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I read this book [1] back in the '90's. An amazing read about the world of auto manufacturing.

Regarding Tesla, surely I am not the only one waiting for competition. I think the problem Tesla has is that when the giants awake they will outclass them at nearly every level.

It's like thinking you are doing great in your open water swim until the triathletes leave you in their wake. Surely companies who have been honing their skills and optimizing their design, engineering, manufacturing, distribution and support over decades will have non-trivial advantages over Tesla.

The way I see it, building an electric car is significantly simpler than one with an internal combustion engine. All you have to do to see this is take an accounting of the thousands of parts and many fluids you leave out. The design, manufacturing, supply chain, distribution and service costs of having another 1,000 to 2,000 parts in a car are monumental. Any company that knows how to deliver quality, reliable and reasonably priced internal combustion cars will have a laugh delivering electrics at scale.

They know how to do this today. They are all waiting for the same thing: Cheaper, lighter, better energy storage. Recent developments might indicate this could be just a few years out.

Tesla has a problem: It has to achieve scale before that moment in time. Today choices are few and Tesla might have an advantage with Model 3 (if it ships on time and has no problems). In some respects they are the only game in town (range). The minute that changes people are going to flock to other manufacturers.

[1] https://goo.gl/Drhc1Z
Then you are just enabling that process to continue. You are subsidizing their wages and making it seem ok for their employer to pay them peanuts.

I don't tip anyone and tipping is not a common practice where I live. In fact, most people would feel insulted if you gave them a tip here.
'Sane' has nothing to do with criminal vs victim. It's also a myth that you get off easy if you're legally declared insane - sentences for those people are so routinely longer than regular prison sentences, that lawyers advise against pleading insanity.

In any case, if you're a defendant in criminal court, you're being tried as a criminal, whether or not you're a victim. Defendants aren't declared 'victims' and tried differently.
You are projecting your issues onto someone you know nothing about. I have seen cashiers react as if they want to strip search him because he is trying to pay for a pizza. Other people react incredibly negatively to him in ways that are seriously problematic. This is a completely different situation from what you describe. His desire to avoid it when possible is in no way neurotic nor dysfunctional.

Additionally, letting him avoid it part of the time makes it easier for him to cope effectively the rest of the time. You can think of it as him having a limited people skills budget and not insisting he piss it away unnecessarily just because other people with a bigger budget don't find it to be a hardship to pay such things. For him, it amounts to being nickeled and dimed to death.
This and Polymer are the precursor to built in browser web components that the author claims React is superior to.
To bflesch's point, GM is making a different gamble: that the vast majority of consumers will continue to prefer fossil fuel engines for the next few engineering cycles (10-15 years).

GM has a side bet on electric cars in the form of a joint venture to build electric cars with LG, and another side bet in the form of a joint venture to build hydrogen fuel cells with Honda.

Tesla is making a VERY big bet that a vertically integrated, highly automated, battery electric carmaker will be able to take an increasing amount of market share.

To be clear, I'm extremely impressed with what Tesla has accomplished so far - if Musk accomplishes what he plans, manufacturing will never be the same.

Like I said above, it will be educational to see what happens.
What bothers me is that I don't want to tip in cash, and I never carry cash. Put tipping in the app for AFTER I get out of the car and AFTER the driver has given the rating. No rating, no tip.
WebAssembly is not a universal language runtime. Currently it really only handles C style Ahead-Of-Time compiled languages. e.g. if you wanted to implement a JS JIT or really any other kind of JIT on top of WebAssembly you're going to have a really bad time.
While it's (obviously) not a full endorsement from a legal standpoint, Carmack retweeted his announcement.
I got the impression from the making-ofs that they jumped into the deep end as far as innovation. Not just from a gameplay and design perspective, but from a process and company culture perspective as well. I get the sense that a lot of process was cultural and stagnant. However, when the opportunity arose to throw more change after good they jumped on it and made some very interesting progress. I can't help but get a strong impression that the experience of developing BOTW has had a transformative effect on Nintendo. I'm also getting those vibes from the Switch and double-down strategy on indie devs and turn-key game engines; if not already certainly over the life cycle of the system.

This particular process seems to have arisen from Nintendo's need to control quality. We've seen this in effect before with many games, but Metroid Prime and Retro Studios comes to mind. With a Warren Buffett like eye for potential Nintendo pulled on Retro to make Prime, and through sure will for quality helped guide their efforts and the final product into the amazeballs results of Metroid Prime. That need for uncompromising quality control, coupled with the challenges of a MASSIVE game(certainly more massive than anything they have undertaken) led them to try out this process that comes with obvious financial downsides. In the end, they are rightly satisfied with the results. Inspiring.
Here's a brief clip from the 90s movie, Reservoir Dogs, that could shed some light: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4sbYy0WdGQ>
On the Bible front, I'd recommend a story bible. There's a good reason so many people fail to read the Bible: it's full of motivational landmines such as genealogies. Even reading a story bible would put one far ahead in terms of understanding.

