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I'll first state my opinion that I too believe that (to use a different cliche) self-driving cars will be transformative.

That being said, I just don't think they're as close as many think.

What is coming and will continue coming is assisted driving. These cars will be designed for human drivers but the car will just do more of the driving. This will have an incremental increase in safety. I imagine too that bugs will cause deaths and even though this will pale in comparison to the number of motor vehicle deaths we have now, alarmist concerns will stymy automation here.

The holy grail here however isn't assisted driving. It's self-driving and you shouldn't confuse the two. A self-driving car in my mind will not be designed to be driven by a human at all.

There is a lot of low hanging fruit for this but the low hanging fruit isn't that low and there is a long tail of situations a car will need to deal with. I actually wonder if we can design a self driving car without first creating what I can only describe as a "general AI". Anticipating what the other meat bags will do is a huge part of this.

Once this happens (and, again, I think we're talking a long time still) I don't see private ownership of vehicles going away. People like to own things. What you'll see is car ownership disappear in highly urbanized places helped I'm sure by punitive taxing of car ownership ("punitive" here means not subsidizing car ownership like we do now).

I suspect such cars will allow people to live even further from cities when you can work in your car. More people doing it still means a lot of cars on the road.

Self-driving cars just aren't the end of private car ownership. If anything they'll likely be a death blow to taxis. It might be a huge problem for mass transit too.
Honestly, get a neato vaccuum robot. You'll be forced to keep things picked up or you jam it. And invite people over to your place so you have a reason to clean.
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You're mixing two problems. You paying someone to do work to benefit yourself is almost completely orthogonal to their working conditions. As long as you're not buying slave work, your extra money can either improve or degrade their working condition. That depends only on their company policies/management.

But caring about their working condition is a different problem on its own. (Still valid)
Not free, even now. There are plans with a limited number of messages per month (100 to 1000). The teenager children of my friends used up them in no time. Then came WhatsApp, Messenger, Snapchat.

Messaging inside the EU costs as much as messaging inside one's own country now but this is very recent. Messaging between other countries can cost up to 2 Euro per message. Not a typo. One wonders if it is to empty people accounts. I put my phone in airplane mode whenever I'm outside the EU and use Wi-Fi to call and text.
Not in France. SMS are free and unlimited on all providers, across all providers.
Yeah, I think it's human nature to blow mysterious things all out of proportion. And then when we get together and tell ghost stories about the mysterious thing, and it starts to take on a life of its own.

I was so convinced Y2K was going to crash society. I was all looted up, ready to bug out when the city started burning. Turns out, there was enough preparation (and money dumped on the problem), and like only one power station that didn't get the upgrades on the east coast went down for 15 minutes.

I'm just as guilty of telling ghost stories and contributing to the disinformation. I remember writing a frantic, doomsday prediction email to my house rep in the lead up to Y2K and I swear based on some of his public comments that I was responsible for him quitting the house and heading for early retirement. I have no proof that was the case, but I'm still not proud of what I wrote.
Not the OP, but as a frequent tmux pair programmer, I've never found wemux to be particularly relevant. It's useful if you don't know how to use the advanced features of tmux. Everything in wemux can be done in tmux -- you just need to know how to do it. Having said that, reading the tmux manual is something that might occupy you for more time than you would like to spend :-)
You see the same in London too, where even within London, boroughs that'd be viable large cities of their own if they were further separated from London, has big gaps in various types of things because you can just go in to the centre.

E.g. nightlife is a typical one, where there are a few centres in London (and they change over time), and clubs and bars outside of those regions suffer compared to even smaller towns elsewhere.

On one hand it's great - you can head where the action is. On the other hand it means a night out might easily be an hour travel each way and/or expensive tax rides, instead of a 20 minute walk.
Don't think that works. Added "falun gong" to my SSH banner, have had around 2 million attempts by a single Chinese IP (IIRC).
International too? Sending and receiving?

I think whatsapp is great for having short conversations with family over seas. Text messaging is expensive and calling/Skype would be overkill for small questions
Since no one else has chimed in I'll offer a few thoughts on this.

I think you need to look for people who are dedicated to the project, willing to work hard, be flexible, and learn as they go.

Evaluating pre-product market fit is work a startup needs to do so at the point you speak of it's still a gut level estimation you need make when deciding to join.

I would tend to shy away from bluster and ego. I would need to see people more excited about making the product great than the big bucks they expect to get when they cash out.

