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Parents do have "skin in the game".

Is your argument that a 1 week old baby with ~84 years of expected lifespan remaining should have a vote worth 84x that of an 83 year old?

An example often given (UK) is a drinks can being stuck under the brake pedal.

You still have to lift all the coins.

This has been extremely common in the UK for about 10 years - especially for young drivers.

I warned my nephew off it but sure enough, he took the £200 (£1400 to £1200) discount on insurance. His insurance was cancelled because they say he did over 35mph in a 30 zone, so now his insurance premiums are £2000+ because he has to declare he has a history of having an insurance policy cancelled.

I heard a similar story about AI being used on MRI scans.

What the researchers hadn't realised was that the samples were coming from two different models of MRI machine and that patients with more serious symptoms / worse expected outcomes were more often being sent to be scanned on the more advanced of the two.

The AI had just detected some hidden difference between the outputs and was infering that the patients scanned on the expensive machine were more likely to have a serious condition.

The security company paid by Dominion to certify that their machines were unhackable, as mentioned in the article.

That stood out to me too.

That's interesting. I always thought each one had a basic pass-fail test after packaging.

They also went from parents can "track your kids by buying them an iwatch" to "our fundamentals are privacy".

Theranos sued multiple blood pathologists into oblivion who were pointing out that it was fundamentally physically impossible to do what they claimed they were already doing. Thepathologyblawg was one. No amount of microfluidics can improve a 100ml arterial blood test to being done with a 1ml finger prick test because of biology (capillaries filter cells by size) and the statistics of sample sizes.

It isn't a matter of "not having met deadlines". It was just fraud mixed with enough money to hide the fraud, so maybe a ponzi?

I've been looking for that for quite a while, thanks for the link

"Colossus: The Forbin Project" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

I prefer this example.

I scrolled down far enough to find something mentioning this, dozens of comments above just saying that robot landers must work better just because.

The best bit about that ad is that my homepod replied to every 'hey siri ...' with an error.

"Hey siri read me my last email" "I'm sorry I can't do that" "Hey siri list my reminders" "You can use the photos app to do that" "Hey siri show me my fashion line (?)" "You can try a search in your web browser"

<kitchen homepod> "Hey siri set a timer for 5 minutes"

  "hey siri what timers are running" -> "it's 10:45am"
  "hey siri how long left on the timer" -> "there's one timer with 5 minutes remaining"

  <bedroom homepod>
    "hey siri list all timers" -> "there are no timers set"
    "hey siri how long left on the timer" -> "it's 10:45am"

I think you're missing the point that it is defined, the current html5 spec says that <title> implies the existence of <head>, <body> implies the end of <head>, body tags imply the end of <head> and the start of <body> etc.

HTML5 is not XHTML.

<!DOCTYPE html> <title>Title <h1>Heading

expands to

<!DOCTYPE html> <head><title>Title</title></head> <body><h1>Heading</h1></body>

It could also be a men-who-stare-at-goats style psyop against a foreign power.

Germany already intercepts and decrypts all private messages?

there's still no leek / scallion emoji despite the family being the 2nd most used vegetable in SEA cooking.

I don't think its a common opinion that its very slow. It builds queries and executes them very quickly compared to most.

It does have a built in footgun where for some structures it defaults to invisibly lazy loading sub-collections, you can (almost certainly should) disable that and specifically tell it to populate that data in the first query using Include() or any of the other projection mechanisms. Is it possible you had that?

Do you have any good links about this please?

It's interesting how the traditional standards bodies are adapting to the new tech.

In what way is it BS?

The law that requires all people to work from home has gone. Employers can still, of course, require it. The civil service is one such employer.

I think it goes further than that, the point is that scientifically the tests could never have worked.

Carreyrou originally got tipped off by pathologists saying that this was impossible, then they got sued into oblivion (see thepathologyblawg).

(IANAP but this is my understanding)

Some real tests rely on having a huge blood sample (e.g. 100ml), being filtered (e.g. by centrifuge) and then a test of a known sensitivity applied.

Theranos claimed that their tests were more sensitive so could work with smaller samples. Statistically this doesn't work because with a finger-prick test (e.g. 1ml) the sample is 100x less likely to contain the target cells - cells are integers.

Additionally finger-prick tests contain only capillary blood - they're filtered by the finger blood vessels only allowing tiny cells - some of the Theranos tests claimed they could detect markers that only exist in arterial and venous blood.

a lot of this recent media coverage seems like a ploy to negotiate cheaper windows licenses out of microsoft.

it can't possibly charge them efficiently enough for it to be relevant

I assume that was the whole reason for wording the title like that

this must be about the 5th time i've watched this over the years. i still keep forgetting what's possible with it.

not sure the reality of this.

who are the people buying a ~$1000? mains-connected - and pretty huge, ugly and imposing - "smart mailbox" just to get deliveries of the dozen or so items a year that will be under the 500g or so weight limit for drone deliveries?

who lives in an area where wind and rain are such a rare occurence that they will happily postpone a delivery a day or two, has the room and money for such a device and doesn't already have a back yard where the drone could drop it.

seems like an invention looking for a reason to exist, or more likely just a "we're-relevant" marketing exercise for northrop.

I've used pulumi for work in a relatively large scale set of deployments, and have been using it since an early beta - but for Azure.

There are significant issues with it - terrible stability and reliability between version upgrades, its constant desire to tear down entire sets of resources and regenerate them when no change has occurred etc.

I assume these issues stem from the fact that pulumi's azure providers are generated directly from the terraform providers and practically nobody ever uses those.

The only reason I'm mentioning it is that I only ever see pulumi described in glowing reports of success whereas for us it's beginning to seem like a mistake ever using it in the first place.