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>It sounds better, but in terms of societal welfare, it's worse.

Within the very contrived confines of the hawk-dove model sure, but I highly doubt that the hawk-dove game is a particularly useful model for society as a whole.
So you think it is more likely that BMW and MB figure out very complex technical issues, totally rethink how to build cars and then manage to build that stuff at very large scale, compared to Tesla improving how well plastic panels are attached?

The BMW/MB that are coming out in the next 1-2 are already behind Tesla now. Tesla already outsells BMW/MB in many markets.

It will take a very long time before BMW/MB can even mount a serious challenge in terms of EV scale. Specially that without their own battery ack production they will simple not produce the car as cheaply.
Pacific islands will survive climate crisis because they 'pick our fruit'
Including poisoning our fish. Coal is where the mercury in fish comes from.
One possible issue I have heard about regarding paint problems in particular is that California State and Bay Area local authorities have particularly tight limits on VOCs in terms of lbs per gallon of paint, and in terms of total annual lbs of VOC emissions which the Tesla paint shops are allowed to emit.

I believe the Federal standard is 5.0lbs/gallon but CA limits that further to 3.5lbs/gallon. Apparently it’s pretty hard to make decent hard coat paint with that little VOC emissions.

The BAAQMD (Bay Area Air Quality Management District) also permits Tesla paint shops for a maximum total annual VOC emission level. This level could be low enough that either the paint shop becomes a production bottleneck, or they have to find ways to use less paint per vehicle.

It can’t be easy to manufacture cars in the regulatory environment that is the Bay Area, and many of these regs have tightened significantly since GM & Toyota closed NUMMI in 2010. CARB VOC limits, and local air quality district regulations in particular.

I’m sure this is an issue that all manufacturers are facing to some degree, but it’s interesting how the location of the final assembly plants can have a big impact on the regulations and therefore the finishing processes that can be used.

EDIT: That’s not to say the limits should not exist, or Tesla should be granted a waiver, etc.
No clue, but Boeing’s weasel-worded statement sounds awfully like they’re trying to defend a software-only solution.
This is one of the strongest cognitive dissonances that I have. And I have no idea why it exists. I know that rationally, tabs are really the better choice. Each user can choose how to display code in their editor.

But I just hate using them.

Maybe it was the 8 space default of vim (nano?) when I was sysadmining. Maybe it was that there was inertia, and tabs are always the thing that's causing problems. But I just can't get over it. I just don't like tabs.
You claim that the science is concrete but cite no actual studies. I’m assuming that this kind of behavior is going to be a good indicator of the product’s actual effectiveness on driving safety overall.
That wouldn't be my major objection. Its basically rushing through exactly the same steps the west has been through (why?) and locking in a model of the grid based on centralised generators, when they have the opportunity to build out a grid based entirely on renewables.

I'm thinking of more rural areas here, that havent already been hooked up to the grid. If you introduce possibly intermittent renewables villages are probably going to be more accepting if they don't already have access to 24/7 power. They can make it work for them, but that village can join up with other villages and become more reliable as the network expands.

Its analogous to mobile phones and mobile payments in the developing world. You don't have to build the landline and banking infrastructure, you can miss it out completely.
I guess the same can be said for working with devs who Lint and those that dont
I would bet this is due to some hidden variable. Maybe older or more experienced developers have a tendency to use spaces, so their compensation reflects age/level/experience, not their choice of indentation?
AR might be the winner. In addition to the clunkiness of the gear that you mentioned, it's a bit disorienting (and sometimes unsafe) to be removed from your present environment.
As someone who uses mathematics for programming (just look at my blog: https://pron.github.io/) I am very much in favor. What I'm against is people who don't understand math, and promote a magical view of it (not math but "mathiness"), as they don't realize its strengths and challenges. That's what I find annoying in the FP community.
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Better soak all that rice coming out of Arkansas.
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Sounds like an US problem.

In countries with universal health care private companies have nothing to do with health related problems.
It's easy to sell a product, when you charge less than it costs to produce. That's the silicon valley way.
Yes, but that nuclear waste is in storage pools. The waste from the coal plants is in the air we breath and the ash-spills effect the water we drink.

