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> 3) Students now have access to loans to go to any school they want

> 4) Colleges notice that they can raise price because students don't price shop

When has this ever been true. I applied to school many schools back in the day and it usually came down to finance and then reputation. Whichever school granted you the most tuition and living expenses, and wasn't steaming pile of shit is where 99% of my working class peers and I attended.
I agree, that's one side effects to watch out for.

However, it can be curbed with some rough (80/20) cost-of-living adjustments to the applications before they're all put together for ranking.

Even without that adjustment, I think the "bidding" system would probably represent a significant improvement over what we have now.
That's because the current seats and belts are not designed for comfortable sleeping. This can change if the vehicle has L4 autonomy - the interior can be redesigned to from the ground-up to accommodate sleeping. Airplanes seats have set the precedence of having seat-belts whilst allowing for sleep.
Copyrighting photos is something thats done regularly by photographers, I see nothing being "abused" there. How else are they supposed to make money?
How would it have done that?
That's an extreme reading. If I make a library, don't require attribution, and then you use it in your project without attribution, that's emphatically not the same thing as "taking credit" for my work.
> Is it technically possible to write a driver in Rust and add it to the kernel in a reasonable way? That is, without gobs of fragile shims, etc.

I think this is highly unlikely. The Linux kernel lacks an internal ABI [0] which would make writing drivers in a different language and targeting them at multiple kernel releases essentially impossible.

Many, many people and organizations writing drivers have complained over the years about the lack of an internal ABI. [1] [2] I would go so far as to say it's why Linux on ARM is such a dumpster fire. SoC vendors provide an SDK based on a certain kernel, and OEMs forever ship this kernel (with occasional backports for really severe bugs) because porting the device-specific changes to a newer kernel is just too much effort.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_interfaces

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/827862/why-i-need-to-re-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220973
Phone with drones
Imagine a world where every car crash is investigated as thoroughly as plane accidents today.
Let's say waterfall == large batch size. The actual problem is the large batch size.

The larger the batch size, the less time you spend designing, coding and delivering, and the more time you spend (mis)managing the batch - what goes in it, changing what goes in it, planning what goes in it, explaining what will go in it, explaining why half of it didn't go in it.

All of this invites a certain type of personality who is not incentivized to deliver but to talk about delivering. That is when the horror stories start.
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Oof, that is a staggering quarterly loss, how long will investors be willing to tolerate that when there are competitors active now in that industry, mainly instagram.
Airplane seatbelts are only mandatory during take-off and landing as well as turbulence. It will be a very long time before any kind of driving is as safe as commercial air travel.
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From Europe, the dieselgate has had a lot of ripple effects.

Diesel is king in Europe and that crisis shook the public trust in the technology. So the various other numerous complain about the diesel suddenly became more visible. Diesel-bashing became fashionable and it has had a visible effect on diesel car sales. This drop in popularity lead to various city banning diesel (in the future).

The timing of it all makes me think that Germany saw the Dieselgate as the last drop marking the end of the golden age and rather than wait for the industry to figure it out, they decided to force them forward.
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Sounds like Asimov's 3 laws.
Is there a way to use just the markdown -> html so that it can be used for automated sending e.g. via mandrill/sparkpost?

It looks pretty!
Kinda - your point is technically true.

OTOH, Ethereum really encourages these types of bugs due to how it's setup.

These types of bugs are characteristic to things written in Solidity. So no, Ethereum didn't have a bug, it just encourages buggy programs, and this is great example.
I was one of those people wondering why I would use this and I have sent code via Gmail without problems. Personally I generally prefer plain text email. But I could imagine trying this out. Nice to see some positive endorsements.
Never will happen. Latency is a law of nature. 60mph === 8.8 ft / 100ms. Near misses and close calls with unexpected objects can't afford the additional delay of a radio round trip that may or may not be working to make safety critical decisions. All situational awareness has to be handled on board for immediate response when needed.
this same logic means the internet encourages bugs
There is no immorality around my position. We exist as a country to promote the welfare of our own people. I should expect any country to place its own citizens' interests above those of foreign nations.

Moreover, countries are generally defined by their geographic locations. The actions of the people within them directly affect those around them. Local economies are affected by influxes of labor and depression of wages.

A person's race is simply an attribute they possess; attempting to compare this to a nationality makes little sense in this case. Someone's race does not intrinsically affect the economy around them, whereas the wage they are paid will.
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Blacklist the various USB modules? Or disable USB in BIOS?
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"We must secure the existence of our people and a future for [our] children."

There, fixed that for you.

> A person's race is simply an attribute they possess; attempting to compare this to a nationality makes little sense in this case.

