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a walk through on how it was done can be read here: http://gamasutra.com/blogs/Rub... or here: https://medium.com/@rubiimeow/...

I actually wanted to switch to Ubuntu instead of upgrading to Windows 10, but I also use a headless desktop and a laptop as a thin client. Windows 10 simply has much better support for remote desktop. I wrote down my experiences here: https://medium.com/@imbusy/rem...

Ironically, it may be Kik's attorneys that acted improperly here.

The attorney wasn't involved. Here's the conversation.
I can tell you, I plan to never use Kik.

He said in his blog entry explaining the take down anyone who wanted to repost and own it could.

Well, I'm moving to an air gapped computer, hoping this way of doing it won't be too complex, and might keep things kosher: https://medium.com/@russellirv...

My heart goes out to those evicted, or fearing eviction. To my untrained eye, the problems seem like an obvious result of supply-and-demand. SF has limited land, hasn't built much in the way of housing for a long time, and is in high demand. Of course the housing prices will go way up. The only solutions are to make it less desirable (lower demand), or increase housing (increase supply). Here's an interesting article: https://medium.com/@Scott_Wien...

Other cities have done this, e.g., DC has aggressively added new units.

This problem is self-correcting.

Yes, bitcoin is self-correcting! Any problems will magically disappear by the incentives built into the system! Yay!

If people are complaining (again) about not being able to fit a ton of tiny transactions into a block without paying a fee to ensure prompt delivery...

That's not what people are complaining about. You clearly have no understanding of the forces at work here.

...idiots will stop using Bitcoin for a bunch of tiny transactions and the problem will correct itself.

Ugh. More evidence of your ignorance. Looks like you didn't bother to read TFS, much less TFA. Try reading this.

Moo says the ignorant cow. MOOOOOOOO!

People are happily exchanging bitcoins for goods and services and back again. In fact they're so happy with it that they exceed the capacity of the network.

Well they aren't going to be exchanging them for much longer, because the exchange mechanism is broken (sort of) by design.

If you sell some stuff for bitcoins, then buy some other stuff for bitcoins, then it is just inane to claim that you have been scammed.

It wasn't intended as a scam by the creator, but it became one because of the developers that took over, that didn't view bitcoins as a currency, but rather as a store of value. They don't care that it takes hours or days to close a transaction, because they are not really on board with the idea that bitcoins can be used like money. They only see it as an investment.

Mike Hearn lays out the issues much better than I can, in his open resignation letter. Everyone knew it was coming but the people in charge refused to do anything about it despite the warnings. I really think it's because they don't care about the use of bitcoin in commerce. They view it as nothing but mattress money or a digital investment. Only time will tell how much people lose as there will be less and less people interested in bitcoin at all.

Its doubtful - the main issue here is the core BitCoin team who are blocking changes.

This is a fantastic post on the topic, from an authoritative source: The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment.

FYI, I just came across this blog article and thought people would find it interesting.

Apparently efforts have been made to make it easier to use Unity for application development. Resource utilization may still be a deal-breaker for some though.

https://medium.com/@raquezha/u...

I haven't checked Unreal yet, maybe there's stuff for that too.

You might enjoy reading this "open letter response".

https://medium.com/@StefWillia...

Pay them now, or pay them later. Either way, nobody's going to get away with making the downtrodden a slave race for long.

People who write letters like this are not the kinds of people who start a revolution. She might even be afraid of guns.
These are the kinds of people who start revolutions.

A better written response, with link to the letter

Here: https://medium.com/@StefWillia...

I refuse to link the letter in question directly. It's crap.

U read this one https://medium.com/@optimiseor... (I got half way through, guy just didn't know when to stop). It's a "I share your pain, but..." reply.

A better written response, with link to the letter

Here: https://medium.com/@StefWillia...

I refuse to link the letter in question directly. It's crap.

U read this one https://medium.com/@optimiseor... (I got half way through, guy just didn't know when to stop). It's a "I share your pain, but..." reply.

Here's the open letter, since tfs doesn't seem to include a link: https://medium.com/@taliajane/...

Her observations are valuable, and Yelp will be wise to pay attention. Its not in their interest to have frustrated employees.

But the part where she posted a link to her bosses home address? That was creepy and unnecessary.

