stefanix

LOL. Babies have an amazing ability to end themselves even without adding robe-like object to the mix.

Airplane auto-pilots are very primitive compared to the what's going on in self-driving cars. They require a lot of work by the pilot to operate and aren't making any difficult decisions. Obviously you want to be able to overwrite them.

Car auto-pilots are super sophisticated comparatively and aim for complete automation. Once you make the "statistically safer" and "efficient traffic flow" argument you are basically talking about an always on system. At this point turning the auto pilot off is an act of carelessness. This would be especially true if you don't have many recent manual driving hours.

The fact the discussion has already passed the feasibility and usefulness stage and focuses on rare obscure cases should be a good indication that it's hard to argue for manual driving. What seems to be left are old habits even before the tech is fully available ;)

Without reading the article I already have so many questions. Why all this speculation!? How many doctors who have learned how to cook does it need to test this hypothesis and aren't those easy to come about.

Can we just skip the CFLs and go straight to LED.

In what kind of parallel future are you? Thought we all realized an internet-enabled fridge was just an artifact of our internet-philia and past lack of imagination.

#overengineered

See Lessig's campaign for why this is https://lessig2016.us/one-mission/

Like fixing a boat hull with duct tape. Totally possible if you don't care about water in the boat.

Tesla website is pretty clear who they market to. People who buy SUVs to feel safer. See HEPA filter mentioned as central feature. Also this is not a niche demographic. I would not be surprised if the majority of SUVs are commuting and shopping vehicles exclusively.

First time I have seen a HEPA filter as a central feature of a car. Tesla certainly understands the main reason people buy SUVs: feel safer

Maybe it's the other way around. You have to be extremely serious when your goal is safe C/C++.

tl;dr

The function of Bitcoin goes beyond it's use. It's sending a very clear message to other forms of financial transaction to keep it simple and cheap.

I think it delineates a threshold where no other financial transaction can go. I think it's very beneficial even though comparatively few transactions go through Bitcoin.

About the experiment, how can Libet conclusively derive the decision came after the initial EEG measurement. I mean how did he know the duration it takes to report the decision. The origin of the decision to being able to reflect on it may take a variable amount of time therefore invalidating the claim.

Also the strict separation of conscious/unconsciousness seems simplistic. Most actions may very well be processed subconsciously with very little decision making bubbling up to consciousness. Driving a car comes to mind. This also means when asking a subject to process something impulsively the vast majority of their actions may be subconscious.

tl;dr People spacing out does not invalidate free will.

Not the same.

Orthodontic procedures generally pay off in the long run. Straight teeth and an aligned bite are typically more functional. Straight teeth are easier to clean and preserve.

In many EU countries health insurance pays for them because a long term financial argument can easily be made.

Bad teeth can cause severe health issues and get expensive later in life.

Nice, turtle is awesome. BTW .turn() seems to be left() or right()

Just checked, got totally surprised. Firefox basically overwrote my previous setting on third-party cookies. As you said the new checkbox is very much hidden: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-third-party-coo...

The dichotomy is less pronounced than it appears.

Architecture can be simulated with high accuracy without actually building the blueprints (actually 3D models).

Software apps on the other side take considerable human resources to be tested. Simply running the software is a poor assessment of fitness.

DVD? What is that?

Maybe give it another week. Lately these kind of news are strategically published in smooth crescendos of severity.

Love seeing the progression in skill.

On a different note, most artists I know are successful because they excel in making insightful commentary on contemporary culture. They look at human agency and make sens of it. They crate a playground of imagination for possible futures.

Skills in traditional art practice are often secondary to the latter.

Same here, very functional but too cluttered. It feels messy even though technically it looks good. I have tried several times to get a group of people on it but failed because the UX was not met with love.

This project could really take off with a clean UX. Unite and place the chat and mail feature in the foreground, other features in the background.

I would love to see Retroshare go places ...

"That kind of stovepipe way of doing things isn't going to scale,"

It's amazing how many times this argument is made by proprietary systems people. In their world the web should have never happened.

The only chance they have is to use lots of VC money on certification bs that tries to lock out open source projects.

I smell PR as well.

I do love my trackpoint for these quick pointer movements between typing but I doubt many people can do prolonged trackpoint action without developing RSI.

Do people really care about cash? Is it still a thing?

I mean what other way is there online that resembles cash transactions?

True. A few years ago we still needed to build our own laser cutter[1]. Few places provided laser time and turn-key systems were super expensive. We eventually published the design and more than 200 hacker spaces and universities had the same problem and built the system as well. These days lots of people can find a hacker space with good tools very close to them.

[1] http://www.lasersaur.com/

FreeCAD is a bit like this. See: http://freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Scripted_objects

Nom is such good name for a parser. Will ver 2.0 be called NomNom?

Just checked it out...on Linux. Cross-plateform packages have been posted to their forum. Solvespace is fairly intuitive and quite functional. Happy to have found it.

Linux: http://solvespace.com/forum.pl?action=viewthread&parent=574

OSX: http://solvespace.com/forum.pl?action=viewthread&parent=586

"only 27% of internet users are English-speaking."

This metric has probably less meaning than it seems . How many of them are multi-lingual. What level of English-proficiency makes somebody English-speaking? What percentage of purchasing power is within users with English skills? What is the trend of English skills in young internet users?