Ask what needs to be figured out and where their weak links and hurdles are.

Ask them to tell you what they don't know. That is something all startup team members need to do their best to understand because here there be monsters.
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Capitalism is indeed complex, and something I think gets missed in the popular perception is that capitalism depends completely on things like property rights and contract law. Basically, regulation and government is strictly required and the details of that regulation are always up for debate.

That said, people who talk about 'evening the playing field' scare me. For starters, armchair analysts underestimate the amount of good done by greedy people in a well created market economy. For seconds, fairness is very expensive. And for thirds, people don't understand what the regulation of the current systems does. There is no need to pronounce capitalism doomed when it has such a track record of success.
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This is really great stuff from the Dolphin team!

We took a similar approach when building de Blob 2 for Wii, X360, and PS3. We defined all our materials in terms of TEV stages. On the Wii that was used to set up the TEV when rendering. For X360 and PS3 we had an ubershader that emulated the TEV stages. This made it much easier for the artists; they built all materials in one tool in terms of what are essentially register combiners. We also allowed them to create more complex materials for X360/PS3 that would override the base material and do things that the Wii didn't actually support.
As for the major question the articles raises, I think it's somewhat straightforward. There are a number of different legal types of negligence (criminal, gross, culpable, etc). I'm not a lawyer, but I believe these people should be charged with some type of negligence-related crime. Whether it's manslaughter or something else, I cannot say because I don't know enough. But to me, it's clear - these parents had a responsibility and they failed in a major way. Sure, it may have be unintentional, but it still happened. Drunk drivers don't intend to kill people. But I don't hear anyone coming to their defense. Everyone seems perfectly fine demonizing them and holding them to account for their negligent actions. Why should it be any different here? Hell, I might go so far as to argue it is worse here because statistically the odds are not all that likely that any one particular instance of drunk driving results in an accident or death. The odds are just increased. However, the odds are insanely high that if a parent makes this error that their child will die in each/any instance.

I do understand the desire to not prosecute because people feel they are already suffering and that it was not intentional and that these people aren't likely to ever make this mistake again. I get it. But like I said, it's an issue of a mistake so horrendously bad that someone died. They need to be charged. Let a jury decide on a case by case basis whether or not a person needs to be jailed for their actions. Also, let's consider the other side of this. What if by charging and jailing these individuals it actually helps them in the long run emotionally? What if these people feel that they are serving their time and paying their debt to society? What if that helps them feel like they can move on because society has deemed their punishment now satisfactory and complete? And wouldn't it make them less of a pariah in society because people would know they served their time and didn't just get off without punishment?

Lastly - I want to talk about that idiot juror Colin Rosse who said, "It may have been negligence, but it was an honest mistake." I'd really love to see if that sentiment held up if, for example, Colin Rosse's child was put in jail and was forgotten for 5 days and received no food or water (like what happened with Daniel Chong in 2012). I'm sure Rosse would be ok with everything because it was an honest error, right? And what if someone was daydreaming or just very tired while driving and ran their kid over and killed them? Rosse sees no issue with this, right? As long as there was no intent all is well, yeah? I'm sure that fool would be the first one on the news demanding legal action and that the person/people be held accountable.
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> No matter how many roads we build, there is congestion.

Where? When?
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I would expect a bimodal distribution here. The way most startups write code, the velocity per developer is decreasing as lines of code increases. You can throw more developers at it, up to a point, but eventually the codebase becomes worthless and all the value is in the development team's heads.

There is kind of an escape velocity then... Some teams will be able to refactor or replace their way out of this, back to a point where more developer hours equals more features.

Other companies will fail to achieve escape velocity, and the dev team will expand to use all available resources while the application becomes slowly worse relative to competitors.

That process can be stretched out, and money made while the velocity nears zero, but the company will eventually die.

Whether your codebase and development team is an asset or a liability depends on whether you have that escape velocity.
In the same vein, a favourite anecdote of mine is about languages that don't have words for 'left, right, ahead, behind' and instead always use directions of the compass - 'north, south, east, west'.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html
If you eat at the same restaurant a lot, and it's a family restaurant that cares about the little things, you can usually arrange with them to give them some of your own reusable containers. Call for delivery, food shows up in your own little glass+rubber storage boxes, you eat it, and then wash it up (or, as the article suggests, get a maid to do that bit.) Every once in a while, bring the stack of clean boxes back to the restaurant for them to use again.

