I worked on a project for several years where the team was split between Boston, Sydney, and San Francisco. It actually wasn't all that hard for us to communicate and keep in sync. It probably helped that the SF and Sydney folks were on flexible schedule, while only the Boston team were cubicle slaves chained to their desks 9-6.
FWIW, scheduling wasn't really any harder with SYD included than it was for just SFO and BOS.
Uh - maybe auto accidents and deaths for a starter
With human-driven cars, crashes result from mistakes made by drivers. With computer-driven cars, crashes result from bugs and vulnerabilities in software. Without wide deployment it's pretty speculative to assume the latter will necessarily be less than the former. At least with current technology there is no way for a malicious attacker to simultaneously cause thousands of car wrecks from the comfort of his sofa.
Perhaps Google's attorney had lunch with the head Chinese censor and "forgot" to carry home his briefcase full of unmarked, non-sequential large bills.
down Mass Ave, one of the most traveled roads anywhere.
And I don't feel like it's suicidal at all.
I've biked on Mass Ave and it didn't feel suicidal to me either. Urban cycling in Boston is fairly safe and easy. But "light" traffic in LA is heavier than the heaviest traffic I ever saw in Boston.
Perhaps you haven't visited LA. Traffic there is different from traffic everywhere else. It's omnipresent, all times all places - it's atmospheric. Imagine for a moment the worst traffic jam you've ever seen in your city. Or, if you live in a small town, way worse than the worst you've ever seen. That would be what Angelenos call "unusually light traffic".
Central LA average is probably more like 4mph in heavy-ish traffic. But the actual speed of cars at any given time ranges from around 35mph to barely inching forward, and can change quite suddenly. Not a very safe place to bike.
We Americans see the British as our cultural brethren, owing to the long intertwined history of our two nations. As England goes, so too shall America go. Thus we mourn for the Brits' loss of the freedoms that inspired our own. So too do we fear that our own regime may follow the UK down the path to open tyranny.
The profit may be less this quarter... but give it six months to a year, plus one incident in the Middle East... and oil will be back up to $150 a barrel and stay there for good.
I wouldn't be too surprised if there were some Ruskie military intelligence types working overtime to stir up some new troubles in the Middle East. The Saudi gub'mint isn't exactly popular with their subjects, are they?
The most useful stuff I've ever read on economics was the old-school stuff: on the business cycle, not just boom-bust but which sectors recover in which order - what leads recovery, and what's big when the end of the boom is near, and what survives best during the bust.
I used to work systems security at a bigcorp. If a member of our team walked away with his workstation unlocked, someone would immediately jump on it and change his public status message. The standard was: "Don't worry, I'm insecurity!"
Yahoo may pass the total value of the Russian stock market soon, if trends continue. Only Chuck can save Yahoo now.
If this is true (I'll take your word for it), it says more about the meaning of stock market valuations than about Yahoo per se. On one hand we have an established but declining internet advertising company. On the other - all the public companies of a large, heavily industrialized, nuclear armed, multi-continental nation. Really?
Snowden documents taught us that the NSA and CGHQ do it over internet backbones. [...] Pushing towards HTTP/SSL address that
Consider: cryptome.org has long refused on principle to support HTTPS. Their reasoning seems to be that it is better for users to know they have zero privacy, than to believe they do have some privacy. Just something to think about.
made up mainly of those rich middle class women who think that nerds who have been picked on their entire lives for being nerds are somehow opressing them.
Oppressors complaining the oppressed are oppressing them. Fun fun fun!
One amusing difference: The A-Team were fugitives from "justice". Whereas many self-described "social justice warriors" are apologists for the police state.
The reason you don't care (and the reason you still felt you needed to comment TELLING us you don't care) is because you're lucky enough to have the luxury and privilege to ignore these stories.
Your privilege is not my privilege, you filthy capitalist bigot.
Your past victimhood is not good justification for a police state. I've been burgled, mugged, shot at, and had friends who were assaulted. Sorry bro, not that impressed.
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I worked on a project for several years where the team was split between Boston, Sydney, and San Francisco. It actually wasn't all that hard for us to communicate and keep in sync. It probably helped that the SF and Sydney folks were on flexible schedule, while only the Boston team were cubicle slaves chained to their desks 9-6.
FWIW, scheduling wasn't really any harder with SYD included than it was for just SFO and BOS.
