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By the way the Tesla business model is not news. They posted their "secret master plan" close to a decade ago, and have been executing on said plan since.

See http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-p... for the plan.
How many people did you know who bought the first iPod? What a bust that turned out to be.

Who knows, in a few years your post could be the next, "no wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
And also a lot of times they're with groups of family and friends they don't get to see every day or weekend.
Yeah, it's pretty fantastic you should try it sometime.
> Do you send a drone or risk US/coalition soldier lives?

Maybe you stop anything that carries the slightest risk of killing innocent people on foreign soil of countries you are not at war with?

This supposed us vs the evil terrorist mentality is used on all levels of force to treat other lives destroyed in the process as subpar and of little value.

What would your argument look like if a Pakistani drone killed a wanted murderer in your neighborhood taking down a family of five with two kids in the process?

If you're saying we cannot sit back and not get involved in this because we have a terrorist problem - let me remind you that we had/have Bin Laden and the Taliban (funded in the 80's), Isis (funded anti-Assad groups), instability in Iraq and Syria precisely thanks to US intervention in those regions.

Of course the existence of these groups is great for politicians and the military-industrial complex, since the former get to avoid issues at home and expand government powers and the later reap financial windfalls.
> There is no reason for new information to be more important than old information.

New information is often more entertaining than old information, particularly if the old information is already known to the reader.

For better or for worse, I think news is often used for entertainment.
Not terribly germane to this this OP but there are people who "close" their online stores at times.

One example is B&H Photo - http://www.bhphotovideo.com/
On the footer of their pages it says: "Please note that B&H does not process web orders from Friday evening to Saturday evening." I would assume that in the sect of Judaism the owners belong to letting your site take orders constitutes work.

Another example is my Girlfriend - she closes her Etsy shop when she goes on vacation because she'd rather not take orders and have customers wait for her to return for them to be fulfilled.
The old adage, "there's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes" is especially relevant to REI staff and customers.

Some activities work better than others of course.
The same theory that says that deflation is bad is saying that this one is not big enough to produce much effect. The result is perfectly supported by the theory.

Whatever mathematical names you bring on can not change this.

Now, if you came up with examples of countries with decreasing nominal salaries and a growing economy, you could make a point. There's a paper with a few in another thread.
> How much we screw up and hit the wrong target is a totally different question from are we killing civilians without regard for them.

No, it's not. When assessing weapon capabilities, precision and collateral damage are irremediably linked, with precision including actual chances of hitting the specified target.

In this case the weapon is the "droning process" as a whole; if the process hits the wrong target too many times, its precision is low and hence the likelihood of collateral damage is high.

These casualties cannot be justified as "accidental" once the weapon/process' capabilities and actual limits are clear: it would be like throwing a hand grenade in a crowd to hit a single person and then argue that other victims were "accidental" because the question of explosion radius is unrelated to effectiveness at the center of it.

Drawing this sort of distinction in reality moves the debate from the main question (should we use this weapon, given its known limits?) to other, often-unanswerable ones (how many collateral casualties can be filed as "accidental" while ostensibly respecting moral and legal thresholds?) that inevitably imply the previous question can only be reasonably answered in a certain way.
Assumes facts visible to naked eye if you just go out and talk to normal people.

> I think it's fair to say that some of the tribalism currently evident in social and political argument is expressed as a broad based distrust and disregard for science, but that doesn't seem to be based on any rational analysis or actual knowledge, but more on internally propagated mythology.

You know that, I know that. People who are not really into science/tech don't know that. Most people know only what they hear on the news. And what they hear is that every single thing causes cancer - on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, because that same thing cures cancer on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. What they hear is that their government panicks about some flu, buys shots, those shots are not used and then questions are asked, politicians lose seats, etc.

Add to that that almost every single company is out there to fuck you over (mom&pop are the worst, actually), there's shit ton of FUD in media about everything related to biology (GMOs, vaccines, drugs, etc.), and are you really going to tell me there is no loss of general trust in scientific establishment? Go ask your non-tech family members and friends.

But yeah, it's easier to just assume instead that all "those people" must be just stupid.
Well in a way, yes, it's a marketing ploy. In order to actually see it to fruition, they probably analyzed it from a marketing standpoint and found that this would buy them goodwill in their demographic. Corporations are cold soulless machines, and that's how they have to work.

But the people employed by the corporation are not soulless, and clearly some of them are at least not entirely cold, because I have little doubt that this idea was conceived in good will. I'm faithful that the individuals who came up with this, who pitched it to their bosses, did so with the goal of making a political statement, and treating their workers with respect as great side-effect.
The DIRNSA isn't really an NSA staff member. He's a general or admiral that represents the agency to Congress, etc.

