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I think most Elon fanbois implicitly understand that each rocket SpaceX launches involves blood, sweat and tears of hundreds of skilled people.

Ultimately, focusing on a leader is a shorthand used in everything. We talk about famous generals, and not about their lieutenants. We talk about presidents and kings, omitting the low-level administrative staff that actually does the work and keeps everything from falling apart. Often it's a bad generalization leading to bad conclusions (e.g. most presidents have little influence on the direction of their countries), but I think it's fair in case of Elon Musk, since it's his strong vision that defines the direction of SpaceX and Tesla.

Consider this: if SpaceX went public and Elon decided to step down, the company would lose most of its fanbase for very simple reason - it would most likely turn into a regular company and stop being just the vehicle to get humanity to settle Mars.
These regulations won't fix the main contributors to pay gap, as you have wisely pointed out. They are to fix and protect against the egregious cases of pay gaps, like the ones for TV broadcasters; The women literally sit beside the men and do the exact same job, but get half the pay.
Fair enough on your popular support points.

WRT Tesla: The company has started a revolution, but to all intents and purposes it feels like its falling behind. The Model 3 was supposed to be in full production already, but it's not. It's also not profitable, which is a major problem for Tesla (and Musk by extension) in the long run.

Not to mention, all of the pre-orders for Model 3's that aren't fulfilled in a timely manner are going to hurt the population's opinions of Elon Musk - and rightly so.

As far as following a vision: history is full of failed visionaries, and vision alone is not enough to propel mankind forward. Execution is.
You need to get out of your SV bubble if you think that $125k is 3rd quintile for the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_States
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> NASA TESS on track to discover an explosion in habitable zone exoplanets.

Not a factor. Until we can travel many multiples faster than light, it doesn't matter how many things we can see far, far away.

You and I will both be centuries dead before that happens.
Maybe the answer lies in Intel’s feted IPC advantage over AMD? Or is it the case that AMD has simply been relatively lucky so far?
How much time spent charging?

Charging time is what make petrol win. Drive 500 miles, take 5mn to charge up and you're good for 500 more miles.

Until EV can do this (surely through charging stations like petrol cars) they won't good at anything more than daily commute if you can plug your car at at home and at work.

So battery technology is where the interest should be. We already know how to make efficient electric motors, we know how to make small vehicles. All wee need is fast charging energy stores. All some kind of electrical rails available on highways EV could use. Maybe setup specific separated lanes with no speed limit, EV rail but only if using some autonav which responds to the highway command to optimize the flow. Yes, you'd get something like trains for individuals.
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>> Anyone working the counter at your local Post Office could easily work the register at any grocery store in your town.

> And they'd take a 60% pay cut to do so, wouldn't they?

I wouldn't say the Post Office worker is overpaid just because of that. Private-sector pay for many such positions is shameful and exploitative.
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I did it at 33. Changed from animation and VFX to front-end development.

Here's what I did exactly;

* Quit and lived like a beggar for 6 months. It was tough, I burned through all the little savings I had and ended up having to borrow money to pay the bills(Don't do this, keep your job, work like hell at night and weekends)

* I started with HarvardX CS50, a free online course that will help you out immensely initially. I knew very little about coding when I started it. (Do this)

* Build websites and apply for jobs. Junior Jobs. Very, very low paying jobs. I landed one and started getting experience. (Do this)

* Go to coding and tech meetups. (I didn't do this, but should have)

When you have experience doors start opening up for you. Good Luck!
> - Conservative media does a very good job at keeping at least 50% of the country comically uninformed

And liberal media keeps the other 50% uninformed.

> - Religion is not focussed on empathy at all anymore, if it ever was

Citation needed.

> The billionare .0001% will probably do their utmost to keep the status quo, as evidently, they are the ones that are profiting from the current situation and they are the ones calling the shots for the next 3 years.

Can you elaborate on this? What makes you think all billionaires are worried about making more billions? If I look at Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg, they don't seem to be worried about earning more money.

> The US is doing very good in a lot of areas, but I think collective egotism is preventing it from reaching its true potential.

