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"If <policy> makes <bad thing> harder, it is a good thing" is the wax on the runners of the sled flying down the slippery slope.

It's fallacious to frame handing more power to centralizing entities solely in terms of the good they may (possibly) do. There are always downsides, even in addition to direct misuse - eg 1000 lifetimes lost every year to the TSA alone.

It's always a trade off, and politics (aka willful ignorance) practically guarantees it won't be made for the right reasons.
Reading this comment before the article I thought this was describing some near future dystopia, but it's actually things he does and prescribes, albeit with some hyperbole (I fast, and 'staggering around, hungry for days' ain't it). He gets points for being interesting I suppose.
Start by finding a good physiotherapist and doing what they say. Don't confuse with chiropractors.
I think the burden of proof would be on someone making a claim that runs counter to everything that everyone in the company who actually works in hiring is saying
I would, except I've seen others do that and they are unsurprisingly ignored or ridiculed. Someone already made a standard proposal for ELF icons, nobody uses it.
While the alt-right and white-nationalist movements clearly have some overlap, treating them as the same only serves political bias. If we are to inform both sides of the issue, we must start from only what is true. No partisian bias is needed here, and only dilutes the message. I guess this is what I should expect from Buzzfeed, but I thought they made a push for better reporting.

To the point: if whatever camp you are in makes you uncomfortable for any reason, reach out to those around you unaffiliated. Step back, and look at the direction and momentum of whatever you are part of, before rejoining the fray. There are many correct ways to live life.
The word "prior" leads me to believe they mean immediately preceding the crash. However, if you want to place blame on Tesla, you can interpret that however you want. The data will come out in court unless there is a settlement. If Tesla loses this case, the world will NEVER see autonomous vehicles. In this sense, Tesla is kind of dumb for this very reason, should have never offered the feature at all.
Love what you guys are building and the partnership-friendly messaging in this post. Best of luck!
Agreed. Today's gatekeepers are trying harder than ever to gaurd the gates, but the tide is turning and the gatekeepers are loosing.
Gfortran is very nice, but I recommend a recent version (at least ver >= 7) rather than old versions (e.g. ver 4.4, which may still be the default on CentOS 6 etc). For performance, I guess Intel fortran is probably better (but also depends on calculations).
I'm not sure it makes no sense. I bought a Model 3 because I didn't see enough of a price difference to be worth the difference in the cars. I would have been willing to go with a less capable car if I'd felt the price was right. When I was evaluating, a tricked out Bolt was over $40,000 and still wasn't as capable as a Model 3 which was admittedly more expensive but, to me, worth it.
He didn’t back up that claim with any evidence. I’ve talked with many people who are on hiring committees and those are blinded to gender and other factors.
Are you for real? This is ridiculous. Obesity is a serious proven health risk.
Where humans are involved, mistakes will happen. Trusting someone but verifying their work is a safe and sane pairing.
I think people confuse advertising in general with the 360 tracking facebook/google and others use. People need to advertise and it's helpful to both the consumer/company.
Don't trust, verify.
Its so common for engineers to have excessive confidence in their opinions about subjects far beyond their areas of competence that there's a term for it: engineer's disease (or engineer's syndrome).
> It moved the onus of testing on Devs who've never done it before as part of their job

Could this explain some of the QA blunders like some Windows 10 users losing files after an upgrade?

If so the move may turn out far more costly than any savings or telemetry gains.
Microsoft’s “performance” wasn’t bad by any objective metric during the Ballmer era. If the stock market were rational, MS stock would have been doing a lot better under Balmer than it did.

But then again, if the stock market were rational, Lyft would have never been able to go public and Tesla would basically be worthless.
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>Nuclear plants were massively out-competing coal in the 80s until there was a huge regulatory changes that essentially killed the industry. Since then no new reactor technology has been license, pretty much all research has been killed, access to nuclear materials is basically impossible, almost no new nuclear plants were built.

Are you talking about the US or South Korea? China seems to be investing pretty hard into nuclear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China
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Whew! For a second I thought MS might be selling information on what type of variable names I use to advertisers.
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> “It’s such a strange service — who wants to be in the cold? You need to hear about it from someone you trust,” said Michael Garrett, the head of Reboot, a spa that offers cryotherapy around the Bay Area. (Cryotherapy is when you make yourself get cold.)

