I wonder what the contribution to the bet has been from Xbox.
Connecting the Internet to the television is one of its great accomplishments.
Netflix wins a longbet from 8 years ago.
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Re: Netflix wins a longbet from 8 years ago.
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the general case, I agree with you. However, everyone knows what 'RESTful urls' and 'RESTful apis' mean, it's just that it's not the original recipe REST. For better or worse, the definition has changed. It's still effective communication, because you know I'm contrasting '/bets/1' with 'index.aspx?action=displayBet&bet_id=1&' (which still could be quite RESTful, actually...), and a form that POSTs to '/bets' vs.…
In this case I'd opt for "clean" as a better word for what you're trying to describe. I'd have thought everyone understands what a clean URL is without bringing across all the extra baggage/meaning of calling it RESTful.
I would say that a RESTful URL is simply one that multiple verbs can be applied to. That is, e.g. GETing and POSTing against the URL do different things, thus making the URL the "noun" and the HTTP method the "verb." Completely orthogonal to whether the URL is human-readable.
Re: Netflix wins a longbet from 8 years ago.
#53Cool site. My prediction is that by 2025 electric vehicle sales will overtake ICE vehicle sales. I don't want to spend 50 bucks to put it up there though!
Re: Netflix wins a longbet from 8 years ago.
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Amusing - but a car with 2 passengers going at a conservative 30MPH is very different to a plane flying 9KM over the ground at 567MPH. I'm just hoping that in 80 years I won't be alive to see my comment becoming horribly wrong, with people laughing at it while a processor flies them across the world.
Amusing - but a car with 2 passengers going at a conservative 30MPH is very different to a plane flying 9KM over the ground at 567MPH. You're right: building an automatic car is much harder. It's counterintuitive, but speed or altitude are irrelevant if the problem space is sufficiently simple. Additionally, risk doesn't scale linearly. If a plane crashes at 800km/h, all people on board will die; if a car crashes at…
That's true for the occupants of the vehicle but the dangers of those outside are greatly different. I'm not saying that planes will never be flown autonomously however there are a lot of hurdles including convincing the public.
If a car when parking is out by 1% it's maybe sticking out of the space and causes other people to have to park badly too, if a plane rounds incorrectly or a sensor plays up and is 1degree out (so even less than 1%) it lands onto of a terminal filled with tourists.
Even as a professional programmer I tend to trust unknown programmers less and less, bugs get uncovered too late, shortcuts taken... online e-commerce fine, cars and busses - maybe but scaling up the trust and risk involved is difficult.
Re: Netflix wins a longbet from 8 years ago.
#55I would love to see (or not see) how the predictor wins this bet,long bet making a decision and awards the stake. “Large Hadron Collider will destroy Earth.” http://www.longbets.org/382
"Detailed terms" for that bet, where they define what "destroy Earth" means are a good read.
Re: Netflix wins a longbet from 8 years ago.
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amusing - but a car with 2 passengers going at a conservative 30MPH is very different to a plane flying 9KM over the ground at 567MPH. You're right: building an automatic car is much harder. It's counterintuitive, but speed or altitude are irrelevant if the problem space is sufficiently simple. Additionally, risk doesn't scale linearly. If a plane crashes at 800km/h, all people on board will die; if a car crashes at…
That's true for the occupants of the vehicle but the dangers of those outside are greatly different. I'm not saying that planes will never be flown autonomously however there are a lot of hurdles including convincing the public. If a car when parking is out by 1% it's maybe sticking out of the space and causes other people to have to park badly too, if a plane rounds incorrectly or a sensor plays up and is 1degree ou…
Planes were capable of being flown autonomously in the 1980s. In particular, the Soviet's space shuttle, Buran, performed unmanned orbital maneuvers and landing during its 1988 test flight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_%28spacecraft%29
So, the technology to do these kinds of things has already been done before (though unfortunately neglected!). I think the main challenge is just convincing people that it's safe enough that they will be willing to buy tickets.
Re: Netflix wins a longbet from 8 years ago.
#57I would love to see (or not see) how the predictor wins this bet,long bet making a decision and awards the stake. “Large Hadron Collider will destroy Earth.” http://www.longbets.org/382
I guess it's just an interesting way to give to "Save the Children".
And a way to say "I'll give to the NRA only after the world's destroyed."