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Newspapers and agencies issue retractions on stories all the time. Claiming that they are all fake news is massively disingenuous where you have other major media companies that don't make retractions at all.
That's less than two years away. I don't know how long it normally takes to ramp up production for a new car model, but it doesn't seem too bad to me.
I agree with most your grounding points but not with your interpretation. It sounds too risky of unnecessary apologism to me. I guess I feel I would have to question myself of fraud. This is in consideration of the incentive to justify immoral behavior, and the lack of evidence that more tribalism would have anything to offer society.

So, how do you reconcile with the apparent correlation between a lack of faith in philosophical ideals and dishonesty, neoliberalism, lack of nuance, late capitalist culture, etc.? Do you reconcile this with simple unfettered individualism? It seems to me that this sort of cartooning of Socrates is more than unnecessary; of course it isn’t provable and would undermine the already limited value it could otherwise have, and which it seems our society would do best to use make use of.
The article doesn't seem to even consider the possibility of assessing students in some other way than through standardized homeworks which are easily copied.

For example, individual projects where everyone in the class is working on something different; or at the other extreme, proctored exams.

(Of course, neither of these systems is entirely free from cheating, but the barrier is higher.)
I know that's a thing, but am here for years and never encountered it. When I don't know a word I look it up so can't say I've never seen it even if I don't remember its meaning.
I've been looking at a move to Portland from Chicago for the past year. I've never seen the show, I've lived in Chicago for the past 10 years.

( Online ) Portlanders love to say that people are moving there for the show, are openly hostile to the thought of people moving there, harass people online, and quote things like "Oregon is full" and for some reason seem to think their city is the most expensive in the United States.

You see things like people explaining they're moving to Portland from New York for a job, and people's advice will be: "HAH, good lock affording the rent!", when in reality, rent is much higher in Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, Denver, and the nice parts of Chicago.

I guess my point is: Portland is experiencing what these cities experienced a decade later. It sucks and it's wrong. But blaming a television show and harassing people for moving there isn't really productive.

> Tobias Read, the Oregon state treasurer, stood at a podium before news station cameras and a heaping display of cupcakes to applaud Portlandia for providing the city with $36 million in direct spending, 200 annual jobs, and $18 million spent on in-state goods to Oregon vendors. The show “increased tourism and our city’s notoriety,” he said.

I find it telling that city officials are thanking Portlandia for the tourism money.

There are a lot of good reasons for moving to Oregon besides a television show. Here are mine:

- Better housing. Sure, you can find pretty cheap housing in Chicago, if you're willing to ride the El to and from work at an hour a pop each way ( MINIMUM ). Living in the upscale neighborhoods of Portland cost basically the same amount as living in an upscale Chicago neighborhood ( AKA, has good proximity to work ).

- Less violent crime.

- Better climate. Last year I swore I would not live through another Chicago winter, they are absolutely horrible and never end.

- Proximity to nature. The midwest is boring for nature, especially around Chicago. It's cornfields and nothing else for miles and miles.

- Access to skiing and other active lifestyle activities.

- Portland is legendary for it's biking infrastructure and culture, and has one of the highest pedestrian commuting rates in the country.

- It has decent public transit.

- It's a smaller city, and is not a nightmare to traverse.

- My partner is an architect, and Portland is actually building housing like crazy.

For the sake of fairness, I'll list out the cons:

- Locals seem to be hostile to transplants

- VERY LARGE homeless problem. Not as bad as Los Angeles, Seattle, or New York, though. Problem with this is that you really have to live there for a while to understand the extent of the problem.

- Taxes are higher

- Smaller city, smaller tech scene, less job opportunities

- SAD amount of diversity, and an extremely racist past

- Much fewer days of sunlight.
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I'm not sure if you know how innovative the BMW i3 is. They decided to go for an entirely different manufacturing process using Carbon Fibre instead of traditional steel stamping and it's entire supply chain is built on renewable energy. That's a big commitment on BMWs part. Alas, the market didn't think of it the same way.
The i3 might not be a looker but it's probably one of the most innovative cars ever produced in recent history. Horace of Asymco fame did an entire series on the i3 in his Asymcar podcast.
Or causation in the other direction.
Maybe I'm being small-minded, but I strongly dislike using the word 'plagiarism' to refer to cheating on your homework by copying someone else.

To me, plagiarism is taking credit for someone else's ideas at their expense; it's a "sin" against the person being copied.

