Hi Peter! You did my E3 visa a while back. When I was standing in line at the US consulate in Sydney, the person in front of me was really nervous, visibly shaking. I saw that their papers had your letterhead, so I was able to calm them down a bit by showing them my papers, which also had your letterhead.
The USS Liberty incident is so often used as a boogeyman to make Israel seem overtly malicious to the USA. Often forgotten is that the day before the incident, the Israeli air force accidentally bombed one of their own infantry columns.
Any state based on racism and supremacist ideology and found and controlled by persons who were explicitly terrorists (likud descends directly from irgun etc) is a threat to not just the US but all of human kind...
But you can't really say that about Israel because they'll use the default antisemitism attack, alongside various dogwhistles to encourage harassment, until you are silenced.
I'm sure meta knows how to make a social product successful, the "everything for everyone" approach has earned them billions of dollars in revenue over twenty years now.
That only worked after they started off being exclusively a social network on college campuses. To the author's point, Threads needs to find a "subset of users [that] love and repeatedly [use Threads]".
Once they find Thread's specific purpose, then they can start to cater that to a broader audience and find true success, imo.
They're very familiar with TikTok and how many people are moving over to use that. Their bet is that they can figure out how to highlight the most interesting content for each user and that content would be better than the vast majority of user curation through follows.
In the past two weeks in San Francisco, I have seen:
- Cruise car stopped dead in the middle of Oak street at Divisadero, at night, with no emergency lights on.
- Waymo car driven onto the sidewalk to pick up a passenger on Scott street at Haight street
- Waymo car stopped, blocking the whole road on Carmelita street because it started a 3 point turn and then decided it didn't have enough room to continue
- Cruise car swerving out in front of traffic from the kerb on Divisadero at Ellis street without signaling
This sounds like a great premise for a video game not unlike Crazy Taxi, but from the perspective of a highway trooper who needs to chase buggy autonomous cabs.
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" is the actual quote from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
I also love the scene where Dave takes Hal apart. We've always called the first computation the Macaulay computer algebra system completed "Hal's Song".
At least when a human is irrationally angry at the fact that I don't have a legal place to drive they just honk and I know to be on the lookout for road rage and other shenanigans. If a car trained on that data is likely to behave absurdly then I can't protect myself _unless_ it has the loudspeaker function to prepare me for its misdeads.
Admittedly, I don’t know what Waymo is (or Cruise for that matter) but if someone told me it was “Uber but they don’t rate their drivers” it would still sound about right as far as human drivers go.
I don’t think any comparison other transport/policy is good way to discuss safety , otherwise we will be talking gun related homicides compared to other developed countries or discuss our covid deaths with other countries due to policy decisions.
Self driving like regular transport should have strong regulations and policing , today police is not equipped to handle these issues(tickets?) and there is no strong regulatory body (like NTSB) which is looking into non fatal incidents and that is a problem
Trains don’t just appear out of nowhere, their trajectory is quite predictable and well documented. If there is a collision it’s pretty hard to blame the train.
I think you misspelled yell. Has anyone in a traffic related anything ever been told advice? Personally, I've only ever seen (heard) it communicated in a yell
