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Comment · 4 years ago
These are just the first few images. Give it time.
Comment · 5 years ago
If there's a person at an intersection directing traffic, it will be very hard to have the car itself communicate with them as easily as a human can. Edge cases like that is where AGI would be needed it seems.
Comment · 5 years ago
Trump tried to lift the Russia sanctions in 2016. Trump said he'd partner with Putin on cybersecurity while they were preparing a major hack on the federal government, which succeeded. Stop gaslighting us.
Comment · 5 years ago
Nonsense comment, there's plenty of evidence and it's all public.
Comment · 5 years ago
The last major cyberattack came from Russia. Russian hacker group ransomware hit US companies. It may not be "The Cold War", but it's definitely US vs Russian nationalism.
Comment · 5 years ago
To be fair, you would not want to be confronted with the reality of these products 10 years ago, there's been a million bug fixes that have been done since then. But I agree on Search, it's almost like they sabotaged it.
Comment · 6 years ago
In reality it's like Comcast. You could theoretically switch ISPs, but realistically and in practice it's a monopoly.
Comment · 6 years ago
+1 ONI. Truly a black hole that manages to warp time itself.

Also maddening being an early fan in beta, then repeatedly throwing out whole designs, plans and game files as they kept adding new things in the game and changing them.

Comment · 6 years ago
Some of the links are from 10 years ago, and it shows. His views on solar being too expensive for practical use seem anachronistic now, and I'm sure his opinion has changed with the market.
Comment · 6 years ago
If a 9-year-old types into Google, they will easily find porn.

But, maybe it shouldn't be so easy. And yes, once they're in middle school and high school they'll just figure out alternatives, but I don't think it's unreasonable to put up some dead simple barriers to protect innocence.

Just because it was easy for those of us growing up in the 90s and after doesn't mean all children have to be exposed like that.

Comment · 6 years ago
Genocide, accidental or not, is surely still a thing.
Comment · 6 years ago
Whether or not they knew they were transporting disease at the time really doesn't excuse the end result: mass genocide. And of course this doesn't authorize taking land.

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