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Well, I'm sure not all of it is in the drinking water downstream from the fields where it's over-applied beyond concentrations even Monsanto recommends. So it has to go somewhere. Still, a largely plant-based diet will help your health more than hurt it.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/health/natural-health/pe...

It and one of its degradates are found in the majority of drinking water or wastewater samples in some areas (different reports from different studies report 18% and 36% of samples undegraded, 68% and 69% of AMPA). It's typically far below what the EPA considers a safe level. That "safe level", of course, is set based on understanding the body of safety studies about it.

https://toxics.usgs.gov/highlights/glyphosate02.html

I grew up along a major river in the Midwest. I've been reading studies and study summaries about glyphosate for years. I'm less concerned, honestly, at the levels I see reported about it being a carcinogen than as a possible developmental neurotoxin and problem for reproduction.

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/pollutio...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24636977

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/roundup-weedkiller-brain-da...

It's also found to be potentially far more toxic as mixed in Roundup than in isolation.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weed-whacking-her...

http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/glyphogen.html

Herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides, including the herbicide glyphosate, have been shown to potentially lead to gut microbe imbalances and other subtle biological changes like immune, endocrine, and neurological symptoms. Depression, autism, ADHD, diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, birth defects, miscarriage, and lupus are among the disorders other than cancers found to be strongly correlated with working in or living near agriculture.

http://chem-tox.com/agriculture/index.htm

Again, a largely plant-based diet will help your health more than hurt it. Be sure to wash your food and maybe have some of it organic.

I'd like more and better studies on these chemicals, but neonicotinoids seem to be a much bigger long-term threat than glyphosate.
I attempted to make my previous comment neutral about the correctness of your claims; it was intended to be a refutation of tptacek's comment. And I apologize for oversimplifying your assertion to be about "coding in your spare time", which was inaccurate (although your original phrasing, "obsessive wretch", was sufficiently shitty that I thought I was doing you a favour by rephrasing, but I now agree that I didn't do the correct rephrasing).

As for your claim itself, I think you have a good point, but you're a bit overextending its consequences, and ralfn's upthread response to you is right on.

I think you're totally right that diversity of opinion and interest is a super useful supplementary skill. And I strongly agree that a team needs to have that diversity on the product side to product useful products. And I agree that a team somewhat benefits from having not just a few product specialists who have that diversity; it's essential to have a few, but it's also helpful to have lots of people with diverse perspectives. And sure, being extremely tech focused (being an "obsessive wretch") is obviously inimical to that diversity. And yeah, there's some unreasonable glorification going on.

But I think there's also something reasonable about that glorification. Although deciding what to build is a huge part of the team's job, also building it is a huge part. Invariably the part that takes more person-hours, at least in a business large enough to have employees. And in my experience, the "obsessive wretches" actually do tend to be somewhat better at this part of the job. Not overwhelmingly better, but better. Not universally so, but as a tendency. That's just my observation from my medium-length career, and I accept your claim that you have different anecdata; if you have useful actual data I'm open to persuasion.

Moreover, very frequently in this industry we hire people who frankly are not currently knowledgeable enough to do the job we're hiring for, but we hire them anyway because it often works out, and we don't want to pay the asking price of the people who already know how to do the job we're hiring for. Call it good (it allows new entrants), call it bad (lots of wheel-reinvention, ageism, etc), but I allege that it's very common. So, who's going to learn faster? My bet is on the monomaniac; maybe this is unfounded. So, I think this is a rational reason to prefer the obsessives.

And I guess I should add that someone who has literally no other interests... okay, I'm with you. That person is likely to be a problem. But I will continue to favour people for whom outside study is one of their primary hobbies over people who do it a bit, and I'll continue to favour people who do it a bit over people who don't do it at all. And note that the example in TFA was not about someone with no other interests.... it was about one individual who did build a fibre-channel network over the weekend, and another individual who realized that they would never do so.
> If he gets hooked on e.g. Frozen and insists on watching it 10 times a day when we're stuck inside due to weather, then that ten bucks is going to pay for itself pretty quickly.

Or y'know, just shell out $10 for the dvd which you can probably sell for the same price once he outgrows it
This is one of the oddest false beliefs about electric cars. 1) they already have the 300+ mile range for the 4 hour round trip, 2) electricity is totally abundant anywhere. Far more so than fossil fuels.

