All of the parent post was pretty much exactly what I was going to say - this sums up both issues.
It's obvious from human nature, that after the initial novelty of it, a human cannot continue to pay attention to the road when the car has handled all the driving for hours, days, weeks, etc. with no problems.
Engineering-wise, they need to figure out why she wasn't detected by the car, even if she put herself in danger by dressing for poor visibility at night. No car (or human), can be ready to avoid all objects (even previously noticed ones) to possibly dive out in front of them, but we need to know what data the car "Saw" through whatever imaging or radar systems it has, and whether there was a failure to detect an object that must be avoided, or if it had no chance due to physical layer lack of usable data (equivalent to a human being unable to see the person in the dark).
Side note - I remember when Google (Search) first came out. Sure, the results tended to be better, but most noticeably, compared to Yahoo which had started to use high-contrast-blinking banner ads, all you had was some mild, related text ads which you sometimes noticed and were definitely not in any way annoying. Once in awhile, I even clicked them because they were relevant and just to say thanks for not doing <blink> blinky </blink> ads like everyone else.
And you wonder why there was mass migration to Google as the de-facto standard.
Maybe you haven't seen or heard the words of the current POTUS. We live in an age where people can say things clearly and patently false, and yet have no intention of it being taken as sarcasm.
I had the advantage of seeing the comment modded +5 Funny before I read it, but without that benefit I'm not sure if I wouldn't have thought it was a person of low intelligence or character actually writing seriously or not.
Go check with actual public health departments around the world. While they encourage frequent hand washing, guess what, much of the time someone needs to sneeze, they don't have quick or easy access to a hand washing station - and often they would need to touch many common things like doorknobs to get to one. So what are they going to do? wipe their hand on their pants, and as they think "feels dry now", quickly forget that they even needed to wash their hands - and then probably go shake hands with someone or touch more doorknobs or steering wheels.
Keep your internal shit away from your hands, which immediately touch the things the rest of us public also needs to touch, thank you very much. Elbow or shoulder is correct.
I was with you until you said machine gun. I read decades ago, and it has worked with high probability for me, to simply press the tongue firmly against the roof of the mouth. I can't imagine that pulsing it like a machine gun would help at all - try just keeping it there firmly, applying pressure to the nasal cavities so they don't keep preparing you with an inhale, and the tingle often goes away.
How many times have you been to a website, and after selecting something from the last drop-down box, you go to scroll further down the page, but your scroll wheel is still focused on the drop down box?
You end up changing its selection (barely noticeable since your eyes have moved away) before you finally move the mouse far enough, or click off the boxes, or just scroll to the end of the drop down list, and then it finally does what you expect, scrolls the page, with the change to what you had intended already scrolled up out of sight.
Gerrymandering would become irrelevant if you used some form of Proportional Representation system, instead of a First-Past-The-Post One-Winner-Per-Riding system which inherently buries and "rounds" the true aggregate intent of the voters, multiple times, as results are tallied.
Indeed, I would have used his example as supporting evidence of the earlier comments which argue that people have become spectacularly bad at managing their own money.
For me, I'm very conservative as a spender, picking up my old-world European grandparents' habits and lessons. I rarely throw something out - try to fix it or at least free-cycle it. I hate waste of money and waste of things be me or others.
I do find things harder today - My wife and I combined make around the same as the guy who was complaining earlier, and we don't waste money buying new cars or going on many trips like many others we see. We save a lot for our retirement, and our 2 kids' future education, and any extra we have when we are both working at the same time (it has been on and off over the years due to the new reality of not expecting your job to last more than 5 years, let alone a lifetime), we put towards our mortgage, which we are still paying even at the age of 40-something. When only one of us is working, we barely stay afloat (the retirement savings go mostly on hold, but the education savings continue, after we cut the little optional spending we do. For better or worse we define things like kids sports as non-optional)
Society and corporations, IMHO, have somehow restructured themselves in a way that the middle class (or maybe even upper), still do have it harder, like people have said - even conservative savers need 2 salaries to pay down a modest home much slower than my uneducated blue-collar grandfather did 50 years ago. I can't help but feel that it comes down to that issue with CEOs making relatively much more than the average employee - if they went back down to making just 5x instead of 55x the average employee wage, the extra going to each employee could be huge. It seems to me the would make things more like the way they used to be, with the bonus that if both parents wanted to work, they could enjoy a lot of things money could buy, rather than it just being needed to pay off the house.