The one I read is the Ritchie pruehs story bible, which is free as a Kindle book.
Their argument is that dealerships have no actual incentive to sell EV vehicles over other ICE vehicles given that franchises make most of their profit from servicing; as such this exposes quite a bit of unnecessary risk for Tesla or any EV maker for that matter. This is the primary argument in lobbying efforts that there should be an exception for EV vehicles in this case of similar laws.

"Tesla General Counsel Todd Maron argued that the automaker wouldn’t thrive under a franchise dealership model because independent dealers make most of their profit from servicing cars while electric cars have little long-term maintenance and fewer moving parts."
My friend, where have you been for the last 5 years?

Web developers have been reinventing the wheel every 3-6 months and calling it innovation.
Curious; are Uber or Lyft drivers penalized at all for canceling? I had a Lyft driver a few weeks back call me and ask where I was, which is odd since the app tells him. Turns out he was on the wrong side of the street. Instead of just turning around, he just says "bye", hangs up and cancels the trip. Was annoying for me since I had been waiting for 10 minutes at this point but it seemed like a real poor choice on his part.
This is also now well supported science. The ACE study (http://acestudy.org) revealed that children who have adverse experiences in their early life dominate social dysfunction and even after one significant adverse experience have dramatically different life outcomes from other people. Allowing children to be abused is a major social problem that costs all of us terribly.
I stopped reading when I got to the bit where he starts stealing stuff to survive. He's just a homeless guy who lived in the bush instead of under a bridge. There's actually a lot of them that live in the bush on the outskirts of towns/cities. I've run into a few south of Sydney when I used to live there and hike/camp lots.

The title made it sound like he's a survivalist-type who sustained himself naturally. That would have been way more interesting.
Grateful that I live and work on public transportation that's both cheaper and less unpleasant than what the author described.
I can't shake the feeling that you're trying to say in the most adult and eloquent way possible that you just want to make sure that girls don't come into your sandbox and put frilly pink dresses on your toys, that they have their own (mobile) toys, away and separate from yours, and that's the way it should stay. :-)
Packaging the cells is the hard/expensive part. Nevermind the battery management software. And the point of the Gigafactory is to compress the supply chains between raw materials and finished product. It's an all-in investment whose singular goal is to make battery packs cheaper. The only way other companies are going to match that efficiency is if 1) they make a similar investment or 2) Tesla/Panasonic screw up.
I have read part of this book and it is a really well written book especially to use racket to construct computer languages . I didn't understand how to use racket to make languages until I read this book.
Keep in mind that that plot is log log scaled. Your numbers really wouldn't look out of place on it. I'm thinking it would be close to the trendline, vertically above that bottom right point.
I agree. I'm consistently amazed at how many people I end up giving sub-five star ratings to these days, and I have been a huge proponent and defender of Uber in the past.

If you pick me up promptly, follow your GPS, have a car that is functional, and either engage me in pleasant conversation or say nothing at all besides 'hello', I will give you five stars. Many drivers seem to act as if they are driving their friends around as opposed to driving their clients around.
I still have no idea how you are getting that interpretation. The only thing it suggests is that forcing people to "fit in" instead of helping them figure out how to happily be themselves actively causes problems. I can't see your interpretation even if I squint hard and try to read it that way.

Shaving a metaphorical square peg rarely gets you a round one that works beautifully. Usually, it just gets you a misshapen, mutilated thing that is neither square nor round.
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I really wish uber would just charge more. Part of why I fell in love with the service was because it sounded like the drivers were really happy.
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10,000 to 1. Very different indeed.
Which is ridiculous. I worked at an ISP in '99, and even back then it was just Apache log parsing with Perl (whether that be a custom script or some open source project written in Perl). Colocation usage was done by logging byte counters on switch ports.

This was a small independent ISP with maybe 3-4 sysadmins/network operations people. Not doing at least that much seems pretty rinky-dink to me. It was trivial to do that much.
The diagrams are weird... usually the graphical notation "a/4" for an arc of an FST would mean that "4" is a weight and the arc is an acceptor arc (input and output are the same) with label "a". So I'd expect that to actually be "a:4".

