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> ...and the internet has latched onto it and now misuses it all the time. I can't decide if this comment is very clever ironic satire or... not ;-) > Politicians started using tha…

> There are more law graduates than jobs. But starting salaries haven't gone down. Perhaps this isn't true? It's possible that salaries for lawyers are not going down, but that sal…

> Nothing existential about it at all. It's an actual threat to Facebook's business model. "Existential threat" means a threat to the very existence of a thing, so a thing that is …

WE DEVELOPED AND DEPLOYED SEVERAL VACCINES TO A NOVEL VIRUS IN LESS THAN A YEAR. The year over year progress on computing power/efficiency/size is beyond impressive. Modern compute…

I assume you're not living in the USA, because private primary/secondary schools exist in the USA. They're actually quite common here and provide a lot of diversity in terms of sty…

Exactly. If schools explicitly acknowledged their dual purpose, then they could more cleanly separate the two functions. I think doing so would even improve the educational compone…

> But the upkeep cost of protecting the gold is continuous in the same way as bitcoin mining. This completely misses the point, which was one of magnitude: >> The upkeep cost for B…

Remember that these are correlational studies! They're not directly comparing raw counts of data points, they're checking for statistical significance. It can be that COUNT(failure…

> There is a 50% chance that a random person from that population can create a successful business... All 100 attempt to start a business. 50 succeed, 50 fail. This is the most gla…

> these aren't recommendations of systems in any way This is a deflection. I'm responding to a comment that stated: >> as they state on their website, they scored #1 for best at th…

This is only true for a tiny subset of possible flaws. Toyota was found legally responsible for its unintended acceleration bug from the mid 2000s when "the driver should pay atten…

On public roads. We don't know how many they've done if you include closed track testing, but I'm willing to bet it's at least as many as they've done on public roads. The real poi…

> but perhaps that’s because super cruise is geo fenced. Exactly. The Consumer Reports test wasn't a comprehensive safety analysis; it was a superficial "how will this feel to a co…

> They want to avoid thinking about non-engineering things like liability for as long as possible and focus on the engineering problem. It's a valid approach. When you write softwa…

> For example, their "leader" shows up and makes commits to their safety code like "WTF WHY WAS THIS SHIT EVERYWHERE." Every self-driving product that deploys to consumers is going…

> best at that by Consumer Reports compared to the stock offerings from Ford, Nissan, and other carmakers. Read through the Consumer Reports PDF [1]. It's abundantly clear that the…

I expect this to end about as well as it did last time. 35 million miles is statistically meaningless.

It's far worse than irony. Google and FB hire AI ethics researchers as a way of laundering their reputation. IMO selling AI Ethics street cred to an ad tech company is a lot more p…

Most software developers have mostly operated in largely unregulated domains, so there's a MIS understanding of how manufacturer responsibility works in industries like automotive.…

> Housing is not included in CPI, only "rents". This reads like an oxymoron to anyone who's not a property owner, which is about half the country -- all of whom are in the bottom 9…

In particular: education, insurance, and housing really is accurately reflected in the CPI, but the true price of non-shit consumer goods are consistently under-estimated in the CP…

Why cherry-pick? Just running the regression analysis on the entire dataset.

Note: sometimes you'll get two people giving different numbers for the same city. AFAICT this happens most often when pensions are broken out as a separate budget item. The fact th…

> if it serves a legitimate law enforcement purpose What legitimate law enforcement purpose is being served here?