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Don't matter where its built, but if you are only selling cars the top one percent can afford you are not changing the world. GM will be first in the US with a two hundred mile range EV that is priced within the range of every day new car buyers. While Tesla deserves credit for showing people you can build an electric for everyday use; heck what can't you build for 100k?; they never had the resources the big auto companies have. There have been some good articles showing that GM/LG and BMW have taken the lead in battery tech already. (GM is already boasting a 145 KwH cost for the Bolt and BMW did a simple but very effective modular system with cooling)

Tesla's plan was to make money where it could with the limited volumes they were going to restricted to because they were new to building cars. Big companies can do more with smaller margins because of quantity.
>Can't we stop this consolidation

Why? Mergers are not inherently bad, and there seems to be a knee-jerk reaction against them without supporting evidence. Not to say that evidence doesn't exist, but it should if a merger is to be blocked.
As much as I love Tesla, this is hardly a differentiating factor between Tesla and previously failed electric cars, which have mostly been aimed at luxury market.
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I think it's just one of those factoids that gets passed around through pop-culture because nobody takes the time to verify it.

Before reading the Snopes page just now, I would probably have said that I was pretty sure mailing cash was technically illegal. But thinking about it now, I have no idea where I got that idea from.
Common interview outcomes: "Can the interviewee ask good clarification questions?" and "Can the interviewee break down a project into manageable pieces?".

Especially important for bootcamp grads, they need to know what they are capable of. They spent the last 12-16 weeks working 12-hour days, but that is not healthy for a person or for a company. As an interviewer, I need to assess if they can break down projects and understand how to identify an MVP with flexibility for further iterations.

That's what a question like this is about.
>3. People turn to these parties because like in the US, the political landscape in Europe has shifted to the right, economically. A blatant example of this is that both the center right and center left are fully supportive of TTIP. The only other notable alternative besides the anti-immigration parties is the Greens but the Greens are highly opinionated about many things that tends to turn people off. Plus they have been there since forever and not achieved much so people do not see them as "change".

The first time this happened, in the Great Depression, there was also a steady move towards far-left parties. This time, the far-left has been doubly crippled: once by the lack of the Soviet Union to point to or turn to for examples and instructions in how socialism can work, and secondly by Western governments equating the far-left with domestic terrorism (which hasn't been true since the '70s-'90s period) and cracking down.

I wonder what our current situation would look like if the political spectrum was allowed to extend sufficiently to the left that Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn (bog-standard social democrats) couldn't call themselves revolutionary.
In such a world "growth" is pointless. Unless of course you want us to artifically restrict ourselves with copyright and patents.
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Staples / Office Depot, Time Warner / Comcast (not officially blocked but called off due to regulatory approval), T-Mobile / AT&T. Those are just some recent big ones I can remember off the top of my head.
Wouldn't it be better if you use "tech company" term instead? If the blanket term is already widely accepted, I see no point in using "startup" instead, as that will probably cause much more confusion.
Zoning areas as low-income housing is almost certainly guaranteed to concentrate all the poor people in one economically depressed zone while all the wealthy people end up elsewhere. Where this has happened in the past it has led to the collapse of the poor area. See Detroit as an example.
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> Seminal indeed.

At the risk of being gauche, one might consider "seminal event" a reasonable euphemism for "getting fucked"
> As such, it seems reasonable to suggest that satoshi wanted that (gmx) email to be hacked since it had such a weak password.

Wasn't that because the GMX password reset functionality was so shitty that it could be easily guessed, no matter what the user chose? This was nothing more than another demonstration, like the Sarah Palin hack, that password resets are just big security holes.
> It would be better to either avoid the word cult, or stand behind the full connotations of the word including the implied accusations.

I am sorry for using the word with its the academic meaning, which is what I'm familiar with[1], rather than the colloquial one. As I said in another comment, I am not a native English speaker, so I was not familiar with the colloquial connotation of the word in English. Indeed, I now see on Wikipedia that English speakers are often confused by the use of the word in texts translated from other languages (where it carries the same definition but without the same negative connotations).

[1]: My favorite professor said, "There are only two profitable things you can do with an academic training in history: work as a technical advisor for historical movies or form a cult".
Have they fixed their backlog issue? I canceled my order after they pushed the delivery date back two months three separate times.
Demo was in RL, hence no link. Search for SS7/MSC attacks for more info.
Except it didn't really work, because Tesla products are not good cars in the way that other $100k cars are. Sure, they're fast, but you just can't make a sports car that weighs as much as an F-150 and expect to be taken seriously by gearheads. This has always been a problem for any electric car company.

