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It's hard to think of a product less niche than automobiles. 80% of Americans have one.

Tesla is in a small-volume, premium segment of a proven commodity, whereas VR is still niche. (Though, Google Cardboard proves it needn't be premium-only!)
Furthermore, they are required by federal law to do so for entirely benevolent purposes. See the E911 Mandate from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_9-1-1#Wireless_enhanc...
I wonder why people are so extremist. Just like 'mobile phones are the new cigarette' you don't need to throw them out. You just need to know where to draw the line.
It's about time people clean up their own backyards before asking daddy Federal government to wipe their own asses.

Like shit, you cannot point to the location od the federal government. You can point at the people and land in the states tho
Posted about this above, but check out the app "Events for facebook"
Fair enough, but who's to say the reusable energy industry wouldn't absorb those jobs over the next few years? Seems like we're putting that industry on life support and moving future industries out 10 years, which would be more globally competitive.
I don't think OP was actually espousing that argument, just laying it out as context. I think most people in the thread are aware that we live in a universe that is fundamentally stochastic rather than deterministic.
That's only true if the baseband is still alive and pinging the tower. That's easy enough to find out (field strength meter, $5 in parts next to the phone).
I certainly don't see this as exclusive to Silicon Valley. I think it's widespread in corporate America.
You can check the full list of permissions of the particular app you use. Full permissions list is also available in Google Play - there's "permissions details" link at the very bottom (https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/6014972). Personally, I check this list for every app I find interesting.

If "read phone state" is listed then the app knows who's calling you, in a sense system feeds this data. Whenever the app uses it or not depends on how shady it is.
It's unconstitutional and would trigger a second civil war? The federal position on the secession question has been pretty affirmatively settled: "no."
Shaming people for their comment history isn't a good look.
>Income tax rates have little effect on the already-wealthy because most of their money is not distributed in the form of a wage or salary

No, the fact is we differentiate between salaried "earned" income and tax it much, much higher, than investment "unearned" income. It's a very explicitly designed system that encourages stuffing the left overs into real estate, stocks, bonds rather than take the risk of starting or growing a business.

This is not a John Rawl's country, where we believe in "the veil of ignorance" thought game. If it were, there would be no such thing as tax free gifts, and low or non-existence inheritance tax.
I can't believe that this is the first time anyone's ever brought up plating a macintosh apple tree. I mean, if you have the opportunity to make a pun in tree form, how could you not?
Why replace nuclear at all? Renewables are great but the nuclear energy industry has a great capacity for cleaning generating energy.
"informed speculation" aka BS.

It couldn't have had anything to do with the 22 senators petitioning him to drop it or the campaign promise he made...

Despite that, he was still considering staying in and reportedly has been torn on the subject for weeks now.

I wish he had remained in Paris, too, but they link is just utter drivel.
> Patents aren't worth the paper they're printed on unless you have money to defend them

Exactly. This is something I think most don't understand. Patents give you the right to sue. That's it. They don't provide any "protection" beyond that.

It's like freedom of speech. You have the freedom to say whatever you want but the first amendment does not offer any protection from the consequences of your speech. In other words, say the wrong thing at the wrong time in the wrong place and you might just get beaten into a pulp. You had the absolute right to say whatever you wanted but no protections beyond that.
politician didn't say having a smartphone was mandatory, nor did marssaxman say having a tesla was mandatory. politician is merely guessing that marssaxman might have a cellphone tracking their location, so having tesla track their location wouldn't be much worse
Because states can't leave the Union.
Except that there is overwhelming truth to it. There are now, effectively, two economic models for states to follow, and they're very partisan models. There is the California model (high taxes, high minimum wage, strong environmental standards, strong labor protections, etc) and the Kansas model (cut taxes, privatization, gutting protections). California's growth rate compared to Kansas' growth rate is a matter of night and day.

California is by no means a utopia, but if you're using the standard metrics of a healthy economy, blue states like it are doing things right, and red states like Kansas simply are not.
The percentage of companies that have taken VC funding and that eventually IPO is far smaller than the percentage that either become a going concern or that end up being acquired by another company or by a private equity party.
Here's a link.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130723/12395923907/even-...
Background: I am a [former] republican, grew up in flyover country, from a family full of trump supporters, now I live in California.