What if what you have right now is your true potential?
Ironically, "lots of informed speculation" seems to be exactly what the bug is about. ;-)

The thing is, AMD probably very narrowly just missed this one --- if they did more aggressive speculative execution, they would be the same.
I was a kid at the time and we had an Apple display that used a Trinitron tube. One of my friends came over and tried to erase the "line" in the paint program. I had no idea what he was on about until I finally noticed what I had missed all along - the support wire.
You have to admit, it’s a brilliant business strategy. First you rip them off with all natural raw water, then you rip them off with all natural dysentery treatments, then the few who are really fools can probably be ripped off again for an all natural raw wood pine box (coffin).
But the relative cost one would be willing to pay varies.

Would I pay a streaming service $10 a month for 10 tracks, that I can only listen to on their service, but which I get unlimited plays of so long as I subscribe to their service? Hell no.

Would I purchase an album of 10 songs, that are mine into perpetuity to listen to, make reasonable copies of, fair use of, etc, for $10? Yes.

Would I pay a streaming company for on demand access to a broad catalog of songs? Yes.

But note how my consumption and value varies.

The thing is, streaming services are, fundamentally, gainining 'per listen' value, and that model is reflected into how they're paying rightsholders. That is, the more I listen to a track, the more value it collects for the owner.

A purchasing model is how many purchases. Listens are not really correlated to that (at least, not to the price). That is, one user may listen to the purchased album 100 times, the other may listen to one song 100 times, and one user may listen to the album 1000 times. All paid the same, all generated the rightsholders the same.

As such, I think treating streaming as a storage medium would be...poorly thought out. Not least of all because at that point you could make a strong case that the streaming service should be paying every rightsholder for every subscriber; they are, after all, -storing- that music for the new subscriber; nevermind if the subscriber ever listens to it or not.
I use a 14" RGB Sony Trinitron medical imaging monitor for retrogaming; PVMs and BVMs are pretty much the gold standard these days, especially the Trinitrons, for their quality and longevity.

If you think Trinitron quality is great in your average Television CRT, it's _amazing_ in true RGB. Who knew SCART would keep bare-metal retrogaming alive?
Yes, the number of international graduate students is at an all time in 2016, and I’m sure for 2017 also. It isn’t rocket science:

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/international-studen...

Growth has been falling, but that wasn’t the claim that was made, which was actually ridiculous.
> when I was in the Marine Corps, one of my drill instructors said something to the effect of "You know why I joined the Marine Corps? Because it's one of the only jobs where you can legally kill a [expletive]."

How confident are you that he actually earnestly meant this? I've heard DIs / SOI instructors say things like that on several occasions, but it was all pretty clearly within the context of trying to be "motivating"....they didn't come across as actually psychotic.
I'm not sure if conductivity matters. Bodily fluids are also conductive, yet don't seem to interfere.

More importantly, neurons use ion gradients across their membranes to conduct signals. It's not electrons flowing along, as it is for wires.

While the magnetic field created by thousands of neurons firing in concert can be picked up using wires (EEG, ECG), and neurons can be induced to fire with electric shocks, I actually doubt anything would happen if you were to connect two neurons by wire.

At the very least, the wires would need to have contact with the axons (neuron terminals). A neuron can be a meter long, but it is isolated by a fatty membrane along its body.
Excellent point, I didn't think about the implications for stuff like JavaScript.
So, we already have organic soap, probably also toothpaste, raw milk is a thing, as is bottled mountain air.

What about raw clothes? Growing 3-4 sheeps, getting the fur, and making some clothes with medieval technology. But because we're not savages, let's leave the leather products out.

Throw in some natural colorants and "no chemicals" anywhere.

I bet you could sell this stuff for some real money.
> Besides passing TOEFL and showing up with a full tuition check what are the merit requirements is needed. You'd probably say high school grades, but I remember just handing them a hand written note from my high school principal which I translated myself and he signed. They didn't need SAT or ACT scores even. Maybe they do now, I didn't check.

If this is your experience, it sounds like you are baselining your opinions on less reputable U.S. universities (and there are quite a few of them around. The U.S. has over 3000 colleges.)