And when real-estate makes life and finances very difficult, you usually need to move farther from where you work to make it more affordable, which makes it much more difficult to save with lifestyle choices like owning one less car, for example.
You really shouldn't call it "typical" police behaviour.
Yes, it happens way more than a one-off, and yes, it's serious and should be addressed in a systemic way, especially to prevent vulnerable or profiled populations, however it's far from representative of the frequent, usual, or normal behaviour of the vast majority of police officers.
Most sane people want fewer citizens walking around with guns, and the only way you can have that is with the existence of a trusted police force. I sure don't want a "police state", but we do need to entrust a small % of the population with the power and arms to be able to stop someone from wreaking havoc on the rest of us.
I'm not sure what I think of this Blue Alert announcement, I just don't think it helps the police-to-citizenry relationship by using the word "typical" in such an offhand way, without careful thought.
Great, now not only is your iPhone hacked, you also have to go through the rest of your life looking like Nicolas Cage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I see the reasonable points many others have made here about why he should not be fired, even if (hypothetically) everyone agreed his post (while carefully worded), may have propagated discriminatory views.
However, I would think many companies have in their contracts a clause that says if you do anything that causes embarrasment to the company, that's a fireable offense. I can understand this, I think, even though I would indeed worry that it could have happened to me when I was working at a big company, and would love (in theory) to have had some kind of protection to not lose my livelihood from it (aside from complete silence).
I think my last company had a social media policy, that somehow extended to even personal twitter accounts - forcing us to say that we worked for that company in our bio, but that our views were our own, but still making us responsible for any fallout. Not sure if enforceable.
Most of the time I have simply tried hitting delete or backspace on suggested email addresses in many browsers or email clients, and it does what you would expect, stop offering it as a suggestion in the future. You would hope most people would try this, or else google "chrome stop suggesting wrong email" or something like that.
I remember reading about this a few months ago, and I'm pretty sure it was linked from Slashdot. I'm too lazy to go look for it, but I was excited then, so I clearly remember it.
I'm non-partisan here, but didn't Qualcomm come up with a revolutionary invention that made far more efficient use of the available radio bandwidth, to allow cell phone use, and eventually data, to really explode? Aside from BlackBerry, I'd think Qualcomm was the most influential in terms of technical innovation that allowed the cell phone and ensuing smartphone boom to even happen.
Apple wasn't very innovative at all except in the UI space - realizing what the majority of people (i.e. non-technical people) needed out of an interface,and of course good at marketing.
Seems like a reasonable thought experiment. In order to paralyze and maybe control human society, would a sentient computer intelligence really need access to guns and bullets, if they could create, steer and accelerate many wheeled steel objects along our road network? If fully coordinated, many could never leave your building, or at least street block, without probably getting killed... at least until gasoline supplies run out.
Actually you can argue that it's worse in Canada. You only get to vote for a local riding candidate, and the Prime Minister is essentially/usually the leader of the party who wins the most ridings.
you can still have lots of rounding error like the USA, and you can't even directly vote for the leader, even though most treat their local vote as such.
Ironically, Russia does this part right. While their elections may be invalid for other reasons, their voting system makes more sense. You get a country wide horse race for the President, no rounding, and a separate riding system to ensure local ministers represent you.
Meh, that's one of my favourite xkcds, but it rarely happens. Amp is horrible as stated. I go out of my way to find plain links instead of the higher up amp link, and in general I'm a fan of most things Google.