Note that this system is already how many catering services work. Except that in those cases, the caterer will also take away the containers themselves. (Personal catering—i.e. "an arrangement with someone who cooks to prepare meals for you and stock your fridge with them"—is a commonly-consumed service among both the upper class and the physically disabled. But oddly, outside of those two contexts, you just never hear about it.)
Backblaze recently updated that data through Q2 2017 [1]. Hard drives have only dropped to $0.028/GB. For comparison SSDs are still ~$0.40/GB (~14x).

[1]: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/

[2]: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/internal-hard-drive/
> I don't understand why people write programming blogs on Medium. I think that managing a live website with its own server (rather than only working on other people's projects) is a very important skill.

Because doing that yourself is a complete waste of time. Every web developer knows how to make a blog. All of them. So who cares if I make one or not to post my opinions online? No one.

So you can either spend the time dealing with server load, updates, maintenance, etc on a project everyone already knows how to develop and proves absolutely nothing about your skills or knowledge (not to mention being more expensive depending on provider and traffic) or you can let someone else handle it for you that may have multiple ways to accessing and publishing your content (medium, square space, wordpress, etc).

Managing your time is really important as a developer. Maybe managing a blog is a good use of your time but it certainly isn’t for me.
I've never understood why people have to stay in their cars during car washes. I'm no expert, but it seems like it would be quite simple to automate the process. Perhaps it is simple to do, but car wash companies haven't bothered to do it.
There is no such thing as a free market. The markets have all been setup by laws and regulations. In the lack of such regulations there would be no Wall Street and not even mom-and-pop businesses would be able to survive. The tech industry exists only because governments used public money to research and develop the technologies that nowadays we call Internet. It doesn't seem to me that Google or Facebook did any of this from nothing.
> For one thing Induced Demand is a well studied, proven fact, so we know that the expansion of road infrastructure will incentivize more people to drive and create more traffic in the long term. This means not only that these tunnels will inevitably get as full as the roads above, but more importantly that the broader road network of the region will be severely negatively impacted by the new traffic induced by the tunnels.

In other words, "You can't build more roads. If you build more roads, people will drive more, and then there'll be more cars on the road. And we can't have more cars on the road. So you can't build more roads."

Am I missing anything?
IMO, what has even more transformative potential is human-carrying drones. Flying, self-driving taxis. That could really shorten commute time, and allow people to live very far from work. You could easily live 100KM away, and make that commute in 30 minutes. It would completely change urbanization and population density. It's maybe not that far away either. Self-driving air vehicles is in many ways simpler than making something that can understand driving on the road and interacting with human drivers. The main limitation right now is that we aren't quite there yet on battery tech, we maybe need a factor of 2 or 3 improvement in power density for this technology to become inevitable.
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if one could use LaTex in office it would beg the question why not just use Latex instead..
He doesn't accept VC funding, so I think he needs to be good selling his products. His companies need to make a profit to stay alive. And I think his best product is his lifestyle. Everything he does seems to be directly related to his lifestyle. I think that is pretty cool.
> Is it healthy to run long distances at a constant heartrate vs interval training?

It depends what you consider long distance. Marathons definitely are not healthy. 10ks probably are.

Intervals are great for actually increasing your VO2max without blowing out your cardiovascular system.

Funnily, when you run a raceday marathon, your heartrate (or at least mine) spends most of its time in the 160+ bmp cardio/anaerobic range. You won't be able to do that if your training doesn't involve at limit intervals that increase your cardio capacity.
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>> Regulated capitalism is an answer to this fundamental imbalance.

This assumes that governments are incorruptible. Monopolies don't exist without government collusion. In the game of Monopoly, that part is played by the roll of the dice - which favors certain players.

So ironically, more regulation would potentially lead to creation of bigger monopolies as it gives the capitalist's more incentive to influence the regulations and create monopolies for themselves. That is what we see happening in the real world.
It's a bit sad that cryptocurrencies tend to encourage concentration and centralisation. It's very hard for an individual to take part and earn if you "miss the time". And the negative side effects are large, like energy expense, or selling out of GPUs.

I think this is a general shortcoming of proof-of-work. I wonder if this could be fixed with a different scheme, e.g. reputation-based, or proof-of-(something socially desirable and not centralizable)?
Educating girls in poor countries, I'll posit, offers the only hope for a future without recurring mass violence. The empirical evidence is that where girls are educated, they acquire power to control their own fertility, and also the will to do so, that being the best means to concentrate limited household resources toward quality education for their own children.

