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Ok. You are after something that you define as "progress". Why do you think everybody else should act in ways that maximize what you want?

Also, you have already decided how you want society to be structured, which is devotion to a very particular definition of "individual freedom". (Other people have broader definitions of freedom that they are equally devoted to.)

I agree that there's no intrinsically "best" way to do things, but that doesn't mean we can't jointly converge on a shared understanding of "best". Indeed, I think it means we must work very hard to do so. Since God is dead, we must take up the work we previously assigned to him.

I'd also suggest you haven't really paid much attention to where your kind of progress comes from. Free markets (which require a fair bit of regulation to maintain) are a decent way to optimize certain things. But they aren't really good at anything that has relatively long payoff times. Anything with a payoff time of more than 25 years or so should be ignored because its net present value is zero. Anything where the value is hard to capture is effectively worthless, and that includes things like society-wide vaccinations, moon landings, GPS, the Hubble telescope, and our many interplanetary probes.

Or take the Internet. It came purely out of tax funding. The commercial equivalents were evolutionary dead ends like Compuserve and AOL, centralized fiefdoms with low interoperability. The network technology that drives it wasn't invented by AT&T, who had no interest in things that reduced their central control. (For more see the excellent history When Wizards Stay Up Late.) If not for net neutrality regulation, many Internet companies wouldn't exist; monopoly or oligopoly network providers would have made it too hard or extracted too much monopoly rent.

Or consider basic science research. Einstein never had a market-driven job in his life, and it's a good thing, as his freedom from practical concerns let him do amazing work. Very few Nobel laureates had anything approaching commercial goals or commercial support. I'd call the detection of gravity waves major progress, but that work received massive tax funding. Etc, etc, etc.
> most groups had more than a modicum of civility

Fun and informative, yes; civil, largely -- until a vicious and relentless troll and about 4 or 5 of his sockpuppets entered my alt group and littered it with racist, filthy posts. This was around the mid 90s. I never felt so helpless -- I was just an end user. Even if I had control over my own server I would not have been able to kill these posts on other USENET servers. There was a woman, fortunately, who was part of a volunteer group of spam killers who had a magic capability to send a kill post instruction to all servers. She kept half an eye on my group, but it was only half an eye... still, better than nothing.
It's funny how core of a service the idea of email is...even pre-internet. Once companies started supplying dumb terminals connected to the corporate mainframe on every executive's desk, "electronic mail" quickly supplanted paper memos.

In my college OS class we had to build a *nix-like OS from the ground up and one of the required basic services we had to build was user-to-user messaging. After hacking out basic versions of "ls" and "cat" that was pretty much what we built next.

What was not so obvious, and much harder to do, and required something like the internet to solve was system-to-system mail transfer, which Tomlinson created. It turns out to be a strangely hard problem to do well. It's not hard to get it up and running, but the edge-cases and abuses have plagued us ever since. Maybe the problem is humans.
You should put that third guy in touch with the first guy.
Surprisingly, there are still areas where SW renderers are the only way, like in underpowered navigation devices without OpenGL support or running on exotic embedded operating systems.
The first use will be for border security as in Babylon A.D.:

https://youtu.be/MQNUvaPi4Qk?t=42m15s

Lot of border. Fast response needed. Damage whole families trying to make it. Operate with little human input for a lot of them. Perfect thing for militarist governments to delegate to killing machines instead of people. Side benefit of dodging some responsibility for bad choices where they blame it on machine logic.
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Ah, ok, Tufte also released an analysis of the PowerPoint decks analyzing the Columbia tile problems.

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
> The more I think about it, the fact that even after being so badly failed repeatedly the iconic pictures of looting were people scavenging for no-longer saleable bottled water & food seems more like an argument that most people are law-abiding for reasons beyond just fear of punishment.

That's what I wanted to get at with the part about it not being necessarily unethical, just because it is illegal.

I first thought about using a different example (war zones and how fast peoples behaviour detoriates into "I take what I want because no one can stop me"), but somehow Katrina felt more relatable. Reading your linked articles maybe it wasn't the best example after all. Thanks for the heads-up.
Definitely. If their CEO would get up there, say, "Honestly, we just don't give a fuck about local regulations," and make dismissive wanking motions, I'd have more respect for them.
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You should look up crash tests between cars considered safe in 1994 and modern cars.

I saw one for two Renault Espace models. The old one was so crumply compared to the new one, that the new one didn't even deploy airbags because there was no need. Both got top safety ratings when new.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xQS-7heF-og
@20.8 mpg city when new that's 10,000 gallons of fuel for 200k miles or ~30,000$ while gas is cheap. A Tesla model 3 (To Be Unveiled March 31st) is 35,000$, costs far less (~1/10th) for fuel, and is not 22 years old.

