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byfullgandoo
08, 2025 @08:41AM
(#65782234)
Attached to: James D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead At 97
Consider in the US how Jews have made massively disproportionate contributions to science and creative arts. How much of the reason for that is cultural vs genetic? I don't know, but I'm not shocked that a geneticist said it has a strong genetic component.
But you do realize that not all people of Jewish faith are of the Jewish race? So was it people of the Jewish race that are the outlier?
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byfullgandoo
22, 2025 @10:07AM
(#65742946)
Attached to: US Investigates Waymo Robotaxis Over Safety Around School Buses
and if robo car kills an kid who will do the hard time?
Same as when a person does: no one. Car "accidents" i.e. crashes are treated more like an act of nature than either a collisions cause by an individual making poor decisions, and more importantly (especially in North America) by a system set up to rely as heavily as possible on flawed human decisions with little thought to inherent safety in road design.
Basically, people don't really care.
I think you are wrong. People do hard time in cases of traffic accidents. Especially if it results in fatalities. For example, in Canada:
Impaired driving causing death: 4 to 10 years
Dangerous driving causing death: Up to life
Criminal negligence causing death: 4 to life
Hit and run: Up to life
The above are just general figures.
A few actual examples:
Sentences for fatal vehicle accidents (2020–2025):
High-profile impaired and dangerous driving cases
Brady Robertson (Ontario):
Accident: On June 18, 2020, Robertson killed a mother and her three young daughters in a crash in Brampton, Ontario. He was driving with THC in his system at eight times the legal limit.
Sentence: 17 years in prison, with a 20-year driving ban after his release. He was found guilty of four counts of impaired driving causing death.
Akam Jot Sandu (Ontario):
Accident: On September 11, 2021, Sandu, who was drunk and high on marijuana, drove 124 km/h in a 60 km/h zone and killed a ride-share passenger in a collision.
Sentence: 8 years in prison for impaired and dangerous driving causing death.
Deepak Chararma (Halifax):
Accident: In 2024, Chararma was involved in a fatal hit-and-run that killed a university student in a marked crosswalk.
Sentence: 4 years in prison for criminal negligence causing death. He had fled from two other collisions on the same night and was driving 126 km/h in a 50 km/h zone.
Tara MacMunn (Toronto):
Accident: On April 18, 2023, MacMunn, an unlicensed driver, caused a four-vehicle crash that killed a woman.
Sentence: 4 years in prison after pleading guilty to impaired driving causing death.
Artur Kotula (Toronto):
Accident: On October 12, 2021, Kotula, a suspended driver, sped down a residential street, killing two people in a collision.
Sentence: 6.5 years in prison for dangerous driving causing death. Kotula, who is not a permanent resident, faces deportation after serving his time.
Mathis Veillette (Quebec):
Accident: In 2023, a drunk driver caused a crash that killed Veillette, a passenger in the other car involved.
Sentence: 6 years in prison and a 12-year driving ban for drunk driving.
Truck driver involved in Highway 400 crash (Ontario):
Accident: On June 25, 2021, a truck driver on two hours of sleep caused a highway crash that killed four people, including a family of three.
Sentence: 8 years in prison. The judge stated that a message needed to be sent to the trucking industry about driving without sufficient sleep.
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byfullgandoo
025 @09:38AM
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Attached to: 'Unprecedented' Detail: Vera Rubin Space Telescope Releases First Images from Its 3,200-Megapixel Camera
Or "one half". I mean a half is a half why add "one" before it?
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byfullgandoo
025 @10:34AM
(#65450851)
Attached to: Do People Actually Want Smart Glasses Now?
Try fireflies.ai. it's pretty good and better than Teams AI.
You invite a fireflies agent to a meeting. At the end it will summarize the salient points from any shared presentation/docs and who said what etc.
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byfullgandoo
2025 @06:58PM
(#65446149)
Attached to: Air India Boeing 787 Carrying 242 Passengers Crashes After Takeoff
- Cross-border fighting continued for four days before a ceasefire was declared after Pakistan ate some of India's Falafels. I mean Rafales.
