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Comment · 9 years ago
Like, the drivers manual? We're talking about basic driving skills here. Cars need room to stop, the higher the speed, the more room they need to stop safely. Most human drivers aren't perfect and leave a lot less room than they should, AVs won't share that flaw.
Comment · 9 years ago
A highway cuts through my city, largely because it used to be very poor and it was politically expedient to prioritize interstate traffic at the expense of city dwellers (there's measurably higher rates of asthma near highways).

Its not just "StrongTowns hates them", it's that a lot of cities have gotten the shit end of the stick, transportation-wise, and people who actually live in the city don't want to live next to a fucking highway for the convenience of suburbanites. It's not a conspiracy, there's political support for these policies in cities.

Just use park and ride, cut throughs can go fuck themselves, you sound entitled as hell. It's not your God given right to shit up other peoples' home with your car.

Comment · 9 years ago
You also need hardcore vent systems.
Comment · 9 years ago
No you can't, you need to leave stopping distance for safety reasons. If anything AVs will leave more room between cars than human drivers.
Comment · 9 years ago
Crypto is the new cyber.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'd say they're more like trading cards than anything.
Comment · 9 years ago
It's certainly possible there are fraudulent trades driving price, it's pretty easy to do on BTC exchanges.
Comment · 9 years ago
>newbostonpost

Someone on r/boston constantly posts links to this garbage "news" source, everyone flags it as spam there, I'm going to flag it as spam here as well.

Comment · 9 years ago
>Why does everyone repeat that Byzantine consensus requires maximum 33% of participants to be dishonest?

Not 33% of participants, 33% of the hash power, could just be one participant with a pile of GPUs or ASICS or "JINN" chips lol. That's the claim made by the IOTA author, anyway.

Right now it wouldn't surprise me if someone could amass 90+% of IOTA hash power anyway.

>If messages cannot be forged

Tbh this is not even a given with IOTA.

Comment · 9 years ago
The closed-source coordinator, presumably.
Comment · 9 years ago
My understanding is you only need 33% of the hash power at any given time. Since PoW is only done as part of sending transactions, it probably takes less hash power than you'd think to cause problems.
Comment · 9 years ago
It gets better... their "improved" version of "curl"? Kerl.

You can't make this shit up.

Comment · 9 years ago
For fun.

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