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I feel ya there .... sometimes we simply refuse to successfully understand our own follies, especially as long as the Republican mindset is one where the belief is that the US has the "best healthcare delivery system" in the world, said most famously by John Boehner: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jul/...
That doesn’t really address what I’m saying. The ability to use a DC fast charger doesn’t help if there aren’t any to use. Last I looked, there were no cross-country routes available using non-Tesla fast chargers. You’d need to cross large gaps on 240V charging alone.

Edit: just to show what I'm talking about, here's what plugshare.com shows for CCS chargers in the middle of the US:

http://mikeash.com/tmp/screenshot_F67FD9DD-D048-43EC-8DDF-9E...

That gap in the Nebraska is 336 miles long. Utah to Colorado is likely to be quite challenging with the mountains. East of St. Louis is another tough area.

I think you could do the trip entirely on DC chargers if you took some of the legs really slow to extend range.
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I agree, if clearly identified as an ad, it isn't as terrible, but would still be annoying.

When I ask for, what I expect to be, a data-driven opinion about toothpaste from a device that is effectively my oven timer, I expect it to be honest!
I'm just curious how do you know that "Women are far more off in self-reporting their levels of attraction, arousal and the reasons for it" ?
Thanks! Appreciate the kind words
I’m a Silicon Valley engineer/founder who attends “light” versions of this: basically mini Burning Man-esque parties among trusted groups of friends, where “orgiastic” behavior is present, but not expected.

My only point is that not all similar events prominently feature the male/female power dynamic described in this article.
It's a simple reason: Monopsony

Power of collective bargaining drives the price down.

The AMA and other collectivizations of providers drive the price up (cartels). That's why becoming a doctor in the USA is such a long and hard ordeal, relative to other countries. And also why litigation is so high.

Oh and of course... THE PATENT SYSTEM causes the USA to pay for most of the innovation that scientists in the redt of the world are prevented from building upon with open source.
Might be pretty expensive to do that.
Part of it is because several of my family members have worked there, and, for the record, I totally agree with your characterization about them being blatantly about money. I feel like Microsoft is a bit more trustworthy because they haven't yet abused my personal information. I get the sense that things are slowly changing for the worse, and if it goes a bit further, I'll just switch to Clang and ditch Windows too.

I definitely don't trust Google, Amazon, or Facebook at all. I'm only on Facebook a few times a month, and only from my computer. Never from my phone. No way in hell I'd ever install the FB surveillance app. FB is on probation with the FTC until when? 2030? They're an evil bunch of jackasses.

IMHO, Amazon is the most sociopathic of the big four/five. They don't invade my privacy (because I don't let them), but I think they're pretty evil. I mean, Google is sort of soft evil whereas Amazon is WalMart level evil.
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>The point was that was state level...so other states could follow if they wanted.

When it comes to cost-sharing schemes the bigger the pool the better -- costs are more predictable the more people are in the pool.

I agree with the general idea that laboratory democracy is a good idea but health care costs, 'insurance' etc. are well understood and best handled at the largest level possible.

Hillary acknowledged problems with the ACA but believed that it needed to be patched, not re-written from scratch.

I agree. A few patches that would have a big impact:

A national public option to force competition (along with cross-state selling of insurance -- but not one without the other or at least that cross-state selling of insurance must be done across all states if offered that way) would go a long way to pushing competition and reducing perverse incentives that the ACA created with the 'profits based on percentage spent on care' scheme.

Redefining full-time employees as full-time equivalents for defining thresholds within the law. This was a flat-out mistake that pushed some employers to do some very silly things.

Create incentives for patients to shop around for the best cost of care.

Require some level of transparency in pricing even if it is only common treatments and tests.

The mandate would have to stay. The choice is, have a mandate and force people to buy insurance they need or don't have a mandate and force people who buy insurance to pay for the health risk of those who mistakenly believe they shouldn't have to pay for their own.
Correct, if he needed some cash freed up immediately he should cash out shares of an investment fund, not dump shares of the company he's CEO of.

And while the technical issue discussed elsewhere may play a role in people's minds, keep in mind that if it's only the CEO dumping stock he might be cashing out ahead of a #metoo
I bought one of these because it was on sale and seemed like it might be fun, but since setting it up I’ve hardly ever used it. It’s voice recognition is pretty amazing but I’m just much more likely to google on my phone or desktop if I want to know something.
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> set of confounders itself is a predictor of sex. This is a technique I've seen used by people who try to deny the existence of a pay gap.

