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greygore

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  • The original Gremlin

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  • I dislike the Gremlin but dammit, I feel this intensely. Lately, I’ve been feeling this way about car colors. I don’t want a bright green or yellow or orange car… I want some dark blue that doesn’t draw attention to itself. Maybe a gray for the same reason. But looking around at all the black, white, and gray cars, with the occasional navy blue or maroon color has me going crazy and wanting absurdly bright colors again, even if I would never want that for myself.

  • Remember when car controls weren't complicated

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  • We have a fully loaded 2017 Bolt, all the features, nothing left out; there are three “placeholders” for buttons on the dash that have no function, but if you put the car into reverse before turning on the seat heaters you have to wait until you put it into drive before you can turn them on. This does not make sense to me.

  • Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans

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  • Whoops! Definitely a typo. Thanks for the catch!

  • Bill Gates cancels keynote speech in India amid questions over Epstein ties

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  • Adding every picture I take on my phone to the blockchain is an enormous invasion of my privacy, and the number of times where having a cryptographically secure hash on the blockchain to prove a photo’s authenticity is minuscule. Especially in a world where people eagerly believe the most ludicrous bullshit because it reinforces their worldview, in spite of a mountain of evidence to contradict it.

  • Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans

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  • This is more specific to Tesla than self driving in general, as Musk decided that additional sensors (like LiDAR and RADAR on other self driving vehicles) are a problem. Publicly he’s said that it’s because of sensor contention - that if the RADAR and cameras disagree, then the car gets confused.

    Of course that raises the problem that when the camera or image recognition is wrong, there’s nothing to tell the car otherwise, like the number of Tesla drivers decapitated by trailers that the car didn’t see. Additionally, I assume Teslas have accelerometers so either the self driving model is ignoring potential collisions or it’s still doing sensor fusion.

    Not to mention we humans have multiple senses that we use when driving; this is one reason why steering wheels still mostly use mechanical linkages - we can “feel” the road, we can detect when the wheels lose traction, we can feel inertia as we go around a corner too fast. On a related tangent, the Tesla Cybertruck uses steer-by-wire instead of a mechanical linkage.

    This is why many (including myself) believe Tesla has a much worse safety record than Waymo. I’ve seen enough drunk and distracted drivers to believe that humans will always drive better than a human robot. Don’t get me wrong, I still have concerns about the technology, but Musk and Tesla has a history of ignoring safety concerns - see the number of deaths related to his desire to have non-mechanical handles and hide the mechanical backup.

  • Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed

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  • Taxes are either regressive, proportional, or progressive; flat and progressive are the same thing. While some (many?) consider proportional to be a separate category, I would argue that it’s inherently regressive, as any fixed percentage is going to come disproportionately from non-disposable income for any lower income individuals. Sales taxes are considered regressive because of this and they are a flat rate for most purchases.

    You can make the argument that people have to buy stuff to exist, but they don’t have to purchase a home, but given the alternative is renting which impacts lower income people even worse, this seems like a specious argument.

    Even with property tax, insurance, repairs, and mortgage, I’m paying less per month than people renting much smaller apartments in my area. Thats neither fair nor right.

  • Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested and in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office

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  • I would assume that he’d have more cover as a royal in the UK than as an immigrant in the US. Unless you were saying that he left the royal family in disgust for doing things like cleaning up for Andrew for so long, which I realize now was probably what you intended, but I’ll post this anyway in case someone else gets confused too.

  • Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested and in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office

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  • On June 6, ABC News’ David Muir asked Joe Biden, "Have you ruled out a pardon for your son?" Biden responded, "Yes."

    A week later, Biden reiterated to reporters during an international summit that "I will not pardon him," nor commute his sentence, a lesser action that would have reduced Hunter Biden’s sentence but not lifted his conviction.

    (source)

    Not saying Charles will do an about face like Biden, nor will I say that he’s not just throwing Andrew under the bus to avoid additional fallout, but let’s see what he does if/when Andrew faces real consequences.

  • Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested and in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office

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  • Think of the royals like vestigial organs - they still exist and do something, but your body won’t really miss them if they’re removed.

  • Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested and in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office

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  • And they arrested and imprisoned Al Capone for tax evasion. The important part is they arrested him, and secondly that it was for something related to Epstein. Hopefully the ensuing investigation will cause more details to be revealed and a wider reckoning to occur, but either way, he’s no longer free.

  • Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money...

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  • The Pokémon card example is ludicrous - aside from the fact that CCG cards are not “wealth”, or the fact that no one would offer $500 for a card that is only worth $50, a single buyer does not make a market or set the value. Stocks, the source of most outrageous wealth, by definition have a market value, and even the most frothy of assets don’t swing 10x in such a short period of time.

    The mom calling about selling the childhood home is very real, in fact it already happens! Guess your friend is unfamiliar with property taxes. My home has tripled in value and the government appraised value went up by a smaller amount, and now I pay taxes. When my mortgage is fully paid off, I will still owe the local government taxes every year. All those “tax free” states lean on regressive taxes like sales tax and property taxes to avoid collecting progressive income taxes, so this problem is even worse in those states.

    A while back I owned a small business, and because I didn’t pay myself in stock, I had to pay taxes every year based on how much my company profited. My business partner and I would do a distribution every year to pay those taxes. We paid more every year in taxes on our modest business than Tesla paid last year on $5.7B in income. Also, company “worth” for private businesses is based on appreciated assets and cash on hand… a business owner who “lost” 90% of the business value of a two decade old business in a year has much, much bigger problems than unrealized gains taxes.

    Middle class people are already paying wealth taxes. Mutual funds are taxed on unrealized gains all the time, albeit at capital gains rates (because we value capital more than labor). Property taxes are paid on the biggest source of wealth most people own. Even poor people are paying annual taxes or fees on their cars.

    I agree, your friend is a moron, but I think most people knew that the second they saw “ancap”.

  • The AI Vampire

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  • This is not a criticism of AI - Steve Yegge is one of the foremost AI for coding evangelists out there. He even states “AI does actually make you more 10x productive, once you learn how” in the article.

    The entire point is that the company is capturing 100% of the value of AI, burning out engineers in the process. Supposing that AI actually does lead to a huge productivity boost (debatable), and software engineers aren’t getting paid more or cut back their hours drastically, then only capital is seeing benefits and not labor. Combined with the idea that engineers are burning out on this new way of working (believable), then you’ve got an enormous imbalance between capital and labor.

    It’s not a criticism of AI - essentially it’s a criticism of capitalism through the lens of AI. I have lots of criticisms of the foundations of his arguments, but it’s nice to see any discussion around capital vs labor these days.

  • Garbage's Shirley Manson

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  • Met her around 94-95 when she was fronting the band Angelfish. Super sweet and bent over backwards to try and get me an unscheduled interview. One of the nicest and kindest band members I met.

  • Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica

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  • Assuming that the facts in the article are true (I’m more inclined to believe Waymo than Tesla)… it hit the child at 6 mph after “hard braking” from 17 mph when the child popped out unseen from behind a tall SUV. That doesn’t seem terribly reckless to me?

    I’m all for a conversation about responsibility when dealing with autonomous systems, as well as one on regulating self-driving cars before they’re exposed to the general public (much less small children), but this doesn’t seem like the egregious case to suddenly come to some kind of global or national reckoning.

  • Too Many Walts and not enough Roys

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  • This reminds me a lot of a great piece I read about Wendy and Richard Pini, the couple behind ElfQuest. He was very much the Roy to her Walt, making her comic creation dreams a reality. Very sweet; I hate that I can’t find the specific article or video that I got all that from or I would link it, but it went from the days when she was a little girl drawing comics, to her doing early cosplay and then meeting, up through trying to get a movie made and finally looking back on their legacy.

  • Cloud saving huh?

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  • It’s like Microsoft is telling you that you don’t own the computer any more - “My Computer” is now “This PC”.

  • Wokeness ended, check mate leftists

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  • TIL over 40 000 people have used the social security number 078 05 1120 in the United States.

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  • I knew about the song, but I had never considered the pattern of the digits on a phone keypad. Thank you for this!

  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI doomerism has 'done a lot of damage' and is 'not helpful to society'

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  • When 90% of the messaging is all around the end of the world and the pessimism, and I think we're scaring people from making the investments in AI that makes it safer, more functional, more productive, and more useful to society.

    Yes, lack of investment is the biggest problem around AI right now.