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Virtually eliminating road fatalities is quite possible, Sweden has done it. The low speed limits and infrastructure spending on separated pedestrian & cyclist paths would never fly in the United States.

http://www.visionzeroinitiative.com/
Exactly right. Back in the day you had to know a lot more to get stuff done. You didn't have databases as a service with built in public APIs, authentication, etc.

Younger devs have it made in that regard. And the amount of tutorials and quality are amazing these days. They do have a lot more technologies to learn though.
>his assessments are consistently proved right by history

Wouldn't say that. His predictions about the Internet, specifically, are laughably incorrect. He's since tried to play it off like he was intentionally trying to be provocative, or was supposed to say something silly... which is a coward's way out.

EDIT: His theories on Bitcoin are pretty devoid of intelligence, regardless of whether or not he ends up being correct.

>His opinions about politics are fairly worthless.

Yes, I agree. He should largely be banned from writing about them considering how much it undermines his areas of expertise.
> In the 1990s I remember reading an account of North Korean special forces landing by submarine and trying to infiltrate ... and immediately being tripped up by unfamiliarity with modern technology.

Actually, most of them weren't special forces. It was a North Korean submarine that was doing its routine(?) spying activity when the submarine was stuck in the shore. They had to abandon the ship, and most of them were navy soldiers with (I assume) no training in spying activity. Besides, you cannot exactly hide a submarine stuck in the shore, so of course a national emergency was declared and the South Korean military went full alert mode.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Gangneung_submarine_infil...

In an ordinary situation, a North Korean spy agent would act much less conspicuously and have much more time to prepare for life in South Korea. (Personally, though, I don't believe they would make much difference in a full-scale war.)
Intensification in general is a good enough explanation. Straightforward economic operations get replaced with complex ones, providing more places to siphon off output. I mean, labor's share in a hunter-gatherer society was 100%. There's little a capitalist can do to grab a share of the nuts picked up off the ground and eaten. There's a lot folks can do to grab a share of the logistics involved in mechanized farming of large plots of land and shipping the produce to local markets.
Too low or too high?
I recall back at the turn of the century, I genuinely think none of my classes had a required textbook. I know that some did recommend books that could be used for extra depth, but that's all they were. Everything in the exam would have been explained by the professor in their own words and drawing, at the front. I've still got the set of notes from some of them; no textbooks involved. Question sets were photocopied bits of paper.

This was in the UK; I can't speak for how common this system is in the UK, but it sure feels like some people are getting massively ripped off. Clue's in the title, surely; you're a professor? Profess things :) A few years ago, I did a Masters in Maths in my evenings and weekends, for the fun of it, and that was to a large extent "get this textbook, make sure you can answer all these question, see you in nine months for the exam" with a few phone calls and weekends face-to-face thrown in. Whole thing cost a few thousand pounds. If you're just learning from the books, the actual cost of the education is so much smaller.
> I get very overstimulated looking at the picture of their newsfeed office for a few seconds - bravo for people being able to be focused and able to write code in that environment!

The office looks like a Facebook news feed: Cluttered disarray.
> Was there ever a community like, say, Reddit or Facebook Page. Flickr has become just professional photographer's closet.

Flickr had a relatively active blog that would showcase photos relative to special days (e.g. Pi Day photos). On top of that, there was Flickr Explore that could be thought of as the front page of interesting photos.

And in terms of communities, anyone could make a community. So if you were a plane spotter, you could start (and there are), communities dedicated to that. You live in Boston and want to have a Boston Photographers Group? Done! Wedding photographers? Here you go:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/weddingphoto/

https://www.flickr.com/groups/flickr_wedding_photojournalism...

There were plenty of communities on Flickr and that's one thing I feel like hasn't really filled the void. 500px and VSCO exist, but they're a bit too focused for most amateurs or casual photo snappers.

Flickr for many was this soup of personal vacation photos, along with people visually documenting their non-photographic hobbies, and photographic-focused photographers. Their photostream was the lifestream for many. I met a handful of friends from Flickr not because of photography, but because they seemed like interesting people.

