
I did this also. I usually had examples or actual websites to show when they asked for details. Unfortunately, none of my start-ups took off, meaning I'm stuck in the middle class. 1 or 2 maybe could have if I had devoted full time to them, but couldn't at the time.
I could have sworn that ADA had provisions to protect buildings that were older and where upgrades would be too costly to implement. This sounds like that is the case... What am I missing?
>Eliminate the 1%, and who is going to make up that money?

If by eliminate, you mean equalize the inequality - then the remaining 99% will contribute more as they'll be making more money...
Does this account for cost of living? It seems that the states with higher incomes also happen to be the states with higher costs of living.
This American Life did a segment on it. I'm still not sure if I agree with the approach:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/415/crybabies/act-three-0
No, lawsuits require standing. If nobody is actually harmed, there is nothing to sue over. Where this might factor into this ethically is that these building may not have been compliant with the law, but they might not have had problems because they were close enough to legal requirements that people with disabilities did not have actual problems using the facilities, or other situations that in practice made it a non issue.

For example, ramps must be 36 inches wide. If it was not possible or feasible for the business to change a ramp that was 34 inches wide, that's unlikely to cause actual problems for someone, so they would have no reason to sue, but if someone is faking a disability to qualify for legal standing, whether they actual had problems is of little consequence, they are already committing fraud to qualify, what's a bit more to fake a situation where they were caused harm?
dude.. i am not lying or have an option currently to change my job. I don't want to engage with you after that ridiculous accusation.
Thirteen years ago ADA had been law for sixteen years. The owner ignored it from day one. The owner had 13 years to bring the cafe into compliance.
That's a different concern though. 200 lawsuits in and of itself isn't a problem. Pretending to be disabled to try and get standing is.
Is this the new version of the old Slashdot meme - “Does anyone still watch TV? I haven’t owned a TV in 15 years.”

https://www.smseagle.eu/2017/03/06/daily-sms-mobile-statisti...
Nope, the first 3 (plainly written) sections of the standard will tell you why if you're curious https://wicg.github.io/webusb/#introduction

The upcoming WebHID API considers and mitigates this attack as well https://wicg.github.io/webhid/#introduction
"I worked for Men in Black, which is now People in Black."
Or, "I worked in Area 15, helping dyslexic aliens."
A question, if there is someone that can answer this:

It said her options were either build a ramp for $100k or settle for $60k. Who can she settle with, and who agrees that she doesn’t need to build a ramp anymore? What happens if someone else comes along and wants a ramp?
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Comparing full year to Q4 is misleading. Amazon lost market share from 2018 to 2019.

https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...
https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2019Q4_alphabet_earnings...
The problem is CA has opted to allow "citizen enforcement" via cash settlements instead of allowing grace periods or some other means of remediation. As noted in the article, if the goal was bring businesses up to code, in many cases a simple letter from the lawyer would suffice. But, that doesn't make money for the lawyer and her husband (who faked disabilities in order to sue).
The ADA is a terrible law that should be repealed. It is primarily used by these serial lawsuit trolls for their own payday.

New built businesses should be build to comply with the building code at the time, which can include disabled access.

Older businesses can be upgraded, at taxpayer expense, if that's what the government wants. It's insane and a violation of basic property rights to force business owners to upgrade older buildings at their own cost.
Yep. The article even smugly tries to boast about how they're adults and understand these things:

> We haven’t needed both arms yet, primarily because we have the advantage of steady paychecks and the lack of strict bedtimes at our immediate disposal. But as much as we might like the idea of an ever-escalating appsec war with teenagers,

And yet they fail to realize that they're playing in to the very cat-and-mouse game they deride. I can't wait until this escalates into "ok, well, now you need Intel TSX with Secure Enclave to verify that you're using the League video driver, and our proprietary USB dongle to play our game."

