For which companies are those driver driving post-Uber? There aren't many choices, SF specifically. Talking about turnover. Any ideas how that's for Uber compared to Lyft et al.?
I don't know, I'd rather be an early Apple's employee or part of the first iPhone team, witnessing a major new chapter of computing, than a comfortable developer in a comfortable setting.
> The US military has sunk $50 Billion dollars into this problem over the last 30 years and still aren't there. I suppose by "this problem" you referred to tilt-rotor technology. If so V-22 is combat ready, and has been…
> The very structure of a corporation today means it is incentivized to sneak by and almost break as many laws as possible to be short-term profitable Can you elaborate on how corporation today are structured toward…
That person may however learn to become caregiver, healthcare worker, or another society supporting worker. As automation and AI take bigger roles, couple with the population aging, we the human being need more and more…
Statistically speaking, I agree that comparison isn't helpful. At the same time we have to take into account it's still learning phase for self-driving. I'd be interested to learn from the history how well automobile…
True, but this is no difference than when there is a major incident (e.g. construction) on the thoroughfare and the surrounding quiet streets become the detour. Unless the algorithm mistakenly makes it a permanent…
Stock trading is just one of many ways aimed at making capital available to whomever need it. Without capital Olivetti may not have existed in the first place (assuming they borrowed money during their existence). You…
It's news because Tesla projected to have delivered 1,500 Model 3 by end of 3rd quarter. They missed that milestone. Simple as that. I wouldn't read too much into this myself. Scaling production is hard. Regardless,…
Absolutely. That's human nature. The differences: there are due process, separation of power and free speech in democracies.
> The US has 6800 nuclear weapons, and it seems that people are getting worried about a country who may not have one single functioning weapon. That's of course if we want to just play this about the numbers. It's not…
What Syria, Iraq and Libya all have in common -- dictators with brutal policies that naturally create a lot of domestic enemies. Did US try to influence those countries? definitely yes. Playing dirty? of course. But…
The leak won't make those who support Clinton change their mind. Those hate her will feel vindicated. Those undecided will stay skeptical. In other words, it has done no harm. If they are truly unbiased, they should…
Care to show how western media depicts China? Do you want to bet that for every negative article you cite, I can find a positive one? I was in China last week. Major Western news sources such as NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg, BBC…
ok, let's assume such a hyper-connected system exists and ads disappear completely. You decide to buy socks. You find a supplier you like. Socks come in black and orange. You like black, but your wife prefers orange.…
> Not only do I not think that is true, I think there's real danger that people conclude that more risk is better I don't think people in general consider more risk being better. Rather, higher reward often comes with…
> education tends to prepare for a job rather than for running a company or being a founder. This is an interesting point. Can you elaborate?
> Because you don't risk bankruptcy by having a health issue, if you're single it's not a sausage fest, more laid back work (in SF it seems you're bound to stay longer times at the office), greater tourism choices (a…
So when the NYT maintains such a page, is it also part of their propaganda? http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo And when Newsweek reported on a case that reflects negatively on the US, is it also propaganda?…
Sony Pictures in an American entity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment Sony the company bought it in 1989, but it still operates as an independent subsidiary.
Came with generics which was introduced in Java 5. No longer true with Java 7
Sony wearable are powered by Android Wear. Does anyone know if Android Wear supports BLE out of the box? I suppose it does but am not sure about light devices such as Sony SmartBand. There doesn't seem to be any…
Pretty interesting statement. Why? Nations have track records of not killing/spying on each others?
I don't have any inside knowledge of how blackbox works the way it does, but I imagine, like with any critical system, reliability and redundancy trump everything else. I bet the two hour limit is not an arbitrary…
That's a good point. However I believe low pressurization event is captured by the data recorder. That information, coupled with other events, and the fact that the voice recorder goes silent for 2 hours, would give…
For which companies are those driver driving post-Uber? There aren't many choices, SF specifically. Talking about turnover. Any ideas how that's for Uber compared to Lyft et al.?
I don't know, I'd rather be an early Apple's employee or part of the first iPhone team, witnessing a major new chapter of computing, than a comfortable developer in a comfortable setting.
> The US military has sunk $50 Billion dollars into this problem over the last 30 years and still aren't there. I suppose by "this problem" you referred to tilt-rotor technology. If so V-22 is combat ready, and has been…
> The very structure of a corporation today means it is incentivized to sneak by and almost break as many laws as possible to be short-term profitable Can you elaborate on how corporation today are structured toward…
That person may however learn to become caregiver, healthcare worker, or another society supporting worker. As automation and AI take bigger roles, couple with the population aging, we the human being need more and more…
Statistically speaking, I agree that comparison isn't helpful. At the same time we have to take into account it's still learning phase for self-driving. I'd be interested to learn from the history how well automobile…
True, but this is no difference than when there is a major incident (e.g. construction) on the thoroughfare and the surrounding quiet streets become the detour. Unless the algorithm mistakenly makes it a permanent…
Stock trading is just one of many ways aimed at making capital available to whomever need it. Without capital Olivetti may not have existed in the first place (assuming they borrowed money during their existence). You…
It's news because Tesla projected to have delivered 1,500 Model 3 by end of 3rd quarter. They missed that milestone. Simple as that. I wouldn't read too much into this myself. Scaling production is hard. Regardless,…
Absolutely. That's human nature. The differences: there are due process, separation of power and free speech in democracies.
> The US has 6800 nuclear weapons, and it seems that people are getting worried about a country who may not have one single functioning weapon. That's of course if we want to just play this about the numbers. It's not…
What Syria, Iraq and Libya all have in common -- dictators with brutal policies that naturally create a lot of domestic enemies. Did US try to influence those countries? definitely yes. Playing dirty? of course. But…
The leak won't make those who support Clinton change their mind. Those hate her will feel vindicated. Those undecided will stay skeptical. In other words, it has done no harm. If they are truly unbiased, they should…
Care to show how western media depicts China? Do you want to bet that for every negative article you cite, I can find a positive one? I was in China last week. Major Western news sources such as NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg, BBC…
ok, let's assume such a hyper-connected system exists and ads disappear completely. You decide to buy socks. You find a supplier you like. Socks come in black and orange. You like black, but your wife prefers orange.…
> Not only do I not think that is true, I think there's real danger that people conclude that more risk is better I don't think people in general consider more risk being better. Rather, higher reward often comes with…
> education tends to prepare for a job rather than for running a company or being a founder. This is an interesting point. Can you elaborate?
> Because you don't risk bankruptcy by having a health issue, if you're single it's not a sausage fest, more laid back work (in SF it seems you're bound to stay longer times at the office), greater tourism choices (a…
So when the NYT maintains such a page, is it also part of their propaganda? http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo And when Newsweek reported on a case that reflects negatively on the US, is it also propaganda?…
Sony Pictures in an American entity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Entertainment Sony the company bought it in 1989, but it still operates as an independent subsidiary.
Came with generics which was introduced in Java 5. No longer true with Java 7
Sony wearable are powered by Android Wear. Does anyone know if Android Wear supports BLE out of the box? I suppose it does but am not sure about light devices such as Sony SmartBand. There doesn't seem to be any…
Pretty interesting statement. Why? Nations have track records of not killing/spying on each others?
I don't have any inside knowledge of how blackbox works the way it does, but I imagine, like with any critical system, reliability and redundancy trump everything else. I bet the two hour limit is not an arbitrary…
That's a good point. However I believe low pressurization event is captured by the data recorder. That information, coupled with other events, and the fact that the voice recorder goes silent for 2 hours, would give…