Important side note (as the author mentioned in the last paragraph): this is a resolution, meaning ‘there is a will to tackle this’, it’s not a law. There’s a long way for this to become law. And: the car lobby in Germany is quite powerful...

animals ≠ sea snakes

purple streetglow FTW!

By ‘trickling down’, right?

I find the naivité of the autonomous car discussion astonishing, given how complex a task like driving is. If you had only autonomous vehicles, and predictable environmental circumstances - ok, this could be a manageable situation. But the mix of autonomous and human-driven vehicles, together with sometimes low…

Stop blubbering!

That statement is exhibit A for ‘technological positivism’. The same kind of blind belief in progress and do-ability that saw AI riiiight around the corner in the late 1980s...

That stuff on the roof is so going to come off after just 10 miles of corrugated road...

Wires for wireless earbuds demand a “yo dawg...” response.

So true. You forgot the ‘Assistant Dean for Outreach’, who likely sits in a posh corner office... And those of us who are doing the research have to argue when we want a phone in our lab, additionally to the office.

Wasn’t the Republican Convention enough for you?

The context is: Arizona.

Under-challening someone is, in a way, much worse than over-challenging someone. This is evident already in secondary education, when the same old stuff is rehashed again and again, just at an insignificantly higher level: many students’ creativity simply ‘dries up’ over time.

TJ isn’t ‘high priced’ - it’s amazingly reasonable for the quality it offers. Unless you’re used to a diet of wonderbread and and frozen beef patties...

Regarding your own financing: aren’t car dealers keen on getting you their financing, meaning that they don’t give you as good a deal if you bring your own money?

He probably just stores information on investments in Swiss ski resorts on this computer...

Unusual - but any watchmaker/jewelry store should be able to adjust this.

Unusual - but any watchmaker/jewelry store should be able to adjust this.

Doesn’t work for me (using Safari).

Ahh - so quaint, and nothing has changed. There are still the technocrats who try to sell the idea that accumulation of knowledge is the same as education, that all this can be made more ‘efficient’ (=costing less), faster (=younger workforce), and with less practice (=more convenience)...

Amazing! What better pretense to settle into a rocking chair by the oven, and open a bottle of good rye!