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  1. Re: Not a smart move by Tesla on Tesla Is Seeking $167 Million From Former Employee Accused of Sabotage (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    "but the tweet was obviously not serious and had no real world practicality"

    Because they have to prove their case doesn't mean that's it's not true.

  2. Re:What about School Buses? on Elon Musk Says Autopilot Will Soon Recognize Emergency Response Vehicles (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you mean it's only the time that matters now, 30 seconds, and it doesn't ever get longer depending on anything, like the 'quality' of road markings, speed, or curve severity? Any links?

  3. Re:This is dumb. on An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    "Unless they are comfortable with lying. "

    That's what he said.

    "Anyone who can read body language knows all you can tell is whether a person is comfortable or unconfortable, not whether they are lying."

  4. Re:What about School Buses? on Elon Musk Says Autopilot Will Soon Recognize Emergency Response Vehicles (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    "According to the manual the only variables involved ..."

    So what happens when we ignore the Tesla Autopilot warnings? The answer appears to depend largely on the route you’re taking. https://www.teslarati.com/what...

    "We know very little about that sleeping guy. "

    But it still looks like a long time without 'conscious input', here's some more :

    About 20 minutes of no hands : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Guy eats hamburger : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    So it's not only time the car considers before it forces you to touch the steering wheel.

  5. Re:What about School Buses? on Elon Musk Says Autopilot Will Soon Recognize Emergency Response Vehicles (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    "for 30 seconds nothing at all happens, then some warning sounds happen for a while longer while the car happily drives itself, and then if you continue to ignore the system it will come to an orderly stop ... was the over 2 minutes it worked for previously, and so were the infinite length of time before that when some dude playing his Nintendo while driving decided that we can't have nice things"

    30 seconds no input before starting to stop, from 2 minutes before, and never before that ? I don't think that's right and also more variables are involved.

    Like that sleeping guy that the police chased down the highway at 70 mph a few days ago ?

  6. Re:What about School Buses? on Elon Musk Says Autopilot Will Soon Recognize Emergency Response Vehicles (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    "It is possible to not hold the wheel for significant periods."

    Then why is Musk saying "Default Autopilot behavior, if there's no driver input, is to slow gradually to a stop & turn on hazard lights" when it's clearly not true.

  7. Re:What about School Buses? on Elon Musk Says Autopilot Will Soon Recognize Emergency Response Vehicles (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    I think people assume the pilot can take a break from 'driving the plane' when it's on autopilot.

  8. "1. Of course it is. Decades of exporting industry isn't going to turn on a dime."

    Why it would change as long as US citizens prefer to buy stuff made in China.

    "2. GM is a shit company and deserved to die years ago when it was about to keel over. Unlike the banks, taxpayers really didn't make bank on bailing out General Mediocrity."

    Not saying it's going to die just redirecting it's energies.

    On steel, like years ago for washers and dryers, American suppliers just raised the price of things like rolled steel when Trump stuck tariffs on foreign suppliers, so a few US suppliers hired more workers and raised their profit margins while American companies that buy the steel now have to raise their prices or see their profits drop, and either way become less competitive.

  9. I like the Mexico 15$ minimum wage but for the rest I'm not sure.

    1) The US trade deficit with China is still on a solid increase.
    https://www.census.gov/foreign...

    2) On Nafta, all I remember is GM closing shop when it might have been put off and US manufactures paying more for steel.

    And Trump may talk like China's policies are unjust to the US, but in his personal life he calls that kind of behavior a good business sense.

  10. Re:Wall Street! on NYC Politician Wants To Ban Cashless Restaurants (eater.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but in this case there will be a larger proportion of the black population that will be discriminated against, in effect perpetuating racists' notion that blacks are inferior.

  11. "Are you seriously confused between "self driving car" and "self driving car that can handle all conceivable circumstances?"

    Not all conceivable circumstances, just the ones humans regularly do.

    But even if we really lower the bar, is there even a car today that can handle just one aspect of driving as well as humans regularly do ?

  12. "Waymo self driving cars hit 10 million road miles they aim public debut"

    'Self driving' is only a marketing term for robot cars with very limited possibilities.

  13. "And since responsibility is probably the main difference between an adult and a child, these people are children in adult bodies."

    "Common sense. Look it up. It is not that common, unfortunately."

    I just was curious how you backed up your theory.

  14. "but now it's much harder to ignore, is much more effective and hits up a very large proportion of your population, regardless of their previous views on any given subject."

    Sure targeted social media advertising has influence but is it really "harder to ignore" than things like what the US is trying to do in Syria or Iran.

  15. "And since responsibility is probably the main difference between an adult and a child, these people are children in adult bodies."

    "Pop" psychology?

  16. Fundemental weakness on The App Destroying Iran's Currency (foreignpolicy.com) · · Score: 1

    "But it isn't just U.S. sanctions and the fundamental weaknesses of the Iranian economy..."

    What's this "fundamental weakness", aren't the US sanctions the problem ?

  17. Re: Long Island City is at sea level... on Climate Change Will Have Dire Consequences For US, Federal Report Concludes (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "acting like a moron"

    scratch moron, for so many reasons

  18. Re: Long Island City is at sea level... on Climate Change Will Have Dire Consequences For US, Federal Report Concludes (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "Strawman, whataboutism?"

    Agreed.

    "Hypocrite"

    Trump ?

    "from Attic Greek hypokrisis "acting on the stage; pretense", metaphorically, "hypocrisy", from hypokrinesthai "play a part, pretend"

    https://www.etymonline.com/wor...

  19. Re: Long Island City is at sea level... on Climate Change Will Have Dire Consequences For US, Federal Report Concludes (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Who's always doing what when it's cold ?

  20. Re: Long Island City is at sea level... on Climate Change Will Have Dire Consequences For US, Federal Report Concludes (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Strawman ?

    And Trump is acting like a moron equating climate and weather.

  21. Re:Long Island City is at sea level... on Climate Change Will Have Dire Consequences For US, Federal Report Concludes (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "It's almost like liberals don't believe their own hype since they all seem willing to pay millions for property on the coast...."

    It's almost like republicans too ?

  22. Re:freakonomics on High Score, Low Pay: Why the Gig Economy Loves Gamification (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Big enough sample ? I don't know. But still it's not about what they all do but what most do significantly more than the rest.

  23. Maybe he should have said "isn't working"

    The system *is* working every day.

    The economic frame is different but that's changeable, like the characterization death spiral.

  24. Re:We are so sick of the Russian boogeyman. on Were Russian Hackers Deterred From Interfering In America's Election? (omaha.com) · · Score: 1

    If Omnicom has Colgate and Crest as customers do we then claim they are trying to sow confusion, no, it's simply business as usual.

  25. Exactly. It looks like a probable motivation for this US official's 'intelligence leak' is the US is doing it more (and better) and it's only recently that China has started catching up.