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backtoyoujimon See's Candies is Warren Buffett’s ‘dream’ investment

By "fat" I assume that you mean "people with jobs that pay enough to let them buy things like expensive chocolates ?"

backtoyoujimon Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pilot incapacitated

The passenger was given the "first lesson is free" discount.

backtoyoujimon Everything with a battery should have an off switch

I have a corollary: that these on and off switches should not require "an app".

backtoyoujimon Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco

I hope that Boston Dynamic can do will make robotic horses/tauntauns that need to be tied to a charging post whilst I head into the daily shopping would be awesome.

And if I took one to the pub and later that night it could get my intoxicated body home safely without my guidance yeah that would be a huge plus.

I'm tired of cars and trucks and segways and scooters.

I want robotic electro auto-tauntauns.

backtoyoujimon Why America can’t build quickly anymore

What's weird is how common it was to have completely polluted rivers inside US cities.

And how Nixon needed to make it an Agency first because he didn't want Congress to have a Department of the Environment which would be out of control from the executive.

And how that has shaped the US environmental plans by making it a bargaining chip of the executive rather than a foundational aspect of our representative government.

Disband the EPA and create a Department of The Environment under Congress. Executive Orders do not have the gravitas required for a solid policy.

backtoyoujimon Amazon rainforest is losing its ability to recover from destruction

This always reminds me of the fact that there are now no trees on Easter Island although there were trees on it. And that humans deforested it. And at some point the people there must have gone, "Well ... we might as well cut down that last one, too."

Although I can easily imagine one neighbor cutting down the last tree on another neighbor's space out of spite.

backtoyoujimon We’re Fine Without Facebook, German and French Ministers Say

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30051054

i thought that was just recent

backtoyoujimon Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?

Or th4ey

backtoyoujimon Who keeps an eye on clipboard access?

Then what watches the clipboard watcher ?

backtoyoujimon Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco

Does your car stop at stop signs ?

Because at least one of y'all have to for this to work.

backtoyoujimon Mementos Mori

Not to bonk the subject too firmly on the nose but some ashtrays have been reborn as "vide poche."

backtoyoujimon Wisconsin Judge Prevents Nurses from Going to New Employer

Slavery is not over. The US has, like everything else, farmed it out to other nations.

backtoyoujimon American Airlines and The Points Guy are suing each other

How does that logic apply to people that sublet rental spaces ?

backtoyoujimon Google says iMessage is too powerful

Google Wave.

backtoyoujimon What is the point of imagining new technologies without new ways of living?

Using "The Flintstones" as the basis for this article makes it even more depressing.

backtoyoujimon IRS: Stolen property must be reported as income on taxes

Do police civil forfeiture seizures on the US federal roadways count as "stolen" ?

backtoyoujimon Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free-market economy’

Pelosi's criticisms of Trump's egregious financial abuse of power in the office of the President of the United State looks a lot more hollow now.

backtoyoujimon In the 17th century, Leibniz dreamed of a machine that could calculate ideas

"Taking the idea a step further, Llull invented what he called a volvelle, a circular paper mechanism with increasingly small concentric circles on which were written symbols representing the attributes of God."

So you are saying that Engineer's Disease is at least 700 years old.

backtoyoujimon Texas passes social media 'de-platforming' law

And the Texas state constitution has almost 700 amendments.

backtoyoujimon Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001)

Joelonsoftware always seems to me to be really, really close to punching someone in the nose.

backtoyoujimon A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence

>“The problem? When we made it possible for anyone to generate art with artificial intelligence, barely anyone used it to make actual art. Instead, our AI model was forced to make videos for random inputs, trolling queries, and NSFW intents.”

I am struggling with the use of the word "forced"; the researchers put their software out there to be used by anyone with an internet connection. The researchers created that dynamic.

And how are they not seeing that AI created no-humans-used-to-make-this-porn could be a net good.

backtoyoujimon U.S. opens probe into Tesla’s Autopilot over emergency vehicle crashes

I mean there are videos of a vehicle's occupant sitting in the rear seats making food and drinks while the vehicles are tricked into operating off of the vehicles sensors.

It is not solely the trust and dependence but inclusive is the group of idiots with access to wealth without regard to human life.

backtoyoujimon Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'

I have scanned the phone for sorrow and the phone has scanned back at me I AM SORROWFUL

backtoyoujimon Apple’s Mistake

Apple new ad strategy: "Either buy and use Apple iPhone, or you are predator."

backtoyoujimon Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does

Are Captchas a version of Proof of Work ?

backtoyoujimon Bones hoarded by hyenas over thousands of years

My canines do this with their toys and my couch.

backtoyoujimon Robot police dog that scans homeless people sparks debate

I don't think adding a pandemic makes it less dystopian.

backtoyoujimon Woman sues L.A. after being struck by car on a street where tents block sidewalk

What ethic background can the United States subtract from its total homeless population ?

Because that reads _to_me_ like you are saying "homeless Syrians don't count".

To which I would ask you, "Why not ?"

backtoyoujimon Artists, shrug off that imposter syndrome – the tech world needs you

This article reminds me of people that say the eagles could have dropped the ring into Mordor.

The corporate world has spent the better part of a century convincing the populace that when one doesn't work in cubes, "people" like artists, then they aren't really doing their share.

And now, suddenly, the corporate state wants those people to prioritize their value as resources to the corporatocracy.

Much like the eagles from LOTR, some people don't have any interest of your company, or IPO, or your disruption no matter how "valuable" they could be to some corporate bottom line.