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Also, ask for the new, interesting work, make designs, talk to others about your ideas - don't just show up with a complex multi week/month solution.
I've never understood why more people don't ask for the interesting, fun, challenging stuff. I've always done that, and been glad I did.
I suppose claiming ESP is real is like claiming cold fusion is real. You better have some damn good proof because there have been a lot of shoddy claims that didn't hold up in practice. So has this been replicated by outsiders based on his paper?
I personally am extremely skeptical. If we did discover something like ESP is possible, it would be the biggest discovery so far this century. It would open up possible consideration of religion, and all those people who claim to astral travel, could any of that stuff be real? It would be cool and scary. But naw, it's got to be bullshit :-)
Yeah, how can you do anything just that little amount? /s
The could give their shareholders billions and still have plenty left over to do anything.
Correct. They have gotten worse though. And even if you believe nothing changed, it's terrible and we need to stop it.
You are wrong about them being limited to right at the border. There are many border patrol stops way north of the border, south of Tucson, all areas around Tucson. These are at the least dozens of miles from the border.
Man, I sure loved _Heavy_Metal_ when I was a teenager. Sex, drugs, rock and roll, fed all my nerdy escapist fantasies. And you know that first scene, when the scientist comes out of the space shuttle in a corvette and flys down to the ground? That's what I wanted to be when I grew up.
You are arguing that we should just hire anyone regardless of tech skills if they can carry on a conversation? It takes years to do learn how to do actual complicated programming. I think we need to screen for both tech skills and soft/people skills. I always strive to do both in my interviews.
Somehow won't back page correctly in Chrome. Please just turn that off, whatever it is. I don't think anyone wants fancy history munging web pages.
Amazing couple. Hard to believe they'll ever get off the ground. Musk has a real chance to make it happen.
I strongly disagree with your statement. Many people in India and China would be happy to have cleaner skies. Especially in China, they know that they have too many polluting factories, and their economy has gotten to the point that they can afford to have treatment of the exhaust - but many companies pay off regulators as that is cheaper than treating their waste products.
Some of the very poorest of the poor would be more open to dirty industry so they can have a more affluent lifestyle, but it is not something they all want. And in the US, we didn't have people willingly trading off more pollution for better jobs - there just wasn't an easy way to stop the polluters.
It's DNA, not DNS. Yes, this is terrible. I'm sure the police would be happy to get the DNA of everyone.
Mel Brooks is probably our greatest American comedy director and writer, at least in the second half of the 20th century he's in the top handful. Who comes to mind, Blake Edwards?
Wow, there's an amazing amount of down voting in this article. Is that because people hate tesla? I don't get it. I once bought an suv. It had a problem soon after I bought it and got service for a while and i didn't have a car. It was frustrating. It wasn't a tesla by the way :-) They didn't offer to give me a loaner during that time, but I was pretty young and not aware that was a normal expectation. Eventually my car was repaired, but I was out several weeks of use of that car.
Moral of this boring story - things can break. The car company won't just give you a new one. They will try to fix your old car. Tesla sells things, and they can't just give you a new one when it breaks.
What libertine thing are you referring to? Equal rights for gay people, women making the same wages as men for equivalent work? I'm from a southern state, and I hear a lot of grousing about uppity women and black folks (and people don't use words as nice as that). They want revenge. That's the kind of thing that I see people complaining about liberals. And that kind of behavior is ugly and unneeded. I can think of things that appear as silly to me, like safe spaces, trigger warnings, but I've never encountered such things in real life.
I didn't think the article was so scathing. It was very inside baseball from my software engineer basis, hard to understand what he was getting at. On the other hand, the article about axovant (the $5mil cast off drug they spun into a 1.x billion dollar company and it apparently doesn't work), that article was persuasive that I should short this. How come the axovant stock hasn't collapsed.
You can opt out of them storing data about you. Even if you are the only car at a supercharger, it slows down the rate as your battery fills to protect it. It charges as max power (120kwh) when your battery is pretty low. However, the net effect is vastly faster than all other battery charging systems. Leafs lose range quickly if you charge them with chademo a lot, because they never cool the battery down to keep it from overheating during charging.
