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It won’t happen because trucking won’t allow it. Practically speaking the vast majority of road damage is done by semi trucks, your average minivan isn’t doing much damage comparatively. Forcing them to pay their fair share for road cost would in effect be ending a multi billion dollar per year subsidy, and would drastically affect the cost of shipped goods for consumers in the short term.
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As an employee of Google, it's sad to see it turn into a conventional company. Sure we take certain risks here and there, but by and large we're optimizing for the next quarter's PnL / growth. We would much rather invest in growing our ad revenue by x% than to start a new team doing something novel. Whenever a new idea comes up that's a bit outside the predictable path of OKRs, it's almost scoffed at, and you're implicitly told not to be silly. There's very little left of the "nothing is impossible" attitude.

Google is still a fantastic company to work at as far as compensation and benefits, but it won't be for long (maybe 10 more years?)
Just outsource everything even outsourcing itself. Why do you even have company, you can just sit in your basement and order a bunch of trucks from another company have some contractor put new stickers on it and ship them to costumers.

Pay somebody else to set up the fuel station, do the repairs and so on. The costumer service you outsource to India.

You don't even need more then 1 employ, you can chill while that employ does all the outsourcing.

I'm sure that company would be bigger then Apple soon. I mean no labor cost, no capx and a huge market. What a genius move.
If you speak english there is a very good likelyhood you dont know what it really means to be poor.

Exhibit A:
Take most countries in south America, like Peru, Bolivia or Ecuador. They have labor laws that mandate workers should receive x (usually 3) months severance for every year worked.

As a result massive underemployment which means people are literally working the streets to make ends meet.

Minimum wage is the least of your worries when your wages will come from selling produce in the middle of the road.

You havent seen poverty until you see people living on top of garbage heaps picking up traah to survive.

Thats the kind of stuff you see in countries swimming in labor regulations.
are trains even cheaper? and what about last mile delivery
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What could be the less extreme response that would make NYT not write about the blog and mention his real name? Clearly, asking politely didn't work.
No. If you look at the article however, many of the examples have employees.
> Companies that are dependent on financing might not get financing if loud short sellers are able to change the narrative

How would this scenario play out for a non-fraud and non-zombie business? If a publicly-traded company is in such a precarious state that they need the large cash infusion of either debt or a secondary offering to remain in business, the conclusion is that the business is non-viable. Either they IPO'ed prematurely or the expected growth isn't materializing. The short-sellers are performing the broader market a service in this case.
Site is down? It is `This site can’t be reached` for me :(
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> - innovation in Europe can only scale if we achieve a higher degree of unity in Europe, including one common language, one common jurisdiction and law framework. Localization is just too expensive in Europe and hinders scaling.

Can't overstate how important this is. India is slowly coming to terms with adopting English (instead of Hindi) as the lingua franca - it has been a reliable economic mobility driver for millions of people. More European states might do well by adopting a bilingual/trilingual approach to expand economic opportunities for the population. I think parts of Scandinavia already manage to do this quite well.
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The difference is that there are no butter police, while there are in fact Cuban embargo police that will cause much greater difficulties in selling anything with the word "Cuban" in it.

So, no, "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!" is not a bad brand for margarine, but saying "Cuban" something in a cigar which causes all manner of embargo difficulties is bad branding.
Fair market value is a term of the tax code, the IRS does intervene when it’s too “fantastic”.
It seems Apple isn't on the bleeding edge anymore, but rather they take what is already out there and make the best possible version of it and knock it out of the park.

Take Airpods or FaceID, Apple was not the first to innovate in the headphone space or in the face unlock space. But when they did eventually come out with their own version, that version is miles ahead of the competition.
Security theater really - what does their snooping give other than the ability to say "We technically knew about it! It was right here in the pile!" afterwards? Its true purposes are self serving and to be a rhetorical justification escape hatch of National Security to ensure impunity.

Bad actions are bad regardless of the flag they drape themselves in or any fallacious affinity that assumes what is liked by an actor on behalf of us is good for us. Should we be grateful that a "lobbyist" "donated" a big pile of cocaine to our senators?
Yes agreed, they say "structural color" (film interference) only works for blues and greens, and you need pigments for oranges and reds. Title should be changed.
thanks! and yeah that's a very good point, and one of the main reasons why I'm open sourcing this.