Perhaps this also speaks of social media now--we're fluent with the medium and now carefully polish our online identities. But in this process of self-curation, we've lost what makes us real and interesting.
Do you have more information on that? Did you do a deal with Appsumo before? What are usually the terms for such a deal?
This is a good article with sensible rationale for raising the speed limit on freeways. It starts to touch on why local safety advocacy groups push for lower speed limits, but it only really addresses speed in the context of other motorized traffic.
Before everybody had GPS in their pockets, my buddies and I kicked around an idea for a "used-to-be map." It would help you when someone giving directions said "turn left where the Piggly Wiggly used to be."
'Industrial-strength operability for cloud-native applications' --from the website front page

What is a cloud native application?
I just wish I could get tickets electronically and paid monthly. I'll pay the stupid fine, just don't pull me over and waste my time.
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I think Low speed limits are a source of revenue for a lot of cities.
You can in a few years if you flatshare alone, or if you live as a couple without children and double income.
FTA: "Fortunately, American roadways are safer than ever, with highway fatalities at historic lows. Roads can be dangerous, but the perception of roads getting increasingly dangerous is a false one."
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"Published Jul 23, 2014"

And then: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/traffic-fatalities-shar...
Couldn't it just be a heat dissipation issue? These sensors pack a lot of photo sites into a tiny package.
Near where I live, there is a split 3-lane-each-way toll road. The speed limit is 85mph.

Directly on either side of the toll road are the free roads. The only difference is one fewer lane each way. The speed limit is 60mph.

I do not believe there is enough difference between the two roads to justify a 25mph speed limit difference, except to create an artificial police-enforced incentive to fork over if you want to be able to drive as fast as you should.

I suspect many speed limits are designed in this way: either mostly arbitrary or calculated to maximize revenue (for police, toll road operators, etc.). They are not designed with optimizing driver utility in mind.

There are few things better than when you end up driving in a swarm of experienced drivers who are willing to safely exceed the speed limit. Safety (and efficiency!) in numbers.
But they might have. With the power of the Internet fueling the economy at the time, pretty much any fiscal or economic policy would have been overpowered by the boom. Something Krugman doesn't quite illustrate.
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Over here in Germany a speed limit typically means there's a good reason to follow it. On the Autobahn we've got places where there is no speed limit at all (yep, there's places where I can legally go 250 km/h) and on other places the speed may be set as low as 80 km/h (around 50mph).

A low speed limit typically is enforced with a traffic camera. Additionally we've go a lot of dynamic speed signs which show a speed limit which fits the current traffic conditions. (empty road at night - it's turned off. Rush hour - 80 km/h. Fog - 60 km/h And several steps in between)

Not having a "fixed" all the time limit makes drives accept the speed limit more easily.

Oh yes, and 85'th percentile. I frequently drive "+15km/h", so I go 95 when there's 80 allowed because the fine when I get caught that is not too expensive. (Fines for speeding are lower when you get caught outside city limits, speeding in a residential zone or in front of a school for example is one thing I have no tolerance for as well.)
Oh wow, I haven't noticed that. I somehow assumed that you wouldn't be putting Google in your tagline if you were not associated with the company. Shame on me.
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Maybe but it was also towards the end of an age when people generally considered it to be in poor taste to talk about money.
Right. Take care of yourself, deal with your mental issues, start every morning with cheap motivational yadda-yadda, improve your social skills -- and you can live long and stay healthy, while generating more profit for your employers and being less of a nuisance to your insurance company.

What a time to be alive!
Yes, agreed. But I guess an engineer would want to make career progress too, right? Isn't it smart to be networked to ensure that you are at the forefront of opportunity?

As an aside, I was in the academia previously and it seems that networking is highly correlated with success there.
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The part about amae is a bit off. I would go a step further than translating it just as "to wish to be loved." That's still normal even in western culture. Amae is closer to "nagging to be pet over the head while doing a cute face" or "whining" and "talking in a high pitch voice on purpose to sound cute so that you can get what you want".

"Amaeruna!" is heard often and for good reason. It means stop acting like a child and grow the F up. There is also "Amaesugi" (too much) and "Amaenbou" (someone who does too much) which are not positive terms. Then there is "Mazakon" which is short for mother complex. It's an insult, not a compliment, and it's directed towards male adults.

So you see, Japanese are both aware and critical of their amae tendencies.

> this amae… it's what keeps Japanese society together. It's the root cause of the successes you see in the Japanese education system.

Nah. I would stop at discipline, order, and obedience. Amae is still very personal, and is not any glue that builds businesses or communities, let alone the culture. Where it is seen exported the most is in Anime culture, not Sony or Toyota or Uniqlo or Rakuten.

Also, the part about "rat babies with a strong attachment to their mothers" can also be interpreted as "rat mothers with a strong attachment to their babies". Amae is not the opposite of neglect, nor a cure for it. The word for a parent's apparent over-attachment is "Oyabaka". You don't want to be too much of that either.

I was raised by a single mother. I had a lot of alone time, which I enjoyed very much. But I was never neglected. When I was little, I was an amaenbou. But I did well in school because I had good studying habits, and my mother paid attention to how I did and how I did it. I had a stress free childhood, did well in school, and did not need amae to counteract my stress. None of my friends were stressed out either. Being a kid in Japan is fun. I'd say junior high that's the worst with Ijime at it's peak.
> it makes it easier for anyone to jump in and run for office.