Building charging stations is really really cheap, because the infrastructure (electricity) already exists everywhere. The reason they aren't everywhere as yet is because there are still relatively few electric cars.

I predict the opposite opinion will be prevail very soon: people will wonder why others even bothered wasting time refuelling their car and spending loads of money.
~60% of oil is used for transportation fuel, so there will be a big impact if that goes away. Oil reserves will also last much longer once oil isn't needed for transportation.
> can't the company fire them at any time with no reason?

One of the employees is based out of Sydney, so No, California at-will employment law doesn't apply.

It would be interesting to see what grounds they are using to fire him.

Based on previous experiences with other companies, I found that it's not unusual for executives in one country to think that the employment law in their jurisdiction is universal and just assume they can apply it to employees in other countries.
His programming and social acheivements in my opinion vastly outclass installing an OS by himself, though I wonder why he doesn't do it; I assume he knows how partitioning etc. works.

And to be honest, how often do most people need to reinstall their OS? I would be surprised if he has reinstalled more than 3 times in 5 years.
You can stretch $100 further with universal basic food
Oh god...

Reminds me of a friend who said his MySpace password was just "password123" because "It's such a stupid password that nobody would ever use it, so hackers don't even bother trying it!"

I wish I had multiple faces so I could palm more than one.
It seems to me that Jordan Peterson [0] is an interesting, thoughtful person who is very transparent about his personal journal to find meaning and understand... well, existence for lack of a better word.

I highly recommend his podcasts.

Dismissing him[1] as "alt-right" media does a terrible disservice to the spirit of learning and open inquiry.

As for that other guy that interviewed him - meh. But if everyone in the mainstream media were lying about me, I might accept help from such as him.

[0] Edit: While not mentioned in this article, James Damore's second interview this week was with Jordan Peterson. It is of higher quality.

[1] I see now that you were not, my apologies.
And of course there's people like myself -- I love cars, but I actively hate commuting. Not because I mind the driving, or the traffic, but because it's time I'm getting nothing done.

If I lived in or near a bigger city, some of that would be offset by mass transit, but even mass transit comes with a lot of wasted time -- walking to the platform, waiting for the train, driving/walking to the station, what have you. But a self-driving car, or a car I can call on-demand solves all of that. I can walk out of my house, get into a car, and read, catch up on email, or get work done during my commute.

I'll probably still have a car for leisure. I currently have a Jeep that I use for wilderness / beach / outdoor trips, and I can't see that changing any time soon even though I have a gas-electric hybrid for commuting, but if my daily transit needs can be met by a self-driving, plug-in electric, it's a massive ecological benefit while actively increasing my daily productivity and quality of life.

I agree with you that the 100% coverage the author imagines is a LONG, long way off, and I imagine that even of people who feel more like you do, the idea that they're going to start replacing perfectly good cars with expensive replacements is unlikely outside of the top 10-20% of earners, but if enough people like me switch over a significant portion of our driving patterns to those described in the article, it'll be a huge win.
Looks great - have added to my research list on FPK. Thanks.
Surprisingly, I've met people where the true equity cost was not well understood. The equity comes from three things, the money invested, the efforts of the employees, and the value created by that effort. As the company grows and matures, the benefit of that growth is bestowed based on 'equity ownership' not 'equity invested.' What that means is that if you've traded ownership equity for cash, especially cash you don't actually need, then your sweat equity is diluted. That time you're killing yourself on weekends to get the product just right to satisfy the customer that is going to take you to the next level, is rewarded in an exit to the guy that wrote the check, not the guy that did the work. All you have to barter with are 'shares' and the people most likely to make you successful are working for you. Equity that you give to a guy that writes a check is sets a 'value' on the act of writing the check. If you over raise, you're valuing 'cash' more than you are valuing your own and your employee's efforts. Not a choice to make lightly.

The opportunity costs are choices. If you raise $40M you're investors really aren't willing to see you 'exit' for just $80M, they will want you to go for way more than that. If you don't raise the $40M and someone offers you $80M for the company, you can take it and everyone benefits. Or another scenario, some very important strategic company wants to partner with you but this big equity load that is being held by VCs is a disincentive against future possible M&A activities.