This doesn't seem invalid? If for example 'wanting to spend more time at home'/'cares about team fit more than salary' is a predictor of gender, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be excluded from analysis.

What we care about is whether the pay difference is because of people treating women unfairly. If a different trait causes lower salaries in both men and women, but is more common among women, the problem is not a gender pay gap.
13" (what they call version 2 or v2) but not a ton of hours on it yet. When concerned with battery, my main use case is low brightness with text editing, reading, and/or web browsing. I think I can expect at least 6-8 hours of this activity, and maybe 4-5 hours of video watching on medium brightness. But not enough experience to confidently state these numbers.

A big question is if you'll want to stick with PureOS or install a different distro. So far I've given PureOS a shot, for fun and to see how I like it, and I'm used to Debian-based so it's okay although feels a bit dumbed down. What I don't know, is whether it's easy and likely-successful to install other distros -- it may be, I just haven't done research on that yet.
The privilege escalation is being fixed in software. The problem is that mitigation involves patching the kernel and that patch results in around 30% slowdown for some applications like databases or anything that does a lot of IO (disk and network). That's the big deal. Imagine you are running at close to full capacity after security fix reboot your service might tip over. It could mean a direct impact to cost and so on.
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With the latest speculation on H1B, I'm sure quite a few people would be considering jobs in Canada. What are some tech companies in Canada that are hiring developers?
> Like, culturally conditioned to be dismissive of success, always seeing something negative when people achieve big things

Sounds like HN: "Check out my cool new web app/hardware gizmo!" Army of critics arrive to poop on it
You misunderstood my post. No he doesn't need to listen. In fact, listening is the quickest way for him to lose his job. The fact that you even say this means you partially believe him, and that's a mistake on your part. The only signals intelligence this guy needs or wants is listening to his superiors, and his job is one-way data transmission from his boss to the rank and file. STRICTLY one-way (and trust me, it doesn't matter if his boss is Trump or Obama).

Of course he "talks" with staff and takes questions. Why ? Because despite his wages, he is not all that good at correctly transmitting information, so he is doing this so he might do his job better by having his team interpret his ideas, and try to clarify them to him by asking questions. This is done mostly to avoid the worst of screwups. Only questions that follow this pattern get answered, or even seriously considered (check those financial videos again, trust me you'll see this happen).

He does not have an opinion (I mean he does, but none that you'll ever hear). Remember that. You cannot ask him for it, you will never get an answer. And when you do, because there are amounts of alcohol that will make him divulge opinions, please don't start destroying careers (mostly your own, but you may drag others down) by telling other people what those opinions are.

He won't care about attrition until the ability of the organisation to carry out his boss's orders is in danger, or when his boss cares. Nothing other than that can make him care. But he's paid a LOT of money to make you think he cares.
I think it’s not just that.

For instance 20 years ago there was public phone booths everywhere. A kid would just need a few coins and the house number to do a call, now you’d need a cell phone, and giving one to a 5~8 year kid is still not practical.

Or I remember shopping at local shops enough to know their faces and names, or ask shop owner if the other kids where nearby. I don’t think my kid knows anyone other than the bakery people, because local shops have nothing for him at this point.

Same with police or church member perception, I think our generation is less OK to just say to a kid “if there’s any problem just trust the police”. It becomes a weird and complex message of what the institution’s goal is, what’s OK and not OK for them to do, what’s the warning signs, what to do in case stuff gets weird etc.

TL;DR: A lot of stuff changed in the last decades, we can’t just blindly do the same as before.
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$TSLA will sell a lot of cars this year, irrevocably altering the EV game. Price target $350 by Jan 2019.

But it pales in comparison to the watershed moment SpaceX and the entire spaceflight community will have. There is a real possibility for 28 launches, including two Falcon Heavy's. NASA TESS on track to discover an explosion in habitable zone exoplanets. Vector, Electron, TechShot and other private space data leading a push for commercial apps in space, including pharma, stem cells and materials foundries. And there is decent chance of someone landing on the moon for the first time in 45 years ;)

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Reddit banned salary negotiations because women were worse at negotiating.
Without iTerm, MacOS users would cry, believe me.
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>>If he knew about these issues

Its impossible for him to not know something that is this serious.

If he actually did knew about this, then this is a proof of some serious incompetence.
> males clearly rate females in a normal-distribution way, females highly skew it in favor of the more attractive males.