Spoilers: the teenagers will always win; you can never trust a client no matter how many technical barriers you erect. Look to the entire legacy of DRM for how this strategy has been tried and has failed. Server-side statistics are the only hope against serial cheaters - they're barking up the wrong tree here.
>is Dropbox too big to be acquired (by Facebook)?

Facebook is big enough to acquire almost any company they want

> Can this mean that they are going to?

Put aside whether or not it makes sense to acquire dropbox.

To me this looks like they will not since it could look like a conflict of interest to stockholders and therefore a breach of fiduciary duty. Drew would stand to make a ton of money at the cost to FB shareholders in a dropbox buyout and it's not necessarily to the shareholder's benefit

If facebook wanted to buy dropbox, the safer play would be to buy dropbox, then add Drew to the board of directors
ADA compliance (IANAL), if the owner is being comprehensive, includes things not just for customers but for employees too, so maybe their kitchen/working spaces are also not compliant and would involve significant interior redesign etc... I dunno. Seems plausible, anything that has some legal definition of compliance also has some overhead cost to make sure that the thing implemented also complies :)
On one hand, this happens, on the other, I use hearing aids and I cannot get Apple to give me a receipt for my AppleCare payment because the only way to get that is to call an internal Apple department, and that department has no email, no TTY, nothing but a phone number. I cannot call phones.

And Apple doesn’t care. What are you going to do, sue them for ADA violations? That’s only for mom-and-pop coffee shops.

ADA has a purpose. However, it should be limited to corporations above a certain revenue (like how GDPR is limited) and the cost of non-compliance drastically increased. At this point, Apple can afford to be non-compliant while this coffee shop has to close, which is the worst of all possible worlds.
Sounds like a new business model. Make claims against semi-popular youtubers and get them to agree to share revenue.

The best part is you don't need to own the ip you make a claim against. If they challenge take maximum amount of time and withdraw challenge. Keep repeating for new videos until the channel agrees.
>that do nothing for no one

I'm not sure you understand these assets if you think they do nothing. If you want to rent an apartment then someone has to build and own it first. If you want to borrow money for your business then someone has to save money and put it aside so it becomes available to you. Your comparison to scrooge mcduck doesn't make sense because you're assuming that the money will never be used. If your goal is to save 20000€ over 7 years to buy a car without financing then you would be incredibly foolish to put that money into a risky asset. If the stock market crashes the same year you wanted to buy your car the you will need to obtain liquidity by borrowing money from a bank (remember those stupid scrooge mcducks swimming in their pile of gold? now you're begging them to give you money) and getting the car loan you wanted to avoid with the hope that in 3 years the value of your asset recovers and you can finally sell it to pay off the loan.
The raw sensory inputs to a human brain must also be jittery. Eyes apparently see highest definition detail only in a tiny area of the visual field, for example. The brain stitches it together, interpolates, tags features, and guesses. The preprocessing miraculously creates the impression of a big clear image out of a dirty data feed from two jello cameras that are swiveling around all the time. There's a lot a smoothing going on.

Imagine if you could see the raw input from an eye - it would be a big field of view, but mostly blurry, mostly not in full color, with a blind spot hole near the center, and the whole image jittering around violently.

One trait of practical real-world intelligence is ignoring 99.9% of everything. It usually works.
I didn't explain that very well. students who were seriously considering the cs major could certainly just take calc their first semester and then take the real intro course next semester.

at the same time, the university basically considered having taken calc in high school to be a proxy for the overall quality of the student's stem education so far. so if you were one of those people, you were encouraged to take the intro intro course first. this was also the course that people would take who were interested in cs but weren't stem majors. it was a poorly designed course for both purposes.
That is still misleading from the overall profit picture because the dealer can be getting points back on the loan.

That doesn't effect the price you ultimately pay, just who gets what.

(E.g. your "true" interest rate is 2.5%, the dealer gets you to take a loan at 3.9%...they pocket the 1.4%)
But yet, we have an existence proof that a cellular carrier in the US - Sprint - had its own 4G protocol - WiMAX - that was only supported by Sprint

https://www.rcrwireless.com/20160401/opinion/worst-week-bold...

