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> Also that whole "Android" thing happened. Yeah, and Google made their opinion of Java quite clear by adding first-party support for Kotlin. As for Java being popular because it h…

C# ticks all the same boxes and is much better from a language point of view. The only reason Java still exists is because it created a generation of professionals who only know Ja…

There's nothing impossible about it. It's merely a question of resources. Pervasive surveillance+ML coupled with an implanted device which incapacitates an individual would get you…

You can stop 100% of crimes with a 100% effective law enforcement mechanism. The term for that is authoritarian dystopia. Our ancestors recognised this a long time ago, and recogni…

Yes it is. In fact a pretty thorough study was carried out in Denmark which showed that forcing bicycle helmets has such a big impact on the number of people cycling, that it overa…

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Again, the jury was never out about vaccines, there's no scientific research claiming they are harmful. This scenario is not analogous to the grandparent post where scientific cons…

On what planet is the jury out about vaccines and autism? There's not a single research paper suggesting a link between those. You are falsely conflating scientific consensus with …

Every time the jury is out on a topic where one side has a vested interest and a billion dollar budget to protect it, you can be reasonably sure what the outcome will be. See: pest…

I'm a bit confused about this. What if the target is HDFS? Why this dependency on SQL databases for ETL?

> We can still have electric trucks for the last mile I think you're grossly underestimating how spread out truck destinations are. You would have to have a very extensive rail net…

There's a few reasons, but they're all becoming irrelevant. I'm going to focus on Sony as the exemplar mirrorless player because I'm most familiar with them. Mostly, it's because m…

There's a huge bandwidth bottleneck on both input and output sides. Your imagination of what a neural lace would do is too limited. It wouldn't be 3d, it wouldn't be auditory. It w…

> SV as a whole is substantially a creation of military spending. This is a national budget problem. If you're in the tech world long enough, it becomes pretty clear that the only …

> Just state you won't hesitate to report obvious criminal activity Bypassing censorship is a criminal activity in a number of countries. Pick censorship or pick an internet with i…

There are two critical differences. 1: The handover latency (time from AP requesting handover to time pilot takes over) is measured in seconds to tens of seconds. AP is designed to…

> It's widely known that RADAR systems are not able to detect stationary objects What the fuck? That's not at all how radar works. It has no such limitation.

300k is laughable. 2-3M is a more plausible figure if you want to finance two people purely off passive income.

> As a company that deals with data analysis, Kaggle can surely tell between different levels of user participation. Kaggle outsources data analysis to bright students willing to w…

`women are no longer being raped by their husbands` -> `state censorship is justified` Amazing mental gymnastics.

It's sad how little progress we've made in terms of freedom of speech and expression. In the 1800s the church was the censorship machine, with sex as the main vector. Today it's th…

What are you smoking?