I believe that the red states are going to languish for the following reasons:

1) Brain drain as young ambitious people leave

2) Public services (education, roads, etc) decrease in quality, increase in expense

3) Older folks increasingly capture all of the economic gains allowed in small towns through consolidation of local political power

It was once possible to be young and ambitious and moderately wealthy in middle America by starting and expanding a small business like a franchise or a car dealership, but if you try to do that now, you'll get crushed in city hall pretty much every step of the way.

I am very open to discussion/debate on this topic if anyone has differing views or questions.
Could you explain this for a non-American? Is there a committee that sets national curriculum that is heavily influcenced by Texans?
Anyone can follow instructions - the real 'cooking' skillset is planning your own meals, economizing on ingredients, and improving/iterating on dishes. It's like a 'hunting' app that delivers a deer and a rifle to your door.
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As shitty as working for Uber might be, this is a huge benefit that they currently present. You can get by driving for Uber for a bit, allowing you to hold off on accepting an okay outcome and find better employment opportunities than otherwise.
I'd bet my life that either they Faraday caged it immediately a-la a Knight Rider-type fully-enclosed, possibly-camouflaged vehicle truck or they knew how to disconnect power to the GPS system quickly. Either way, it was faster than owner or police could do anything about it.

The police working with Tesla would be wise to leave some bait-cars around with extra cameras and nearby arrest teams to gather evidence to prosecute the gang(s) doing this.
So if say China were to commit to something with more teeth, the US would in essence be complying since we buy much of our good from there. Would that be a fair statement?
Quick google search: The median annual Dentist salary is $146,434, as of April 27, 2017, with a range usually between $130,761-$171,212...

If the dentist owns a particularly successful office of dentists, they're not just a dentist, but a small business owner, so they could be making more money (paid by dividends rather than salary).
Now I'm just plain confused -- how could somebody who grew up in the Central Valley and regularly saw trucks with confederate flags feel that Californians are some bloc that are so dissimilar from Alabamans? I'd argue that San Franciscans are way, way closer to Sydneysiders than Alabamans, but that's besides the point and misunderstands what sets the US apart from other commonwealth nations culturally. While in some ways there are huge differences, there is a common vein.
Yeah, but does that really matter if, after you've joined, they start raising money and clam up about the terms?
There was an interesting analysis a while back that showed US states and presented which ones contributed the most federal taxes, and which received the most federal aid -- and then showed that breakdown according to political affiliation.

From what I recall, many of the "red" (majority Republican) states receive significantly more federal aid than they contribute in taxes, and many "blue" (majority Democrat) states contribute much more than they receive. I can't find the exact analysis I'm thinking of, but here are some articles with similar data:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-s...

> The reddest states on that map at the top—Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, New Mexico, Maine—have exceptionally high poverty rates and thus receive disproportionately large shares of federal dollars. Through a variety of social programs, the federal government disburses hundreds of billions of dollars each year [...]

http://www.businessinsider.com/red-states-are-welfare-queens...

> As it turns out, it is red states that are overwhelmingly the Welfare Queen States. Yes, that's right. Red States — the ones governed by folks who think government is too big and spending needs to be cut — are a net drain on the economy, taking in more federal spending than they pay out in federal taxes.

> Take a look at the difference between federal spending on any given state and the federal taxes received from that state. We measure the difference as a dollar amount: Federal Spending per Dollar of Federal Taxes. [...] Of the twenty worst states, 16 are either Republican dominated or conservative states.

https://taxfoundation.org/states-rely-most-federal-aid/
My wife and I have been using Blue Apron for about a year now, and we still absolutely love it, we don't see ever cancelling unless something major changes.

We have a small child so restaurants can be challenging, but to us it feels like the time and effort spent preparing and cleaning up are comparable to the whole restaurant ordeal, and only a little bit more intensive than the take-away process. It's more "work" but the shared meal preparation ritual is a time honored tradition that really does feel like it promotes bonding in a positive way.

