Comment Re:Screw Reddit (Score 1) 31
It's such a joke, they go hyperbolic running some story that Elon Musk banned somebody from Twitter. Then they ban like crazy at the drop of a hat.
Comment Re:Maybe (Score 1) 67
Comment Re:didn't they advertise during the world series? (Score 2) 17
Comment Re:Yet gambling on the stock market is just fine (Score 1) 17
Comment Re:Coding interview is dead (Score 1) 135
Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 75
Comment Re:Wrong question. (Score 1) 75
Comment Re:features a light-up Apple logo (Score 1) 72
No thanks on the light-up Apple logo for me. I think it started with the Powerbook G3 (I had one, it was a great computer) and it was sort of obnoxious even then. I'm not paid to be a light-up billboard everywhere I go.
No thanks on the laptop touchscreen, either. I understand it on something like a Surface tablet -- almost -- but most of the time I used my Surface with a keyboard, like a regular laptop, and never touched the screen. I think ramming touchscreens down everybody's throats was just a gimmick Microsoft came up with, both to A.) convince everybody that Windows 8 worked equally well on laptops and tablets (it sure did); and B.) once again, everybody needed to go out and buy a new laptop, even though their current one worked and served their needs just fine.
Comment Re:Harm (Score 1) 109
While this is true, being the subject of an experiment to see what happens when you do that is not something most people would choose for themselves. It's not *irrational* to be concerned. Absence of evidence on a largely unexplored question like microplastic infiltration in human bodies is not the moral equivalent of absence of evidence in an extensively studied question like a vaccine-autism link.
Comment Re:Good (Score 3, Insightful) 146
While it's true every issue has its own dimension, even if those dimensions are linearly independent, they're not necessarily orthogonal. Independent basis vectors can still have a non-zero dot product—in other words, issues which are distinct from each other can align to some degree.
Comment Re: Same as it ever was (Score 1) 150
Comment Re:Excellent news (Score 1) 89
AI to me is kind of like a self driving car... it would be one thing if the car actually drove itself and didn't require a licensed driver to sit behind the wheel and dedicate their full undivided attention to making sure the car doesn't do something stupid... yet no such thing at present exists.
You can take an Waymo in any of these cities:
- Phoenix metro, Arizona
- San Francisco Bay Area, California
- Los Angeles, California
- San Diego, California
- Denver, Colorado
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Dallas, Texas
- Houston, Texas
- San Antonio, Texas
- Austin, Texas
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Miami, Florida
- Orlando, Florida
- Tampa, Florida
- Nashville, Tennessee
Comment nonsensical (Score 2, Interesting) 29
Comment Re:Telling dogs from wolves (Score 1) 89
Including self-driving. What besides driving consumes so many hours and lives, and potentially remediable? I think it's probably the biggest AI application of the 21st century. Looking back the transition will seem faster.