Tesla products are cars for people who don't particularly give a shit about cars. I'm not slagging this as a negative thing -- it's a much bigger market than "people who care about cars." I just don't think that establishing themselves as a luxury brand is going to do anything toward the ostensible goal of "winning" against internal combustion.

A $20k electric car would have a much better chance of achieving this.
Even $100k doesn't do much for you if you live in Midland, MI and just left the only chemical company in town. You'll have to move, probably out of state, and be competing with thousands of other newly unemployed folks chasing a few jobs in a mature industry. (Disclaimer: I grew up in Midland, and my family all worked for Dow.)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3002838
I don't think the expectation was for the candidate to get through the whole thing- More to see how much they could get done in a deadline (30 minutes). Its a good method to see what a developer values in an implementation- Do they take an as many as possible, or do they spend a little more time on each one? The interviewer should have made that clear though.
I got the impression it only blocks trackers, not ads, is that not so? Then it could be great.
> Nobody gets in trouble these days for expressing the sentiment that we need more women, blacks, and Latinos in tech

I think that's true in California, but politically correct favoritism that ignores class helps fuel right-wing extremism.

Perhaps I see that more clearly because I don't live in the SV bubble.
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or smaller drones to go thru the nets.
or drones that don't look like drones:

http://www.mybionicbird.com/

http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/insectdrone.asp
If you're shooting for exceptional results, you need both. A natural can be incentivized to work harder. A striver cannot be incentivized to be smarter.

It might be wrong, but if you're looking for an IPO-able company, I'd pick the natural every time.
This isn't a technical thing for any of the major proponents, though. It's a marketing thing, because after the spectacular failure of Hurd GNU was relegated to effectively a sideline (a useful one, for sure, but a sideline). I get a lot more direct and personal value out of code not provided by GNU than I do by code provided by GNU. I don't think they merit top billing, and I don't think the two decades of holding one's breath and turning purple deserves a reward.
Recruiters and investors aren't making a decision based on talent or determination - they make a decision based on whatever proxies to those values that they can glean from a candidate. Proxies for talent are much more difficult to fake than proxies for determination.

Furthermore, determination is something that the candidate can choose to turn off or to turn towards different ends.

Anyhow, my point is that there are excellent reasons to select for talent, even if hard work and determination is a more valuable personality trait for those who have it.
What happens if 1099s try to collectively bargain? Aren't they allowed to. What specific freedom do they need?
It's sound advice, I'd second it.

It's not so much that we "hate" Elizer, like Aljik suggests, it's just that on the whole - compared to the many mindblowing authors mentioned in this thread - Elizer just isn't particularly outstanding. Someone has to say it, lest anyone reading this for the first time gets the wrong impression.

Anyone's welcome to still read him, for all we care, but you may as well be getting your philosophy education from Cosmopolitan.
Traditional anarchism was also called "libertarian socialism".

There's also Georgism, admittedly.
Because they're being purist about the ponzie part
It seems that logic in the comments is quite simple: bad companies = evil. Not monopolies, just BigCo: the bigger, the badder.

Which is pretty logical, because while economical benefits of such companies are spread thinly among shareholders as well as global economies, the bad stuff they cause is always personal. So, regardless of whether good outweighs the bad or not (and I won't pretend that I know answer to that), individuals will always see them as something evil.
And set your own schedule right?
I still haven't quite forgiven Putin for the Russo-Georgian War, but the Russo-Georgian War was a fair sight less bad than how the Turks and Persians treated Georgia; and you're right about the Turks and ISIS.

Historians in the English-speaking world have a habit of gushing about the early Islamic caliphate, the Umayyads in al-Andalus, and the Ottoman Turks. (Indeed, Carly Fiorina regards the Ottomans as "the greatest in the world" -- http://www.examiner.com/article/fiorina-sings-the-praises-of... .) The fashion for this began with Jewish Orientalism in the 19th century, and with the point that the Umayyads in particular were pretty tolerant of the Jews; but this obscures the fact that the Ottomans and the others were _vile_ -- routinely impaling and crucifying, and slave-trading (for both sexual and other purposes) on a really enormous scale.

If 300,000 slaves imported mean that the American South was indefensible, what does that make the Ottomans, who practically depopulated the Caucasus because Caucasian men were brave and Caucasian women were beautiful? (And this is without even mentioning their similar depredations in the Balkans, and in Africa.)
> Roundup Ready corn is nice (well, for farmers anyway) but if they raised the price too high farmers could always just switch to regular corn.

