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> I wonder if it'll be increasingly common to see houses on stilts...

It is happening in areas hit by Sandy. Other flood-resistant features include raising utility equipment (HVAC, water heaters...) off the ground.
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> Its value as an investment would not count.

Why not?
Hopefully people have all the information at hand to get the idea to evacuate themselves in advance if their situation requires it.
Hot pursuits are not primarily about identifying the driver either - it's about following the car so they know where it is so they can apprehend the driver. With a pursuit there's a panic, a high probability of the car being damaged or destroyed, and possible injury or death for the driver, the police involved, and of course, any pedestrians caught up in the way.

With a large enough ANPR network, there is no need to chase the car - so the driver won't necessarily panic or act irrationally to evade the police - leading to a higher probability of recovering the vehicle in good condition, and a successful non-dramatic apprehension of the suspects as it makes it easier to catch them by surprise, for example.
I really don't want those on in stop and go rush-hour traffic. They're very likely to cause someone /behind/ the automated car to have an accident. (Yeah yeah, following distances; trying building enough capacity for everyone to do the proper following speed and keep distance.)
legally require flood insurance in at risk areas and let actuaries price the risk, problem solved.

No one will be able to afford it, so it will end up being subsidized by the Govt. Like requiring a 70 year old with cancer to get life insurance after years of treatments.
From what I've heard, it sounds like a lot of the benefits are in recovery, i.e. the drugs don't make you faster, but they allow you to train harder and still recover/improve which is what makes you faster. (I would guess maybe EPO is an exception...) So if you're not already training hard enough that you struggle to recover, I wonder if they'd really make a difference beyond placebo.
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> This doesn't solve the problems associated with large scale evacuations; unless your plan is based on the you leaving, while most of the population stays.

You don't see how having millions of people evacuate over a period of 48 hours vs 6 makes the problem less severe?
I'm not sure any do completely out of the box but many are very close.

We've created a library at Citus to make rails sharding turn-key, activerecord-multi-tenant. We have a Django one in the works, if you want to take a look and give us any feedback on it please drop us a note. From what I've seen hibernate has some out of the box support, but we only have a few customers leveraging it so not as familiar with it.
Evacuation doesn't have to mean all 6.5 million have to leave, just those in low lying areas. It also doesn't have to mean leaving the city, It looks like the downtown area has plenty of tall buildings that would make for some high density evacuation areas and have rooftop helicopter access for emergencies and food/water drops.
> would have resulted in a similar result as the evacuation for Rita

Except that some of the roads people spent 24h on are now deep under water. So you can imagine a real disaster as millions of stuck people were overrun.
Why didn't they use trains or buses? That seems like a more obvious approach IMO.
I was living in Houston at the time and I was in one of those cars stuck in the freeway. It took us roughly 40 hours to reach Dallas.
It is also important to mention that we were fleeing Hurricane Rita (category 5 at some point), only a month after Hurricane Katrina. Memories of the damages caused by Hurricane Katrina played a major role in our decision to evacuate.
Even if they are synonyms (which has been gone into great detail below):

It is a 3 word quote. Is it really that hard to get it right? Is it really acceptable to get such a simple quote wrong when writing it down to an audience?

If you quote someone and get it slightly wrong then given a few generations of small modification by others getting it slightly wrong and meanings can change drastically.
The simple/stupid/obvious answer: Keep a todo list.

It takes some practice to define todo list items that are achievable in a consistent fixed amount of time. But it's a worthy practice. Being able to boil a big abstract project into small component parts is (IMO) one of the most important skills of being a developer.
I disagree. I'd prefer an ugly house over a destroyed house any day though.

There's also nothing stopping you from applying the principal in whatever style you prefer.
There are around 51,400 merchant ships trading internationally[1]. US Navy has roughly 430 ships in active service or reserve. A naive estimate that a ship hit another ship purely by accident: 99% of chances the other ship will be a commercial vessel. Only probability of 1% would involve a US Navy ship.

If it happen twice, it's 0.01%, 3 times, 1 millionth, now we have 4 times in one year.

There need to be some explanation. Maybe there are many deadly collisions never show up in news so we don't know, or US Navy never follow the rules that civilians follow, or US navy has been attacked but just don't know how it's attacked.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/264024/number-of-merchan...

[2]http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a15297/u...
And then taxed themselves like crazy, while building massive private and public infrastructure, and had decades of middle class income growth that was the envy of the world.
> Don't live in a flood plane, leave early when there's even a small chance of getting hit.