A better written response, with link to the letter

Here: https://medium.com/@StefWillia...

I refuse to link the letter in question directly. It's crap.

You can be forgiven in thinking that your examples match what we're talking about here, as the summary didn't actually link anything. For reference: https://medium.com/@taliajane/...

The "Open Letter" wasn't discussing offshoring, nor unsafe business practices. It was nothing more than entitled whining, and not even very inspired at that. It certainly wasn't what I'd expect from an english major, short of it's verbosity. But then, she never said she finished college, so I guess I might be expecting too much.

I especially like how she's now begging for someone to employ her. As if a whining entitled employee is right at the top of every employer's wish list.

What a crock. Sure you don't work for Yelp's HR department?

Here's the post in question.

https://medium.com/@taliajane/...

I was told Iâ(TM)d have to work in support for an entire year before I would be able to move to a different department.

I'm just as heartbroken, that poor girl.

I thought Nadia, here, did a bang up job about what is wrong in the open source world, here. https://medium.com/@nayafia/ho...

They haven't. When I first tried to use PowerShell it frustrated me so much I wrote an entire article about it. Calling PowerShell a shell is a huge stretch: it's really just a strange and verbose scripting language.

If half of what this guy says is true, Bitcoin is in big trouble

https://medium.com/@octskyward...

The blockchain issue should have been resolved months ago. It's scary how this is real money that is being controlled by such a small number of completely unaccountable people.

One of those, "speak of the devil" moments. I just stumbled on to this medium post.

Apparently at the end of last month people started asking to remove Yukihiro Matsumoto (creator of Ruby) from the "community management" side of it's development. And guess who's involved? Coraline Ada Ehmke, the same person that pushed for the CoC to be included in the Opal project. And her friend Kurtis, who was the troll that started the transphobic accusation with Elia Schito (Opal Maintainer).

No one can seriously tell me these aren't dubious circumstances.

We realize we built a system that could easily be used for wrong. We are fixing that. The reality that trademarks like these could be used to theoretically give companies (including ours) the power to police and control online video is a valid concern, and though we can assert our intentions are pure, thereâ(TM)s no way to prove them.

This would be a great opportunity to show off what a great editor you are, and update this article with this link where the Fine Bros. announced they are backing off their trademark claims since they announced it too early.

Why are submissions reviewed and approved so incredibly slowly? This story is already practically over, except to see what the fallout is (that is, how many people accept the apology).

I'm not blaming the new owners, it has been like this for years. It's obviously not for dupe prevention, that's for damn sure.

Fine Bros have backed down. https://medium.com/@FineBrothe...

The fine brothers were losing like 200k subscribers a day over this, it was very unpopular. It appears they are rescinding their attempt: their post about it

>The main advantage of bitcoin and other crypto currency protocol, is that there isn't a single entity in charge of the transactions, there's not a single point that you can block/ban.

Wrong and wrong. Hash.io has enough power to control the chain. Around 10 people basically control BTC. The reason you can't have >1MB blocks that are required to grow the network much further beyond its current size (bandwidth issues 2.1 transactions/second, and so on) is because these Chinese miners that control the chain do not want you too, as it will make it too hard for BTC to work across the great firewall.

Bitcoin has utterly failed, exactly like intelligent people foresaw years ago.

I love that one of the buildings on the map is called "Castle Wolfenstein"!

Absolute rubbish. If you look at the code for BitcoinXT, which is simply BIP101 attached to bitcoin core, you will see that it allows the blocksize to increase if consensus is reached by miners.

And the miners have flatly rejected it, out of concerns for Bitcoin XT's path of overcentralizing Bitcoin.

Gavin (and others) have introduced plans to solve this issue. Where's your plan?

There's no issue. It's not just me saying this-- it's some of the world's foremost distributed systems experts, such as Bittorrent's creator Bram Cohen. Do nothing and let transaction fees rise. You know when you go to the corner store and there's a sign that says "a fee of 25 cents will be added to any credit purchase under $10"? We do that. We charge people for resolving transactions on blockchain, because it is a limited resource. That's what we're really arguing over, whether transaction fees rise to a fucking quarter or not. You people are willing to burn the house down over it apparently.