That's why people care about electric cars.
This film made me fall in love with the aesthetic of Wuppertal, and made it move very high on my list of potential places to visit and/or live for a while.

Related: anyone know how how welcoming Wuppertal is to remote workers?!
If I was a billionaire I think I'd create boarding schools near urban ghettos and offer pre-K through 12th grade education for free to groups of kids who would otherwise have almost no chance in life. Have the kids go home on the weekends (if they want) but be able to control their environment the rest of the time.
If anyone believes using autonomous killing machines is inherently evil and no doubt beset with Unintended Consequences, I invite you to donate to the "Campaign to Stop Killer Robots", and hopefully make autonomous killing machines illegal by international law.
http://www.stopkillerrobots.org/
Yep, and it makes sense for Tesla to do this. It's a new product, and the information they collect from maintenance and inspections is going to be invaluable for future revs.
Well, how involved are you? Did you see much good work this last 5-6 years from the part of Oracle? Could there be anything more they could do to downplay Java and alienate the community?

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2987529/java/insider-oracle...

https://jaxenter.com/oracle-and-javas-planned-obsolescence-1...

http://fortune.com/2015/09/07/oracle-cuts-java-execs/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-close-look-at-how-oracle-inst...

http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/09/oracle-purges-java-evangel...

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2469593/open-source-too...

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/11/apache...

https://dzone.com/articles/oracle-announces-jigsaw-delays-pu...

https://jaxenter.com/even-if-oracle-is-losing-interest-in-ja...

http://alvinalexander.com/java/doug-lea-leaving-java-communi...
I'm fine with that. I don't visit them, and these websites will find out the hard way that antagonizing their audience isn't going to work. The Ad revenue mana isn't going to last, people are tired of all these ads on the internet, the security issues, the ads killing the battery issues, the webpage performance issues.
The post looks unfinished. What are these principles author is talking about and how can they be applied to web development?
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I mostly agree with you. It is however a serious flaw of the jury system. Forensic science is NOT in the terrible state that the OP makes it out to be.
You can be proud, but you can also overdo it. A man's praise in his own mouth stinks.
I've had that in Los Angeles as well. "If you see any people just tell them you're friends of Matt visiting. My condo ownership rules forbid renting out/Airbnb."
Which model exactly? How is it more environmentally friendly than a Tesla? Surely the mileage is very poor...?

(I'm in the market for a cheap car and am genuinely interested in your answers ;-)
I'd say there's an even more obvious reason than that; most content simply isn't valuable enough that people would pay for it. Can you support high quality journalism with a subscription model? Possibly, but the audience will be far lower than the audience on todays ad supported sites, and perhaps not even big enough to support two or three seperate ones.

Meanwhile, the vast majority of the world will simply look to any free source of news or information or whatever else that they can get.

And if everyone becomes part of a subscription model, it then leaves a gap in the market for whoever is willing to offer their services for free as a loss leader. As long as at least one person or organisation is willing to offer their services for free (even as part of a short term plan to get a large audience behind them), a subscription model will remain non viable for most sites and publications.
My, cynical much? Seems to me that 10+ years at a non-profit, and choosing to live in a place outside the traditional startup locations (New Zealand) with fewer networking opportunities, might indicate fairly little interest in that exact trajectory, for those exact reasons.

But what do I know, I'm just another ten-year Mozillian myself. And if or when I leave, it'll also surely be to get filthy rich at a startup, right?
I would advise you to get a smarter bank. Imagine the kind of internal security that attitude gets them.
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Oh, the places you can go with Google Street View
This is dumb. Can you replace the tie rods, brake pads, tires? So long as the regular maintenance items can be handled I don't see a problem. Electronic parts on other cars are getting herd to replace too - they do things like record the VIN code upon first use and refuse to work in a different car, all in the name of anti-theft. Also, as people get excited about self driving cars, safety becomes a huge concern. You have throttle, brakes, steering, camera systems, radar, all working together to achieve that. You're not going to be tampering with any of that stuff on any car in the near future.

So if regular maintenance items can be replaced, and body damage can be repaired, I don't see the complaint.
No idea why I did not think of that.. sure why not.. Will put it up and share the link
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Love it. Very comprehensive.
That said - I'm afraid of namespace conflicts and would probably use a "git" prefix instead of just "g".