Love the author's snark.

>He said the cold therapy gives him a high, as blood rushes to his head and chest, and he believes practitioners are addicted. “I’m addicted straight up, it’s a high and I love it,” Mr. Garrett said.

I never understood paying for cryotherapy - can't the same be accomplished by a cold shower? I definitely love a good cold shower occasionally, seems cold enough to get the blood rush effect (recommended to me by my cardiologist for this exact reason).
I think a good engineer knows when to heed the advice of subject matter experts.
Huh? You have an extremely narrow view of adoption, I would assume most "unofficial" adoptions are by circumstance, not a generic desire to add to the family.
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it's one industry where you must assume the worst of the companies that run it because the consequences of mistakes are so terrible
What POSs do you integrate with? Mostly mobile POS or also Windows-based POS?
I'd really like to give the Bolt a chance, but isn't the Chevy Bolt's design really unappealing? Especially compared to the Tesla model 3. I wonder why they made it this way. It's a matter of personal taste but I find it less appealing than even a Honda Civic.
And Nokia lost because the new products were better. Not because Apple or Google were better at manufacturing. After all Apple went to Samsung for screens and sub contracted manufacturing to Foxconn. Google designed and had the likes of LG build their Pixels and Nexus phones. And that is the difference I'm arguing here, not the product.

Also, building mostly single use rockets, reused boosters are pretty new even for SpaceX, in comparatively small number is totally different from building and running factories that spit out hundreds of thousands of cars. But I can understand why Elon might have thought he knew better. But drawing lessons from an industry like aerospace and rockets which had only a hand full of defacto state subsidized players to one as competitive as automotive was, it seems, a bad idea.

Yes, I fully agree that Elon wanted too early and too fast. And having the timing wrong still means you're wrong. And in that case this mistake and the underlying culture and way of thinking can very much doom the whole company. And that would really be a shame, wouldn't it?
> Come in at 70% of the price,...

No, absolutely not.
Why is this even a question? If remote workers don't like the comp/pay being offered, they could go looking at other companies in their market (or other remote work opportunities). This is a non-issue.
All of these fads center around one fundamental trait: the sense of having control over your life. It doesn't matter whether they work; they sell you on the experience of "I'm successfully doing this hard thing to make myself better".

And it just so happens that Silicon Valley is full of people who are addicted to the sensation of improvement. Eating disorders stem from the same psychological mechanism, just a different definition of "improvement".
GM better have something up their sleeve. With the plant closings to divert $ to electric and driverless R&D, I have not read of any new EV models or AI progress.
I've met a number of very smart engineers who believe that because they can think through engineering problems rationally and solve hard challenges, that they can apply that skill to biomedical / sociological / other complex problems (and that the experts in that field are less intelligent than they are). The problem is when they lack the academic background and rely on what they already believe to be true, regardless of whether it's factual.
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Find your sweet spot, in your industry, for your specific experience. The point is: be bold and competitive, not afraid and protectionist.
Yes they may ask her too but she has a personal financial stake in the products shes recommending/selling directly unlike Dorsey.
I would argue that $10k Chevy Bolt discount wasn't originated from the pressure of Model 3's pricing and some low moving EV models have long been getting significant discounts off MSRP.

Back in 2017 when the first Bolt model year came out, I've got $4k cash offer mailer from GM and another stackable $5k off MSRP from a large regional GM volume dealership.

And Nissan Leaf have been having $10k off MSRP discounts that are subsidized by regional power utilities too.

This is a common trend way before $35k Model entered volume production.
I'm having a hard time thinking of a political-type group that I can't stick in there for "anti-Semite" and get a paragraph that a good chunk of people won't agree with.

“Never believe that Republicans are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The Republicans have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

“Never believe that Democrats are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The Democrats have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

The "politically correct", "anti-abortionists", "pro-lifers", "Hacker News anklebiters"... it all fits just fine. It's just a way of giving yourself an excuse to not engage with opinions cloaked in the veneer of righteousness.
Won’t most the cases be either mother-child or mother-(adult male)-child? I don’t see father-child being the predominant grouping.
I think it's on a whole other level of cold. People have died from cryotherapy. And of course, not-dying is part of the service (hopefully) being provided.
You can call it bullshit if you want, but when you drink that combination, you're gonna be in the bathroom almost immediately emptying out.

