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I mean, there’s only so long Fiat can keep handing billions of dollars to Tesla, so either they’ll eventually go bankrupt or they’ll start producing good electric cars!
Planned burns are a thing here in Australia. It has turned into a bit of a populist talking point amongst certain people. The truth is that the time window to safely do burns in winter has sort of disappeared. Plus these fires have been intense enough to jump through places that have been burnt. As anecdata, I grew up in Southern Australia and little bushfires were common every summer. Occasionally a big one. I've moved to south east Queensland and never really seen any significant bushfires in the past decade (if I did it was government doing a planned burn in a national park). It is sub tropical, usually pretty wet in summer (sometimes with a drought, but usually much, much wetter than say east coast of tasmania). These last few years are different. The national parks I go to for walks are super dry. Creeks are dried up that are usually running. I had that scary feeling I had from my youth of smelling smoke on a hike and worrying about fire. It isn't something I have had for a long time.
> Regulations goal is to reduce CO2 output.

Maybe that regulation is stupid and it causes the wrong incentives? If you wanted more electric cars, there are plenty of ways of making them more appealing thus creating a market for them. Like improving charging infrastructure.

Putting a gun to the head of one if not the largest manufacturing industry on the continent is pretty stupid way of doing so.

> That fact it’s done by increasing competition in the automotive industry can only be seen as an extra win.

Yeah great, us europeans will all be thrilled by the increased foreign competition and dead local manufacturers who have EU regulation burdens and foreigners who don't.
This advice is throttled around here. There is an implication to this: if you're bald, you're fucking screwed as a man. Attractiveness would not be achievable.
Yes - this is a major function of private equity in general. They even have investment banks and firms that specialize in "buy side" versus "sell side" of the transaction.
Yup.

> something noticeably changed. They got combative. They got sloppy.

An interesting take, whatever you think of the underlying merits of the company and the complaints against it.
> Luckily you don't need logic when you can just throw money at lobbying. Sadly, this is incredibly effective in the US today.

Even if that's true, it might not work for Facebook. The politicians that Facebook would need to lobby may feel personally threatened by Facebook's power over the electoral process. Penny-ante campaign contributions and a few face to face meetings probably aren't enough to overcome that.
>There were consequences for that through - partner who hate each other, violence, abuse (verbal, emotional, physical). Alcoholism.

Yeah, the people who pine for the "good old days" when people married for life always leave this part out.
> However I think a lot of the 'arson' wasn't intentional but was people camping, smoking or doing other things which education can help prevent.

Yes, most of the 180 arrests number that's going around are from these sorts of scenarios instead of arson.

That said, Australians get plenty of education already on the dangers of fire. Fire bans and high risk days are very much publicized. My grandparents nearly lost a house to Hobart's fires in 1967. It just takes one person out of Australia's 20M to dispose improperly of a cigarette, and there are plenty of natural ignition sources to add onto that.

Just look at an Aussie fire sign, which you'll see all over: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-13/bushfire-danger-ratin...

"Low/Moderate, High, Very High, Severe, Extreme, and Catastrophic"
She's wrong, anyway. The problem is that the current paradigm leads to problems. We need to move faster and break the current paradigm!
There are numerous ways it can play out depending on the way each state structures their liability laws but imagine your child turns 16, you forget or "forget" to add them to your policy, and they are involved in a serious accident.

In some states the insurance company is on the hook because everyone at a residence is covered under the policy unless listed as excluded. The insurance company has no way to collect on any premium uprate that might have occurred had you listed them on the policy. And they might have recourse to come after you. And they could cancel your policy.

In other states the insurance company could retroactively cancel your policy for failure to list a driver leaving you with the liability from the accident.
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Good point! We will add text to the site that we use affiliate links.
There are a bunch of websites with this information available for a very small fee.

It's incredible you can find names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, properties, cars owned, etc.

Most of the questions asked for identity verification are useless if so much information is effectively public.

And then there are soft credit checks...

My impression is that there is a huge blind spot in americans regarding these things, they not only don't care but are hostile to anyone pointing the problems.

I don't see this improving in the future.
The first image you see on the page that has people in it (rather than their hands) is indicative of the target market: middle-aged men with tan coats who feel happy when walking on rocky beaches with a happy middle-aged woman hugging their arm.
Causation between years of consecutive drought and record-breaking temperatures leading to record-breaking wildfires is not hard to establish. Trying to deny that would require some impressive mental gymnastics.

Causation between human activity and climate change resulting in that temperature anomaly, is fundamentally hard. Especially in a field like climate science where every model carries a big bundle of assumptions some of which are just educated guesses.

