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A few mistakes along the way? He's fucking delusional, and mostly works hard taking credit for the work of other people, and for other people's money (you don't get to be a billionaire any other way). He peddles a greenwashed variant of your run of the mill rocket age fantasy that engineering types get all teary eyed about. And hey, If you like accusing people of obeying Godwin's law, now's your big chance, because I'm about to quote Mein Kampf:

>All this was inspired by the principle — which is quite true in itself — that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.

>It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.

>For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes.

If any of this upsets you, it's because you bought the big lie. People who care about sustainable transport ride bicycles.
I emailed him a few times about the reverse-engineering effort for the old Battle.Net games (PVPGN)

He's a really nice, approachable guy as well. He was quite impressed at how well the program worked, even with how old the games were
Depends on the printing, some would.
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For the first time in 11 years I'm thinking of switching off T-Mobile after relocating to Chicago. Much of my day is spent in the loop and despite their best claims buildings are a bane.

Can anyone recommend a carrier with better QOS here or is this just inherent to my new life in a giant city? I'll get over it and adapt, just keeping my options open.
Nice. I don't recall having a bad experience with ride sharing in Toronto :)
> Is anyone else living this same depression cycle?

I can understand why you want to ask this... but the answer isn't going to be helpful. If you are depressed and thinking of killing yourself, get professional help. Now.
That’s fair, but at the same time, nobody can diagnose addiction over the internet. There’s just too much critical context missing.

On top of that, as someone who has gaming as their primary hobby, seeing questionable armchair diagnosis brings back to memory shades of the anti-game hysteria that plagued the late 80s into the 90s. The feeling is decidedly “oh god not this shit again”. I’d be willing to wager a lot of the “Nintendo generation” that grew up on games is going to have a visceral reaction to what appears at first glance to be another attempt at demonizing them and what they do for fun, let alone the developers.

Put another way, if Tetris had been released today, I’d expect people to start banging on about addiction and how the developers are doing something wrong by releasing something so "adddictive". That deeply annoys me.
Musk is not dumb enough to think that an all-company "internal" email would not leak to external media.
Probably a former cab driver...
The problem comes down to the engineers and researchers involved.

As an INDUSTRY, we have some very important decisions to make, one of which is, "will we work on this type of system knowing full well what it will be used for?"

Yes, everyone has their price, but the fact remains that the tools are nigh useless without the expertise of the knowledgeable people to integrate and fine tune the final product. If there is enough ethical backlash by we tech people, the progress any government makes can be set back decades.

It can't be stopped at this point most likely, as the data and initial research is out of the bag as it were, but it does"t have to be carried one inch further.

Personally, I won"t touch it. No benefit is worth the risk of this type of system being leveraged against a population. I've fully thought through the security, search and rescue, administrative, etc... applications, and as cold as it may sound, it is not worth it. The invasion of privacy, the chilling effects put on public discourse, the enabling of active population social engineering through ubiquitous surveillance and negation of dissidents is not a legacy worth having anything to do with.
The commenter almost certainly has no idea (or more likely, chooses to ignore) the operational infrastructure and excellence it takes to scale a marketplace like Uber's to 4 billion rides, as fast as Uber did it.

Any hot-take that centers around "It's just an app that a couple of guys wrote in an afternoon with some underpaid drivers doing all the work" is someone arguing in bad faith (and I suspect the person is well aware of it). There is a ton that goes into scaling a marketplace in general - let alone an on-demand one with thousands of corner cases, real time demand forecasting, real time fare calculations, real time capacity planning, customer support operations, etc.
Do they stop the fare when this happens, and/or do you get out and end the ride?
Yeah but... that means the people who do take on this work will be the zealots who never doubt what they're doing. That's not to say that non-zealots should take on this work to keep the zealots out. I'm just saying that we're screwed so long as there are no laws prohibiting governments for doing this sort of stuff, because there will always be devs willing to use their powers for evil.
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I don't have a lot of experience here and an advice from someone in this community would mean a lot. I got an offer from a company with 40,000 stock options (right now its ~1$). The company is a late stage series D big data as a service company. Assuming it has an exit, how much realistically I can expect the stock price to go when it exits (IPO/Acquisition). What factors do I consider in the limited information thats available? If there is more information available, how can I research it?
Everyone's reaction to this seems to be "He is crazy / paranoid". He gave very specific examples of things this person did. If you were someone with a large position against Telsa, or a competing manufacturer, or an oil / gas company finally picking things up after a terrible oil price collapse, yeah maybe it makes sense to go mess things up subtly enough that the company slips a little bit closer to bankruptcy? I'm not saying I 100% believe this theory, but when you're working at this level as CEO I feel like you have to at least consider the possibility.
> Often manifests itself in things like unwelcome pedantry.

