That's a poor example because not a lot of effort has gone into creating a device to sort and fold laundry. Dump a hundred million dollars into the problem and it will likely be solved in not to long of time.
I'm pretty sure there was an article here a few months ago about a laundry folding machine. It was very slow, extremely expensive and had already killed two users (joking).
the single biggest thing that could be done to improve autonomous vehicle safety would be to get better at detecting impending weirdness
The problem is that, even assuming your AI was able to realise something weird was coming up, most drivers don't have the reflexes of a fighter pilot or F1 driver, so being given a split second warning to get your hands on the controls and do something won't be enough.
Most accidents happen very quickly indeed.
The scenario of "there is a massive snowstorm coming up in five minutes time, please take manual control" is totally different.
If it can drive 80% or more of a 200 mile trip, I'm buying one. I can handle the edge cases myself for a few more years.
That's reasonable if it's 10 miles city driving, 80 miles on a clear highway and 10 miles of city driving at the end. And as long as absolutely nothing unexpected happens on the highway.
google can claim it's not an ad but that's exactly what it is.
spammers also always say "my spam is not spam, it's important information that you need to know". they're fucking lying too.
advertising in all its forms is a crime against humanity. manipulation, lies, deception, propaganda, psychic assault, normalisation - even reification - of consumption, and all the other varieties of bullshit.
OK, but could you please let us know what you REALLY think about advertising?
Watches are probably the worst, because it has become a redundant piece of Jewelry when every single phone built today has a functional clock.
Unless you are a teenager/hipster and walk around with your phone permanently in your hand, it is still quicker to use a wrist watch to tell the time than take your phone out of your pocket and unlock it.
A phone is more like a pocket watch, and there is a good reason why they lost out to wrist watches.
You sound so much like the endless stream of people on Slashdot making fun of anyone who invested in Amazon because "they never turned a profit" - completely ignoring that businesses undergoing rapid scaleup by design don't return profits, and quite the opposite need regular capital rounds to pay for said scaleup.
A company has to make a profit at some time though. If its discounted future cashflows aren't positive, the investment has a negative value.
Most people who claim that they have a mental illness, or have been diagnosed with and possibly given drugs for a mental illness, are in fact perfectly healthy individuals with these things we can't always control called emotions.
Given the stigma attached to mental illness, I find it hard to believe that completely healthy people would go along with this if they had a choice.
Am I the only one who has had more issues with power tripping HR departments than CEOs?
You have probably never had to deal with a CEO, whereas HR has a history of picking on you for your various acts of banter, fun and team building (making racist jokes, wearing fake boobs to the Xmas party and groping every new female employee in your department).
Let's burn some karma...long ago, when I considered medicine as career someone told the following joke:
Court case - gynecologist sued for homicide. The judge asks the accused to explain himself. " Well, your honor, in my line of work [sorry for the french] I see pussies every day, all day long. I go home and it continues - the wife has some pains, the daughter needs spiral adjustment, it never stops! So that night I was going home after particular heavy day and this woman stops me and says - mister, give me five bucks and I'll show you what a pussy is! - I could not resists myself!"
You appear to have forgotten to include the promised joke in your post.
I'm hoping for a team of EE, CS and ME students who want to take something from idea to reality so that they have something on their CV beyond attending required classes. For such projects showing that you can take an idea and build something that works, in a cross discipline team environment, is more important than that thing being useful.
People are free to waste their time in any way they want, what I don't understand is why anyone would donate to kickstarter to fund this stupidity.
To simply say abolish all religions is like saying don't breath anymore. You cannot do it, the Soviets tried and failed. Other communists regimes tried and fail. Because you cannot replace a deep fundamental yearning for something greater than yourself with a rational explanation or the worship of materialistic idols.
You can be an atheist and feel the need for something greater than yourself, you just choose something like art or love or nature that actually exist.
Whether you agree with the analysis or not, the idea is that currently black lives are not seen (by the police/authorities) to matter as much as white lives, therefore the group wants to promote black lives to equality with white lives.
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What's the level where the car can take me home, legally and safely, when I'm drunk, and then go find itself a parking spot?
That's called the cold fusion level.
Fatalities are on the order of one every 100,000,000 vehicle miles
I'm nowhere near even 1,000,000 miles so I should be safe for the rest of my life then.
That's a poor example because not a lot of effort has gone into creating a device to sort and fold laundry. Dump a hundred million dollars into the problem and it will likely be solved in not to long of time.
I'm pretty sure there was an article here a few months ago about a laundry folding machine. It was very slow, extremely expensive and had already killed two users (joking).
the single biggest thing that could be done to improve autonomous vehicle safety would be to get better at detecting impending weirdness
The problem is that, even assuming your AI was able to realise something weird was coming up, most drivers don't have the reflexes of a fighter pilot or F1 driver, so being given a split second warning to get your hands on the controls and do something won't be enough.
Most accidents happen very quickly indeed.