I speak from personal experience...
Is Jack Dorsey really "tech's biggest manfluencer"? He didn't invent [ed: start a trend in pop culture] keto, cold showers, intermittent fasting, or meditation. There have been (modern, trend-driven) communities around each of these for 10+ years. And there are loads of people who ALL of these together, just like Jack.

I wouldn't be surprised if Dorsey is only 2 degrees removed from Joe Rogan, for example. And in between those 2 degrees there are A LOT of influencers.

My own journey started with leangains (IF) leading into slow carb/keto, Starting Strength, a tourist trip to Iceland, some rabbit hole about xenoestrogens, another one about pesticides (actually that one goes back to Ruth Winter), Joe Rogan, Rhonda Patrick, etc. Something about it lends itself to forming strong opinions, but I know my journey is not very unique and many of you reading can probably relate.
Good fucking riddance. I was a junior web developer during the IE5/6 days.

Microsoft, that fucking browser caused so much grief YOU LITERALLY HAVE NO IDEA unless you were there. My cursewords are barely scratching the surface of the rage. Frontend dev would literally double in work if requirements dictated IE compliance. I have no doubt that it informed both the decision of many devs to head to the backend and stay there (like I did) as well as Material Design from Google which is not nearly so dependent on spacing being rendered precisely.
Your response is not unreasonable, but rather than explain why their latest report is almost certainly misleading (it's complicated, and similar to the previous NHTSA study, data is missing so while I assume Tesla is misrepresenting the data as they have always done I cannot prove it today), I'll just say there is indisputable evidence that Teslas get into more fatal accidents than other cars.

https://medium.com/@MidwesternHedgi/teslas-driver-fatality-r...
For $30 million he could pretty much end homelessness, surely? At least in a couple of cities.
I don't want to send my location to google in the first place. Is there a way to do that on Android without disabling Location Services entirely?
>everyone is free to copy any design they want

Copying text or pictures would be copyright infringement.
Generally, spending too much money to bomb the shit out of your enemies is not considering providing aid to them....anywhere.
I'm just on a low-end laptop here without color correction, but that "Yellow" looks very orange to me. Just curious if it's the same for you? Maybe it's time to invest in a better laptop screen here.
trust enough to use but keep your eyes open
Gapminder data suggests stabilization rather than vastly old or shrinking population. A slowing trend indicative of sigmoid in both wealth and number of people. Currently, India, South America and China are catching up, Africa is probably next.

Pushing lifespans past average 100 will be very difficult.
To be fair, it looks really weird as a word to a French speaker.
It reads almost like "adolescence" which roughly means "teenage years".
I guess to an English speaker it sounds more like "Renaissance" but even that I'm not sure.
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> Not to mention that there are many open-source (as in OSI) packages that may not be distributed with Guix System because they use non-FSF-approved software licenses.

This is not true; at the very least "many" is wrong in the above statement. Generally, there is virtually no difference between the OSI set of approved licenses and the FSF set.

Can you list examples of the many packages that would be considered "open source" (according to the OSI definition) but not also Free Software as per the FSF definition?
I've met many "archetypal" engineers that are totally off their rockers when it comes to alternative medicine.
Hard learned insight, at least for myself :-)
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Reminds me of Tom Brady's TB12 idiocy
> It’s highly unlikely he’d fire someone for trying weed for the first time outside of work.

Tesla drug-tests, and fires employees who test positive for THC, regardless of whether they are under the influence or not.

You can test positive for THC, and be stone-cold-sober when you show up to work. THC markers can stay in your system for weeks.

The fact is, they are not testing whether or not someone is showing up to work high. They are testing whether or not someone got high in the past few weeks.
Personally, you feel cold showers + ice baths you feel wayyyy more physiologically than cryo.

Cryo isn't bad if you only have 3 minutes, but if you run the numbers on cryo + add in the tech appeal angle - it's a GREAT business.
Sounds like this person confused advice for a sprain with his fracture. In case of a sprain (ligament injury), the standard of care has changed over the years: whereas the advice was to immobilize the injury and rest, now it is to start using it again as soon as possible. Of course, I’m not a doctor and there might be all sorts of exceptions to this.

A fracture is totally different and needs different care.
Is there a way to get them to delete your data?
Too many excellent excerpts in this article.