And this voluntary, culturally-based impetus toward population control is the only plausible moderator of the runaway consumption of critical resources that now threatens mass suffering on a civilizational scale. CO2 uptake capacity of the biosphere being of course only one critical, supply-constrained resource among several, e.g. fresh water, fertile land, fisheries.

Political systems on the other hand are everywhere far too weak to look to for effective action. Here's a timely reminder: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-epa-museum-histor...
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Funny thing: two month ago, when Ukraine blocked access to Mail.ru Group's (which is owned by Kremlin linked bussinessman Usmanov) websites (Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, russian 4chan (sort of)), state-owned TV ran a couple of infomertials teaching people how to bypass blocks using VPNs and anonymyzers.
LA has as many bus stops as New York City, but about a third of the daily riders. It has as much subway track as Washington, D.C., but about half the daily riders. The city just isn't suited to traditional mass transit—it's too sprawled out.
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Honestly no real reason other than it's the one I know and didn't want to spend any more time on finding software to write with instead of spending the time on writing

Essentially it was the default option
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-28/libor-pho... is vindicated!

> Who will be the next chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc.? The shortlist includes "fewer than six candidates," and they seem to be pretty big names: Meg Whitman of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has turned Uber down, and Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric Co. is in the running. It is hard to know how attractive an opportunity Uber is for someone who has already run a much bigger and more profitable public company, and you could imagine a lot of quick "no's" from that list. I hope it's like "Meg Whitman, Jeffrey Immelt, Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama and ... wait ... Travis Kalanick ... how'd he get on this list?"
I would be more inclined to agree with your assessment if WaPo didn't go out of its way to connect Hulk Hogan's case with Peter Thiel with a very negative tone - one which reeked of "Hulk Hogan was associated with this person who we don't like so therefore the Hulk got what was coming and Gawker was totally justified and thanks to the Big Bad Hulk there's a guy sexually manipulating young women" type of troll-logical train of thought.

Yes, the landscape is different, as it damn well should be.
I hope it's not annoying to people if I type this word yet again, but: meditation. If I had known how helpful it would be, I would have started many years ago.

It just doesn't seem possible that it's helpful, right? Sitting quietly and watching the breath? But as you do it and get better at it, you learn what it's about, and realize how it's helping in ways that might seem subtle at first.

I felt like an outsider my whole life, like an alien imposter, never getting the memos that other people seemed to get, and I know it caused me a lot of suffering, but after my almost two years of daily meditation, when I call up the subject of loneliness in my mind, I just can't get it to hurt anymore. I just can't get it to make sense anymore. It feels like the mental supports for my discontent have been eroded away. Now I feel as if it was kind of crazy that it ever hurt. I've never really been alone, and never will be. It's not really possible to be alone.
Once we have the technology for level 5 automation we'll probably sensibility arrive at the conclusion that it makes little sense to ferry people across geographies so they can share information in the same room when we already have pretty good technology for doing that without everyone being in the same room.
The 99 euro setup fee is a dealbreaker if you'd want to use it just for some courses.
> 4. My home cooked food ... costs less

Not really, if you consider the time and effort needed to prepare a meal at home. Starting from shopping at a kitchen market, transporting the goods to home, cutting, prepping, the cooking and finally cleaning up afterwards...

Unless you have several hours of free time each day, preparing ones own meal is not something everyone looks forward to...
Is it Microsoft's job to provide a "free market" in a new market that they create? Of course not. Agents in a free market can certainly create sub-markets with their own rules, so long as they don't violate the rights of anyone in the broader market.

And to my initial point, government helped Microsoft. Their dominance might have been shorter lived otherwise.
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I think the Kelly story is valid, since it does involve behavior that might very well be illegal.

The Hogan "story", however, should indeed have never seen the light of day.
This carbon footprint.
A responce to this by a barrister friend of mine. Re-phrased because I don't remember it verbatim:

"We've only been trying technological solutions for the past hundred years and look at what they've achieved. We've been trying political solutions for thousands of years."

Though, I agree that we need to be aware of the limitations we and our systems impose on technical solutions. That said, perhaps we should play to our strengths?
Weird, I've never had issues with LED bulbs, but I routinely have headaches from fluorescent. Maybe I've just lucked out with my specific bulbs being higher quality (Ikea, Philips Hue). I imagine color spectrum is a large part too.
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+1 for the iPad recommendations.

I'd also recommend a Chromebook, for folks who don't like our can't asked the iPad option.