portofcall | 8 years ago
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portofcall | 8 years ago
Street level sales of crack shouldn’t lead to deportation to a notorious war zone. He paid his debt to society anyway, this is essentially adding a death sentence on top of it.
portofcall | 8 years ago
By those modern standards, they’re already doing better than the US and UK for example. They didn’t invade Afghanistan and Iraq, they didn’t destabilize Libya, and they don’t have a secret program of drone killings all over the world.
Lose the apartheid nonsense too, you’re insulting the Israelis, and the South Africans who suffered under the real deal.
portofcall | 8 years ago
I wouldn’t trust FB to accurately report the time of day, never mind their user count. They have every reason to inflate a number that already peobsbly includes a vast number of duplicates, bots, and other “Not quite real,” accounts.
portofcall | 8 years ago
It’s actually “DSLR Killer?” And what does Betteridge tell us? The question in the title is inevitably answered with a “No” so I’d guess it’s not an ad, just typical journalism.
portofcall | 8 years ago
Segway actually produced what they initially set out to produce. ML is a mass of bullshit patents and claims that eventually led to a Lite version of Holocens.
portofcall | 8 years ago
You’re the fourth person on a tech site, out of five who commented, who didn’t even know it existed. That’s pretty telling.
portofcall | 8 years ago
It’s also always worth thinking about the health impact of eating a lot of restaurant/fast/chain food simply from a nutritional perspective. If you’re eating a double quarter pounder with cheese, fries and a soda, the actual food is by far the worst part of the experience. The carcinogenic and cardiovascular downsides of such a fatty, low fiber, high sugar and sodium diet are profound and well understood.
A friend of mine recently came to me with an article that a “chemical found in silly putty” was found in fry oil. They were horrified, but I pointed out that it’s known to be inert. They were still horrified. I pointed out that to get a mg of the stuff, you’d have to eat half a kilogram of fry oil (not a kg of fries, but oil). If you’re packing in half s kilo of grease, it’s not the mg of additive you should be worried about!
portofcall | 8 years ago
No, but neither does the EM force, it all just asymptotically approaches zero. Don’t let that fool you though, in that it really approaches zero to a high degree.
portofcall | 8 years ago
In a vacuum, at infinity.
portofcall | 8 years ago
Betteridge’s law strikes again! No, you shouldn’t trust Facebook for anything.
portofcall | 8 years ago
The difference in Silicon Valley is that the shipments go out and there’s nobody checking. It’s a big fucking difference too.
portofcall | 8 years ago
This is what you get with no oversight, tons of money, s lot of arrogance, and a focus on “hustle” over anything else. It definitely works for a while, but when it comes crashing down it’s going to take out a lot of innocent players with it.
portofcall | 8 years ago
More like shades of black.
portofcall | 8 years ago
all of the following points are perfectly clear:
Uber is guilty of killing Elaine Herzberg. Uber's hardware and/or software failed. Many people at Uber need to be fired. The Arizona officials who greenlit testing need to resign. One or more people need to be prosecuted. The SAE Automation Classification System is vague and unsafe. Uber is the Theranos of self-driving. Volvo—one of the few car makers that truly cares about safety—is innocent and shouldn't be in bed with their craven opposites.
Thst sounds about right, especially the culpability, need for firings and resignations, and especially prosecutions. I really don’t see any of it happening, but it should.
portofcall | 8 years ago
It’s just experience in dealing with people online. I apply the same filter to “cuck,” “Overton window” and “Hegelian dialectic” for example. Offline it’s much easier to ascertain intentions and attitudes, and there aren’t millions of people all screaming at once. Online you have to filter, and alt-right buzzwords are excellent components of a healthy filter.
portofcall | 8 years ago
Please don't feign surprise that facebook has been collecting your data. Everyone knew, but expected some level of privacy and security with the platform. That's what was breached here.
I’ve never had an account with them, but they buy records, they get to me through friends, family, and acquaintances. I expect some level of privacy when I don’t even use their sinking platform. I also expect that regulation is coming for FB, Uber, and the rest of Silicon Valley, and it’s about damned time. It’s too bad that it’s going to hurt people and companies that do nothing objectionable, but I prefer that to Facebook swaying elections and Uber killing people with their substandard SDV’s.
portofcall | 8 years ago
3. Don’t apologize if it’s obvious that you’re being incredibly insincere, unless you’re a great actor. People can smell that kind of non-apology a mile off, and they’ll hate you for it, and distrust any apology that comes later.
4. Don’t make a big show of being apologetic if it’s likely that there’s another shoe waiting to drop; that looks less like an apology and more like a coverup.
5. Don’t make obviously misleading, false, or self-serving statements in an apology.
portofcall | 8 years ago
The single greatest risk factor for someone committing suicide is a first-order relative who committed suicide. Everything in life isn’t as obvious as crashing a car into someone, but the harm of suicide extends far beyond the victim.
portofcall | 8 years ago
One: They’re sneaking suicide in with the data, and then obfuscating that inclusion with rhetoric.
Alternative hypothesis: they’re including suicide data because it’s relevent. Suicide is homicide (not murder), and they’re including the copious accidental killings (also homicide, also not necessarily murders).
You remember posting that, right?
Israel does have a drone assassination program - that's where the US got the idea for theirs. The US Hunter and Pioneer UAV systems are direct derivatives of Israeli models, etc.
Citations for that?