Community maintained information scrapers/extractors is definitely a direction I want to build towards, collaborating with any existing efforts. Though the exact form will take some iterations (e.g. a marketplace for scripts/"recipes", built-in scripts for common sites, allowing individual users to save their own scrapers etc.)
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Selling stock you own and selling stock you borrowed from somebody else with the obligation to return it at some point are pretty different
It is a decent model for ontology, and ontology is good training for observing cause and effect. We grow up to make a lot of erroneous assumptions so we need to train to become good observers. Basically wrestling with the idea lets you observe some of your own biases.
Like every single nyt article posted here?
Have you checked your blood sugar? High blood sugar is murder on your feet.
the fact we've only had one nuclear war would be in opposition to doing everything and i hope we similarly are able to avoid
This is one of those subtle ways the Play Store protects its monopoly. Sure, you technically can install an app without using Google Play Services, but notifications won't work.
It’s interesting how different everyone’s perspective is on this — it hadn’t crossed my mind before.

My parents grew up in a town of one thousand people. There was a small bakery in the town and we had a leg up on all the other towns because we had a post office. If I ever misbehaved and did something I wasn’t supposed to, my parents knew before I even made it home because all of the residents knew each other and could call my parents to tell on me.

Anything smaller than that was a village.

Later, I moved to a city of about 300,000 people. There were multiple big box stores and, as you said, shops and restaurants open late into the night. That city was surrounded by suburbia. That was a big city in my eyes.

Now, I live in a city of about 50,000 people and I guess that’s what a normal city looks like in my eyes. It has a few restaurants, a few somewhat culturally distinct areas, and a college and university.

When I visited New York City, I would have characterized it as a metropolis, not just another city.

Going back, I think the defining characteristic for a city is that it’s large enough not to keep everything in your head. You don’t know everyone or everything in the city anymore, so you’re forced to make subdivisions. It’s not “the bakery next to the Jones’s up the street” but instead it’s downtown/uptown/Westside/Eastside.
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For somebody, somewhere, yes.

I do know some organizations that have been forced to hire remote have found that lifting geographic restrictions can take the stress and difficulty out of hiring. Some of those organizations won't go back, particularly if there are "ratchets" in place such as being in an area with expensive office space and housing.
blame GOP legislators wouldn't want dem fornurs gittin nun a stuff
If nothing else, the EmDrive has been a great exercise in how hard it is to control all variables in a sensitive experiment where the measured effect is small.

It actually blows my mind how well the LIGO folks have accomplished this to be able to detect gravitational waves.

I really like the effort going into this, despite a positive result being impossible to our knowledge. Those are the high risk high reward experiments with the potential to discover new physics. I still expect it to be experimental error, but there's always that remote chance we'll learn something we didn't expect about the universe.
OK, but the claim 13 months earlier was:

> We have 3.5 megawatts of solar up on the roof producing about 18 megawatts of energy a day in our headquarters...

That they've installed 5% of that capacity a year later is not a defense to the fraudulent nature of that claim.
The thing with Tesla is that they actually had their own tech IP and a killer product.

Nikola lied about its trucks, and now plans to outsource all of its production to other CV manufacturers, or at the very best buy parts off the market and "integrate" them in house.

Since they don't have the killer tech or top engineers what's stopping the next charismatic founder from selling the same exact thing Nikola has (dreams and a couple wrenches and bolts) and eating their lunch?

They have no working trucks or plans to begin production any time soon. And for a while their market cap was larger than Ford and GM.

Not saying they can't be successful, but Tesla they are not.
Could you elaborate on which one in particular? I've also read the first questions but haven't noticed anything like this.
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> This is why many, particularly those who grew up during retro times, will say PAL 50fps. To them, PAL does in fact deliver 50 complete frames per second.

That doesn’t make it correct, but I agree now in retrospect and thus edited my post.

(Also, agree re: intro part to your reply. The problem I have is when factually correct comments without anything wrong about them get greyed out)
You need management because:

- you need project management. It is an administrative work.

- you need people management. You can leave that to HR, they will do a very poor job, so it's better to have a person from the team fill that role, the more senior and experienced the better. This is admin work

- you need to simplify large organizations into smaller, manageable teams that can focus on items they can swallow. You need team leaders (for the 2 reasons above) and good communicators to keep the team in sync with the rest of the company

- when you have many teams you need "teams of teams", that is one or more management levels.

In any army you don't have management, you have a chain of command. You have generals with a strategy and a vision, you have officers that lead portions of the army, you have NCOs that lead small teams and you have specialists or riflemen that do the grunt work. They all have a role and in most cases you find the higher the rank, the higher the competence, otherwise nobody would follow in battle an incompetent officer (or even shoot him in the back, it's easier in a battle than getting rid of a bad manager in the office).

