The point of AI cars is that they're supposed to be able to handle things like that with those sensors.
You don't know what "things like that" actually is, because none of us sitting here actually knows what occurred. No number of sensors will prevent an accident if a pedestrian runs out into traffic right in front of a car, for example. It's simple physics.
The discussion will be much more interesting if we find out what the actual scenario was. As it stands now, we've just got a bunch of people doubling down on their predetermined positions.
As I suspected, a bunch of people blaming the pedestrian for crossing the street wrong. Cars still have to stop for them legally, and autonomous cars are no less liable. Once again, autonomous cars need to drive more like humans, not the other way around.
I suggest you test this theory by jumping right in front of a speeding car with a driver, and see how it goes.
Both you and the people you are arguing against don't have all the facts. Anyone who hasn't seen the evidence is just talking out of their asses if they're trying to assign blame already.
It's a pretty good bet that the car has a video record of what happened, so it should be possible to determine what really happened here.
You've also selected "cat" and "dog" to represent the poster's entire argument because these particular words happen to have this property. That's called "cherry picking".
No. You missed the point.
BlacKSacrificE pointed out that the wikipedia articles for "cat", "dog", "birds", "bats", "spiders", "fruit" all have composite images. Note that he linked directly to those articles, so it is clear that he was talking about the articles for the domestic cat and domestic dog, not the general sense of "dog" and "cat" which can include other species.
CrimsonAvenger then said that didn't apply to the question of what should be included on the "human" page, because bats, birds, and spiders are not a single species. Note that he conveniently left out cats and dogs, which invalidated his argument. That was cherry-picking.
I simply pointed out the fact that he had done so.
All the DST-lovers always try to pretend that it's impossible to adjust work hours.
That's a stupid argument. Walk down any street and take note of the business hours. Every business keeps different hours; they adjust their times based on day of the week and holidays; even having different hours in summer vs winter is fairly common. This conception that people have that we need DST so that everyone will work the same schedule is simply false. People already can and do account for the fact that working hours aren't always the same.
The world will not fall apart if business A adjusts their schedule by an hour and business B does not.
So, since it's obvious that you're not "intelligent" by the definition you gave, why would I trust someone who is not intelligent to be defining what intelligence is?
"Pancake syrup" is an alternate name for "Table sirup." If a sirup has "May" in this case means "is allowed to." In reality, any "pancake syrup" that you are likely to encounter will have little or no maple content, because of the cost. No mass producer would make a syrup with 50% maple, since you couldn't sell it for anywhere close to 50% of what the maple syrup cost originally.
They're not "messing with your thermostat." They're messing with your internet connection, which you've connected your thermostat to.
If lack of internet connectivity is going to cause your house to flood, or your granny to die, then you probably need to re-evaluate how you're using these devices.
In the same way, I cannot detect each person casting votes, but statistical regressions will detect the presence of most voting fraud
You would have to demonstrate that your statistical methods are valid. Which you can't do, because you have no way to validate them, since you can't ever reliably detect voter fraud in the U.S.
I agree strongly with this one. If you haven't learned enough about the candidates to be able to pick out their name, then you aren't informed enough to be casting a vote.
I also suspect this will lead to vote totals of about a dozen for minor offices. I don't really see a problem with that.
So you really never had the situation where you need to measure a certain amount of water but didn't know the volume of the container you were using?
I've never had that situation in a case where it would be easier to weigh the water rather than measure it. I'm sure some people do occasionally, but my guess is that my experience is pretty typical; I doubt that it comes up with any frequency for most people.
But the American system sucks even for comparing similar units.
How many fluid ounces in a cubic inch? Why 0.554113, of course.
How many pounds does a gallon of water weigh? 8.3454.
You want to know how often I want to convert fl oz to cubic inches? Or find the weight of a gallon of water? The answer to the first is "never", the second is "so rarely that I'll just Google it."
We'd probably be better off using the metric system, but it's debatable at best whether the advantages are worth the cost required to change. The strongest advantages are probably with standardization with other countries, rather than with ease of use.
People used to think like you. Then trains came along. Then more trains. Then came the eventual collisions, deaths, and other big bummers. Collisions were stopped by more accurately syncing up times across ever wider areas. Unfathomable numbers of people's lives were saved.
You're misunderstanding what I'm saying. Of course we need a time standard. It's just that what label you give to the hours doesn't matter, as long as people agree on what those labels are. "Year-round DST" (what poster I responded to was proposing) is identical to "year-round standard time", except you have a different name for what you call the hours. Calling a particular time of day "8AM" or "9AM" shouldn't make a difference to anyone.