You callin me a nerd, Tycho?

So, broadly, I can agree that a tendency towards escapism is what would make someone develop a "gaming disorder". And perhaps video games are the pinnacle of what our culture can offer as the richest form of escapism.

But I still don't think that's enough to draw a categorical line between the vices through which escapist tendencies become pathologized. It seems to me the solution to the mentation of escapism is to reinforce what you appeal to as "anti-nerdiness": pursuing meaning in a world you can (and do) fully occupy with the senses. And I agree there too.

Noting the bit at the end of the article about how terribly few people manifest a "gaming disorder" is what I'm not pleased to hear. Calling it a "gaming" disorder makes it seem like if you get rid of games, you've solved the problem. But obviously that's not necessarily the case, and so I think it's a useless distinction which potentially obscures the real issue.

If the WHO is making an indictment against the entertainment industry to formally warn against the ethical risks of making games which exploit escapist tendencies, that's fine. But I don't think there's actually much of a problem here that couldn't already be meaningfully identified as an addictive tendency.
How many hours hours of programming can you do? For me, it's aroud 4 hours (sometimes 6). Programming is hard and needs a huge amount of concentration.
Dying a slow death. Sports is all about the stories, the personalities, the names, the drama, the tribalism. If you can't license the big teams or big competitions and have to rename everything (which PES is famous for) you just can't compete with the same feeling. And game quality wise they don't stand out anymore like they did for a few years to compensate.

I used to play sports games 90% singleplayer or with friends in the same room. The fact you had PES and your friend had FIFA didn't matter much, even if one game sells 20% and the other 80% of marketshare, they can co-exist because when you play together, it's on one machine, the controls are just slightly different but they have quicksettings for those. Now that it's all gone online, network effects take over. If you want to multiplayer you both need the same game, and the dominant market share game will thrive while the rest basically offers singleplayer only + multiplayer mostly against a small community of mostly strangers. That's also partly why PES hasn't been doing very well the past few games I think.
Japan's justice system isn't all it looks like on the surface.

They have a habit of forcing confessions out of suspects [1], sexual assault and harassment is massively unreported, and murders are often ruled as suicides if there are no clear suspects.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20810572
Landing two rockets at the same time also strains credulity. Using it as defense Is failure of imagination
Agreed. This isn't like a typical silicon valley startup which is hoping that their business becomes profitable once it reaches scale. This is our product does not work to the specifics required by the federal government but we sold it to consumers anyways.
Spoiler: that has been the number one question asked by sentients since sentience was a thing.
That’s just a way to get the State to sponsor unnecessary treatment in order to steal more money from taxpayers.
> Maybe mindfulness just gave them some perspective on how pointless it was.

"One hundred and one Amazon Mechanical Turk workers whose
location was set to the United States took part in exchange for $1.35 each."
But there's more to the name. Ironically, large parts were roman territory, once. They did trace their ancestors back to ancient heroes and kings, too, even if that might be seen as hyperbole now, it continued a roman tradition.
iPhones, model hasn't mattered. Flat Iron + GPS = location lottery for me anytime of the day.
> No patients were harmed.

That's not the point. The point is reckless endangerment of patient and there are laws for these kind of thing. You break it and you pay for it.

It's like saying robbing a bank and no one got killed for it. They got the money back. Just let the robber go.

If they can get away with bilking investors while putting a defective medical device on to market you mind as well have a unregulated medical device market. FDA and John Carreyrou got them.

> Unskilled investors losing a lot of money is, in fact, a very good thing for the Silicon Valley ecosystem. It's how bad influencers are flushed out of the system.

The end does not justified the mean.

Just cause Thanos saved the universe by killing half of all living thing doesn't make it good.
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But no one's going to forget. Every time I mention FP, I have to be on guard for some OO stan showing up demanding that I acknowledge and "not forget" that OO has in fact "done things".

Even this example where someone says something totally unrealted to OO, someone felt compelled to leap in and say something as unrelated as, "OO too! Here's a barely related OO project I found to be clever! Please don't forget about us."