This hierarchical organization came from real needs and stays there because the need is still there. You can argue some hierarchies gets corrupted, in theory all do, but a hierarchy is generally better than no hierarchy whenever the group is large enough.
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Without the government playing default insurer, it's difficult for market insurance to cover extreme cases and externalities. Consider cases such as all employees develop cancer after 10 years, employees working years reduced by 20 years due to wrist/back/eye injuries, or .5% of employees die onsite.

For insurance carried by or provided the employer, any event that happens after employment ends is an externality and not covered. Extreme cases involving death will be underpriced as the employee won't have use for the money if they're dead.

In my own finances I carry a life insurance policy less than 1/10th of my nominal future earnings.
I disagree because we don't entertain theories which make no testable predictions. It seems logical that this rule makes observation the ultimate qualifier.
BTW, some contributors to that forum thread are incorrect about interlace being about the number of scanlines.

Interlace requires there be one half scanline.

Whether there are an odd or even number of scanlines can impact color phase shifting, depending on whether the source signal is phase shifting the color burst.

Older machines, such as the 8 bit Apple 2, did not phase shift at all so color artifacting would be predictable and useful. Even vs odd scan lines would affect precise frames per second only.
Short sellers provide liquidity to the market by providing purchasable shares in an equity when none might exist. Short selling does NOT provide infinite market gambling. Short selling is incredibly risky with an unlimited downside, these types of investors can lose all their money and then some pretty easily. Short sellers in Tesla over the years have bled huge losses. "The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." (Keynes) is appropriate here, as stocks like Tesla continue to climb the short sellers keep having to infuse cash to cover the mark-to-market prices. Eventually, they run out of cash.
California's FTB charges $800 minimum annually regardless of whether you made a profit or not.
In some hypothetical future that doesn't actually exist that might be true that we have 'unlimited energy' that is 'to cheap to meter'. However this reality does not yet exist and will not for many, many years.

Until then, having a system that end to end is only half as efficient is crazy.

And if in the 10-20 years electricity is actually that cheap, in the years we will have batteries that are WAY better then what we have now and the single advantage of hydrogen will have been reduced by a huge amount.
What if emails had disposable aliases?
To help keep things anonymous and to regain control.

For example: I could go to GMail and click "Generate new disposable alias" or whatever.

It would give me something like mUa8cDjyBJyCi@gmail.com which I could use anywhere.

All emails would still go to my main email. I have the option to reply to any emails from my alias or from my real email.

If a disposable alias gets compromised I can delete it. It would be hard to keep track so I assume there would be a search feature where I could type my alias in, and then click delete. Still keep my old email.

This is better than current aliases as email+alias@gmail.com still exposes your real email, which you can never delete, only create new, meaning people can spam you forever.
Thank you, yet another utility that I had no idea existed! :)
On TikTok I saw a man drop is cellphone into the water. A watching Beluga promptly swam over, picked up in his mouth and delivered to him. It was amazing.

The animal clearly saw the man drop the item, but also seemed to be aware of the man's inability to fetch it, and that perhaps it was a 'possession' of some kind.

It seems ver reasonable to me that mammals have emotions, memories, and rational emotional response. If they were 'hurt' by a boat it seems super rational to me that they would be angered by or dislike boats. I suspect they are aware 'boats do fishing' and can directly correlate their hunger to the boats.

I don't know why this isn't the first response, and is considered 'unscientific' in the article.
Yes, I think that many people just focus on blaming their team mates instead of concidering that's just pure luck what kind of team mates you get!
>There are so many red flags, yet large credible companies appear to be willing to partner with them and buy from them.

Large established companies partnered with Theranos too. The reason being those companies want the hype of the startup brand, and there are limited downsides to them if the startup fails.
See thread topic.
The Lies We Tell: short fiction development
> I’ve never used this piece of software (and their web site is remarkably uninformative about what it does, besides transform my enterprise), but from the comments it looks like some kind of search engine.

It is an 'enterprise' log aggregator, storage system, and log search engine/alert generation engine.

One sets one's Java code (remember: "enterprise") to stream log output to splunk, and splunk handles receiving, storage, alert generation from programmed patterns matching, and archived log data search.

> It wouldn’t be too surprising to have a bunch of heuristics that try to extract meaning from unlabeled strings.

That is a very accurate description of just what it does.
Great quiz! I got 14/15 right. Pretty easy to tell I thought - it seems like all the bullshit ones are "people who do done activity then behave differently when doing some completely unrelated task". Do psychologists dream up interesting self-help style headlines and then try and prove them? "Spending 5 minutes a day thinking about sex could make you live 10 years longer!"
>As it turned out, they never defrauded

As it turns out, they did defraud shareholders at least one time:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/27/tesla-falls-4percent-on-repo...

