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But if you own the hardware there's nothing to legally prevent you from severing the power to whatever sensors/hardware onstar is using, no?

Enough just to feed them, or enough to actually be considered payment?

I thought the consensus was that corvee labor was used, rather than outright slavery.

Interesting, I was reading some comments from Japanese users and they said the Japanese voice sounds like a (very good N1 level) foreigner speaking Japanese.

And in doing so they mention genetics.

You really don't understand why nature/genetics having a large impact on people's personality, thus behavior, and thus life outcomes is taboo?

London has sky high rents for young professionals while also taxing them exorbitant amounts that ends up subsidize social housing for "economically inactive" people. I would not ca…

Microsoft didn't kill Gears of War out of ineptitude or malice. It's just that consumers don't want to play cover shooters anymore. There's no market for the game's core identity. …

Do you have any recommended reading on this topic? I'd like to brush up.

SpaceX absolutely gets a lot of criticism. There's people shouting to nationalize it for crying out loud.

I won't deny that there's nerfs, but do you not see how "Product reviews used to go to higher quality blogs, Reddit, Consumer Reports now are now just all content filler sites." an…

Search is going downhill at least in part because they're dealing with an entire industry that's adversarial to them. SEO companies are spending billions of dollars and countless m…

It means that private industry is doing a better job of allocating funding and meeting demand.

So what would you call the social movement and ideology being described?

The movie?? Just watch it, it's Ken Watanabe's character Katsumoto. The main character/protagonist of a movie and the titular character are not always the same.

"Mind Virus" is loaded and inflammatory, but "woke" is the result of people noticing a large and highly influential social movement that refuses to name itself and chafes against a…

Tom Cruise isn't the last samurai though

Do you want AI to follow the blasphemy laws of every country that has them?

Maintaining continuity of appearance, motion, etc does not seem like a "just" to me

Digital Westworld

I suspect it's less about being puritanical about violence and nudity in and of themself, and more a blanket ban to make up for the inability to prevent the generation of actually …

What happens when anyone can put on their AR headset and have AI diagnose and walk them through exactly how to fix their plumbing problems?

It's called anchoring

I would look to the signage in Tokyo for an example. The buildings have columns of signs listing the floor each one is on. Definitely not what we're used to which might hurt adopti…