Yet another example of marketing / business interests ruining a perfectly good engineering technology accomplishment.
Does anyone else remember Obama _insisting_ he get to keep his BlackBerry when he took office, and him winning a lengthy battle with the secret service which ended with BlackBerry making a custom hardening for them? He said he refused to ever be separated from the BB.
Now yes, BlackBerry is pretty much dead in the handset space, but if his phone has been disabled from running most publicly available apps... well BlackBerry always had superior email, typing, and productivity management capabilities, and the reason people stopped buying BB was exactly because they couldn't get the latest or hottest apps... so... aside from not looking cool, it seem his best move would have been to stay with a BlackBerry (which has, or a least had) thousands of US employees working on making phones back when you people were still buying them.
We don't have to put up with far too obtrusive advertising. Please never link to websites that autoplay sound (or video with sound) as you scroll through an article. At least not without a warning beside the link.
There are many situations where you want to read an article on your smartphone, but don't want everyone in the room to hear from loud ad. And you shouldn't have to remember to go change media volume before clicking on what you thought was an "article", not a video.
Not to mention all the false revenue generated by clicking the video to bring up a pause button button ending up counting a click through to the advertiser before deleting that tab...
and if they choose not to make it available to you, that's their right
So, if a movie theatre owner says "we choose not to sell tickets to black people", that's fine and dandy?
Taking race out of it, this kind of behaviour is defined as "Social bullying" at my kids' school, and my daughter has been victim to it for years. You don't get to go around broadcasting how awesome everything is and then pointing to a smaller group of people saying "even if you want to pay the admission, you can't come to our party".
The rest of us have decided "That's not cool".
So if you wanted to buy tickets to the local rock concert, but they won't sell them to you even though there are empty seats, and then you find a tall hill nearby from which you can view it anyway, not taking anything away from anyone else, what's morally wrong with that?
Also keep in mind we are tired of paying 30-50% more on most everything - even the EXACT SAME PRODUCTS, just shipped a few km further north, including big ticket items like cars and appliances. And this is even without the exchange rate - the price difference continued back when we were 1:1 with the USD just a couple years ago.
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It's obvious from human nature, that after the initial novelty of it, a human cannot continue to pay attention to the road when the car has handled all the driving for hours, days, weeks, etc. with no problems.
Engineering-wise, they need to figure out why she wasn't detected by the car, even if she put herself in danger by dressing for poor visibility at night. No car (or human), can be ready to avoid all objects (even previously noticed ones) to possibly dive out in front of them, but we need to know what data the car "Saw" through whatever imaging or radar systems it has, and whether there was a failure to detect an object that must be avoided, or if it had no chance due to physical layer lack of usable data (equivalent to a human being unable to see the person in the dark).
What a time to not have mod points. Please mod parent up.
Very well put
Side note - I remember when Google (Search) first came out. Sure, the results tended to be better, but most noticeably, compared to Yahoo which had started to use high-contrast-blinking banner ads, all you had was some mild, related text ads which you sometimes noticed and were definitely not in any way annoying. Once in awhile, I even clicked them because they were relevant and just to say thanks for not doing <blink> blinky </blink> ads like everyone else.
And you wonder why there was mass migration to Google as the de-facto standard.
Maybe you haven't seen or heard the words of the current POTUS. We live in an age where people can say things clearly and patently false, and yet have no intention of it being taken as sarcasm.
I had the advantage of seeing the comment modded +5 Funny before I read it, but without that benefit I'm not sure if I wouldn't have thought it was a person of low intelligence or character actually writing seriously or not.
Mod parent up
I'm a bit disappointed at this Ameri-centric article. So Michigan might lose maple syrup. Ontario has lots, and Quebec is like "tiens ma biere".
Canadian sugar maple range is lower than Michigan, and has plenty of water sources - it'll be one of the last places in the NE to dry up.
I think we'll be ok....
