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Comment Re:Uber killed a BICYCLIST, not a pedestrian (Score 1) 953

The original reporting on ABC15 Self-driving Uber car hits, kills pedestrian in Tempe actually includes a video that has the caption "Self-driving vehicle hits BICYCLIST". The video also shows a crumpled-up bicycle.

Unfortunately, ABC15's text article says "a woman walking outside of the crosswalk was struck" and that is what the rest of the media is regurgitating as their own reporting.

The video also shows a number of bags with the bicycle so she may have been walking with it. Also, some of the bags are black trash bags, which may have contributed to the failure of the sensors (and human) to observe in time.

Comment Re:Cost comparison (Score 2) 117

Clearly this is the first nuclear power plant to have:

- no maintenance costs
- no operating costs
- no fuel costs
- no reprocessing costs
- no decommissioning costs

Hinckley Point required an index linked, guaranteed price twice the spot price. It will never achieve 90% uptime, because real nuclear power plants never achieve more than 80% over their lifetime.

I don't know if this solar plant will ever earn its owners a return above their cost of capital, and I don't really care.

But I can guarantee you that this plant will produce electricity more cheaply than Hinckley Point.

Comment Yep (Score 1) 386

Linked in and Facebook apps are complete crap written by no talent hacks. When the Mobile version of the site is significantly faster and has a better UI than your app? you fire your entire app developer team and hire some that understand efficient and fast.

Comment Note: only for the non atypical republican. (Score 1) 151

Every person that has had this happen has been brown. It's just an excuse to be more racist at the airports.
Let's also ignore the fact that monday all of Orlando International skipped the security checks dod not have to take laptop out of the bag, dont remove shoes or coat, just walk through.

Airport security is theater and an attempt to be racist to those that are not white.

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