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>The US has extremely low tariffs and protectionism against foreign participation in its economy

That's historically, if not presently, 100% wrong.

Protectionism in the United States is protectionist economic policy that erected tariff and other barriers to trade with other nations. This policy was most prevalent in the 19th century. It attempted to restrain imports to protect Northern industries. It was opposed by Southern states that wanted free trade to expand cotton and other agricultural exports (...)

In today's age the US is still highly protectionist, according to Global Trade Alert the US has adopted over 1000 protectionist measures since the Global Economic Crisis in 2008, more than any other country since. (...)

According to Michael Lind, protectionism was America's de facto policy from the passage of the Tariff of 1816 to World War II, "switching to free trade only in 1945, when most of its industrial competitors had been wiped out" by the war. (...)

According to Paul Bairoch, since the end of the 18th century, the United States has been "the homeland and bastion of modern protectionism". In fact, the United States never adhered to free trade until 1945. A very protectionist policy was adopted as soon as the presidency of George Washington by Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury from 1789 to 1795 and author of the text "Report on the Manufactures, 1792 "which called for customs barriers to allow American industrial development. This text was one of the references of the German economist Friedrich List (1789–1846). This policy remained throughout the 19th century and the overall level of tariffs was very high (close to 50% in 1830). The victory of the protectionist North states against the free trade states of the South at the end of the Civil War (1861–1865) perpetuated this trend, even during periods of free trade in Europe (1860–1880).[5]

Beginning with the "Report on Manufactures", by the first US Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, the United States became the leading nation opposed to free trade. The report advocated measures to help protect infant industries, including bounties (subsidies) derived in part from those tariffs. Hamilton explained that despite an initial “increase of price” caused by regulations that control foreign competition, once a “domestic manufacture has attained to perfection… it invariably becomes cheaper.”

(...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectionism_in_the_United_St...

In other words, "Do as I say, not as I do", or at best "Now that I don't need to do that anymore, you shouldn't do it either, even though you're at the stage where I was then".
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That's fair. Did you check out "Media Composer | First"? I think that's free
True, but clearly the marketing page of a feature service for a major cloud vendor should be accessible to as many as possible. There's no real reason something as simple as an audio player to play samples doesn't work well on all browsers.
No he dismissed a publisher because they published a stupid idea
You were always the product, not the consumer.
Would be interested in finding this out as well and have been unable to find a good source of benchmarks.
I think this might be the bursting of the Silicon Valley's self driving car bubble. People are starting to realise tech is nowhere near to make self driving cars feasible on scale. We still might be decade or more away from tech being advanced enough to consider going in this direction.
At this point we really don't have enough information to know what happened other than the car hit and killed the pedestrian. We don't know how or if this dash cam video played into the control systems of the car. The accident is tragic and of course should be looked into. The NTSB is investigating[0] and I assume will have access to a lot better information than we have at this point, including all of that you're interested in. Lots of arm-chair quarterbacking at this point, given the paucity of information available right now.

As for "I honestly don't know why this view seems to be so unpopular here", there are opinions all over the map, including those very similar to yours. This discussion has been going on for days in multiple submissions, and again, based on very little information.

[0]: https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20180320.as...
I agree with that actually. The task /as defined now/ is impossible for a human, but yes, actually designing it for human psychology would make it better. A great idea I saw on another comment thread was to keep safety drivers busy by giving them a task like labelling objects on the road as pedestrians, cars etc. Even if it is not that useful, it means their eyes will be on the road when it counts. I mean, we all do that when we do normal driving on boring roads, don't we, try to become more observant, count silly things, to fight boredom?

Pretty sure Uber doesn't give a damn and they see the safey drivers as window dressing. My bayesian gut tells me it's more likely the safety driver program is systemically weak, not that this guy was a huge outlier.
Waymo is already operating self driving cars without a safety driver moving people around Chandler.
So I guess that self driving cars are already here.
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Perhaps I missed it but can someone explain why the NTSB is getting involved? Was it at the request of some official?
Someone actually coined the C10M problem a while back [0]. It looks like it hasn't been updated in quite a while, though.

http://c10m.robertgraham.com/p/blog-page.html
I think the most uncomfortable part that people won't bring up is the fact that cars are essentially high speed, high weight metal death machines on wheels.