Sounds great! Allow anyone who wants to be American to be American.
Maybe my dick is being stroked. But "Want to be an efficient Darwinian nightmare? Pick up the Zerg." Sounds like it describes Zerg good. It's more like there are two methods of the game protoss,Terran/Zerg. Because not superficially terrand and protoss are the same, compare to Zerg.
The kids still snapchat so... me thinks a while.
Yeh things will change... you sorta already see stuff like this in Asia where drivers are common... people have vans with offices in the back and work while their driver takes them to places.
I’d be curious to see what issues did you deal with and the workarounds which solved them. Is thawed any way you could share?
I'll see your ps and raise you :-)

My wife and her friends ride their horses to the neighborhood bar which actually has a tie rail for them out back. They had someone call a local TV station a few years back when she rode a horse into a McD's drive-through.

No point to this post besides that you reminded me of it :-)
Ah, that could be. Though could that be talking about redundant processing (i.e. two dependent algorithms making the same decision) rather than duplicate hardware?
Hi Adam! I installed Markdown Here from the Chrome Web Store, and I noticed it installed 2.12.0. However, it looks like you released 2.13.1 on GitHub. Should I be installing from GitHub?
shameless plug: https://github.com/r-a-w/TorProxy

This will ensure all outgoing traffic is headed for the Tor network. This would prevent this vuln from being effective as it would drop the outbound packets.
It doesn't take months to travel 300 miles by car. Bringing in income during the long trip is not a realistic issue.
Speaking only anecdotally, friends who complain the most about college loans are the ones who took out massive (~$100k) loans to go to private schools. With some exceptions, private schools are likely not to be worth the extra money; problem is, loans are due later, but awesome "dream school" is now.
No mutable state, no objects, just one way flow of data transformation. For example https://www.fstar-lang.org
At the same time, repealing the tax break hurts those least privileged the most. Why is that making things more "fair"?
Prior art (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5hPyHxrz94
The proper way to view it is that the university is giving you an "in kind" benefit, in this case a free education. "In kind" benefits are taxable. An employer cannot say, for example, that providing a free apartment to an employee is not compensation, because the employer is "simply choosing not to charge the employee rent."
Very neat idea and execution, but I doubt its usefulness. Let me explain what my thinking would be if I was the developer:

Whatever email client you're using likely has easier/better support for bold/italics or other forms of text styling very easily, with shortcut keys. It probably also supports numbered/bullet lists automatically by converting lines that start with 1., 2., ... or */- characters, too.

If you think about it, there's not a lot more features of Markdown remaining. The email client also likely allows easier ways to insert pictures and create links, too.

This leaves us with:

- Tables: I suspect anyone actually writes tables in markdown, also the mail editors probably support this better.

- Math equations: I suspect anyone actually uses this except academics.

- Code blocks with syntax highlighting: this seems to be the only useful feature of the extension.

I also realized the extension does not work on Google Docs, where I was mainly hoping to use the code formatting feature.
https://reasonml.github.io/
"Standard" is arguable when it comes to email. Yes messages can use HTML, but it's hard to get HTML email to look consistent across different clients.
In which case H1-B would be used only for high-end R&D talent not obtainable in the US and would have little or no wage-depressing effect. What a terrible problem.
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Fair enough, I can see your argument. However, I'm not persuaded.

Let's assume your hypothesis is correct, then given the population of practitioners for a given technological space, we should be able to find examples of catalyzing change in the technology space that was initiated by what would otherwise be an 'average' practitioner in that space right? Given that I would expect to be able to identify people that are considered 'average' by their peers prior to their making some large catalyzing change.

That is hard looking back as most biographers will call out all sorts of details that made someone special with the benefit of hindsight, but I'm looking for people more current who were considered 'ordinary' and yet they were the catalyst for a huge change.

Finding such examples would help me with your argument.
Would you hire a junior Linux admin with these skills?
Not in terms of gas, because one can test on a separate blockchain. But it takes a lot of expertize and time, which means money - and it appears that for all the money that was saved in their wallets they received very little (if any) funds. I find it hard to blame them...
I wasn't talking about the laws, I was referring to the comfort baked into the design: I have slept while flying with my seat-belt on; it's not uncomfortable.

While not legally mandated, most airlines encourage people to keep their seat-belts on during cruise - this is good advice that I take to heart because turbulence is unpredictable; sudden loss of elevation are known to happen.
When the weather goes to shit, all L5-but-not-really cars on the road are now in a situation where they need a 'remote' driver.
Sounds like a very roundabout way of doing things. I guess AXA feeds flight data onto the blockchain, you need to trust their data, and somehow pre-register the flights you are going to take with the contract?