Yes. But males messaging females skew highly in favour of the more attractive females, while females messages males do so in a normal-distributed way.

So when OP asks "Why does it appear that the vast majority of women prefer the same small group of men?" the answer is simple: It's actually the other way around. 2/3 of men (a "vast majority") are messaging 1/3 of women (a "small group"). Women do not exhibit this behaviour. Those are the facts we are presented with.

Anything else is, as you put it, "mental gymnastics".
Facebook was far from international by default. They scaled very slowly, individual college by college (you needed an email address on a whitelisted .edu domain).
As a billion other people have already said, that all depends on their workloads. This isn't a 30% clockspeed deduction.
that's really dangerous, because the will of the people can get really hairy.

Besides, if the will of the people is to take care of everyone through social services, then why do you need a government to do it? It should just happen naturally. What you are saying, is that a few select people that are chosen by a popularity contest should be given the authority to make people do things against their will.
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Knowing that the general media and public are six months behind us is, itself, priceless information.
If you're concerned about the future of voice assistant technology, I'd encourage you to contribute to Free voice assistant projects like Jasper or Mycroft. With enough support, locally-hosted Free voice assistants could be a credible alternative to cloud-based proprietary products.

https://jasperproject.github.io/

https://github.com/MycroftAI/

Lots of related projects could also use your help. You don't need to be an AI genius - every FOSS project can benefit from help with debugging, cleaning up code and writing documentation. Mozilla Open Voice just want you to read a few sentences to help build their training corpus.

https://voice.mozilla.org/

https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

https://opennlp.apache.org/

http://www.nltk.org/
>It sounds like what you're saying is that people are too stupid to make decisions for themselves

In the prisoner's dilemma are the prisoners stupid? No, they're actually defined as rational. What makes them come to their collectively poor outcome is that they have no way to act collectively, they require coordination. Those prisoners could be smarter than you and me, they're still trapped by the rules of the system they exist in.

>If people are willing to trade their personal information for cheap, cool gadgets, then who is the government to step in to say "no, you're not allowed to do that"? By the same token, you could flip it around: could the government step in and say "you don't want this gadget that's always listening to you, but you have to have it because some group you don't agree with tells you to"?

Our own government has some problems with this but since we're being a bit high-minded here, let's ask ourselves what a democratic government ideally is. It's just a way for individuals to coordinate with each other.

Prisoner's Dilemma again. By market mechanisms, we're going to jail for two years. We may meet some strange definition of freedom but if we're both rational then we know we will never realize the option of serving lesser sentences. To me though that isn't real freedom so we can see then that a coordination mechanism isn't here to curtail freedom, it's here to grant it (it lets us both choose to remain silent.)

I believe the same things about markets/government. Why should we purposefully handicap ourselves to the individual realm stuck with Echo with ads when we can go to the collective realm to grant ourselves a better outcome.

>I want to be careful not to go too slippery slope, but should the government step in and shut down Google, because they exist to serve ads? What about Facebook?

If the people collectively decide that then yes.

>It's scary because once the government gets to decide what people should and shouldn't be allowed to use, or what products should or shouldn't succeed, it can be used as an incredibly powerful tool.

Well here let me rework this:

It's scary because once the people get to decide what people should and shouldn't be allowed to use, or what products should or shouldn't succeed, it can be used as an incredibly powerful tool.

You're right that is powerful, we should have that power.

>To me, a useful way to think of government is as a very sharp knife: it can be extremely useful in the right situations, but you can really hurt yourself if you're not careful.

Let me rework this also:

To me, a useful way to think of markets is as a very sharp knife: it can be extremely useful in the right situations, but you can really hurt yourself if you're not careful.
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Yes, but that wasn't the question.
"how much competence actually costs in the market now". This was a beautiful statement! I have worked with sooooooo many incompetent "leaders". I left my last role because the guy at the top was a phony, and did not have the emotional intelligence to control his arrogance, so he looked like a god damn fool in every meeting.
I am sorry, but this is utter crap. Who's perspective are you viewing this from, because it sounds racist.
Should the title be "legislate," not "legalise"? I know it's copied from the source, but it still seems a bit confusing / misleading.
He doesn't technically need it to run companies day to day, but he needs it to realize his visions. Two main reasons:

- More popular support means his visions resonate, and more people will start pursuing them too.

- More popular support means the market will be more receptive towards those visions.

Note that Musk doesn't care if it's SpaceX or Tesla that are the market leaders long-term. He cares that we go to Mars and get off fossil fuels in transportation, however that happens. Hence e.g. opening up Tesla patents.