This is relevant to whether NSA experience is a pro or con in the commercial space - he doesn't have the type of NSA experience you're probably thinking of.
I think that the point about sheriffs at the end is particularly important. We in America do have the ability to chose whether or not we want to accept this. If we don't want to accept this, we should not elect the sheriffs that will allow this to happen.
We need participation on every level of government, not just at the national level.
I kind of see your point in that he mostly got things like slideshows, rather than detailed memos, code, operational details. Yeah, without compartmentalization, it could have been worse, but unless they intended to allow someone to mass-exfiltrate all that, there's still a pretty bad security failure.
That article is completely different from the little I know of accounting. Operating profit/loss is in relation to operating expenses, not capital expenses. The article cites a lot of capital expenses as dragging down operating profit which makes little sense.

Operating profit/loss is revenue minus operating expenses. Net profit/loss takes into account the capital expenses.

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/112814/whats-differe...

If the article you linked were credible, Tesla "lost" $47M as an operating loss, but had $831M in capex in the first half so they were clearly profitable when you add that back in. But what measure would that be? Operating profit/loss should already have the capex taken out of it, right?

Yes, it's important to note that Tesla is starting up and has a lot of capex. But capital expenses shouldn't be in the operating loss.

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Capex_vs_Opex
hmm, let's see.

iraq, afghanistan, syria are obvious, no? being white makes you a target for assassination, kidnapping.

china and japan have slurs against whites, see them as brutes.

being white and walking into areas in much of latin america is a bad idea. again, kidnapping and other crimes. same is true for pockets in the USA, from SF tenderloin to the bronx.

if you're an affluent white person bigger and bigger areas of the world are being shut off from you.
That actually makes sense.

Bleah.
It's strange. I'd echo the sentiments expressed in the parent about the UK when it comes to Australia, too. Seems like people identify with their race before their nationality in the US. We don't have "African-Australians" or "Asian-Australians" here. Everyone is just Australian.
I can't tell if this is parody, some kind of "sovereign citizen"-esque bullshit, or a bit of both
> direct employment arrangements with its own (now former) clients.

There's really no way to avoid that, and it dooms the whole enterprise if Homejoy is serving as a middleman. I'm kinda curious how MerryMaids and the like work. Seems like the only viable system is simply a lead generations service.
Oh yeah!! The trails were less crowded this weekend and my spiked shoes made easy work of the ice. Can't wait for enough snow for snow shoes... treking out hours before sunrise to catch the alpenglow on the mountains -- majestic!!
Don't forget about opportunity cost. It's common to discount opportunity cost and equity as "not as real as the money you spend on your credit card". However when the house payment keeps showing up every month and you decided to strike out on your own instead of taking that $6000 to $10000 per month you could have made in a stable software development job you are going out of pocket whether you realize it or not. That $300k you missed out on because you failed to cover expenses for 4 years when you could have been working as a software dev in some employers cubicle are real dollars.

Also some business owners do leverage some retirement savings when starting a business. It's a pretty good way to get low interest money. They can sustain if things fail, but they certainly feel it if they fail.
I'm completely unfamiliar with both of those names but based on the way you phrased it I'm happy to accept your implication that police officers involved behaved inappropriately and probably illegally. I don't see what that has to do with what I said. If you're a white dude wearing a biker gang jacket and generally acting the fool I expect you to be harassed the same way I expect a black person wearing gang colors and reeking of pot to be harassed. This isn't rocket science.
It's simpler than that. Past performance is something you get used to, and if you grow up around something working, you sort of assume it's always been like that. Part of the reason why every new generation wants to dismantle the systems set up by their grandparents.
It's a great museum. Also checkout the fascinating book Path Between the Seas http://www.amazon.com/The-Path-Between-Seas-1870-1914/dp/067...
It's true, they do not have one huge annual sale. They have huge seasonal sales: Labor Day, 4th of July, Winter Holidays - I went in there a few weeks ago, and got a $20 gift card just because I spent $100. It's kind of nuts.

Then there's the annual dividend, which is around 10% of your total purchases back to you.

Glad they're taking the day off.
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I ran a wiki-based fact check for a while. This looks like it could be the start of something like that. However, a big problem is that the attempt to find truth is over-rated as a driver for the news market. Most people really don't care, and by the time the few that do care have found "the truth" the news cycle has passed.
Oh, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Am I the only one disturbed by the fact thats not all one mountain image that we are scaling down as we scroll? its just one photo after the next and the falling into the white void with CEO letter.

