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I blame Joseph Campbell for ruining modern cinema with it's simplistic boring plots (like Star Wars's) where yet another hero battles some evil tyrant to save the world, universe or forest.

There are so many more interesting, surprising stories to be told that leave the viewer with unresolved things to think about and captivating cul-de-sacs along the way. The 1970s films were full of odd, interesting plots and films where it was unclear who the protagonist was (let alone a hero). Then Lucas discovered Campbell and made two pretty-good, unbelievably successful kids' films and modern cinema was born.

Now every film (especially kids' films) are a take on a James Bond plot whether they are about loveable zoo Creatures and cheeky penguins, toys in a nursery-school or talking cars: a super-villain, a secret base, a mysterious super-weapon… yawn

Grown-up films are no better: reduced to a sorry stream of infantilised garbage about super-heros who each in turn is given super-powers only to see them quickly taken away to provide some tension before a giant battle in which cities (and budgets) are destroyed for no good reason (accept perhaps to deliver a few half-decent one-liners) before a last-minute triumphant victory in a working steel-mill (if budget allows) or some disused warehouse if not.

sigh
It was shockingly easy to get drivers license in Il. Granted I didn't need to take a road test, the written test was so simplistic a 12 year old could probably pass it.

If I had to do a road test I would have failed hard because of the number of fbombs I dropped at other drivers. Or I might have passed because of it. Hard to tell.
lol!

tldr:

Every story has change.

* Positive

* Negative

* Positive, then negative!

* Negative, then positive!

* Positive, then negative...then positive!

* Really negative...then positive!

if that's what you learn after studying 1700 novels, i'd give up on fiction entirely
They struggle immensely with fake news. Kony2012, North Korea Hacking Sony, Kanye west running for president. Their "news" is a total sham.
I wouldn't have a trust issue assuming there is a rating system. If people are getting sick from someone's kitchen, they're going to leave a bad review.

Think about taxi drivers compared to Uber drivers. Uber drivers know a few bad ratings can be detrimental to their income, so they typically try to put their best foot forward. They push hard for perfect reviews, offer bottles of water, try to be extra considerate with the choice of music, air temperature, etc. Taxi drivers don't have the same incentives. They're not going to be fired if a few passengers feel it's too cold in their car.

I imagine the same would apply to home chefs. They know one batch of food that gets customers sick could leave them out of work, and cost them their entire reputation. A few bad ratings and they're dropping down the recommendation list and watching 80% of their business disappear. I could see home chefs trying to go above and beyond like Uber drivers to secure better reviews. Did you order 6 cookies? Well, they're going to give you 7, and a little note that says thanks, here's a free cookie just for you.

It could actually be a great business for more elderly people. We all love our grandmother's specialties, right? Imagine a grandparent that could prepare big lasagnas, soups, and chilis at home, and a driver could come pick up portions to deliver to people around the neighborhood. Feel like takeout tonight? Instead of Dominos, you can see Ruth down the street prepared homemade cabbage rolls that you can get delivered. I wouldn't mind supporting that type of business.
"Flight hasn't shown up? Simply open the app to call your UberPilot™ and ask WTF?!"
Well, compute shaders have the drawback that you have to know how many work items (in this case, fragments) you need to dispatch in advance. You can figure this out for triangles and quads, but it's a pain, and it basically involves doing the same thing the rasterization hardware already does in software. It's much simpler and faster to just use the rasterization hardware built in to GPUs to dispatch fragment work groups dynamically via a triangle draw call and only override the sample processing step.
Even if we were to allow that the story can be described on one dimension over time: Real stories do not have one arc.

A lone melody works on one dimension also: Absolute rises and falls.. This can be pleasing but is limited in it expressiveness. Add another note however, and you get another kind of rise and fall: Relative. One note is falling, but the other note is falling faster. One note rises while the other note falls, but then later falls when the other rises.. Now add a third note, and you start to get to hint and deceive where each note will go, fulfilling and violating expectations.

Now that sounds like a real story.
In my province's system, you would still need political will to build a fusion plant. That would require some serious political will, since it would dramatically change a very wealthy/highly conservative city's economy. That type of political will would tend to come out of a longer term, more global point of view.
I agree completely. I think much joy can be found in new experiences, though, which money certainly enables.
We use Slack and don't have either of those environments.