Not only that, even before Sprint acquired Nextel, Nextel was using the spectrum it had for its own proprietary wireless protocols and it wasn’t Big Government that killed either initiative - it was people exercising their own free will not buying Nextel phones and later WiMAX phones.

Most would link Sprint’s WiMAX decision back to its acquisition of Nextel Communications, which wrapped in 2005, and brought with it a significant load of 2.5 GHz spectrum licenses with specific build out dates. Nextel prior to being acquired had been testing various IP-based mobile broadband technologies, including various proprietary ones like Flash-OFDM and TDD-UMTS, as well as WiMAX and HSDPA.
I think you're underestimating the size of 200. ADA compliance is a worthy cause, but at that level of effort I think it would make more sense to create an advocacy group and try to bring about compliance through public pressure than individual lawsuits.

Nevertheless, I don't have a lot of sympathy for the business owner in this case. If you open a business in a non-compliant site 17 years after the ADA went into effect, and 13 years later still can't build a ramp, it might be time for another business to occupy that site.
Can confirm: There is an overlay that appears which asks whether you consent to collection of video (only from the 7 outside cameras -- there is one facing the interior but it doesn't include that), and telemetry / GPS data for autopilot training and sentry mode training. If you don't agree, I'm assuming your car will not be used for the fleet learning since they can't gather any telemetry. I do believe that critical logging w/o user-data(?) (aka drive system failure, MCU crashes, etc) is still enabled independently && regardlessly of the data collection for AI toggle.
Yup, it sounds similar to an ABC7 investigation over another man who sues over 100 businesses over ADA violations. https://abc7.com/723665/
It's a fascinating video. Does anyone know of a similar video by Waymo, Cruise, Uber, etc?

Love them or hate them its pretty cool Tesla put this video out at all. Certainly gives us all a lot to talk about.
Thank you for explaining it so clearly.
To elaborate, the filter also may not improve the accuracy, just the perceived accuracy.

To be correct but one second late is to be completely inaccurate. The system is trying to estimate the current position of the car, but also predict future positions.

So a little bit of imprecision is fine since it improves accuracy related to predicting the future positions of the cars. A slight move in one direction may indicate a lane change, so it is always useful to be aware of that so as not to accelerate past a car whose measurement appears to be more inaccurate, since they actually might be moving. If you did the same thing with a human's "sixth sense" perception of the positions of the cars, you'd definitely find that they move a lot compared to their actual positions when the head is turned since our ability to merge our vision and our inertial sense is not very good for the most part.

The same issues arises with AR/VR, it's useless to know a more accurate position of the user if it's not the present position, because then that will definitely lead to motion sickness.
The worn wood in grain elevators can be truly amazing from decades of grain eroding the wood and creating beautiful smooth surfaces. It would be a shame to tear it down without reclaiming it.
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The article addresses this. The business owner says even if she could settle, nothing prevents her from being sued again.
That's entirely a schema/data policy question. Null could indicate no name, or it just as easily could indicate tha data was not collected, and an empty string would indicate it was collected but is empty.

Both are entirely valid methods of encoding the data, and require knowing how the data is intended to be collected, entered and used to determine the best choice.
Eh last few times I’ve done this I used venmo, works great with strangers too
> And contrary to most business owners’ beliefs, older buildings are not “grandfathered” into the ADA and are susceptible to these lawsuits.
Not sure what color scheme it's using, but it is very color-blind unfriendly.
Maybe they can, but the videos give the impression (possibly misleading) that the software doesn't have object permanence. After it gets real close to the truck its estimate of where the road might be starts to wander around.
Our HTTPS overlords have much to answer for. How many static sites, for example, really need HTTPS and the non-trivial maintenance involved in the average Apache/Letsencrypt/certbot setup? Talk about sledge-hammer to crack a nut. And renewals every 3 months?! Don't get me started. Sure, the likes of Microsoft should be able to do better but isn't there a message here? Beyond secure sites such as finance, government, logins and ecommerce the whole HTTPS certificate nonesense is a giant burden/cost with no benefit.
I'm looking at the picture in the article. You absolutely could not get a wheelchair up to that door without people carrying it. I'm aware of standing, and in this case it seems pretty clear cut.
What I'm trying to figure out is how is this not the landlord's responsibility rather than the commercial tenant's?
Depends on your point of view, but it sounds like you’re great at software engineering. :)

