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In the UK I don't imagine B roads or smaller being autonomous and the UK road structure is different to the US highways in many ways that make autonomous driving that bit harder.

The bit I am seeing is private ownership of cars with a view to the batteries in the car partnering up with their solar panel and cheap overnight electricity. In this mode the car plays a really important role in evening out the peak power demands on the grid by selling electricity back at a higher rate than purchased overnight.

Due to the culture of private ownership I see people getting electric plugs on the lamppost in their street, hooking up to that and buying their electric car on a favourable 5 year lease arrangement. It is very much the family vehicle with child-seats and whatnot permanently installed. These cars will be conventionally driven except on A roads and motorways when the car is allowed to drive. There will still be some expectation of the driver being at the wheel.

There are trucks from all over Europe, until that guy from Turkey also has an electric, self-driving truck then the road is not going to be a fully automated zone, as proposed in the article.

If you don't own an electric car then you won't be able to use it to even out the power demand at home, you would need a Tesla PowerWall or equivalent to store your solar and do that. I am not seeing people buy those things as quickly as they are buying iPhones. Most people don't even have decent insulation.

The ownership of the car jumpstarts this transformation in how we use the electric grid and gets people involved in a way 'Uber' services will not.
>a reasonable alternative to that $10,000 a year luxury that is car ownership

This fundamentally isn't true. I've had a used Camry for almost a decade and the annual cost of ownership including purchase price, maintenance, registration and insurance is around 2,500 dollars. It has given me a place to store my things when I have limited housing, it is always ready with all my effects when I want to leave, and I am very much in tune with how the car should feel when it is on the road which gives me considerable comfort. Politically, expect any sort of legislation trying to force "legacy" cars off the road as being anti-poor, because it is. Cars don't have to be expensive.
The question is not why would the Saudis want to invest, it's why an industry that always talks about how progressive and innovative it is is so happy to compromise those values.

This presents a conundrum. Tech companies are fond of pseudo-revolutionary mission statements that extol the virtues of diversity, tolerance, freedom of expression and other progressive ideals. They have argued that their technologies are part of a force for global liberation — that forging more open communication and economic productivity through technology will loosen the grip of tyrannies across the globe. For much of the last year, Silicon Valley has also promised a revolution in its own culture, with large and small companies alike vowing to become more inclusive of women and minorities.

To outsiders it looks fake, hypocritical, and a little immoral. $300 million is nice, but why sell your soul for it?
...How? How do you get a diverse and often quarrelsome world to agree on something that huge?
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You apply pressure on companies taking investment from the Saudis collectively.

If you can’t support Uber because of an atmosphere of sexually harassment, how can you support them when their investment dollars are coming from a country that subjugates women? That creates an indentured servant class from imported labor? That sort of argument. It’s blood money, and that’s the narrative you use (if one was so inclined).

Failing that, you’ll have to resort to politics.
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Currently over a month behind pay with minimal communication from employer. We're expected to show up and work but the accounts receivables are from companies that don't want to pay us OR don't have the money themselves and are waiting on being paid to pay us.

We're a little startup and I also found out the rent is a couple months late on the office.

The business leased pretty much everything so there are no actual assets to attach or walk out with in lieu of pay. (no getting paid in computers or widgets).

I of course am looking for work and don't wish to tank my current company but I really, really want to get paid.

I have some stock options but no stock and company hasn't offered stock instead of pay.

I don't want to be the ass here but when do you call the department of labor about stuff like this?
Hey eternalban, I am familiar with that article. I posted something else here which I think explains why I find it insufficient for the author's uses (Tegmark, not Wigner):

> imagine some complex 3d object changing in time. Now imagine it's wrapped in a kind of net, like you see in 'wireframes' in computer graphics. If that complex 3D object is our universe, I see math as like that wrapping wireframe: there is a strong correspondence of some kind, and it covers the full extent of what's out there in some sense, but there are still gaps and extents into other directions etc. which are not math (or any form of human description).

I agree with you though, that it should be set apart from many more absurd hypotheses because of the additional merit it has—although for the specific question of whether reality is literally comprised of mathematics (rather than aspects of it being accurately describable by mathematics), it's a binary question, true or false, and while in some sense it's closer than the others, as far as I can tell it still lacks justification.