Coinbase merely ran XT on a test node to help run bitcoin simulations using larger block sizes. They also wanted to be prepared and understand its operation should XT ever go mainstream. I wouldn't say that they support it

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong: BIP 101 is the Best Proposal We've Seen So Far. Liar, liar, pants on fire. Stop shilling, XT bros.

I'm asking myself why someone like yourself would spend so much time on a post with such an extreme (and negative) view?

Because this is not a game to me. My life depends on Bitcoin. 100% of my income is Bitcoin. The entirety of my savings is Bitcoin. Gavin and Mike's tantrums are vindictive, to damage Bitcoin.

They're at it again. Bitcoin XT/Unlimited/Classic developers are shilling emotionally charged rhetoric declaring the failure of Bitcoin. These blog posts are promoted by their connections in the (((international media))) to try to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt around the status of Bitcoin and bully people into accepting their suicidal "solutions" to problems that don't really exist involving block size limits.

Histrionic whining on Medium and Reddit is not the proper way to present engineering solutions. Their campaign looks more like some sort of intelligence operation than a patch submission. There's a reason for this: it is.

I have a lot of skin in the game on this issue. I am a target of the United States government, and as such I have a very hard time receiving money. It doesn't matter that I have left the United States because of continuing persecution there. Their control over wire transfers between all countries with Rothschild banks is complete. The United States seizes money on lawful transactions between EU states over things as insignificant as Cuban cigars, despite none of the countries involved participating in the US embargo against Cuba. I've had my bank accounts, payment processing services, and brokerage accounts shut off. Bitcoin is the only way I can engage with any financial services. If it is centralized and subject to controls similar to SWIFT wires and credit card processing, my continued existence would no longer be feasible. Bitcoin is the the most important development in human rights in centuries.

Here's the facts: Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn want you to switch to something called Bitcoin XT or Bitcoin Unlimited or some other fork of Bitcoin that is under unilateral control so that they can centralize Bitcoin to a dangerous degree-- enough to put it under the control of a government hostile to liberty like the United States. While they do this, they hilariously complain about "oppression" and "censorship" on forums that clean away their bullshit altcoin spam postings.

There are two likely incentives for doing this:
1) They have placed short positions against Bitcoin.
2) They are funded by people that wish to see Bitcoin less free.

Now reflect for a moment that the only major industry supporter of the Bitcoin XT proposal is Coinbase whose gigantic series C round was lead by the New York Stock Exchange. I doubt their financial interests are aligned with a free and unregulated global marketplace.

The good news is that they seem to have lost most of this battle. Consensus on the network is determined by the nodes people run on it. Bitcoin XT only has about 500 nodes. Bitcoin Core, the real Bitcoin software, has about ten times that. The majority of the mining capacity is in China, and Chinese people have little incentive to centralize Bitcoin for the convenience of US intelligence and enforcement organizations. So I must celebrate China's shrewd rejection of XT today.

If you love liberty you should call XT's shilling and spamming out for what it is. If you are invested in Bitcoin you also must do so. If XT gets their way and centralizes Bitcoin, Bitcoin will lose its primary feature of freedom from centralized authorities and thus lose its source of value. You can also support Bitcoin's continued freedom by running a full Bitcoin Core node, and buying and saving Bitcoin.

Bitcoin transaction fees going up is not the end of the world. It's good for miners, and necessary to protect a limited resource like space on the blockchain. I'm willing to pay higher fees to see Bitcoin stay free from government control (and we're literally talking transaction fees of a few extra cents here), and everyone else who loves Bitcoin should be so willing as well.

yeah, a US telco, where all users in an area have a latency of 20 ms to the server, except one that's always around 200. Or use this guy's tricks.

While Facebook's motives are certainly not selfless and altruistic, they are talking about giving free connectivity to people who'd otherwise have nothing.

That's their argument, but it's based on false premises.

Zero-rated content is problematic because it supplants other means of getting universal access to the internet. We agree that the argument for zero-rating is: 'It's better than nothing.' But that's begging the question. Why does 'nothing' have to be the alternative?

Telco revenues in the developing world have nearly doubled in the last 10 years. Virtually all revenue growth in the telco sector is in the developing world. And yet... not only are we not keeping up with the rate of increase in bandwidth, subscription base and accessibility in the developed world, we're actually falling behind.

Service levels are improving by leaps and bounds in the developed world, in a sector with *stable* income. And yet they're not improving nearly as much in a part of the world that's seen 50% revenue growth in 10 years.