Abstract thinking and duct tape are the tools of the trade! The tools they’re teaching in this course are just fantastic abstractions held together with duct tape, after all.
OP said it starts to seem opportunistic, which I think is true, even if the party is actually disabled. Because the odds that a regular disabled person would encounter 200 unique buildings over a year that they couldn't access because of their disability seems quite slim.

And the opportunistic part comes in because these lawsuits are almost always "Fix the problem for $5*X, or pay me personally $X and I will drop the suit".
Excuse me, what? Please explain your reasoning.

(And yes I read the section 3 of the standard before writing the comment above, see my other comment in this thread)

WebHID even says it more plainly:

> In general, these types of attacks are device-specific and cannot be mitigated at the API level.

Both documents you linked literally go:

"We know these attacks exist, we don't care as long as we show a prompt, device manufacturers fix your shit it's not our problem"

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I can't reply for some reason but:

I didn't see any mention of HID devices not being listed, not was it immediately apparent that a HID device would already be held in the kernel context

I also still don't see blocking input from trusted devices, I see the same language I called out:

"Device manufacturers should watch out"

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"I think it works like this, why doesn't it" is a great way to learn things, except when the reply is a low effort: "here's that thing you read, did you actually read it?"
From retrofitting an older building some years ago, I well recall that an ADA compliant ramp has at most a 1:12 pitch (one inch rise per foot) and must provide I forget how many square feet of flat landing outside the door (to allow opening the door after reaching the level of it). So if your doorsill is, say, 2 feet above grade -- not uncommon, 3 steps -- that's a 24-foot long ramp minimum. It's hard to tell from the pictures in the article, but it looks like there's more like a four-foot rise to that coffee shop. That's a 48-foot ramp, of a certain width, with a railing.

Few existing buildings have room for such a ramp on a straight run. So, easy fix you think, we fold the ramp in a hairpin. But wait; wherever it changes direction you must have a level landing of I forget how many square feet, to allow the chair and the attendant pushing it, to turn the corner.

By the time you add a compliant ramp to an existing building you are likely to have covered a lot of ground with ramp. If you had that much ground to spare, and can give up the landscaping or outdoor patio it once was.

The alternative is a wheelchair lift. Like a little outdoor elevator platform. These are fairly expensive to buy and install, but require much less space.
They exist now as what amounts to fancy amusement park rides. Wake me up when I can get sloppy drunk and catch one home. Only I was drunk and didn’t provide the exactly correct drop off address and need to somehow communicate to the robo-Uber where exactly it should drop me off... (how will I do that, by the way? talk to it? What if it doesn’t understand my accent?)

Also, I’m at a wedding and the pickup is in a grass field in front of the venue. Can’t pick me up on pavement... it’s a two lane road 50mph road with no shoulder to pull over in. Also the entrance to the venue is a poorly marked dirt road. Also, the “pin” I told the robo-Uber to pick me up at has it at the street ‘cause that is the address.

I’ll wait for the robo-Uber to call me on how the hell it should pull into the lot. I did mention cell sucks here, so hope you’ve got that all offline, right?

And I fully expect my use case to be waved away as “edge case” and “doesn’t matter”. Except it does. Every trip that isn’t a pre-planned, set route amusement park ride is an edge case. Until you can meet my use case, a common one for an Uber driver, self driving cars are empty hype.