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Why are you dismissing his personal observations with such a condescending attitude?

First of all it's a well documented phenomenon that NYC apartments are being bought by wealthy foreigners to invest and/or launder money without actually living there. As a result, these wealthy areas are eerily empty:

"In a three-block stretch of Midtown, from East 56th Street to East 59th Street, between Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue, 57 percent, or 285 of 496 apartments, including co-ops and condos, are vacant at least 10 months a year. From East 59th Street to East 63rd Street, 628 of 1,261 homes, or almost 50 percent, are vacant the majority of the time, according to data from the Census Bureau’s 2012 American Community Survey." [1]

The increasingly empty storefronts in Manhattan are also well-documented. Anyone who's lived in Manhattan for multiple years has noticed this - commercial venues shutting down, and either remaining vacant or being replaced with Chase bank retail branches or megachains.

There are a ton of trust fund kids who don't work, noticeably more compared to any other city I've lived in. Of course it's probably a minority, but doesn't change the reality of it.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/realestate/pieds-terre-ow...
Perhaps you could try CPU training. I believe it should take about 10x longer on a many-core machine, but still might be worth it (if you require lots of RAM and can afford to wait). There are also various techniques to reduce memory usage.
Question. Part of western awareness towards, paranoia, fear, and wherewithal to stand against certain government behaviors and the totalitarian state is obviously awoken from and influenced by fiction, including 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, It Cant Happen Here, The Handmaid's Tale, A Clockwork Orange, Philip K. Dick, even We. This shared and collective "memory" of fables, many of which people havent even read but still discuss as if they had, give all a certain a framework, grammar, and shared understanding for talking about the future, and thusly what consequences may come from allowing said future to unfold unabated.

Does eastern fiction not have this foundation of fictional dystopia from 50-100 years ago woven into societies consciousness? Are people more accepting of certain encroachments towards that type of future, because their legend and myth dont as often scream about potential slippery slopes and repercussions? Is it a fictional fear instilled in our cultural fabric that makes us so averse to what maybe isnt and wont ever be as bad as our stories tell us it will be?
I would be fine with this if 1. we had better charging ports in the seats, 2. I could strap my iPad to the headrest in front of me.
Mine came with a faulty screen from a third-party, also had a Dell technician come to my office and replace it there and then.
It might also be possible that someone was violating terms while imposting as the user in question using snooped access tokens or whatever. There won't be a trial where the reason might come to light.
Do you have any stats on apartments without baths? I know apartments with no showers exist but I haven't seen one since 2000. I don't know how common they still are. Prices of new apartments and houses are not that high (well, relative to NYC, SF). Sure there are expensive places like Meguro, but I see ads on the subways all the time for brand new 100m^2 apartments for ~$400k (I guess that's to your point that they are further out but don't a lot of people takes trains in to NYC from far away? I know Google offers buses from Walnut Creek to the Google Campus. That's 50 miles which I think is further than most of the reasonable prices places you can live in Tokyo)

Japan also has the interesting issue (like you mentioned) that buying a house or condo is not an investment which I find fascinating. It suggests to me not that housing prices always go up just because of "economics" but also partly by culture and belief. People in many places take it for granted that real estate prices go up so they go up. They expect them to go up. Japanese take for granted that real estate prices go down. To them buying a house or an apartment is like buying a car. After you buy it it's used car / used house and no one wants that (well, less people want that), they want new so price goes down on non-new stuff. If I understand correctly there are only a few small areas of Tokyo (Meguro being one) where prices of used apartments are going up. If you can buy the land, the land prices might go up but if you're buying an apartment/condo you're not buying the land.
So why is average pay for women across all positions less than men? It's not like Salesforce employees are doing heavy manual labor that skews itself towards hiring more men. Why aren't women being hired in positions at the same rates as men (at which point we can then address the issue of pay inequality for the same position?) If this is an issue of "we're not hiring women to the same higher paid positions as men", that is a problem separate from the problem of "we're not paying women equally to men in the same position."
If we don't assume that on average, we have very little to talk about. ;)
I open word an Excel documents in LibreOffice. Should work for documents without macros. I've had less luck with PP, but it's been years since I've tried that.
Maybe this was some social engineering attack, and the victim wasn't blocked by Google, but lost the account to the attacker?
I don't know why you'd be downvoted. 60 percent of the national budget goes to military.
YouTube doesn't pay for anything. YouTube is not profitable.
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Not to be excessively cynical, but the purpose of this opinion piece probably has more to do with: “Marc Benioff is the chairman and co-chief executive of Salesforce and the author, with Monica Langley, of the forthcoming book, “Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change.”
There's no information on a settlement, only that both parties agree to drop the lawsuit.
If you have all the cars driving themselves they can function more like a swarm/grid of vehicles managed externally vs individual agents working against each other. This means you can have cars going like 80-100 mph but driving bumper to bumper.
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That's not caring, it's redirecting blame.

