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  1. Re: Life is chaotic on Cringely Pans Self-Driving Car Hype, Says They're Years Away (cringely.com) · · Score: 2

    How many of your "capitalist" markets are still running because they have socialist regulations? House market, for example?

  2. Re:Life is chaotic on Cringely Pans Self-Driving Car Hype, Says They're Years Away (cringely.com) · · Score: 1

    Yesterday I stopped for a chipmunk and it run across the road safely in front of me. Will an AI car just proceed and run it over, or can they sense chipmunks?

  3. Personally $30 is the highest I will go for wireless headphones for this reason. Not paying more for something with a limited lifespan.

  4. Wow, another way America is behind. Most countries have banned nationally already.

  5. Not just tinkering. If you're brain was wrong for the environment you died very quickly.

  6. Re:Why do people think... on Dashcam Video Shows Tesla Steering Toward Lane Divider - Again (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So Tesla is optimistic about lines..... and that's what makes it drive straight into a concrete barrier.

  7. Re:Why do people think... on Dashcam Video Shows Tesla Steering Toward Lane Divider - Again (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The only thing more hubristic than assuming something will definitely work is assuming something will never work.

    It depends how much you're spending on the latter.

  8. Re:Not driving towards "lane divider" on Dashcam Video Shows Tesla Steering Toward Lane Divider - Again (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It doesn't work that way here. The construction unions are too powerful. They won't even take down 'reduce speed' signs at the end of the day. The city has to come and put up the official traffic markers which get left up for the entire duration, while the construction company uses their markers to route traffic around where they are digging or reconstructing. This ridiculousness is decades in the making, and a requirement for fancy new self-driving cars isn't about to change it.

  9. Re:Not driving towards "lane divider" on Dashcam Video Shows Tesla Steering Toward Lane Divider - Again (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    In my 30+ years of driving I have never seen that kind of signage or markers that are apparently used to dynamically close lanes at certain times

    YES. That's what's hard about automated driving! Will we expect all construction companies everywhere to adopt universal signage and clean it and maintain it accurately? Not bloody likely!

  10. This must be the autopilot in the Boeing 737 Max 8!

  11. Pay me for a speedometer on Apple's Plan For Its New TV Service: Sell Other People's TV Services (recode.net) · · Score: 0

    So this is like Jeep selling the crazy shifter that no one understood and killed a version of Checkov that I loved, and offering a sensible shifter as a $1000 option. I wonder how long before cars don't come with instruments at all unless you pay for them. Need to know when to change the oil? Pay $500 for our 'pil alarm'. Capitalism just gets better and better. Imagine how it would be without regulations.

  12. More ways for people who think Airplay is "DA BOMB" to pay the Apple tax so they can keep using their Apple proprietary protocols that they are addicted to. Me, I paid $100 for an android box, have cheap flash drives for other people's TVs and happily into the wild yonder I go.

  13. The lesson technology companies seem to be teaching us in the 21st century is NOT to use technology companies. Interesting business plan. I await the internet 2.0 where companies figure out they will get customers if they actually offer privacy features.

  14. Macintosh spell checking.

  15. I will "grow concerned" about these companies when they show any attempt to raise wages. That is their way to raise the red flag that they cannot find workers. They have not done that yet, so right now they are not as desperate as people say they are.

  16. Re:So that seems to be good news for U.S. workers. on US Companies Are Moving Tech Jobs To Canada Rather Than Deal With Trump's Immigration Policies, Report Says (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Yet wages have not gone up significantly at all. So maybe these companies aren't as desperate as they say they are.

  17. No they're coming here to import workers foreign to Canada, so this doesn't help Canadian workers either.

  18. Let me back you up.. two cancers, both treated in the next week. Canada has top cancer treatment. Some cancers are slow moving or not much can be done about them to make them better, those ones wait longer.

  19. Wait are for people who don't need the surgery right away. We've been through cancer twice and there was no wait, trust me. Sometimes when people have a knee that hurts they complain loudly but really they don't *need* the surgery right away.

  20. They're not subsidized. What happens is the Canadian government plans what they need and buy it in bulk. This gives them a lot of sway to negotiate prices. The American government just throws you to the wolves by comparison.

  21. Here it is not very conclusive to raising a family if you are working all hours. So the basic lesson is, if you want a family don't be a developer.

  22. Re:How does this work? on China's E-Buses Dent Oil Demand More Than Electric Cars Do (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's just say, I don't ever recommend anyone move here.

  23. Re:Bribing programmers on Many People Think AI Could Make Better Policy Decisions Than Politicians (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Donald Trump has been exposed.. and he was mostly exposed before the election. Still waiting to see if anything happens to him.

  24. Re:China is the global EV leader on China's E-Buses Dent Oil Demand More Than Electric Cars Do (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You probably shouldn't have a license if that's a case.

  25. Re:Need to assess oil displacement per capita on China's E-Buses Dent Oil Demand More Than Electric Cars Do (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    First you have to convince everyone in California to buy a vehicle that will only be used around their house.