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It depends on the state. In many states passing on the right is illegal and considered rude, but California is a notable exception. Also, while there is a law here in CA that slower traffic should stay out of the left lane, I think it is more of a recommendation -- I can't recall ever seeing it enforced. I think most drivers make some effort to follow it, but not to the extent that people do on the east coast.
It doesn't matter. As we have learned with the John Deere tractor situation is that we will lose even more control. Think buying and maintaining a car is expensive now? Wait until you literally can't drive it without paying for a software update. I'm sorry, but I don't see anything cool in this other than a quick nap sometimes on a long road trip. Everything else quickly approaches pain in the ass levels to the point where I would rather have carburetors back.

Also, don't want to rideshare with a group of disgusting people. I work in EMS and I see first hand what nastiness is out there. Nope.
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Very nice write-up, some of those issues do look pretty bad. But I can't wait until React Native is more ready, especially on Android.
In your mind, what would the smartest and most capable people be doing?
This is not rain. This is a drizzle on a very well maintained, center divided freeway, where the radar and ultrasonic sensor has a very nice reference (divider). Also with cars tracked in front. Example of (non-autonomous) driving in a real rain here for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3xKT98a3og
No, I do not believe that there should be a linear relationship between compensation and stress.

And no, I didn't make a an original post about the article. I'm just addressing compensation.
You're getting a lot of sarcastic replies here, but I found your article is full of good life advice that applies to more than just being successful in a job. I've already read a lot of the books your article linked to, and after applying the lessons to my own life, I know they are sound.

The criticisms you are receiving about the article not being "evidence-based" is probably the most true in the sense that it may lead people to expect more scientific links and notes (which you do provide a decent amount in the Notes & References). So perhaps the title could have been better worded.

However, I think you were going for something more practical that people can apply to their lives and you linked to additional resources (books and web sites) for people to dive deeper if they want. That's a good approach IMO.
His comment wasn't denying that - it's wasn't saying that you're the product <=> you're not paying for a service. It was a single way implication: you're not paying for the service => you're the product. There can be other cases that lead to you being the product - that is, being monetized.
The problem with "pass on the left" is that it requires to drivers to consciously treat the left lane as a passing-only lane. That doesn't happen in California. The left lane in California is the "let me zone out and ignore all these cars passing me" lane.

I disagree with strictfp that "staying to the right" creates unnecessary traffic dynamics. What happens in California is worse. Someone holds up the left lane, so all the faster cars will pile up on the right lane and try to sneak in front of the slow car, but inevitably they'll cut someone off and set off a chain reaction of braking for everyone that was patiently queued up in the left lane.

(Granted on two-lane I-5 there are some legitimate a reason for this: the right lane is used heavily by trucks, so the road wears down quicker and becomes rougher in the right lane than the left. Naturally people gravitate towards smoother asphalt. And if you just passed a truck a few minutes back and are gonna pass another one again, why not just stay in this lane?)
I argue the reason is the threat of exapropriation has been lifted. I think we forget in the 21st C. how scary the Russian revolution and the Great Depression were to the owners of capital. They saw that if they didn't give labor a greater share of production they could be strung up.

Their solution was to buy off labor with democratic socialism, and then once the threat of exapropriation had past (1970s), claw back the capital. They neutralised the threat of labor ever being a threat again by identifying the potential leaders and co-opting them into the upper-middle classes via universal education and scholarships for the very talented - they wanted to make sure there was no risk of another Lenin arising.

All in all it has been a brilliant play, but we should not forget the rich have been advised by the best and brightest for sometime now.
There is a 7 lane road where I live, no residential houses on it. Speed limit? 45 mph. Cops sit on the other side of a small bridge and run radar all the time. It's a joke since everyone does the "safe" speed limit of 55.
Thats not the argument at all. In the attached paper, the author suggested validating driverless vehicle safety within constrained environments, like using beacons on roads.

You make an argument like you have a hammer in your hand and you are looking at a row of nails. I'm suggesting it is short-sighted to look at the problem from only that lens.

For instance, with a more holistic lens you might explore the right place for humans drivers vs autonomous vehicles. You might simulate entire cities from the ground up, specifically optimized for transportation. What if the real breakthrough in transportation systems actually comes from the ability to quickly construct / deconstruct roads? Or dynamic city zoning? Or any number of non-vehicle innovations? What if we were actually optimizing for safety in transportation and not just trying to compare machine ability to human ability in limited contexts?
At the end of the day, all open world idealism aside, the guild of engineers votes with their feet for guild protectionism. And of course its all to protect the users.
Not sure.
At least you are in good company- after the cold war ended, lots of famous russian mathematicians and doctors searched for work in the west- and there degrees where not accepted. I mean russian mathematicians, that combination is nearly a brand.
Fear of looking lousy next to the imported guy.
What is a "Sketch document"? I didn't see a link or explanation in that page.
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As the article says, people won't slow down just because you posted a lower limit. A better way to protect these children would be to change the design of the road (this report seems to be a good overview of ways to do this: https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/216727/mu...).
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The speed limits are not just for safety.