If they were pushing for greater criminal penalties for distributing counterfeit goods, as a crime of negligence or strict liability, then I'd think they cared.

Or, if they just took tangible action to stop distributing counterfeits themselves, that would be even more convincing.
You're not entirely wrong, but I do think it's a gigantic oversimplification to only look at the value of Hong Kong in terms of percentage of GDP. While I do agree that a crackdown is likely, I also think the consequences to China's economy, both from direct factors but also from indirect factors that are hard to predict, may be significant in doing so.

At the end of the day, it's my opinion that this struggle is from the CCP side of things not a rational one. They are willing to sacrifice "rational" values for the sake of things like honor and saving face, and I think (and to some extent, hope) that there is a risk that type of decision making will cause a downward spiral for the regime.

I can't remember who made this point, but there's a historical anecdote about how "totalitarian regimes are suicidal". Sooner or later the fascist cocktail that has fueled economic growth explodes into unbearable oppression, unsustainable expansion, economically questionable decisions, or all of the above. I've heard the point many times that just like the Roman Empire was always just "one missed grain shipment away from a revolution", the only thing really standing between the CCP and a popular revolt is the downturn of the economy. The only reason people are tolerating the suffocating oppression of the state is because of tangible rewards.
In most complex systems the reality is people will encounter harm. The commercial airline industry is a good example of progress through crashing.

In 2017 there were zero reported accidentally deaths [1]. Compared to 1972, one of the most dangerous years to fly, where more than 2,300 accidental deaths occurred on commercial flights.

How did we go from thousands of deaths to zero? Primarily through crashing. Then working to evaluate what went wrong and improve the design, processes, and programs around commercial aviation.

As one pilot explains [2]:

"One of the ways we’ve become so safe was to realize that our efforts were never going to be good enough."

So yes, I think technologies like autopilot will save lives. But it won't be able to do it magically, unfortunately some harm will occur because we—in all our human wisdom—just can never accurately predict all possibilities. It's the same problem most self-driving companies are facing today, and the reason promises of self-driving being here today have fallen short. The world is far, far more complex than we realize... especially when we put a computer out into it and tell it to "go forth."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-aviation-safety/2017-safe...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/cox/2018/01/...
Each time I read a billionaire criticizing the current capitalistic system, that reminds me of Jacques Attali's argument on how Karl Marx was misunderstood with Socialism.

https://www.newstatesman.com/node/195490

Extract:
"Attali: What he tried with the international socialist movement was an amazing attempt to think about the world in global terms. Marx is an amazingly modern thinker, because when you look at what he has written, it is not a theory of what an organised socialist country should be like, but how capitalism will be in the future. Contrary to the caricature of Marxism, he is first an admirer of capitalism. For him, it is a much better system than any other before it, because he considers the earlier systems to be obscurantist. Once or twice he had the idea that it was going to be the end, but he very rapidly decided that this was not the case, and that capitalism had a huge future.

What is very modern also in his view is that he considered that capitalism would end only when it was a global force, when the whole of the working class was part of it, when nations disappeared, when technology was able to transform the life of a country. He mentioned China and India as potential partners of capitalism, and said, for instance, that protectionism is a mistake, that free trade is a condition for progress.

For Marx, capitalism has to be worldwide before we think about socialism. Socialism for him is beyond capitalism and not instead of capitalism. He has much say on globalisation, what is happening to movement of companies, delocalisation and everything that is linked to the way we live today. In a sense, the Soviet Union was destroying or interrupting the validity of Marx's thinking and the fall of the Berlin Wall is giving back a raison d’être to his work, because Marx was thinking of the world globally and the Soviet system was a nightmare that he did not forecast."
Right. So use Mac, and go for a nice walk outside whenever something pisses you off that is unmodifiable.

You have the free time since you're not tinkering, right? :P
My takeaway from the letter is that pilots should be at the top of there game at all times, and one shouldn't be cheap when building an airplane. Blaming pilots for a shoddy aircraft is weak sauce, and Sulli wantd us to know that.
As a JVM developer, to me, Windows became a superior developer operating system to both MacOS and Linux about five years ago.