I suppose we make heavy use to group DM's and project specific channels, but it really helps us keep communication streamlined and direct.

We don't really use email. If we need to ping someone on a PR review, it's done in Slack. If one of our systems is having issues, it's automated through a specific Slack channel.
This feels like the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument.

Of course you can assign moral blame however you please, but the relevant "policy" question (in both the gun case and the slack case) is empirical.

You could measure the productivity of a single team with and without slack and see how things compare.

My guess is Slack would not fare well in that experiment, but I've never done it.
The blog post this was based on (http://www.matthewjockers.net/2014/06/05/a-novel-method-for-...) which is from 2014 was widely panned when it was first publicized, and some of the many problems with the methodology pointed out by scholars with more experience and competence with the statistical methods involved.
That's how scholarship is supposed to work. However, it will never stop media from seizing on a great click-baity headline.
Sure then I agree with you.

I want to make clear the difference between driverless and autonomous/self-driving/assistance. The difference is frequently muddled by Tesla and Elon musk with false marketing.
And the customers who pay to see no ads are also exactly the people who would refuse to click on the ads anyway and likely also are running an ad blocker, so the admen would have lost nothing (and possibly gained from not paying for wasted impressions).

Having a no-ad tier means you can reasonably argue that those getting ads have opted into them, and thus are more valuable to the advertisers.
> We're sort of in a loop here

Yeah, unfortunately that's what verifying the legitimacy of the chromium-team Ubuntu ppa requires...

Anyway, there are two quick ways I found:

* Go to chrome://settings/help and see the link to Chromium.org (but obviously this doesn't work if you don't have Chrome already)

* At the bottom of google.com/chrome there is a link to Chromium.org
C Corp is a legal entity classification, along the lines of S Corp, LLC, partnership, and sole proprietorship. What might be confusing is that S corps can use pass-through taxation or retained earnings (C Corp) depending on what the owners choose. There are various forms of partnerships with different levels of liabilities to the partners: general partnership, limited partnership (LP), limited liability partnership (LLP), etc. Partnerships generally provide much less protection than a C Corp.
I don't blame the scooter companies for not having stations, I just think they would be an improvement.

The stations could be on private property to avoid the permitting problem. I can see plenty of apartment buildings wanting a station out front. Portland would probably be receptive to permitting them, anyway. As for the incentive, a small one works pretty well with our bike share program. Full charging does take a while for a scooter but the idea with distributed stations would be to keep the scooters charged for longer, not forever. It's not really a charge problem, it's an availability problem -- the only way to charge a scooter right now makes it unavailable for the duration of a full charge. Stations would partially charge it and keep it available.

I think user-swapped batteries would probably be stolen.
Yes, i don't doubt that Slack works for companies. It doesn't work for our company and our value of trying to maximize uninterrupted work time.
> Bad ideas directly impact only ~2% of the country.

If only populations were so evenly distributed. 1/2 of Americans live east of the Mississippi, on 1/3 of the Continental US, and about 1/2 of the rest live on the West Coast. The mideastern states have very few residents.
Chess, if you're online play against real people (on chess.com/lichess) and if you're offline do tactics problems!
It pushes for higher quality. It allows me to get food from real restaurants that didn't offer delivery otherwise. Same as sitting in.

That being said, I agreed that the margin is huge.
"SR similarly wasn't required to explain anything important"

I don't agree. The Maxwell equations (1865-1875) already implicitly encode the Lorentz transformation as the symmetry group, that's one of those "sooner or later somebody would have come along and put a spacetime theory behind it" thing, in this sense it's not up there with Newton. As you probably know there were a bunch of physicists who were looking at this (eg. Lorentz, Poincare, Larmor, etc). Then it was Einstein who tied it all together, and it was called the Special Theory of Relativity. (But this is one of those cases where this was going to happen anyway.)

I agree that Einstein was able to borrow manifolds and tensor calculus from the mathematicians, unlike Newton, who had to invent everything.

Btw. this is a great discussion.
If it's not too personal, how many hours per week do you work? How many works of vacation per year?
The only threaded chat I've used is Microsoft Teams, and I came away hating it.

One problem is that if you are trying to catch up on conversions, instead of just being time based, it's thread+time based, so while you can see which threads added messages while you were gone, it's not easy to actually read through them all.