Uh - maybe auto accidents and deaths for a starter
With human-driven cars, crashes result from mistakes made by drivers. With computer-driven cars, crashes result from bugs and vulnerabilities in software. Without wide deployment it's pretty speculative to assume the latter will necessarily be less than the former. At least with current technology there is no way for a malicious attacker to simultaneously cause thousands of car wrecks from the comfort of his sofa.
Perhaps Google's attorney had lunch with the head Chinese censor and "forgot" to carry home his briefcase full of unmarked, non-sequential large bills.
What isn't a Node.js replacement?
Fuck you hippie. Shave that neckbeard, get a job, buy a car, and then you'll see. Then die in a fire, you fucking hippie.
P.S. Fuck you, you fucking hippie.
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down Mass Ave, one of the most traveled roads anywhere.
And I don't feel like it's suicidal at all.
I've biked on Mass Ave and it didn't feel suicidal to me either. Urban cycling in Boston is fairly safe and easy. But "light" traffic in LA is heavier than the heaviest traffic I ever saw in Boston.
she actually drives 2 hours to go 4 miles.
Perhaps you haven't visited LA. Traffic there is different from traffic everywhere else. It's omnipresent, all times all places - it's atmospheric. Imagine for a moment the worst traffic jam you've ever seen in your city. Or, if you live in a small town, way worse than the worst you've ever seen. That would be what Angelenos call "unusually light traffic".
Central LA average is probably more like 4mph in heavy-ish traffic. But the actual speed of cars at any given time ranges from around 35mph to barely inching forward, and can change quite suddenly. Not a very safe place to bike.
And how!
Clearly you haven't spent much time in American airports.
We Americans see the British as our cultural brethren, owing to the long intertwined history of our two nations. As England goes, so too shall America go. Thus we mourn for the Brits' loss of the freedoms that inspired our own. So too do we fear that our own regime may follow the UK down the path to open tyranny.
I'm offended by people who are easily offended.
The profit may be less this quarter... but give it six months to a year, plus one incident in the Middle East... and oil will be back up to $150 a barrel and stay there for good.
I wouldn't be too surprised if there were some Ruskie military intelligence types working overtime to stir up some new troubles in the Middle East. The Saudi gub'mint isn't exactly popular with their subjects, are they?
the only thing that Russia can sell to China is oil (and gas)
and military equipment
The US on the other hand is a large healthy democracy
For certain values of "healthy" that include "largely dysfunctional".
The most useful stuff I've ever read on economics was the old-school stuff: on the business cycle, not just boom-bust but which sectors recover in which order - what leads recovery, and what's big when the end of the boom is near, and what survives best during the bust.
Any book recommendations?
I used to work systems security at a bigcorp. If a member of our team walked away with his workstation unlocked, someone would immediately jump on it and change his public status message. The standard was: "Don't worry, I'm insecurity!"
Yahoo may pass the total value of the Russian stock market soon, if trends continue. Only Chuck can save Yahoo now.
If this is true (I'll take your word for it), it says more about the meaning of stock market valuations than about Yahoo per se. On one hand we have an established but declining internet advertising company. On the other - all the public companies of a large, heavily industrialized, nuclear armed, multi-continental nation. Really?
1. Board sez: "Increase profits!"
2. ?????
3. Profit!
Snowden documents taught us that the NSA and CGHQ do it over internet backbones. [...] Pushing towards HTTP/SSL address that
Consider: cryptome.org has long refused on principle to support HTTPS. Their reasoning seems to be that it is better for users to know they have zero privacy, than to believe they do have some privacy. Just something to think about.
made up mainly of those rich middle class women who think that nerds who have been picked on their entire lives for being nerds are somehow opressing them.
Oppressors complaining the oppressed are oppressing them. Fun fun fun!
One amusing difference: The A-Team were fugitives from "justice". Whereas many self-described "social justice warriors" are apologists for the police state.
The reason you don't care (and the reason you still felt you needed to comment TELLING us you don't care) is because you're lucky enough to have the luxury and privilege to ignore these stories.
Your privilege is not my privilege, you filthy capitalist bigot.
Twitter is censored. C'mon, this is America.
Your past victimhood is not good justification for a police state. I've been burgled, mugged, shot at, and had friends who were assaulted. Sorry bro, not that impressed.