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Comment Re:Yes! Make cars expensive again! (Score 1) 504

If you think a Chevy EV is pretty cool, you haven't tried Chinese EVs. For the price of that Chevy EV, you could be getting a car that has tech, features, comfort and build quality that rivals quarter of a million dollar luxury cars, and this isn't an exaggeration. The traditional automakers and the Chinese automakers aren't even in the same universe.

Comment Re:Do no good (Score 1) 222

Cool, so going forward, I'm going to call your mother Ms. Whorebitch, and anytime anyone asks me what your mother's name is, I'm going to tell them her name is Ms. Whorebitch, and that if you want to have anything to do with me or anything I can provide you, you have to call her Ms. Whorebitch, and I'm going to do this while I am one of the most powerful people in the world.

Sound good to you? I'd have the authority over that interaction, so it must be perfectly fine with you.

Your argument is fallacious. It's based on a fallacious appeal to authority.

Based on your argument, Canada should rename Washington DC to "Fuckface Central". They're allowed to.

The fact of the matter is, we live in a society, and for a society to function, we need to have agreed upon norms.

This breaks those norms, and is causing issues in society. It's antisocial behavior, and it's not even in an effort to change things for the better, which could be excusable.

As far as countries having different names in different languages, of course they fucking do! Everything has a different word for it in a different language! Nippon is not a word in English, Japan is. Deutschland is not a word in English, Germany is.

There are no instances that I know of where a country that speaks a language, has an endonym and an exonyms in its own language, shy of transliterations when referring to the name that other people use in other languages, in their own. So that's like if your name was Jim, but I just always called you Bob.

And, for the record, Füçk Yú. I speak three languages, one of which doesn't even use the Latin character set. I'm quite cognizant of the different diacritics that different letters have.

Also, Canada owns a greater majority of Lake Ontario than the US does. It's not 50/50. ...and, again, Lake Ontario has been named that longer than either the US or Canada has been around!

Comment Re:Do no good (Score 1, Informative) 222

What are you arguing? Because the US is not the authoritative source for the names of Lake Ontario or the Gulf of Mexico.

Lake Ontario was so named for the existence of the province of Ontario, Canada, or the United States.

Lake Ontario is also mostly contained within the borders of Canada, so if one of the two were to have naming authority over that body of water, it would most likely be Canada.

Also, that's not how these bodies of water get named.

So what are you arguing exactly?

The US government is not an authoritative source for the naming of bodies of water that are not within their control.

Your last paragraph is quite apt; should the president of the United States be able to change the names of things that don't belong to the us, on a whim just because he feels like it? No.

Comment Re:"W" ... WNBA (Score 1) 222

Yes. In fact, I think segregating sports by gender is really fucking stupid. None of the arguments that anyone can make about strength size physique etc. are at all valid. In fact, I think sports would be far more interesting if they were co-ed.

I think being smaller, and having a lower center of gravity can be an asset in many sports, which would give women an advantage that men wouldn't have, and could make for a more interesting team with a broader set of skills and strengths.

Comment Re:Do no good (Score 1) 222

Instead of letting your ego get bruised, maybe you should do some research and see that what I'm saying is true.

it's not your fault. the Republicans have spent decades cutting education, because they know that an uneducated electorate is more likely to vote for and back their regressive policies, just as you are doing now.

That's not saying that the Democrats are angels, they're definitely not. They're pretty fucking disgustingly corrupt too. But at least they're not sabotaging society to try to get ahead like the Republicans are.

Comment Re:Do no good (Score 5, Insightful) 222

There is no keeping out of politics if you're a human on earth. The Germans kept out of politics as millions of Jews were slaughtered.

Inaction is an action. Inaction is a choice. Inaction is taking a side.

The alternative is to remove yourself from the situation, as some Americans have, by moving away. Shy of that, you're taking a side. The question is: Which one?

Comment Re:I thought Apple (Score 2) 57

Steve Jobs died, and the company has no principal anymore.

And before the Jobs haters come out in droves, the man was definitely a shitty guy, but he had his principals, I worked at Apple under Steve Jobs and under Tim Cook, and I can tell you, the company was more worried about being ethical under Steve Jobs than it was under Tim Cook. Tim Cook was squarely focused on money, where as Steve Jobs instituted a lot of policies that lost Apple money out of principal, like how Apple Care unofficially got you one free replacement MacBook if you ever damaged yours. Now you have to buy Apple Care +, AND pay for the replacement! If you do the math, often times replacing the device out of pocket is cheaper than Apple Care +, plus the service fee. Scummy business practices meant to fool people who can't do math or plan long term, that would have never flown under Steve Jobs.

Comment His argument is deeply flawed (Score 1) 219

His argument only works if the failings of human vision are ones of actual vision, but they're not. It also equates human vision to that of a camera feed, which again, is not at all the same. A camera feed is FAR more detailed within a particular scene than human vision which is highly dependant on awareness, and scanning the scene as our fovea is the only real part of our vision that can see detail.

Most of the mistakes people make are ones of attention. It is very rarely to almost never because of an optical illusion.

That's the bar he has to compete with.

Also, LIDAR is basically vision, but with a focus on 3D depth instead of texture.

The question is, how important is 3D depth? Not very. It doesn't really matter if that car is 50 meters away or 55 meters away. What matters is it's approach speed, orientation, trajectory, etc. All of which are done just fine by "vision only" systems.

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