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Sounds like a pretty bad idea. If people get distracted and they doze off [1] when inside the self-driving cars and while testing them, the chances for that to happen when they control them remotely are much higher.

Also, terrible idea to allow the self-driving cars to be controlled remotely. Now attackers have an "official feature" they can use to do that as well.

Estonia may be forward-thinking, but they always seem to get it half-right.

[1] https://www.sbdautomotive.com/en/ford-engineers-dozing-off-p...
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It's the mass extinction event that we've created that really grinds at me. All these amazing species of flora/fauna erased from the universe to make our lives a little more convenient.
My first car, we couldn't keep the gas gauge working reliably, so I had to reckon the mileage from the odometer to keep track of whether it needed to be filled. At least it did have dual gas tanks, so in the worst case, you'd notice the engine was chugging and trying to die, and have to flip the switch to the other tank in time.

Filling up both tanks kind of sucked, back when gas was $3.50-4.00/gallon.
KDE Plasma 5 is actually reasonably modern. http://i.imgur.com/XcnYxy0.png
And neither have humans. How many +40 will be able to change career?

I find the dismissive attitude really unfounded and blind to the realities we live in.
san Jose alone is about 1/3 of the size of the entire London metropolitan area, and that's just one part (albeit a big one) of the south bay area.
The same practice was recently implemented for a train from Ukraine to Poland.
It looks like this is part of Adobe Edge Reflow according to one of the listed inventors [1][2].

[1] https://twitter.com/aaronshekey/status/836339429665083392
[2] https://www.aaronshekey.com/work/adobe/
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Why give money when you can give "stars"?
Do you feel the same about the science rejecting portion of the population?
First, let me make clear that I don't want to dissuade you from going to New Zealand. It's a lovely place, but many people in Europe have a (somewhat) wrong image of it. So I just want to make sure you know what you're getting in to.

Yes, compared with central Paris, prices aren't that insane. But if you want to bootstrap a company, you are looking for (one or more of):

- cheap COL
- access to customers
- access to staff

In NZ, you have none of those. You'll be much cheaper off living in northern France or somewhere else 'remote' and rural in France, or even the rest of Europe. You'll spend thousands a month renting somewhere that isn't even particularly nice (houses are of crap quality in general), money that you won't have when you're getting a business started.

There aren't many companies that need or are willing to pay for cutting edge software. Sure, you can sell to anywhere in the world through the internet nowadays, but then why would you live hours flying away from your customers, on (relatively) crappy internet lines, many timezones away?

Most Kiwis worth hiring have moved to Oz. That is not to say that all Kiwis left are idiots, of course, but in general they won't be the sort of high-flying, go-getter people you'll want in the initial stages of your company. And those that are left will be hard to find or to convince joining you. It will be easier to convince young people looking for adventure coming from abroad to join you, but they'll be gone just as easily, too (I've seen it happen several times).

NZ is a great place to live if you want to have an outdoorsy-oriented, good work/life balanced lifestyle, while still being in an English-speaking, originally Europe (British) oriented country. Your friends and family will love saying how they will come visit you and then won't once they realize how far away it actually is (exaggerating only slightly here). Until the 1970's, NZ was a very insular, inward-facing, closed economy, of which the effects are still felt today. People like to live very spread out, which makes 4mm people responsible for maintaining infrastructure in an area bigger than the UK. It's true that the majority lives in a few cities, but that also makes those cities expensive.

May I suggest you go live there for a few months first before you move - and treat it as 'living' there, not 'holiday'. So living in the same place, daily rhythm of Mon-Fri 9-5 and doing laundry on the weekends, not being able to go anywhere without a car (this is the number one thing my daughter complained about, although she was only 4 at the time).

Good luck. If you take the plunge, I'm sure you'll have a great time and it'll be a great adventure, but your chances of being the traditional definition of 'successful' will not improve with going there (nothing wrong with that, of course - everybody has to define for themselves what constitutes 'successful').
That statement makes a few assumptions. I don't have more than one device for this stuff. My business and clients all emergency numbers (which would include that person number if it existed). I also have a painfully small amount of self control and have in the past nipped off to check my emails for "10 minutes".