That's assuming that people can afford to leave. I read a quite interesting comment on reddit this morning:

https://np.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6wcpt0/la_vita_bella_n...
Bomb safe bunkers are common since at least WW2.

Why not flood safe high altitude structures?

They could be used for other things in normal conditions, much like how subway stations are used as bomb shelters.
The current governor of Texas once sued the EPA because the EPA claimed global warming could affect public safety.

Of course, denial that burning carbon fuels can cause climate change including more powerful hurricanes was one of the cornerstones of the president of the USA's campaign. Texas voted for him in a big way.

None of these things stopped the storm from wacking them and Louisiana though. As Richard Feynman once said, nature cannot be fooled.

Trump just announced the feds are sending federal aid and support to Texas. The governor and president are both fighting to expand these disasters, then we the taxpayers have to bail them out.
This is currently being worked on in Headless Chrome. There's been tons of development on the project and they're super open to feature requests.
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I would suggest adding some description to your two newest roles, adding a link to a personal website / portfolio, adding a crisp color photo for your profile image, and changing your profile so that it's more results-oriented (worked on project X -> developed a Y that does Z).
"How does that help you provide a better educational experience for the students?"

It helps you identify which schools are in need of special attention and require structural changes.
They won't go down while Chinese and Indians are moving in.
'Staying within the lines' is why game theory doesn't actually work as a good predictor of human behaviour.
If floods are a 1 in 100 years black swan, do we bail them out and don’t require insurance?

I'm fine with that, but it all depends on what you mean by "bail them out," which feels a bit loaded.
> It's all about "solving puzzles" rather than making the world a better place.

I'd figure it's more about getting paid. Making the world better usually doesn't make anyone money, or at least, costs too much before it starts making anyone money.

Making the world truly better requires us to give up a lot of what gets ingrained into us since childhood. We've made money an ends instead of a means. I'm not making a political statement – this is true of every human society, culture and country today. We should collectively rethink what it means to be a successful human and have a fulfilling life (without abandoning technology and progress.)

What's the end goal of civilization? Are we to just multiply and expand, ad infinitum?
I guess if wasm some day gets GC support and runtime code generation, there might be something to this idea - for a language like OCaml that is designed for AOT compilation.
Aren't they simply step through because that's more comfortable for casual rides?

With motorcycles, and many mopeds for that matter, they seem to be able to put the engine between the legs.
Right, it's not about identifying the driver, it's about apprehending the driver.

I hope I never live in a society where the driver of a stolen car can expect to be apprehended no matter where he stops because he'll be tracked by a camera network so ubiquitous that he can't escape it.

Because such a ubiquitous network means that all of my travels are being tracked and recorded too - which will likely include facial recognition, so there really will be no escaping Big Brother... and I don't trust any government with so much power and information over citizens to be benign.
Have you seen text book prices?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0495559725

Across the board they are like this.
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You're not from Texas, are you.
What domestic airlines do you fly most? Do you regularly fly business?
There is a degree of truth in what you say, and there are bad actors, what makes you think Facebook isn't a bad actor either?

After all they care only about profit and keeping the users in their walled garden. So when you are talking about manipulation, do you consider that Facebooks actions as a company are very manipulative?
All of the above, plus VCs likely worried about giving excuses for being targeted by sexual harassment claims.
1) It's already very common for taxis to operate two shifts per day with two drivers. Also, there's less demand in the middle of the night than there is at peak hours.
blunt feedback after spending a few minutes looking at it.

- Get a better photo, current one makes you look weird, can't tell if it's being arty or just blurry.
- Try to break up wall of text summary, a few line breaks or spaces would do wonders for the readability.
- Bullet point skills and responsibilities for your previous and current roles; same for education as well.
How would you propose that students practice learning and studying on their own, outside of a classroom setting, without homework?
Well, we use humans to learn from mistakes in both cases and improve the technology.

The big difference is a mistake in a car is more likely to cause injury than a misdelivered letter.
As an aside, the trials and PoCs have already taken place as a separate project worth only $100,000.
Wouldn't it just take a motherboard maker or two to find an alternative to the PCH, like Nvidia nforce or a VIA chipset. adopt something like openbmc and sell it as an open feature? No intel PCH, no Intel ME. Seems like the Linux kernel is eager to support it: https://lwn.net/Articles/683320/

What happened to 3rd parties making chipsets? Another case of Intel abusing it's monopoly?
Ref. the 'Queenslander', built on stilts to - among other things - protect against tropical storm flooding.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenslander_(architecture)
lol what trains & buses?
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There are no trains. The nearest Amtrak station is in San Antonio. If you made it that far, you are probably already out of danger. As for buses, how do you coordinate bus plans for 6.5 million people across a 50 mile by 50 mile area? And then, assuming you could get even a million people onto buses, where do you take them that can handle even a hundred thousand refugees on 24-48 hours notice?