How is it that the only way we can get actual services—you know, the thing telcos are given partial monopolies to deliver—is when customers are commoditised and effectively sold on an exclusive basis to an information service operator?

Dark matter and dark energy have multiple independent lines of supporting empirical evidence. I presume you are willfully ignorant of this. Perhaps you can manage to keep it to yourself next time.

I've posted this, today, on slashdot and I'm posting it again.

In particular, Fuck Ethan Siegel, the handle resembling a human name used by the StartsWithABang guy, well-known Internet troll and manipulator of disinformation ("digital strategist" in today's Internet dysphemism), who is claimed to be "professor" perhaps of nothing but the art of aggressive marketeering.

dieethandie.

Forbes is a well known scam site.

The website "offers" 17 trackers on a single page serving what they claim to be "content", by the count of Ghostery. In comparison, Slashdot serves 6.

The site claims to promise "light ad" and nags you to turn off the ad blocker. In reality, it's 4% content and 96% ads.

What's worse, the blogs hosted there offers no information that is so unique that is worthy of whitelisting the site in your content blocker. The "Starts with a bang" blog, for example, "publishes" stories that are actually regurgitated, thinly-wrapped, dumbed-down, borderline plagiarism from science journals, websites and blogs. The link to the actual news is usually buried with a wall of distracting text and images copied or re-phrased from the original source. The whole blog serves no other purpose than baiting the reader for the purpose of tracking.

In addition, it appears that the purpose of hosting ads includes malware delivery.

The behavior of Forbes.com is at best sociopathic and outright criminal at worst. They look really desperate.

It's only a matter of time before this hub of mal-adverts gets its page ranks bitchslapped by Google, and pulling down the rank of all prolific referrers, including Slashdot.

Which is completely deserved.

He published the same story in Matter back in June. But in the reprint in the Guardian he fails to link to the original article anywhere.

Pretty much disproves his thesis. The Internet is functioning just fine. Stuff circulates. The link has always been more than a relation between objects.

The blogfather just wants his crown back, and he is using alarmist rhetoric and his personal biography to try and achieve that. In what way is this better than Facebook?

if you cant post your "dissenting opinion" without "threatening people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability or disease", then you have some issues you need to work on.

Ok, lets talk about what they claim, and how this will go down in reality. Because Twitter has a really bad track record of saying one thing and enforcing another.

For example. There is a delightful young transwoman named Sarah Nyberg who has been harassing gamers on twitter for months now. (But that's ok, because harassing neuroatypical white males is socially acceptable. Especially if they're overweight and straight, too.)

Sarah Nyberg is a pedophile. She openly admits this. She also openly admits that she took photos of her 8 year old niece in her underwear and shared them online. She openly admits that doing so gave her an erection.

She admits all of this, but that it was ok because some people were rude to her and that's somehow worse.

TALKING about this, due to Sarah Nyberg being part of the SJW clique, results in you being mass-reported by a botnet and your account auto-locked by Twitter's algorithms until you delete the "harassing" posts.

The people doing this openly brag about doing this. Twitter does not care.

Twitter can post all the fluff pieces about how this is going to combat trolls and harassers they want. People who have been the victim of this passive agressive "crybullying" know that the authoritarian nutjobs involved claim any disagreement with their socio-political views is "harassment" or "Cyberviolence" and that Twitter apparently agrees with them.

New York Times story and responses:

New York Times story: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions." Another quote: "The internal phone directory instructs colleagues on how to send secret feedback to one another's bosses. Employees say it is frequently used to sabotage others." (New York Times story posted Aug 15, 2015. There are 5,858 comments!)

Response from Amazon: What The New York Times Didn't Tell You by Jay Carney, "Senior Vice President for Global Corporate Affairs at Amazon. Previously, he served as White House Press Secretary and spent 20 years as a reporter for TIME." (Posted on medium.com, October 19, 2015.)

Response from the New York Times: Dean Baquet Responds To Jay Carney's Medium Post by Dean Baquet, Executive Editor, The New York Times. Quote: "As I said in the beginning, this story [the New York Times story linked above] was based on dozens of interviews. And any reading of the responses leaves no doubt that this was an accurate portrait." (Posted on medium.com, October 19, 2015.)

