The estimates of the number of children who died due to cuts in USAID is in the tens of thousands. Still terrible, but you don't serve any constructive purpose by exaggerating by several orders of magnitude.

In 2001 supposedly it really was "human error". Some humans told Hal 9000 to lie to the astronauts and not reveal that an alien artifact had been found on the moon. And that was a mistake as they probably either knew or could test what would happen to Hal.

This is remarkably similar to things going wrong with AI now, actually.

Actually probably not the chip is larger, but the lens is larger. The aperture allows it to be less blurry in bright light.

The chip is larger so it collects more light and thus improves low-light photography, but this would make bright-light photography worse (by reducing depth of field). The aperture fixes this for bright light, thus allowing the better low-light performance.

The examples comparing prices are all comparing them to battery-backed systems that can continuously produce the rated power. The solar panels or wind turbines will be capable of far higher peak power that is used to charge the batteries. I have no idea whether any numbers being quoted here are accurate, but the posters are absolutely describing "base power" when quoting their prices.

There was a parking lot there before. And LA has plenty of other examples of similar architecture, some of it considered LA landmarks

Reading scores fell more sharply in students from better-off backgrounds

Sounds like at least we have achieved equality in stupidity!

When you boil it down, situational awareness is little more than our attempt to maintain a mental model of what's happening around us. And models can be wrong.

Do humans have eyes on the sides of their heads? In the back of their heads? Can they watch all directions simultaneously? No.

Can they instantaneously detect changes in speed and direction? No.

Can they react in microseconds? No.

No to all of that. In fact, numerous studies have shown that most people can only deal with about three events occurring at the same time. Throw one more into the mix and they start to lock up.

And "the fact that numerous people surrender all of that" is precisely the problem. People get distracted. They daydream. They drive on autopilot. They become impaired.They lose focus. They get old and slow down. They're not looking in the right direction when some event occurs. And even when they do they often make poor decisions. They overreact and they overcompensate.

And that's when 40,000 people a year die.

Pretty sure most Model 3's and Y's don't have odor detectors, and those are supposedly the vehicles owners would send out to make money why they sleep.

Tesla's numbers already indicate that it's better. (Then again, they're Tesla's numbers.) But my point remains, if they cut down the number of deaths, injuries, and fender-benders it's a net win.

What, if anything I posted was in defense of Elon? All of the above were facts. That's where the HQ is. That's where the engineers are. That's the Texas law.

Musk picked Austin for Tesla’s robotaxi trials and rollouts primarily because the city serves as the home base for Tesla's corporate headquarters, and it offers close proximity to company engineers and executives overseeing the project.

Also, Texas law does not permit individual cities to regulate or ban autonomous vehicles, so it's an AV friendly environment.

Finally, other autonomous vehicle networks, such as Waymo, had already established testing footprints in Austin.

So sorry, but I think your conspiracy theory is a bit short lived.... ;)

Not enough to make up for waking up in the morning to go to work, only to find out some drunk puked in your front seat.

Or the used condoms in the back.

That's one of the reasons I never understood the pushback against EVs in certain circles. Put a solar panel on your roof and you're now independent of the grid and gas stations.

I mean, it's a LOT harder to put an oil well and refinery in your backyard.

They are, for the most part, illegal. That doesn't seem to stop the deaths and injuries, now does it?

40,000 people a year. Year in, and year out.

3,000 people die in a WTC attack and we flip out.

Kill 40,000 men, woman, and kids each and every year... and we accept it as "normal".