Don't take me too seriously, either, but I would say it makes it easier to translate money into other things. The surveillance economy is all about collecting information and renting it to the highest bidder. Buying crap you don't need? Voting for X instead of Y? Being sent to jail for doing Z? It doesn't matter -- money talks.
I have a strong suspicion you have not evaluated the effects of variance if such an extreme policy such as yours was enacted.
In the US you usually wont be pulled over unless you are blatantly (10 mph+ depending on the road) speeding. Going 5 over will pretty much never get you pulled over unless you have a tail light out, or a warrant for your arrest or something
As an angry, rejected nerd who is financially very successful (albeit not even close to Zuck), I would gladly get behind that. He represents me in a closely literal way.
Here's a link to the scientific paper referenced in the article itself: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.01103v1.pdf

The key practical findings are in Section 9 on page 10.
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People have decided they are unlikely to get punished for going slightly over the speed limit because they are. I regularly pass speed traps on my daily commute going (precisely) 15 over. Would be nice if speed limit was actually the limit instead of the selectively enforceable suggestion that it is.
The heuristic I tend to follow is "9 you're fine, 10 you're mine". It has not failed me yet. Traffic cops are reasonable unless they're running behind quota.
I see. Well, I suppose that's true of OCaml as well. Its ecosystem is smaller, but it does have some pretty powerful tools, including a time-traveling debugger.
I think this is the case with all software. None of it is 100% or even 95%. This is why I've given up on learning anything language specific. If you understand the concepts then you'll be able to re-create the pieces you need in your language of choice because most of the time the other 5% or 10% is context dependent.
The officer in the article is absolutely right: if communities want to reduce speeds then they need to do more the number on the sign. I notice the wider and more open the roadway is, the faster I'll drive. Even if a large bike lane replaces my lane, that space is still available to take up the slack for mistakes. Whereas a narrow county road or narrow residential street lined with cars will certainly slow me down, especially with oncoming traffic.
For £700 a month, you live in a complete dump with 2-4 flatmates.

And you still have to add the expenses on top. Food, transport, council taxes, utilities.
$915/month for SRO. No special connections or status.
Not saying you're wrong, but the same argument was used to justify the "liberation" of Iraq.
There is quality journalism out there that goes above and beyond "some guy on twitter took a pic of what was happening". If you're married to the concept of outsider journalism, the citizen journalist website bellingcat is pretty good. A lot of well educated and traveled people have contributed. The quality of content is above a tweet.

However, the reason you see news anchors reading tweets is not because there isn't a better source of content than tweets, it's the idea that tweets are what people want to see. Viewer engagement in an interactive age. It's part of Twitter's strategy, as well.
I wonder what my old college is doing now, when I went the engineering and math departments had banned scantrons and everything was hand graded.
> Would be nice if speed limit was actually the limit instead of the selectively enforceable suggestion that it is.

Why? It would add time to your (and everyone else's) commute, while simultaneously being unlikely to substantially improve traffic safety.
You don't need to become famous. People strongly value personal affectations over professional skill. Failure to acknowledge this is simply wishful thinking.

Consider that most of your indirect colleagues are not well-versed enough to know whether you're doing your job well or not in the first place.

Why are so many clowns in positions with high rank, and so many better-qualified people are further down the totem pole? Because people don't respond naturally to qualifications. They respond to getting their personal interests and desires satisfied.

If you present a credible professional front and you are well-liked, that's all that matters, and you will be well-connected and rewarded well outside of any rational proportion.
I often drive a section of about 2 miles of highway where I need to average 33 mph to arrive at a traffic light just turning green. Although the speed limit there was recently lowered from 55mph to 45mph, every other car drives well over 50mph, and it takes a lot of will power to maintain my much lower speed. You're right that speed limits often feel more like minima than maxima.
16 would be reasonable. Lower in the company of parents.
My wife was born and raised in the Southern US, and whenever we travel on the interstate system here she assures me that so long as I remain within 15mph of the posted speed limit I'll never be ticketed. When she first told me her theory it's fair to say I was a deep sceptic (as a foreign-born LPR), but nearly a decade on and she hasn't been wrong yet.

I will admit though, she counsels me against following the rule in Virginia because the cops there don't mess around.

EDIT: I should add that 15mph over the limit is usually "going with the flow". If the other cars are traveling at 70 then 85 really stands out.
Who chooses the board of directors? The shareholders.

Who paid the $186M? The shareholders.

Who negotiates the maximum compensation for themselves? You, me, Marissa Mayer and 7 billion other people.

Who are you blaming here, and who made poor decisions (if anyone) in this whole epic tale?
This could happen in any profession or culture. Uber are just the ones in the spotlight right now.