Or better yet, walk around an operating nuke plant with a radiation detector and then do the same walk around an operating coal plant. I am willing to bet the coal plant will spike higher.
California irrigation faces its own problems: https://psmag.com/environment/cleaning-up-californias-three-...
This article says almost nothing and then just has a lot of stock photos. This one linked from it is much better: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/27/mauritania-her...
I've always suspected that "go fmt" is a tool of income suppression...
This seems to be par for the course for any startup that drinks its own Kool-aid. I've been told many times at every organization I've been at by enthusiastic co-workers believing the exit is right around the corner. It never was and all of those previous orgs have either gone bankrupt or had really unfavorable acqui-hires. I believe in enjoying my work environment, being paid fairly, and doing work that positively impacts society. Beyond that, I treat every share of equity as toilet paper in the negotiation stage -- when it comes to a private company organized as a startup/VC-leech.
It’s just what’s hot right now? Look at hacker news. There are several articles on interesting technical topics on the front page right now and this thread has almost triple the comments of any other. People love to have opinions on this stuff.
Cameras do not perform saccades, for starters...
The hardware isn't as analogous as it might seem.
> I don't like to work at companies where everyone "is a family"

Same. In my experience, employers describe themselves that way to create a sense of obligation in their employees.
I don't know what 'TFA' is, but you say that it says experts should be paid, so I don't understand what your argument is here.

The second scenario you describe is clearly corrupt, but I don't see how paying a consultant for their time is the objectionable part; when you stack that against a DA on the take, a police force on the take, and a rich man fabricating evidence, that all seems like a larger problem to me than "the rich man can pay an expert to testify about their expertise", especially given that the testimony of the expert witness can be challenged.
Can you create a breathalyzer for biases next so we can police the cops?

Seriously, why do we need MORE police tech when current tech is already abused beyond belief?

Please rethink your values and reconsider the unintended consequences you might have by feeding into such a violent system. Or take responsibility for how you enable abuse of people using your tech.
Musk has some cool ideas but he seems like a petulant child and a complete asshole. I used to have some dream about working for Tesla or SpaceX, but the more I read about him and his companies, I'm happy to stay right where I am now. He treats everyone like shit from his direct reports down to the little guy on the line.

Not to mention living on the west coast is significantly more expensive than the midwest, it's not worth it.
What's the viability of breeding plants to concentrate as much arsenic as possible, and then spending several growing seasons extracting it from fields, collecting the plants, and disposing of them?
> I am surprised you seek to attack them as "cults".

I don't call people who actually study and understand math as a cult. Those people don't usually make outlandish claims that "if only people applied some math magic dusts, writing correct programs would be easy," because they know the really difficult challenges (after all, it is complexity theory, a mathematical theory of sorts, that tells us that verifying programs is very, very hard). But that's not what I see in the FP community. I see mathiness, not math. I also see cultish adoration; the lambda calculus was discovered, not invented? Come on! It's not only wrong, but it's a kind of religious adoration. I call cults cult.
Puerto Rico != Costa Rica, which is the country this story took place in.
Genuine question: can Mozilla prevent Firefox from allowing an extension to be installed _at all_, or is this more a matter of de-listing an extension from the Mozilla directory?
I use it for all sorts of things.

I recently had to do some mandatory training which would require me to spend 30h in front of the computer clicking every couple of seconds. The issue is that I already know the material perfectly well, so my time would be spent better learning something else.

Nothing so difficult that couldn't be done with simple shell loop and automated clicking with xdotool:)
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Which camp does that put me in - I use the tab key for code indentation, but my editor is configured to replace tabs with 4 spaces
Assuming your API follows REST, I find the MVC pattern to be immensely helpful. Even if the "V" part is just an object serializer, it's still a great pattern.
I think at this level the complaint (which I share) of all the things systemd tries to do falls more on the distros for handing so many things to systemd by default than on the systemd team giving us options for ways to do so many things.

I like unit files. I like having an optional watchdog for any given daemon integrated with my init. I don't particularly mind hostnamectl. I dislike resolverd but I see how some people could like it. I like having both signed binary logs and plaintext logs.

I wish the distros just made it simpler to pick and choose which systemd components we use at installation time. It would be better IMO than having to manually undo lots of integrations of parts of systemd I don't want and replacing them. So far the distro solution has seemed to be whole hog systemd or baby and bathwater, depending on the distro. Yes, we can set up our own base image and then maintain that, but should it be necessary?
Yeah, what happens when the next drug comes to legalization? A new device and a new dubious test with a 20 dollar per test charge? Maybe a cop should have a PlayStation and a driving wheel to test for impairment. Or a button that you have to press when you see something on the screen.
It does sound reasonable as a conservative default, but the same could be said about driving after two or three drinks—while it certainly doesn’t make anyone a better driver, good laws often try to strike a balance between public safety and not over-criminalizing extremely common and relatively low risk behavior.