It looks like this only supports unweighted finite state transducers?
Information Avoidance: How People Select Their Own Reality
While this the restaurant case, not the taxi case, it does give some useful overview aspects:

http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-...
Access to talent in locations where there aren't offices + access to talent who only work remotely.
Isn't the entire premise of building affordability/profit into the model 3, among other vehicles, is driving down the cost of li-ion batteries? All of these ventures rely on an economy of scale of difference. Correct me if I'm wrong in this.
It is indeed weird if not uncomfortable.

There's been an interesting move by Danny Meyer and Tom Colochio two well-known and very successful restaurateurs in New York City to abolish tips in favor of a flat service charge to be shared amongst everyone in the restaurant.

Danny Meyer talks about the history of tipping in the US in which he claims is rooted in post-Civil War racism and the old Pullman cars.

http://www.businessinsider.com/tipping-is-a-hoax-born-out-of...

Here is a link to the podcast:

http://www.sporkful.com/the-restaurateur-who-got-rid-of-tipp...

Interestingly enough the practice seems to have originated in Europe however before dying out:

https://www.fordfoundation.org/ideas/equals-change-blog/post...
Psychophysics is the scientific area of study for this. But much of it is learned, and is effected by culture, generation, location. It's quite complex.
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Alone in the Wilderness and Part 2 are both very much worth watching, but he was resupplied periodically by plane in the summertime.
Of course, you are correct in your statements, but contextual application in this discussion would appear to be in error on at least one point.

You are correct in that I used an term incorrectly: I shouldn't have said robbery, I should have simply said "theft". Robbery indicates force: there was no indication of direct force/intimidation that I saw. Point conceded.

Where I think your criticism is incorrect. Your examples differentiate based on the what the criminal was trying to get away with. Trying to steal a candy bar is different that trying to steal an automobile: the resources involved in obtaining a candy bar legitimately are much smaller than the resources dedicated to obtaining a car. You rightfully call out that distinction, they are different (as individual acts) and I would not disagree that they should be different in what answer justice should demand of the criminal. Where you go astray is that the context of my criticism of was that the original commentator was differentiating the severity of the crime not on the value of the property stolen, but on some perception of the of the victim's "need". So, it's not the difference of the value of the good taken, but a judgment on how important that should have been to the victim. This is a very important distinction and changes the validity of the ethical judgement. I assert that, whereas the value of the stolen item is correctly a part of the determining the severity of the transgression, the "need" of the victim is not a proper factor in determining the severity of the crime. (And yes, this is a generalization. If I steal a hospital respirator from a medical supply company showroom floor, it is different than if I steal it while it's in use by a patient... though even then the theft aspect should likely be seen as the same and there are just other, different ethical/legal crimes in addition to theft.)
I really hate tipping culture in America. In Germany, servers are surprised if you give them anything more thana euro. I have friends who visit from non tipping cultures who ask "Why isn't it just included in the price!"

I agree with the author. Tipping is out of hand. Charge more for food, clearly state it on the menu/check, remove the tip black on the receipt and pay people a decent wage!
... They are also issuing new shares:

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We already did Java bytecode, though it wasn't good enough to get standardized.
Link to the paper: https://www.aeaweb.org/atypon.php?doi=10.1257/jel.20151245
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The cook in the kitchen gets no tip. Unlikely to be appreciated, gets no share of the tip, and could make my dish a delight, or spit in it.

The guy/girl says "i'm gonna be your waiter tonight", and that's the last time you see them, others bring the dishes and clean the table. And by law, they cannot share the tip.

When I pay for service, I'd like the employer and the market to figure out for me what's a fair wage. Don't put it on me, 1) I'll most likely be wrong and unfair, and 2) I just cannot tip the cook.
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Were I a lawyer I would argue that they are covered under points (1) and (4). For (1), even though they aren't nonprofit, they aren't using the work directly to gain profit. Rather, they are using it as a base on which to annotate. For (4), I would argue that the primary market for lyrics is not the lyrics themselves, but instead productions of those lyrics in song form. This can be seen by the fact that any number of websites reproduce them at little cost.

I don't know if this is sufficient grounds to argue fair use, but it is clear that the case is not cut-and-dry.
It does not seem the drivers are part of the sharing economy, many of them have made it a full time job. As a result many of the issues with taxi services seem to be slowly cropping up.
I would love to be able to backup my data (usual collection of photo images and family videos ~4TB) over the public network but the fastest retail connection available here is 100/7 so it would take a very long time.

I agree that download capacity of ~100Mbit is plenty for today's applications.

Yes I can write my data to a hard drive and mail it somewhere, and I do that, but that's not network backup.
Interesting article. I feel very much at home in places like the UK, Netherlands and Spain. Not so much other European cultures.

Coming back to the US, no real problems adjusting. Maybe I didn't stay in Europe long enough or popped between cultures with enough frequency to not have anything "imprint".