NITTY!
They're a co-op and can't afford to discount on Black Friday. Seems fairly straightforward.
At some point the Black Friday arms race becomes so insane the only move left is to quit. REI is too cool for this bullshit anyway.
Wow, didn't see that coming. /sarcasm
We should call out Snowdens leaks having nothing to do with domestic policy
Look, there national interests and secrets that exist and at this point, we can sit aside and look all of Snowden's documents are only being used to shame the US' involvement in foreign intelligence matters.

I'm a huge fan of REAL POLITIK. I just am. I think that every other nation is, and that trying to sit on the sidelines while everyone else gets to play isn't exactly a good way to maintain that competitive edge.

Some of these discussions are important with respect to government interests and surveillance...but when it comes to foreign intelligence, to me, all bets are off.

Most of the reporting on Snowden only relate to NON-USA related documents or incidents.

So why can't we just point out the fact that his leaks have done more to hurt the US than anyone cares to admit. And even worse, EVERYONE does it.
Apprehending them in advance isn't really what occurs, though. Rather, you spend billions of dollars putting up elaborate defenses against the previous successful plot. And you sacrifice as much liberty and privacy as possible in the name of anti-terrorism, but then you use your new powers for non-terrorism purposes.

I mean, look at the USA's terrorism laws. 99% of arrests from the TSA or the Patriot Act are related to things that had nothing to do with terrorism.

It's all just theater unless you can show that countries without that level of paranoia and invasiveness are getting attacked much more often. And I don't think that's the case.
Note that this is not supported in any browser, and Chrome support was first implemented and then removed over two years ago, so it seems unlikely to ever be supported. Also a seamless iframe is not CSS-isolated, something that the GP said they wanted.

http://caniuse.com/#feat=iframe-seamless
Since the browser will not react to these nodes, you can add some JS code that will detect them and hand off content interpretation to other mechanisms.
Do that many people in Southern California really pay someone else to do it? I'm really surprised to hear that.

I live in a fairly upscale community (mostly hobby farms and retired farmers who sold off most of their land) and no-one around here has someone else doing their gardening. If anything, my neighbors are the ones who own lawn care/property management businesses.
As another Asian-American guy, I want to second this. Up until earlier this year, I felt paralyzed and victimized by American society. That is, I felt passively punished for not looking like Brad Pitt, Justin Beiber, or other American sex symbols. I had achieved enough financial success that I felt like the only major thing "missing" in my happiness was a relationship or healthy dating life. And I blamed external circumstances for that.

Then I realized, by analogy, that I was perpetuating my own situation. The biggest turnoff for me wanting to recommend a friend for employment was hearing him complain about how unfair the job market is, how worthless his university education was, and so on. In the decade since I've graduated from college, I've witnessed friends jump around across companies and careers and I've witnessed other friends stay put and complain. Complaining can be useful if it leads to action, but it's also a strange and unfortunate local minimum for many people.

To build off of beachstartup's point, it's worth considering your objective when you complain about something like social inequality. Is your complaint motivated by a desire to be happier and more fulfilled, or by a desire to see a fairer world? I can shamelessly say that I just want to be happier, so I'm going to try to play the game instead of trying to change it. For now.
We don't know how she was acting. If it was anything like her blog post, then he absolutely did the right thing by going to his manager. We only have one piece of information and it doesn't make her look good.
I totally agree that a huge part of who we are is our nurturing, but your claims that there are NO innate differences don't really seem to hold.

Have you seen this case that many college psychology courses cover? http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/files/gender_reassign...
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I'm assuming at this point we'll grow past the privacy thing as well, but I'm going to upgrade your argument to "if a world government decides to do something evil, the whistleblower will have nowhere to run", which is indeed a concern.

I'm just not sure if having a safe haven for whistleblower is worth keeping around pockets of people pointing guns at each other like we do today. Also, the "safe haven" is something a whistleblower gets for giving a gun to one side to point at another, not at the goodness of any government's collective heart.
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That covers any foreigner, though, not any specific subset.
Crime is lower. The few gangs that are here don't really spread outside their barrios like they do in just about every other country in Central America.

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/10/28/359612148/w...

You say: "If the prices seem reasonable to you, it's only because your aren't being outbid by someone significantly wealthier."

Thats not what Nicaragua is like. It's not the wild west. It's a pretty quiet traditional country with a fair amount of trust. Again compared to other countries in the region, not with say Denmark or Sweden.

There was recently a police killing of an innocent family in a botched drug raid. It became a really big deal and the police, president bowed over to try to make things better. Not that that excuses things, but it's a hell of a lot better than what happens in the US.