The other big problem I found was people inevitably "reply" by (accidentally) creating a new thread, which then splits the conversation. If you're participating in real-time and there's not many separate conversions happening this isn't a big deal: but that's opposite to the situation where threading is actually theoretically useful, and catching up on multiple split threads is the worst combination of everything.

Maybe this is only really a problem with Microsoft's implementation, but I'm curious what other people have experienced?
We don't stop communicating since we unslacked though. Instead we now moved discussions more to Github PRs+issues and Basecamp. So its still possible to read up, but it feels more structured around certain tasks.
> impoverished, who tend to have entire families that are impoverished, are far less likely to ever be in these commercial DNA databases. So the people most likely to commit a crime

Well if we're going to make overgeneralizations like that, I could guess that the impoverished on average are more honorable than the rich, and less likely to commit crimes. In fact, that honor might even be the cause of their impoverishment. Crime pays and when the richest are so because they're willing to take money from under the table, outright steal it, or "earn" it from selling to addicts, what chance do the people that are trying to earn a living through honest means have? You know there are cemeteries for drug lords where the each tomb is a little mansion?

There's also studies where free money was given away to anyone that wanted to take it. Most looked well off and said they wanted it for purse or whatever taking a ton of bills. Homeless on the other hand would just take a few bucks to buy a hotdog or other necesity, too ashamed to take more.

There's also videos online of people trying to steal packages (the homeowner set up a camera and trap). All looked well off. They didn't look homeless or sketchy in any way. Some were even driving good cars.

Let's not judge people on the amount of money they have.
IMO hardly anyone is going to purchase or even pay attention to something unless they've seen some positive recommendations for it.

In a world of information-overload, I don't think it helps to call attention to things that aren't worth other people's time.
There was for a while; the most prominent story I can remember is a Target point card figuring out a woman was pregnant: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
How much planning, training, and other efforts does your company put into mainlining group DMs and team channels?
Why can't you do something else while you're waiting?
If you cut out the editorializing and just focus on the example presented, it seems totally reasonable:

1. As a private company, they don't believe they should be responsible with setting public policy. They want a separate board to be set up for that.

2. By default, everything should be private.

3. They're proposing that if an applicant has a compelling reason to access raw data, they need to have it approved by the governing board, and raw data is automatically destroyed after a short interval.

They gave the example of video feeds, which are both common in public spaces and are not anonymous (even if you blur faces). If they're being thoughtful and responsible, they need some mechanism to handle desirable exceptions. This sounds like a proposal to do so.

In the article, the person who resigned is presented as a respected expert on the subject. Maybe that person has more context that didn't make it into the article. But the facts presented - "group designing public space is proposing policy to handle aspects that can't easily be made anonymous" - don't warrant the clickbait title or the editorialization.

Sounds like Sidewalk is doing it's diligence - thinking about the things a group designing a "city of the future" _should_ be thinking about.
And didn't they promise the Cybersecurity Act of 2016 would help them - oh so much - in stopping these attacks and that it "was not another surveillance bill in disguise" ?
I would like to use this product but it feels irresponsible to do so. Why are we still making technology that stores such personal information without data being encrypted end-2-end?
We're talking about two vehicles colliding with each other. The mass of the vehicle is absolutely relevant.

Crashing a bike at 30mph/50kph is not as dangerous as you suggest, you can find plenty of higher speed bike crashes on youtube with no fatalities. Road rash and broken bones are the most likely outcome. I've crashed at this speed and I walked away with road rash only.

There is an enormous difference between a bike crash which results in sliding along the pavement and a car crash.
Is there a static type system analogy in this?
> I don’t think it’s possible for a private company to have the public’s interest at heart, at least in the long term. Especially for Google, who have shown a lack of respect and privacy for its users.

While I agree in general with this sentiment, do you think non-profit corporations are in the same boat? Or something like the FDIC?
When the companies are the same type of business, it is called horizontal consolidation, not vertical integration. Vertical integration is a company buying its supplier or its customer.
That's deliveroo. Uber is rather your local mcdonald's. My experience is that the service of Uber eats is disastrous. They hire drivers that do not speak a word of english and more often than not don't want to step out of their vehicle. Deliveroo has an OK service.
I feel that many of these objections already have solutions within Slack.

