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"It's private because we fear bad people"
I wonder if the thought process even goes that far. Oftentimes, the motive seems more like self-conscious social pressures, e.g., fear of embarrassment.
applies to a member of the species Homo sapiens at any stage of development who is carried in the womb with embryonic or fetal cardiac activity
The text of the Georgia statute you cited only uses detectable human heartbeat as an example ("including"), not a requirement for personhood.
“Unborn child” means a member of the species Homo sapiens at any stage of development who is carried in the womb.
This would seem open-ended enough to apply to individual eggs.
I think the point is that if the vehicle's software can't figure out how to cope with something as simple as a cone on its hood, it's woefully unprepared for real driving conditions and a liability to everyone
they are cheaper
Time will tell, but I suspect it'll be economically unviable once the lawsuits start flowing
I don't understand why this part isn't talked about more. Seems like an elephant in the room to me.
Have most people just not encountered confusing road conditions?
A couple weeks ago, I was in West Virginia bobbing up and down hills around hairpin turns on loose gravel. The whole time, I was thinking to myself "The first autonomous vehicle that attempts this route is going straight into the ravine."
One time evacuating from a hurricane, the route I found required me to drive through an open field. How well does LIDAR cope with tall grass?
Another time, I'm headed north on I-95 and there's a several car pileup. Police divert all traffic off the nearest exit and close the highway with a few road flares. I'd wager anything an AV would blow right past the flares and wreak havoc on the scene of the accident.
Until AI can cope with completely novel scenarios it was never trained for, it's going to be prone to catastrophic failure.
Personally, I don't expect to see it in our lifetimes.
Don't take that for granted
The recognition of harmful speech. See e.g., German restrictions on Nazi symbolism.
YOU are an idiot, if you buy into racism
Unfortunately, idiots can carry guns and have a propensity for acting on said racism. Refusal to confront that problem in the name of some free speech ideological purity is tempting history to repeat.
I'm all for reading labels, but don't go around spreading misinfo. None of those are on the packaging[1].
[1] https://www.beyondmeat.com/en-US/products/the-beyond-burger
By the same token, bigger government allows more room for oversight and principled actors to dilute the effects of the unscrupulous ones.
As others here have alluded to, our problem is quality, not quantity.
You could just say "Generally don't run a red light"
Yubikey in a lockbox?
Once you've fired the first 80%, 80% of the work will get done by 20% of the remaining 20%, so it's safe to fire another 80%, and so forth.
Ultimately, each company should employ exactly one engineer.
I suspect there's some element of obedience or group belonging at play in ad consumption. Ads are so tightly-woven into the fabric of our world that any rejection of them elicits a feeling of rejection/separation/alienation from society itself.
I'd describe myself as allergic to advertisement. During ad breaks, I turn off the radio or TV. When I do that around other people, the reactions I've gotten are fascinating.
Some people seem uncomfortable like I've done something illegal. I've had people tell me I'm cheating the system or somehow stealing. Others appear genuinely hurt, like I'd just yelled at them or something. Almost universally, it's regarded as taboo, and I don't know exactly what to make of it.
So glad to see others calling-out the Permanent Apportionment Act. Maybe it made sense in a world without communications technology, but today we're able to scale to the numbers needed to support that ratio of representatives:constituents.
If the US was a low trust society due to it's gun ownership...
I think you have the causality backward here
America is very high trust...
We're as polarized as ever, virtually no one approves of our leadership, and everyone thinks corporations or "the media" or "the deep state" or some faceless billionaire is behind the scenes pulling the strings.
So no, there's no trust in this country. You've confused trust with apathy and defeat.
who gets to pick and choose?
Generally, that's the role of a legislature. We could, for instance, exempt restaurants unable to afford renovations from that burden. Unfortunately, there are sticklers like you that would rather those restaurant not exist.
Adding a degree to uniqueness would describe the delta between it and its nearest relative. Hence, "very unique" would mean something closer to exceptional or "off-the-charts" and is a perfectly reasonable construction. I get the impression the anti-very crowd haven't actually thought too deeply on the matter
The very notion of intentionally handicapping one's own vocabulary is just plain bizarre
_Electric_ sheep, even!
I'm just amazed ads work at all. Anytime I receive an ad I didn't explicitly request, I boycott that company. I'd have hoped enough likeminded people in the world would naturally defeat the ad sector, but evidently I'm an outlier. I'll never understand why the average consumer rewards and reinforces ad spend
I feel like this point gets overblown. Subscribing to an "invalidations" message queue seems pretty straightforward. What am I missing?
Yes please. Can I have my touchpad buttons back already?
forgetting some stuff running beyond the free-tier limit
Weird, they banned my account for that. Tried AWS when it was brand new and assumed they'd just drop the instance when the free tier expired.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I remember when I was little red delicious were crisp and sweet and juicy and perfect in every way. Then over the years, they became more and more hit-or-miss, until they became the mealy, flavorless kind you're describing. I've always been curious what the truth is there.
Reminds me of the first time I had the opportunity to travel abroad. Until that point, I had always thought I hated bananas. All the stores I'd ever been to in the US only sold Cavendishes. They're stiff and stringy and have very little flavor. But the ones at the produce stand weren't like that at all; they were vibrant, sweet, custardlike, and melted in my mouth. My second thought after the initial shock of how delicious the first bite tasted was the realization that I'd been lied to the agricultural industry for decades and the hollow sting of betrayal from being sold-out by my countrymen.
Same, I lose my place every time moving from the bottom of a column to the top of the next.
I always pictured FOSS funding coming from the NEA or perhaps a brand new endowment for technology
I've been thinking about it like we're located in some pocket of reality whose local conditions generate the nature we know and love, but outside of which might be unrecognizable.
Whatever the Big Bang event was, I'm assuming it was a result of some exterior nature.
What I worry about is whether or not its even possible to connect the dots between the two.
Gödel's second theorem may just straight up make this whole exercise pointless.
Just imagining that outcome gives me the urge to primal scream.
All I know for certain is I've got a lot of questions.
darawk
Nice word. Does it have a definition?
I appreciate the good faith engagement (cue side glare sigstoat), and I'm in agreement with everything but the use of "never" in the your closing sentence.
There was never room for any non-deterministic thing to magic itself into the system
Depending what you mean by "into the system," existence itself is a glaring counterexample.
How did any of it get here in the first place? Was there an uncaused cause? Is entropy reversible?
Until we can explain-away these types of questions, it'd be prudent to remain noncommittal on the topic. The type of determinism that sigstoats expect might not even make sense in other regions or eras of reality. Things get profoundly hazy past Planck Era.