Just a quick Google search and the first results give me this info:

>Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day. An additional 20-50 million are injured or disabled. More than half of all road traffic deaths occur among young adults ages 15-44.

From this page: http://asirt.org/initiatives/informing-road-users/road-safet...

Of course unmanned driving tests will happen at a very, very small fraction of the amount compared with manned drivers we have to pull stats from but I don't think it will take long, if the unmanned tests persist enough to conjure up the required amount of data needed to make a legitimate comparison to prove that unmanned driving will be markedly safer.
Yeah, that's why I just use the mobile website. Does everything I want without giving it wide-ranging permissions to my phone and data
I had to then tell them that this person still worked there.

The old IBM story is worth mentioning in relation to this:
http://www.mbiconcepts.com/watson-sr-and-thoughtful-mistakes...
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US$150 a month for family of three, to cover if I want to go private and be served immediately.

Otherwise I can go to our public healthcare system which is good and pretty much free but may have a waiting period for not so urgent care.

I don’t know why some Americans hate this. It’s not either/or. We have both public and private healthcare, use both, and our taxes are not insane to pay for it (33% income tax at top tier).

Example: Paid all of US$50 for all the medical scans and pre-checks over 9 months, birth and 3 day hospital care for my recently born son. Parking at the hospital over those 3 days was more.

However: Dental care after 18 is not free, and is closest to the American system. And it is also insanely expensive here. Looking at a few grand for basic procedures.

Disclaimer: New Zealand.
A guy managing 25 million isn't exactly a "major hedge fund guy"

Unless there was a typo in the article I read
They disingenuously claim it has roots in Latin without mentioning LotR at all:

https://www.palantir.net/blog/palantir-philosophy-or-what-s-...

Even if it does, and I'd love to see more details about that (Google translates 'openly' as 'palam'), it's clearly a LotR reference.
Depends on your definition of fraud: IPO's were once considered a scam on the ignorance of the general public, until the financial market lost its scrupules.
Sparbuch is the German word for a savings account. The idea behind the name is as follows:

A credit institute doesn't store your current balance, but keeps a list of deposits and payouts, which can be used to recalculate the current balance (or any balance from the past).

In the same way, an event store does not store the current state, but keeps a list of events, which can be used to recalculate the current state (or any state from the past).
Which implies all rights are reserved and no one may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from the work, which is clearly what the developer wants.

He even took the time to let developers know they assign all rights to Wonder Unit when the contribute with a CLA: https://cla-assistant.io/wonderunit/storyboarder
How would have helped in this case where an assisted driving system, allegedly, caused a fatality?
For assisted driving systems the driver is always in charge and I think that we already have mandatory tests for the drivers.
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I have a 4kw IPG laser. It cuts through 1/4 steel plate with ease, unless there is a piece of tape or spray paint on the metal. It can't cut that! it has to do with how the wavelength of the light couples with the material. (I am not a laser engineer, I am the customer)

The 4kw power supply only is $128,000 if you want a cost reference,(just the power supply - motion control, cutting head and chiller are extra). It is an 8 module unit of 500 watts each, that can be powered down to 50w each if wanted, with full frequency and duty cycle control of the beam. It is about 48"x48"x18" and plugs into a 460v 30A 3Ph circuit. There is a chiller the size of a refrigerator to keep it cool.

100kw like in the article would cost roughly $3.2M for the light source only.

There were 20 kw lasers mounted to 7 axis ABB robot arms when I visited the IPG factory in November, being used for welding. The fiber optic cable was the size of a garden hose and terminated at the end of the robot arm in a tool changer mount. It could tool change from cutting laser head to welding head.
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Your sentiment is absolutely correct and it doesn't have to be constrained to a week. I would say a couple more incidents over the next year or so and the public will shut this tech down. Those of us in high tech may think self driving cars are super cool and urbanists may think they will solve the worlds housing problems but to the public at large, self driving cars are a curious novelty. Once a curious novelty has the capability and propensity to kill, it becomes a public nuisance and will not be tolerated.