They are also so that cars can get on the highway (some older cars or larger cars can't get to 140). Then you have trucks that have 80/90kph max. The differential gets large.

And then there is the issue of noise and particles in the air. Cars are most economic around 80kph.

At least these are reasons in the netherlands
you're a fucking moron dude
> "How do you avoid being rear ended at a stoplight?"

The same way defensive (human) drivers have been doing for a long time: leave room between you and the car in front of you. Gauge cars coming up behind you and roll forward if they need extra room to stop.

Does not prevent 100% of rear-endings, but a large portion of them. Most rear-enders are not cars plowing full-speed into you, it's someone misjudging their braking and not being fully at-rest when they needed to be. Leaving some margin for this kind of error helps avoid the whole incident.
> Isn't that a thing in the U.S. as well?

Yes, but not normally observed in more densely populated areas. In Los Angeles, for example, it's use any lane you can to pass. I've personally witnessed people, who were driving slower than the flow of traffic, move all the way to the left to "get out of the way" of other drivers. It's well-intentioned, though poor understanding.

Licensing needs to be more rigorous, but many cities rely very heavily on commuting without a proper public transportation infrastructure in place.
Yes, my comment was equally serious and tounge in cheek.

As I mentioned in another comment, I would love to see an advanced driver certification available. My main gripe with the common driver is their being unaware of the fundamental shift in car handling above 50mph, countersteering with loss of traction, and tire condition.
Windows comes with a ton of builtin drivers. So it will work with a lot of devices out of the box without needing an Internet connection to update.
Humans are bad at risk assessment. You won't convince everyone a self-driving car is safer with math.
Got one of those, but I think you mean MCSE.

(I've got the master of science in civil engineering, not the Microsoft one)
GraphQL Permission Queries
Read Dale Carnegie and practice. Improving at social interactions through (sometimes unpleasant or tiresome) practice is not that different than doing the same with physical activities.
Dale Carnegie's 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' is a worthwhile read.

Asking people about themselves and listening is a great place to start. Caring about the interaction/person helps too.

And like someone else posted: practice.

Watching others interact with people is good too, just be wary of modeling people too much. Some people can make a whole room laugh with a single phrase, while others would get slapped for saying the same thing. Delivery counts, and it's not always obvious what it is in the delivery that matters.
Then what? What if you have something pressing to get to? All these rideshare arguments fall flat on their face when it is anything other than "going out" without much of a timeline.
I spent some time in South Korea working with several churches there - they are in tears over the situation in the North every day praying for them. I'm sure if/when it happens there will be a staggeringly huge amount of money poured in from the churches, and other religious people around the world (on top of everything the governments put in...)
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=6551

>>> Tegmark’s career is a rather unusual story, mixing reputable science with an increasingly strong taste for grandiose nonsense. In this book he indulges his inner crank, describing in detail an utterly empty vision of the “ultimate nature of reality.”
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Ooh good point, I can imagine why. Even in English, law enforcement "going after" somebody could essentially mean either.
It's not the first time Windows has shipped with shameful metadata. For example, a .wav file shipped with Windows XP appears to be authored with a pirated version of SoundForge: https://web.archive.org/web/20060721090521/http://techrepubl...
Nothing got trumped. He would have been fine if he had made the exact same argument with asserting that he was an engineer, a claim that has specific legal implications that are easily verified.

If you wrote an article on cardiology, and you said 'I am a doctor' but you hadn't kept your medical license current, then it would be a false claim, regardless of the fact that your article on cardiology was 100% true. Asserting a privileged status that you do not hold misleads people who rely on the licensure system as a proxy for performing due diligence.

Professionalism is about more than whether people are willing to pay you or not. It involves commitment to uphold particular standards even if it is not in your personal interest to do so.
In the city, you are correct. The far right in a 3 lane is often just for turning and merging, making the middle the travel lane. The point is not to travel in the passing lane.
Sketch is vector based design tool for designing UI and Sketch document is the format that it uses to save those designs. https://www.sketchapp.com/
Can we keep talking about natural selection when may soon be able to edit our DNA, however?
You can't improve outcomes without altering the limits on viability, unless the technique happens to have a hard cutoff in utility at or after the point currently considered "viable". Viability is, after all, simply a characterization of where the combination of all relevant factors points to a certain level of expected outcome; improving any aspect of outcomes also expands viability, generally.
> that the roads don't have enough lanes.