Let me just remind you how this went:

Person A:

> The essence of FP is that if you apply a bit of cleverness and engineering, you can replace things that look like they would need custom language features

Person B:
> Same for OOP, example from 1988:

No one even implied that this was exclusive! But certainly other folks have used the word "defense" for that post, perhaps not even realizing it. As if the existence of other paradigms somehow threatens the importance of OO.
This all great advice :) I also find taking long walks with zero technology and just thinking about things

-makes me feel much better
-relaxed
-helps recovers the joy of thinking deeply

I don't think I'm depressed- but I feel like my highs are very high and my lows are very low

Thanks for the advice
I have no problem believing that a disgruntled employee sabotaged part of the production line. But I do have a problem believing that all of the problems since the Model 3 started production were caused by sabotage.

I also have no problem believing that the disgruntled employee simply wanted to take revenge by sabotaging his/her employer -- that's not uncommon, and it should not be difficult to prove if it really happened. Musk is going a bit too far in suggesting that other forces are involved unless he has credible evidence, and he should share it if he has it.
Still fun to play!
> Your upfront fares are hiked if your battery say 5%.

Do you have a source for this?
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PES / WE has never had official licenses except for a few clubs here and there that change every season and no one cares because it's simply superior to FIFA in every other way. People have been playing this game for over two decades without official licenses. Losing the CL license will not affect the game much.

EDIT: Also, there are community patches with all the kits, at least for PS4 / PC.
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Runs fine on my machine. Are you using an integrated GPU?
I think saying signal processing is AI is like saying the entire CS is AI, which is bizarre. There are all sorts of algorithms and disciplines in CS that are not AI. I think the commenter you're replying to was complaining about this.
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I guess im not fullybinformed on their actions, but of course the 3rd party machines automate the dilution process and in some cases dilution is done manually. Obviously working with the equipment outside of spec is wrong.
The thing about the sniper was addressing paranoia and reassuring staff that every suggestion is being taken seriously, and besides following a lead that is easy to dismiss means you get an early cheap win: a great way to relieve stress.
Don't really think thats what he is looking for right now.
Depression is symptoms that something is wrong with his life.
reading books is one of the essential pleasures in life also so it is always good advice
The GP was referring to a problem with GPS, not their cellular connection. In any case, I haven't noticed any issues with T-mobile in San Francisco, so maybe T-mobile has some weaknesses unique to the Chicago area.
numbs the senses all the same, maybe less or differently, but it's certainly ... well, uncertain. Point in case, nobody in this thread was talking about the method of intake.
Well I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me that if you want to raise money on "promise of hope" as you said (which I'd imagine could be the majority of startups), you just need to represent yourself that way. The way I see it, it breaks into 3 camps:

#1: Saying you can do something you know you can't do
#2: Saying you can do something you think or hope you can do
#3: Saying you can do something you know you can do

While there is a human behavior difference between #1 and #2, you're still misleading your investors, right? Like I said, IANAL, so I can't say whether or not it constitutes fraud, but it is still dishonest IMO.
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> It would be far better if efforts were spent on recognizing and electing qualified and capable people to run the government

Our current generation of technologists is not good at this. For whatever reason, the political turf is ceded. Something is better than nothing.
This is very true. In UC Berkeley, the very first linear algebra course all EE/CS freshman take (EE 16A) has a lab that does EXACTLY this. You match part of a song with some very noisy sound. If freshmen are taught to do this, it's easily something Google can do.
We sorta use exceptions for IO-based code, mostly because we love parallel combinators in async and they totally require async exceptions to work right.
From the standpoint of anyone trying to sabotage Tesla, the risk/reward ratio is extremely high. To claim that someone is trying to do so is an extraordinary claim, and we all know the saying about extraordinary claims...
The cost of the infrastructure is in capital and operating costs of the drivers. ie the capital in the cars and the taxes in the fuel (and income tax?).

So these costs are passed along in the cost of an uber ride.

You did point at something I missed though. Technically every ride is being subsidized by investors (because uber operates at a loss afaik). To whatever extent they're losing money on every ride is a sort of disadvantage to uber ...
> In other words, adding -g by itself made the build non-reproducible.