Now this only discussed raising money that you don't need which is the case here. The author points out they needed some money, but the investors they talked to were trying to push them to take a lot more than they needed. The thing about bank loans is that their 'liquidation preference' is always very close to 1.0 and they don't tell you how to run your business if you're making your payments :-). That also speaks to control.
Could use a breakdown of which criteria each provider supported, because just a colored circle doesn't show which of those criteria are supported or not.
TunnelBear claims to be secure but all they offer is an opaque app. Uhh, no thanks. I prefer to run my own VPN client that doesn't have potential spyware in it. I am surprised this was so highly rated by someone reviewing VPNs.

edit: I know you can't make everyone happy, but there are a LOT of VPN options out there and only the very best should be making it through.
Too late to edit but I realize now points 2 & 3 are from a non Articulate job posting posted on the Articulate site. My apologies!
In Europe for most cars it's recommended to change oil after 10,000 kilometers, not miles. I know you're saying it's not a conversion problem - but maybe they just had an outdated manual or didn't see many manuals.
> The US is HUGE!

India and China beg to differ -- and they will have an even more HUGE impact on big oil in terms of uptake of EVs.
The amounts differ by an order of magnitude, or maybe even two. E.g. the EIA says 9.3k barrels/day is consumed as motor gasoline (more than half of all consumption of finished products, and the next largest categories are also burn-the-oil, possibly including 3.6k barrels/day of diesel fuel) whereas only 323 barrels/day go to petrochemical feedstocks. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_cons_psup_dc_nus_mbblpd_a.h...
Man I remember when Opera was THE one to use
I thought the article was arguing that electric self driving cars will remove the need for charging and owning, you'll just call a vehicle and it'll drive the route your talking about for roughly sixteen bucks each way. It probably won't be the same car but that's not a problem really.
Climate change could cost younger generations $530 trillion if nothing is done
Interactive Map for Learning Deep Learning
I would imagine that the nature of this training would vary greatly between different companies.

And given the extremity of the reactions by certain left leaning people at Google this past week - I can imagine that the diversity training at Google is particularly irrational and cult-like.
> there are plenty of in-depth critiques

Can you link to one?
> Also interesting to note is that"effectively constant", although extremely hand-wavy and not rigorous, is used even by computer scientists to denote extremely slow growing functions.

Another example is Donald Knuth who claims in TAOCP, section 4.3.3 "How fast can we multiply", that multiplication algorithms are effectively linear. Quote: "For all practical purposes we can assume that [...] the Schönhage-Strassen multiplication technique will have a running time linearly proportional to n. [...] The practical problem of fast multiplication is therefore solved, except for improvements in the constant factor."

This really stuck out to me.
> In court documents, Fillelkes claimed that a recruiter told her she needed to put her dates of graduation on her resume so the company could view how old she was.

That is one (allegedly) dumb recruiter.
"Strange, yet symbolically compelling."
Good. Because the way I interpreted your comment is that you are opposed to the whole notion.

> people who claim that writing code for fun makes them superior developers do this

What is "this" in this sentence? If "this" = "excited to feel superior" (from your previous comment), then the sentence reads almost like a tautology. If you simply mean that bragging and feeling smug about writing code for fun is kinda pathetic, then I agree. But that's true for bragging and feeling smug about, well, almost anything.
I did some quick maths and at 16 cents per mile this looks like it would make around 500bn in revenue per year if all journeys in America were converted to electric self driving uber over night! Maybe Uber will succeed after all!
Two teens cold called Sam Altman and became the youngest founders to join YC
>that doesn't help someone going to climb the tallest mountain in Colorado (115 miles) who will park at the trailhead.

just command the car to go on its own and charge at the nearest charging station while you're enjoying the trail :) This is just one illustration how two tech advancements - self-driving and EV - happening simultaneously would help each other and would result in practical revolution.
Iirc, a few months ago congress repealed a law banning ISP tracking of customer traffic.
As a VC he would be in a good position to push for spreading out companies over the country instead if everyone sitting in SV.

The solution can't be more commuting
> because people will never call a self driving car to the trailhead of a 14'er.

I disagree with this. Why not? Hell, reserve the car for two weeks and have it sit there at the trail parking lot, if you want the old school experience. Still cheaper (for you, for the environment) than full time owning a car which is unused 90% of the time.
It gets you an "automatic" option for which endpoint to use, other than that I can't think of anything.
The extended range model 3 is 310 miles.

