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I really dislike that argument. It seems to say that, without incentive of making profit, no great progress would be made. It's such a pessimistic view of humanity. Many great people have done amazing things with little to no regard of fame or fortune. I'm not denouncing capitalism, but jesus christ, can we acknowledge that blind pursuit of profit is starting to damage society as a whole.

Isn't that the point? They attempted to save time and money by not designing a new aircraft (as they originally planned) and found a way to mount the new larger engines that necessitated the MCAS system. In addition, the solution they sold did not, by design, utilize both AoA sensors and did not advise pilots if the sensor disagree unless an additional package was purchased. Furthermore, all of this was in effort to sell an aircraft that would not need significant pilot re-training, resulting in pilots not being familiar enough with the failure mode that resulted in many deaths.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant it more as a personal preference. Considering the sensors and screen, a 2 day battery life was pretty great and certainly one of the reasons it was (and still is) better than the Apple Watch and G3, IMO.

I just meant I value a longer battery life pretty highly. So, something like a MS Band "lite" with a less feature rich sensor package, a 2 tone oled display, and 6 to 7 day battery life would have hit that sweet spot for me, personally.

I really like being able to wear the Charge 3 around the clock for a full week (I typically charge it during my lazy Sunday morning routine) without really worrying about it.

Yes! The rectangular display on the underside of the wrist was brilliant!

Having gone from MS Band 2 to Apple Watch to Samsung G3 to Fitbit Charge, MS Band has been my favorite.

My single complaint was the how invariably the band would begin to break away from the display over normal use. Also, battery life could have been better...

I'd still buy one if MS decided to produce a 3rd iteration. A Fitbit Charge with the under wrist style display would be great as well...

I interviewed at the Pittsburgh office early 2017, and it was a great experience. Granted, I did not get the job, but I feel like the technical portion was fair and not an unpleasant experience.

Not it at all. I saw this paper presented at CoRL last month. It, and a lot of other papers on the topic of unsupervised learning in robotics, draw on ways humans develop cognition, specifically, during early childhood. In projecting the scene forward in the visual spatial domain, the robot plans it's actions and learns from the corresponding results in a way that parallels what a young child would do to learn about the world.