Business Insider stories:

Amazon employees on 'ludicrously comical' NYT story: 'Some people don't belong here, maybe' Quote: "She said she enjoys the culture that pushes her to work harder." (Aug. 15, 2015)

Employees confess the worst parts about working for Amazon (Aug. 21, 2015)

Amazon abuse is an old story. From 4 years ago:

Atlantic Magazine: "... 8-12 hours shifts with no overtime for $8.72 an hour." In the Wake of Protest: One Woman's Attempt to Unionize Amazon Quote: "As that first month dragged on, I tried to tell myself I was organizing, but what I was really doing was driving across town in a beater car working 8-12 hours shifts with no overtime for $8.72 an hour." Another quote: "Time magazine named Jeff Bezos 'Person of The Year.' Yet Amazon had failed so far to show a profit and stockholder pressure was on. In January, five days before fourth-quarter earnings were to be published, Bezos laid off around 150 workers, nearly 2 percent of its workforce, and posted its first-ever gains. I was hired the following week." Another quote: "He was the one who told me Bezos was going to close the Seattle warehouse. It was too expensive to run. Huge fulfillment centers were springing up around the country. In Nevada, they were getting $5.15 an hour and people had to work 12-hour shifts, five days a week."(Dec. 12, 2011, 4 years ago)

New York Times story and responses:

New York Times story: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions." Another quote: "The internal phone directory instructs colleagues on how to send secret feedback to one another's bosses. Employees say it is frequently used to sabotage others." (New York Times story posted Aug 15, 2015. There are 5,858 comments!)

Response from Amazon: What The New York Times Didn't Tell You by Jay Carney, "Senior Vice President for Global Corporate Affairs at Amazon. Previously, he served as White House Press Secretary and spent 20 years as a reporter for TIME." (Posted on medium.com, October 19, 2015.)

Response from the New York Times: Dean Baquet Responds To Jay Carney's Medium Post by Dean Baquet, Executive Editor, The New York Times. Quote: "As I said in the beginning, this story [the New York Times story linked above] was based on dozens of interviews. And any reading of the responses leaves no doubt that this was an accurate portrait." (Posted on medium.com, October 19, 2015.)

Business Insider stories:

Amazon employees on 'ludicrously comical' NYT story: 'Some people don't belong here, maybe' Quote: "She said she enjoys the culture that pushes her to work harder." (Aug. 15, 2015)

Employees confess the worst parts about working for Amazon (Aug. 21, 2015)

Amazon abuse is an old story. From 4 years ago:

Atlantic Magazine: "... 8-12 hours shifts with no overtime for $8.72 an hour." In the Wake of Protest: One Woman's Attempt to Unionize Amazon Quote: "As that first month dragged on, I tried to tell myself I was organizing, but what I was really doing was driving across town in a beater car working 8-12 hours shifts with no overtime for $8.72 an hour." Another quote: "Time magazine named Jeff Bezos 'Person of The Year.' Yet Amazon had failed so far to show a profit and stockholder pressure was on. In January, five days before fourth-quarter earnings were to be published, Bezos laid off around 150 workers, nearly 2 percent of its workforce, and posted its first-ever gains. I was hired the following week." Another quote: "He was the one who told me Bezos was going to close the Seattle warehouse. It was too expensive to run. Huge fulfillment centers were springing up around the country. In Nevada, they were getting $5.15 an hour and people had to work 12-hour shifts, five days a week."(Dec. 12, 2011, 4 years ago)

Not just almost an A.I. Driving in interaction with human drivers requires nothing less than an A.I. Problem is I haven't seen anything remotely resembling an A.I. outside Hollywood.

Of course if we have an A.I. we must program it to obey Asimov's three laws of robotics.

This article describes another related conundrum:

https://medium.com/@tanayj/sel...

The relevant war-fighting strategies are decapitation and counter-force. They would be used in a first strike in an attempt to win the war quickly.

A decapitation strike aims to destroy or disrupt the national leadership and military command so that they are unable to command and control their nuclear forces in particular, and the armed forces in general. It might begin with a high altitude large nuclear explosion to generate a large electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) to disrupt communications prior to main attack on the political leadership, military high command, and the command and control infrastructure of the nuclear forces. The short warning time to impact of submarine launched ballistic missiles makes they highly useful for this task. Sitting on the coast, Washington DC is particularly vulnerable. Moscow? Not so much.

