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THREAD: some people worry about #ArtificialIntelligence in autonomous vehicles, but I worry moreso about this…
Next up: “pay to brake”. An interesting observation from the comments: the features are tied to the vehicle’s online BMW ownership account, so cannot be transferred to a new owner without rigmarole. This reduces the resale value of the vehicle, since any secondhand sales will disable these bonus features. Unrolled Night drive in a 530e.…
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The Privacy Front in the Messaging Wars – The Diff # Excellent little analysis by @ByrneHobart
Encrypted chat providers are in a strange situation, where they’re worried about two kinds of regulation: from democratic countries worried that authoritarian extremists are coordinating on their platforms, and from authoritarian countries worried that pro-democracy activists are doing the same thing. It’s very hard to design a technology that protects dissidents who want to bring…
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This thread on Nixon
Unrolled… A story … In 1994, I was teaching U.S. history and American government at Oak Ridge HS in El Dorado Hills, California. I had three bright students who were my TAs. The 20th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s resignation was a few months away. I decided to have … 1/ my students — Sherilyn Peek,…
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In Home Of Original Sriracha Sauce, Thais Say Rooster Brand Is Nothing To Crow About : The Salt : NPR
TIL “Rooster Brand” isn’t the original Sriracha https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/01/16/681944292/in-home-of-original-sriracha-sauce-thais-say-rooster-brand-is-nothing-to-crow-ab
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So the Danish health authorities didn’t send out vaccines invites to about 9,000 people because their social security number started with zero … and so when the data was imported eg. 0204563552 instead looked like this: 204563552 (which is an invalid number).
https://twitter.com/baekdal/status/1373248286396715010?s=09
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If you need something interesting to read on a Friday morning, this thread by @seldo on Leonardo da Vinci should be it
It has been a while since my last update to #EuropeanBios, but here we are are #39: Leonardo Da Vinci. The literal definition of Renaissance man, this astonishingly talented man was also openly, flamboyantly, dramatically gay, which is always my favorite kind of history. pic.twitter.com/anuV1ZurcW — Laurie Voss (@seldo) March 19, 2021
