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Depends on what you view the law for. Personally I think the law is a tool that acts as a proxy for group morality, and is useful as much as it serves that aim. The law itself is not sacrosanct and can be wrong, which is why we revise it. Under this view, those who broke a law we then get rid of should be released, as we have agreed that the law was wrong, we also have agreed that they were right. If the law itself is not put on a pedestal, then if the law was wrong then those people who broke it should also no longer be regarded as criminals as we are simultaneously admitting that it was also wrong to have labelled them as such in the first place.

I know that this is not a good sample by any means, but from my own life thus far here in the UK as someone with a middle class accent and pale skin tone, who smokes a bit of pot and these days stay out of trouble, however used to get exceedingly drunk and got into numerous stupid drunk incidents in public, I have been held in police station cells 6 times and officially cautioned twice.

2 of the times in the station were alcohol related, everything else is weed from stop and search. One thing to note, as soon as I opened my mouth in each incident, there was no further threat from the police of taking it to court, despite me having no decent legal representation. Sounding posh goes very far with the police here.

People who use bikes don't trust drivers either. In fact I work on the base assumption that bus drivers in particular, are actively trying to kill me.

This part - “ Horwich says Wittgenstein imagined everyone sketching individual faces to convey meaning, rather than relying on standardized faces as we do today. “I don’t think we get the variety and the flexibility unless you’re drawing them yourself,” says Horwich. “You’re shoveling ‘sad’ into one particular face. [Wittgenstein’s] idea was different degrees and shades of sadness come from ways of drawing it.” ” - made me wonder if we could do with parametric smileys.

edit - just thought, making parametric smileys is somewhat linked to the fictional technology for expression that Juanita worked on in Snowcrash.

Define cheating - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDTZuFJYX4

I think that a renaming is something that will happen. The current DNS mutual hallucination has an insane network effect, but I think something else (fuck knows what, could be a toy, could be a tool, could be a protocol), with it's own naming convention will eventually become wildly popular and then make DNS obsolete.

In the middle of a city, a pile of scooters is considered by most people to be a less pressing problem than a pile of human shit, both in risk and aesthetic. If either pile gets big enough it will solve itself economically, however the difference in inconvenience while waiting for that to occur is not close.

RAND corporation in both depth and longevity is pretty impressive.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/a/asimov_isaac.html

https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/v/vonneumann_john.html

https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/baran_paul.html

https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/n/nash_john_f.html

https://www.rand.org/about/history/nobel/bibliography.html

Could even go full social techno-utopia and make the scooters free for registered addicts to use on rides to any municipal sanitation facilities.

I have never heard of the business version of facebook before. Is it common anywhere?

Or Zune, even now.

I've never used it. For some reason this makes some people extremely curious as to my reasons and then very angry with me after I state them.

>In 2011, Schrems created Europe versus Facebook, which published the documents Facebook had sent him and flagged up where they didn't comply with EU law. He got in touch with the Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC) -- Facebook Ireland is the "data controller" for its European users -- and sent 22 detailed complaints showing how Facebook wasn't compliant, five relating to it allegedly not deleting data. He also complained about "shadow profiles", where Facebook collects contact information relating to non-users when users sync their contacts from other services.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/privacy-versus-facebook

Of course it isn't just driven by nostalgia. It also requires a constant supply of coffee, for one thing.

Prestwick. Concorde used to land there sometimes. I know someone who was in the process of landing a microlight at Prestwick when concorde had to fly in because of bad weather at Heathrow.

Historically we used to launch from Woomera, before we shut everything down as part of the deal giving us access to US nuclear missile tech, something our politicians were happy to do as they thought that missiles was all rockets were really for anyway.

Which I think ranks as one of the stupidest decisions the UK has ever made.

How do you allow access and editing of any identifying data previously posted, so as to comply with GDPR?

>This is likely to be controversial, but I take a low dose of sleeping pills (like a third of a normal dose) or a very low dose of cannabis whenever I can’t sleep.

While I agree with this advice, it is amusing to see it coming from someone lauded as a captain of industry, after growing up with all the propaganda about how cannabis will destroy your life and get you started on heroin, etc.

Mind you, the whole "Winners don't take drugs!" line took quite a beating after Michael Phelps got photographed pulling bong hits.

When learning, I tend to buy something cheap I can destroy, knowing I'll be fighting it. Then I buy something expensive and everything is lovely.

Was listening to "I got it From Agnes" just the other day - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6qFG0uop9k

That aspect of his humour however seems noticeably absent from this article. You'd have thought "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" would at least get a mention - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY

The media tends to push binary stories of humans vs AI. Science fiction, on the other hand, has long explored the complexity inherent in human, AI and cyborg interactions.

We may not know the cause of the collapse, however given that it was a new construction method being tested, surely the cars should never have been allowed to be there until the span had finished being surveyed. Is a new thing, plan for it failing until you are very sure it won't.

I'm not sure that the Windows desktop has caught up technically compared to many of the graphical shells available for linux desktops, it just depends on which list of things you value in particular.

Seems fair.

Would be nice to have a fifth slide explaining friction cost and why it might be a very bad idea to embed ever increasing friction as your formal verification method.

Is also worth remembering that all phones track you and that people who have access to the mast data can do stuff like this - https://ubicomplab.cs.washington.edu/pdfs/wibreathe.pdf

If you are a tech company and you are being moral and trying to keep secrets, you have to try and weed out any overly unscrupulous employees as they may sell your data to other organisations.

If you are a tech company and you are being immoral and trying to keep secrets, you have to not only try and weed out any overly unscrupulous employees as they may sell your data to other organisations, but also any overly scrupulous employees, as they may leak to the press, regulators, or police. This severely diminishes your hiring pool, or guarantees that you will leak.

> Once Bandai licensed Pippin from Apple, Apple made no effort to market the Pippin platform. All the marketing was to be done by the licensees. Bandai spent US$93 million in marketing alone to sell the Pippin line.[6] As part of the licensing agreement, both Bandai and Katz Media were not allowed to use the term "computer" when marketing the Pippin systems, so that the systems would not be confused with Apple's own Macintosh product line.

That is genuinely mental.

In the words of Samuel Johnson;

> "If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."

I still read The Well (The Whole Earth 'Lectronic 'Link) at least once a year, as I have an almost religious addiction to "The State of The World" with Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky. For reference, here is State of the World 2018 - https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/503/State-of...

I want electric cars to succeed as I am am long bored of breathing in vehicle fumes. Automated driving is cool sci-fi tech, but holds nowhere near the same sense of necessity, as far as I am concerned.

So, I thought it wasn't all that clever in the first place to try and marry the risks of getting electric cars into the market with the risks of telling the extremely wealthy that they didn't need to hold the damn steering wheel.