For most of the US, and especially a city built like Houston, there are no good options.

Edit: I underestimated the size of the Houston Metro Area. It's closer to 100 miles by 100 miles.
This article is a decent attempt at explaining this phenomenon. Most early stage startups are co-founded by highly driven people, who work well even with the absence of processes and structure. This ethic will never translate to all your employees after a certain point. This is where process and structure come in and often, it is too late before it can be successfully implemented.
>Flood insurance could guard against the financial damage of a storm, but is useless to address the problems that evacuations are meant to address

It does if legally required - the point isn't to finance the evacuation, it's to make living in a flood plain financially unattractive. It's the "let the market decide" approach to disaster planning, by pricing in the cost of disaster instead of externalizing it to FEMA and the Red Cross.
Ugh, I don’t have a problem with saying that you no longer want to broadcast details, but I don’t think you should get to park.

I say this with a wife that they actively advocate murdering (it’s weird that everyone focuses just on the white supremacy and not the literal “we must kill the Jews” horror).

So as much as I hate them and all those people that wish that the USA (and England, etc) lost ww2 I still don’t think you get to take over their domain.
That's all well and good for operations that are built into data.table; pipes can be used with anything that's a function call (like ggpage).
I still have no idea what the company does. "A user-generated digital marketplace trying to “normalize” real sex"?
A very small minority of people control the vast majority of Bitcoin, it goes from thousands to hundreds over a course of months. All from manipulation by that small minority.
1) Houston is one of the biggest metros areas in America at ~6 million. Even cities with strong public transportation wouldn't have the resources to bus and train 6 million people

2) There aren't many train lines, passenger trains, and most of the lines are inaccessible to most of the city.

3) There are not many buses in the city as the city is hugely sprawled out so public transportation is weak.

However, even if Rita happened to a city like say Boston, with strong public transportation options, the disaster would be pretty similar. The traffic infrastructure just isn't there to transport 6 million+ people no matter what vehicle.
You own the name; the service of actually pointing that name to some nameservers, and maintaining secure control over it, is what you're paying for.

I could see a registrar telling you they don't want to do business with you any more; they should have to give you some time to transfer it out. However, it's still a dangerous precedent that people on all sides of the political spectrum would do well to heed as a warning of censorship to come.
This is a good point, but I think you could still make the case that you own it. Is the yearly registration fee analagous to a subscription, or to property taxes?

I don't have the answer here; curious to find out what everyone thinks.
>So Google, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat have no value?

I don't see anything wrong with this statement.
These people have managed to get the funding thing under control as a sex inspired startup.

Not huge money raised to be sure, but a good little business that's been growing pretty well.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/crave#/entity

https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/09/19/50-shades-of...

Their company site: http://www.lovecrave.com/
also consider that while there is funding, everything is great by definition. at least two places I worked at had to start showing results around then...it wasn't anything about scaling, they just didn't have anything to show
On the other hand, they also expanded into coastal regions and areas rife for economic development and secured first-mover advantages that will last for centuries.

It's not all roses.
The important thing to notice here is that the economics of this sector vary greatly by country and often times local companies will get a hand from their respective govts. These are fundamental services that provide a livelihood to lots of unskilled labor. One misstep and you'll see massive protests, like what happened in France. I wouldn't be surprised if Brazil for instance has a lot of up and coming competitors.
My roommate's dad in HS was the Secretary of Defense back in the 1970's (James Schlesinger) and I remember him telling me that ships inadvertently come within 1/4 mile of hitting each other all the time. That seems pretty close when you're steering a giant aircraft carrier. Of course, that was along time ago, but still...doesn't seem like much has changed.
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> You own the name; the service of actually pointing that name to some nameservers, and maintaining secure control over it, is what you're paying for.

If that were the case, letting it expire would result in it just being dead rather than available for others to register.
It really isn't science. It's pop science, and although I do enjoy the Smarter Every Day guy, I do agree it's kinda disservice to understanding how things work. They should have repeated the experiment; gotten some sensor experts to see if they could quantify the "stillness" of the water, etc.