The scenario of "there is a massive snowstorm coming up in five minutes time, please take manual control" is totally different.
If it can drive 80% or more of a 200 mile trip, I'm buying one. I can handle the edge cases myself for a few more years.
That's reasonable if it's 10 miles city driving, 80 miles on a clear highway and 10 miles of city driving at the end. And as long as absolutely nothing unexpected happens on the highway.
google can claim it's not an ad but that's exactly what it is.
spammers also always say "my spam is not spam, it's important information that you need to know". they're fucking lying too.
advertising in all its forms is a crime against humanity. manipulation, lies, deception, propaganda, psychic assault, normalisation - even reification - of consumption, and all the other varieties of bullshit.
OK, but could you please let us know what you REALLY think about advertising?
I don't do ads
You are aware that Google is basically an advertising company?
"they just released studies that eating a pound of bacon a day leads to immortality."
You cruel bastard, just for a split second you gave me hope.
Watches are probably the worst, because it has become a redundant piece of Jewelry when every single phone built today has a functional clock.
Unless you are a teenager/hipster and walk around with your phone permanently in your hand, it is still quicker to use a wrist watch to tell the time than take your phone out of your pocket and unlock it.
A phone is more like a pocket watch, and there is a good reason why they lost out to wrist watches.
they make a profit on every single vehicle sold. As in "sale price - (cost of materials + cost of labor) = a positive number."
Pretty much all companies except for basket cases on the verge of bankruptcy make a gross profit.
It's the net profit you need to look at.
You sound so much like the endless stream of people on Slashdot making fun of anyone who invested in Amazon because "they never turned a profit" - completely ignoring that businesses undergoing rapid scaleup by design don't return profits, and quite the opposite need regular capital rounds to pay for said scaleup.
A company has to make a profit at some time though. If its discounted future cashflows aren't positive, the investment has a negative value.
Most people who claim that they have a mental illness, or have been diagnosed with and possibly given drugs for a mental illness, are in fact perfectly healthy individuals with these things we can't always control called emotions.
Given the stigma attached to mental illness, I find it hard to believe that completely healthy people would go along with this if they had a choice.
However, I'd rather the country be destroyed then allowed legalized abortion and gay marriage to continue unchecked.
That's a special kind of crazy.
9. Chef
The fuck?
I think they mean celebrity chefs, who really fall under Media.
I'm more surprised by 10. Civil servant
I just don't see how being a civil servant would fulfil your lust for power. You're basically a cog in a machine.
Trump ad libbed and thought on his feet (for better or worse)
That's a polite way of saying he made shit up as he went along. Which everyone realised, then still voted for him.
Am I the only one who has had more issues with power tripping HR departments than CEOs?
You have probably never had to deal with a CEO, whereas HR has a history of picking on you for your various acts of banter, fun and team building (making racist jokes, wearing fake boobs to the Xmas party and groping every new female employee in your department).
Isn't someone like Warren Buffett an example of the exception proving the rule?
I live in Sweden, and I can easily tell that you don't know jack shit about Sweden.
"Sweden" has become a right wing shortcut for how evil all Muslims/immigrants/foreigners are.
How many of you laugh at people who don't know how to change a tire or jump a dead battery?
How about doing a full body respray? Designing and building your car from scratch?
At some point, it becomes easier/cheaper to get someone else to do the work.
No rational person would call it a world government.
And no rational person has.
Today people should know that anything plugged into the Internet and sends data into it is subject hacked and its data stolen
In which case no one would ever do online shopping, banking, etc.
Let's burn some karma...long ago, when I considered medicine as career someone told the following joke:
Court case - gynecologist sued for homicide. The judge asks the accused to explain himself. " Well, your honor, in my line of work [sorry for the french] I see pussies every day, all day long. I go home and it continues - the wife has some pains, the daughter needs spiral adjustment, it never stops! So that night I was going home after particular heavy day and this woman stops me and says - mister, give me five bucks and I'll show you what a pussy is! - I could not resists myself!"
You appear to have forgotten to include the promised joke in your post.
I'm hoping for a team of EE, CS and ME students who want to take something from idea to reality so that they have something on their CV beyond attending required classes. For such projects showing that you can take an idea and build something that works, in a cross discipline team environment, is more important than that thing being useful.
People are free to waste their time in any way they want, what I don't understand is why anyone would donate to kickstarter to fund this stupidity.
To simply say abolish all religions is like saying don't breath anymore. You cannot do it, the Soviets tried and failed. Other communists regimes tried and fail. Because you cannot replace a deep fundamental yearning for something greater than yourself with a rational explanation or the worship of materialistic idols.
You can be an atheist and feel the need for something greater than yourself, you just choose something like art or love or nature that actually exist.
Every life matters, color is not relevant.
Are you having trouble with the above sentence?
Whether you agree with the analysis or not, the idea is that currently black lives are not seen (by the police/authorities) to matter as much as white lives, therefore the group wants to promote black lives to equality with white lives.