Trump Makes Nice at Davos, Airplane Tariffs are Struck Down, and Robots Take More of Our Motorcycle Racing Jobs: P.M. Links

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  Trump strikes a conciliatory posture at Davos.

• U.S. trade panel surprisingly strikes down 300 percent Trump administration tariff on Bombardier jets.

• Robots are taking all our motorcycle racing jobs.

• Hillary Clinton declined to fire a 2008 campaign advisor after sexual harassment allegations were made against him.

• California Gov. Jerry Brown makes more promises about electric cars.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Trump strikes a conciliatory posture at Davos.

#MDGA

[Rhywun]

Careful not to OD on that s--t.

[BigT]

Trump at Davos:

"Regulation is stealth taxation. The U.S., like many other countries, unelected bureaucrats -- and we have -- believe me, we have them all over the place -- and they've imposed crushing and anti-business and anti-worker regulations on our citizens with no vote, no legislative debate, and no real accountability."

Has there ever been a more libertarian comment from a US President?

[Square = Circle]

Has there ever been a more libertarian comment from a US President?

Not since Reagan, no. Which is a good reminder that rhetoric =/= reality.

[BigT]

Trump has removed more regulations than Reagan did in his first year. Of course, Reagan had a Donkey Congress to deal with.

[Citizen X - #6]

Trump strikes a conciliatory posture at Davos.

He assumed The Position.

[Citizen X - #6]

Hillary Clinton declined to fire a 2008 campaign advisor after sexual harassment allegations were made against him.

That advisor? Bill Clinton.

[Mike Laursen]

Hard to believe it could turn out worse than that, but it was her advisor on religion of all things.

[GeneralWeygand]

Very nice...really...

[GeneralWeygand]

Very nice...really...

[Red Tony]

Hillary Clinton declined to fire a 2008 campaign advisor after sexual harassment allegations were made against him.

#HerToo
#ImWithHim

[Conchfritters]

And yet she persisted...

[Fist of Etiquette]

U.S. trade panel surprisingly strikes down 300 percent Trump Administration tariff on Bombardier jets.

What about bombardier jackets? How about a tariff on the Winnipeg Jets?

[BestUsedCarSales]

They sadly approved on a 1000% tariff on all non-Members-Only jackets.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Good thing I still have mine.

[Citizen X - #6]

California Gov. Jerry Brown makes more promises about electric cars.

They're gonna run on tracks.

[Careless]

This one was weird. He's talking about having 5 million cars be electric in 12 years, which is what, 15% of the total there will be in the state at that point? That's not particularly aggressive

[BestUsedCarSales]

At some point I hope Christian's posts devolve into a single Haiku.

[Citizen X - #6]

He'd do it 5-7-6 just to piss everybody off.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I love him, because he hurts me so good.

[Red Tony]

Trump strikes at Davos
U.S. panel strikes tariff
Brown makes promises

[Citizen X - #6]

Robots riding hogs
Hillary enables rape
Bombardier jet sale!

[Jerryskids]

Trump strikes robots
harassment allegations
surprisingly made

[Red Tony]

4-7-5? Geddouttaheyah!

[BestUsedCarSales]

He's one of those guys who pronounces "robots" "ro-buttssssssssssssssssssss"

[Red Tony]

California Gov. Jerry Brown makes more promises about electric cars.

Do Assholes Dream of Electric Cars?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Not mine. You damn liberal elite.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hillary Clinton declined to fire a 2008 campaign advisor after sexual harassment allegations were made against him.

And then destroyed the accuser's credibility?

[TrickyVic (old school)]

It can't be true because she does nothing wrong, ever.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Trump strikes a conciliatory posture at Davos

Thought for a second this was about Betsy Devos. Which is also being sued or some shit now.

[Square = Circle]

"Three civil rights organizations that represent survivors of sexual violence are suing the Education Department, saying that a Title IX guidelines announced by Secretary Betsy DeVos last fall are having a "chilling effect" on sexual assault reporting."

[BestUsedCarSales]

What a fucking joke.

[Square = Circle]

Yeah - I'm having a hard time seeing how rescinding a "Dear Colleague" interpretation of a one-sentence statute can have any effect on anything.

Either the law contains what the "Dear Colleague" letter said it did, in which case rescinding the letter makes exactly no difference, or it didn't, which makes the "Dear Colleague" letter an unconstitutional attempt by the Executive to legislate.

IANAL, but I really don't see a way forward for these suits.

[BestUsedCarSales]

It makes me think of a famous issue with Precision and Recall metrics. In particular, you can always get perfect recall. Get 100% of all the rapists in the world. And the way to do it is easy as hell.

Just arrest every single person as a rapist.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Robots are taking all our motorcycle racing jobs.

Wake me when one jumps the Snake River Canyon.

[Red Tony]

Plot twist: Evel Knievel was a cyborg all along.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Well, he wasn't leading up to his very first stunt. After that he was replaced with a cyborg.

[Jerryskids]

Trump strikes a conciliatory posture at Davos.

Nobody strikes a conciliatory posture like Trump. Just the best, most conciliatory posture ever!

[Fist of Etiquette]

California Gov. Jerry Brown makes more promises about electric cars.