We've had pop science before (Mr Wizard anyone?), and we're just seeing more of it today. Real science is slow, methodical and doesn't infer causality from one experiment. It says, "Maybe x caused y; let's do some more tests." It's the QA person who says "Happy path works. Let's break it and see if we can inject some Javascript."

Bill Nye is a mechanical engineer/comedian/kids host. Tyson is physicists. They're smart, but they're not experts on everything.

Like I said, I like these guys, but I realize it's not science. It's half entertainment/half makes you think. In these videos it's fun, but in the political arena, _science_ presented this way can be weaponized:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yecefLsE44U
It’s not a matter of what people think it’s a matter of law. When you register a domain name with NetworkSolutions, you do not own that domain name.
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The problems in these people's lives, that caused them to turn to hate and aggression, will not be solved attempting to excommunicate them. In fact, I suspect it will exacerbate them.
Is there any history of ICANN muscling registrars? What do they have to negotiate with?
I'm not sure if "proud" is the right word.
Yeah, totally on me for letting this expire. Sorry everyone :/ Lesson learned. We may switch to Let's Encrypt once they add wildcard support, which seems to be next year.
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who cares if toyota doesn't make battery electric cars in mass yet? what works best in america today is hybrids, and they were ahead of the game there. probably the best decision they made was to go all in on hybrid before battery-only. they know range is super important and the mirai can go farther than almost any electric car.

i really dont see autonomous driving as much of a race when the "race" is going to take 20-30 years to complete. cycles that long give everyone a chance to catch up and leapfrog each other
You're grossly overstating things.

17.5% stake in Didi Chuxing is nothing to scoff at, especially considering that Uber has done better than both Facebook and Google as far as China is concerned. Apple is the only US tech company that is really succeeding in China.

33.6% stake in YandexTaxi and international Uber users can continue to use the app to hail Yandex drivers when visiting Russia. That's also far far better than Facebook and Google have fared in Russia.

In India, Uber is beating Ola. In Latam, Uber is easily beating both 99Taxis and EasyTaxi. In the Middle East, Uber is beating Careem. Uber is absolutely dominating in Mexico and other Latam countries.

Besides Didi Chuxing and YandexTaxi, the only international competitor doing well relatively against Uber is Grab, and AFAICT, Grab's success relative to Uber is largely isolated to Grab's home country Malaysia and Indonesia where they have invested most heavily. If you take all of Southeast Asia, it appears to be neck and neck.

Uber is doing well in relatively well in Europe all things considered, and winning in Europe is just a matter of time. I highly doubt the local taxi offerings will survive autonomous vehicles.
With some competitive pressure from school choice at the margins, coupled with per-student funding, it would also provide incentives for schools to improve.
Clickbait title. Most male scientists believe the data supporting the existence of gender bias (females are also affected, but this isn't mentioned). We just don't accept the far-fetched hypothesis that the "gender bias" is the (main) cause of the observed "selection bias" in STEM student populations.

It just doesn't make sense, does the author really think girls in high school think "I read my career in STEM won't be as rewarding as my male peers, so I think I'll drop science and become a lawyer". No. STEM is a very attractive field (well paid and ample job opportunities compared to most other markets) despite the gender bias. Please find a better explanation for why girls don't go STEM.

Personally, I think they just have different tastes. Just like how men and women usually have different hobbies. Sure a better male/female ratio might make the workplace happier and more productive, but pushing females into a sector they're not interested in will do more harm. Besides, is 7:3 such a bad ratio?

The article on wired, while citing decent sources, is poorly structured and not completely coherent. The first two paragraphs don't really provide much info except as an anecdote. In short, a slanted rant.
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That's an important observation. If people were free to read their website, it wouldn't be easy to forget how repugnant they are. People are starting to forget the past because it's being censored. And when we forget the past, we repeat it.
Well, that article portrays banks as moralizing prudes and neglects to mention why they don't want to deal with those companies: very high amounts of fraud. Process payments for a porn site and you're going to be hit with charge backs out the wazoo. The industry has been mostly shady since the beginning so you likely won't recoup the money you got stiffed.

Certainly there are legitimate players, but you can't blame a payment processor or bank for not wanting to take high levels of risk.
Network Solutions is both as a registrar and DNS provider. This is likely coming from their DNS side.

And they don't have to provide DNS services to neo-Nazis.
>> "...number of employees is one of the key metrics of 'growth'..."

Measuring a company's success by count of employees is like measuring the skill of an aerospace engineer by the weight of the airplane he designs.

It is true that all successful airplanes have a nonzero weight, but more ain't always better.