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People aren't setting Teslas on fire? Where do you get that from? https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/05/01/tesla-pr...

> One of the few reasonable datasets suggesting it doesn't help is the amish When you literally live on the farm where the cow is milked, there is less benefit to pasteurization, y…

> one involving Waymo Are you referring to the one where a Waymo, and several other cars, were stopped at a traffic light, when another car (incidentally, a Tesla) barreled into th…

> The article notes that the data is incomplete, but that only means that there are more incidents than the graph shows. But what it doesn't note is where the data is incomplete. I…

If you care about absolute numbers, then you need to compare it against human-caused incidents too. If there's 100,000 human-caused incidents then AVs going from 3 -> 300 isn't eve…

Sure, but the point is, they're doing it.

> full self driving cars are a reality Full self driving cars are a reality. Waymo is giving 10,000 trips per week with nobody behind the steering wheel in SF and Pheonix.

It was the right decision not because it was made of cardboard, but because it "fluttered". If it had been full of bowling balls and just thunked to the ground, it would not have b…

> And in some circumstances four-way stops flow more traffic. There's no way that's true, is it? What circumstances would a four way stop sign allow for more traffic flow than a ro…

It's fairly well-known that the Tea Party was basically funded by the Koch brothers, right? I assume you've read things like [1] which go fairly deep into how they funded and organ…

The exact same problem exists with volunteer-maintained maps. In fact it's even worse there because at least with a commercial map, quality is basically correlated with where the u…

I don't even understand the benefit of 100.00% uptime, over 99.99% anyway? I mean, I probably spend more time in a parking garage with no internet available to me at all, than goog…

None of that really matters if Mars is on the other side of sun from Earth. You'd need relay satellites to direct the signal around the sun, and even at the speed of light that's g…

What makes you say that? See, eg https://theintercept.com/2018/08/03/google-search-engine-chi...

But they don't have to ask for access to all your pictures. You can ask Android to show the standard picker, get the one picture you've selected and that's it. Or you can do it the…

They send each other checks. Actual piece-of-paper checks. To their credit, they've got it to the point where I can take a picture of the front/back of the check with my smartphone…

Why is it only the server's service that you get to pay what you feel like? This steak is nice, but it's not $17 nice. I think I'll just pay $14 for it. These new tires for my car …

That's still not even close to Google's repository: "The Google codebase includes approximately one billion files and has a history of approximately 35 million commits spanning Goo…

I thought it meant that Google et al are all trying to solve the "pizza in San Francisco" problem (i.e. trying to find local businesses) and not trying to solve the problems that p…

That possibility always exists, but it's hard to see how it could be worse than the half a million deaths per year that is currently attributed to mosquitoes.

Potato/potahto, really. Good luck getting a visa next time if you've ever been "denied entry". Really, for non-Americans the best advice is just don't go in the first place. Second…