Almost every freeway around major American cities is 4 lanes and yet traffic persists. Some freeways in LA are 6 lane parking lots.
Given Google's involvement, I am wondering why they did not choose jsonnet?
Slightly off topic. If you're interested to see how time saved speeding actually nets you check out this app I wrote: https://jakehilborn.github.io/speedr/
tl;dr:

GraphQL Permission Queries is a declarative way to express permissions based on relations in your data. This approach is more powerful than the hierarchical structure of firebase permission rules and much easier to use than ACL systems like the one used by Parse.

I'm super excited by the possibility for standardisation in this space that GraphQL brings and would love to talk to anybody working on similar ideas.
^ author here if anyone has any questions or comments!
> likely (but not guaranteed)

In my several years experience using GCE it is indeed extremely likely. Two years ago it wasn't very likely, but it became very likely about a year ago. Incidentally, I'm the guy that convinced Drew Sutherland of this article to use GCE in the first place :-).
Yeah, over here in BC everyone gets all uppity too. The local engineering authority recently told a company that they couldn't advertise that it was hiring "software engineers" because it said they couldn't use the word "engineer" in the job title.
That's because too many people drive in the left lane all the time. In my commute, traffic gets inverted where the left lane becomes clogged with people not going fast enough and to get anywhere requires passing on the right.

I can appreciate not wanting to go back and forth between say the middle lane and left lane all the time. I just wish people could figure out they are holding up traffic and get out of the way for a minute or two every now and then.
I hear you on this one. "productivity" is not a term I like to use when discussing these issues, but it is a term that will be familiar to Bloomberg readers. We can at least accept a basic definition of it where you just look at company revenues divided by worker man hours, so productivity in that sense is $/man-hour.
598 P.Eng. in a province with a population of 14 million. The odds of working with one without deliberately trying to work with one being close to none.
Hmm, it seems like you intentionally CAN'T say some things in Toka Pona. I wonder if there is some minimum that is required to say EVERYTHING that can be said in a language? Something in natural language akin to 'Turing Completeness' for a programming language?

I am not sure... in practice, words are continually added to a language when new things need to be described, although there was obviously a way to describe the thing before the new word came along..
I believe that there it's ruled so that you have to use the rightmost lane that's free - so if it's possible to pass someone on the right, then it means that they're not in a position to honk and flip off because they're driving wrong themselves.
Did you even read the article? Many speed limits are not based on safety, which is the entire point of a speed limit. That's where "artificially low" comes from. 85% of people drive at a safe speed regardless of what the speed limit is. The speed limit should more closely match that safe speed.

Forcing everyone to drive at a slower speed than what's safe by force does not actually make the road safer. 100% enforcement of current speed limits would not actually make things better.
Procedurally generated stories. This is where video games can have an upper hand over other media. Dwarf Fortress is doing it right.
I remember an article saying that making a trivial change to Windows requires 5 minutes to change the code and 2 weeks to deal with the aftermath (testing/...)

I wonder how easy it actually is to remove this XMP metadata, considering that it could potentially break some application which loads a PNG directly from explorer.exe with a broken PNG parser or something.
I've considered getting my P.Eng. once I complete my degree; do you feel that it's a worthwhile credential to have? Every P.Eng. that I've met has been involved in mechanical or electrical engineering, so I'd like to get the perspective of someone in software.
Carnegie's book boils down to one important principle, which he mentions but doesn't necessarily emphasize. The key to winning friends and influencing people: make them feel important. The rest of it is details, and probably details you've heard a lot before, since the culture has had a long time to internalize HTWFAIP (still a good read).

Our egos drive our behavior. The best way to boil Carnegie down is to always ask "Is the person's sense of importance going to be flattered or offended by this? How can I phrase it in a way that will at least not offend their importance, if I can't flatter it?"

This was a really good handle for me because I do believe that everyone is [potentially] important, and it makes sense to me that we should respect that fact in all interactions. It makes sense that people would avoid those who damage their own sense of self-importance, which they have every right to have.

This realization took away a lot of the reticence I felt around hand-crafted social experiences. It doesn't really require you to be untruthful in any way, or prevent you from getting your point across; it just gives a good guideline for how to do so sensitively.

Don't know if it will click for anyone else, but that's what did it for me.
What if it's provably beneficial/better?
I'm wary of "systems" like this, whether Marxist, Georgist, Hayekist, whatever. The idea of a system is too attractive, and I think a lot of these ideas therefore attract undue approval and adherence.

