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I am not an expert in the traditional automaker space, but I think about it more about where they're heading. While I certainly take into account the subprime auto loan issue, I'm more curious how each company is adapting to the future.

GM is focused on competing directly with Uber with their acquisition of Cruise and rolling out the Bolt (they could use almost any car, but having a great EV already in production certainly helps).

Ford is focused on competing with more traditional public transportation by acquiring Chariot and investing $1 billion in Argo.ai, and hope to have autonomous fleets ready to deploy in 2021.

I actually feel like they're going to become more unique moving forward. I think Ford will likely have an easier time working with cities and using Chariot as a new form of public transportation. I think GM will have an easier time (hopefully) dominating the more traditional ride-share program.

I feel like there's more upside for GM, but it's riskier. I'm also very confused by how Ford structured Argo.ai, but maybe it'll work the way they intended.

I guess we'll find out in ~5 years.
The reality is that right now they are often accountable to their donors and party bosses, but that is only because the public has ceded their power in those cases by not caring enough and/or consistently enough.

They are ultimately accountable to the public, to an overwhelming degree. When the public does not care, that allows the other influences, which are ultimately much smaller to have an outsized influence.

By not being consistent in caring about the outcomes of votes, the public has allowed other groups to not only have an influence, but to have it often. That trains representatives to consider those other groups on all votes, as those other groups are much better about keeping track of what the representatives do and holding them accountable later.

So in the end, a small and weak but consistent group ends up having a disproportionate amount of influence compared to a large and powerful but largely inconsistent and absent group.

What this means is that it both is, and is not a myth. It's true that donors and party bosses have a lot of power, but it's also true that the constituents control all the power, and it's only their lack of involvement that allows those donors and party bosses to have the power they do. Were constituents to become much more interested in everything their representative did starting tomorrow, the power of those donors and party bosses would vanish fairly quickly (depending on how likely the representative considered the increased interest to continue).
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The reason for the high cost of housing is "rent-seeking", a market inefficiency or market failure, which in this case is using zoning density restrictions to create artificial scarcity in housing. Scarcity causes higher prices. Eliminate the artificial scarcity and the housing costs will decrease.

In general, a major way to fix the economy is to find and fix market inefficiencies which interfere with wealth creation.

The rent-seeking benefits the wealthy landlords such as President Trump at the expense of renters and those who wish to purchase homes. Meanwhile it harms the economy (as market failures do) by taking income that should go towards construction of new housing and also to buy goods and services to give wealthy landowners far more income they would earn in a market without market failures.

The fix is a simple one which is to remove these zoning law restrictions that benefit wealthy landowners.

One solution which was implemented in Japan was passed in 2002 to remove zoning density restrictions from local authority making the federal Japanese government in control. The results: In 2014 140,000 housing units were built in Tokyo, vs. about 20,000 for NYC or about 90,000 for all of California.

We need to lobby for a solution like that used in Japan. That will significantly stimulate the economy while helping to deal with a major cause of inequality.

See writings of Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser or Economist and Financial Times columnist Tim Harford (book, "The Undercover Economist"). Also read about "Green Belts."
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Honest question - why is their reputation so toxic?

For me it goes back to when they'd disable some Bluetooth functionality on the phones they sold (and you had to buy their phones to use them on the Verizon network) so that they could sell you more services. Transfer those photos off your phone? The Verizon Photos Transfer Service will be an additional $5/month. People with, for example, the exact same phone only with an "AT&T" logo had the full functionality. And other stuff that I've forgotten.

That was such a blatant example of rent seeking that I've been content to do without Verizon's services since.
You can drive anything in that lane with a passenger. Just sayin.
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There are middle grounds between c++ and interpreted Python that have the same productivity as python and better performance.
In that case they could've just as well called it "fetch."
If everything in investment is about Math (and Math only) we'll have a perfect market. I'm long on Tesla and I totally believe the current valuation is out of proportion. However, I know Tesla can do a lot more and better than they do currently. I do think they have a lot of potential and can overtake other car makers. I won't buy more shares but I'll hold on to them for the foreseeable future.
> That's what Amazon Locker is for.