One big reason is people want their original battery back after swapping. We have all been trained that we are taking care of our batteries on phones or AA at home. The tesla should take care of batteries and they are basically swappable without issue. But this isn't how anyone thinks of their battery.
It's still free if you bought yours. They will keep this lifetime free thing going if you buy before January 15th. Only 2 more days! Mine is free forever. They just keep adding cool stuff making me wanting to buy a new one.
This post is misleading or just wrong. Perhaps the author is stuck on the word "predicting" as in I figured out soon there will be an accident using magical AI techniques.
As the author says, the tesla saw 2 cars (things) in front of it, the one farther ahead rapidly slowing down, the one directly ahead was very likely to need to slow down to avoid a crash, so the tesla slowed down. I don't understand the issue using a word like 'prediction', but it did slow down ahead of time, because it noted the situation and computed a likely future state.
Computer searching has already removed the need for the huge historical cases where a large group of lawyers and pa's would search through old emails and docs to see if they could find something about a big case. Now that's generally done by computer searching. You can call that AI if you have a need to, but the trend is clear - white color work that is easily automated will become more efficient, leading to fewer workers in general.
The reason why this doesn't work is that we have to pay for the services that help all of society. Fireman, police, roads, electricity, making sure that the food we eat is basically healthy. You could argue that "you" are a special person who will never rely on society for anything. You'll make your own clothes, fight your own wars or whatever. But we are all related.
Rent is said to be divorced from work for the wealthy people who did nothing and inherited their large dowry, buildings and land owned. The wealthy inherited person receives income without doing any "work". Sure, it's difficult getting up, taking showers and eating breakfast, figuring out what charitable function to go to that weekend, but some people don't call such folks with inherited wealth "working". Yes, having a place to rent and live in NYC is certainly useful for society. But the people with inherited wealth who own such buildings and receive income for doing nothing more than paying some firm to take care of their building aren't really achieving much. You could make a similar argument about say my investments in mutual funds in my 401k. I will (hopefully) make money off those investments. If I became very wealthy and say my grandchildren inherited them, I'd be happy my children had assets to help take care of them, but my offspring would be part of the rentier class.
Why is it a trope that some wealthy people don't do any work? It's no doubt true. Look at some of Trump's kids. Of course some wealthy people do lots of work.
Interesting to hear about 'the Vendee'. It's certainly true that the vast majority of nobles were not like that.
The simple answer is this worry is very founded because of the people he nominates and the statements he has made about how the govt should have access to cell phones. Yes, HRC made some stupid plans of her own. Trump is worse.
Yeah, but how much work can you get out of a dog, even in a private office.
he broke the law, but he didn't bring the classified info to those governments. by all accounts he has shielded that info from them, that he did share with journalists. I can't understand why you make these mis-statements.
Police shouldn't be able to shoot someone merely because they "felt threatened" (as shooting someone in the back who wasn't armed who was running away), or if someone backs their car into a police car.
The problem with these cases is the police have attempted to carve out large categories where they can do anything ("they feel threatened") and that's unacceptable. They are licensed to carry guns, they need to use discretion.
Driving your car at high speed into a police car in an attempt to hit them is different than a fender bender at 5 miles an hour in the real world. When I have a fender bender and the car in front of me stops too suddenly and I hit them (happens 1000s of times per day), you don't get to shoot the person who hit you because it was "textbook vehicular assault". And it shouldn't be different if the other car was driven by a policeman.
That was a great list, kudos!
Contrast this with say Japan, where people kill themselves and suicide doesn't have quite the cultural stigma that it does in the US. They also have less individualism, more collectivism. Yet people kill themselves there too.
Thanks for listing your stock compensation. We need this to be able to compare jobs across companies, it's an excellent signal of your openness.
I want to block my young teen-aged son from hacking into his time-locked win 7 (soon win 10). He already searched the web and found some kind of system restore scheme to reset his password. Next step was to encrypt the hard drive to block rebooting without password.