In most decent universities, you absolutely cannot be admitted without the right grades. In most competitive state colleges, international students actually require better (average) grades than locals for admission because they are placed in a separate, smaller pool of applicants. In-state applicants are often given priority.
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Cholera is natural too.
The bug seems to be revolving around speculative execution. It seems like that is a silicon thing, not a microcode thing.
I wouldn't move back home even with a 100% salary match.
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I wonder what implications this will have on those who run Intel in their gaming rigs. I'm due to refresh, and _was_ gonna invest in Intel as my CPU. But this seems pretty damning for that.

I assume the system calls to interact with the GPU, or to do any sort of I/O, are going to incur the performance overhead. So rendering frames, reading/writing from the network, and loading assets from the disk could all cause issues.

And this is just for gaming. Anyone using a cloud provider that's running on Intel needs to worry about similar things.

What a nightmare...
I once acquired a bag of sugar that branded itself as "Carbon-free". No joke. I'm not sure how it stayed solid.
> Private sector pensions are for the most part long gone. Why should public sector keep them.

Because we don't want a race to the bottom?
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By hiring only women as a policy. People overlook it, and a lot of parents don't want their children changed by a man. Plus, insurance companies mysteriously raise rates when men are on staff. My college friend started a daycare for his church and encountered all this fun, and I had to deal with some of these issues when we were running daycares (excuse me, Early Childhood Education centers) in the 90's.

I would imagine after rejection after rejection men would find something else (insurance was my friends out). It still amazes me how many industries insurance companies seem to influence the hiring in.
Wow. I predict a coming rash of beaver fever. I've drunk out of a few mountain streams from time to time, but I wouldn't make a habit of it.
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Apparently zero effect: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=x86-PTI-...
>They are always trying to claim they are two more steps ahead than they really are.

Sounds like Google, Microsoft, and pretty much every tech startup between Palo Alto and Vancouver.

The difference is that Musk actually does something. Creates something. 90% of the other "tech" companies are just shoving around bits of other people's information and calling it innovation.
Should HN discuss this?
Seems like very relevant considering the future of news, etc.

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/03/my-life-as-a-new-york-times-reporter-in-the-shadow-of-the-war-on-terror/
Imagine seriously believing that guaranteed lifetime employment, very generous pension and health benefits (unheard of in the private sector), a well-defined career ladder as well as a six figure salary somehow aren't enough. Out of the other side of your mouth claim that these people are public servants selflessly working for the good of all.

The reality is that the compensation package for government workers primarily appeals to those with average to mediocre ability and a strong aversion to risk (often also a tolerance for boring, repetitive work and/or bureaucratic infighting). When was the last time you met a bright, creative superstar working at your local DMV office?

That's why the US Digital Service is actually a pretty good idea. Tours of duty are preferable to lifetime career hires. I'd like to see much more of the federal government adopt that model.
> People — including failed startup Juicero's cofounder Doug Evans — are gathering gallons of untreated water from natural springs, venturing out onto private property by night to get the water.

I am wondering, are there any rules/regulations for drawing water from a natural resource and selling it commercially? Because if there aren't any, wont that that lead to exploitation.
Spreading of information is a good thing.
I would love to see some SQL Server benchmarks on this patch
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Does the shtick of crying citation needed on well-documented public knowledge actually work, anywhere?
> Maybe Musk really is as skilled as all that.

Whatever are his contributions to the rocket design these days (it's obviously a SpaceX secret), one can't deny that his ideas for future of humanity are the raison d'être and the driving force behind the company. He obviously hires engineers smarter than himself to do the work; his own engineering skills only add to the credibility of the company and its goals.
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> Juicero's founder, Doug Evans, is a fan of raw water.

Of course he is.

Maybe he can "pivot" to selling a machine that squeezes "live water" out of used sponges.
Interesting point. I don't know if this has ever been tested in court, and I am not a lawyer, especially a consumer law lawyer, but I reckon the court system would probably handle it in some way. The ACL is written to be quite equitable, and courts have generally interpreted it as such.
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It doesn’t even seem to be a bug at all, but a side channel attack that would be almost expected in a processor with speculative execution unless special measures were taken to prevent it.