A holiday can be a good opportunity to disconnect completely.
Incompetent lawyers who are unaware of their limits and don't realize they are giving bad advice and corrupt lawyers who think they can get away with deliberately hosing their client are rare cases; the others conservatively avoid giving dangerous advice that could lead to malpractice suits.
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Recently, Bill Gates has claimed that we should tax robots, as a solution to the unemployment they contribute to.

I don't see how that would work.

Let's say someone build a free software that automates the job of 100 million people. Surely, this would contribute to massive unemployment. Who should pay taxes, and how much?
I feel like this is another sign the Internet of the 90s is dying.
> build "pockets" of livability

That was a very loaded word to use. The problem is many people consider dense urban neighborhoods to be unlivable..
I'm just assuming here but from what you are saying, your city is an exception, and rest of the country doesn't have that law so I can come to your city from some country side with my bike and lack of registration number on my bike wouldn't be surprise to any one. It would work only if it would be mandatory that every bike in the country have to have registered owner (like cars and motorbikes) so you would never expect buying a bike without registration papers and police could easily check if bike is registered for you or not.
The thing is, the user experience of Uber, Lyft et al is strictly better than public transport. Some would even say it is 10x better (in the From Zero to One sense). It picks you up whenever you want, wherever you want and drops you off exactly where you need to go.

I agree that buses are more ecological, but doesn't this just mean that we should combine Uber and public transport? In the future I see a fleet of larger vehicles combined with a Uber Pool type app working really well. And even further in the future these vehicles would be self driving.
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And yet almost every time I try to print a page, it thinks it's ok to just split an image over two pages. It baffles me that this is the default.
For reference, I usually get 45 - 50MB ram usage on VS Code.
Google is primarily a capitalist corporation and by definition not altruistic. It's accountable to its shareholders; if the CEO couldn't make a case for e.g. how employees spending part of their time on side projects somehow benefits the bottom line, this liberty wouldn't be allowed.
I would rather not give money to a company which pays Mike #2's salary.
A lot of it is due to companies centralizing games and putting up huge barriers to even make games functional without their black box servers. After many of these games die off population wise, the companies just drop them instead of giving back to the community to preserve it.

Look at TF2--it could foreseeably be modified and anyone can run a server for it. It may be possible to preserve it. Blizzard's Overwatch on the other hand, which is somewhat of a successor to it, they won't let the game to work at all without their servers since it's a gigantic, centralized black box. Those servers might go away.

The only reason WoW is preserved for the future at all with third party vanilla servers is because during the beta they made a mistake and leaked a ton of debugging info and world data early on. Ideally (from the company's perspective), we wouldn't even had that and one of the biggest blockbuster MMOs in history would simply be lost.

Not picking on Blizzard in particular, but they've gone from a decentralized model in the Diablo 1, War 2 BNE, and Starcraft 1 days to massively centralized. If there isn't a profit to be had, I think they'll be very happy to let the history die there, which is very unfortunate and seems to be a model many AAA game companies are taking at this point, not just Blizz.
...or is the bartender building marketshare?
dompdf supports this.
> Much of customer service and sales can't be scaled via technology

I don't see why not. This looks like an important business opportunity.
I think part of the reason is we put effot into preserving valuable art, architecture, etc. Creation effort does not equate to value (of course everyone values things differently but there is a level of majority consensus on certain things).

Modern creations have a much lower barrier to entry so more gets made, which is great, but also makes preservation more difficult. There's hundreds of new games on the App store each week (don't recall the exact numbers). Preserving each one, especially the history of development (art assets, source code, design docs and discussions) would take more time than any organization has and also not be very useful to the public.