Copying someone else with their connivance, or paying some essay-mill writer to do your work for you, should be in the same category as taking a calculator into a mental-arithmetic test, not the same category as « My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed, when he finds out I publish first ».
This goes beyond Facebook too. Any service where a TOS can be violated gets violated. Every company I’ve been in has violated some TOS before to access or do things that were not allowed. It’s just the way things are in this industry.
Maybe have a separate autoplaying <audio> element, if it won't be blocked too
GM would only lease them, not let you purchase. When they repossessed them at the end of the lease, they would not let you purchase them; they then proceeded to crush any that were not sent to museums.

http://electrifyingtimes.com/ev1_crushed.html

http://electrifyingtimes.com/ev1crush.html
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So the solution is to just buy more money?
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I've just stopped reading anything on The Atlantic. Sites that do such things are complicit in this problem.
I worked with a 70 year old dev back in 2000 who was doing great as the company’s only skilled Java programmer.
This is the stated reason from the article, "... its current technology is not profitable enough to scale up for volume production" which was exactly the same reason that GM gave for cancelling the EV-1.

Which if you compare that to the state of the world in 2008 when Tesla launched its Roadster you can see the difference of "We can't buy anything to solve this problem" and "This is a problem, what needs to be created to solve it?" mentalities.

It is always a challenge at BigCorp to get them to actually create something new, they don't have to push the state of the art because they already have a profitable business. Sometimes this attitude is responsible for their demise.
As you know, such students are paying for the piece of paper which certifies that they learned something. Who's to say it doesn't work?
I'd imagine most of the firms ranking here are not reading the reports at all.
It's already made clear this law will hurt people. Also, the current law already allowed people to fight the abuses presented by this law. This will do far more damage.
They are paying for the piece of paper not for the content.
"well regulated" meant "well functioning". Like "a well regulated clock".

> There is nothing unconstitutional about repealing an amendment. The Constitution details the mechanism for amending it.

You really think you can get 34 states to vote to repeal something from our bill of rights?

If you are a democrat mastermind and want to do that then your best bet is to get more and more states created out of the blue states to get more than 2/3rd of the states to vote to repeal 2nd Amendment.
Correct! They rent out POWER8 systems: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/bare-metal-servers/power. POWER9 systems don't seem to be available (yet).

As for the future, I can't say much publicly (le sigh) but let me just say that personally I think future of power is bright, especially with cloud providers.
Requiring students to submit their VCS history along with the finished project would at least up the cost to the students for copy and pasting.

They even hint at that sort of solution in the piece by mentioning cosmetic changes to the files at the last minute.
Why would they re-engineer the the 3-series platform around an electrical drivetrain and make it look exactly the same?

Besides costing an inordinate amount of money, if they did it'd be completely anonymous and if it turned out not so great compared to a standard 3-series (handling, weight, performance) it would tarnish the entire line-up.
Aren't all modern cultures (with exception of "lost" tribes perhaps) amalgams of multiple historic influences.

It's the quintessence of culture to be a composite of prior cultural aspects.

It doesn't appear to be distinctly American in that it seems to be present in the other continental areas too?

For example traditional British chip shop food includes battered pineapple, and curry sauce and may just as well be cooked for you by a person born in China, say.
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In solid opposition to me, I assure you.
Let's ignore the obvious problem with facebook's business model. And also the massive, frequent, and pervasive invasions of privacy, even those that are not limited to intentional users, because we can network. Let's ignore the problems with algorithms choosing content that polarises opinions, feeds false information and intentionally misleads simply to keep people seeing what they like, to keep them logged in and earning facebook ad-revenue.

Let's ignore the issues because we can see photos of John's breakfast or Sarah's cat. Or we can all write about how we support a cause from the comfort of our homes.

Let's not bother to change the system of organisation as we watch it build-in censorship whilst also polarising further. It is time people stop ignoring the problems because they like some of the benefits. The thing must be measured as a whole and a giant surveillance network that only shows people what they want to see is not what I envisage when I imagine the future of communication.

Facebook strengthening its defences, the author's solution, addresses only one tiny facet of the issues with a business that is fundamentally built upon trading personal information and keeping readers hooked by showing them what they want to see. The argument that facebook is just a reflection of society misses the very point that it is one of the causes. It has driven polarisation, facilitated election meddling, relayed propaganda, invaded privacy, and created an intelligence dossier of the most unbelievable thoroughness upon every individual that has had contact with it or its tendrils.

It isn't part of a thriving network. It is strangling society and limiting discussion, all whilst behaving as a mass surveillance system and hostile intelligence agency. Perhaps we shouldn't just be cool with facebook because we can talk by typing and see pictures of sunsets.