Indeed, this reminds me of cache-timing attacks, which probably can be done on every CPU with any cache at all --- and they've never seemed to be much of a big deal either.
Oh, too good for the neighborhood chicken wings and pizza place, huh?
It's not great. Better than the default windows one, I think a lot of people on OSX pick up iTerm2 instead.
How much of your time was spent on those 6 jobs? Could you see someone getting enough work in a city like Atlanta to support themselves as an extra full-time?
Do you go to the doctor when you don't need to? Going to the doctor is essentially free to me as well and I haven't gone in years.

Elasticity of demand goes both ways.

States like mine (Texas) have instituted tort reform. What happened? Insurance prices stayed the same and the insurance companies pocketed the difference. Also, hospitals had far less incentive to self-police their employees so we ended up with a lot of bad doctors and surgeons blithely continuing their malpractice.

As for scale: cost-sharing scales phenomenally well. Larger scale is an argument for national healthcare in the US.

I've never understood the perceived mechanism between the 'culture and demographics' argument.
This is what happens when your discipline values methodology above real insight.

If I were doing this analysis, I'd note that the first chart is probably consistent with male scores being drawn from one beta distribution (mapped to the interval (1,5)) and female scores being drawn from another.

But I'd stop there, and observe that any number of phenomena could generate results like that: the beta distribution is extremely common. To build a better explanatory model, I'd start digging into why people are voting the way they do. This means quite a lot of messy data analysis, and working at the level of individual user records. If you don't have that data there's not much more that can be said.

Instead, this guy makes some assumptions without any evidence, and takes the fact that his (complex) model can generate a common distribution as validation for his ideas.

Frankly, what bothers me about the article isn't that it's naive and a bit sexist. It's that untrained people can find this sort of analysis persuasive. Because hey, agent-based modelling is complex and impressive, right?
If you reverse the sexes in your response then there would be outrage. Boys need to see men interacting with men and women to pick up on the social cues.
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I feel like statements like this miss the point. Most of us are fully aware of this. But that doesn't change that the device is deciding when to send audio or not... something they can change at any time, presumably even without telling customers.
Yes, insofar as it matches the definition.

Does it harm anyone to offer advice of this sort? I think not.
>You lost me here. You have internet full of coordination tools if you really feel like boycott of echo should be coordinated, just set up a fb group :).

Boycotts are basically ineffective, especially the social media kind.[1] Why are unions effective at coordinating? Because there's a punishment if you don't coordinate (you have to leave.) Why are elections effective at coordinating? Because everyone reveals their preference all at once anonymously and the collective decision is binding. Why do I and my coworkers coordinate? Because I have a supervisor who will fire me if I screw up.

In this way I see your point is that we should only use coordination mechanisms which are basically ineffective. As soon as we approach a coordination mechanism which is effective (government) you start to condemn it.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/MLZ0bMu.png
Signal is useless for the only people it could be useful for. Most people don't need better-than-TLS security, and for those people Facebook Messenger or any number of other options are perfectly adequate. The people who do need better security are precisely the same people who a) can't afford to use phone numbers as IDs, not even burner phones, when they mean a hostile government who captures one person can immediately start tracing the location of all their contacts and b) can't afford to trust an unaudited server run by a company that could relatively easily be forced to cooperate with a hostile government (particularly when the encryption protocol uses a novel semi-TOFU construct that makes attacks a lot more plausible when the server is cooperating).

There are threat models where TLS is good enough. There are (mostly quite paranoid) threat models where GPG, for all its usability issues, makes sense. There is no threat model where Signal makes sense.

Finally, GPG's usability issues are contingent and fixable. Probably in GPG-the-program, and certainly without abandoning OpenPGP-the-protocol. Throw a bit of money at it, get an actual UX designer to spend a couple of months on a nice UI, and who knows where that would take us? Whereas Signals flaws are there by design.
I think it's fair to expect someone who wants to use the research to bolster their claims to highlight portions of it that are relevant rather than dumping a bunch of links (or posting an article and expecting someone to follow them all).
Sony got screwed so hard by copyright owners in the US on Betamax and DAT, that they decided to buy up movie/record labels and become a copyright owner themselves. This put them on the wrong side of the tech war and they got mired in the DRM bullcrap which made their music players a PITA to use.

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Would say no. INTC has not been hit yet from this. Cramer this morning indicated the issue is unsubstantiated.