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    Comment #49157203

    millimeter wave radar systems. Backscatter x-ray machines are no longer used. Both have similar properties of being able to see through clothes.

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    Comment #48494153

    When you consider the required tipping, the cost is quite close. And the Waymo is nicer.

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    Comment #48403345

    Don't forget to include time to handle lawsuits and funding delays! Also, someone may break into your house and rip up the instruction book.

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    Comment #48189683

    And yet, in a recent conflict of the US navy vs swarms of drones, no ships were lost.

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    Comment #47981209

    Yea it's hard to reconcile such a small number of affected racks with such a widespread impact though, so this must not be the whole story. They're talking about a half a year to r…

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    Comment #47974122

    Gemini will be replacing the legacy Siri: https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-annou...

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    Comment #47780895

    I think that where this gets interesting is when you can just drop these robotic systems into an environment that wasn't necessarily set up specifically to handle them. The $50 for…

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    Comment #47160848

    As always, Matt Levine has the best take on this: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-02-24/ai-... "I am sorry. But if you go to Jump Trading and Jane Street and say…

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    Comment #47079169

    So then do you punish the chefs for making their food too appealing?

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    Comment #47077601

    The concept of addiction seems be quite diluted at this point. Does it really make sense to say that, because you're trying to make a product that people like, that this means you'…

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    Comment #47048263

    AI is already taking over content generation

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    Comment #46852516

    This is a bit thin to be drawing any conclusions. Only what one person claims. Has this happened to anyone else? Might there be another reason (that they're not telling us) that th…

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    Comment #46078324

    In these modern times of ours, the word literally has taken on a new meaning, which is "not literally but with emphasis." This seems like the most likely explanation.

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    Comment #45596893

    That doesn't work as well since you want people with crypto wallets you can steal. People applying for a blockchain company are far more likely to have this.

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    Comment #45563697

    Amnesty has long since squandered any credibility they once had

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    Comment #45288908

    Here's Nvidia's CPUs, which are increasingly a required part of their data center offerings: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/grace-cpu/

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    Comment #45244737

    Big tech has generally not loved this because they know that adding friction like id checks massively reduces attach rates. This is watered down enough that it's likely seen as a l…

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    Comment #44418574

    And yet, if you tried it, you might find this often not as true as you might think.

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    Comment #44105805

    If you read the article, you'll find that in fact the collars do prevent them from moving toward the river using sound, vibration, and shocks.

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    Comment #43732815

    My small angle sin function is even faster: sin(x) = x

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    Comment #43595593

    Presumably they can't have a menu either? The menu might induce you to buy something.

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    Comment #43413775

    It's sort of a disingenuous video since they try to present 50-200% increases as small by saying it's some number of cents. And ignoring the environmental land use concerns with th…

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    Comment #43332368

    Wow they get full rights and one winner gets... a trip to their offices in Portugal?

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    Comment #43085220

    And will still be classified in 2045...

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    Comment #42901463

    They'd be great for the Moon though.