In any case, it should be obvious that the result of year-round DST probably won't have the effect that its supporters think it will. It's not like God came down and said "thou shalt work from 9 to 5;" it's a consequence of the schedule when the majority of people are waking up and going to sleep. If you go to year-round summer time, people's schedules may move earlier in the short term, but eventually they will start adjusting their schedule later. And then someone will propose the bright idea of moving the clocks forward an hour during the summer...
So, what you're saying is that your employer doesn't realize that "4PM with daylight savings time" and "5PM with daylight savings time" are the exact same time?
I don't think "because people are complete and utter morons" is a good reason to keep doing DST.
Daylight Saving Time is a great idea. Ditching it in the winter is the problem. Just keep it year round and eliminate the stupid changing.
Why do you think it matters if we call a certain time of day "8 A.M." or "9 A.M."?
I mean, I'm all for not changing times, and I don't really care what arbitrary point you set to be your "noon", but I can't see that it makes any difference. It's not like your body cares about how we define what hour it is.
Prices on Amazon fluctuate so quickly that you may want to ensure that you get the price listed right now, rather than whatever they're charging tomorrow.
They already do some stuff like "if you choose slow shipping, you get some coupon for a later order." Maybe they could offer a reward if you choose to have them delay your shipments for a few days so they can optimally batch things together. It doesn't seem like they do that currently with the slow shipping options, but it's a fairly obvious optimization.
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The point of AI cars is that they're supposed to be able to handle things like that with those sensors.
You don't know what "things like that" actually is, because none of us sitting here actually knows what occurred. No number of sensors will prevent an accident if a pedestrian runs out into traffic right in front of a car, for example. It's simple physics.
The discussion will be much more interesting if we find out what the actual scenario was. As it stands now, we've just got a bunch of people doubling down on their predetermined positions.
As I suspected, a bunch of people blaming the pedestrian for crossing the street wrong. Cars still have to stop for them legally, and autonomous cars are no less liable. Once again, autonomous cars need to drive more like humans, not the other way around.
I suggest you test this theory by jumping right in front of a speeding car with a driver, and see how it goes.
Both you and the people you are arguing against don't have all the facts. Anyone who hasn't seen the evidence is just talking out of their asses if they're trying to assign blame already.
It's a pretty good bet that the car has a video record of what happened, so it should be possible to determine what really happened here.
Monsoon season starts around the beginning of July and lasts until around the end of September. Heavy rain outside that season is fairly rare.
You've also selected "cat" and "dog" to represent the poster's entire argument because these particular words happen to have this property. That's called "cherry picking".
No. You missed the point.
BlacKSacrificE pointed out that the wikipedia articles for "cat", "dog", "birds", "bats", "spiders", "fruit" all have composite images. Note that he linked directly to those articles, so it is clear that he was talking about the articles for the domestic cat and domestic dog, not the general sense of "dog" and "cat" which can include other species.
CrimsonAvenger then said that didn't apply to the question of what should be included on the "human" page, because bats, birds, and spiders are not a single species. Note that he conveniently left out cats and dogs, which invalidated his argument. That was cherry-picking.
I simply pointed out the fact that he had done so.
Yes, you are. There's only one species of human right now.
Your argument doesn't hold up, because the domestic dog is a single species; as is the domestic cat.
You should be able to break German law all you like if you don't have anything to do with Germany.
Then, two years ago, I had the misfortune of trying to bring my two-year-old to Hawaii.
Just "trying to"? What, when you found out that they wouldn't let you board first, did you just leave your kid at the airport?
All the DST-lovers always try to pretend that it's impossible to adjust work hours.
That's a stupid argument. Walk down any street and take note of the business hours. Every business keeps different hours; they adjust their times based on day of the week and holidays; even having different hours in summer vs winter is fairly common. This conception that people have that we need DST so that everyone will work the same schedule is simply false. People already can and do account for the fact that working hours aren't always the same.
The world will not fall apart if business A adjusts their schedule by an hour and business B does not.
So, since it's obvious that you're not "intelligent" by the definition you gave, why would I trust someone who is not intelligent to be defining what intelligence is?
Same with `flix and `lu.
Does "Hulu" really need a 3-character abbreviation, 'onymous 'ward?