The real issue here is unfortunately ONCE AGAIN, a lack of mental health awareness and services.

A psychiatrist has diagnosed someone with "high anxiety"...why aren't they are being subscribed treatment in the form of therapy or medicine? He went to ask for help, and was told something wasn't going well...let's do something to remedy that!
If assistance was in fact prescribed and Thomas denied that it would help him, the fault then is placed on social awareness and acceptance regarding men receiving mental health care.

As someone who has gone through my own suicidal thoughts and had therapy and medication literally save my life, this infuriates me to no end.
But it has what plants crave - electrolytes!
Agreed - 21 is absurd. I'd be curious to see the effects of lowering the drinking age (in the US) to 18 for those who graduate from high school (or equivalent). I honestly doubt we'd see a more-than-negligible increase in underage drinking.
> American roadways are safer than ever

Well, even then, the US still has somewhere around 3-4 times more deaths on the roads per capita than other western countries.
She didn't need the money -- she wanted the power that comes with being the CEO of a big corporation. And I'm willing to bet that applies to most CEOs of big companies, as well as the higher-ranked corporate officials jockeying for position.
That is kind of a strange question for something that changes the structure of your heart valves. I'm going to go with "yes", but I'm no cardiologist. You can get heart valve replacement surgery, which might be "permanent" depending on your viewpoint. Death is also permanent, but you were going to do that anyway.
Cherry picking the best schools in any state will certainly make the state look good. State vs. State, California is ranked around 40 out of 50 on most lists. In my case, I would've had to move some place I couldn't afford just so my kids could go to a school that was even average.
reminds me of the low light video camera that was on here ealier. http://kottke.org/17/04/incredible-low-light-camera-turns-ni...

Not as fast, but the results look fairly similar.
Maybe police should try enforcing the traffic laws?

I refuse to speed; I think it is immoral. This is because I ride a bicycle everywhere, and the extent to which people speed on surface streets has an obvious and tangible effect on my safety. My town has a narrow bridge that used to be the only way for cyclists to get across the river, where drivers routinely exceed the 35 mph speed limit by 20 mph or more. It is terrifying, and people have gotten killed. I wish they would put a speed camera on that bridge.

The argument that "the speed limit doesn't matter because people will travel the same speed" only makes sense under the assumption that the only people who will use the public roads are drivers who feel like they can do whatever they want. Plenty of drivers feel entitled to run red lights, too, and that causes more collisions.
Obviously items are not ordered in the way you perform them.

And there's not much conflicting about these two pieces of advices (whether they're good or bad).

To build the right social network for your career you might have to abandon your current social network and go to a city where you'll meet more like minded people, VCs, etc. This is about going where the action is, and meeting and expanding your network of players there. Not about whether you'll keep contact with your high school pals.
The whole story of North Korean artillery turning Seoul into a sea of fire was a phrase coined by a North Korean general few decades ago to threaten S Korean. And that's what it is, a verbal threat.

N Korean army would be really idiotic to focus all their available artillery on Seoul and ignore all other military installations.

During the Battle of Britain, Luftwaffe nearly broke RAF when they concentrated on bombing the RAF bases. But when Nazi switched their focus to bombing London, RAF had a chance to recover and eventually beat back Luftwaffe.

And you can bet S Korean artillery units won't be sitting around when the balloon goes up.
Far too high. If I recall correctly there is heaps of evidence that lowering the age decreases alcohol abuse in populations long term.
It also helps that every speedometer installed in cars is 1-3 MPH slow on purpose (estimating above true velocity is obviously a real problem, and I believe results in fines to the manufacturer).

Plug an OBDII reader + app into your car to see the true velocity.
Fucking obviously they are too low. Everyone knows this. Absolutely no one drives exactly the speed limit. Speed limits are low to increase revenues from speeding tickets.
I think it's OK, I mean the heading's maybe a little similar but being "good" and being "successful" aren't really the same.

Good article, I think if one approaches it openly and without cynicism it's bringing together actually quite a lot of good suggestions. Have just ordered one of the recommended books - I must be in a receptive frame of mind :-)
There is actually zero evidence in the article aside from the deceased's lawyer saying the following:

“We think it was stress and harassment induced by his job, between him being one of the few African Americans there, working around the clock and the culture of Uber,”

That isn't evidence. That's speculation by the family's lawyer.
There are speeding camera/radar setups. They will mail you a ticket.
To add to this: this is 90% behavioral in nature. We like food, eating food makes us feel good, therefore we eat food and snack constantly. Obviously, you'd do it - it's like getting a hit off your favorite drug. If it didn't give us that high, we wouldn't do it.
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Yes, this is a problem. I would often drive slower, if there wasn't a speed limit.
Personally I think a recommend and speed limit should exist, (on the same road/sign).