Comment Re:Credibility gap (Score 1) 280
All 3 of those statements are true.
Paying your credit card bill doesn't raise your debt. The debt has already been incurred, you're just authorizing the servicing of that debt.
All 3 of those statements are true.
Paying your credit card bill doesn't raise your debt. The debt has already been incurred, you're just authorizing the servicing of that debt.
I'm sure they could program something along those lines.
"Weird object enters roadway = engage cautious mode for next X seconds."
And even if it does kill the occasional child in that scenario, it'll save thousands more from fiery wrecks and other instances where they're passengers.
A human would respond the same or worse in every one of those scenarios.
Autonomous cars don't have to be perfect, they just have to be better at driving than humans (which is a *really* low bar to clear).
So long as I get whatever my employer was contributing to my health insurance added to my paycheck, that works for me.
The United States has outcompeted the rest of the first world with it's ostensibly-atrocious medical system for 50+ years...it doesn't seem like that's much of a problem in that context.
You don't think the fact that most 1st-world nations, except for the US, were smoking craters with devastated infrastructure after WWII had just a *little* to do with that?
I wonder who "Pod 6" is?
It could be a Sealab 2021 reference? Captain Murphy is always complaining about "The jerks in pod 6". Maybe a pet name for some group the dev doesn't like?
The problem with wireless charging is that a single charge pad costs $50+. A usb cable + wall wart costs $5.
The problem isn't that it runs on the most convenient fuel around. It's that 90%+ of the energy turns into waste heat.
Not that horses are better, but the efficiency of ICEs is terrible.
Every employee had to show up to the office and be given a formal-on-paper memo telling them they were furloughed. Remember, by statute, the in-person delivery of a notice on paper was required.
All of this may have been changed in the meantime.
Nope, hasn't changed. My Dad is a Fed employee and he has to go in today for about 2 hours to "tidy up" and sign his furlough paperwork. Not sure about people who usually work from home (he doesn't).
I bet it misreads a light less frequently than a person blowing one accidentally/because they weren't looking.
Kintergarteners are a bit old for naps (5/6 year-olds). This article is talking about preschoolers, ages 3/4.
Agreed. Getting rid of heat in space is *hard*, due to the fact that you only lose heat through thermal radiation.
There's no convection, conduction, or evaporation in a vacuum without doing "extra work" to make them happen.
My guess is that, at least initially, a driver will be required to be in the drivers seat at all times ready to override any actions taken by the car.
I don't think so (at least in a rational world). These cars are going to be 10x better than a human driver right out of the gate.
I thought that (a) the weapons were fired from a gov-controlled facility, and (b) the US intercepted phone calls from Syrian army command to the weapon launching folks?
Or not? Just what I thought had been "confirmed".
This world view makes perfect sense.
Which is why governments should use taxes to make that 30mpg car HURT your pocketbook more than the 50mpg car.
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.