Edit: What do you think would happen if we made a strict law that anything more than 0.0% BAC = a DWI? My guess is you’d end up with a lot fewer slightly intoxicated drivers, and a lot more extremely intoxicated drivers, because people will figure they might as well just drink as much as they want if they’re already breaking the law anyway.
I really think the split is almost purely a generational thing. If your first exposure to computers/coding was using a terminal, I think you will end up leaning towards spaces. If you grew up in the post GUI world on Windows or Mac, I think you end up leaning towards spaces.
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i am always amazed at how much time people sink into these discussions :D as if commonly formatted textfiles was the biggest concern people have in their day-to-day ;)
It is. I wonder if it's an artifact of the other languages used at the organization, i.e. Go developers who use spaces are likely to be working on utilities or support code for a product that's primarily written in C or C++ (and probably been generating revenue for a while), while Go developers who use spaces are more likely to be working in green-field pure Go codebases that are newer with less of an established market.
Tabs are adjustable, so more likely in larger teams. But devs on smaller teams probably make more as individuals. That’s my guess.
>So the number of people that prefer spaces far outweighs the tabbers. Now, take the pool of people that use spaces and tabs and let them compete for a 100k job. 9 times out of 10 even if randomly hired it will be a space person.

Err, is the distribution is only affected by the number in each category (and not e.g. tab/space preference), then you'd be able to sample the same results for 30k jobs. 9 times out of ten it will be a space person there too.

Thus, if the 28,657 survey respondents are also randomly distributed, the ratio of poor vs good paid would be the same as real life, as would be the ratio of tabs vs spaces.

In other words, one wouldn't expect a skew in one category in favor of the other (if the choice wasn't a factor). Of course correlation != causation, but correlation can point to causation, or to a third, unknown factor that correlates with both attributes.
I don't see anything in TFA that says being a wage slave is equivalent to someone sleeping with your spouse and that the implied appropriate response is to be hyper "masculine" for some definition thereof. But this is dripping in the parent comment and when I google "wagecuck" that is the kind of misplaced anger I see from a lot of apparent confused kids, many identifying with alt-right, alpha male or incel culture. It is anger and paranoia. I don't know Bukowski's work well but I sort of doubt that is what he was about.
And what about developers that add spaces by using the TAB-key?
Oof, looks like Tridactyls "fixamo" disabled the URL checking for addon installation in firefox, by writing into the user.js prefs:

user_pref("extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains", "");

I can see why they'd get yanked over that. I would definitely not expect installing a random addon that makes my browser have vim controls to change a relatively sensitive setting like that.

The developers are now whining about being asked to revert that change, on the grounds that touching the file is a breach of trust (which, they've already done)
In general, that standard field sobriety test (walk in a straight line, stand on one foot, touch your nose, horizontal gaze nystagmus test) is used to gauge that kind of impairment. There are some companies that are working on automating the SFST, especially the horizontal gaze nystagmus test, but it is actually really difficult to build a device that is easy and portable but is also as accurate as a police officer.
I wonder if that's related, directly or indirectly to the grid trip: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49302996
It's true that Gin's Context is different from context.Context, but I don't see how that's inherently problematic.
I feel like the "bad fit and finish" is an outdated criticism that people can't let go of. For proof, here is Bob Lutz, who has been on the board of all Big 3 automakers has to say about Tesla's fit and finish.

"So, while I continue to be critical of Tesla's business model and Musk's strategy, it was impossible to find fault with the visual quality of that Model 3." [1]

1. https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/a28008116/tesla-model-...
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What kind of research did you do on your own?
I see marijuana and alcohol compared a lot with various things, that's the point where I stop participating in the conversation. It's pointless to compare two drugs with wildly different effects, onsets, durations and side effects. I disagree heavily with them being used as a point of comparison when it comes to effects on motor skills, coordination and general dangerous behaviour. I've personally imbibed both enough, been around enough people intoxicated on one or the other to know they're not comparable.

Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant that that, in high doses, causes an extreme degredation to motor skills, coordination, and thought patterns and can cause a loss of conciousness.

I agree there should be safety regulations in regards to weed but, breathalyzers and typical drug and alcohol tests are not an effective way to gauge the level of cannabis intoxication for an indiviual.
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Softest is an automated test tool for recording browser interactions and generating test scripts, simple and practical. It allows you to get test scripts without writing code.

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It's just cause people using tabs are not using properly configured IDEs or text editors, which reflects a lack of experience or adaptability, which reflects the lower salary.

Edit: It's also kind of funny how people in this thread are making it seem like there's some kind of controversy. There isn't: the question was settled a long time ago.
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Interesting idea (congrats on launching) and interesting discussion here. Reading this thread has popped up some questions in my mind and I'm curious to hear thoughts:

Why do we (aka society aka the police) test for specific substance quantities at all? Really, I think, what we care about is whether someone is able to competently perform the task of driving at a given moment.

