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Reminds me of the Neruda quote: "You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop spring from coming."

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Sounds like a portmanteau of meta and inmates.


to me it sounded like meta + primates:

"At Facebook, we have finally created the perfect high-tech workforce: genetically engineered apes that we call 'Metamates'. Tireless. Genius intellect. Loyal to the death. And...completely non-unionized!"


I can see it now, Meta branching out into the privatized correctional facilities sector.


Metabates is catchier.


If you have a Roku TV, I would urge you to set up a pi hole to see how many queries it sends out. Mine blocks upwards of 10 per minute.


Agreed, I managed to achieve this by port forwarding port 53 in my router settings. This allows hackers to enlist you in their DNS amplification attacks so please never do this.


Yep, standard of care is used in control groups. Also, there are trials in which people are moved from the control arm to the experimental treatment upon increase in tumor size, which allows participants to get a chance to actually trial the drug.


Always encourage her to seek second or third opinions and to join support groups if she can. All cancers are not the same, and staging can determine prognosis, but nothing is set in stone. Ensure that she is active, as that seems to help reduce harshness of chemo to some extent anecdotally.

Let your employer know if they are empathetic, take the FMLA leave to set things up for her. Little things go a long way, like being with her during chemo sessions, cooking food that she likes and is palatable, being on hand to help her with nausea and other side effects, or even arranging distractions like a movie or finding her books to read.


Can a company in CA terminate employment for an employee on long term disability like stage 4 cancer after a certain period of time?


Coinbase customer service has always been tragic. I remember my BTC being locked up until I could "verify" my identity by submitting a photo of my passport, but their site kept glitching out and zero response from customer service. This went on for months.

Pulled all my coins out and will never use this scummy product again.


Pretty neat trick right? Super easy to “buy” coins. Impossible to take them out. Quite the moat.


I wonder if mammals might be lurking deeper, especially ones descended from apes, would be very interesting to see how evolution would have shaped them.


They don't even have reptiles. Pity.


[https://medium.com/unikie/self-driving-cars-2020-and-beyond-...] helped me understand the major players in self driving vehicles and what they're upto.

Tesla does not use Lidar as a cost savings measure, and only uses camera output to determine how the car drives. It is unknown if this is enough to account for enough permutations of traffic, but they're calling it full self driving while using car owners as paying (!) beta testers.

AFAIK, no one is close to releasing an autonomous vehicle that can drive on par or better than an average human driver, but that several have a path to getting there.

I believe many companies can thrive until M&A whittles down that list. I don't think this is a first mover takes all kinda deal because safety will have to be proven over a long time allowing other entrants to prove their worth.


>Tesla does not use Lidar as a cost savings measure

I think it is less about cost saving and more about getting to the root of the problem. According to Elon's statements, Lidar is a crutch and since the AI will eventually have to be good enough to remove the crutch, remove it an the get go and save learning how to use the crutch. This is similar to his reasoning about EVs. Since we will eventually have to have petroleum free cars, Lets remove them as early as possible.


Its a cost savings measure. Tesla is adding an imaging radar to their cars (which gives a LIDAR-like output) because their current sensor suite doesn't cut it. "LIDAR is a crutch" is Elon trying to rationalize why he advertised cars without the necessary hardware as capable of autonomy.

(See https://mobile.twitter.com/greentheonly/status/1319363515610...)


Sometimes you need a crutch because your legs are not up to the task of walking. And the only way to recovery is to use them


> According to Elon's statements, Lidar is a crutch and since the AI will eventually have to be good enough to remove the crutch, remove it an the get go and save learning how to use the crutch.

There's zero reason to believe him on this.

LIDAR - combined with vision - gives a much better awareness. The only reason not to use it is (or was) cost.


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