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I feel like people are just willing to pay $25 to get the real thing. Much cheaper than AAA games at $60+, and you get to play the same game as your friends instead of convincing everyone to play minetest or something instead.

It was an even easier decision to buy it at $10 back in the day.

You're okay training an incomplete self driving machine learning model on the general population?

There are other people on the road, it's not just the drivers that are impacted by this.

Calling it "Autopilot" is what's irresponsible.

Tesla is playing with lives and should stop offering Autopilot.

Anything less than L4 autonomous driving is completely reckless. Calling it "Autopilot" when it's an L2 system should be criminal.

Yes, it's an extreme stance, but we're going to have a really hard time getting out true autonomous driving when companies are playing around with people's lives. You can say "well they know the risks" but it's not a closed situation. There are others on the road who will also die because of Autopilot mistakes.

Why does that matter? The next person who comes by with autopilot on who doesn't know that might also die.

Most people, not you :P

I'm confused by all the assumptions in this thread, including

1. That Google didn't research crypto internally and purposely decide not to pursue it.

2. That crypto is worth staking Google's time, energy, and ego on.

3. That crypto involvement is a direct reason a company is or is not innovative.

Have you read much about prusik mistakes and accidents? I feel like this is mentioned quite a bit when talking about whether to put your third hand above or below your belay device.

I think I've only heard of a single accident when this has happened and involved death, though.

(hint: put it below or you could get stuck if you can't escape the prusik)

But that's what the OP's quote is saying. "large" companies use them.

Sorry I realized my comment could be read two ways.

I meant to say that I think most stress is caused by the person who is stressed driving too aggressively. They care way too much about saving 2 seconds by passing/riding up on people constantly.

I agree with you.

You mean the cruise control that's already killed people? The cognitive load of not trusting cars around you is now increased by having to worry about not trusting your own car. That's crazy to me.

I'm pretty convinced most stress caused by driving is just people driving way too aggressively.

We do quarterly OKRs. Quarterly deadlines are completely arbitrary and my actual deadlines aren't tied to the quarters.

So I (and everyone around me) don't take them seriously. We take the actual deadlines seriously. The only thing OKRs seem to do is provide direction to the higher ups about what my team is up to.

We also have 2.2billion or so more people (+41%) than 1990. You can try to argue that we could do it without pesticides, but it is absolutely true that pesticides have been a huge help towards the output of "modern agriculture".

The slippery slope argument is pretty lame. Where's the line? Parents shouldn't be allowed to harm their children. There's the line right there.

Is the vegan diet harmful to the child? Probably not, but you'll have your child taken away if your child is malnourished.

People seem to focus a lot on the small things.

Can I make $300k/year a few years out of college in Texas? If I want to switch companies, can I easily find another similar position near by? Can I golf and ski and hike in the same weekend (really just making an argument for the weather here)?

Those are the questions that matter to me the most. I'm looking to put as much money into my savings as I can per year.

1) Cost of food/other living expenses is a very small percentage.

2) $1500 rent (sharing with gf) = $18k a year, also a small percentage if I ended up paying, what, half in Texas? a third?

3) Sure, I can't buy property here, but I'm fine with that for now.

4) My commute is 20 minutes right now.

* This is all with tech salaries. Obviously with lower salaries, smaller things become larger percentages.

3 felonies a day is a lie. The fact that there's a book with that title doesn't mean it's reality.

Your point is a decent one, no need to exaggerate.

You're missing the point. "Car deaths happen constantly" isn't a good enough rebut. People will always think they would have been able to avoid the accident if they were in control.

It's worse because so far the few really bad accidents caused by "self driving" cars would have been stopped if a human was in control (see: Tesla + truck accident).

Even in Oregon (or NJ where I'm originally from), it takes longer because of stuff outside of the actual pumping. So if for some reason you're not allowed to charge your own car, it'd just move from 15 minutes to 30 minutes.

Also in NJ it definitely doesn't take more than 5 extra minutes waiting for the attendant 95% of the time.

This is a straight up lie right?

My car (2017 Honda Accord) has a 500+ mile range on a tank of gas. It'd take over an hour to charge to 500 miles.

Even at 15 minutes that's a lie. It takes no more than 2-3 minutes of actual pumping to fill my 500+ mile tank of gas.

I'd be interested to hear from the couple people downvoting.

Find a lifestyle that lets you eat few enough calories. If that's low-carb, then go for it. If that's counting calories and just eating less, go for it.

When I was losing weight, I realized that certain foods made me feel more full per calorie (vegetables). Then I realized that drinking was using up a huge part of my calorie allotment. Then I realized that if I run then I can eat more. Everything was just to make it easier to eat few enough calories, and it happened to all make me healthier too.

I'm not claiming its easy, but it's true.

> count your calories

That's all it really is. Everything else just makes it easier to eat few enough calories, including any crazy diets.

Isn't that the point? Endurance vs strength/speed. Endurance includes not needing to rest as much as the rest of the field.

That's why I said "very easily". I'm not saying it's necessarily the friend's fault, but the trigger is one of your friends clicking "Accept" on one of these apps.

I'm also just clarifying what happened, because people don't seem to understand how any of it works. "Facebook sells your data" is very far from reality, and yet the reality can be considered just as bad.

Not really. It's like buying a space on the wall to advertise inside the all you can eat restaurant.

The restaurant isn't telling you who goes into the restaurant. They're just selling you access to those people through that ad.

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The other problem, the Cambridge Analytica problem, is a bit different.

It's like saying that the restaurant requires you to tell them your name and other personal information in order to eat at the restaurant. Maybe it's to send flyers or deals, doesn't matter.

The problem happens when the restaurant also asks for your friends personal information, and you give it to them without asking your friends.

That's basically what Facebook is under fire about. Allowing your friends to very easily give your information out without you knowing.

Overtime is basically meta-rules as well in ice hockey. It can change depending on the game. ex. it differs depending on if its a playoff game or not. And just like the chess championships, it can change from year to year.

I've competed at a high level in a hobby of mine, and it was well known that the winner of a competition was never "the person who is best", it was "the person who is best in the competition environment that day". No matter what rules you have, that will always be true. And that's okay.

Not really.

The only legitimate reason to choose to not vote is if the top candidates are legitimately equally bad in your eyes. This almost never happens.

"I don't like either of them" is not a logical reason not to vote. Choose the one you least dislike. Otherwise you're effectively voting against your interests by denying a vote to someone who would be better for you than the opposition.

(This ignores other reasons not to vote that aren't really a choice. eg. you can't get off work or don't have time or something)

A "good reason" doesn't seem to include "because it's convenient to have", which is the reason for a lot of people.

UK is extremely restrictive with their knife laws according to their own page. I don't know why you're trying to depict it otherwise. I'm not even taking a side here.

People were talking about their modern equivalents. How is it irrelevant that you can't legally have many modern equivalents in the UK?

That would be a good number to start to refute my safety argument, but it does no good with my non-safety argument.

It's not just about safety, but I think that the possibility of not paying attention when you need to is higher with an L2 system than standard cruise control.

Beyond safety, I think L2 accidents (which are already happening) will be VERY bad for the perception of autonomous driving in general, and will make it VERY hard on a regulatory level to get L4+ autonomous cars out on the road when they're finally ready.