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Gait looks real bad compared to Boston Dynamics.

Good for them, but the cynic in me is telling me that tuition will continue to significantly outpace inflation, in part bc of this. $100K/year to attend a prestigious college isn’t far off imo.

The F-35C (Navy variant) has barely been deployed out to the fleet. I think only one squadron is using F-35s and they’re still working on training/integrating the platform into carrier operations. Didn’t Top Gun 2 get filmed 3-5 yrs ago? I don’t think any F-35s were operating with the Navy then. Another point is that dog fights and exciting maneuvering is dead in 21st century air-to-air combat. Planes are basically sniping each other from 40-60+ miles away with missiles. Not as exciting to watch.

You misunderstood. It has effectively Level 3 autonomy on highways under 40MPH, "regular old" Level 2 otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M-J3JydpPA

The US in 2015 had an average household income 55% higher than the UK, which effectively negates most of the arguments this argument is trying to make, as well as the graph which shows daily costs in the US being 60% higher than the UK. The US is a richer country, costs are accordingly also higher. Not exactly surprising.

So I have to take my eyes off the road after my car just phantom braked in order to touch the 0.5x0.5 inch "Report" button on the 15" touchscreen outside my field of view? Oh, and the button will 100% move around on the screen after software updates, so my muscle memory from pressing it for the 1,000th time gets reset each time a new update rolls out...

It's just standard Tesla fanboy cope. The bottom line is that Tesla is shipping out alpha/beta software to the masses and relying on the masses to absorb the risks of crashing, causing accidents, dying, etc. in order for Tesla to iterate and possibly improve its software. I own an 2022 Model 3 Performance, so I'm not just talking out of my ass. Autopilot is unnerving to use. The car itself is just an appliance devoid of any emotion or character; the exact opposite of a performance focused driver's car. I plan on selling it very soon.

Juxtapose Tesla's Autopilot with BMW's Driving Assistant Professional (I also own a BMW X5 PHEV Hybrid). I drove from Chicago to Oklahoma and back with all the autonomous features engaged 95% of the drive and it was an incredibly relaxing experience. Lane change works and doesn't cost an extra $10K (you need FSD for a simple lane change otherwise you effectively need to disengage AP, change lanes, and reengage AP), zero phantom braking (the BMW has radar...), the eye tracking camera works great (no falling asleep at the wheel vs. Tesla's interior camera which does not even work and the steering wheel tracking can be defeated with a tennis ball), and best of all there's fully autonomous driving (no need to look at the road) if stuck in traffic on a highway and you're going less than 40MPH (i.e., bumper-to-bumper traffic where most accidents tend to happen).

The fact is that Tesla is not shipping game-changing software, and I would strongly argue that it's not even shipping out the best software in the business. It's a hyped up car with hyped up features peddled by a hype man. I would not be surprised if Tesla is not even a top 5 or 10 EV seller in 2032.

They’re trying to avoid a wage-price spiral which would likely lead to stagflation.

Tesla doesn't spend money on marketing because Elon/his Twitter/his antics are the marketing. Not sure why you'd trust him at face value to begin with. He's not your friend, he's a door-to-door electric vacuum salesman trying to sell his wares.

Get five to agree and get back to me ;-)

Oh wise HN poster waving away hundreds of years of jurisprudence and constitutional interpretation with one link!

“Autopilot (without FSD Beta) will not go over 5mph of a road's known speed limit.”

This is false.

They are. Chinese and Russian “advances” in hypersonics are pure marketing. The US was testing scramjets in the 1960s. The US has a hypersonic space plane. Alas, the media fell for it and billions are now being spent on “catching up” with our “peer” competitors.

I noticed this trend previously and I assumed it was a cost decision. A dark scene has less details, so it would conceivably cost much less to incorporate CGI/post-fx.

Increased energy density is great, but what’s the point of carrying an extra 600-1,000lb of batteries around when for the vast majority of people the extra range is only used in a handful of cases per year, if that.

Lots of consumers seem to be waiting on the sidelines until some magic range number is achieved (500? 1,000?), when in practice that range is unneeded on a daily basis. It’s like demanding a all-day battery from a laptop, only to leave it plugged in all day long anyway.

The DotCom Bubble/scam led to investor losses in excess of $5 trillion.

“It’s my pretty firm belief,” says Gilliard, “that the police should not be called unless someone’s life is in danger.”

That can seem, to some, like a noble if naive thought. Yet Gilliard offers a retort. “The likelihood that it was a Brown or Black person who egged my car, based on where I live, is pretty high,” he says. “When you call the police on a Black or Brown person, there’s a good chance you are putting their life in danger. I don’t think that is a thing one should do lightly.”

The mental gymnastics of well-intentioned paternalism is humorous to see in practice. If it’s rational not to call the cops in this situation because the risk of negative externalities is far too great, then two conclusions are possible: (1) black/brown people are rational actors and they know the chance of getting caught/punished is very low, thus are incentivized to continue breaking the law, thus creating a vicious cycle where more law breaking begets more leniency, which begets more law breaking or (2) black/brown people are not rational, and need the benevolence of others to make sure they do not end up in jail.

Either way you slice it, it becomes clear that even well intentioned individuals are mostly acting out of self interest. It’s in the interests of Gilliard to not call the cops because losing a $50 package that will be reimbursed anyway is less important than projecting the image that he deeply cares about black and brown people.

You could have made the same argument about the Internet itself 20 years ago (i.e., a speculative new technology that provides little evident utility while costing a lot in terms of energy usage). What about Amazon's 2-hr delivery? Do you really need a gas-guzzling vans delivering at all hours when the USPS will come to your door daily anyway? What about ride share? How many millions of people opted to ride alone in a gas-guzzling car vs taking a bus or the train?

Energy usage is highly correlated with economic development, trying to curtail energy usage is akin to economic suicide. What you should be advocating for is clean energy production, not consumption. You're headed down a precarious slope if you start policing how and on what people can use energy.

I would not vaccinate my child with an mRNA vaccine unless the consequences of not doing so would negatively affect their lives (cannot attend school in person, prevented from extracurriculars, etc.). At the end of the day it is still an experimental treatment with unknown side effects one year out, but more so because getting sick and allowing their body's natural immune system to do its job is part and parcel of being human. I would not want my children growing up with immune systems that are dependent on man-made vaccines/treatments when the statistics undoubtedly bear out the fact that children's immune system are far and away more than capable of fighting off Covid-19.

Obviously the above all goes out the window if your child has chronic conditions like asthma, diabetes, or nervous system disorders that make them highly susceptible to complications from viral infections.

Silly and unnecessary law. The law they're amending arguably already made such contact illegal, this bill only adds two additional subsections specifically listing condom removal and subsequent touching as being offensive. Laws such as these should be written broadly, not narrowly/specifically. By including these two subsections the Legislature is indicating to defense attorneys everywhere that the existing broader language somehow did not already deem "stealthing" as harmful or offensive contact, which can be used to argue that a bunch of other sexual acts are not harmful or offensive contact unless specifically mentioned in the broader section. Good job busy body legislators!

Edit: On further reading this law also makes it an offense if the condom falls off during sex. "A person commits a sexual battery who does any of the following ... Causes contact between a sexual organ, from which a condom has been removed, and the intimate part of another who did not verbally consent to the condom being removed." So if you cause contact after condom removal, regardless of how or why that condom was removed, you are now liable for sexual battery. Fantastic! /s

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...