A counter-force strike aims to destroy enemy nuclear weapons before they can be launched. This requires many nuclear warheads, and the MIRV (Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicles) warhead is how they are delivered. The SS-18 Satan, for example, could either carry a single 25 Megaton warhead or many smaller ones (at least 10, possibly 20+). That mean you could potentially take out 10-20 targeted enemy nuclear missiles for each missile launch. This is a highly destabilizing capability.

If you are able to successfully execute a first strike using these strategies then the enemy is effectively leaderless at the critical moment, and largely weaponless afterwards. Since nuclear capable forces are often in relatively remote areas this may mean relatively little loss of life and opens the possibility of nuclear blackmail.

During the Cold War there was concern that the Soviet Union might be able to execute this strategy. It might look like this at the strategic level.

Cold War contingency plan crafted by the Soviet Union

Not really. We do not use Apache. Our API gateway and microservices act directly as HTTP server listening on the port 80, employing the reactor pattern implemented in PHP. See ReactPHP or Icicle.io. We do not use MySQL, currently our data are stored in PostgreSQL, REDIS and Amazon S3. See Microservices architecture and Model for large applications for architectural details.

"Make it about “political correctness run amok”: For instance, you might open the article with the transgender students’ protesting the Person of Stature’s University talk. But then you will pan back and show that this is but one instance among many in a much larger and disturbing trend sweeping the nation—aka, “political correctness running amok.” (I am not sure why political correctness is always “running amok” as opposed to other synonymous phrases, but just roll with it.) And at this point, you can simply provide readers with a laundry list of seemingly similar incidents of activists and minority groups taking things way too far with their “political correctness” and “censorship.” For examples of this laundry-list approach, see recent high profile pieces by Jonathan Chait, Michelle Goldberg, and Caitlin Flanagan (there are countless others—The Atlantic alone seems to be churning out one or two of these per month!). The benefit of this approach is that you don’t have to go too in depth about any specific issue (e.g., interviewing all the parties involved, accurately conveying their differing perspectives, etc.)—you can just hastily depict all of them as being outrageous. Additionally, this allows you to conflate some potentially legitimate issues (e.g., protests of the Person of Stature) with a bunch of random mean things that random people (who have no stature) have said on Twitter." https://medium.com/@juliaseran...
"When people rail against political correctness, they're usually stating that it has run amok." http://www.dummies.com/how-to/...
"Political Correctness Run Amuck!" http://reflectionsfromtheburg....
"On the other hand, I do think political correctness has run amuck" http://greginhollywood.com/jer...
"There are those who claim that political correctness has run amuck." http://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/ne...
"Flag defenders: Political correctness has run amok." https://www.dailyadvance.com/n...
“the clearest example of political correctness run amok that I have seen in quite some time.” http://knoxblogs.com/humphreyh...
"Political correctness run amuck again." http://forum.woodenboat.com/sh...
"Has political correctness really 'run amok' on college campuses?" http://talk.collegeconfidentia...
"Political Correctness Run Amok" http://www.newsmax.com/Freind/...
"Has political correctness really 'run amok' on college campuses?" https://www.washingtonpost.com...
"Has Political Correctness Run Amok?" https://www.insidehighered.com...
"In Fort Collins, political correctness run amok"

Everyone on Slashdot already knows Mozilla seem to have lost their way. I wrote Forgetting Firefox a while back (which ran on Slashdot), bemoaning the problems - but more to the point, trying to draw attention that mail and groupware should be the next big challenge Mozilla pick up.

Sadly, this new statement implies they're going in the opposite direction.

Mozilla, you already won the browser wars. There's a lot of other work to do.

Hardware is hard. Really really hard.

The list goes on, and on.

Even hardware projects with experienced teams can fail. If you see a hardware crowdfunding project, be fully willing to accept that your 'investment' (which is what it really is) is more likely to disappear than result in a finished product.

Four times what? Are these ranges measured in the meters, or in miles like LoRa WAN?

Data, please? People make this claim all the time, but given that there are over a billion trips a day in the US and only around 120 fatalities, I'd say humans drivers pretty much have this thing down. The fact that people can make it around in their cars in myriad weather conditions, successfully navigate unfamiliar terrain, and quickly respond to sudden changes in circumstances (kid darting out in front of them) speaks volumes to how good human drivers are.