I still use both Windows and MacOS on a daily basis and dislike my MacOS time more and more each day, due to a mix of hardware reasons and software issues like the ones described in that article.
Re: 1. above, who do we sue when the autopilot kills someone? The owner of the vehicle? The manufacturer? The driver behind the wheel (if there is one and it's not the same as the owner)?
The problem is that "it could" there is no proof that after Tesla tests on public roads won't fail or go bankrupt.

I am not aware of any proof that neural networks combined with current tech is enough.

I know there are some misleading statistics around but those are not correct are biased and is not a proof.
"the Cybersecurity Law and related laws and regulations are very clear that they apply to all individuals and entities in China without regard to ownership or nationality. There are no exceptions. More important, the new Foreign Investment Law that goes into effect on January 1, 2020 eliminates any special status associated with being a WFOE or other foreign invested enterprise. Foreign owned companies will be treated in exactly the same way as Chinese owned companies"

If true? Talk about screwing your own pooch. With the milspec PoochBuster 9000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics

By saying that they can scan buried ancient sites it resonates to the "enemy" that they can see everything it is trying to hide.

What, at a first glance, may sound like celebrating science is just warfare.
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>However, given real life self driving are already much safer than real life human drivers

Citation needed. Breakdown by different countries would be also interesting.
“Recreational pilot?” He has over 2000 hours of flight time and 30 years of flight experience including time in type for the 757. That’s 1700 more total hours than the copilot of the Ethiopian Airlines flight.

The author isn’t a recreational pilot: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_certification_in_the_U...

It wouldn’t matter if Chuck Yeager wrote the article; people have their minds made up. It’s either “Boeing should die because ‘big US corporation’ or “The crash pilots were a victim of deficient, assembly-line third world airline training.”

The answer is more nuanced and in the middle of those extremes.
Is there any open source tool/community trying to create a simple HTML5 animation studio similar to Flash? That would really open up doors for widespread creativity and the adoption of web standards.
I loved that game so much.
The citation is that there is a wikipedia list of all the fatalities from self driving cars with only 6 entries on it, and most of them were due to human error still. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_self-driving_car_fatal...
Bunk. Autopilot makes very strange decisions during normal operation -- decisions that normal human drivers would NOT make, such as merging into an entrance lane on the freeway. This in and of itself is enough to confuse and befuddle other drivers on the road, which makes it more surprising and dangerous than a human driver. Worse, it will actively fight the driver at the helm to make these decisions. Source: test drove a model 3 and it did just this and nearly caused an accident during the test drive and I could not instruct it to stop.
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You have to use the Gmail web page to set it up, but it is possible to use the Android Gmail app to send from non-gmail accounts. The 'From' field becomes a drop-down allowing you to choose from the accounts you have set up.
I used to hang out in the village from around 96 or so to the late 00's. The place was packed with all sorts of people visiting the numerous quirky shops, many of which lined 8th st. Punks, metal heads (me included), hip hop, skaters, artsy and bohemian types, tourists, from high school kids to elderly. There was real life there. Record stores, book stores, comic book shops, clothing and fabric shops, collectibles, gaming, etc. We'd go to bleecker bobs and go to this grugy dude in the back and order black metal imports. Generation records always had tons of vinyl and they had a great band tee shirt collection. The chess shop was few doors down and one friend was a frequent player.

Over the summer I took the train in to walk around the village and was heartbroken. Half the stores along 8th st are indeed boarded up. Shops I was familiar with were gone. The eerie part that struck me was how empty village was. Sure there were people walking around but not the hustle and bustle of all walks of life prowling the shops.

It's been sanitized. And thats whats happening. The white glove suburbanites are doing their damndest to scrub away New York City's "dirty" history so they can live in/visit their septic utopia devoid of unsightly things and people. And the same thing happened to Williamsburg too. They killed my home and I increasingly feel like a stranger in my own city.
At least for both Amazon and Azure one can get real human support either by calling a phone number, filing a ticket or writing an email.

Google has literally no way to talk to a human, neither do Facebook and Twitter.
You mean like a train? Why not have trains instead?
This is on purpose, otherwise anyone can just register a new phone including an attacker.

In these contexts, you should have a recovery mechanism in place such as recovery codes or a recovery email.
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These are all present (in one way or another) in many cars that don't drive themselves otherwise. (They're not that great at the moment, but these are part of accident avoidance, not self driving.)
> This should be a fairly simple calculation: coal kills a lot more people than nuclear.

That is a good argument against coal. Why not trying to develop better solutions? That is, including nuclear. The nuclear solution as it stands is obsolete, by the industry's standards, expensive and doesn't make much sense. The next-generation is not ready—more effort needed there. Alternative solutions exist that are both safer and economically sound.
Penny stocks are usually traded OTC and aren't in any index fund I've seen anyway.

