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Have you noticed that lately there has been a symphony of media news to bash everything related to green energy, including EVs, self driving cars, batteries and so on?
It feels like we are getting brainstormed to induce us to remove investments in this sector so that others can get in at a much lower entry point.
What does self-driving have to do with any of the other things though? Whether there's a human behind the wheel of an EV or an algorithm doesn't make any difference for climate change. If anything, the money wasted on self-driving could have gone into more pragmatic goals.
Fewer people owning cars and instead hailing from a shared pool of autonomous EVs as needed sounds like a solid improvement over the current situation.
Car sharing is already a thing without self-driving, yet people still seem to prefer their own car. That all sounds to me a bit too much like the 50's flying car utopia.
I think the big difference is convenience. Car sharing as it exists requires prior planning/coordination, you can’t just grab one on a whim. That’s enough friction that a lot of people would prefer to own a car instead, especially when you consider that a huge part of the appeal of a car is agency and freedom — no need to operate on anybody else’s time tables or predefined stops, just step out and go wherever you please. The closest we have to autonomous hailing is Uber/Lyft, but that becomes prohibitively expensive, not to mention there’s places Uber drivers won’t want to pick you up from or take you to.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of public transportation )lived in Japan for a while and loved the trains) and think it should be greatly expanded, but driving in the US isn’t going away any time soon and so alongside efforts to improve public transportation, efforts should also go into autonomous driving to try to take even more cars off the road. Ideally the bulk of commuters and errandrunners would be using rail, with the second largest group using autonomous car sharing, and the last and by far smallest group still owning their cars.
I see they are showing Bruce Willis as the artist that has agreed to have his digital twin be used in video production but a few days ago he denied it himself*
> Willis's agent told the BBC, "Please know that Bruce has no partnership or agreement with this Deepcake company."
A charitable assumption would be that Deepcake thought it found a contact with someone pretending to be Mr Willis’ agent, but that was an impostor.
Considering that the statement they think they got from Mr Willis has the same grammar approximations as the rest of the website, I find it unlikely it was actually from him.
I don't seem to understand the confusion here. Deepcake paid Bruce Willis for a one time project (that telecom ad).
The news then seemed to fabricate that he has signed off his likeness in some sort of long term contract. It was later established this wasn't the case, but that still doesn't mean he didn't engage in the previous work.
Yeah something weird is going on here. My first thought was that Willis has aphasia so maybe he forgot he signed away the rights. But I'm pretty sure the statement came from his rep. Unless they're blatantly ripping him off though they'd have to have permission even to use his likeness promotionally.
It isn't US based, so they are likely blatantly ripping it off with no permission to get eyes on their company. There are unlikely to be any legal ramifications.
The less likely possibility is that they did get rights, but look so shady that the rep can't confirm it is legitimate without a blow to credibility.
Hah, as I was reading Bruce Willis' statement on deepcake's site (that didn't seem like technical vocab a Hollywood actor would use) I was wondering "man, it would be too good if they just ripped off his likeness for this and he had nothing to do with it."
We have seen pretty much everything during the last years, so I can easily figure
a situation in which another company made a better deepfake and contacted Deepcake pretending to be the real Bruce Willis, so that they acquired the rights from a deepfake instead of the real actor.
It's about exclusively saving people of a certain ethnicity, not about them helping at all.
Would you also defend charities set up to only rescue people of European ancestry, leaving Africans and Asians behind? Also why stop at rescue, all charitable help should be ethnically targeted. Nothing wrong with that, people like me can go and be black somewhere else, right?
My brother did faint. Before he fainted I asked him are you ok? And he started replying incoherent words, that’s when I knew something was wrong. I was quick enough to go hold him as he was dropping towards the floor like a dead weight.
Also you have to understand I had no clue if the guy was fainting or dying on the spot
Ps: feel free to downvote cause this comment isn’t bringing any value, though it brings value to me as I’m venting off my heroic act..
You did great catching him. Always try to catch someone falling.
A friend became briefly unconscious once and fell while another friend didn't react fast enough to hold him. The result of hitting asphalt hard was bleeding in the brain the size of a fist and 5 days in hospital care with hearing troubles for weeks.
From now on, your brother should tell the doctor/nurse this whenever receiving a vaccination or other injection. They will ask him to lie down, and wait 15 minutes (regardless of this new rule).
Not being able to track means the ads will be less relevant on average, which will decrease the app developer's ad revenue. There is a tipping point that, if reached, will force most developers to double-dip on the freemium strategy instead of ads. Ultimately users are the ones paying the price here.
What do you mean by double-dipping on the freemium strategy?
Are you saying there will be fewer ads, and games will try harder to coerce users into paying some real money for items or levels (but something short of paying for the game outright)?
true but put yourself in the shoes of the SEC. The big losers are the investors in Cheesecake Factory stock. A larger fine would affect these people even more. Maybe (a big maybe) the responsible parties should be forced to quit?
It seems once Big Sur is installed, it cannot be downgraded. Why is that? I thought it's just a software update, which should be reversible with an HD backup, or a disk image, right?