If you don't want to be disturbed by notifications, there is the Do Not Disturb option to snooze notifications.

If you don't want to lose context, use Slack threads, which localize discussion around an issue to a single place.

If you have a fear of missing out because you're piping everything to Slack - have you considered segregating your alerts into specific channels and muting those you don't care about? (Alerts are a bad example, though - really, you should use Slack for a visibility record during an incident, but the only alerts you should care about should bother you with PagerDuty or OpsGenie - if they're important, they should bother you).

I do work for a larger company (some 400 employees) and we use Slack quite effectively. One thing that's really helped us is that, by consensus, we don't make decisions in Slack - everything of actual import should have a ticket to condense everything in. Slack becomes useful for us if we need immediate assistance, have questions or need to communicate in real time during an incident. It's also invaluable when you have remote employees (!).
That's my point. A human driver had hit those barriers just ten days prior. If there is a part of the road people are driving into constantly maybe we should look at road design over drivers.
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So good drivers get bad reviews when people are cheap, not when they're bad drivers?

Eh...
These back and forth accusations could stop if they actually implemented automatic (random) audits, so that all elections would be verified, without anyone first having to "call" an election stolen first, before the audit would have to happen.
I'd argue it's way more possible for a private company to have the public's interest at heart than a public company. Obviously a company needs to make money to survive, but the necessity to make enough profit to survive as a company doesn't preclude any kind of public interest; the two aren't mutually exclusive.

Unfortunately, they do often overlap a lot less than they should, often just so the company can make even more money. It could be argued that there's some bigger picture ploy in the form of "if we make more money, we could help more", but obviously this gets into a case-by-case basis analyzing companies -- some fit the mold of having the public's interest at heart, and some don't, but all of them are on a spectrum both for public interest _and_ how well they implement it.

This is completely disregarding the fact that what is "right" for "public interest" varies from person to person. One person of the public might very much want total surveillance and one might not want anything to do with technology at all -- is building something for either really in the public interest? The common sense answer is no: "public interest" defines what the _majority_ of people want (which has its own issues), but even that changes over time.
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Three things. Core, to my knowledge doesn't compile. It has an option to bundle the VM, but I've never played with it much. Two, I solely run Linux. My understanding is that Linux is still the redheaded step child of MS. Finally, I don't like MS. This is a bias that is waning with my use of VSCode. I don't want to spend the money on the licenses. Also, I got bit by a compiler error in VB.net where branches of IFs were ignored. You'd enter the first block (if true), then fall into the second (else). All that combined soured me on MS.
That's not a good comparison. The rental market always had a big part of black market through local listings, mouth to mouth or sites like craiglist/gumtree.

The regulator/IRS could go through some residential blocks in popular cities and find undeclared tenants in almost every house. AirBnB makes it worse and shorter term but it didn't invent any of that. It just makes it more visible.

In comparison, restaurants are rarely undeclared or illegal operations.
> The average running speed of humans is around the same limit - 11 to 15 mph (17 to 25 kph).

If you said, "the average running speed for trained male high school seniors is 10 mph", I might find that plausible. Probably high, but plausible.

1. Men are substantially faster than women. The number you gave is high for men, but ludicrous for women.

2. There is nothing average about a 15 mph (4 min mile) running speed. It is quite rare for men to achieve this speed and has literally never been accomplished by a women.

3. Those numbers reflect an unloaded run of exactly 1 mile. Commuting in the city by running would substantially slow people down.
It would be great if these AI/neural frameworks targeted opencl so it would be platform agnostic. AMD/Intel/Arm makes so very cost effective GPUs that run everywhere.
really considering getting a scooter. mainly because it can fold up and go on bus or train with me. However main thing stopping me is that i would probably ride it instead of biking and biking gives me physical exercise whereas a scooter is just standing there
If its reported multiple times they can take action. If not, well, its like voting. If you dont, you are supporting whatever the system is in the end. And they care because if there are safety issues it will hit the bottom line eventually.
You need to get up that hill first, which prevents most of those who didn't do their time on the saddle to get to higher speeds.
I agree those are small things these days, but IMO the biggest pro is security related - it makes it easier to update libraries when security issues arise. For example, if a new issue is found in OpenSSL, you can update the OS's shared library, but for statically linked apps you're dependant on vendors rebuilding and publishing those apps to link to the new version.
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