Edit: I should also add that my jab about probabilities approaching zero etc. etc. was more kind of a joke/flourish which probably could've been left out :)
Yes, and this is largely the point. The reason foreign governments invest in U.S. tech is because they see it as a path to good relations with the U.S. government. Or at least good enough to avoid getting bombed and having their assets frozen. It's not about making money, it's about reducing geopolitical risk. If these countries wanted to make money then they'd just sell weapons, traffic drugs, build stuff with slave labor, etc., all of which are a lot more profitable than workplace smoothie delivery or whatever.
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It's difficult to make an simple comparison because neither hypervisor is used "out of the box" by EC2. For example, a lot of hypervisor benchmark comparisons focus on I/O performance, but the latest generation EC2 instances offload networking and storage processing to hardware. This is the case for both for instances that use Xen and C5 that uses the new KVM-based hypervisor.

Since both hypervisors have very good support for hardware virtualization technology, it becomes more of an architecture decision. Practically speaking, it is a little bit easier to build a very small footprint hypervisor with the core KVM code than Xen.
Well if you want to talk sanctions, I'd say selling them $110 billion in weapons a few months back is slightly more concerning than slamming shut the bank counter screens on them.
If you are designing an application today, why would you use bitmap assets? Logos, buttons, icons, and other UI are all going to be designed in a vector graphics program, so just export them as SVG and be done with it.

SVG is even supported well enough in web browsers to use without issue. Take a look at the Stripe website for example, most of the images there are SVG.
Minimum standards of conduct before a nation is allowed to do trade another nation or to join a trade agreement...or basically like most other negotiations.
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This is not a very thoughtful response.

If Facebook and Twitter were no more useful or trustworthy than 4chan, then they wouldn't exist. It's like saying, "I can't believe people are trusting encyclopedias and cookbooks. There's no reason that readers should consider them any different than stuff written on a bathroom wall."

The problem is the gap between what they sell themselves as and what the actual user experience is. If Facebook were advertising themselves as the cloaca of the Internet, your vigorous user-blaming would have some merit. But they don't. They aim to be in daily use by every person in the world, a trusted intermediary. They either need to live up to that or quit.
Your car budget is $10k a year? What are you driving?
Thanks that would be helpful and I would enjoy hearing about some of them. I guess I can read reviews on amazon as well too, but it be nice to here a comparative review if you read more then one.
Sure, I would expect that most people doing this sort of work don’t actually work full time.

But the amounts of money you could steal with relatively little work are truly immense.

>The most famous one I'm aware of got $100M over two years and didn't get to keep it. >http://fortune.com/2017/04/27/facebook-google-rimasauskas/

This guy seems to be the polar opposite of a world class exploit dev, but he got pretty far.

However he was also a pretty small player, I’m on my phone now but I’ll try to post some useful links in the morning.
The best way to bring countries into the fold of western civilization, to convince them to adopt our beliefs and values, is to engage with them in trade.

Exclusionary tactics have not had great results, historically.
Oh, not Windows RT - ala the Surface RT, et al :)
I think you could argue that it is actually inhumane to deny certain people the right to investment gains from american companies. Sure you may not like the Saudi Arabian government but ultimately they are trying to create a plan to secure the future of real people who are not all evil, though it may look that way from our cultural vantage point. The Saudis haven’t tended to try and influence their investments, they are mostly a silent investor so far. So if they are not doing anything evil and providing additional liquidity and demand to American capital markets, why go after them or the tech companies that sell them shares?
I was hoping something more like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdgvceSBroU
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Here is a more realistic visual representation of a (bacterial) cytoplasm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fobDHHl11c

"The simulation shows 1000 individual macromolecules diffusing, colliding and transiently associating with each other over the course of 10 microseconds of simulation; the translational diffusion coefficient of the GFP in this model is in agreement with experimental measurements."

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(Note that the proteins and other macromolecules in the visualization are all individually constructed of hundreds of atoms — tRNA is a common one and has ~729 atoms; other, bigger proteins have thousands; and h2o of course has just 3. Here is an illustration from David Goodsell’s newest book showing the scale: http://imgur.com/a/shqME)
Sizing to pixels works great when the device manufacturers all use approximately the same ratio of resolution to viewing distance. The problem with that approach is that it doesn't allow for nicer, high-resolution displays.

Sizing to pixels is vital when using low-resolution displays, since any scaling will be unacceptably blurry.

Apple's approach with their Retina displays was brilliant - make the high-res screens an integer multiple of the low-res ones. That made the scaling issues much easier to deal with.