So I'm going to try. Putting aside fatalities, as the Google cars have not been involved in any, there were approx 5.5m traffic accidents in the US in 2010. Taking your number of 1b trips per day, we get a figure of ~66k miles per accident. According to Google they have been involved in 11 accidents over 1.7 million miles which is ~154k miles/accident. Now this is a combination of fully automatic and driver assisted miles, so the comparison isn't exact, but it's pretty safe to assume the computer is at least as good as your average driver. And maybe twice as good.

I watched a Google self-driving car cross an intersection this weekend (in Austin). It was moving very cautiously and then slowed down to a walking pace on the other side of the intersection, leaving a trail of human-driven cars stuck in the intersection while it decided to turn down a side street.

That may be evidence of it driving badly. Or it may be evidence of it driving well, because it was responding to a potential danger that the human drivers didn't see or didn't care about. Remember - if we're saying we want the computers to drive better than humans we have to accept that they will at times drive differently.

That ONE single post she quotes as an example of "Lots of people" went like this (retyped for your reading pleasure):

This is some weird haphazard branding. I think they want to appeal to women, but are probably just appealing to dudes.
Perhaps that's the intention all along. But I'm curious people with brains find this quote remotely plausible and if women in particular buy this image of what female software engineer looks like. Idk. Weird.

The post never questions whether she is an engineer OR what an engineer should look like.
It questions a trite marketing-lingo quote ("My team is great. Everyone is smart, creative and hilarious.") - which was at the center of the puns aimed at the campaign poster before SJW's showed up...
...and a stereotypical image of a representation of a female techie - when supposedly aimed at women, but actually aimed at "dudes".

E.g. Young (no witches), thin (no fatties), "foreign" (Janie can't tech), handsome (no uglies) and that old staple - glasses because glasses==smart.
That last bit is made even more obvious with her "everyday" photo in her post where she clearly doesn't wear glasses at work.
But is still young and pretty... but not nerdy. Sorry. Can't use THAT photo cause women need such guiding symbols to know that she is a techie.
Stereotypes... Some of them are true. Like what marketing drones think that a representation of a "smart" female SHOULD look like.

It's not about whether someone is an #engineer but what a female engineer SHOULD be like.
Because that is what ads do - unless there is an explicit "NO!", ad is an idealized representation of what something SHOULD look/be/act like.
So... While a female should comment about creative and hilarious teams... you know... girly stuff...
B3ard0 has the autonomy to get things done while "foreign dude" secures data of Fortune 500 companies with his code.

Now, while one would have to really be looking for an excuse to find that post to be representative of "solid examples of the sexism that plagues tech"... from her own words... "socially-accepted, 'smart' and 'normal' guys" and definitely "not bad people" do this:

- I've had men throw dollar bills at me in a professional office(by an employee who works at that company, during work hours).
- I've had an engineer on salary at a bootcamp message me to explicitly 'be friends with benefits' while I was in the interview process at the school he worked for.

One of these things is not like the other...
Now... I may be overacting a bit... but I'm pretty certain that those are NOT "not bad people" and that such acts would earn that someone an immediate and permanent injury where I live.
From the "object" of their "attention", not some self-righteous crusader for societal justice.
At the very least a scene noticeable from a radius of at least several kilometers. Which would include some light physical "attention".
Like a slap, punch, kick or having something significantly harder than a dollar thrown at the culprit. And I'm not talking Euros.

A more civilized society might get them a lawsuit or a cardboard box to take their belongings in while being escorted out to the gate.
But certainly, THAT would not be "not bad people" and "normal guys" or "socially-accepted".

But... she thinks THAT is fine and OK, while a rather neutral post is... "solid example of the sexism that plagues tech".
Now... I can't say I'm a mind reader...
But, while that blog post (from August 1st) about reaction to a marketing campaign has all that HASHTAGsexism HASHTAGiLookLikeAnEngineer HASHTAGonlineActivism... there's this bit:

My stories have become such a source of inspi

This is misogynistic: https://medium.com/absurdist/t...

Google probably doesn't want to be associated with that sort of thing, or have their shiny new compression format associated with it. So, best to avoid it.