There are only two hard problems in autonomous vehicles:
1) You're dealing with million-to-one cases.
2) There are a million of them.
Turtle ships https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_ship
Current status: https://xkcd.com/722/
Actually it’s not all in my head. I think there are clear signs the US has temporarily been written off by the rest of the world until it has leadership that can be taken more seriously.
@vgr Now you have me tweetstorming. Internet hot-take punditry is the artificial frosting of writing. But damn me if sometimes a lick of frosting doesn't taste very good.
New post by Sarah Perry https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/06/12/the-well-being-machine/
TIL of Alves dos Reis, who forged papers ordering the printing of massive amounts of *legitimate* Portuguese currency from the official printer, pocketed 25% of it, and spent the rest on land, buildings, businesses, etc. He single-handedly caused an inflationary economic boom. He was only caught when it was noticed that some bills had duplicate serial numbers.
Token classicist