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> This is "no one goes there anymore because it's so crowded" argument.

This is a very true argument about the margins/economics of a business. If it is easy for competition to enter, it becomes very hard to make a high-margin, valuable business out of it.

> As to blanket "commodity" argument: McDonald sells hamburgers, Coca-Cola sells flavored water in a glass bottle and StarBucks sells coffee in a plastic cup.

All of these have substantial moats in either brand, training, or real estate. In what way does Tesla have any of these (brand matters far less for larger financial decisions like this) and why is it any advantage to any of these areas to have this attached to an electric car company?

And in this area, they already are no longer the leading brand, and have fallen behind many other solar companies.
>> corporations were taxed at reasonable rates

Corporate tax is incredibly high in the United States. It is why corporations funnel their money into other areas where it is taxed at a lower rate. No one gets away without being taxed. Payroll taxes, property taxes, use taxes, L&I taxes, etc.
When are they going to just seal off an area so it's self-driving vehicles only, and test them there? In a 100% self driving environment, edge cases are probably much easier to reason about. And if the future is 100% self driving, they should probably get some training data from that environment anyway.
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I went to a public high school in southern Maryland in the 90s. I took all honors and gifted classes. There was 1 black kid in any of my classes — in a school that was something like 60% black. And let me tell you, a lot of the white kids in my ‘gifted classes’ were idiots. It was just a way to segregate white kids from black kids within the school. If you were white and your parents had money, you were on the college track. Everyone else was going to votech.
> only aware that vegetarian & vegan diets in America are atrociously unhealthy

That is in contradiction to every major health organization in the US and abroad. Well balanced vegan and vegetarian diets are healthy and appropriate for every stage of life.

If you care about the environment and want to make food choices that minimize your impact, don't eat animal products, especially beef.
Does anybody still have a copy of the file from the MIT-AI Lab PDP-10 called "AI: HUMOR; LOGO TURTLE" or something like that? I haven't been able to find a copy myself, but I remember reading it and have confirmed that it existed, and that it was published in SIGART around 1982.

It was Leigh Klotz's sarcastic response to a Defense Department questionnaire to Terrapin about how their technology could be used to kill people.

He proposed deploying a swarm of thousands of LOGO turtles to crawl around the battlefield in mesmerizing geometric patterns, and stab the enemy with a quick succession of PENUP and PENDOWN commands (proving once again that the pen is mightier than the sword).

Cybernetic Zoo: A history of cybernetic animals and early robots: 1969 – The Logo Turtle – Seymour Papert et al (Sth African/American):

http://cyberneticzoo.com/cyberneticanimals/1969-the-logo-tur...

Logo's Yellow Turtle: First programmed in 1970. Built at MIT AI Lab:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeFhFPNO8hc

Logo Update, Volume 4, Number 3 - Spring 1996:

http://web.archive.org/web/20120904211432/http://el.media.mi...
That's still value for the early investors.
Your experience is contrary to mine in the US. I have never been given it offered more than two weeks worth for the various surgeries and injuries I have had, and it has always been hydrocodone (which I found to be useless and so stopped taking).
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As a physician, I can tell you that the health and wellness discussions in the media, Internet, and HN are horrendous.
It's also only for cases in Oklahoma. Oklahoma has under 4 million people, and the US has over 300 million, so it's about 1.2% of the US population.

If you extrapolate and assume similar settlements in 49 other states, that would come out to 250% of their annual profits. Which may not happen, but the point is that 3% should be viewed in some kind of perspective.
This is incorrect. The hardest part of developing a self-driving car is predicting the world around you in the immediate future. Knowing whether or not that object is a person is a lot easier than guessing whether or not that person is going to jump out in front of the car 1 second into the future. You have to know who is going to run stop signs, when cyclists are about to cut you off, when someone is about to back up into a parking spot.

I don't know whether or not AGI needs to be developed to make a useful self-driving car, but as time goes on I'm beginning to believe that's the case.
>> When are they going to just seal off an area so it's self-driving vehicles only, and test them there?

Talk about your all-time overfitting problem.
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We wrote a 3D version of Apple Logo [1] and we're going to be rolling out a tutorial for it for kids + running classes...

[1] https://paleotronic.com/software/microm8/help/micrologo/
I won't be surprised if a military satellite of any state capable of launching military satellites will self-destruct if taken away forcibly from the designated orbit. A simple acceleration test would suffice.