Or, you know, if DowPont tried that with something Roundup Ready (of which, IIRC, only first-generation Roundup Ready soy is off-patent), they would lose business to Monsanto, who will not only still be the dominant seed company after the DowPont merger, but is also the creator and, for crops like corn where the initial Roundup Ready variety is not off-patent, patent-holder for Roundup Ready traits.
You could argue that, but I wouldn't say so. IIRC (I'd need to go back and dig up the research I read) high-calorie drinks appear to lack the satiating effect that solid foods have, even the high-caloric foods. The point is that high-caloric drinks (sodas, beer, gatoraid, etc) may throw off the body's energy/weight equilibrium more than junk foods.
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Prague the school right in the middle of the hot spot, is where I graduated from. However that was well before the rash of earthquakes (1998)
They did have a gym destroyed by a tornado a few years ago. I have not heard of any damage yet from the earthquakes.
Yes, but only if we can tax corporations heavily and use that to provide a floor on living standards for workers. If we don't do that, we will have to provide a floor some other way, which for a lot of people is regulation.
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It happens. :)

I agree, POODLE is a close analog.
That was my point. I guess I wasn't clear.
It might not be perfectly obvious to everybody working on implementation that something is illegal. 'Our American lawyers tell us this is legally in compliance with EPA standards. Go forth and implement'. What are you going to say? You might have misgivings but you're probably also not an expert in regulations and their enforcement.
Hey - minor long shot but have you got a link to the course? Or is it on edx/coursera?
You can usually generate the visitor function, if your ML has a decent macro language (as does OCaml).

I'll give you the one about amended ASTs though. I once had to write an HTML / CSS processor. It started with the HTML DOM [tree] and performed successive processing stages on it, each time adding a little bit of extra data into the tree and extra node types. I had to tediously write an html type, an html1 type, an html2 type and so on. Never did find out if there's a better way to do this.
> Getting laid off is almost like winning the lottery

Now there's an opinion you don't hear every day. Why not just leave the company if you know you can be quickly hired into a better-paid/more enjoyable job?
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We originally had "tech company" on the site, but after showing it to a few friends and people that were crashing at our house, it was clear that people had a better understanding of the site when we used "startup", so we decided to go with it.
Easy. Automatic copyright lasts until 5 years after the creator's death (or 10 years total for works by corporations). You can extend copyright indefinitely, but there is a fee that increases exponentially with time. I'd suggest $100 for years 5 through 10, and $1 billion for years 75 through 80.
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> The terms are clearly, obviously and unquestionably inspired by actual human slavery.

I did not say they weren't I just said they were accurate in many aspects of what they were describing.

> Not using the terms master/slave in a technology concept in no way erases awareness of the problem.

I did not say removing them erases awareness, I said (in summary) that it provides a placebo effect that keeps people from doing something that actually matters. I agree removing them will not affect awareness of the problem, because they have no relation to the problem.

> Frankly to defend usage of these terms by suggesting using them in anyway promotes awareness and helps the victims of slavery, is disgusting.

Then it's a good thing I didn't do that then.

> You question a change to a status quo but ignore that the status quo deserves to be questioned just the same.

Anyone wanting to change the status quo should not focus on this specific case to the detriment of similar ones, if they really care about it. Why stop at master/slave, when there's also captive as in captive portal, or for that matter serve, since one original meaning in the root latin was "slave",and all we care about is the original meaning, not how it evolved over time to mean additional things (such as how slave as a verb can mean to work hard), right?
There are many ways to avoid the boilerplate you mention.
The deriving ppx extension is one of them. I personaly used
my own poor's-man-deriving called ocamltarzan which I used in pfff to factorize boilerplate by using auto-generated visitors. See https://github.com/facebook/pfff/blob/master/lang_php/parsin...
I'm curious, what causes you to be interested in John Dee's work as opposed to say the output of any modern 'spirit channeler' or 'UFO contactee' ?

Is Dee's work academically interesting to you simply because of how it's embedded historically with the British empire or is there some other factor ?
I appreciate the difficulty of having to find a new job with a bunch of other folks, but at the higher-end salary range is "finding a new job in town" still a reasonable expectation?
So... capitalists make the exact same Fundamental Attribution Error as everyone else?
> but derivative works could benefit from longer term protection. As in, you can't make a movie based on a book in that author’s lifespan.