The main advantage over shopping for ingredients is that we get reasonable variation and good portion sizes without spending any time planning or shopping. We've also learned a number of new techniques for rounding out meals and balancing flavors from the Blue Apron patterns that help when cooking "freestyle."

I would probably even pay a little more (but probably not much) for a more localized version that produced less trash and minimized how far my food traveled to my plate, but it would have to be just as convenient and "everything included" as Blue Apron is.
What about Texas?
Because Texas has a lot of wind power (so much that the price sometimes goes negative at night) and because, although California gets a lot of its power from renewable energy, most of that is imported (WA hydro) while in-state production remains dirtier.

Don't get me wrong: I live in CA and would be happy never to set foot in Texas again, but this responds to your specific statement.
Oh, I'm talking about having the type of reference declared in the function signature. Yes, I agree repeating it in the invocation is for the programmer's benefit. Rust doesn't have overloading, so there's no ambiguity.
There is absolutely nothing in that opinion piece to back up the author's claim.
>it is pretty significant unless you're an expert at meal planning

If you're wasting food that often then perhaps adjustments are necessary.

>There is zero food waste with BA

Is there a citation for that very strong claim? Zero waste would require perfectly timed and sized resource allocation through their entire pipeline.
>Imagine differing oscillations of pitch or yaw from each fuselage happening at the same time... and at just the right/wrong frequency for the connecting structure.

Exactly. I expect they have real-time computer control of all control services that quickly adapt the relative attitude of both fuselages to prevent over-stressing the wing, but what about "rogue waves" of turbulence hitting each fuselage differently. What's the safety factor on both the adaptive controls and, as a backup, the structural integrity of the wing?
WA state has strong protections and environmental standards, but I wouldn't consider it high tax (no income tax for instance). Is it an outlier?
Texas gets about a quarter of its power from coal. That's a lot lower than some states, but "almost all zero carbon or low carbon" is a bit generous. That's also way, way higher than California.
There are not 'blue' and 'red' states -- this is an artifact of the electoral college. There are huge 'red' zones mixed throughout 'blue' california. Usa on the whole is purple.

EDIT: Yes, I'm aware of distortions in the electoral college. My point is that some people seem to think that California is this massive blue block and that rural population you know, doesn't matter. The divide is not "red state" vs "blue state" it's cities vs. the rural. Yes the cities have more population. But the rural population exists and if you go for separation they would have to come along too, and maybe they would have something to say about it (such as breaking their rural portions off from your state and rejoining the rest of the USA, for one).
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Wouldn't a constitutional amendment resolve this?
Can't use something that gives leftists the heebie-jeebies now can we.
Exactly. Other countries have working systems of government. The US needs to get their shit together.
I'm from Louisiana and I'm not saddened to see this at all. It's the god damned truth. Just try taking a road trip down there some time.
I feel you. Facebook virtually grants a certificate of existence. It's almost unimaginable why someone that wants to play music wouldn't have a facebook presence. (Don't know if that last sentence was correct, non native here).

My point is the following: I was one day on the street and saw a flyer glued onto a wall, it looked kinda funky and hand-drawn, interesting; some DJ's were going to throw a party and spin salsa, funk, latin jazz, cumbia... And I didn't recognize any of the names or the venues, I was mildly shocked because I believed I knew the local scene pretty well.

Almost always I can contextualize a music genre/scene, and see their connections and collaborations. But this random flyer I came across was so obscure! No relations, no known names, and the mix of styles and originality was very interesting! For the first time in many years I felt again what is like to find an underground scene, which I like a lot (like when dancing drum&bass in a basement in Berlin or listening to rap in Mexico).

This is a magic that is sometimes lost in the believed omniscence and omnipresence of online/facebook. I bet people soon will want to have those kind of experience, and the new thing will be to find scenes that people don't even know about online.
> The battle is far from over. “Each ride-sharing market is sort of independently contestable city by city,” said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University and author of the book The Sharing Economy.