A la carte, experience and evidence would seem the way to go. Unfortunately, if you adhere to a system, some of the items on the buffet are just off limits.
lol do you call any attempt at a useful psychology "Freudian psychobabble"
Won't in the short run, perhaps. Sure, in the long run we're all dead, but somewhere in the middle there will be robots and automobiles in the more complete sense of the word.
Won't in the short run, perhaps. Sure, in the long run we're all dead, but somewhere in the middle there will be robots and auto-mobiles in the more Latin sense of the word.
Highly doubtful. There are way too many variables. If they worked at all, they'd be unable to move or only at a speed of <5kph. It's simply too chaotic and way too many variables.
I agree with all of this. Driving in the US is very unpredictable-- from the road surface to the drivers. In Germany, the road surface is great, and the flow of traffic is easy to understand. Sure, sometimes someone will flash their lights at you because you're only doing 130 in the passing lane, but you just pull over and they go by and everything's fine.

That said, if you do have an accident at those speeds... The one wreck I saw looked like a tin can had met a hydraulic press.
This type of naive suggestion totally ignores the way that most middle-class American families actually use their cars not just as transportation but for storage and as a mobile base of operations. Please explain how I'm supposed to let others use my car as a short-term rental during the day while it's full of child seats, snacks, extra clothes, sports equipment, etc. Plus I don't want random people coughing / eating / having sex / using drugs in my nice clean cars. Outside of maybe a few affluent urban areas populated largely by young childless people it's just a silly unrealistic idea.
Awful contrast.

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You need to bold your text if you really want that. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/#visual-audio-contrast
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Wow cool top comment!

Which reminds me, I just watched an excellent documentary on Karl Marx which was very timely. It's largely forgotten what he was really about I think.

Really hit home that his concept of the "Surplus Value" of a worker is just as important if not more so today as it was the day he critiqued capitalism in the 1800's.

Shame about how his work was twisted into authoritarian dictatorship by the likes of Stalin. You just can't win :/

You really just nailed it though.

Next week, back to Nietzsche.
Can someone here tells me is Uber even trying to fix all the problems? Do they consider any of their controversial strategies morally wrong? Or they're just trying to make everything looks fine?
I'm curious what drove decisions like no top-level arrays and strict conditions on set members. It's not mentioned explicitly in the spec but if the object syntax is the same as JSON, multiple field names would be allowed in that case.
The paragraphs under the "Slowing Down" heading kind of imply that they think the argument also applies in an urban environment. It's incredibly frustrating and infuriating to read such an utterly anti-bike anti-walker policy get advocated like this.
Love that quote “Solutions Exist” does not mean “Problem Solved.”
There's a great amount of truth to this; anyway, it's essentially what Michael Kalecki argued in 1943 in his "Political Aspects of Full Employment".

Anyway, I find it unfortunate that the most frightening reform in the face of the rentier class is Marxism-Leninism, a system that simply doesn't work. It honestly seems strange that the radical proposals of Henry George (and his Land Value Tax[1] that would confiscate all rents) aren't used anymore to challenge this class.

Last time Georgism infused economic reform, we had the age of trust-busting and worker protections. I hope I'm not dreaming when I think this could return.

[0] http://delong.typepad.com/kalecki43.pdf

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
In the 3 US states I've lived in, always pass on the left has been a "rule of thumb" but has never been illegal. So long as the right lane is a legal travel lane.
The speed of light is definitely too low.
This is a fine analysis if you imagine that every road only ever has cars on it. But this is not the reality, and speed of cars has a huge impact on the fatality rates of vulnerable road users when they are hit.

Results show that the average risk of severe injury for a pedestrian struck by a vehicle reaches 10% at an impact speed of 16 mph, 25% at 23 mph, 50% at 31 mph, 75% at 39 mph, and 90% at 46 mph. The average risk of death for a pedestrian reaches 10% at an impact speed of 23 mph, 25% at 32 mph, 50% at 42 mph, 75% at 50 mph, and 90% at 58 mph. Risks vary significantly by age. For example, the average risk of severe injury or death for a 70‐year‐old pedestrian struck by a car travelling at 25 mph is similar to the risk for a 30‐year‐old pedestrian struck at 35 mph. https://www.aaafoundation.org/sites/default/files/2011Pedest...

Please think of everyone on the roads, not just drivers, when making arguments like these.
This is exactly what Microsoft were accused of doing to Lotus 1-2-3 back in the day. See [0]. TL;DR: wasn't true.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10432608
What programming languages do you know and which ones do you want to learn?
Have you heard the steve jobs approach? Ethically dubious, but very effective. He just got a new car long enough he could avoid having a real plate so he could park illegally.
Looks like quasi-random word soup.
Just because you're doing X doesn't mean that you've set out to do X. Sometimes it's the goal, and not the action itself, that determines the ethical implications of an action.
That's an example of a deadlock.
One could say the same thing about the "system" of abolitionism.