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Hey man, im currently learning web dev and want to learn asp.net core for web development, im attracted to it after seeing that Stackoverflow uses it and also bcoz i can do a little bit of C#. Your thoughts?
Looking at the finger instead of the moon: I like the HTML layout (responsive, inline images with captions, lateral notes).

Any insights on how it's generated? Markdown, Rst, Latex -> HTML? I would love to produce my documentation in this way.

Edit: I was too hurried. Everything is explained in https://distill.pub/guide/, the template is at https://github.com/distillpub/template
From what I understand, this can be fixed with a generalized fix for this class of contract bugs, which makes it different than the previous bug. More importantly, this can wait until the next planned hard fork, since the funds are locked and not going anywhere, so wouldn't need its own dedicated hard fork.
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I like the idea, nearly a throw-away line in the article, that the H-1B visas should be granted to the highest paying jobs rather than by lottery. That would certainly cut down on the abuses.
Graduate students, as a class, are not the "least privileged." Most are from families that are pretty educated and well-off to begin with.
And I'm not even talking specifically about application performance, though what you're saying is still absolutely spot on. Think of all the time wasted because of poor, or incomplete documentation. An I sympathize with anyone writing documentation. We're definitely still in the era of move fast and break things.

These costs which accrue to everyone because no one can afford to take it on themselves, I would call externalities in the same sense we do when talking about pollution.
Learned that bailing hay forty years ago. ‘course we didn’t use no book-learnin’ words like “molecular”, so I guess that’s why no one quoted us in the newspaper. Or maybe it was so friggin’ obvious that it wasn’t worth quoting.
That's an interesting flow but I couldn't imagine typing like that, formatting while I typed would totally interrupt the thought process/message I'm trying to get out.

My flow is to type first just to get the thoughts out then I format last while I proofread.
What are you on about? Are you able to have a discussion about this, or are you simply looking to discount any counter-arguments with feeble attempts at dog whistling?
> suddenly I got 30Go of cache on my hard drive

The same thing happens now with regular browser caching, it's not that big of a deal. People will design run-times targeting webassembly to be lightweight, but if they end up being too heavy, developers will use CDNs the same way they do now with other large front-end dependencies.

> The solution would be for browsers to stop the madness and decide by community to adopt a new standard with a decent language for the web

A subjective and impossible consensus to achieve. The community will never be able to agree, that much is obvious. The answer isn't "pick a language that works today and hope for the best", that is how we got where we are today, rather, we need a solution that gives the community the power to experiment with better solutions that aren't constrained to a single language.
staying on the road isn't the hard part. all that can be mapped, even in areas with poor road markings.

dealing with other road users and abusers is far harder
That is true, and is unrelated to my comment. I was referring to the least privileged members as a subset of that class. I know plenty of PhD students who were the first in their family to attend college, or graduate high school.
Something I read a while ago that stuck with me - ‘When you are looking for a new opportunity, you are really just looking for a person.’

This reframing totally changed how I look for new jobs, and what suprised me more was how willing people were to refer me, even if they had never met me.
But to just restate the comment you're replying to, clearly theory can prune a lot of branches on the "iterative experiment-based design refinement" method you are proposing.

Also, I'll mention that you're being too pessimistic about what theory can accomplish. The learning problem is much more constrained than P = NP.

The use, for example, of a training set of N examples, drawn iid, and evaluation on samples drawn from the same distribution imposes a lot of structure. I don't know if you're familiar with VC theory, but it's an example of the kind of "surprising" guarantees that can be derived in this setting. Other general examples are weak learning, the bias/variance tradeoff, and (in SVMs) the notion of large margin classifiers.

An applicable "theory" of design is what separates engineering from just mucking around.
> I have a hard time believing it does much more than depress the wages of American white collar workers.

It makes it viable to keep white collar jobs in the midwest.

The company I work for announced they are no longer using these "IT body shops," as you put it. The local pool of workers is totally exhausted, so they can't find enough people to hire, and have decided to close up shop in the midwest and will be moving development to an ultra-high COL tech hub.

Officially, only developers are getting the ax. But I have to assume the rest of the staff are in line. The developers managers should probably be co-located, and if all the dev and managers are co-located, then so should the product managers and their teams. PMs and sales work pretty closely, so it's not hard to imagine those positions will move, etc, etc.

People love to throw out econ 101 supply/demand stuff here, and claim that obviously more tech workers = lower tech worker salaries. But that does not appear to be the case. Regions with more tech workers also pay higher salaries; there's a clear inverse relationship going on.

So, in my interpretation of the empirical evidence we have, suggests that more H1-Bs would raise developer/engineer wages, not suppress them.