But the models for anthropogenic climate change have been pretty bang on at predicting the temperature anomaly that we're seeing today. That doesn't formally prove causation but it's certainly enough evidence that we need to start acting to mitigate climate change now, there's no more 'complicated analysis' needed. At this point it's a bit like arguing over whether hitting the iceberg is really what's making the titanic sink, while standing on the submerging deck.
Personal benefit versus cost to the planet ? You’re emitting 10x less CO2 per day if you stay there 10x as long :-)
If you wait until you retire (unless retiring happens in 5-10 years maybe), you might not be able to afford the gear.

Stuff is pretty expensive even now, depending on what you want, what you can get, and such. Or, maybe you'll get lucky - several years ago I scored an Altair for $200 from a local electronics junkyard; later I went back and scoured it for a bunch of S-100 cards (as is, it came with a full complement).

Later I got some things off ebay, and even some free items from some other collectors - all I had to pay for was shipping. One strange beast was a 6502 cpu PCB (unpopulated) - I am not sure if it is compatible with the Altair's S-100 bus layout, or if it is meant for some other machine (the bus wasn't as standard as one would like, unfortunately).

Anyhow, good luck with your dream - just collecting the stuff can be fun enough!
2.3 million men are in prison in USA. The definition is “divided by the total noninstitutionalized, civilian working-age population.”

As a counter-example, average IQ at the workplace is 110. Where’s everyone under IQ90? Injured, suicide, drug addicts etc.
Life extension is not resurrection. It’s not possible to bring back the dead(Russians and J.B.S.Haldane may disagree)...but to put it in simpler terms..can Entropy be reversed? Second law says no. But if only...

The only other alternative is to upload ‘consciousness’, as it were.. entropy can be slowed down. Can’t be reversed or stopped. The arrow of time travels in only one direction.
It can't really work that way. There are diligence firms that provide quality of earnings analysis, compliance analysis, intellectual property audits, etc. But potential buyers always have questions that require input from staff.

The executive team has to be very involved in the process. Their involvement naturally drags management/staff into it.
Yes, and even so there's still more women. Basically, men get killed off early.
Disagree. Since they have chosen to platform those ads, they should at least be held to the same standards as networks and not show ads that are provably false. It would be better if they didn't platform them, or better yet, they didn't have that much potential influence in the first place.
Sure, but attractive people with shitty personalities have to lose things, whereas unattractive people with good personalities need to earn. And when there are many attractive people around, there isn't much left to earn.
In fact, unless you think that the company was better before and is worse now, it should be striking how much the narrative has changed without any underlying change.
Those seem like rather picky objections. There's nothing wrong with having extra buttons. And running is great, you should try it!
>if you do they'll most likely suffer from down syndrome

Please cite something for this assertion or delete it, as it is not in line with anything I've read on the matter.

Increased paternal age carries some potential for increased side effects for their children, but it is absolutely nowhere near the risks involved in a delayed pregnancy for women [0].

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/07/well/family/older-fathers...
Yes, this is a woman who entered a relationship and it didnt work out. Ive definitely read it and this is not a #metoo story. He didnt force himself up on, he didnt take advantage of her, he didnt threaten her, he didnt demand she date him, it's about dating someone at work when there are clear rules around it. No one said she had to leave the department, but that one of them would have to leave. It's a tragically sad story, especially for the child, but this was two consenting adults in an adult relationship that was full of bad choices.
Agreed, but a bigger factor is the power differential, IMO: the boss has the higher need to maintain at least an image of impartiality, and it's harder for the subordinate to resist advances knowing that the giver is key in deciding when they can and can't get time off, pay rises, etc.
I'm not a fan of beacons. If I built this for myself I'd probably stick a calibrated camera or two somewhere and use that for localization. Some day...
For me preventing climate change is pretty non-negotiable. I’m rather a fan of having a liveable planet, and as some that lives in London, I’m acutely aware of what sea level rise will do to my home.

In this specific case a small foreign company (and Tesla is tiny compared to the likes of VW) gets a leg up. I don’t think it have much impact of EU automotive industry in the long run.
Indeed. We have a top capital gains rate of 23.8%, a top dividend tax rate of 28.6%, and a top earned income tax rate of 40.6%. I can't think of any good reason capital gains should be taxed at a lower rate than earned income.

If you want a wealth tax, without the overhead of having to value all of your property every year, repeatedly forcing sales of illiquid assets, the easiest way to do it is the estate tax, which you only have to pay once in your life. This has also been gutted, and now a married couple has to have an estate of over $22 million to be subject to it at all.

We really don't need any new types of taxes, we just need to put fair rates on the ones we already have.
Is the 500E really that terrible?
All the time.

I think it's honestly a kind of mental creative hangup, like procrastination. Many times procrastination, all-or-nothing, and a feeling of the worst that can possibly happen will happen can easily derail me.