They are currently being sued in Delaware court for another:

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/06/12/catching-up-on-the-el...
Across all markets trains cost about 1/3 to deliver goods per ton mile[0]. And that’s before you consider the fact that roads are largely maintained on the public purse, representing a large hidden subsidy to the trucking industry that does the majority of damage to them. The issue is often that we don’t have enough rail, either to handle volume or to enough places.

Last mile will have to be trucks, of course. But those short routes are both more variable and shorter, making them easier targets for electrification. It’s the long haul stuff that’s the low hanging fruit here.

0: https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-... page 2.
City with most crimes worldwide?

According to stats from 2018 it was only number one in Baden-Wurttemberg, not even all of Germany.

https://www.chilli-freiburg.de/stadtgeplauder/politik-wirtsc...

It still seems to be relatively safe.
It’s nice you don’t have to choose between python 2 and 3 anymore.
Regarding the capitalization of "N/nazi" People seem to disagree with you:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/73948/grammar-na...

Regarding being pedantic: well, I'm not sure what to say. I think confusing "could of" with "could have" is a fundamental, terrible mistake. I guess one person's permissiveness is another's idiocracy?
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>The Badger pickup partnership seems relatively safe for GM. At least the traditional electric one.

>At the very least they are getting an aesthetically pleasing exterior design and a ready email list of potential buyers.

Is a pickup truck exterior design and a customer list worth the 3 billion in market cap that GM lost since the news broke?

GM may not take a monetary damage from dealing with Nikola, but they will still suffer a reputation damage. If and when Nikola folds, GM's management will be seen as hilariously incompetent for not doing the proper due diligence, and the market will price that in accordingly.
Very cool, thank you for sharing :)
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Yes, the latter is far riskier and obligates you to buy shares later, meaning you have to have more conviction in your investing thesis.

(Disclosure: I’m short $NKLA after Hindenburg published. I believe it’s more likely going to the teens [and possibly worse] in 2020 than sustainably into the mid-40s. If it holds $30+ through 2020, I’ll probably cover.)
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Well, maybe they didn't. How would we ever know?

The problem with LIGO is that is not making the expected number of discoveries, it has, as far as I know, one signal that correlated to something visible with other means, and it is so expensive that there won't be independent confirmation soon.

Don't get me wrong, experiments like LIGO are massive achievements. But from an outsider point of view, that very scale and effort seems to be problematic when it comes to reproducing the results of experiments if there are no immediately useful predictions.
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ARM also has well-funded competition in many spaces in the form of Intel and AMD. And to a lesser extent in Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung.

And while people may grouse about many things, chiefly paying a perceived Nvidia tax, I don't think anyone would accuse Nvidia of being strategically incompetent.

The more likely negative outcome seems to be that Nvidia would steer future ARM development so that their CPU+GPU solutions are more performant than anything anyone else can afford to produce.

Which seems like a negative... but far from the worst negative.

TBH, I think ARM's non-GPU business isn't interesting enough to Nvidia to screw with.
This would discourage market makers form entering the market, increasing spreads and investors would pay more to execute.
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you need to build an underground greenhouse deep enough to be under aquifers and to be geothermically heated in winter powered by an all zero emission electrical grid
> Maybe im missing it, but the argument seems to be morality is objective because everyone thinks it is. How is that not begging the question?

Let's substitute morality with "facts".

"Maybe I'm missing it, but the argument seems to be that facts are objective because everyone things they are. How is that not begging the question?"

Begging the question only applies to demonstrable truths, not evident or self-evident truths. We do not and cannot and need not demonstrate first principles. The reality of morality is obvious. The only way you can doubt it is through intentional or habitual skepticism, i.e., through some kind of philosophical FUD. I can doubt the existence of my left hand, but it would be insane for me to do so and there would be no way for me to recover my acceptance of the existence of my left hand apart from abandoning my doubt because my doubt was never rational in the first place, only willed arbitrarily.

That doesn't mean there isn't a way to account for morality.

Now, I reject panpsychism because panpsychism is really just a rehashing of Cartesian dualism masquerading as something new. However, it might be a welcome development and provisional stepping stone toward a recovery of telos. Once we finally abandon the stupid Cartesian view of matter we've been enslaved to for 400 years, we can recover the only real understanding of the basis for morality: teleology and the natural law.
What you mentioned is the raw materials of the post.. but the nice stuff I see: experience around these raw materials.
Oh, right, it's "Symphony of the Night". I thought "Symphony of Darkness" sounded off but I couldn't for the life of me remember the correct name.

Edit: Btw, the aforementioned explanation of how to do the Mega Man 1 Credits Warp (through ACE) can be found here: https://nudua.com/mm1/