In my experience, this is largely not true. However, what is plausible is that before GCC 8, LTO, which, for speed reasons, can split work across multiple threads, was not deterministic, and GCC 8 might have made that better.
Pluto is a planet? I guess in the future they change their mind.
> I've always felt like false assertion of copyright should cause the loss of copyright. Seems like a fair balance for me.

I don’t understand. I put out a takedown request for something I don’t have the copyrights to and as a result the real copyright holder loses their copyright? How is that fair?
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You might notice that the NCAA series doesn't exist anymore and that is partly because that plausible deniability of using the community to circumvent licensing rules can only go so far.
"Too many secrets". Setec Astronomy.
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If you intentionally commit fraud, saying that the victims should have known better and patients did not get hurt is not much of a defense. Fraud is fraud no matter the consequences.

Investors are not expected to need to see through blatant fraud. Many laws and regulations exist for the precise purpose of preventing fraud because it's not supposed to be one of the expected risks of investing. The expected risk of investing is that the business might lose value or fail in the marketplace, not that the entire operation is a scam.
> The shock waves of this deal basically killed all competition in sport video games

Have revenues gone up or down since EA's exclusive-licensing deal?
I found it later on, but it still requires digging deeper, and then we and up in a viscous circle pushing us more and more to use FB…
What percentage is a group of share holders?
Everything is a time waster until you know, investments pays off. Playing an instrument is a time waster until it turns into something you can market. Its difficult to judge future benefits of current actions.
I am not American but I gained an appreciation for American Football when I started playing NFL 2k when it came out for the Dreamcast. I continued buying the game when it was out for the PS2 and was sad when that exclusive license thing was announced. I was looking forward to the day when the license expired but sadly that day never came.

One thing I also miss is the 2k College Hoops game. It was like playing NBA 2kx except that the rosters didn't matter because they were all randomly generated.
Mindfulness is (for me) very helpful for inter-personal tasks. Someone might say or write something that might normally provoke a task-devolving-reaction where I enumerate why they're wrong or maybe go with something snide or passive aggressive - which might make me feel better but predictably isn't very constructive. After practicing mindfulness I can usually catch myself and divert energies to more constructive routes.
Must be a great system if it never makes mistakes and the operators always believe it.

And once they do, as long as you didn’t make a typo on a form, or accidentally make a misstatement to an officer, or the president decides people from your country aren’t welcome here anymore, you’ll be free to go!
Well my hometown has an actual armed separatist militia over California banning .50 cals....so to answer you question: definitely.

Also try talking to any Texan outside of Austin.
I think RSS is a vastly underused technology/tool. I wonder at what point people lost hope in it and abandoned. Not to say, it's completely abandoned, but it's not used as much as it should be used.
Preventing facial recognition techniques from spreading would seemingly require some attempt at keeping them secret. But aren't AI techniques often openly published in scientific papers? And it seems likely that there is also open source software available?
I may be wrong, but from what I can tell this is really a souped-up framework for working with clouds. Most of it looks like primitive for immutable infrastructure, so Terraform but as a library. As far as can tell, there's no deployment system, no orchestration etc. -- a "Pulumi app" doesn't know how to deploy itself. Is that accurate?

So if, for example, you're running an app on GKE, then you can tell the Kubernetes API about the resources you want, but there's no system for building your app (Docker build + push to GCR), no way to do supervised rolling updates, and so on. If you're doing CI/CD, then presumably you have to build, push, then let the Pulumi code inject the right image and tag.

I like the idea of declaring the infrastructure with extensible code (as opposed to a DSL like Terraform where you're completely dependent on upstream support for all the objects you want to manage), but I'm a bit skeptical about crossing the bridge from ops to applications.

Typically applications aren't self-contained enough that they can, or should, declare all their resources. So presumably then you have to centralize common stuff (e.g. your central Postgres server) in a shared module that all your apps import. Now you get into versioning hell as your app depends on an old version of the "common" module and "pulumi update" tears down your Postgres 10 install and creates a 9.6 install instead. (Presumably it asks first. But still. Versioning has got to be a challenge here.)
> iPhones, model hasn't mattered. Flat Iron + GPS = location lottery for me anytime of the day.

That's unfortunate. As I said, every Android phone I had has been spot on everywhere in the city.
Two principles I live by (much to the annoyance of my bosses)

1. Don't fear the refactor.
2. If you don't want to rebuild your entire application from scratch, don't worry, a competitor will do it for you.

There's nothing wrong with creating something in increments. It's the fear of revisiting something that destroy's a code base.