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Well, that's just a clever PR lipservice move. They couldn't win the contract because they didn't have the ability to, so rather than failing embarrassingly, they blamed their exit on their brand-new AI principles to make themselves look good. This was the consensus on HN at the time.

I lived in Florida, and recall hearing that much of the state is actually below sea level. I saw some forests, but much of the state is swamp, or former swamps that were drained for suburbia.

> Kicking the crap out of Google in the courts is the one good thing Oracle is doing.

Could you elaborate on why this is a good thing?

Gains are only realized when they sell, so liquidity doesn’t matter if they don’t sell.

While smarts are generally useful, is not creativity a stronger influencer in innovation? But I’m not sure what kind of test could measure creativity.

> Hmm, who do I trust, the guy who figured out how to land rockets onto a barge, or some “analyst” ...

This kind of comment is a disservice to all the engineers who actually figured it out. Elon Musk is certainly a visionary and a financier, but is not a 1000x engineer/mathematician who did all the work himself

> “Sorry, but..”

So are you refuting that the missions were incremental? Because if you look at the mission outcomes, they certainly were..

As you described, the default is to yield, and so the vehicle can always yield and signal its intention to do so by breaking slowly. And I agree, there may not always be a sign (a storm or driver could knock it over), so the default should always be to yield.

Yes, it is practically useful advice, especially when you’re on a flight with no WiFi.

> McAffee who announced a few years ago that they will happily turn a blind eye on NSA&FBI malware.

Source?

As mentioned.. Libtin’s OpenSSL dependency can be avoided if you can do without WPA2 support. Not sure about libpcap though