The tragedy is with Windows. Microsoft has long emphasized font hinting, which results in sharper display fonts. But it means that the font metrics don't scale linearly with the resolution. Apps that weren't tested at anything but the default resolution would invariably have rendering issues, so nobody used oddball resolutions. Because nobody used high resolutions, the app makers didn't feel the need to test them. Chicken/egg problem. It has taken far too long to overcome this.
Iran may be moderate, but they are also aligned with Russia. I'd like Iran to align with the West, but too many sides are in their trenches.
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<Cars and driving represent a freedom

A car is an extension of an American's freedom. We won't give it up: it has to be taken.

One path i see it taken is selling public roadways to shore up state (et al) deficits. Big-driverless-company gets control of the roads and can begin to modify and place restrictions.

I, for one, believe my roadways are mine. Won by my father for winning Ww2 as Eisenhower created the interstate system, the "explosion" of freedom where the car is the center.

Just try to restrict my getting in my car and going where i please, when i please. If a driverless car gets in my way, watch out!
Saudis are smart to invest in tech when future of oil is questionable. That's despite the game of thrones "fun" going on there right now. And tech despite its "progressive" PR doesn't care about source of money anyway; purity is for tech plebs, not for rulers.
Just quoting @l33tbro <<Well if you want to talk sanctions, I'd say selling them $110 billion in weapons a few months back is slightly more concerning than where they invest.>>
Do you like riding horses?

You might or might not but most likely you don't know because you never had an opportunity to try riding horses and therefore you don't do it.

Most people get a driver license not because they like driving (learning process is rather unpleasant) but because it's almost a requirement for living.

When self-driving fleets are widely available, most 16 year olds simply won't bother learning to drive. Driving is an acquired taste, no one is born with innate desire to do it.

After few generations it'll be a specialized skill (maybe police will keep using manually driven cars etc.).
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Agreed. Occam's razor is well applied here. Everyone else is investing in tech to get rich, I see no reason to suppose card carrying capitalist Saudi's wouldn't be driven by the allure of profit as well.
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That was a long time ago when AMD might have been a threat.
I question whether property rights are relevant at all in the Bitcoin case.

Controlling a private key != Ownership
Why seems pretty obvious. Instead of asking why, it would be better to ask how. I don't know of any Saudi VC firms on Sand Hill Road. But then there's a ton of Saudi money out there. Softbank just opened a Saudi fund with $93B.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/21/technology/saudi-softbank-te...

KSA investors seem to be acting as extremely large limited partners which makes a lot of investment sense for them.

Dunno if CFIUS can look at this but isn't that what they're there for?
I can't quite remember it in detail. What age kids would it be appropriate for?
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I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but we aren't innocent either. I'd say perhaps on a spectrum they are worse than us on human rights, but there was the Iraq war, Vietnam , etc. Are we supposed to no longer pay taxes or use government provided infrastructure?
SVG is often pixel-hinted to match pixel edges and provide visually pleasing lines and shapes at low resolution
>This is my very problem with Chrome/Chromium right now. The Chrome team does assumption on how things "should" be (in a highly subjective way) and breaks the web.

And that is how IE used to operate. I think this is something we're going to have to deal with for a long time.
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This is the same country that the US funnels weapons into, and uses for leverage in the region. Does it make the US complicit in the actions that Saudi Arabia does? Now does it make sense to ask for Saudi Arabia to be sanctioned when it comes to business investments?
It's hard to argue Queer Kid Stuff is inappropriate for kids unless you think LGBT people are inappropriate for kids. For example, lesbians are defined as "girls who love girls," which is no different from how straight relationships are discussed with children.

Ultimately, the basics of LGBT people's lives and identities are not actually hard to discuss with children and are a fact of life, particularly for kids who are LGBT themselves.
I would not bet on it, given that most of those who have, for example, crashed while drag racing on urban streets would probably fall into the 'like to drive' category.
I see your point, but practically speaking they can give tech company is money and still stop women from driving. It seems like they take the profits from trade and give it to terrorists, so we should probably brainstorm other solutions and not create dead ends with pseudo-platitudes
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You apply pressure on companies taking investment from the Saudis collectively.

That's just rephrasing it... how do you apply pressure? Everyone needs oil, many don't care about these issues, so how do we make them toe a line? What pressure do we exert? How much political capital do we burn without a hope of return?