Why? If no derivative works can be made within the original author's lifespan, that would mean that the author's audience would likewise rarely live to see any. By the time the author is dead, their works are might be irrelevant or forgotten. Who is going to remix them then? Copyright terms lasting lifetimes rob entire generations of their culture. The original length of copyright in the US was only 14 years.
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> but can they be used on Linux at all and are they enough?

Yes, certainly. You can use a tool like https://github.com/unosquare/embedio the way many java developers do.

ASP.NET 5 is not the only option by any means, but if that's your poison then yeah, Mono can do it.

> How do you think it's done?

I suspect there are opened ports for a remote debugging, but maybe it's even fancier. Docker and MS have been working together for the better part of a year.
I can get that. But that reasoning rests on an admission our democracy is incapable maintaining principles for no other reason than the power of corporate lobbying. (As you've already said the public shouldn't be concerned with Disney's profitability, so I'll assume that their lack profitability doesn't represent any threat to the nation.)

If someone wants to argue that such a state of affairs is fine, OK. We can have that conversation. But I see it as a fundamental threat to the rule of law.
Why DOJ? Wouldn't it be the FTC involved with this?
This is also true for C [0,1] and other mainstream languages [2] now.

[0] http://robbertkrebbers.nl/thesis.html
[1] https://github.com/kframework/c-semantics
[2] http://www.kframework.org/index.php/Projects
To repeat this idea with a different mood affiliation:

I have no idea what muslims truly believe and I don't even care too much. What I care about is the effects of their beliefs...Terrorism is an organic outgrowth from it. And it's just one of many...

I take it that if Donald Trump makes this claim, you'll support it?
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> All I'm saying is Sheldon Cooper types have moved things forward for the rest of society more often than people realize.

Rarely outside of their narrow field of expertise. I have no doubt that a real-life Sheldon Cooper would have made great contributions to physics. Philosophy, however, would not be his strong suit.

> Also, it would help to hear why you're so dismissive of the underlying arguments.

I haven't dismissed the conclusions, just said I disagree with many of them. I have dismissed their inclusion under the term philosophy because they don't follow the method. It is not a matter of style, just as following deduction rules and proven theorems through a careful precise process is not a style of mathematics but is mathematics. Eliezer Yudkowski makes some intriguing arguments, but they are political more than philosophical in their method.

> If anything, the dismissal of AI-related risks reveals very clear blind spot / lack of rigor in most people's reasoning. "Because it hasn't happened yet, it must not be a problem we should worry about."

Indeed, that is not why people with rigorous thinking on the subject dismiss the threats cautioned by the singularitarians. Also note that many people warn of AI risks all the time (forget true AI, people are warning against current use of machine learning), it's just that those are not the same risks the singularitarians are alarmed about.

In any event, very good arguments against singularitarian alarmism are found in abundance and that is not the topic of this discussion.
Why? Disney can continue to use out-of-copyright characters. The court has, inexplicably, accepted the lawyering that "limited time" has no meaning. That's what needs to change.
At the heart of the divide between contractor and employee is America's idiotic healthcare bargain between Democrats and Republicans: employers provide private healthcare and the public system is only for the destitute and old. Obamacare is an attempt to solve this by adding more work for individuals transitioning between jobs. A rational healthcare system would not be so dependent on your employment status.
Leading us back to the top-level comments to this thread. ("I don't really understand how a state law declaring something as so can have any relevant effect on federal determinations of employee/contractor status")
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There can be one effect during diffusion-weighted scanning, which is muscle twitching due to induced depolarization when the gradients are ramped hard. I've had that happen a few times and it was a fairly weird sensation, but not discomforting enough for me to stop the scan. No long-term issues that I'm aware of though.
Supposedly, the Tesla Model 3 is going to be cheaper than the Chevy Bolt when it comes out.

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>It's somewhat akin to https://xkcd.com/793/ where someone who masters one technical field feels an immense power or superiority and becomes a bit smug.

That's what really put me off of the LW community as a whole - that condensing attitude of superiority over anyone not in the in-group. There was a telling comment in one of the articles that went along the lines of:
"Oh yeah, LW is not for everyone. It takes a particular kind of person to discuss the intricacies of the Newcomb's problem day in and day out".
That made me cringe so much when I read it. Like, jeez, just get over yourself, no one cares how "smart" you are.
> In my experience, #4 has held up extremely well over time and is the most compelling reason for choosing an ML over another language.

I have a hard time choosing between ADTs and the module system, honestly. If I really had to chose, I'd probably pick ADTs, but it'd be very close. It's really disappointing every time a new language comes out and it has a weak module system. Especially F#, which was primarily influenced by OCaml.