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This is just sad..

This is something a sitcom character would do

Trying to write Hamlet?

The monkey trashed three computer keyboards for some reason. Lol

Yeah - fair point.

They can sniff it out like pigs and truffles.

idk, Bahrain has oil, so they probably know how to find it, if only for that reason

Not sure anybody in the “Dept of War” could point out Toronto or Bahrain on a map.

Absolute morons.

Bennett says the customers are aware of the situation and have been reimbursed for the products they paid for.

“There’s many layers of hilarity to this that we can all just poke fun (at) and the situation is quite funny, while at the same time, I genuinely want everyone—I’m sad that they didn’t get their order,” Bennett said, with a laugh.

To memorialize what happened, Bennett says the two letters have been framed in their respective offices in Toronto and B.C., both mounted in iridescent, bedazzled frames.

AI Doomerism Is Just Marketing

Last week, a group of former OpenAI employees came forward with a very scary warning that AI companies have been acting secretly and irresponsibly and need to be regulated. Was this group of insiders ringing the alarm bell on rampant copyright infringement? No. What about the fact that racial biases are being encoded into these models? Nope. Misinformation and destruction of journalism? Don’t be stupid.

Rather than anything that currently matters or even exists, this group is actually very worried about “the loss of control of autonomous AI systems potentially resulting in human extinction,” as they wrote on their website. It makes for good headlines and is enough to earn them the token New York Times arms-crossed whistleblower photo, but let’s be real. This is just marketing. That doesn’t mean I don’t think these people believe what they’re saying. They definitely seem to. And that’s the problem.

Who could have seen that coming?

I was thinking this too. Four captive rollers in a magnetic frame on the inside of the ball, and a moving electromagnet below the floor to guide it.

😁

Yes

No, workers comp is exactly for this kind of thing. The deal is that workers get paid for injuries on the job regardless of fault in exchange for a simpler calculation of how much they get.

Before worker's comp, it was very common for employers to claim the defenses of contributory negligence (the worker was doing something wrong), fellow servant doctrine (another worker was doing something wrong), or assumption of risk (cmon, he knew it was dangerous when he took the job). Those defenses are no longer available in workers comp cases, so payment is a bit more straightforward.

That struck me as way off base as well.

It's a partially elastic collision. So basically all the momentum is transferred into the person. Makes the calculation really simple:

V_person = mass_ball / mass_person * V_ball

For the bus and cyclist it would be some small amount of momentum removed from the bus by the cyclist because the bus doesn't stop. The relative masses are so different, which is why it appears the bus doesn't slow at all. It does though, but only a tiny bit.

You replied to a 2 month old comment, sounds like you have a bone to pick.

Lol

Assuming a 200lb man and a perfectly elastic collision, the ball would be reduced to ⅓ its original velocity, while the man would be accelerated to 1⅓ of the ball's original velocity, so 4× the end velocity of the ball.

There's almost certainly some exchange between angular/linear momentum, but I'm approaching my wife's tolerance for math at the breakfast table XD

A real one would be like 10-100x that mass.

Ah good point, I assumed the rubber deflection would have altered the interaction. But when a larger bolder hits something there has to be some impulse calculation, Like when a bus hits a cyclist, the bus doesn't stop from firing the cyclist away fast

American football, Canadian football, or fútbol?

"He put himself in harm's way." He won't get shit. Disney will also sue the person who filmed the copyrighted performance.

How is 180kg "fake"???