Fixed that for you!
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byfullgandoo
025 @08:48AM
(#65421943)
Attached to: Uploading the Human Mind Could One Day Become a Reality, Predicts Neuroscientist
Part 2 reminds me of Asimov's, "The Bicentennial Man" where a robot wanted to be a human.
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byfullgandoo
25 @08:22PM
(#65406217)
Attached to: Pakistan Allocates 2,000 Megawatts of Electricity To Bitcoin Mining, AI Data Centres
it is just the borders in which their tribe lives and more often than not they view the central government with deep suspicion.
Yup. That pretty much describes the Republican pary in the US!
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byfullgandoo
2025 @12:53PM
(#65362031)
Attached to: Dangerous Fungal Spores May Travel the Globe On 'Stratospheric Superhighway'
I thought the dog whistle started with, "when Mexicos sends its people . . . " and culminated with "they're eating the dogs".
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byfullgandoo
2025 @06:53AM
(#65361039)
Attached to: Dangerous Fungal Spores May Travel the Globe On 'Stratospheric Superhighway'
Obama deported the most illegal immigrants in history. But his fault was that he didn't demonize Mexicans.
Apparently that's what the majority of Americans wanted!
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byfullgandoo
0, 2025 @09:20AM
(#65342209)
Attached to: Google Play Sees 47% Decline In Apps Since Start of Last Year
First, they deleted all my apps from the app store. The excuse being that I hadn't "updated" them for a while, and I'm not talking about complying with the latest APIs. Then they deleted my account for lack of activity, i.e., updating of existing apps or uploading new ones.
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byfullgandoo
2025 @05:46PM
(#65333623)
Attached to: Netflix Introduces a New Kind of Subtitles For the Non-Hearing Impaired
I have Bose bluetooth/wired over the ears. Cheaper ones, not the top of the line noise cancelling. I don't think earbuds come close to over the ears. But then I haven't tested many.
I like Bose because they're really comfortable even when I wear them for a long time.
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byfullgandoo
2025 @04:24PM
(#65333491)
Attached to: California Becomes the World's Fourth-Largest Economy, Overtaking Japan
Pakistan has twice now looked the other way at Major terrorist attacks happening in India rather than warn the government and twice now nothing has come of it because they're not allowed to go to war when it would screw with capitalism.
India's official stated position is to foment disturbances and separatist insurgents in Pakistan. Go look up the statements of senior Indian officials (foreign minister, interior minister, etc.), won't be too hard to google. Why would India/Pakistan inform the other side of imminent terrorist attack? During the recent terrorist train hijacking in Pakistan, while the event was ongoing, Indian media gave full coverage to the masked terrorists, lauding them as freedom fighters.
As to war, India has tried limited "surgical strikes" with embarrassing results. India has substantial edge over Pakistan in a conventional war. Consequently, Pakistan hasn't signed any "no first use" of nuclear weapons.
There are hard line dumbasses on both sides and there won't be any progress in the foreseeable future.
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byfullgandoo
2025 @10:46AM
(#65332633)
Attached to: Netflix Introduces a New Kind of Subtitles For the Non-Hearing Impaired
A decent pair of wireless headphones works best for me. I can hear a pin drop and, of course, crystal clear conversations. Bass is not bad at all. I doubt this could be matched by even a calibrated mid-tier sound system.
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byfullgandoo
2025 @02:09PM
(#65321295)
Attached to: Astronomers Confirm First 'Lone' Black Hole Discovery - and It's in the Milky Way
"The black hole is about seven times as massive as the sun, give or take 0.8 solar masses"
How does 7xSun equal 0.8 solar masses?
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byfullgandoo
2025 @09:54AM
(#65307511)
Attached to: China Halts Rare Earth Exports Globally
The world has already learned the lesson. Canada in particular. US is not a reliable partner. In any way.
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