If you are unable to perform that task, then you should be removed from the road (and, possibly, punished).

Frankly, I don't really care whether you're drunk, high, tired, distracted from texting or even if you're just a plain 'ol bad driver. The net result is the same - you're an increased risk to others on (and off) the road and your risk should be mitigated.

This gets to the root of a number of related issues - the fact that different bodies react to different levels of chemicals in different ways, etc. etc.

If you're able to function at a given moment, fine by me. If your driving is compromised for whatever reason (as demonstrated by a field sobriety test), then off the road you go.

Thoughts / corrections / slap-downs?
Indeed. Esp. Cyberiad and Robot's tales are full of wordplays, including the famous Elektrybałt's (Electro-poet's?) poem. Comparing the Polish (my native tongue) version end the English one (not a native speaker myself), I think that the Polish version is a bit better, using better-fitting rhymes and bigger amount of wordplay, but Michael Kandel (the translator) did an amazing job with the translation anyway:

--"Have it compose a poem — a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter S!!"

--“And why not throw in a full exposition of the general theory of nonlinear automata while you’re at it?” growled Trurl. “You can’t give it such idiotic — ”

But he didn’t finish. A melodious voice filled the hall with the following:

“Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming,
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide.”*
"No stock for employees" in a startup actually sounds great to me. The approximate value of that part of the package is about zero, but few people realize that, and a lot of employees get taken advantage of when startups offer lower pay in exchange for minuscule (and dwindling through dilution) equity. Receiving competitive amounts of hard cash would be better for 99.9% of the people.
I've definitely been bitten by this and the work around is pretty hacky.
>Without having an (even if approximate) estimation of the time needed?

>So - in theory - the cleaner could have taken another 3.5 hours (or another 35 for the sake of the reasoning) and you would have paid her for that time?

If neither the client nor the contractor stops it, it can go on indefinitely. There are probably limits in the app for how many continuous hours a worker can bill. But she finished at midnight, and I was probably 30-60 minutes from asking her to wrap it up.

>Well, maybe not in NY, if you were living in Calgary you could even have had your keyboard professionally cleaned for free:

>http://www.onsitecomputercleaning.ca/freekeyboardcleaning

Oh, neat. I think that's actually for companies though. They say it's so you can decide whether you like their services enough to clean all of your equipment. I imagine they wouldn't agree to give away free cleanings to private residences.
A simple timer is all you need, and that's of course optional as well.

It is good to provide a bit of structure to your practice, and the duration of the sit is important. To get started, I think it's much better to offload that worry (have I sat long enough? etc.) to a simple timer. Then you just sit until it sounds.

Directed meditation is fine, too. Try it out if you like; it's usually best to try a few approaches and learn from each.
Realistically, I'm more radical than 99% of the members of that site, though in a different way. I'm not at risk of accidentally becoming a stereotypical right-winger.

I use it for a purpose. I'm mostly interested in political news in a few areas, and those areas strongly coincide with what the userbase of that site are interested in. My positions on those areas differ in quite a few ways, but that's OK.

> Spend too much time playing Sam Harris and now your wife is embarrassed to bring you to parties for fear of an outburst about Muslims.

I'm much more at risk of embarrassing my wife through an outburst about the nature of taxation or the base immorality of government as a whole.

It's still unlikely though. She's at least as radical as I am, and a decade ago we decided to have children instead of a social life :)
There is also the simpler "Isha Kria" guided meditation available online:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/K4hCvdDn7Zc (important introduction)

https://www.youtube.com/embed/wHnl_XugJyE (instructions and guided meditation).

I practised this twice a day for about 2 months before completing the Inner Engineering program and it was a very good experience. I have now switched to Shambavi but that takes longer and comes with more strict practice conditions.
>Between 1950 and 2015, there were 82 occupations out of 459 that flipped from male to female and/or female to male. Out of the 82, 72 shifted from male to female majority. There were 28 occupations that shifted from majority female to male. (Keep in mind that an occupation can fluctuate more than once over the years.)

Opinion - It seems to me the only real female dominated space where males are gaining equal track is "Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other". Females however are gaining a ton of ground in a multitude of professions/services (which is a good thing).

I would be interested in seeing this data cross analyzed with the respected field's average yearly salary.
would this work?

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gy7qm9/how-i-made-imsi-ca...
It looks like you had to run the command explicitly to do that though, and that it wasn't done by default, so it seems pretty kosher to me if they had appropriate warnings (and I think the issue says they did...)
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