So Labour are banning crypto donations because it will hurt their political opponents.
That's a plausible, if cynical, take on the situation.
On the flipside, who exactly would donate to Reform with crypto but not through a simple bank transfer? I'm trying to imagine a non-shady scenario where a donor wants to give cash to a political party but is unable to do so because crypto isn't an option.
For example, I would argue that no one and no computer should be driving in the bulk of situations we are currently driving in, because cars are a terrible mode of transportation in the cities where most people live.
I don't agree with it, but that's a valid opinion. My response was written in response to the position that many commenters take (though perhaps not you) that self-driving cars need to be infallible before they're allowed on the roads, while ignoring the fallible human drivers that most don't seem to have a problem with.
Liability insurance is required in the US. Uninsured drivers still exist. I'm sure they do in Canada, too. Insurance also behaves the same fundamental way. If you have a history of at-fault claims you'll quickly find yourself uninsurable.
3 gender benders within 10 years and you are uninsurable.
I don't know if that's an official policy, but I imagine if the anti-woke wing of the current government has their way it might become the case
Having an individual to sue or put in prison doesn't change the fact that you've been injured/killed. The question is what we need to do to prevent pedestrians being run over by a reversing vehicle. Punishment after the fact is a separate matter.
Even setting that aside, it's not clear to me that you'd be better off trying to recover some sort of compensation from an individual with an unknown level of insurance than from the deep pockets of Waymo.
This suggestion solves the problem, at the tradeoff of costing 10-100x more. Parking decks (let alone underground parking) are massively expensive compared to a surface lot. And that's before installing a stacking robot.
I think the simplest solution is for Waymo to find a way to safely disable their reverse beeps in depots. Failing that, make every charging stall a pull-through so there's no need to reverse.
Unless there's CCTV watching every charging point how would they prove it?
You're questioning whether you'd be captured on some sort of camera in a depot full of self-driving cars? The things are sensor platforms on wheels.
Should this requirement apply to autonomous vehicles equipped with sensors that would prevent it from hitting a pedestrian when reversing?
Until they are infallible, yes.
Should we then apply the same logic to very fallible human drivers?
Trying to convert that would introduce new mistakes, you'd likely lose data, etc.
But surely the accountants will be totally understanding when the developers (probably from a consulting firm, or at best another department) will inform them that the mistakes are because the specification they were provided wasn't sufficiently clear! All that's needed to clear them up is a costly change order.
But 20 million cells? That seems ridiculous. Why aren't they using a database for something that huge?
I'm agnostic as to whether it should be a proper database implementation without knowing more about the use case.
But, is 2e7 cells really that many? If I spent 5 minutes brainstorming I could probably think of 20 pieces of metadata you'd want in columns of a spreadsheet tracking financial transactions. You'd generate more than a million rows (and so 20+ million cells) in less than a year of tracking just paychecks for their 150,000+ employees.
I'm mostly surprised that Google Sheets chokes on what feels like a fairly small amount of data. My best guess is that it's some insane formulas that it struggles with more than the number of cells.
Same if you ask it about the next full moon - or really anything temporal subject about the present or future where there's a lot of training data from the past - as is to be expected.
I just asked Chat GPT "When is the next full moon?" and it did a web search to give me the correct answer for my location.
I found out and it's boring. Amazon has 60 crashes per million miles, half of USPS rate.
This is a completely unscientific gut feel, but I suspect that postal workers are much more likely to report minor incidents than Amazon delivery drivers.
I'm more worried that China would brick TP-Link routers en masse as a sort of hybrid warfare tactic if, for example, the situation in Taiwan goes kinetic than I am that the NSA is going to gather any info I care about.
(Assuming there are actually backdoors in TP-Link routers. I don't know.)
Ellison could wring a buck out of roadkill.
Not if the Secretary of Health eats it first!
Woohoo! And, how well do 'public service announcements' help with girls in high school or before getting pregnant? Same for smoking.
Odd to pick out two societal issues with rates at near historic lows. Public education campaigns paired with other interventions (e.g. tobacco advertising bans) can work.
I want a watch, or maybe even a ring, I can take off and set down that projects a screen or 3d hologram and virtual keyboard.
I don't see that format working until we have actual hologram technology. The vast, vast majority of places where I've used my smartphone and tablet in recent memory wouldn't have had suitable surfaces to project the screen or keyboard onto.
If a non-hologram projector does work for your use case, we'd still need massive improvements in battery technology. What you're describing seems analogous to a Nebula Capsule 3. It only gets 2.5hrs of battery life, and is much, much chunkier than a smartphone let alone a watch/ring. I'd also be skeptical of how visible the image would be in, for example, my brightly lit office, and cranking up the brightness would only increase the battery life challenge.
VMS must die!