P.S. It's clear that IT staff do face downward wage pressure from offshoring. But they also face the same from automation of their jobs (cloud services, SaaS, etc).
I find that unless you're an entry-level worker, your best means for finding work will be through the generation of leads.

Generating leads just means putting yourself out there and letting the opportunities come to you.

There are many, many people who are qualified to perform a job that is posted on a job board. But if you can enable a company to skip posting to a board at all, then you and the company in question both win.
You have me suspected, accused, tried, convicted, and sentenced all in absentia and with no good evidence for doing NOTHING wrong.
They've got money in the bank for another year and a half or so at that rate so it'll go on a while at least.
after wasting the time to write the sample application, my interviewer refused to even look at at it. I have seen similar stories posted here. would not recommend.
The blogs on that scale sadly do not set the standard; as long as IGN and Gamespot are willing to put up with these shenanigans, the game companies can get away with it.
Ok, sorry, bitter old man coming through: this is Web 2.0, not 1.0. For all the buzzwords, Web 2.0 was defined by the dynamic interactive solicitation of user input as opposed to Web 1.0 being just static HTML. I don't think we've coined a good catchphrase for fat applications implemented in tons of Javascript with only lightweight AJAX calls to the backend.

And then, of course, there's Web 0.1: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Web_0_0x2e_1
Hyneman probably has $50k down between his sofa cushions though?

He does explain in the video that as much as anything they're after a corpus of people to act as a focus group, which seems reasonable.
Missing words: Camera, picture

present: Application

Camera company?
Good resource to learn about blockchain?
I want to learn more about blockchain, as I don't have much of a knowledge about it. Anyone have a good resource to read about it?
They have a history of doing this once, and also a history of not doing it in at least another high-profile case.
I believe what Overtonwindow meant was that the cost of education has gotten out of control primarily because whenever the government guarantees debt (cough housing cough) it creates a perverse incentive where the lenders profit by bigger loan values and the schools profit by jacking up the cost of their service for which the loans are issued.

Essentially, there is far less of a check and balance on the price of the good/service. Whenever you have true cost hidden or put way down the road it tends to significantly increase the total cost. Also, there was a hard limit on the cost of education previously because it used to be hard to get a loan for school. People had to actually save money for it, get a scholarship, or pay as they went along. There was a natural limit based on the available money people had available and were willing and able to use to purchase education.

Less than a decade ago (2008/2009) the average in-state tuition was $6,585 for a public school. I graduated in 2006 and this number seems accurate. My undergrad tuition in 2006 was something like $5,500-$6,000. Based on data from the College Board, the inflation factor for 2008 is ~9.5 (against the reference value in 1978 of 1, when the numbers begin). Which means the average cost of tuition for in-state public schools was $693. The minimum wage in 1978 was $2.65. It would thus take 262 hours to be able to earn enough to pay that tuition. That averages out to a mere 5 hours a week! And that's the worst case scenario (making minimum wage). Using the 2008 numbers, the minimum wage was $6.55, so it would take 3.83 times longer to pay tuition (1005 hours)! And that was nearly a decade ago - it's gotten far, far worse since then. Viewed another way, if the cost of college was subject to the normal inflation that the rest of the economy average, that $693 would be a mere $2,737 for 2008.
Disclaimer up front: I work for a Tesla competitor.

Christensen's work after Innovator's Dilemma indicates that disruptive innovations include a new 'Core Technology' or 'Core Business Process'.

It is not yet clear that Tesla has either of those.

At present, Tesla is building and selling cars in a manner basically indistinguishable from competitors, excepting (so far) scale.

Some of Tesla's Tech (advanced automation) and Business Processes (especially the lack of dealerships, possibly their vertical integration) could be disruptive; we will have to wait and see if they can exploit these at scale.

As a comparison, look at Toyota in the 80's to the 00's. Through continuous improvement, they made their small, simple cars the best on the road. This could be thought of as disruptive; but then they went up-market to achieve better margins. As they did this, they became a lot more like their competitors. The competition started taking notice and adopted variations on the Toyota Production Method.

At this point, Toyota and their competitors (excepting Tesla) share basically all of the core technology and business processes.

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If you want to think about what Tesla will do in the future, and what advantages they have in the future, that's fine. Just realize that the future is another country.
This is awesome man, and a great idea. Nice work!
International students earn more than 50% of graduate STEM degrees. If this made it harder for internationals to secure funding this would result in fewer overall grad students while increasing the ratio of natives. At the same time grad students will need more student loans which works nicely for the banks and/or shifts more control to government run loans. Sounds like a win/win for Trump's base.
as a junior dev, i aspire to do something like this one day. how would i go about achieving this? my knowledge is mostly in asp.net and javascript.