Looks really nice. A+
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Tom, I’m happy to receive your constructive criticism, but I’m disappointed you didn’t fix any of the factual errors we alerted you to via email before you launched this video. Examples:
23:42 You cherry-picked this quote to make it seem like the NTSB blamed automation for the crash, when the report focuses squarely on human error: “The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined that the probable cause of this accident was the flight crew’s mismanagement of the airplane’s descent during the visual approach, the Pilot Flying’s unintended deactivation of automatic airspeed control, the flight crew’s inadequate monitoring of airspeed, and the flight crew’s delayed execution of a go-around after they became aware that the airplane was below acceptable glidepath and airspeed tolerances.”
32:37 Self-driving cars have maps including traffic control so they would know where stop signs are meant to be even if road markings aren’t there or stop signs are obscured. Plus they have better obstacle detection and avoidance than human drivers.
39:16 I’m not saying rare accidents don’t happen, I’m saying they happen less often than common accidents, many of which could be prevented by self-driving cars. I sent you an academic paper that recreated in simulation 72 real-world fatal accidents that occurred in the area where Waymo operates. In almost all cases the accident was avoided or mitigated by the Waymo driver. Why did you omit this study?
47:03 It’s well understood that autonomous cars properly coordinated could reduce traffic because they don’t have the same reaction time delays as humans. For example all cars at an intersection could start moving together instead of one at a time as we currently do.
47:10 We don’t have to increase the car utilization rate to 100% to reclaim significant value. If cars were parked 90% of the time instead of 95%+ we would only need half as many vehicles.
Isn’t it ironic that a video purporting to call out misinformation itself contains so many distortions and factual errors? (Which we pointed out in advance but you didn’t feel compelled to fix)
On the issues themselves, I like public transport. I also ride a bike, and enjoy walking to get around when it’s practical. But cars will be a part of the transport mix for the foreseeable future. And it’s my opinion, based on the evidence, that roads will be safer the more cars are driven by computers than humans. No one has to pay me to tell you that.
Coursera and Pluralsight are much better at least they have some quality standards.
You don’t think a German government agency would do cost-benefit analysis on supporting a project ?!
I think the benefits of FDI are pretty well established.
Capital Investment
Corporation Tax
How many people in the world have the talent to run a $2.4 trillion company effectively.
I recently listened to a Podcast with Andreessen Horowitz, he mentioned this twitter account https://twitter.com/PessimistsArc
“No one got upset when bicycles showed up. No one said, oh my God, we just ruined society.” - https://twitter.com/i/status/1304134132709109761
We're quick to blame anything new for problems within our society.
He mentioned the point how Communism and Nazism spread without social media/internet. People seem to believe what ever their social groups believes so I'm not sure less "fake news" is going to solve that.
fyi - I deleted my Facebook account for other reasons
SEC Charges Robinhood Financial With Misleading Customers About Revenue Sources and Failing to Satisfy Duty of Best Execution
All their stories are opinion pieces, missing out critical facts to suit their narrative.
Sometimes you have to play the game to get ahead in life.
Most people are obsessed with fairness. Recruitment is luck anyways, so I do not see the issue with diversity quotas. Sure incompetent people will get hired but that’s life and happens anyways irrespective of diversity quotas.
A bit naive to think that companies are 100% efficient and don’t make mistakes. Companies aren’t robots, they’re a collection of people, people make mistakes.
I’ve seen executives in the past identify an issue and hire someone to solve that problem, executive didn’t understand the problem, person left the company position wasn’t filled again.
“We got an awful lot of knocks back. People who we thought would have supported us: the Church, the government – who were all members of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement at the time,” she said.
The Dunnes strikers were given their greatest endorsement when the South African Bishop Desmond Tutu – at the time a vocal and renowned critic of apartheid – asked to meet them as he travelled to collect his Nobel Peace Prize in the December after the strike started.
https://www.thejournal.ie/dunnes-stores-strike-8-3690382-Nov...
If a boycott gets popular it's eventually going to get media coverage no?
(Nestlé boycott) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott
(Nike boycott) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...
(South Africa boycott) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnes_Stores_strike
Going into the registry is madness, especially when you're purchasing a license for the OS.
Personally I'm going to get a new mac when they get the ram up to 64GB with the new processors.
Current issues: Screen distorted - Have to use external monitor Laptop randomly freezes for 30s - Great for meetings Bluetooth randomly disconnects all devices WiFi randomly disconnects
Maybe Dell have these issues fixed but their support is pretty bad for known issues, I’ve had several Dell laptops in the past and things just go wrong over time. I’d definitely check out the support pages before you make any decision.
I’m not sure who is considered the best Windows Laptop manufacturer anymore.
My girlfriend has a MacBook and doesn’t seem to have any of the issues I’m plagued with, but again this is anecdotal.