Eventually, autonomous vehicles will come around but in a much more measured and cautious deployment, as opposed to the VC cash fueled headlong rush we are currently experiencing.
I used to think this way until I started working with someone who was nearly always the one who broke it. At some point we just had to face the fact that his work was unreliable even after significant mentoring.

If the tasks were difficult that would be one thing, but I'm talking about stuff like committing code to prod that was clearly never even executed once.
For me, the problems with LastPass are that they require you use their cloud services, and you can't really do anything at all with LastPass unless you're online and using a browser.

In contrast, 1Password is a local application with browser integration, and a local password store. So, you can use it with a browser if you want, but you can also use it across other applications on the system. And since the password store is local, you don't have to be online.

Yes, 1Password does offer their own cloud sync services that you can use if you want, but it is not mandatory, and they offer multiple alternatives if you choose.

I think LastPass probably offers better tools for Enterprises and maybe also teams, but that's not the particular use case asked for here.
>China's territorial expansion in the South Pacific and support of anti-American political parties in e.g. Cuba and Venezuela

Given 100+ years of US intervention in Latin America and enmity towards Cuba and Venezuela, they'd had to cherrypick a lot to find "non anti-American" parties to support there. And if they found them, they'd usually not be very popular either.

>is certainly enough to warrant Stephen Colbert's suggested title "frenemy", not to mention their continued international temper tantrums over the status of Taiwan.

Well, Taiwan had been part of the Chinese state for a millennia before the 20th century (almost the whole US-existance of centuries officially, settling for a millennium or so) -- forgive them if they have "temper tantrums" for it still.

It's funny how one nation is OK to go all around the world kicking doors down half around the globe when it's annoyed (or when it has "interests") and another is scolded for having "temper tantrums" for a historical part of its own country.
I don't know. Where I work no discernible pattern can be found with the "what" that broke.

It's always the same f*ing people that break it though!
From the article:

>Under pressure from cross-dressers, Facebook said it would relax the 'real name' policy and allow people to use aliases, but only if they are generally known by those aliases or if they were victims of certain types of abuse or stalking.

I fail to see what he "should have said" instead, and I don't see where confusion could arise other than the fact that trans & abuse victims were affected as well.
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At that point of paranoia, wouldn't it be better to just compile the XNU kernel for a different brand of phone?
Until a license is declared, this is (c) Wonder Unit, All Rights Reserved, which, unless I'm mistaken, is the authors intent for now.

From Github on licenses:

> You're under no obligation to choose a license. However, without a license, the default copyright laws apply, meaning that you retain all rights to your source code and no one may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from your work. If you're creating an open source project, we strongly encourage you to include an open source license.
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I've read that Carr's business expanded to several other vices. The two I know of are alcohol abuse, and overeating. What I've read about them makes me think of the story from WWII, placing armor on areas of planes that were _not_ getting shot, instead of the areas getting shot. It is only the planes that came back to be repaired that got shot in superficial locations. Others got shot where it counted, but couldn't report that information. It is the misuse of a heuristic long enough to reinforce that heuristic as "proper".

I've read reviews about the alcohol techniques and the dietary techniques as being nothing more than "just stop drinking" and "just become a vegetarian". But I've also read reviews of the very same books that the sound like the reader had the same experience I did with quitting smoking.

So maybe the bad reviews are just the people who the concepts didn't make sense to, and just like every other person who has ever come along to get them to stop this behavior, they shut down and clung to the addiction's false security, rather than be berated and belittled as a brainwashed zombie who has made an incredibly long chain of terrible mistakes to the point they have stockholm syndrome.

The good reviews are people the concepts did resonate with, as evidenced by their elation due to not paying for the opportunity to kill themselves any faster than absolutely necessary.
Read this thread. Even though I've always known that this was all stored it's still eye opening to see it methodically laid out:

https://twitter.com/iamdylancurran/status/977559925680467968
In a few years time we may look at the confluence of events as the beginning of the pricking of the bubble.
... besides which, mitmproxy (and its partner mitmdump) are scriptable and extensible in ways Charles simply isn't.
Sweden's (though it's not a .gov)

https://sweden.se/
> "tech is nowhere near to make self driving cars feasible on scale"

