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That thing is horrific. It looks so dangerous and how would one ever remove it when it’s locked in someone’s body and can’t be unlocked?

I think if there’s a positive to be taken from COVID-19 it’s that we have time now for reflection. I think many of us have neglected human connection in our lives and COVID is exposing just how lonely we are. I am sure it’s difficult being alone but it’s also a chance to think about what you value most. A serious question: should we rely on work for a social outlet? Should we instead try to become more a part of the communities where we live rather than where we work?

Not raced cars but raced motorcycles and the very real difference is the vast sensory overload when you’re approaching corners, while in traffic, late braking trying to overtake, trying to stay in the power, being in the right gear, while protecting. By the way all of this is on the edge of your ability, you walk a line crossing back and forth between triumph and catastrophe. The heat is a very real thing and really wears you down physically and mentally. While physically able there were times I approached corners in traffic at very high speeds when my brain felt overloaded like I couldn’t process quickly enough everything that’s happening. My speed was more limited by my brain getting used to the speed than it was to ability to lean, apex, etc... In the real world there is physical danger and real significant consequences to making a mistake. A mistake can end your life. In a game you just lose.

He downloaded schematics and pcba designs, documents, etc, onto a thumb drive and transferred those contents outside of Google. Call it whatever you want. It’s called theft.

* The files that Levandowski is alleged to have stolen contain drawings and schematics pertaining to circuitry and LIDAR laser-sensors that were used in Google’s self-driving cars. If convicted, he faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and $250,000 fine, plus restitution, for every count.*

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/27/20835368/google-uber-engi...

Seriously? What exactly is brilliant about stealing designs? If he was so brilliant, he’d know what to do better or differently. He’d have been able to work around Google’s IP. That’s true brilliance.

Not only is he a thief, by his own admission, but it probably wasn’t the first time he did this. The way he stole the designs he wasn’t worried about getting caught. This is not something someone does for the first time. It’s a pattern of behavior built up over a long time.

I’m seriously worried about the lack of basic morals in technology where behavior like this, like Andy Rubin’s, etc.... goes unpunished because these people are “brilliant.”

Meh. What commercial product has the guy ever released? I’ve been involved in many and I can tell you that with each one of them I knew exactly what I would do differently the next time. I didn’t need an old design because I knew what we needed to do without having to refer to the old design. If this guy was so brilliant he wouldn’t have stolen because he’d have known how to make the design better.

Rather I think he stole the designs for expediency out of greed.

China’s handling of this is the reason we are all in this situation. They had a chance to contain it and they chose to shut down information that would have stopped the spread. Now the Chinese government are some kind of heroes?

I race motorcycless and so have some experience with high horsepower small engines. My first thought is I wonder how high the compression is to get this HP with only 3 cylinders? With high compression, everything wears much faster and components like pistons, connecting rods, and bearings need to be replaced at regular intervals for the engine to remain reliable. Additionally frequent oil changes become necessary as the oil breaks down more quickly under these conditions and metal shavings from wear build up in the oil. Things like connecting rods become stressed and need to be replaced at regular intervals for the engine to remain reliable.

I’d imagine that the Konigsegg buyer probably doesn’t care about maintenance costs but they might be irritated at the service intervals.

I wonder how much maintenance that will be?

It would be good but not sure that radiologists are the dominant cost. Radiological equipment is heavily regulated because it can cause significant harm to people if the equipment malfunctions.

Sorry but the assumption is on on your part. I’m sorry you can’t see that.

I think you’ve missed the point now twice. It’s the lack of trust that is the issue here that leads to that assumption. The lack of trust is the fault of the moderator not of the GP.

I think the GP is suggesting that as soon as you are moderating speech, a powerful moderating authority can quickly lose trust by deleting discussions. Or it could be that the moderating authority already is untrusted so deletions legitimate or not are always suspect.

China is back online. It was just a bump in the road.

So crazy that so many things came out of particle physics experiments: Ethernet, WWW, ... kind of crazy

Particulate pollution has a big impact on human health and children in particular.

I used to live about 4 blocks from CA-17 (a 6 lane freeway) and when we’d leave the windows open a layer of black soot would form on the window sill after a few hours. I always thought that this soot was a combination of rubber from tires and diesel soot. When we moved away, we can leave our windows open and there’s no black soot. I’ve always felt like living near the freeway was like living next door to a heavily polluting factory.

True but usually it’s difficult to actually achieve that speed on the bus. Isn’t the NIC a bottleneck? Usually they aren’t capable of wirespeed due to shallow buffers.

How is that possible? Raw Bw of PCIE is around 200Gb/s.

In California we have a declaration of emergency. This declaration makes price gouging illegal for essential needs.

I am not sure I would call him a brilliant engineer if he had to steal designs from Google.

Sure those failures were during NASA’s faster, better, cheaper era . I would argue that these failures led to cultural change at NASA that has led to their tremendous success during the last 20 years.

NASA has had many more missions overall and their success rate is quite good compared to other agencies.

Gaming is hard. It’s hard to disrupt when we have PlayStation, XBox, and Nintendo. Xbox was able to break in because they had Halo. Nintendo has tons of games people love.

PlayStation has a great ecosystem. You need more than just a Google name to break in.

I don’t really understand comments like this. US has lots of problems but we do have the semblance of rule of law. We do have the notion of transparency and you do not get sent to a labor camp if you have political views antithetical to the state.

The Chinese can and do simply disappear people without the semblance of due process. Their history also is one of ethnic cleansing as the Han people have pushed out or marginalized most other ethnic groups.

The history of: The Great Leap Forward, The Cultural Revolution, and Tianammen Square is pretty awful.

One thing that I wonder is whether we could ever identify an alien communication signal as an alien signal is likely to be much more advanced. In that scenario, the alien civilization is likely to be able to send their signal at the Shannon limit. Additionally an advanced civilization is likely to be sending signals optically instead of over radio waves. But even if we assume radio waves, Shannon says that the you can send the most information when using a random code. As you approach the Shannon limit the signal becomes more noise-like as the encoding tends towards random. So it’s entirely possible an alien signal is likely to look like pure noise to us and hence we may miss a true alien signal.

Being principled and high minded is wonderful when you are financially independent. Given Google’s amazing financial success, I’d imagine the author is or should be financially independent and can choose to do whatever he wants. Some of the rest of us are not in a position to be as ideological.

Not new. This existed a long time ago. It was called Nextel. Was hugely popular with contractors and in construction trades.

Actually I am wrong. NSA divested their fab a while ago. Instead they use the Trusted Foundry Program.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Foundry_Program

Really not that easy to release a PDK and get the industry familiar with it particularly for anything that is high speed analog.

Absolutely. NSA has its own fab to guarantee security and ensure secrecy. No reason why we can’t have a corporation that pushes semiconductor tech forward.

Intel does not support a fabless semiconductor business model. Lots of other chips are necessary besides CPUs.