I won't trade privacy for quick messages.
When you make loss at every vehicle sold, you don't really want to make them attractive purchases ...
There is certainly a relutance from car companies to start making electric cars and the proof of that is Tesla. They have been fighting hard for years to secure supply chains for their battery packs, what's stopping the current car companies of doing the same with their infinite cash reserves? Why are they only starting now when Tesla has been planning it for years?

Also, you are giving those numbers without any source in them, so I will call this a very deceiving comment. Electric cars are marginally less complex than a regular ICE car, which it makes them simpler and cheaper to manufacture.
Ok, she didn't have job options. That doesn't excuse her from not doing her job and getting someone killed.
Google must be sweating bullets right now. Every single Android app seems to require access to every single thing, and there are hundreds of thousands of them with a significant user base. Some do most certainly misuse the data they collect. Maybe a small percentage, but a small percentage of 100k is still a large number.
>This has been said many times, but it feels like all the manufacturers colluded to make EV cars extremely ugly and undesirable.

Yeah sure. VW takes their ICE models and equips them with an electric motor and battery. The reason why it doesn't sell is that it costs more than 2 times as much as the ICE model and EVs have an extremely low range.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OczqMbWB63I

These things are getting better every year. The latest e-golf already has twice the range of the first model at the same pricetag. In 2020 the range of the egolf will probably reach more than 300 miles and it's cost will go down.

Battery costs apply to every car company equally except luxury car manufacturers. It may look like collusion from the eyes of a conspiracy theorist but it's simple economics: EVs are too expensive.

Tesla gets a free pass nothing is "too expensive" in the luxury market.
You are describing the First Amendment, not the concept of free speech.
Yes, I understand.

My question is, what if GM had offered them for sale for $250,000 (I'm making up an obscene number) because they estimated that their service obligations would cost that much? How well would that have gone over with the enthusiasts?
The Secret Service combats counterfeit. (why?)
Do they read Miranda Rights to counterfeiters?
I dunno, it's the Secret Service.
Maybe that's why you do not hear often cases of counterfeit money.
Standardized homeworks as a simple check on learning with an individual or group project at the end has been my favorite way of learning.
Open Dev tools and do a trace? I'd like to see out of curiosity.
You keep saying “participant.” The law basically removes the word “participation” by defining it to mean things other than what everyone would consider “participation.”

You just have to be a knowing “facilitator.” Toyota can’t deny that it “knows” that it’s cars are used to “facilitate” drug deals. It’s not a “participant” in those drug deals, but the whole point of this law is to get rid of the “participation” requirement.
Here's the easiest solution: stop grading homework

Why judge student performance on something that they are using _to learn_? It doesn't make any sense.

Every student is basically competing with one another to get the highest GPA possible - if you're going to give them cookie cutter homework with solutions can be easily searched for on the internet _and_ can only bring their GPA down, then they're going to cheat. Plain and simple.

Give them homework and "grade it" to give them feedback, sure, but don't make it count.. that is, if the goal is to have students learn.
Super easy to make - look for "Golden Curry" in most Asian groceries. You will likely see more kinds in a Japanese grocery. Get some good rice while you are at it.

My daughter remarked that you can apparently put any random vegetables in Japanese curry and it still tastes awesome.
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Great thank you.

If the code isn't confidential I'd love to take a look, but understand if it isn't.
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The TOS is meant to be violated, so they can boot you at any point for any whimsical reason in the future.

If it wasn’t it would be enforced in the code
> "Then, we apply another filter, keeping only the cases that contain indisputable evidence — for example, hundreds of lines copied right down to the last whitespace error."

Sounds like they don't want to deal with plagiarism, if you can avoid it by simply making your copying "disputable".

MOSS is clever-- instead of doing direct textual comparison, you compare streams of tokens. This means that even if a student reformats the whitespace or renames all the variables (a common obfuscation technique), the same stream of "TOKEN ASSIGN_OP TOKEN LPAREN TOKEN COMMA TOKEN RPAREN" will exist. TMOSS extends this to snapshots of code as a student develops it, which is apparently 2x more effective!

This author also delicately avoids the cultural side to plagiarism-- many students come from backgrounds where "group work" is common, and passing classes is a communal effort, including homework. It's an unfortunately common mistake to think the grade is what matters, not the fundamental skill development.
What about the logs? Do companies like AppDynamics, Datadog support self-driving cars yet? Any companies out there providing a platform to do this? So important for debugging, auditing, compliance, legal, etc.
There is also (3) different initial state. If for instance schools in areas where majority of black people live are lower quality. Food. Or perhaps the presence of crime. Culture of disdain for education might be a thing as well.

