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Comment Skype is a real tradgety of corporate stupidity (Score 4, Insightful) 99

Skype was awesome in the early 2000s. There was nothing like it. I could have and should have dominated the mobile and internet messaging industry, especially with the backing of Microsoft.

But instead, MS bought it up so that it would stop competing with MSN Messenger. They starved it.

I hope they don't do the same thing to GroupMe -which is still awesome despite MS.

Comment Re:Why AI won't replace humans? Responsibility (Score 1) 73

But here is the problem with self-driving cars: one will eventually crash. When a human driver crashes and kills people, well that's a tragedy but it's a one-off. You punish that one person, and life goes on. But when a self-driving vehicle crashes, it's no longer a one-off. You've got thousands, or millions, of the exact same cars on the road with the exact same software. If another car somewhere else makes the same mistake and kills MORE people, now you have a major recall problem. You aren't just talking about a liability insurance payout, now we are talking a negligence lawsuit against the company.

Currently if a human crashes a Tesla, it's the drivers fault. But if a self-driving Tesla crashes, then it's Tesla's fault.

Comment Results confirmed in historic meta study (Score 4, Interesting) 94

A history meta study of academic papers on student engagement and disruption show that students were misbehaving and disrupting before smartphones.

"I just don't remember my classmates being disruptive and disrespectful to our elders, but I guess we were..." Said one scientist.

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