TheHalc

take responsibility [… like] human drivers do.

But do they really? If so, why’s there the saying “if you want to murder someone, do it in a car”?

I do think self-driving cars should be held to a higher standard than humans, but I believe the fundamental disagreement is in precisely how much higher.

While zero incidents is naturally what they should be aiming for, it’s more of a goal for continuous improvement, like it is for air travel.

What liability can/should we place on companies that provide autonomous drivers that will ultimately lead to safer travel for everyone?

Archive.is used to block people with Finnish IPs too, allegedly because of personal immigration issues.

I don’t get the impression it’s something anyone should ever rely on.

Perhaps there’s a danger that, by normalising self-identification as a thief, campaigns like this might have unanticipated societal results.

I’d hate to see shoplifting/burglary/mugging stats climbing in a few years time.

Ah yes, a statement on copyright thanking someone for buying an authorised edition of Great Expectations, a book whose copyright expired in 1940 at the latest…

To what extent is the issue of using screens before sleep a question of mental overstimulation as opposed to specific frequencies of light?

Genuine question.

Sure, but there’s not much they can do about it if things are properly encrypted, for example using DKE on M365.

Sounds like your issue is a shitty workplace and shitty managers more than it is not not working from home.

This is what I was thinking. I’m very lucky to live somewhere where I can live without a car - even here in Helsinki, that’s not always possible.

It’d be the equivalent to spending an extra 2-3 hours a day working (because that’s what the total commute would be), plus money on vehicle upkeep

Maybe this is one of the reasons I actually prefer going to the office. For me, it’s only 15 minutes by metro.

No additional cost, very little wasted/lost time, and I actually enjoy being able to draw a line between work and life by putting them in different physical spaces.

Perhaps it also helps that my managers encourage people to work from wherever they feel they’re the most productive. It’s nice to know that I have the option to work from home without having to explain myself.

Not that I disagree with the rest of your comment, but

No way any normal person would say no to 2mil.

No way would I want the stress or weight on my conscience of having just stolen 2 mil.

In my opinion, anyone who would take that money is the abnormal one.

Amazon is shitting money. They’re not exactly a typical company.

Maybe for a small number of companies in a small number of industries, but most companies rent their office premises, even large companies.

I’ve worked at several multinational companies that sold their HQ buildings when they recognised that building management was not a core competence for them and tying up capital in real estate has a significant opportunity cost for them.

It’s no skin off their noses if commercial real estate plummets in value - if anything, it would be in their favour as their rent would decrease.

If this works at all, every material scientist in the world will be working on similar materials and manufacturing processes for them to improve the effect and make them more manufacturable.

I believe I have read that it’s literally impossible to copy an object’s quantum state without destroying it, so in a real sense a transporter that’s indistinguishable at a quantum level would be moving you rather than creating a copy and killing the original.

The good thing is that if you can detect an effect from a medication and determine its mechanism, there’s the possibility you may be able to synthesise something with a stronger effect and more manageable side effects.

I watched his Hit and Run remake videos from the beginning, and it’s not really about the end product - he made it clear from the beginning that that project was never going to be released.

Mostly, it seems to be about selling his “learn how to make Unreal games” courses and Unreal plugins.

The videos were fun in their own right, to be honest.

Nope. There’s a reason they go after video games that use the red cross symbol for health packs, that dilutes the meaning of what the red cross stands for.

I think Apple users typically fall into one of a few different categories:

1. “I’m a creative/visionary”
2. “I don’t really understand computers”
3. “I need a native Unix command line”

Thanks for the link, but I already provided links to all three patents (confusingly, with the same names) that they were making claims on in my reply.

The thing about patents is that they are regularly granted for blindingly obvious processes that should never be patentable. It’s not just companies like Google that get screwed by this, it’s individual developers, FOSS projects… All sorts.

The patent system is fundamentally broken.

Google doesn’t need me to defend them, but the patents in question seem really generic and obvious…

Play control of content on a display device

Play control of content on a display device

Play control of content on a display device

All filed in 2011.

Patent trolls aren’t the little guy, nor are they a good thing for the little guys out there.