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Regarding crows, here is a start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21769575

That is true, but if it's a 2002 model and this first happened now, I perceived it to be a low-probability event.

I don't mean to downplay the seriousness of this bug, I'm just saying it doesn't have as catastrophic implications as it would if this happened in a state-of-the-art Tesla.

Thanks, that turns this from a very serious concern to a much smaller one.

I thought it was a Tesla that somehow completely failed to see a pedestrian and then to stop when it made contact, which would have terrible implications for the rest of the fleet.

I'm a father of a two year old daughter. My friends and family have a bunch of kids similar age.

We're in a progressive country where gender equality is good and most people are aware to not show bias and offer girls toy cars and stuff.

My takeaway from the past two years is: There is clear gender preference. Boys generally like cars, girls like dolls. Both like books and puzzles.

Of course there are exceptions but the stereotype is a stereotype for a reason.

Taxes on regular people increases and the quality of services they provide decreases, precisely because of the tax-evading [0] behavior of the multinational corporations.

[0]: If you feel the need to point out the difference between tax-avoidance and tax-evasion then please watch this first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2q-Csk-ktc

You are describing a traditional online retailer.

I agree there is probably nothing inherently 'wasteful' about drop-shipping, but it is just another middleman and so it 'wastes' money for the buyer/seller, but that's probably a thin argument.

But of course the main wastefulness of the process is the whole system of constantly pushing people to consume tons of disposable useless crap.

From a cursory glance it seems to me that SNCF's debts are due to them financing all of their infrastructure instead of the French state paying for it (directly, it of course is indirectly), and then the argument goes back to the current top comment here: The real value of a good transport network is the add-on economic effects.

Also from a security perspective, you can't hijack a train and crash it into some building (it has to stay on the tracks), so that's a plus for trains.

Finally a domestic train causes about 41 g/km of CO2 emissions, while a domestic flight causes about 254 g/km (accounting for altitude) [0]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49349566

According to my belief system any mention of evolution is blasphemy so I can not answer this question.

I suspect the only way to develop a method that stops the onset of symptoms is to detect the symptoms really early and figure out what to do from there.

Otherwise there is no way to distinguish between someone who never got cancer and someone who did but had the progression stop before it became a problem.

In a way, but the downside to the losing party is limited. Also in (at least some of) these systems, it is not an automatic order for the losing party to pay, the court can decide to order it or not.

I don't think there really is any feasible way to prevent rich people and companies to have access to more/better representation.

Thanks for the Wikipedia link. From the results of this exercise it seems it really was necessary, in order to avoid the same catastrophes on D-day itself. However the operation did alert the Nazis that something was up, and they apparently did reinforce the landing sites in preparation for an assault.

As a side not since this is HN: The article summary box lists Nazi Germany as a party to the exercise with all of the E-boats, presumably due to article quality control requirements in the Wikipedia system.

Oh ok, I'd heard about the emissions quota, but I always thought it wasn't a simple average of the offered range, but was surely weighted by sales.

I'm curious, how do the regulations incentivize making a model that they don't really need to sell much of?

I guess some is the key word. It makes sense to disallow charge backs for Kickstarters and such, because that whole premise is: You pay me a certain amount of money, and I'll try my best to get you something in return.

They have actually had one positive influence on my life. After having dealt with exactly what you described a few times, I learned that I don't need anything that's on Pinterest. If a search results returns a pinterest link, I ignore it. If I can't find it anywhere except that link, it's as good as a dead link so I move on. This can be extended to much of the internet. So much peace now.

Speaking of walled gardens. There is probably no service in this world that I hate more, as a non-user, than Pinterest.

I read them to mean that the fact that no Dutch girl is doing it is indicative of exploitation. Dutch people generally have lots of opportunities that many other nationalities don't.

It's impossible to look at someone and tell with certainty that they are being exploited, but it's easy to look at a group of people and notice if any of them are from the local privileged peoples, and if most of them are from poorer regions.

If that were true it would be even more terrible. I did find it a bit hard to believe so I checked, and your claim seems to be based on a misunderstanding, according to https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/us/politics/fact-check-fa....

I'm not completely informed of everything ICE does but I believe this is the agency that has been separating children from their parents, caging people for days (weeks?) on end in conditions where they can't even lie down, and even had small children die in their custody [1].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48375144

I think the example was that this law will not create such a scenario, in the way that previous rent control schemes have.

The example given is of a 500% increase in rent, by definition no rent control law should make such an increase possible in a short time frame.

Unfortunately there is way too much oil known today. Much of it will have to stay underground, if the worst climate catastrophes are to be averted.

But would you ever go and look at his repo?

If it is the case that she didn't contribute the most complicated stuff, then I can assure you it is not the first time in history that the face of a project is not the one that did the hardest work. Also as has repeatedly been said, she always said it was a team effort.

This is all said with the caveat that I didn't follow this 'controversy' and never cared to look at the contribution distribution of all the project members.

On an extremely tangential note: If you need some fun, short shows to relax, watch White Gold on Netflix. Stratego plays a small part in the second series.

The Y language is a future AI programming language that instead of giving directions, it asks the computer questions and thus tries to provoke a response or change in behavior.

A typical pattern is to accept orders electronically but cancellations only by phone between 1:00 pm and 1:12 pm.

Yes I probably wasn't as clear as I should have, that of course 'race' is very loosely defined. But it's not just completely made up is my point. Saying it is completely a cultural construct is just plain wrong, and as such not conducive to convincing anyone in an argument.

And then of course with ever increasing mobility, the differences are probably 'smoothing out' so to speak.

>Otherwise racial differences would be of no more significance than, say, differences in hair or eye color.

Interesting example, because red haired people generally have more sensitive skin and are prone to burning in the sun. This is an example of the kinds of differences that it is actually interesting and helpful to study.

This is just plain wrong on all levels.

Sure, racists are interested in race and everything related to it because they feel they are superior, and conveniently disregard the things that don't support them being superior.

But race is not a cultural construct, as evidenced by the fact that you can't culturally adapt your skin to change colors.

It is entirely possible to note the differences between men and women without being sexist. It is also possible to be interested in and note the differences between different parts of the human population without being racist.

Reading this reminded me that I'm only here because I was waiting for a compilation & flashing to finish. I will not tell you how many minutes ago.

I read somewhere that running very long distances is basically the only physical thing humans can do better than any other animal.

>That's not a fair assessment.

Fair point.

>Your opinion of a "sensible position" on "gun control" is almost certainly different from mine.

A sensible position can be anywhere on a broad spectrum. It does not include arming teachers and does not include selling guns to diagnosed mentally unstable people.

>I would take the perspective that people openly supporting socialism is a much further-leftward lurch than any thing on the right. [0]

I would have to disagree. I think for-profit prisons, money-is-speech, on-your-own healthcare are three examples of extreme individualism and anti-social-ism that it seems the Republicans are proud of.

>You also brand the NRA as "fringe" and as "general nutcases", which is again unfair. Your political opinion is not the single source of truth or the center of the political spectrum.

The NRA is fringe, it has recently been shown how it has been hijacked over the course of a decade or more by the Russians to sow discord and destabilize your country. That's why I chose to use such inflammatory words.

>Your implication here is that the right has become fringe, but the graph linked above shows otherwise.

This may be true, I honestly did not have time to read the whole article. I don't disagree that the left has a bunch of issues and idiotic positions, hyper-sensitivity and a general vicious lack of tolerance for momentary lapses in judgement being the main ones in my opinion.