> the psychological, emotional and cultural aspects of reentry

I thought "reentry" was an odd word choice here. I immediately thought "mission to Mars".
Have a look at how Australian Aborigines feel about their separation from parents because of contemporary morals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations
The most ethical thing you can do is delete uber
Isn't that JS?
It well may be as far as social experience goes, you may not feel so much of "culture shock" in Japan as a foreigner, or at least easy on you. Generally Japanese people don't expect foreigner to act like them. You will never blend in, but flipside is you get perks for being foreigner there.

I don't know if this played any role in your experience but that seems to be what I have been hearing around me...
The same is true for tipping in restaurants and bars; it may seem like you're helping the server/bartender, but actually you're subsidizing the business.
To get good performance on running JVM or .NET WASM will probably need more than just GC support. JVM/.NET JITs rely on inline-caches that aren't currently expressible in WASM. There are ideas about ways to make this work, but it will be a while.

The other thing preventing the use of JVM or .NET is that porting the runtimes over isn't easy. i.e. You can already run this bytecode in a browser but it isn't widely used. (http://jsil.org/, https://github.com/decatur/j2js-compiler, https://github.com/plasma-umass/doppio, https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet etc)
Not exactly. The proposed charters are limited compared to traditional bank charters, but it's a start.
Have used gitter a few times. I've heard it lacks moderator tolls from the channel owners a few times. OpenAI has their channel there too.
>I find that the best media is created by people who have a job

Dude, where do you think their salaries come from?

>If advertising disappeared, there'd be a lot less crap on the internet.

Also Google wouldn't exist...
I don't know. Maybe Uber should just pay you more and we can not encourage the antiquated custom of tipping.
Which is an unfair comparison to make in the first place. Waterloo is an hour and a half away from downtown Toronto -- further than SJ from SF.
> Then I’ve discovered first-hand that more and more Uber riders are calling ahead to ask for your destination to see if it’s “worth it” to pick you up.

When I use Uber the first question it asks is the destination. I assume this is seen by the driver, no? Why would they have to call?
Your characterization of 'code-starers' is a caricature, and the questions you posed suggested that you did not fully understand the scientific method. TeMPOral's post was a reasonable response to it.
"Once I did that risky thing, leaving the only profession I knew to become a professional writer and TV guy, I was, and continue to be, very careful about the decisions I make every day."

Sage advice. Here's the link to the book publishing mentioned ~ http://www.eater.com/2012/2/22/6611779/the-lineup-for-anthon... / http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/pu...
Really? Genuine question. Is there a link where I can find someone's .config for a current mainline kernel I can boot? I swear I'll buy one of these right now if so.

Note that "no blobs" can't be completely right. I'm like 99% confident these use PVR SGX graphics, for which there are no open drivers.
You're not taking advantage of the driver. Uber is. It's the same thing with restaurants - you're letting yourself be guilted into subsidizing a corporation's business strategy, with the justification that it's either you that gets screwed, or their employees.
Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs. If you ever think about the design of your town or city or wonder why it's not safe to go out after dark in parts of your city, among many other things, it's applicable to you.

Reading Jacobs' most famous book, you're​ hit with this feeling that she possessed the perfect balance of humility and knowledge. That we still make the mistakes she described half a century ago is quite unfortunate, especially once you realize the we do and for a long time, have, known better.
The problem is there's divergence from sRGB, and as yet no convergence on a new single standard. So all image content is rendered to sRGB still. Further, there's substantial inconsistency in various tools when it comes to compensation for the difference in color encoding between the image file, and the display. The technology to do this compensation is old, but it's weakly implemented on mobile outside of web browsers on the client side. And only major apps honor and preserve this color encoding metadata.

So the state with color management on mobile is approximately where color management was on the desktop about 15-20 years ago.
Well technically Panasonic makes the batteries in a facility that it co-owns/manages with Tesla.
One of the points missed here in the discussion thread is that over and above ethical/moral animal wellbeing concerns we need this as quickly as possible because antibiotic use in livestock is one of main contributors to antibiotic resistance.
Some people are actually unfixable and destined to commit horrific acts of violence, this we know unequivocally.

The only way we can prevent it is by screening and monitoring people before it happens, and we've got a pretty good idea of the precursors for this kind of thing.

I doubt society would consent to such interference in order to prevent a few deaths from these rare individuals.

Additionally for true prevention we would need to stop certain people from having and raising kids, now... that's a can of worms I am not sure will ever be opened.
[US centric viewpoint]

Some people who are pro-tipping are that way because they think the people are worth it. Maybe they have worked in a position that relied on tips. Maybe someone close to them did or does. Maybe they know that a dollar or two actually makes a difference for many people.