Yet there are good, worthwhile, interesting, and historically significant games in that haystack somewhere. How do we filter the noise before the stuff worth preserving is lost?
That massive net increase you talk about is not massive at all. The number of new jobs created in the us have gone down, decade after decade since ww2.

Furthermore you need to look at AI evolutionary. There is not some whatchmaker who creates this perfect ai specimen. Its evolving, one layer at a time and its instantly applicable.
I'm simply pointing out that there are lots of applications of AI that will create work. And to those that say that machines will just solve all those problems by themselves, I would ask them to produce some evidence besides an estimated trajectory.
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When you go out and eat a fantastic piece of food, how often do you speak with the chef and compliment him?
Interesting. It sounds good at the start but becomes cacophonous shortly thereafter.

Another war story here: I used to run a 16 track mixing console with a rock band. The guitar player played with 2 different bands. He got a gig in a club one night and both bands showed up. Everybody insisted on playing.

It was OK but the less accomplished drummer insisted on playing a drum solo. I ran his drums through a delay in the range 160 - 200 mSec and mixed it back in. Every drum strike was doubled and the audience liked it. I don't think they would have been as enthusiastic if they had heard what he was actually playing.
PhantomJS supports it too (either through `html-pdf` or manually).
One of the main causes for that was a one line fix in the apache config:

KeepAlive Off
I've posted about that concept before. I think it's a no-brainer and it baffles me that they're yet to do it, and that it took Instagram so long to have their equivalent.

Tweet storms are only getting more common in my experience. Further, entire newspaper articles could be presented as a series of bite-sized pieces. Just limit the first one to 140 IMO.
Because politicians choose the spend the money elsewhere since, so far, it doesn't give enough votes.
"why streaming suicide attempts on youtube wasn't a (or, as big of a) problem?"

you would have less of captive audience on youtube. Do this on facebook and it just gets thrown in front of an audience of people you know.
I can't help thinking that the anti-gun group could exploit this by specifically running content that attacks NRA advertising tropes, thereby turning the NRA ads into an exercise in deconstructing NRA propaganda.
I get the sense you are imagining this:

https://bicycledutch.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/amsterdam.j...

But the pragmatic reality is that in much of the world that has had such a bike culture, you will eventually end up with this:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QSXDqDni9VE/maxresdefault.jpg

Cars, although far less dense, are objectively better than the latter case. Safer, quieter, less polluting.
These companies are managed by people who lack focus and a sense of frugality.

- The kind of people that expand their product line instead of focusing of the 20% that generates 80% of profits

- The kind of people that would buy Starbucks daily even if they lived paycheck to paycheck.
While I applaud your meat buying preferences, it would be an environmental disaster for every meat eater on earth to attempt to do the same.

I might not get the point, but why would it be a bigger environmental disaster?
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Since 16 days ago master uses 5.6, whereas v8 is at 5.8, the pull request took about a month to go through, but it touched ~2000 files, and there doesn't appear to be an open pull request for "update v8". So it seems it'll take some time (as it looks like a considerable effort).

And current 5.7 issues seem to live here: https://github.com/nodejs/v8/issues

https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/7a77daf24344db7942e34c...

https://github.com/v8/v8/releases
did I misread that? your commute is 6 miles?
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They tell you what the markup is ahead of time. The markup is a good thing. It's efficient pricing. Society is better for it.

I find it comforting knowing that in an emergency I can get somewhere in an Uber. If pricing didn't rise with demand or dropping supply, I can't have that guarantee. In SF, I've never had the "no cars available". That's what I want. The knowledge that ubiquitous rapid transport is available for some price within my reach.

Sure, if it cost £1000 for a ride that'd be different. But even on the 4.75 I've seen in SF it's never gone that high.
Some people like suburbia.
>We now need to limit the artificial growth of Africa by stopping food programs and allowing balance to be reached

I agree with you but for different reasons. Your suggestion borders on some mild form of eugenics that I don't necessarily agree with. What I would say is that the figurative 'training wheels' should be taken off the bicycle i.e. Africans have to figure their own stuff out without depending on the west for foreign aid if any long term solution is to be found for Africa's problems.
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This is how I read it: there is a difference between giving advice and stating facts/giving an opinion. IAAL informs that said opinion/fact has some weight but stating that it is not advice waives any liability as to what one ought to do with whatever statement has been made.

