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carabiner

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    Comment #49206358

    Harm to the world. I seriously believe screen addiction is worse than obesity and opiates but it's so normalized, no one can imagine a world without it.

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    Comment #49175540

    Humans also have prior world domain knowledge. A human driver seeing a guy running across the road behind an obstacle can infer that the human will probably pop out on the other si…

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    Comment #49115970

    Seriously. I just remember as a kid seeing my school bus driver browsing the adult video section. I'm sure he did not want to find "community" there.

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    Comment #49077507

    I swear it's the era of chesterton's fence. Boundaries in life, whether personal or professional, are largely protective for everyone. https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/new-article…

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    Comment #49077222

    Google banned political conversations at work. Tech companies are learning from first principles why work/life separation, traditional office culture exist.

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    Comment #49075993

    When I worked in flight test you realize how much pilots don't know anything. It's exactly like a car driver vs. automotive engineer.

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    Comment #49075980

    That's not what your original comment says at all. You're pontificating on future aircraft configurations while you're just learning the ABC's of being an enduser of said products.…

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    Comment #49056293

    It's a lot like saying, "as someone 5 hours into driver's ed in my mom's honda civic, I believe that future stability control algorithms in self-driving cars..." Or the difference …

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    Comment #49042147

    Cities have banned billboards. Sao Paulo did it, so did parts of London: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret... Hard to quantify the benefits, but I think …

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    Comment #49011573

    https://theaircurrent.com/aircraft-production/boeing-massive...

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    Comment #49011428

    This is a massive improvement for airliners where margins are a few %. Tube and wing configuration is already highly optimized. This is a physical problem with a hard limit. Can yo…

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    Comment #48953049

    Toyota had the largest recall in history for the unintended acceleration debacle. Yes, lots of people were saying they'd never set foot in a toyota again. Now people don't even rem…

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    Comment #48953031

    can we not do this

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    Comment #48908641

    One honest caveat worth flagging though.

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    Comment #48856430

    Fair callout.

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    Comment #48851591

    Wait where is that from? Googling just takes me back here.

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    Comment #48848652

    Drones killing drones in the sky. Each side is just burning piles of money until one runs out. Imagine if that could be put towards something useful.

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    Comment #48837837

    Is there a way to benchmark the accuracy, validity improvements in these successive benchmarks?

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    Comment #48837736

    strawberry

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    Comment #48827728

    Chomsky said it was the only newspaper that told the truth.

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    Comment #48825342

    Tax breaks for filming and it's not SF specific or even cities. Other planets too, like Stargate SG-1 being filmed around Squamish 1 hour away.

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    Comment #48824851

    Chinese govt is a GPU. US is a CPU. Whether that's hereditary is a separate question, but culture exists.

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    Comment #48822238

    You're right. It's only good for the superrich.

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    Comment #48821660

    The US is very good if you're very rich. It's bad for everyone else. China appears to be somewhat bad or critical of the superrich, which is why they want to come to the US, but go…