Not sure if it's 100% accurate, but as an example, there doesn't seem to be a single Amazon locker location in the entire state of Mississippi according to Google Maps.
In addition to the other reasons listed, it also probably wouldn't be unique enough.

It seems that their records are keyed off of ONLY:

* Birthdate
* Last Name
* First name

If I were going to take the bother of changing my name I'd make the middle name, a part I can drop from most non-legal/contractual areas, the actual unique identifier. By which I mean I'd have the "middle name" be a short normal name post-fixed by a base26 encoded hash; I should probably also add 'son' at the end of that... say it's European...
Ask Eric Schmidt why Google has billions laying around in cash. You don't actually have to since peter thiel did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q26XIKtwXQ

You can skip to 3:00 for an answer.
All the religious nuts would be screaming about "The Mark of the Beast" as soon as any such idea is floated.
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Well, if you use your phone a lot you kind of have to buy a new phone regardless. Non-replaceable batteries should be illegal.
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Have you ever actually used any of Adobe's software? I'm an artist who uses Illustrator as her main medium and I am pretty sure I do not ever want to use AdobeOS.
> Exactly the same language can exist in JITted form, and does, and it should be brought up to be the default and only way of executing python

Yes, PyPy, Jypthon, etc. exist and they can be faster. If you want to use those, then great, do it! But a JIT is not faster in all cases, only some cases. Python is first and foremost a scripting languages, and for a lot of the simple script cases, CPython is faster than a JIT version. It doesnt make sense to make that the default.
An ARM Chromebook that I bought more than 4 years ago still receives updates.
> why not embrace California's at-will status and hire and fire often?

This sounds like an utterly miserable experience for both new hires and coworkers of the new hire. Do you really want your company's onboarding process look like FNG syndrome?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNG_syndrome
I've been expecting this ever since I test drove a Tesla last year and got the same feeling I got back in 2008 when I saw an iPhone 3G. The market isn't betting on just another car company but on. car + energy (electricity instead of gas) + TaaS (Transportation as a Service). Tesla has a tremendous headstart on this and in 5-10 years I expect a bloodbath like the smart phone wars, with a only 2-3 main players left e.g. Tesla:Apple::Waymo:Android.
Exactly. But the issue here is that you are dealing with two different mindsets. On one hand, you have the paragraph above that 'stands alone'.

But that has no bearing on the truth. It's omitting key facts to be true, and creating a social situation like 'reacting to a non-existent threat'.

So to me and you, ridiculous paragraphs like those above are In Error, because they are Unfinished and Missing Info. But to others, they point to the paragraph above as some kind of 'sole entity' that exists on it's own.

No one cares about a paragraph that omits critical facts to portray the reality of the situation. But apparently, on the Internet, some do.

Chuck that incomplete paragraph in the trash and try again, that's my response to their nonsensical verbal antics.
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Yes interesting stuff. Seems similar in nature to "Vantage Point" trees.

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=130
No technical clusterfuck in the healthcare industry seems to surprise me anymore

All the technical problems are already solved, but as usual, it's politics and people and profit standing in the way
There is a significant amount of people stuck on 2.7 due to platform restrictions; quite a few OSes still under support are using 2.7 as their system Python and there's no incentive to upgrade these systems.

Even if Python 3 was 10x as fast, sysadmins would hesitate to put what's effectively an unsupported version of Python on their systems.

Massive performance increases would help to sway those who have the freedom to move to a different Python without being locked to their system, I agree about that much.
for our time.

I just learned this yesterday:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_for_our_time
Are you talking about E1 plan or the one with desktop apps?

Our company got burned with the webapp nonsense pretty bad. We first tried Google docs which were woefully inadequate and buggy and slow, then we switched to the office webapps, which were no better until we finally returned to using desktop apps, and using a local IT service to stick a file server with raid and daily backups.

