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Comment Re:The standard pro self-driving argument (Score 2) 59

Except all those self-driving vehicules [sic] drive far better than the average human.

So, you're basically refuting my refutation of your point by simply repeating your point ?

but that's just you colossally missing the point.

Oh, the irony...

whereas Waymos have yet to hit a person in any condition.

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/...
https://www.latimes.com/busine...
How many waymos are out there right now ? How long have they been on the street ? The only reason waymos haven't killed any school kid so far is pure luck. You would know that if you had payed any attention in statistics class. "Nothing bad has happened in the handfull of times I've done this thing, so nothing bad ever will" is not a valid argument.

Rather than dreaming of a future of self driving cars, maybe reflect on a past where you didn't pay attention in statistics class.

I hope your perfect understanding of statistics will bring you confort when someone you care about is seriously hurt or, God forbid, killed by one of those "self-driving" cars running what is essentially beta software, and no-one is willing to take responsibility for it, espcecially none of those billionnaire tech bros.

Anyway, you seem way too emotionnally involved in waymos for some reason, so I'll end the discussion here.

Comment The standard pro self-driving argument (Score 4, Interesting) 59

Whenever self-driving cars are criticized, the standard argument served by the defenders is almost always "Yeah but self-driving cars today already drive better than the average human driver", which, to a certain point, might very well be true.

But this argument falls flat under scrutiny. See, like most things concerning humans, the quality of human drivers follows a bell curve; There are a few superb drivers, a few shitty drivers, and most drivers are average. But with self-driving cars, all vehicules drive exactly the same way, since they all have the same software. If one of them zooms past a school bus with its stop signals on, they all do. So, for example, if self-driving cars today drive 10% better than the average driver, this also means that they all drive worse than 40% of human drivers out there.

To be clear: I'm all in favor of self-driving cars, even though I'm among those who criticize them regularly. I've been dreaming of self driving cars since I was a child, and as I'm getting older, I would hope that self-driving cars would allow me to keep my autonomy as my eyesight is getting weaker and my reflexes slower. What I'm saying is that the current approch for self-driving cars is the wrong approch, and the solution is not more sensors, 5G network everywhere, etc. Furthermore, I considers these vehicules, in their current state to be too dangerous to be on public roads.

But I'm sure the usual binary-thinking simpletons will simply put me in their little "against" box anyway, just like they do when I criticize the current technology of nuclear reactors, so who am I kidding.

Comment Re:first amendment red herring (Score 3, Insightful) 90

The only reason people like you are still alive today to be able to display their ignorance and cluelessness to the entire Internel is because people like me had the good sense to listen to people way smarter and more knowledgeable than you or me and follow their advice.

You're welcome.

Comment The greatest national security risk (Score 4, Insightful) 82

is sitting in the oval office as we speak. And he is there because the people of the United States wanted him there.

Therefore, the greatest national security risk to the United States of America is the american people themselves.

Trump is just a symptom. He is not immortal, and when he finally kicks the bucket, the american people will simply replace him with the next grifter in line which will tell them what they want to hear.

Comment Re:The sky is falling....? (Score 4, Insightful) 152

That's a personality trait I see a lot among conservatives in general and Trump supporters in particular:

"If it doesn't affect me personally then I don't give a flying fuck."

Trump has thrown a lighted match into a dry hay bale. Now the fire is going to spread everywhere. Bombs will start falling on every country in the region. Infrastructures will be destroyed, civilians will lose everything and live in terror everyday. Refugies will flood other countries and live in miserable conditions. Men, women and children will die. By the hundreds. By the thousands.

But none of that will probably "affect you personally", so you won't give a flying fuck.

What a wonderfull human being you are.

Comment People BET on shit like that ? (Score 5, Insightful) 188

Actual, flesh and blood, human beings actually bet on carnage and suffering ?

JFC the human race spawns some disturbingly fucked up pieces of putrid garbage.

Seriously, find these abominations and force-sterelize them all, along with their entire families and anyone who could potentialy perpetuate their genetic filth.

Comment All this could have been avoided (Score 2, Insightful) 114

By electing anyone but a war-mongering child rapist well known for his ties to organized crime for half a century, who antagonised all his allies while cozying up with mass-murdering psychopath like Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-Un or Benyamin Netanyahu.

War in Iran "very complete" my ass. It's as complete as the war in Afghanistan where US and other allied soldiers died for nothing, having had their asses kicked for 20 years before running back home with their tails between their legs to shattered lives and broken families.

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