What's helped me is first admitting that these coping mechanisms might not be helping. Sometimes, they are useful, for example, in not spending huge amounts of money on a random idea that may or may not be feasible. But if it is a simple decision with small impact to your life, realize that. Realize the stakes are low, and the amount of time you are putting into it is higher than it merits.

Next what helps me is timeboxing. Just do it. To make this more fun, I think of it as a challenge. Can I code something in an hour, or before a movie is done, etc.

Experience has taught me what you worry about is rarely what gets you anyway. It's what you don't know might happen that gets you.

Best of luck.
The way you implement that is by proactively asking for a transfer before the relationship comes to light. If you don't do that, this is essentially proof that you were seeking to abuse the situation in some way hence penalties (on the supervisor, see my side comment) are very much appropriate.
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When I lived and worked in SF it was hilarious to me how rapidly the culture shifted. In only 6 years, it went from a lot of competent, interesting, varied personalities, to an army of chrome backpacks, folding bikes, and brown leather boots.

Due to the vast wealth flooding there from VC coffers, people drank the Koolaid and drank it fast. I've watched people change their whole personality over night as if they constantly have their finger on the changing winds of cult personality.

Needless to say I ran for the hills. Best of luck Bay Area, you'll always have a place in my heart.
The purpose of the emission regulations is to reduce emissions. The regulation does not force manufacturers to pool with foreign companies, nor would such pooling be detrimental to the regulation's goals. By allowing pooling, electric manufacturers are given an advantage, which in turn leads to reduced emissions. Perhaps the problem is that you are misinterpreting the purpose of the law?
Many years ago I took a class taught by Victor Shoup, which I found extremely difficult but overall a great experience. Really smart guy.
MIT wasn't dying of liver cancer. This is more like a serial killer walked up and just started passing you suitcases of money, and you never tell anyone how you paid for that new car and refurbished office, and you certainly don't ever tell the police about the serial killer.
> On the other hand, these regulations are designed to promote social good, not the wellbeing of the manufacturers, and I think the laws are pretty much working in that regard by allowing Tesla to expand more quickly and forcing other automakers to take EV production more seriously.

Great. I look forward to my unemployed well being when the largest EU industry collapses.
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Google had one that said exactly that when I joined in 2009, but that post-dates the alleged affair(s) here, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was introduced directly because of this.

Drummond wasn't the only one engaged in such shenanigans, too - I can think of at least half a dozen executives (including both founders) who engaged in relationships within their reporting chain.
A lot of couples keep separate finances. Money is one of the biggest reasons couples split up, after all. While my boyfriend and I aren’t married, we do split our household contributions and pay from our own accounts.

I think it is also interesting to study the money men and women bring separately into their relationship and how that plays into relationship dynamics.
Designing around it is possible in some cases too. In Gorn your weapons are floppy so it makes sense when they bend when hitting an enemy, and in Superhot VR you punch through or shatter enemies when hitting them giving more of a sense of being really powerful than hitting air.
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Maybe they do, but they can't afford the litigation. Like "you can beat the rap, but not the ride."
It is horrible!!! Most of them lose as much as half of their already small range within a few years. I can't believe there hasn't been some sort of lawsuit against Fiat. It's so bad I wonder if it was intentional.
Tesla's German plant will be a part of the EU automotive industry, right?
J++ is a big part of why C# exists today.
It would be unlikely that anyone would/could share public details about such a thing given the NDA (and potentially LOI) terms that are signed prior to something like this happening. It happens though.
It was terrifying. The sky gradually changed colour and we, in Auckland, felt as though we were living in a post apocalyptic dystopian future.

Which, clearly, we are. What I never imagined is that people would be _paid_ to actively fight the fight against climate change.
> Without Facebook, this wasn’t already happening.

This double negative is a bit confusing. Targeted political messaging absolutely was a thing before Facebook and even the internet. Correlate info on zip code demographics, the readership demographics of different publications and media outlets and one can provide messages that target specific groups.
"It cleans and disinfects shower, bath, and washing machine water so it can be reused for toilet flushing, washing machines, the garden, or swimming pools”

⇒ This produces “greywater"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greywater). That can also be done (and, I expect, more economically) in a centralised location, but using that water would require laying a second water main to all houses.