Compare with the following: I am a software engineer, here's my take on this or that technical matter, but don't apply this sample snippet as is in production, also I'm waiving all responsibility, like MIT-license style.

It's not that you shouldn't listen to random professional folks on the internet, it's that when they informally give some opinion on a matter, they may very well be missing some key part of your very specific context, and while common sense just would tell you not to take it as is and that you could hold them liable for anything, J. Random Bloke statistically lacks common sense so one has to spit proactive waiver statements telling people to act on their own responsibility or take advice in a proper, formal client-to-professional context.
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But for a sufficiently expert programmer Java and Scala are as different as two brands of screwdriver.
Could you run a browser in that thing?
Do you think that is high or low?
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I recently launched the site https://vain.gg/ Google keeps rejecting my Adsense application, why? after research it seems to me that adsense should be fine for single page apps, they keep responding with the same automated "Insufficient content" response?

The site has a variety of features like leaderboards, statistics, news, player profiles, match pages with engaging statistics.

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It's a good point / thought. I feel like the same question could be asked of any preserved art form or valuable cultural item.

I think it's ultimately just up to people and their feelings / how significant they feel a game is/was to put the resources in to preserve it. I also feel like some games are clearly more notable than others that a consensus would agree with.

Mario Bros 3, Zelda, WoW, Skyrim... I could go on for hours I'm sure, but certainly some games have a much larger impact and are more historically notable than others. Maybe it's partially subjective, and I'm not sure what the solution is. Do we legislate these things must be preserved?

That seems pretty extreme. Do we ask nicely? It seems most companies won't listen if there's no profit there. I'd be interested in hearing other people's ideas on that and how to make it happen. I think it'd be a real shame if in 20 years, given all our technology, these things were lost to history somehow still.
We used the site to seed our crawlers. It's been great.
Agree (handheld AR with Unity, won't need killer hardware either just you cell phone+your PC is fine). But be aware that if you ever want to ship something Vuforia is kind of costly. For quick prototyping Unity+Vuforia is pretty great. ARToolkit is decent but the tracking isn't as good (imo) and there's more hands on with extracting features from the markers yourself etc. Eagerly awaiting v6 which has been "coming soon" for quite some time now.
You can also search for OpenCV tutorials, iirc there's a Unity plugin.

If anyone has recommendations for a more open stack I'm listening (own a Unity license but think it's meh-ish for AR). Most certainly would like to migrate from Vuforia since I don't want to bet on something that could just go Mataio and be gone (+licensing cost is pretty prohibitive but acceptable for my use case).
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Damn trains are fast and frequent and subsidized where you live.
The conurbation that New York is part of is much bigger than London. The London metropolitan area is about 8.5k square kilometers. The New York metropolitan area is about 35k.
It would initially seem like an odd oversight as it has Welsh, with half the number of speakers. Another poster said there are more on the way. I wonder if it's a technical or political reason for it not being in the release? They presumably have Irish speakers on staff...
Yeah, so choose what works best for u, not assuming the same thing for others without understanding the specific problems they are trying to solve. Maybe they need a hammer, not a nail gun, because they work in specific environment that don't have sufficient power supply? or for the work they are doing, hammer is good enough, it is better for them to invest elsewhere.
The irony is that a lot of games before the era of centralisation have active preservation communities and will probably live on - but a lot of newer games likely won't, for the reasons you described.

I think it's very likely people will still play Tetris, Final Fantasy IV and Star Craft in 50 years. Star Craft II and Final Fantasy XV? Not so much.
Never said every aspect was worth modeling. I specifically used the term "effective leader." An effective leader is one who delivers results, not necessarily one that is admired.

An effective leader knows when to sacrifice pawns.