I also won't be surprised if when self-destructing, such satellite will try to deliberately damage everything in its close vicinity.
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Wait for Dream Chaser, first unmanned orbital flight planned for 2020. That one looks more promising, at least it's bigger and originally planned to be used manned.
Despite the complaints, this is fucking amazing. I remember just earlier this decade I was pissed off at a taxi company for saying a taxi will come in 20 minutes...maybe, dispatcher can’t promise. Now we got Uber/lyft, and then...DRIVERLESS vehicles?? Always seemed like science fiction but the future is here...

The bitch of this business is the long tail of possible scenarios - before people have confidence you need to solve the long tail which is hard because not as much data / much less predictable. Sounds like from article though they are making headway!
You can buy it for a couple of hundred bucks or thereabouts. You also need to buy some filler Microsoft stuff equivalent to paper clips to make up for the minimum requirement of 25 products. You will then be an Enterprise.
99% of logo users only drew imperative pictures, and that it why logo is famous.
I've always wondered: is the data the reason why credit card companies are willing to give cash back as high as 5% even to customers who carefully operate them at a clear loss for them?
Apologies, I was actually off by one: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/11/16/the-10-highest-pa...

But the point still stands.
"IT'S ALL IN THE NAME
Because 'International Organization for Standardization' would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French for Organisation internationale de normalisation), our founders decided to give it the short form ISO. ISO is derived from the Greek isos, meaning equal. Whatever the country, whatever the language, we are always ISO." https://www.iso.org/about-us.html

But I'd tend to call BS - if it wasn't ever an acronym, why capitalize all three letters?

The google ngrams are also suggestive:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=international+...
This might just be me, but it strikes me that the biggest problem self-driving cars has is that no-one actually needs them. Don’t get me wrong, you try to sell me a car that has the (fully capable) feature I’d definitely want it. But need it? Well, you’re not going to solve the problem of too many cars and the slow traffic that results with cars. It’d be hard to get special treatment for cars with a premium feature. Then there’s the taxi model, where the aim of the game is to undercut people that Uber has already managed to push below minimum wage. I mean, there’s a margin there, but is it really “Next Google” sized? Even with dedicated vehicles, that’s a lot of hardware to maintain.

Now let’s assume it’s successful and sustainable. Let’s say we also manage to get it to work for freight. What have we achieved? Well, we’ve put a couple more of the jobs available to low-skilled workers on the scrap heap. There will be consequences to doing that, but I doubt Waymo will be footing that bill.
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privacy.com comes up on HN a lot, and every time they do I try to take the time to point out they require a binding arbitration agreement with no opt-out.

Arbitration agreements are bad in general, but not necessarily uncommon. What makes privacy.com different is that they have access to your bank account. They're in a position where they have direct access to your funds, and you can't bring them to court if they wrong you.

I've had people suggest that I link privacy.com to a limited bank account and manually transfer money. That's a good suggestion, I'd probably do that no matter how they were set up. But that's not going to help if privacy.com takes you to arbitration over a bogus overdraft charge, or if they leak your credit card numbers, or if they start selling data behind your back. My bank doesn't have an arbitration agreement tied to my checking or savings account. I don't think it's justifiable for privacy.com to claim that they have more customer risk than my bank does.

If a business includes an arbitration agreement in your terms of service, I immediately assume that they don't respect their customers. There are some businesses where I tolerate that, but I need a heck of a good reason -- especially if that business is going to be managing my bank account.

Binding arbitration agreements are underhanded. The only reason to have one is because you want to make sure right from the start that you're not accountable to your customers.
Prices falling to 0 isn't a good thing; it means there is too much power and nothing to use it for. Nobody wants that, it is pointless.

The people building the capital will make a profit over the year, so consumers will make up for the 0s with higher prices when there is not enough energy. And over the long term $0 prices potentially lead to building less infrastructure leading to blackouts.

Basically we know the average price is not going to be 0. Therefore, 0 prices signals variance. Variance is pretty much always risky and expensive in big infrastructure; and the electricity market is a good example. It can hopefully be managed to only be a minor inconvenience but it is certainly not a positive for anyone.

It does signal that there is a golden window to, eg, run a desalination plant. If anyone takes advantage of that opportunity then it would be a win, but the symptom of that happening would be non-0 prices.

EDIT

Also, coal plant failures in hot weather are probably a symptom of them not being maintained. Australia has already seen a Labor-Green coalition in federal politics; you'd have to be an idiot to spend money maintaining a coal plant in that political environment. Better to let them run down and try to extract money from the government in a crisis situation which seems to be the current strategy.
> Isn't the premise of every one of his books "scientists fuck it up, leading to exciting circumstances"?

No, that's an inaccurate and uncharitable summarization of his literary career. Scientists fucking up covers some of his more popular works accurately, Jurassic Park more than the rest, but other stories have the scientists/doctors working hard to save lives, or otherwise behaving admirably. Sphere has the scientists accidentally acquire godlike powers, only to willingly relinquish those powers for the greater good.