Go check with actual public health departments around the world. While they encourage frequent hand washing, guess what, much of the time someone needs to sneeze, they don't have quick or easy access to a hand washing station - and often they would need to touch many common things like doorknobs to get to one. So what are they going to do? wipe their hand on their pants, and as they think "feels dry now", quickly forget that they even needed to wash their hands - and then probably go shake hands with someone or touch more doorknobs or steering wheels.
Keep your internal shit away from your hands, which immediately touch the things the rest of us public also needs to touch, thank you very much. Elbow or shoulder is correct.
Yes, my wife works in public health.
I was with you until you said machine gun. I read decades ago, and it has worked with high probability for me, to simply press the tongue firmly against the roof of the mouth. I can't imagine that pulsing it like a machine gun would help at all - try just keeping it there firmly, applying pressure to the nasal cavities so they don't keep preparing you with an inhale, and the tingle often goes away.
How many times have you been to a website, and after selecting something from the last drop-down box, you go to scroll further down the page, but your scroll wheel is still focused on the drop down box?
You end up changing its selection (barely noticeable since your eyes have moved away) before you finally move the mouse far enough, or click off the boxes, or just scroll to the end of the drop down list, and then it finally does what you expect, scrolls the page, with the change to what you had intended already scrolled up out of sight.
I could see that happening here.
Gerrymandering would become irrelevant if you used some form of Proportional Representation system, instead of a First-Past-The-Post One-Winner-Per-Riding system which inherently buries and "rounds" the true aggregate intent of the voters, multiple times, as results are tallied.
Indeed, I would have used his example as supporting evidence of the earlier comments which argue that people have become spectacularly bad at managing their own money.
For me, I'm very conservative as a spender, picking up my old-world European grandparents' habits and lessons. I rarely throw something out - try to fix it or at least free-cycle it. I hate waste of money and waste of things be me or others.
I do find things harder today - My wife and I combined make around the same as the guy who was complaining earlier, and we don't waste money buying new cars or going on many trips like many others we see. We save a lot for our retirement, and our 2 kids' future education, and any extra we have when we are both working at the same time (it has been on and off over the years due to the new reality of not expecting your job to last more than 5 years, let alone a lifetime), we put towards our mortgage, which we are still paying even at the age of 40-something. When only one of us is working, we barely stay afloat (the retirement savings go mostly on hold, but the education savings continue, after we cut the little optional spending we do. For better or worse we define things like kids sports as non-optional)
Society and corporations, IMHO, have somehow restructured themselves in a way that the middle class (or maybe even upper), still do have it harder, like people have said - even conservative savers need 2 salaries to pay down a modest home much slower than my uneducated blue-collar grandfather did 50 years ago. I can't help but feel that it comes down to that issue with CEOs making relatively much more than the average employee - if they went back down to making just 5x instead of 55x the average employee wage, the extra going to each employee could be huge. It seems to me the would make things more like the way they used to be, with the bonus that if both parents wanted to work, they could enjoy a lot of things money could buy, rather than it just being needed to pay off the house.
And when real-estate makes life and finances very difficult, you usually need to move farther from where you work to make it more affordable, which makes it much more difficult to save with lifestyle choices like owning one less car, for example.
Yes, it happens way more than a one-off, and yes, it's serious and should be addressed in a systemic way, especially to prevent vulnerable or profiled populations, however it's far from representative of the frequent, usual, or normal behaviour of the vast majority of police officers.
Most sane people want fewer citizens walking around with guns, and the only way you can have that is with the existence of a trusted police force. I sure don't want a "police state", but we do need to entrust a small % of the population with the power and arms to be able to stop someone from wreaking havoc on the rest of us.
I'm not sure what I think of this Blue Alert announcement, I just don't think it helps the police-to-citizenry relationship by using the word "typical" in such an offhand way, without careful thought.
Great, now not only is your iPhone hacked, you also have to go through the rest of your life looking like Nicolas Cage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I see the reasonable points many others have made here about why he should not be fired, even if (hypothetically) everyone agreed his post (while carefully worded), may have propagated discriminatory views.