I can never understand how people tolerate webapps for anything serious.
But if those system were developed in another language, maybe by the time they were released there would not be any market demand for it anymore. I've seen it happen where everything is meticulously performance optimized in C and by the time it is released it is fast, snappy, scalable but by then the market has moved on and nobody wants to use it anymore.

Often "We moved from X to Y because X is slow" is seen as a failure of X, but it is not. It could mean the feature was deployed quickly, caught on and has customers which want to use it. So it can be a testament of how productive X is.
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That would be an interesting project. Have projects submit a list of bugs they would like some help with and then pay the selected students for each bug fixed (maybe with a base stipend). Probably teach quite a bit about the daily grind of software development.
This seems like the exact kind of partnership Coinbase et al ought to be doing to make it easier to buy Bitcoin. That step of hooking up your checking account is surely a huge filter on their new user signups.
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True and succinctly stated.
Why would people of say, central Maine want to encourage tech industry to move there. They can look to SoCal, Massaschusetts and see that that sort of society is not compatible with their values.

The "tech industry" needs to divorce itself it's cultural baggage if it wants to decentralize.
However, "Computer Systems Analysts" are eligible, and the job description is often vague enough that developers fall into it.
Windows runs on many CPU architectures. Android phones are packed with binary blobs.
Alternative, buzzwordy approach: let's train a convolutional neural network to do addition!
Correct. Like writting in python, but optimizing the "bottlenecks" in C/C++/Cython
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"it was too much effort on the part of the foundation organizers mentors to deal with the bureaucracy involved, and we didn't really see enough return in terms of new developers to the project"

I don't think Bob's statement is a criticism of the bureaucracy itself, but rather that the amount of time spent on the GSoC project as a whole is better spent doing other things that need doing on the OpenBSD project. He explicitly says so shortly after the above quote.

I'm not sure why this is even an issue to be discussed. Are people here trying to figure out what GSoC could do better so that projects like OpenBSD might find it worthwhile to participate? Or is the purpose to criticize OpenBSD, or Bob Beck individually, or both, for daring to say publicly that they have better ways to spend their time and effort than participating in GSoC? Clarity on those questions would be helpful in determining whether it's worth talking about.

Incidentally, the thought I had when I saw this on the list is that if the person who originally posted the question on misc@ really wants to contribute to OpenBSD, he can begin the way other contributors begin without GSoC: port a favorite app that's not already available to OpenBSD, test patches that the devs post and provide meaningful feedback, propose a patch that provides a solution to some problem you have run into while using OpenBSD, etc.

I think OpenBSD offers a great environment for real mentoring while maintaining their high standards for correctness and security. Sure, a student doesn't get paid any stipend to do it, but what they can learn in the process of contributing something that has long-lasting value to a project with OpenBSD's standards will surely pay off in career development in other ways.

If OTOH they need money to pay the rent over the summer or to burnish their resume for their application to Google, apparently they'll be better off contributing to another project that has the resources to participate in GSoC.
"Ford doesn't have any good ideas for the future..."

I think you just don't read about it because you don't care about Ford, but you read about it for Tesla. And it's not entirely your fault; there is definitely publication bias as well.

Here is an article from literally today:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/03/ford-tops-the-list-of-auto...
Canada does have enough nuclear material to dirty-bomb-style wipe out the eastern seaboard of the United States. Canada is the only country that wouldn't need to move their arsenal in order to perform an immediate no-warning military invasion of the United States. This assault may not win anything for Canada, but it would decimate the United States, and so in a game of mutual destruction, Canada has a card.

I've been told by un-citable sources that this is a pillar of Canadian military strategy and the primary reason the United States will not attack Canada.
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It was a big enough problem that technological solutions were invented to solve it: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Safety_coffin

It still happens today: http://www.businessinsider.com/man-rescued-after-being-burie...

Bodies can also move from gassing or various parts of their nervous system being prodded shortly after death.
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