You go there, charge it up whilst you're white water rafting and then drive back.
Lazarus: Form Recovery hasn't been maintained in years. But I don't think there's anything about it that can't be done with web extensions. There's already one that has the base functionality: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/textarea-cach...
I am so sick of the phrase "women in tech".
Try http://www.vpngate.net/en/
Growing your code with Arduino
I highly, highly recommend watching Damore's interview with Jordan Peterson.

I am starting to think that Damore might be on the right side of all of this.

https://youtu.be/SEDuVF7kiPU
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Ah yeah oops my bad.
If by "almost everywhere" you mean Europe or Japan, please compare population density. If most of the US had the population density of Northern Europe, or US northeast, or Silicon Valley, it would have similar almost-omnipresent coverage.

US West is more like Siberia, or Canada 100 miles north from the border. There are not enough subscribers to economically cover with GSM / LTE, except in cities and along major roads.
Six months (plus!) of negative articles about alleged XYZ discrimination at the company.
FOIA: Fired Google Employee's Complaint Alleges Week of 'Threatening Employees'
The fired Google engineer is doubling down
> She didn't want a job where she was going to be considered second rate. She wanted to be in a job where she would be "the best" and get accolades for it, etc. She realized she didn't love tech enough to have the biggest bragging rights, so she went someplace where she could outcompete others.

That's the opposite of extremely competitive. Extremely competitive people don't go into the easy lane and the certainly aren't worried about putting in extra time to be the best. Extremely competitive people will seek out challenges and put in a lot more training effort.
> As you do in any language.

Most GC languages force the issue for you. Everything on the heap. That said, I'd love it if more GC'd languages were smart enough to know when they can stack alloc. :)

> Agreed, but then, we are speaking here of desktop-class applications, and fragmentation issues should be very rare in this day and age.

They become a problem with any long lived application that throws around large chunks of data. From video games to productivity apps. Soon as interactive runtimes become multi-hour, life gets harder.

> There is also a quantifiable performance penalty to GC’d languages and defragmentation.

Depends on usage. Destructor chains can take up large amounts of time as well, and from the programmer's POV, are about as deterministic as GC pauses. On the plus side, they typically only pause one thread instead of the entire world. :) (Not much help if it is the app's main thread, or UI thread, heh)

> And GC introduces a class of issues that are so subtle, only experienced developers with experience are able to properly debug or even know about.

And they also prevent a lot of those same issues. It is a trade off. But I'd say that for 90% of coding, the cognitive load from GC is lower than from using C++. A brand new C++ codebase written by people who are all strictly following the Right Way to do things will look good, but the majority of code is old. The majority of libraries being used were not written in accordance with the latest C++ spec, every single third party library doesn't use unique and shared pointers, leading to natural conflicts at interfaces between libraries.

Pick a mature (has libraries written in it) GC'd language and that all goes away.
I'm talking about places like India or even Myanmar. To be fair India has probably a much greater population density than the US so maybe you are correct.
Google and many other tech companies and the investors that ultimately control them fear losing control of their business, in this case an extremely lucrative near-monopoly, to their employees, especially the technical employees. Thus they prefer young, relatively ignorant, naive, hard-working, compliant, inevitably more error-prone employees to more experienced employees, despite the apparent cost. It is a matter of political and economic control.

Thus they have an unwritten rule to minimize the use of employees with more than ten years of hands-on technical experience. They will employ more experienced employees if they absolutely must, but otherwise they avoid it. Hence, there are some but very few technical employees with more than ten years of experience. The numbers trail off with increasing experience and age. There are also exceptions for more experienced employees from usually wealthy families affiliated with the investors.

It is an irrational and hidden class system. It is costly. It is not fair. It almost certainly makes it very difficult to make technical advances and breakthroughs that require more experience, the wisdom of age, etc.
I think the fundamental problem is this. I've seen it happening for decades:

Everyone sensible knows there are group differences between sexes.

Most humans are bad at distinguishing group differences from individual differences.

If people are widely aware of the group differences, they'll do stereotyping and apply wrong logic to mistreat people. Or even right logic to make the best guess in the absence of other information, which turns out to be consistently discriminatory and harmful.

So we shouldn't say much publicly about the group differences. Keep it quiet among intelligent people for the public safety.

I don't like that at all, but that's how I think the popular lefty opinion works.
Hiding the top tabbar is one of the webextension APIs folks are working on, IIRC.