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Actually you can still haggle at the tesla store for in stock models. Otherwise you pay MSRP.

Is it easy to break a SIM pin?

If 90% come from 10 rivers, shouldn't we focus on monitoring those?

One takeaway: always put a PIN on your SIM card?

Macs considered obsolete after 7 years https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624

Actually it says the 20,000 is only for Master/PhDs, so this could reduce the total number of H1Bs issued if there are fewer than 20,000 Master/PhD applicants. Otherwise the effect is more Master/PhD H1Bs and fewer others.

Anybody have clear instructions on how to enable this?

Most Uber drivers are on Lyft as well AFAICT (where possible). So the marketplaces are basically identical.

Also interesting to see all autonomous accident reports: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/auton...

K cough ushner

Wow, in particular, "The whitelist deals, with companies including RBC Capital Markets and Nissan Motor Co. , were struck with advertisers or Facebook partners that were valuable for other reasons, according to some of the people familiar with the matter."

Causality is hard.

Trajectory matters more. Valuations are forward-looking.

Same thing can happen in a Canadian election: win without popular vote.

Sure absolute size doesn't matter. But what about number of neurons or neural connections? I'd be curious what the actual studies say.

The article hinted at this: "African gray parrots, which can identify shapes and even count, as well as corvids, which have an equivalent number of neurons to some primates and, it is suggested, may even be self-aware."

Comparing brain size vs intelligence across species seems weird since neuron size/density differs so much.

Interesting tid-bit: First author is Ryan Dahl, creator of NodeJS, now a Google Brain Resident.

Unlikely

'Computers are capable of extremely fast control, but that doesn’t necessarily demonstrate intelligence, so agents must interact with the game within limits of human dexterity in terms of “Actions Per Minute”.'

Blog post says it launched for Chinese/English.

Pretty common saying actually.

Google gets plenty of speech training data from Android phones; I doubt they need more from startups.

I actually think this is quite do-able and has been for a while. Although deep learning has revolutionized object recognition, face detection has been working reasonably well for some time, e.g. your cell phone camera or Google street view face blurring.

In case it wasn't clear, this is DeepMind.

If you're going to use Rome+Egypt for the West, you should probably include Ancient China in Japan's history. Japan didn't suddenly emerge out of the woods in 250AD.

ironically "has announced via a pop-up to users"

The website doesn't say who is behind this. How can a user trust it?

Seems like a great feature for Google for Work, although I doubt most folks who get phished would install this extension voluntarily.

> Google is patently a search monopoly right now

No. Bing is a click away and provides comparable results. A monopoly occurs when the consumer has no choice but the monopolist. That's clearly not the case here.

That's a very generous title. I would have chosen:

"Vanguard defends poor security hygiene"

> The insurance companies are in business to make money, so (on average) they don't sell policies that lose them money.

Not necessarily. Insurance companies on average lose money from policies and make it up by investing the float. Think of the money they lose on policies as the "interest" that you get paid for lending them your premiums.