"Pancake syrup" is an alternate name for "Table sirup." If a sirup has
"May" in this case means "is allowed to." In reality, any "pancake syrup" that you are likely to encounter will have little or no maple content, because of the cost. No mass producer would make a syrup with 50% maple, since you couldn't sell it for anywhere close to 50% of what the maple syrup cost originally.
They're not "messing with your thermostat." They're messing with your internet connection, which you've connected your thermostat to.
If lack of internet connectivity is going to cause your house to flood, or your granny to die, then you probably need to re-evaluate how you're using these devices.
In the same way, I cannot detect each person casting votes, but statistical regressions will detect the presence of most voting fraud
You would have to demonstrate that your statistical methods are valid. Which you can't do, because you have no way to validate them, since you can't ever reliably detect voter fraud in the U.S.
When I vote they mark down that I voted, this mark isn't tied to my ballot so they can't tell who I voted for but they absolutely know if I voted.
No, they know that somebody voted and claimed that they were you. That's not the same thing.
Does voter registration not indicate who is casting votes? Isn't that the point of the registry?
If you can't verify that a person is who they say they are, then no, it does not.
I agree strongly with this one. If you haven't learned enough about the candidates to be able to pick out their name, then you aren't informed enough to be casting a vote.
I also suspect this will lead to vote totals of about a dozen for minor offices. I don't really see a problem with that.
In person voter fraud is next to non-existent.
Nobody can possibly know that, because our laws make it impossible to identify who is actually casting votes.
So you really never had the situation where you need to measure a certain amount of water but didn't know the volume of the container you were using?
I've never had that situation in a case where it would be easier to weigh the water rather than measure it. I'm sure some people do occasionally, but my guess is that my experience is pretty typical; I doubt that it comes up with any frequency for most people.
But the American system sucks even for comparing similar units.
How many fluid ounces in a cubic inch? Why 0.554113, of course.
How many pounds does a gallon of water weigh? 8.3454.
You want to know how often I want to convert fl oz to cubic inches? Or find the weight of a gallon of water? The answer to the first is "never", the second is "so rarely that I'll just Google it."
We'd probably be better off using the metric system, but it's debatable at best whether the advantages are worth the cost required to change. The strongest advantages are probably with standardization with other countries, rather than with ease of use.
People used to think like you. Then trains came along. Then more trains. Then came the eventual collisions, deaths, and other big bummers. Collisions were stopped by more accurately syncing up times across ever wider areas. Unfathomable numbers of people's lives were saved.
You're misunderstanding what I'm saying. Of course we need a time standard. It's just that what label you give to the hours doesn't matter, as long as people agree on what those labels are. "Year-round DST" (what poster I responded to was proposing) is identical to "year-round standard time", except you have a different name for what you call the hours. Calling a particular time of day "8AM" or "9AM" shouldn't make a difference to anyone.
In any case, it should be obvious that the result of year-round DST probably won't have the effect that its supporters think it will. It's not like God came down and said "thou shalt work from 9 to 5;" it's a consequence of the schedule when the majority of people are waking up and going to sleep. If you go to year-round summer time, people's schedules may move earlier in the short term, but eventually they will start adjusting their schedule later. And then someone will propose the bright idea of moving the clocks forward an hour during the summer...
by having customary start/end times for businesses and shifting the clocks until we like where we end up.
You realize that the whole point of this article is that tons of people don't like where we end up with shifting clocks and DST, right?
Somehow, astoundingly, the world doesn't end in places that don't have DST.
That should have been "4PM without DST", of course.
So, what you're saying is that your employer doesn't realize that "4PM with daylight savings time" and "5PM with daylight savings time" are the exact same time?
I don't think "because people are complete and utter morons" is a good reason to keep doing DST.
Daylight Saving Time is a great idea. Ditching it in the winter is the problem. Just keep it year round and eliminate the stupid changing.
Why do you think it matters if we call a certain time of day "8 A.M." or "9 A.M."?
I mean, I'm all for not changing times, and I don't really care what arbitrary point you set to be your "noon", but I can't see that it makes any difference. It's not like your body cares about how we define what hour it is.
Prices on Amazon fluctuate so quickly that you may want to ensure that you get the price listed right now, rather than whatever they're charging tomorrow.
They already do some stuff like "if you choose slow shipping, you get some coupon for a later order." Maybe they could offer a reward if you choose to have them delay your shipments for a few days so they can optimally batch things together. It doesn't seem like they do that currently with the slow shipping options, but it's a fairly obvious optimization.