Porsche made 2.7 billion Euros last year (crazy how much taxes get taken from that 7 billion operating profit, freakin Uncle...well whoever the German equivalent of uncle Sam is). Well in any case, do companies put their money in a bank to save for rainy days, like everyone and their mothers told me to do since birth?

Nascar had 30 deaths since it’s start. by the very nature of the sport, I’m surprised the plane race hadn’t had more.

“I wouldn’t call something ‘Autopilot’ if the manual explicitly says that you have to have your hands on the wheel and the eyes on the road at all times.”

Just saw one of the Gee-Bee Racers over the weekend. Demanding and deadly to fly

Great, now I still can’t afford one.

 Autopilot is a fairly generic term these days and is nothing compared to " Full Self Driving  ". Naming it Full Self Driving when it most certainly doesn't is by definition false advertising 

It would be nice if the sound designer had a better understanding of what a scramjet was. He described a ramjet reasonably well, but both ramjets and conventional turbojets have to slow the incoming air below Mach 1 for the engine to work; this limits the maximum speed they’ll propel an aircraft. A scramjet doesn’t…

The US would never admit that it might be their own equipment that caused these issues...US Embassies are PACKED with electronics equipment.

Drinking too much on the job. Hangover syndrome, amirite?

The math is mostly right, but there’s a lot of funny stuff that goes into statistics like this. You’ve rounded down, but it is 1.57 crashes per person. When extrapolating data like this, it is best not to round, since none of it actually applies to an individual directly. Next, a certain percentage of drivers will…

I just drove around the Portland area after the snow storm and saw 2 crashes during a 10 mile round trip for shopping.  Over 1/2 of my co-workers have been in an accident in the last 5 years when you count hitting deer, stationary objects, and other cars.  I know for a fact that none of them were reported to the…

A few years ago people were saying the same thing about computers making art, and yet here we are.

How long would it take to pay for itself in energy savings if I painted my house with this?  Obviously would have to live somewhere you don’t need to use the heat in the winter, so Miami?  Would it work well enough to not have to use the AC in the summer?

(1-0.99999819 crashes/mile)*(553000 miles)= 1.o009 crashes ... so the average American “crashes” once per 553k miles?

Where did you see anything about “hate speech”? You can still call a racist a racist.

So like all AI?

Do they mean a standard Earth based time on the 24hr clock (obvious answer being UTC) or do they mean a moon rotation based clock? Which takes 27 days, instead of 24 hours.

California is also not . . . ideal for wind power. The best place to generate it is offshore in northern California - but the coastline of northern California is pretty mountainous, making building the long-distance transmission lines it will need more difficult and expensive.

It really shows the power of favorable land permitting institutions (you have a lot of latitude to do shit on your own land in Texas) along with cheap land in general. You can get a lot of renewable energy even in states where the government is at best neutral towards it, and sometimes even hostile.

This. No reputable poll would have this have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife sort of question.