Also - I find "grm" (rebase master) somewhat confusing with "gr" (git rm). or even a common alias for "grep".
Perhaps "grb" for "git rebase "
Notice the US does not use such a thing along side its border with Mexico, and the SGR-A1 is less than a decade old, WW2 was over 70 years ago...
Not sure singling out Tesla is fair. Pretty much all the modern (built in 21st century) cars are far less serviceable and far less modular than they used to be before. The military designs are the only exception from this unfortunate trend, for the obvious reasons.
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It's more environmentally friendly because it's already built.
This article sort of seems a lot like pre-emptive damage control. Certainly don't believe everything you read on the internet but that should go for all sources that aren't well sourced. People need to get better at separating out facts from propaganda.
Most companies charge people money for goods or services they value and gladly pay for

That's the whole problem. Most of the pablum you see on the internet isn't worth enough for people to pay for it.

Sure I'll read it if it's free (ad subsidized) but if it wasn't there I probably wouldn't miss 90% of it.
I don't remember the details, but in one of the recent updates they increased the performance at top speed and initial start (below 3 mph). Prior to that, 85D and 90D (all-wheel drive configuration) got a significant boost to its 0-60 performance via a software update.

Since all the hardware is controlled via a software firmware, they are able to tweak the voltage supply of each motor to decrease or increase output performance.
why wouldn't an electric car be easier to service? A combustible engine has so many moving parts, fuel pump, filter, oil changes, regulator, etc etc. an electric car is just a battery and an electric engine, which is actually a pretty old peice of technology.

I do concede that the battery is a pretty complex piece of engineering. My fear is that DRM "authorized" replacements will become like the toner cartridges of the future.
In "The Golden Oecumene" trilogy (one of the densest and greatest looks at a possible real future I've ever read), the world is run by a collection of benevolent super-intelligence AIs. One of the themes in the book is the notion of hyper-extending current technology trends and exploring what society will be like under such circumstances.

In the series, the take on the military is fascinating. Extending out the notions of precision and limiting collateral damage, orbital weapons are able to take out specific neural connections in targets and cause them to change their thinking process entirely. While the weapons in this future picture are large automated robots and AIs of a type, the actual operator is human. In fact a single human is all that remains (and is needed) to provide all the judgment and justification needed to take action. But the books still posit that a human-in-the-loop is still necessary.

Great and very challenging books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Oecumene
Samsung is now shipping a 15TB whopper of an SSD. Farewell, spinning rust
> A lot of Tesla fans claim that electric vehicles are inherently superior, because with fewer moving parts, they'll be able to stay on the road basically forever - no piston rings to wear, no transmissions to fail, no oil to change.

There are at least two major components that "wear out" in power electronics - capacitors and power transistors. Traditional vacuum-impregnated motor winding insulation also has a wear-out mechanism.

Electrolytic capacitors have both an electrolyte breakdown and dryout at extended temperatures and voltage. Film capacitors also have a (much slower) dielectric breakdown. Power transistors have two wear-out mechanisms: one that is based on thermal cycling of the wire bonds and one that is based on thermal cycling of the solder between the transistor and direct-copper-bonded substrate.

Datacenter-scale UPS addresses both of these with field-replaceable modules. The main AC and DC capacitor banks are replaceable in advance of failure, and power transistors are field replaceable in much larger power modules, typically only after a failure.

Vacuum-impregnated motor winding insulation is typically not completely void-free. The high dV/dt that a direct-connected inverter imposes on the windings causes large repetitive voltage spikes across the winding insulation. The voltage spikes trigger partial discharge in the voids, which in turn erodes the insulation.

IMO, long-lived electric cars should at least have capacitor banks that are schedule-replaced, and drive modules that are replaceable after failure. With the level of diagnostics and history monitoring available today, we should be able to replace both components in advance of failure as well.

Do electric cars have lower maintenance, longer life, and higher reliability than ICE cars? Definitely, probably, and probably, respectively. But "lower", "longer", and "higher" don't mean "zero", "forever", and "infinite".
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the jquery dependency could be replaced with 5 lines of js by using querySelector & textContent. a jquery plugin should just be a wrapper around the main lib.
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Yes. Well, depending on what you mean by narcissistic. We can't exactly get our proposed examples to take an inventory test to measure their narcissism as it is defined in this article.

Emma Goldman comes to mind, for me.
For someone to be charismatic, they may either inspire devotion by "followers" or claim they are receiving divine inspiration. If someone finds themselves with a bunch of people who are devoted to them, this is a form of implicit trust. i.e. the thing that inspired originally may have been trustworthy, but eventually the trust becomes implicit in that the "followers" will follow more regardless of inspiration. I've written about this effect on cloud services before.