> “It’s such a strange service — who wants to be in the cold? You need to hear about it from someone you trust,” said Michael Garrett, the head of Reboot, a spa that offers cryotherapy around the Bay Area. (Cryotherapy is when you make yourself get cold.)
Citation needed! From what I've read the US government has been incredibly supportive of the nuclear industry. For example, both Obama and Trump have secured federal funding for the Vogtle 3 and 4 plants. US public opinion has also been heavily in favor of nuclear power, even after Fukushima. The "red tape is causing all our problems!" seem, to me, to be just a myth spread by the nuclear lobby.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/153452/americans-favor-nuclear-...
Speaking personally, this is pretty straightforward.

Why would I buy a Chevy Bolt for the same price as a Model 3, even if I have to buy it "off menu"? (And deliveries have started, BTW: https://electrek.co/2019/04/15/tesla-delivers-35000-model-3/) Or slightly more for the more available Standard Plus Model 3?

The Bolt is wonderful, but it's limited to 50kW charging and even more important it has no access to a consistent, strategically placed network of well-maintained chargers spanning the continent. Basically, the Bolt is still a city commuter which cannot feasibly take road trips of any significant length (outside of charging corridors in the Northeast and West coast), not too different from a Leaf, functionally.

At least with the Volt, you could still take road trips the same as any other car.

(And all of this ignores the panoramic glass roof, the autopilot features, the superior cosmetics, the improved per-mile efficiency, etc, etc.)

And yes, GM is in the same situation as Tesla, having the federal EV credit phased out. And that's a major shame. GM, with the Volt in particular, was a major pioneer in modern electric cars, along with Tesla. And now both are being almost punished for their foresight and initiative. Shows how very little the Congress/Administration/federal government currently values emissions reductions or even rational industrial policy... China very likely may end up owning the EV market.
This feature looks pretty cool and it’s basically what I wanted. Kudos.

The question is, are they deleting that data?

I think they are big enough that, at least for EU users, not deleting that data would land them in a lot of trouble, so I think that they do.

For people concerned with privacy I don’t think Google is trustworthy enough, but these features are good to have for the rest of the world, so I’m glad to see it.
I think it’s a safe assumption that driver alertness positively correlates with lives saved. But it’s hard to market this product with the sort of rhetoric that would optimize for that, so they’ve found a few ways to console themselves as they name the feature “autopilot” and endeavor to make the tech appear magical.

If they think they’ve cleared the bar just by beating the crash statistics of all cars, then they are still in the business of trading lives.
What do you mean “why is this even a question?”? It’s a question that frequently comes up in remote worn discussions. Stripe being a big company, and now making a big commitment to remote work, is likely to be an example other companies draw from.
That's pretty lame, especially considering DJI's abysmal security practices.

For the Phantom 2, I think the root password to ssh into the drone was something like "12341234". For the Phantom 3, they make it more secure by upgrading the password to "Big~9China".
I don't think it's outdated, but it just doesn't have the features (semi-autonomous driving, slick minimalist if controversially-so interior, OTA updates, etc.) you get with a Tesla. It's like comparing an original 2007 Apple iPhone to a 2007 Palm Centro.
to quote the video from a previous UFO article

"it's a [bleep]ing drone, bro"
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cnahr, it's the average American that is extreme in the opposite direction. You can be extremely healthy following some basic and well tested advices (the HN crowd have contributed to great threads on this) without eating iridescent Himalayan thunder berries juice every full moon like Dorsey could sooner or later recommend.
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While it's overly flippant, I somehow enjoyed the register's take on it:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/02/cisco_vulnerabiliti...
This article is very short but does a good job touching on an aspect of his life.

To anyone interested in John Francis, consider reading his book Planetwalker. It's beautiful, unique, and inspiring. Think I'll read it again soon.
I could see people considering

“For 10 days a year, he sits in silence at a meditation retreat. Before getting dressed each morning, he experiments with using his home infrared sauna and then an ice bath, sometimes cycling through both several times before he leaves home.”

along the same lines.
Rental prices are also going to be influenced by the prevailing interest rates when the property was mortgaged. If interest rates have gone up since then, the cost of buying versus renting tips in their favor.

1% may not seem like much, but consider that you only pay 3.33% of the amount owed every year on a 30 year mortgage. Not only are their monthly payments lower, but they pay more principal sooner.