To be more specific, Uber's tech is the one that's nowhere near feasible. According to recently leaked data, Uber's self driving system is literally orders of magnitude more failure prone than Waymo's[1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/technology/uber-self-driv...
If you think high deductible encourages overuse, what kind of behavior do you think zero deductible encourages?
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Wow hahaha. First time I've ever upvoted a comment purely 100% for humor. This really is a hilarious moment in the software news cycle.
It seems I was conflating that analysis with Moody’s downgrading them.
For someone who is very much on the outside of understanding this situation, if you think you know enough to comment on it overall, would you say that they are mishandling it due to generally misunderstanding the gravity of the verdicts they are handing out or is it more to do with not precisely understanding the technology, what goes into creating such technology, how technology is propagated and improved, and how that diaspora of code and information winds up becoming the open or closed source "fabric" of what we know as computing today?
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There’s excellent discussion about the accident at the Tesla forum. [1]

The big take-away from their research is that particular exit-only left-lane (which is one of two side by side carpool lanes) is poorly marked, has been consistently gotten worse as changes have been made to the road over the last several years, does not have proper lane markings (missing chevrons in the non-lane), routinely has cars cutting right across the gore point (to the point where there are dash cam videos of almost accidents at that exact point linked in the forum) and, most damning of all, the resettable safety cushion device [2] which protects the gore point had already been hit just recently and there’s evidence it had not been reset when it was hit again by the Model X, which meant the X suffered a direct impact with a narrow slice of concrete.

If anything I think NTSB should be investigating
Caltrans for this one.

[1] - https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/model-x-crash-on-us-...

[2] - https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/posts/2636752/
That's the grammatically correct place to put the comma. Fairly sure you're actually grammatically required to have a comma there.
It would never happen because FAA. Taxis on the other hand are regulated on a state by state and even town by town basis.

Anyway, not much blood to squeeze out of that stone. A 747 fits about 400 passengers and only needs 2 pilots. Doubling or halving the pilot salary will not make a noticable difference in ticket prices.

I'm not sure what the main costs of air travel are, but unlike taxis, it ain't the drivers. I would guess fuel?
This may be true in the USA, but doesn't necessarily reflect reality in other countries.
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Hang on, I use componentWillReceiveProps in just about every large non-function component I build.... I just counted 50 times in one of my applications.

and its going as soon as V17? Too early.
How many other car manufacturers have had accidents investigated by the NTSB?
Here’s a HN post from 2010 drawing the comparison between Forth and Factor:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1623697
Other companies that Uber and Waymo are working on this, and most don't have Uber's toxic culture.
That definitely sounds more substantial and concerning.
Started working on a project about three weeks after I began learning the basics of Python. I reached the level specified after about a year. I'm self-taught, so I'd guess that I learned more quickly and less efficiently.
I think the point of articles like this one is to raise the question of whether autism as it is currently diagnosed in young children is actually only diagnosing "male-pattern autism." By looking at adult female cases, where the subject is able to reflect on their childhood and their late diagnosis, we might be able to formulate better screening for children so that the ratio isn't as skewed.
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Except it is the law now and then that APIs aren't copyrightable according to the court that's generally supposed to handle such things, in this instance The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. They've ruled plenty of times on the matter, and have developed decades of case law stating that implementing APIs is totally kosher. Sony v. Bleem is great example. There the appeals court ruled that not only could Bleem ship a PS1 emulator with reverse engineered APIs of the kernel (explicitly as a commercial venture even!), but they could port it to a competitor's game console (the Dreamcast), and use Sony's IP in screenshots.

But, because Oracle v. Google case had an ancillary patent question in an earlier appeal, the appeals are instead going to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. This court is really only supposed to answer patent questions. The CAFC can't set precedent in these matters, and overwhelmingly defers to the district courts' precedent. Bot for some reason they have chose to ignore all of that this time and make their own, fresh (and super weak) precedent that only applies to copyright cases with patent questions.
Sure and those people exist. However what you're really looking for is remorse + understanding of the magnitude of the issue.

If you have those two things then someone is already motivated to learn from what happened and will probably never make that mistake again(which are the large majority of engineers in my experience).
Sucks that more and more 3rd party apps are adding pinning to their code so you can't sniff their traffic. This is a great tool for first party debugging though :) Nice work Charles!