In fact, in several of his novels, including Jurassic Park, I think there is stronger anti-corporate sentiment than there is anti-science sentiment. The book makes clear that the problems at Jurassic Park are caused by a corporation cutting corners to turn a profit on a complex system before pausing to understand what they were dealing with. In the novel, the park owner John Hammond is consumed by dinosaurs. For whatever reason the movie let him live, and otherwise tuned down the anti-corporate angle. In the book his idiocy and greed made him a villain, but the movie makes him seem like a cuddly victim. In the book the two heroes are paleontologists (scientists) who were not to blame for the disaster but nevertheless behaved heroically in their attempts to mitigate harm.

A similar theme is found in Airframe though, which covers the interactions between a crash site investigator trying to find a truth that's inconvienent to the airline (that the pilot was to blame.) It could have been about aircraft engineers or aerospace scientists fucking up... but it wasn't. Disclosure and Rising Sun are controversial for their own reasons, but both have prominent anti-corporate themes.

Then there are the novels that seem unrelated to the discussion at all, like Eaters of the Dead which was a retelling of Beowulf from the perspective of an Arab traveler from Baghdad.
These court-cases have two worthy objectives: Correcting this behavior in pharmaceutical co.s in the future and compensating the states & people harmed in the past.

Incentivizing restraint and honest advertising is only possible by punishing executives, personally [1]. Especially those in sales.

And fair compensation is many, many times this number. So I fail to see how this is anything other than an injustice, and fear that it will take the pressure off of other court cases against opioid sellers.

Reading the book "Dreamland" [2] on the opioid crisis changed my life. Even as someone from a part of Ohio hurt by opioids, it's hard to imagine the venality of these people, the callousness of the Mexican drug dealers who swoop in behind them, and the magnitude of suffering their perfect storm concocts.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19669453
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidem...
Because in a lot of cases, when you split whites and Asians apart, it turns out whites are under-represented (e.g. at Google, at Harvard, at Yale..)

That would raise too many questions.
"If you did those two things extremely well, the actual driving logic can be hardcoded."

I mean, it _could_ be hardcoded, but there's millions of edge cases so it's pretty infeasible. I agree with parent comment that full level 5 requires something close to AGI - the difficult part in in getting a self driving car is giving the AI something along the lines of "common sense", the ability to reason about what to do in an unfamiliar situation.
Well said! Reminded me of Bixby!
The word "minority" has the connotation of "underpriviliged". While there are poor Asians, the median Asian American income is $20k higher than the median US income ($80k vs $60k).

Also, historically Asian Americans actually have voted more conservative (over 2/3 voted Republican as late as the 80s). The shift towards democrats was more recent, and is considered to be a product of anti-immigrant Republican policy and tensions with China (large segment of Asian Americans are Chinese).
Part of the confusion is that Marx's earlier writing didn't become well-known until the communist movement was well underway. But I don't think Marx ever truly threw off his Hegelian roots, even if he criticised himself (he had a wickedly sharp pen and used it on everyone and everything).
>Corporations are made of people that pay income tax and property tax

Exactly. and drawing a distinction between the two is essential. In the US it seems to be, an ideal anyway.
this might be useful to read for some general high level ideas on how to proceed: http://m.nautil.us/issue/17/big-bangs/how-i-rewired-my-brain...
Then pirate it. What do you care? This is like pirating a show they refuse to put on Netflix. They don't give you the option to conveniently buy what you want, so pirate it.

Instructions on how to activate your installation of LTSC here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19420337
No. They make money on the swipe, and more money on the interest, if people don’t pay them off every month, and most don’t.
Lenin advocated a lot of things depending on the audience, but in tactical terms he was perfectly happy to advocate what we might today call terrorism.
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My suggestion would be this.
Assume that you have your intuition, already, and it is good.

May be it is distinct from others, may be you will not be 'narrowing' to the right answer within seconds -- like many folks who do Olympiads...

Just do basic things, but every other day.
Get books/materials that have solutions (not just problems).
use those, compare your results, and then try again.

If you feel like you do not understand 'why', you will need a particular subject area. Switch to read about applications of that area, how historically it came about and so.

And then back to problem solving, proofs, and reading other people's papers (when you can..).

It is hard work, but over time you will build up your version of the so called intuition, it will be powerful, you will be able to apply it all over the place.

Also there are a number of math forums where you can reach out, if you are really stuck and cannot figure out how a particular proof, or solution was obtained.
This is my dream project to try ;-)

It seems that the "way to win" in the twenty-first century is going to be "who can outsource white collar work to the cheapest country, and coordinate to get the best quality out of the workforce" -- an echo of the late twentieth-century which was "who can outsource blue collar / manufacturing work to the cheapest country and coordinate it best with regard to the logistics and manufacturing quality".