However, I would think many companies have in their contracts a clause that says if you do anything that causes embarrasment to the company, that's a fireable offense. I can understand this, I think, even though I would indeed worry that it could have happened to me when I was working at a big company, and would love (in theory) to have had some kind of protection to not lose my livelihood from it (aside from complete silence).
I think my last company had a social media policy, that somehow extended to even personal twitter accounts - forcing us to say that we worked for that company in our bio, but that our views were our own, but still making us responsible for any fallout. Not sure if enforceable.
Most of the time I have simply tried hitting delete or backspace on suggested email addresses in many browsers or email clients, and it does what you would expect, stop offering it as a suggestion in the future. You would hope most people would try this, or else google "chrome stop suggesting wrong email" or something like that.
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I remember reading about this a few months ago, and I'm pretty sure it was linked from Slashdot. I'm too lazy to go look for it, but I was excited then, so I clearly remember it.
I'm non-partisan here, but didn't Qualcomm come up with a revolutionary invention that made far more efficient use of the available radio bandwidth, to allow cell phone use, and eventually data, to really explode? Aside from BlackBerry, I'd think Qualcomm was the most influential in terms of technical innovation that allowed the cell phone and ensuing smartphone boom to even happen.
Apple wasn't very innovative at all except in the UI space - realizing what the majority of people (i.e. non-technical people) needed out of an interface,and of course good at marketing.
https://vine.co/v/OiZnwVpMbUg
Seems like a reasonable thought experiment. In order to paralyze and maybe control human society, would a sentient computer intelligence really need access to guns and bullets, if they could create, steer and accelerate many wheeled steel objects along our road network? If fully coordinated, many could never leave your building, or at least street block, without probably getting killed... at least until gasoline supplies run out.
I like your factorial interpretation, making it incorrect, though :)
you can still have lots of rounding error like the USA, and you can't even directly vote for the leader, even though most treat their local vote as such.
Ironically, Russia does this part right. While their elections may be invalid for other reasons, their voting system makes more sense. You get a country wide horse race for the President, no rounding, and a separate riding system to ensure local ministers represent you.
Yet another example of marketing / business interests ruining a perfectly good engineering technology accomplishment.
Now yes, BlackBerry is pretty much dead in the handset space, but if his phone has been disabled from running most publicly available apps... well BlackBerry always had superior email, typing, and productivity management capabilities, and the reason people stopped buying BB was exactly because they couldn't get the latest or hottest apps... so... aside from not looking cool, it seem his best move would have been to stay with a BlackBerry (which has, or a least had) thousands of US employees working on making phones back when you people were still buying them.
There are many situations where you want to read an article on your smartphone, but don't want everyone in the room to hear from loud ad. And you shouldn't have to remember to go change media volume before clicking on what you thought was an "article", not a video.
Not to mention all the false revenue generated by clicking the video to bring up a pause button button ending up counting a click through to the advertiser before deleting that tab...
and if they choose not to make it available to you, that's their right
So, if a movie theatre owner says "we choose not to sell tickets to black people", that's fine and dandy?
Taking race out of it, this kind of behaviour is defined as "Social bullying" at my kids' school, and my daughter has been victim to it for years. You don't get to go around broadcasting how awesome everything is and then pointing to a smaller group of people saying "even if you want to pay the admission, you can't come to our party". The rest of us have decided "That's not cool".
So if you wanted to buy tickets to the local rock concert, but they won't sell them to you even though there are empty seats, and then you find a tall hill nearby from which you can view it anyway, not taking anything away from anyone else, what's morally wrong with that?
Also keep in mind we are tired of paying 30-50% more on most everything - even the EXACT SAME PRODUCTS, just shipped a few km further north, including big ticket items like cars and appliances. And this is even without the exchange rate - the price difference continued back when we were 1:1 with the USD just a couple years ago.