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cityofghosts commented on Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street reuters.com/article/us-au... · Posted by u/kgwgk

more_corn · 7 years ago

Every lesson from aviation is earned in blood. This death wasn't necessary though. The Otto/Uber guys have been informed about their car's difficulty sensing and stopping for pedestrians. I know this because I informed them myself when one almost ran me down in a crosswalk in SF. Can't learn anything from your lessons unless you listen. Maybe they can pause and figure out how to actually listen to their reports of unsafe vehicle behavior.

cityofghosts · 7 years ago

this comment section should be read in front of congress the next time regulating the tech industry is in the table. these people literally think its ok to perform experiments that kill people.

cityofghosts commented on Structural engineers are unsung heroes theguardian.com/artanddes... · Posted by u/fern12

jdavis703 · 7 years ago

I hope as you progress through your career you learn to be more respectful of diverse ideas. I'm a software engineer, I have to have discussions with designers and business people who also sometimes ask for things that just aren't reasonably doable given time and budget constraints. It's our job as professionals to explain this using a tone and words that educates others on what the technical constraints are.

cityofghosts · 7 years ago

you arent an engineer. engineers have to be licensed and are liable if their work fails.

cityofghosts commented on Structural engineers are unsung heroes theguardian.com/artanddes... · Posted by u/fern12

cityofghosts · 7 years ago

i dont understand why people who write code consider themselves engineers. they arent liable if their code breaks. they have no professional licensing system. they dont even need an education.

cityofghosts commented on New Orleans ends its relationship with tech firm Palantir nola.com/crime/index.ssf/... · Posted by u/dsr12

cityofghosts · 7 years ago

and mr palantir got up from his desk, steaming envelopes, and walked down the street, into the future. "ill be a postman" he thought. "wont have to spy on anybody".

cityofghosts commented on Stephen Hawking has died bbc.com/news/uk-43396008... · Posted by u/Cogito

applecrazy · 7 years ago

Is it possible to get a "black bar" on HN to honor this god of physics, who contributed so much to the literature and inspired many people, including myself?

cityofghosts · 7 years ago

Only if it emits radiation.

cityofghosts commented on Jimmy Is Everywhere: On James Baldwin's FBI File the-tls.co.uk/articles/pu... · Posted by u/samclemens

cityofghosts · 7 years ago

We are all Jimmy now.

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cityofghosts commented on Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage gizmodo.com/google-is-hel... · Posted by u/fraqed

cityofghosts · 8 years ago

It worked for the UK and the British East India company , it should work fine for America. Tesla can set up mining camps on Mars and eliminate ten percent of it's "underperforming" population every year, just like it does at it's factory.

cityofghosts commented on Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage gizmodo.com/google-is-hel... · Posted by u/fraqed

chocolatebunny · 8 years ago

I remember hearing stories about how the British hired toy makers to make guns and furniture makers to make planes back in world war 1.

cityofghosts · 8 years ago

World War 1 ended. The entire premise of free society is that war comes to an end, there is a such a thing as peacetime. Somehow that idea has died, and with it morality and social conscience. Comparing our spat with a few mountain dwelling cavemen on cellphones with a global War to threatened the existence of civilization itself is beyond ignorant. It's criminal intellectual negligence.

cityofghosts commented on SJ Games vs. the Secret Service (1990) sjgames.com/SS/... · Posted by u/RKoutnik

cityofghosts · 8 years ago

The Hacker Crackdown of 1990 by Bruce sterling was the first long form e book I read. It foretold the future in many ways. 1st, it was a bright shining line between the old world of govt doing this stuff in shadows, buried in a blurb on of 10 of the newspaper, and it being in the open for millions to read all the details, about plain as day. As long as you knew bbses... it was there. Second, it was distributed for free so I payed the author nothing, which felt weird. Like a piece was misssing. Third it introduced me to brutal fatalism, which is a cousin of realism but also a neighbor of depression. There was no happy ending, people did not learn from their mistakes, bad deeds were not apologized for not punished, and laws did not change. Law enforcement are still, largely, uneducated and technically illiterate, and they are still going after harmless nobodies for no good reason.

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