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  1. Uber getting mentioned in front of Airbus and Boeing.

  2. Re:The battles already lost on Should Alexa Be Your Child's Friend? (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, the difference is that adults in the past understood the difference and kids grew out of it. Now it seems society is inching towards blurring the lines. Society seems to me to be driving straight into equating machines and algorithms as people. And that kind of scares me and makes me sad.

  3. The battles already lost on Should Alexa Be Your Child's Friend? (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The fact that the question of a machine actually being someones friend just rolls off peoples lips at all means we've given up what it really means to be a human for convenience sake.

  4. It's Alaska paying the people who live there a dividend from the money the states natural resources (oil) produce in the states coffers. No oil, no dividend.

  5. Re:No, Inexpensive on Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I agree, cars are so much safer its not even funny. People under 40 have no idea how much the industry has improved in safety, mileage, HP and comfort.

    But what does have to happen is going back to the 5 mph bumper rules. The current 2.5 mph is a joke. A parking lot bumper bump that barely exchanged paint costing $3k+ and slamming your insurance rates is insane and hits the less well off unfairly. The poor shouldn't have their rates jacked because someone else decides they want to drive a $100k car and bumpers touch.

  6. Re:This Neubauer guy is a class act on 16-Year-Old Dethrones Tetris World Champion With Difficult Hyper-Tap Technique (kotaku.com) · · Score: 0

    Watching him play though he looked about a .5s away from throwing his controller across the room and yelling at his mom for not having a hot pocket ready.

  7. Maybe the difference is we actually played on a PC w/ keyboard in the late 80s instead of some silly dpad thing, but I've had games last well over an hour. The game itself actually gets pretty monotonous once you reach max speed and have managed to set yourself in a pretty good position.

  8. I just tell everyone I meet they have cancer. I haven't missed someone with cancer yet.

  9. Re:What does it do if you remove all gender? on Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you miss the point. If you build your AI based on the current group of workers it will lean towards typical male responses as being favored because most of the data collected was from males.

    I have no idea what these questions are, but to better show the issue imagine the data collected from current workers are what car do you drive. Being mostly males there's a pretty good chance Mustang might be high on the list and seen as a favorable response because a lot of your good workers like Mustangs. The obvious issue here is the vast majority of Mustang owners are male, or to be more broad males and females tend look for different things in cars. So women are handicapped because they don't typically drive Mustangs or Pickups.

  10. Re:Jeff Cant Afford Living Wages! on Amazon Is Eliminating Bonuses, Stock Awards to Help Pay for Raises (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    He likely doesn't have the liquidity to do so. His salary was about $80k in 2017. His money isn't real until he cashes it in and why should he do so to pay peoples salary?

  11. Had nothing to do with Leia flying through space.

  12. Re:How many years will patents delay self-driving on Vigilante Engineer Stops Waymo From Patenting Key Lidar Technology (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Or is it a question that without patents at all would companies have invested so heavily in new technology to the extent that we can even imagine self driving vehicles today.

  13. that is all.

  14. Re:Musk is still CEO on Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges, Must Step Down As Tesla's Chairman · · Score: 1

    Oh please. The vast majority if share holders are funds who could not care less about the Cult of Musk. As soon as they believe the stock price is better without him he's gone.

    And the directors could all wake up tomorrow and fire him if they so choose and there isn't a thing that could be done until they themselves are replaced by the shareholders if they so choose. There doesn't have to be any vote to do it.

  15. Re:I see..., on Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges, Must Step Down As Tesla's Chairman · · Score: 2

    It's not about a tweet, it's about manipulating stock prices with false information.

  16. Re:Musk is still CEO on Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges, Must Step Down As Tesla's Chairman · · Score: 1

    That will do him a lot of good when the new chairman and board fire him as CEO. While unlikely its a possibility now whereas when he was chairman it wasn't.

    He's gone from running the show with impunity to serving at the pleasure of the board.

  17. Re:I see..., on Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges, Must Step Down As Tesla's Chairman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you don't like the rules stay private.

  18. Re:Still got a ways to go on Tesla Meets Q3 Product Goals of 50,000 To 55,000 Model 3s (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    True, but when we needed to save the world from the Nazi's we didn't do it waiting for an electric tank that would have cost more than the bomb to be made.

  19. Bah on Meet the World's First Self-Driving Car From 1968 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Germany had self driving V2s in 1944.

  20. They aren't collecting the fees for these new installations now and are for the most part seem just fine. It just means no new shiny trucks for town employees to take a nap in the local park every day.

  21. Re:Why do tech-bros love antisocial behavior? on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    That's simply not true. People who are arrogant are simply assholes who have happened to accomplish something that sets them apart from other assholes. The world is full of assholes, only a small number of them as a whole graduate to being referred to as arrogant.

  22. Enjoy your $50 amazon card we gave you on John Hancock Will Include Fitness Tracking In All Life Insurance Policies (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    As you're healing up from that $8k torn ACL you got trying to earn it. And does anyone really believe this?

    "Tingle said, as Vitality policyholders worldwide live 13 to 21 years longer than the rest of the insured population."

  23. This article seems a bit short sighted. on Despite Data Caps and Throttling, Industry Says Mobile Can Replace Home Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I assumed they were really talking about home 5g service competing with cable/fiber. My hopes are that it does as it'll mean in a few years most people may have at least 3 high speed internet options. I see no real need for 5g on mobile devices for most people. The cable companies are going to fight tooth and nail to try to keep them out of the home internet game. This just seems like them strengthening their position. In the end cable and mobile phone companies will all morph into some new competing industry. Not sure what it'll be called but it won't be defined by tv or phone.

  24. Re:Everything is "discriminatory" on Many Job Ads on Facebook Illegally Exclude Women, ACLU Says (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You seem to be comparing this to advertisers who specific target ads in say ebony, or on BET. However it's not quite the same thing.

    I think the housing example is the clearest example of where this is obviously wrong. There are strong laws against discrimination in housing and specifically not showing your ad to a segment of the population is clearly discriminatory.

    Targeting is fine, exclusion isn't.

  25. As long as its enforced like La Liga on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Face value shows no more than 3 non EU players. With a billion and one loopholes and exceptions...