Cocodapuf @ Cocodapuf @lemmy.world

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What types of data does the US sell to advertisers?

Types you haven't even thought of. Every type of data is sold, and then derivatives of data are sold. Directly collected data, inferred data, guesses, it's all packaged up.

Fine, give up on hope universally. Just do it less vocally.

(That is to say, shut up)

It's already happened once. A couple years ago some astronomer spotted a small asteroid with a high albedo (it was very reflective, brighter than normal).

Some Internet folks verified, and with a few more observations they were able to calculate its orbit. Turns out the orbit matched that of the Tesla shot into space. The high albedo would make sense as the Tesla is still connected to the falcon 9 upper stage, which is painted all white.

You seem really invested in making sure Teslas are off the road, but not at all interested in regulation that would keep all dangerous autonomous vehicles off the road. So... do you work for BMW, or Waymo?

I don't understand the complaint. I mean given their track record, with a system like this, they wouldn't be on the road.

You know, unless it all worked.

That's almost like a "three strikes" rule for drunk drivers.

Oh man, that would be amazing. If after 3 strikes, all drunk driving could be eliminated... If only we could be so lucky.

He's not talking about a per-vehicle points system, he's talking about a global points system for Tesla inc. If after a few incidents, essentially Tesla FSD had it's license revoked across the whole fleet, I mean, that's pretty strict accountability I'd say. That's definitely not handing out free passes, it's more like you get a few warnings and a chance to fix issues before the entire program is ended nation wide.

You weren't the user who posted that video, but you seem to be quite knowledgeable in this specific case...

Can you link that crash report? Or can you cite some confirmed details about the incident?

Not the article, the post from njordamir that you were directly replying to.

shouldn't accountability be in place now,

Again literally what that user was suggesting

This is the problem with law enforcement they're all chickenshit fucking cowards. And as long as they're scared, any action they take is legal.

I'm so tired of hearing the same old excuse "I only used my firearm because I believed my life was in danger" well that's a nice story, but the suspect was holding his cell phone, not a gun. It sounds like what you should have done was grow a pair and keep your cool. If you were still too scared, you should have left, or called for backup, or fucking resign. Killing someone when you're scared isn't acceptable behavior, it's murder.

And let me say once and for all, police, you are allowed to run away. If a situation is scary if one of the people in a group you're looking at is black, you're allowed to run. I know that's sooo scary, so you have permission to leave whenever you think a situation is getting out of hand. It's actually been established that police have no obligation to protect the public, so in those iffy situations, just leave. Just don't kill anyone.

Sorry for that tangent, I know this isn't really what the story is about.

Actually, lots. The issue is that if it doesn't work it's dangerous.

Man, I cannot figure out why that vehicle was turning. What is it trying to avoid? Why does it think there could be road there? Why doesn't it try to correct its action mid way?

I'm really concerned about that last question. I have to assume that at some point prior to impact, the system realized it made a mistake. Surely. So why didn't it try to recover from the situation? Does it have a system for recovering from errors, or does it just continue and say "well I'll get it next time, now on with the fetal crash"?

There's no accountability for this horribly dangerous driving, so they shouldn't be on the road. Period.

Well that's exactly what their post was about, adding accountability.

It's sort of brilliant, in a Lex Luthor kind of way...

Likewise, switched to Lemmy, never looked back.

I only use reddit now when it shows up in search engine results.

You know, if some nation wanted to end this conflict and end a lot of the conflict in the middle east, there'd be an easy way to do it.

Just give Iran a couple of nukes.

Hear me out. Do you remember back when every week there was troubling news coming out of North Korea? A new threat, a new declaration that the US was evil, a new set of sanctions against NK, a new ballistic missile tested by launching towards the US, tensions steadily rising. Everyone wondered if they were going to start a world war.

Then they successfully tested a nuke. People shuddered and talked about that for a month or so, and then forgot about it. Since then, to my knowledge, there have not been new declarations that the west is evil and there have not been new sanctions institute against them. People just leave them alone. The only news I hear about from NK is about poverty, small border incidents, or Kim Jong Un's steam account.

Basically I attribute this to people being scared, now that they have the bomb, just don't poke the snake and it won't bite you. And honestly, that's fine.

So what would this mean for Iran/Israel? If Iran had the bomb, how would that change things? Well, I would expect the same behavioral change from Israel, fear. They might stop poking the snake, really, they'd have to stop poking the snake. Israel would find themselves in a precarious (but not impossible) position. They would need to switch their tactics to diplomacy before military force. The US may even decide to stop encouraging Israel to be provocative. In short, Israel will have to play ball, they'll have to try to get along with their neighbors, and to do that, they're going to have to change their policies with Palestine. A lot will have to change.

Yeah, I laughed at that.

Global CO2 production dropped dramatically for years after WW2. It doesn't even take eliminating a significant fraction of the population to drastically improve our emissions, all it takes is a large economic impact. Less global prosperity = less CO2.

So hey, maybe this is great for the planet... (But still really bad for the human race)

Yeah, that's cool.

Well I guess my opinion is that it's essentially never "legitimate" to be the aggressor. Determining which party is the aggressor can sometimes be complicated, but it often boils down to this: which party is crossing the border?

In this case, I'm sure many would say that Iran took the first aggressive action by pursuing a nuclear program, but I have a few issues with that. First, Israel already has nuclear weapons, so surely that is an earlier provocation. Secondly, Iran still isn't crossing the border, Israel was first to pull the trigger, and they pulled a lot of triggers (in Iranian territory). And finally, Israel and Iran have been in the process of forging nuclear treaties many times now, and nearly every time Israel has sabotaged the talks with provocative, often military actions, or they simply left the table - it seems clear to me that Israel does not want a nuclear deal, they will not accept any kind of compromise.

I mean, lead is a very common element and can have many legitimate uses. If we're talking about using some amount of lead in a camera sensor, do understand how tiny camera sensors are. This is likely a very insignificant amount of lead. And it will be fused into this sensor, it's not likely to ever leave the confines of the component's plastic casing, behind a lens, with a phone. That's very different from say, mixing it into gasoline and burning it.

I've heard there's been some real breakthroughs in perovskite for solar cells in just the last few years. As you said, chemical instability is supposed to be their primary weakness, but my understanding is that progress has been made in finding the perfect chemical makeup for the "sandwiching" materials between layers of perovskite. I'm pretty sure that "perfect" chemical makeup is the proprietary trade secret variety, so I don't really know much more about it.

And admittedly, I've never been in the field of materials science, so you're much more of an expert in this area. But I've been following a lot of green energy news, and I know promising progress is actively being made on perovskite.