An argument in favour of local treatment also might be that it makes it harder/impossible for users to use the wrong kind of water (drinking greywater or using “blackwater" where greywater would suffice)
Chapter 16 focuses on post-quantum crypto, including lattices. I see that it (and chapter 17) remains unfinished. Boneh certainly knows lattice tools; it's interesting to me that he nor his students do not seem to be in a hurry to work on lattice-based crypto. Perhaps this is a signal that they aren't worried that a quantum computer capable of cracking current systems will arrive anytime soon.
There is also https://expediadotcom.github.io/haystack/, an Open Tracing-compliant distributed tracing system.
Terrible cars? Which cars? I owned a couple and I'd say Fiats reasonably priced and designed.
>the bias in the divorce process

That one you can probably place the blame squarely on the conservatives for. That bias made some sense back in the old days when women couldn't possibly hope to get a job that paid anywhere near what her (now ex-)husband earned. But things are completely different now, but the court system is still stuck in the 1950s. Meanwhile, the men who complain about this bias continue to vote for conservatives.
As someone that knows the person that originally tipped Apple off about the tracking... this is such a misinformed editorialization of what actually happened where I don't even know where to start.
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I would certainly rather have someone outside the company making that decision. Make the FEC do it.
I don’t have children. DNA is too random. I might if I can design my own progeny.

Or clone myself. It is also ‘technically’ ..theoretically possible to clone oneself. That’s a different discussion.

Ideally I would like different ‘skins’ that I can step in and out of ..and keep all my memories and thoughts and ‘self’.
The goal is to reduce CO2, not create more electric cars. That’s just one possible solution.

Additionally have you seen how small Tesla is compared to someone like VW? They’re easily an order of magnitude smaller.

Finally if Tesla are building in the EU then they’re contributing to the EU manufacturing industry, and they’re beholden to EU regulation.
That is common for toy languages without wide industry support. It doesn't inspire confidence.

There should be compilers from Microsoft, IBM, Apple, GNU/FSF, and several others. There should be a properly ratified international standard that describes the language. There should be support from 16-bit microcontrollers to mainframes.

Languages like C have lots of web facing infrastructure. It just isn't all run by one entity. The eggs are not in one basket.
We've heard it already. They literally had a "masseuse room" where Sergey would have sex with employees inside the Google building.
fiat has marvelous compacts. the fire engine derivatives just run forever, the diesel made school twenty years ago and have an edge still today.

they have no clue on full size cars, and still pay for the socialized handling the Italian car sector was subject into the nineties, but below management they still have good tech and when they put their eggs into the right basket, the output is just phenomenal.

and the Alfa tonale was a thing from unsuspecting times.
Personally I only use Dreem so I can't tell you much about SmartSleep.

> Can you tell me more about them? They both claim to "improve sleep" but their marketing site doesn't really say how.

For Dreem, there are a few ways it's intended to improve your sleep:

- Directly: It applies "stimulations" to "enhance" your deep sleep. These are sounds that are meant to intensify certain kinds of brain waves. I don't know much about them and can't say that they've improved my sleep quality.

- Education: In addition to simply showing you how much you sleep (which I find immensely useful) and how well you sleep (duration, stages of sleep, every single time you wake up during the night, no matter how short), the mobile app includes what I can only call training programs that are intended to help you improve your sleep yourself. These range from the introductory "this is how to use the headband" to a full-fledged CBT course.

- Small improvements: The app has a sleep routine feature that reminds you with a mobile notification when it's time to go to bed and automatically sets the alarm in the morning. The alarm sound is produced by a bone conduction speaker embedded in the headset. You can allow the headset to wake you early and if you do so, it will try to find the least disruptive time to wake you within the allowed period. Finally, it can play various sounds through the speaker to help you get to sleep, both ambient sounds (e.g. birds, waves, rain etc.) and guided-meditation type stuff.

> Keep in mind that all I want in the end is to have the numbers of when I was asleep, and when I was not. My goal being to have a graph of those numbers to see when I actually sleep. (eg. how much do my sleep times drift every day, how much do i sleep per week, etc)

For regular sleep at night it will do that perfectly. For random naps and dozing during the day, it won't be any help at all.

However the app is integrated with Apple Health, so if you wear something else that can detect those short dozes during the day, you can unite the two devices there.
> (and Tesla is tiny compared to the likes of VW)

Check the market cap.
Jay Jamison (when he was a VC) gave me a great advice once.

"Companies are bought not sold"
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For what it's worth, Odysseus is the only one to make it back to Ithaca. All of his men end up devoured by Polyphemus or other monsters, drowned or worse..

So maybe becoming a lotus-eater would not have been that bad after all.
They knew the relationship was against company policy from the get go, what did they think was going happen? Two people made a poor decision and have to live with the consequences?

> aware that our relationship was in violation of Google’s new policy which went from “discouraging” direct-reporting-line relationships to outright banning them.
I'm confused. The headline talks about women holding more than 50% of jobs. But the tagline underneath says females make up the largest share of the labor market! That ain't make no sense! In the current year, not all women have a vagina. I didn't think Bloomberg was transphobic, but now I know better.
I've heard good things about the Alfa Romeo Giulia.