These are institutional causes similar to (1) that are not racism but demand an institutional solution too.
it's like this: if you were in a super performant class where everyone read all the teacher's material supposedly until they knew it perfectly, then you would expect that there would be no correlation between the number of times the public class into is read and performance, as you expect everyone to be really performant and read it enough times. You would expect that for such super performant students, the only relevant info would be what they get elsewhere, because that's less obvious than studying the class material, which everyone is expected to already know perfectly.

Turns out maybe the students aren't actually that good at knowing if they read the material sufficiently well, and you can get information about who will do better at the test just by looking at who looked at the class material the most.

The surprise is that the students are worse then we thought.
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Speaking of cultural language differences, is it OK for an English CEO to say "cunt"?
Sure! But the method of learning doesn't have to be the method of assessment. In fact, as pointed out upthread, it shouldn't be.

When students are doing homework you want them to form collaborative study groups or freely consult any other source, if it helps them learn. Fear of plagiarism is antithetical to that.
Thanks for sharing. Studying Russian has helped me notice interesting patterns in languages. Where there is much friction (due to heavy usage, difficult pronunciation, or both) languages tend to break rules to make things easier to say.

For example, it's trivial to conjugate a verb like "контролировать" that you might only use occasionally, but verbs that you say dozens or hundreds of times a day, like "идти" become increasingly irregular.
> Perhaps better is something where anybody signing away the right to sue over discrimination has to do it under the supervision of the state's workplace anti-discrimination regulator? That would remove the information asymmetry that the employer has here.

Please, no. I can already predict the outcome: government bureaucracy slows down the whole process to a standstill, corruption/kickbacks become the norm. Meanwhile, employees still keep getting screwed over.
There is a video called Humans Need Not Apply [1] that explains the risk around mass unemployment and validates some of the concerns.

In this case, simply replacing a few tedious and error prone tasks probably won't get us to 45% unemployment.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
The type of worker who is being displaced by a scanning robot isn't normally the type of person who is going to be "curing cancer". This is more of a socioeconomic thing rather than any sort of innate ability to have the training/skillset, or even be in the right place at the right time to have a breakthrough. You say that a human can be freed from having to work when a robot takes their job, but the motivation to work is still there - people need to eat, take care of kids, obligations, etc. Employment is a means to an end.

It's almost impossibly hard to describe the different realities that people from different social networks/classes inhabit - I mean, completely alien realities to each other. Deborah Espinoza is worried about robots taking people's ability to earn bread, and the response is "Let them eat cake".
They're very frustrating to interview.
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What does any of that have to do with authenticity of Tex mex?

Cal mex is great. Just don’t call it Tex mex.
It also seems massively overpriced. $99/user/month? Pff. No one is going to pay that. Certainly not large enterprise businesses.
Right, but Tesla lost a big pile of money on the Roadster and the Bolt is reasonably comparable to the Model 3. GM isn't generations behind Tesla, they are sitting there forcing Tesla to execute or die.
This is usually the case. Retooling an assembly line is a ton of work, and NOT producing at scale is impossible for modern, highly automated car factories like VW, Mercedes or BMW own.

Producing 100 cars is simply not possible in these factories, because it would mean massive losses to the factory owner.

Also, car manufacturers do not want one supplier for a part, they want several. Mostly as a backup and also to make sure they are not under any price fluctuations because they have more leverage over the parts supplier.

Making cars is a very, very thin margin bussiness, especially with cheaper cars like the toyota aygo, fiat panda etc. Minutes of downtime in a factory could mean having to sell a ton of cars at a loss to make up the cost.
Is this available for Stash/Bitbucket as well?
For intro-level CS courses, neither one works all that well. You can do that in more advanced (but still undergraduate) courses, but for beginner-level you IMHO need the feedback loop of regular homework. It doesn't have to be strictly graded, but it basically has to be there and at least some enforcement for it actually being done (e.g. handing in homework is required, but it's not a problem if it is doesn't actually work).

Coming up with hundreds of different small projects to e.g. get people to understand pointers isn't very realistic, and if you only test them in exams you're missing critical feedback both for the teachers and the students before it is too late.
This is certainly the position of the NRA, but it is not a position that has been leading to good results for society here, up to now.
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I see this comment all the time, what people often fail to realize is that if you won't turn off your ad-blocker, the website doesn't want you. You cost them a small amount of money to deliver the content (bandwith) and they invest a modest capital into creating the content (paying writers, etc), and you offer nothing in return.

This doesn't mean you have to stay; if this behavior annoys you, don't read their content. But don't complain that their website is "sending you away", because that's exactly what they want. You laid out your demands (ignore the fact that I'm using an ad-blocker), and they're showing you the door.