It is very difficult to view normal life in the second poorest country in the western hemisphere with the moral compass or glasses of middle-class US. Things are very different here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture-bound_syndrome
Though to be fair, there is also precedence of actual cases of espionage

This is literally the definition of racial profiling.
Saying europe has better race relations than america is misguided. you can't compare the two. america has 300 million people and is 70% white, 15% black, 12-20% latino and 6% asian. for comparison, the UK has 60mm (about the size of california and new york) and is 87% white, 7% asian and 6% black, for example. the UK is also what we call an urbanized ountry, in that a large proportion lives in cities, which is where most of its people of color reside.

it is easier to integrate urban, small countries with manageable percentage of immigrants. e.g., Sweden (population 10mm) versus america (pop 300mm). when you have a large land mass, enormous population and very high rates of immigration and naturalization (let's not forget that France and Germany do not allow as much naturalization as USA), the task of integration is that much harder and more complex.
google only has volume.

if you require source to know that google has the least segmented audience, you are clearly not in advertisement.

why do you think google pushed so hard for g+? or why it keeps trying to keep people logged while searching? even with all that, they are still way behind.
Yes, because now they are allowing a third party to track you. You may be fine with it, but most users are not aware that FB is tracking them everywhere AND that their credentials are being handed off across a third party.

Never, ever do this. We rail about banks and credit firms handing off our data but are apparently perfectly fine with handing off our users data without their knowledge to a firm with known privacy issues.
risk taken 4 years ago is not worth the same as risk taken today. If they want to make it fair, share value should slowly bleed and be distributed to labor over time.

If a laborer can accrue shareholder value over time. Non laborers should lose it with time.
Thanksgiving is a prime time to stay in Joshua Tree. The weather there is usually really nice and often the entire park will fill up the day before Thanksgiving.

Even if you're not a climber, there's a ton of fantastic hiking and exploring to do there.
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> As of 2Q2015, Tesla had sold fewer than 12,000 Model S vehicles in total - ever, not just for that quarter.

Do you have a citation? The number I see is over 90,000. It includes Q3 of 2015, but clearly Tesla didn't sell over 78,000 units in that quarter alone.

The 90k number is from http://www.hybridcars.com/tesla-model-s-is-americas-best-sel... which is linked from the intro of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S.
Every atom in your body was forged in a star. The iron in your blood, the oxygen and carbon that make up the proteins and fats that allow complex organisms to exist, the copper and gold we use for wiring, the uranium we're splitting for energy; all of it was made by a star that had used up all its hydrogen and started fusing heavier elements.

Nearly all of the energy we use on earth (a small fraction is from nuclear decay) is stored sunlight. The gasoline we burn? That was sunlight that got converted into a plant, which was converted into a growing dinosaur that ate plants, which died and was converted into oil over billions of years of heat and pressure.

Thinking of that always makes me smile at how somewhat accidentally right ancient people who worshiped the sun as a god were.
Replace 'older candidates' with 'candidates who are less likely to sacrifice their work/life balance.'

1. Candidates that demand compensation for sacrificing their work/life balance are more expensive. Tech isn't that hard to learn. You can get pretty good at a particular tech within 2 years of learning it. Why pay a candidate tons of money for them to give up their work/life balance, when you can hire one that will give it up for little?

2. Candidates that value their non-work time don't know the latest tech. They spend their evenings with their families / kids / friends / hobby whereas those who do are constantly learning the latest stacks at home to benefit their work.

3. Candidates that would rather go do something not work related after work don't pass the 'beer test' with those who's life choices are work-centric.
REI has sales, clearances, warehouse sales, seasonal sales, discounts, "garage sales" (used/returned/rental gear), etc. all the time.
In the united states more people travel further over the thanksgiving holiday than Christmas.
Actually they frequently have member sales with insane prices.
With that Mk 1 reactor design, lose cooling water for 4-6 hours and you get a meltdown. The containment vessel is too small for the pressures in a worst-case accident. It's just not a good design.

Peach Bottom station in Pennsylvania has the same Mk 1 design, and that's been a worry for years. They now have extra backup power systems of different types and multiple cooling water sources for that reason.
The business model was articulated above. You join a successful crew and scrub toilets with them for a couple of years until you know the business and have people who trust you enough to employee you directly. The they spread the word among their friends and you get more clients. Eventually you get more than you can handle yourself and find some people you trust to help you out.
You can take one to the point where it's clear that business growth is constrained by available resources and not by market demand, though. At that point, investing in the business becomes a no-brainer.

Uber, Google, Facebook, and Twitter all had working products that were attracting users faster than they could service them before they took VC money.