That no fossil fuels will be used to generate the electricity for them?

[BestUsedCarSales]

I stand by Brown and his glorious all nuclear future.

[Red Tony]

Motorcycle racing jobs are taking all our robots.

The best argument for helmet laws.

[Citizen X - #6]

Wait, what?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Didn't Bernie Sanders tell us that it was all worth paying more for your burger, beer and haircut to raise the minimum wage?

[Citizen X - #6]

Bernie's never had a haircut that he didn't give himself while scowling angrily into the mirror.

[Juice]

Another "turn off your adblocker" page. Guess times are indeed tough in Seattle.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I've noticed an interesting trend in Weekly and the Stranger, every single time a restaurant goes out of business, the head chef vehemently denies that the minimum wage has anything to do with it all.

I even saw one in the Seattle Weekly where one restaurantuer explicitly talked about how the anti-business attitude of Seattle was pushing him to the Eastside, and the rest of the article was just trying to discredit the restaurantuer.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Wired's post-mortem on Tesla's autopilot-crash into a large, red parked vehicle covered in warning stripes.

I strongly recommend this read if you're at all interested in... 'self driving' technology. Wired's conclusion: Self-driving tech is a LONG way off until they can solve a little publicized fundamental problem with self-driving car vision: It ignores stationary objects.

Tesla didn't confirm the car was running Autopilot at the time of the crash, but its manual does warn that the system is ill-equipped to handle this exact sort of situation: "Traffic-Aware Cruise Control cannot detect all objects and may not brake/decelerate for stationary vehicles, especially in situations when you are driving over 50 mph (80 km/h) and a vehicle you are following moves out of your driving path and a stationary vehicle or object is in front of you instead."

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Volvo's semi-autonomous system, Pilot Assist, has the same shortcoming. Say the car in front of the Volvo changes lanes or turns off the road, leaving nothing between the Volvo and a stopped car. "Pilot Assist will ignore the stationary vehicle and instead accelerate to the stored speed," Volvo's manual reads, meaning the cruise speed the driver punched in. "The driver must then intervene and apply the brakes." In other words, your Volvo won't brake to avoid hitting a stopped car that suddenly appears up ahead. It might even accelerate towards it.

[Square = Circle]

The driver must then intervene and apply the brakes

If I heard correctly on the radio, this was Tesla's response, too - "well, the cars are designed to have a vigilant driver in the driver's at all times ready to take over driving at any moment."

I think just driving the car 100% yourself would be a lot easier and safer.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

In Tesla's defense, their 'autopilot' is an 'assist feature', and the idiot tesla owners use it as a self-driving feature. But if you read the wired article, it's a fundamental design issue-- a "design compromise" that's built into ALL self-driving technology.

here's the last paragraph which I think sums it up nicely:

In the meantime, we're stuck with a flawed system, the result of a compromise made to navigate the world at speed. And when even the best systems available can't see a big red big firetruck, it's a stark reminder of how long and winding the path to autonomy actually is.

[Cyto]

in that instance, absolutely. this is why this 'almost perfect' type of autopilot has come under such criticism. it works mostly, most all of the time. which lulls the user into a false sense of security.

[Juice]

Two of those articles are behind "Turn off your adblocker" popups. Maybe try to only link to outlets that don't do that.

[Citizen X - #6]

Come on. Who clicks the links?

[Cyto]

wait, you can click on the links?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

My adblocker is just ignoring the ads.

[Karl Hungus]

Robots are taking all our motorcycle racing jobs.

I don't know much about robotics, but I bet we have a long, long way to go before a robot can turn in a faster lap time on the R1 than Valentino Rossi.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Tesla could built one, as long as there are no fire trucks parked on the track.

[BestUsedCarSales]

That seems like it might be the easiest type of autopilot jobs. A predefined track, never changes, with no other people on it.

[Stormy Dragon]

Mexican Drug Cartel kidnaps a man near Houston. FBI tracks down the victim and shoots him:

FBI agent fatally shoots kidnapping victim during raid after abductors claimed to be from Mexican drug cartel

And I don't mean he was hit by a stay bullet during a gunfight or anything.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

You can't ever be sure of who the enemy is in these situations. Being tied to a chair could just be a rouse so they think you are not in the cartel.

[Stormy Dragon]

Apparently the tactical response to that uncertainty is to panic fire at anyone who isn't white.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

I like how they blame the abductors because they created the situation.

[Conchfritters]

"I said, 'What's going on?' And they just looked at me," Sharon Ettinoffe told Fox 26. "They said it was a police-involved shooting and your neighborhood will be a lot safer now."

Yeah, the neighborhood will be a lot safer now so long as the FBI doesn't show up. Fucking idiots.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Less than 50 words and still no fucking Alt-Text.

Damn you, Britches for dumbing Friday Linques down , yet again.

[Red Tony]

Friday Linques? I prefer playing the back 9 at Augusta.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

"Linques" 'cos they are not real links, just Britches ersatz detritus.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Uh oh, Robby talked shit about Tomi? Do I want to see the comments?

[Stormy Dragon]

Rebel cow escapes farm to run free with wild bison in Poland