Divine inspiration also deals with trust channels. If someone claims to be divinely inspired (which I personally believe is possible - see Buddhism Insight for example) then whoever they relate this information to will then have to implicitly trust the information coming to them is actually represented as the divine intended it (assuming they don't have direct access themselves). Obviously, that's caused a lot of problems in the past for us, so it's non-tenable. Teachers of the way[1] avoid dictating teachings received from insight because of this. It's also probably why sutras tend to be very terse, now I think about it.

The answer to your question is that it might be possible, but it's unlikely to be possible for long as the trust channels turn implicit, which then has an impact on the individual's relationship with their followers. When someone trusts you implicitly, there is no feedback on whether their trust is warranted or not, or put another way, there's no way for you to to trust if the trust you are receiving is real. And that is just as bad as you not being trustworthy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Way
> the idea that narcissism has increased among college students over the last 25 years is worrisome from an organizational perspective. Millennials are the next generation of leaders.

When i was in school, everyone was raving at me, barking madly that all of us students had to be the leaders of tomorrow. Maybe it's because everyone is obsessed with who gets to be a leader that people presume that they should be leaders. Millenials are also the next generation of followers, or workers, or you know, discarding hierarchical considerations: millenials are the next generation of humans. Which is tautological.

Looking at the current field of candidates for leader of the most powerful (by a few metrics, but not all) government of the world, i think the bar has been set very low for millenials and the people who write articles like this merely have some heavily tinted rose-colored glasses on about their "generation of leaders".

That said, i don't think it's surprising that people in positions of power in a hierarchical structure, like a university setting, are biased towards people like them and hence create a selection effect within that power structure. Isn't that the basic observation that validates affirmative action? Nepotism, cronyism are commonly understood terms, but clearly they are specific cases of a general phenomenon. You cannot separate the exercise of power from its social implications. People being social creatures, they will exercise their power in ways that have social consequences. That's why people are put in positions of power in the first place.
While I agree that it can be frustrating trying to deal with contractors, I don't think that this kind of commodification of labor is healthy for society.
Let's be more clear: it's horribly misleading.

E.g. the Austin Hill example is from when the man was 16, and comes from a talk he gave about how he learned an important moral lesson from that moral failure that changed the course of the rest of his life.
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I think the OP is being kind....

I question even the validity of fingerprint matching one of the oldest "Forensic science" fields.

Almost nothing in "Forensic science" follows the actual scientific method. There is far far far far far too many assumptions, "intuitive leaps", and formation of a preconceived narrative round "science"

They make the evidence fit their story, vs allowing the evidence to tell a story.
JshWright got it of course - reuse, then recycle, then buy new if you have to.

Mine is an E320 wagon. Any W124 or W126 chassis is a good bet as it's before Merc started going down hill in build quality.
Something like this has been tried before. It results in the students being institutionalized and prepared for prison.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/boarding-school-syndrome

Maybe lifting the people of the urban ghettos out of the poverty trap might be a good start.
They are not environment friendly in cities. That's why a lot of European cities are banning them.
"And it's not like a 'worn out' Telsa is going into the car crusher."

Well, it actually might. The article mentions it - if a car is deemed a "write off" by the insurance company(because cost of repair is quoted as >50% of the value of the car) then only Tesla can re-activate it. It's crazy, my dad used to have a car repair shop any buy dozens of cars that were "written off" by insurance companies, he would fix them, they would go through an official check-up process to be allowed on the road and that was it. He never had to ask Mercedes or Honda or Audi to "reactivate" their cars.
My "favorite" bit of code that gcc eventually started treating as undefined (after working for probably literally 20 years up to that point): A 3x4 matrix type declared as

typedef float xform_3d[4][3];

was routinely serialized by (I'm taking liberties here, this certainly not how the 20-year-old code read!)

float *f = &x[0][0];
for(int i=0; i<12; i++) write_float(f[i]);

i.e., the code treated the same storage as a 2D-array of floats and then as a 1D-array of floats in different places.

In the "pointers are just CPU registers" world, this worked fine. But more clever compilers know that the code dereferences past the end of the array (e.g., memory at f[4] is always accessed) so the whole loop is undefined behavior.

We fixed it once we started seeing the compiler warning, so I don't know exactly how we would have been punished for the undefined behavior in this case. So hooray for compiler warnings!
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Your window regulator will fail again within a year or two.

(Learned this from experience installing Chinese-made replacement parts in my 90's VW)
Not every Tesla is 100k. Some start out below 70k when you consider tax initiatives. With gas savings etc. those are things people will consider who might have gotten a 5-Series otherwise.

Also used car market. people who pay 100k often don't drive it 8, 10 or more years - they get something new before that. Person who buys a $50k CPO car and maybe soon even lower will care.

Then there is the 35k Model 3 whee it will matter a lot more