At the end of the day though, you say "blood money" as though both sides aren't drenched in it. Moreover, whoever the Saudis are killing, it's with our weapons systems. They're newcomers to a game that the US has been playing for centuries, and Europe much longer. They're something between our rogue asset in the region, and our abusive soon-to-be-ex-spouse. Everyone sees it coming, especially the Saudis who are going so far as to clean house and contemplate an Aramco IPO to avoid being reclaimed by the desert.
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forest fires with forests still standin but houses made of stone and metal are gone?????
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Get cars classified as firearms, and its a done deal.
That isnt the main reason. They do it to make money, or at least protect the money they have without overheating their own economy. The Chinese don’t buy treasuries to make friendly with the USA, they do it because they don’t have any better options to deal with their trade surpluses. There is just nowhere else liquid enough to park a few hundred billion as needed.

Why they fund startups is even more self interested, they really do want to make money, and believe it or not, it is much easier and profitable to do that through investing then to become a rogue state.
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So party A has high standards, parties B and C don't and just trade with each other. Party A withers and and its resources are eventually aligned with B and C anyway. This is not an effective way to fight anything, it's just suicide.
I thought the rumour here says that the fake coffee is made of roasted soybean (to add bulk), quinine (bitter), gelatin (thickness), not ready made artificial flavourings as was tested in the article. Although I highly doubt that there is no coffee content in street vendor shop, as it doesn't make sense financially (Vietnam is the 2nd largest coffee producer), so the rumour is the same as "Chinese plastic rice" or "Chinese fake eggs" IMO.
Yup. Get video apps from actual companies that have at least a semblance of QC.

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As somebody who regularly has to set up an 8 way projector blend to create a 120 ft x 20 ft screen for presentation graphics... Hell no.
Alfresco is an open source Enterprise content management software which has frontend UI called Alfresco Share. The installation is simple using their all inclusive executable which bundles the server, database, and Solr for searching any and all data. It also has this concept of business workflows which you say is a pain point for you. Each document can have workflows assigned to it at which point it has a life of it's own, passing from user to user, emailing itself, tagging itself, etc. There is a learning curve on the dev side, especially if you aren't Java savvy, but once you get the hang of it it's very powerful. I've personally written an API in Lua for syncing documents. I assign bot accounts from the Share UI which are given permission to crawl and sync directories to bot accounts on the server (origin server or external server), and each bot has a job to do on each document it gets, for which it writes and dispatches a service with systemd, then uploads the processed documents back to alfresco. And this is probably 1% of what Alfresco is actually capable of (and my implemention reeks of hackiness, because I hate Java). A team of devs is bound to get more use out of it.
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Yeah it only works if people are willing to respect your time (and you're assertive enough to politely remind them when they forget).
Floating point scaling for bitmaps sounds bad, but often it's actually OK. It helps if PPI is very high, which these days usually it is. The iPhone 6 Plus (and I imagine the 7+ and 8+) scales its screen in hardware from 1242x2208 to 1080x1920 and it looks fine.

If you really need UI graphics to be completely crisp, you can always use vectors.
I think we are arguing it is.
Yes, somewhat like these, but having the ability to inspect and simulate effects on intermediate forms and systems. So something along the lines of light table but being able to show more than just the immediate program.

Copying something I wrote in another thread:
I want to see not just the immediate program I'm manipulating (text or otherwise) but also the implications - the affected parts of various other intermediate representations all the way to the running, live system that will be affected.
I think the mindset is probably closer to "tens of thousands of people each year are needlessly dying a preventable death, and many times more people are injured"

With that ideology, you are already ready to give up control of the vehicle. It's not much of a jump from there to give up ownership, especially if that means only paying for what you use and not having to constantly maintain it.
Would this allow a user to have a "diskless" Mac?

I create bootable media, e.g. USB sticks or SD cards, for PCs and RPis and I can thus run "diskless"; no disk access is required and the full system fits in RAM.

I can insert the media into any available PC and use the computer, without disturbing anything on its HDD.

This can also be very useful for emergencies where a computer with a HDD will not boot due to some problem with what is on the drive.

Is this flexibilty possible with today's MacIntosh?
Their interests aren't conflicting - their interests are making sure that the entrenched powerful class in those four countries continues to be the entrenched powerful class. Surveillance technology, weakened protections for labor (cf. paulg's factually-correct comment about how any industry that still has unions is ripe for disruption), a dependency on access to capital, etc. are in all of these countries' interest.

It's like the European monarchies of a couple hundred years back: even if the countries fought wars against each other for territorial squabbles or whatever, their deeper interest was in maintaining the system, and on that they were all allied. So they married each other, met in the Congress of Vienna, etc., because they knew that in supporting each other and the current balance of power, they themselves would be much more likely to keep power.