RE your % score, I'd give a different breakdown, based on what are Elon's actual goals:

SpaceX: 40% (reusable, self-landing first stage done; Falcon Heavy yet to launch, BFR in the works)

Tesla: 80% (their latest cars might have problems, but they successfully cracked the car market and started a wave of electrification that's unlikely to stop now; Chinese companies alone will carry it forward)
> if you're going to invade privacy on a massive scale, you better be ready for the consequences

Consequences such as a $500 billion market cap[1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/28/facebook-touches-500-billion...
Who gets blamed if MoneyGram folds as a company since this deal was blocked? It seems like another pyrrhic victory for donald and his friends.
So why can't I build C++ as .NET?

Actually doing a big of searching I think you originally could but for some reason they removed it.
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Absence of evidence actually IS (an albeit weak) evidence of absence. That kind of stuff.
> On personal devices, protecting anything from the user is a backwards and broken model that doesn't respect reality. It's the user's device, they should be able to use it any way they want.

I want to be protected from myself. I want my mom to not have to think about how she's using her device in order for her data to be safe.

> What we really want to do, is protect the user's data from malicious actors, and getting in the user's way and annoying the crap out of them doesn't accomplish that at all (case in point: ransomware)

Ransomware (at the time of writing) doesn't impact locked down platforms like iOS.

I'm happy to lose that freedom in exchange for protection!
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You may consider it "improper", but actually young boys are provided with plenty of role models, they just happen to be female.
Yet they seem not to be so reserved about highly rating higher status men, just they're reserved about lower status men.
Are you saying somehow society makes women rate less attractive men even lower and more attractive men higher?

As in "Meh... this guy is a 7/10, but wait... ummmm society something something ... there, I'll rate him a 5/10 even though I think he's a 7/10"?
> a consistent reliable efficient health care system

what makes you think that this is reasonable for government to provide? How do you know that the era 1950-20xx is not an anomaly? If you look at the broad scope of history, governments are not very good at doing the things that you suggest they should be doing.
From what I have seen, admin is pretty lean at colleges and universities. Someone has to do all the work of deciding the curriculum, the change in fees, raising funds, awarding scholarships, recruiting and paying staff, coming up with programs and so forth.
<< This feels like getting all the disadvantages but none of the advantages.

I couldn't have said it better. It's funny because I'm totally cool with having an account provided it does things like gives me access to software, drivers, tools, backups, whatever. But yeah, I'm not going for it if it's just an excuse to vacuum up data. It's gotten to the point where I actively avoid companies/products that just don't get the message.

To this point, I switched from Google to Microsoft a few years ago because I really got sick of feeling like my personal data was just making them richer in exchange for nothing. Email and web apps aren't worth the loss of privacy.

At first Bing search was a bit weird, but then it turned out that it worked just as well as Google for most things, and better for some.
Liberal arts education is essential if our goal is to have a well-rounded, educated, ethical, and cultured citizenry.

But, of course, this would mean that the liberal arts would have to actually go back to teaching the Western canon, and not simply using their positions as educators
to repudiate Western and European art and culture at any turn, to radicalize students and spew their ideological fantasies, to engage in censorship and stoke racial tensions, and, this should go without saying, stop committing acts of physical assault, such as smashing people in the head with metal bike-locks, when they disagree with you (Eric Clanton, Tariq Khan, Eric Canin..etc).

These are just suggestions of course, I'm sure the enlightened intelligentsia will find its way.
I've found the search on the Echo is so bad it's almost invariably a waste of time since I end up taking my phone out and doing the search there anyway. But as the world's most expensive and convenient egg timer and lightswitch, it's a very helpful device. I can just tell alexa to set timers when I'm cooking, holler at it to turn the lights off when I leave, etc.
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I don't think we even know what the bug is yet, just lots of informed speculation...
Mean, median, mode, standard deviation, skew, etc. are all important measures. When people are talking about inequality (in any subject, not just here), they aren't likely focusing on just one of these, but on combinations of these.
He is a brilliant business man and gave all of the engineers at spacex the opportunity and freedom to achieve great things. For that he should be commended - we need more business leaders like him in this world! I think at the end of the day though in idolizing Musk you are taking away from the hard work and brilliance of all the other employees at his companies. America has this iron man style obsession with one guy changing the world by himself. But at the end of the day we achieve greatness by working together as a team.