I sat in a conference call with 50 other people, where the majority were not English speakers, where the presenters were not native English speakers either, but it was all conducted in English anyway. (It was a USA-based company.)

I presume that Chinese-based companies will end up similar. The conference call of 2035 will have people from dozens of countries stumbling through understanding a barely-tonal, barely-comprehensible Mandarin presentation. Maybe there will be a Swahili bloc of countries and an Arabic-speaking bloc too.

And I remember calculating the number of hours wasted in that one meeting, and how much time would have been saved had Esperanto been part of the company onboarding. I still wonder whether there's room for an intentionally Esperanto-speaking company to be able to work more efficiently across more countries than any native-language-first company.

Maybe it fits in with face-to-face company culture (in a location, so therefore basically mono-lingual) vs remote company culture (spread across the world, so needing a lingua franca).
I agree that Houston's concrete sprawl isn't endearing and that it's suffering some externalities, but in some respects I also see it as some sort of harbinger for Austin.

I like Austin, and would love to live there, but I'm timid about moving there in the short term because the transit, roadway, and housing situations don't seem very sustainable with all of this growth thrown on top.

FWIW, at least per numbers from proximityone.com (and I'm not certain how well-sourced the data is...) the Austin MSA is significantly less dense than Houston's:

> Geography. The total land area of the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX MSA is 8,265.8 SqMi with water area of 1,178.1 SqMi. The metro ranked 21st among all metros based on total land area. With 2017 population density of 833.9, the metro ranked 20th among all metros (based on land area). http://proximityone.com/cbsa/1/cbsa26420.htm

> Geography. The total land area of the Austin-Round Rock, TX MSA is 4,221.7 SqMi with water area of 58.4 SqMi. The metro ranked 96th among all metros based on total land area. With 2017 population density of 501.2, the metro ranked 49th among all metros (based on land area). http://proximityone.com/cbsa/1/cbsa12420.htm
I take everything from Bloomberg with a big chunk of ice cream salt, because they are, quoting John Gruber:

"... the publication that published “The Big Hack” last October — a sensational story alleging that data centers of Apple, Amazon, and dozens of other companies were compromised by China’s intelligence services. The story presented no confirmable evidence at all, was vehemently denied by all companies involved, has not been confirmed by a single other publication (despite much effort to do so), and has been largely discredited by one of Bloomberg’s own sources. By all appearances “The Big Hack” was complete bullshit. Yet Bloomberg has issued no correction or retraction, and seemingly hopes we’ll all just forget about it. I say we do not just forget about it. Bloomberg’s institutional credibility is severely damaged, and everything they publish should be treated with skepticism until they retract the story or provide evidence that it was true."
All it takes is a reasonable storage of that energy for later use. I saw a crane design that didn’t require any major tech.
Note that Asians skewed quite strongly republican as recently as 1996, and some Asian groups still do (Vietnamese Americans overwhelmingly approve of Trump). That said, Trump got just 18% of the Asian vote, far less than the 32% he got of the Hispanic vote. Although the nativist tendencies of the Republican Party as of late have been directed at Hispanics, Asians have somehow reacted even even more strongly to that tone.
The entire consumer oriented line of Windows 10 feels like a bad trip to a US strip mall. It's preinstalled with loads of junk you can't remove easily. For a while I spent some time putting together a small workflow to clean up Windows 10 builds for a project I was working on. If your hand is forced and you need a minimum amount of tools to get rid of as much bloat and telemetry there are two tools you need:

1) Geek Uninstaller [0]
2) O&O Shutup10 [1]

Both are free. Maybe there's better options now, but... They helped tremendously a short time ago.

[0] https://geekuninstaller.com/
[1] https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
That's not really what I'm talking about. That's back to front, where you're using Excel as the core repository for important stuff. I'm talking about using VBA/Office the other way around, to combine and report on stuff that lives in various databases and systems, and thereby prevents what you're talking about.

The kind of alternatives I was questioning are BI reporting solutions - I have especially painful memories of Qlikview, and I just googled the licensing fees and they are insane.
Know anything about Turok?
Not sure what you are talking about. Seems like prices are high in Australia: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/01/austr...

It is pretty much basic physics and math:

1. Power supply must balance power consumption.
2. No one wants blackouts.
3. Intermittent power sources must be backed up by non-intermittent power sources.
4. You have to pay for the intermittent power generation as well as the backup power generation.
5. Cost of providing power goes up because your capitol costs have increased.