Amazing to see so many of Uber's core business theses refuted one after another. This is really the big one - that the one company that raises enough land-grab money will emerge as the undisputed winner of the reinvention of the taxi industry.

It's truly something to see this notion disputed. It is like a petri dish of the new economy.
I had a caveat in there about Texas that I decided to remove, should have kept it, but I'll respond here instead.

I think Texas' situation is too unique. They're effectively a petrostate right now. Now, they seem to be doing the right thing with things like the PSF and PUF, so I'd say that their approach, like their politics, is deeply purple, and it's not a terrible approach. But it's very specific, and not necessarily a model that other states can use.
And so it begins. Gore Vidal and many others predicted an autocrat near the end.
Texas will support the rest? Ok.
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The primary issue in the Texas legislature the last session was who could go to the bathroom. They couldn't figure it out so now they are going to have a special session to iron out the details. So Texas is not going to lead the country anywhere. http://www.texasmonthly.com/burka-blog/order-timeline-bathro...
Suckerberg is threatening whole internet with 87 sex options and totally insane opnions of people's privacy!

Whole company should be investigated of privacy crimes
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Well put; I suppose I should have referred to "a" smartphone rather than implied ownership of a smartphone. On the other hand, the smartphone installed base is on the order of 3.4B devices, so I'd ask that you give me the benefit of the doubt for assuming that an HN reader owns a smartphone.
A smartphone (actually any cellphone) can be detected when it's powered off (assume flat battery), but not tracked. Works using ferromagnetism, which also detects explosives.
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There have been so many articles about the trees planted in the new Apple campus, and how this was somehow groundbreaking, but it's actually been pretty disappointing. I've seen some lists of trees, especially fruit trees, that they've planted, and it's pretty uninspired -- they didn't Think Different. Lots of pomes (Apples, Pears, etc.) and stone fruit (Plums, Cherries, etc.) -- conventional varieties too. And they talk about drought tolerance, but I haven't seen a single mention of them planting White Sapote, a fruit perfectly adapted to the local climate, delicious, and very productive (not to mention, rare). Or various Guava relatives (Lemon / Strawberry Guava, Guabiju, Pineapple Guava, etc.). And that's just scratching the surface...

I wish they would have talked to the local chapter of California Rare Fruit Growers to plan an orchard with a true diversity of interesting fruit. They had an opportunity to include a huge diversity of fruits and cultivars with the space they have, but it seems like they're not going to.
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> foil backed foam

Foil backed foam won't necessarily block a cell signal - heck, there are entire buildings insulated with the stuff and it has little effect.
I wish it had support for Tablo!
As a taxpayer in one of those states, I'm more worried about whether they plan to pony up the $100B/yr that the US was obliged to under the agreement. If they do, I'd like to know where it'll come from. And if they don't, then what exactly will this alliance do?
Wow! I never heard of that. It looks like that article is about govt applying spyware to phones, like how they also made companies give them user data. By the same token, I guess the govt could work with car manufacturers to install tracking devices in every car...
When you use `&mut some_point`, (i.e. immutably borrow "some_point"), the compiler requires that "some_point" is not borrowed anywhere else at the same time. In order to enforce that invariant, it needs to know what borrows are mutable and what borrows are immutable.

Perhaps what you're wondering is "why can't the compiler infer when a borrow needs to be mutable instead of having the programmer specify it"? I can't say for certain what the answer to this is, but my guess is that it would be rather expensive. Consider this example (reusing the "add" function from above):

let mut foo = Point { x: 1, y: 2 };
let bar = &foo;
add(&foo, &foo);

...

// Much later
reset(bar);

Under the proposed "mutable reference inference" rules, should this compile? It's not necessarily trivial to determine this (especially if the "..." contains a lot of code), but it should not, since `bar` must a be mutable borrow to be able to pass into `reset`, which means that the borrows of `foo` to pass to `add` shouldn't be allowed. This means that the compiler would have to a rather expensive lookahead to determine whether any borrows are valid (and some people already complain that Rust compiles too slowly!). Forcing users to specify when borrows are mutable makes the compilers job much easier, not to mention the readability benefits that comes from making mutability explicit.
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