Picking losers is just as hard as picking winners. If you think you know of a loser, just short it. You'll be hard-pressed though, because other people, likely with more info than you, have already done this, and the price has already come down.
Whenever something gets upvoted very fast in a manner that doesn't seem consistent with a site's regular usage, suspect that it's botted/been paid for by rival companies.

Anything getting 300+ points in 3 hours is rarely organic. There's almost nothing else currently on the front page with this kind of votes/time ratio, besides the post about Google banning accounts.
They worry with good cause. We worry about bugs where I work, and they still make it through somehow. Worrying about them doesn't prevent them.

See also, Knight Capital: https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/knight-capital-says-... , where a bug cost it $440 million. It's already been seen on a small scale.
Thanks for this! I could really use it.
Maybe society should invest in providing services for these people rather than enriching more corporations. There are plenty of unemployed people, we can ferry a lot of passengers, no need for robots on the streets.
Most socialistic societies fell due to outside interference in an already weaker society. (Weaker because of their starting position, not because of socialism).

This was for example the case with Venezuela, to name a recent one.

See: https://www.ozy.com/flashback/venezuelas-downfall-isnt-about...

You'd need a country with an already strong economy to try socialism to see where it goes. We have western civilisations with some socialist aspects (European countries) but they're all still majorly capitalistic.

A lot of countries labelled as socialist/communist were/are really just state-capitalist countries (China, to name a good example. Communist only in name, same way the nazi party was socialist)
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The Value of Science (Richard Feynman, 1988) [pdf]
That's definitely a thing. The knitting world has been pixelating stuff forever and there have been knitting machines with everything from floppy disk interfaces to USB-C.
I don't think it's possible. If a company's market cap is low enough that its employees can afford to buy all the shares with their salaries I think that would be a significantly failing business.
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This isn't controversial (among people who look at reality), it's well known and sources are easily found.
the laptop has a 13 3:2 display with 2160x1440

i cannot run it at 200, 150 is perfect, i need fractional scaling
I don't think anyone is suggesting that publicly-funded investment would make this happen faster. Just safer.

It's an inherent characteristic of capitalism that the primary driver is profit. I mean, it's the whole point of the system. What is the value of one human life within this system? Historically that value has not been high.

Now, when people saying "publicly-funded investment" it's a popular conception that this means a vast amount of government waste, because everything the government does is wasteful, right? How is three or four companies spending huge amounts of money to pursue the exact same goal not wasteful?

Look at things like the internet itself. Public funding of technology can work.
It's a bit screwy with iOS 13. Safari in particular.
Stops.
Rails are expensive and limiting.
This looks pretty cool — and I think it is what airlines already do —, but I wonder what the public perception is on something like this?

I do not mind if a company does this — it makes sense to me. But what about other people?
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+1 for Tutanota. Recently switched. It's a breeze to use and far more reliable than I ever found my previous email provider to be.
Because trains can't take exits... unless the whole train wants to.
My first job out of college I worked through a contracting company. The pay was decent but I didn't get any of the benefits. The company I worked for got a lot of their revenue from the oil industry, and three years after I started oil took a huge hit and they laid off all of their contractors.

I had a rough few months where I didn't have much luck finding a new job, but in the end it worked out. I eventually got a full time position with better pay, better benefits, and I'm still there.
or stop using google ?
Maybe OP is referring that some billionaire appears with some bad statistics that if we let him kill 1000 people he assures us that he will probably invent something to save double.

Putting those billions in removing the drunk or tired drivers from the roads, enforcing the laws and rules would save more people.
Google+ in particular was a spectacular failure, entering the world stillborn. At least some of the others on this list had their glory days.
It’s very interesting to me that he didn’t mention the B Corp organization, who attempts to do exactly that. Is there a reason for this? Maybe he thinks the requirements/audits are too burdensome?
Surely class actions cover this sort of thing? And I know court costs work differently in the US and UK, but there are plenty of "no-win, no-fee" legal firms over here - affectionately known as "ambulance chasers" lol.
> [..] syllables that either were or weren't “voiced and/or nasal”, [..] If you add them up, you'll find there were barely five thousand combinations (and “ug” wasn't one of them).
The thing I find most impressive about this isn't the blanket but rather the data acquisition: How do new parents manage to accurately and consistently record every time their baby wakes up or falls asleep?
There’s no evidence that this sort of system is possible given the latency of wireless communications and probability of momentary glitches in real time systems long enough to cause a cascading set of failure leading to crashes.