Broadband providers have worked hard over the past 20 years to deploy ever more sophisticated, faster and higher-capacity networks, and uphold net neutrality protections for all," USTelecom CEO Jonathan Spalter wrote. "To continue this important work, there is no question we will aggressively challenge state or municipal attempts to fracture the federal regulatory structure that made all this progress possible."
We support net neutrality so strongly that we will sue anyone that dares to try to enforce net neutrality.
Not to mention, as others have pointed out, the matter that makes up 'you' changes constantly and is totally replaced every 7-10 years.
Though that's not quite true, Neurons, in particular, are not replaced, you die with what you were born with. Other cells are replaced more frequently, but the essence of consciousness is in the brain. No one would call you a different person after a kidney transplant, but nearly everyone would call you a new person after a brain transplant.
Neurons in the cerebral cortex are never replaced. There are no neurons added to your cerebral cortex after birth. Any cerebral cortex neurons that die are not replaced.
Why Star Trek transporters won't work in real life has nothing to do with Heisenberg. A living being cannot survive the process of having all their atoms ripped apart, due to the large among to energy required.
I just ripped some atoms off my body and survived... if I could save a map of where they all belong and reassemble them somehow, I could probably rip them all off. I didn't rip apart the atoms themselves, but presumably I can do that after they've been moved away from my body.
That safety driver was not even looking at the road, but the exterior camera showed the bicycle was visible to the car for about 2 seconds before the collision...
Thats the fallacy of "safety drivers" in these cars -- no human will stay alert and attentive for hours while letting the car do all of the driving, and when a bad situation does arise and they need to take over they don't have enough situational awareness to do the right thing. The same thing can happen to pilots.
It would take less than a week to move the business officially out of the US. The FCC can literally suck it. They are a useless bureaucracy that does nothing but protect incumbent monopolies. The best thing a hardware company can do to accelerate their development and lower their costs is leave the FCC in the dust.
Unless, of course, they want to sell their product in the USA.
I'm not a user of Slack but if that's how the app handles notifications, I shudder to think about how one could possibly understand how to use the software effectively.
You don't have to use all of the options - just use the ones you need.
How the fuck did they ever have 100 engineers in the first place? Not to belittle their efforts, but you'd think that even the awesomest, most futuristic, most complicated messaging app in the history of civilization would have about.. three engineers, maybe?
How complicated can it be?
It turns out that even simple things are complicated when you drill down to all of the details.
When someone asks a question like this, I like to point to the Slack decision flow to decide whether or not to show a notification. Seems simple on the surface, right? If the user is in the channel and they get a message then notify. But in reality it's considerably more complicated:
Now multiply this across every feature and it turns out that even a simple chat app is complicated. Throw in build engineers, QA, SRE's,24x7 monitoring, etc and it's easy to get to 100 engineers.
"Every single person in San Francisco is talking about the same things, whether it's 'I hate Trump' or 'I'm going to do blockchain and Bitcoin,'" he said. "It's the worst part of the social network."
Stop surrounding yourself with people just like yourself - if you want diversity, seek it out. But don't hang out in a tech-heavy bar sipping $18 hand crafted artisanal cocktails and bemoan the lack of diversity there. There are still a *lot* of people in SF and the Bay Area that don't work in tech.
If you lose it, you're disorganized, a computer will never help you with that either. If you lose your notes, you're losing your files too by not remembering what you stored in what file and or storing everything in one gigantic directory.
My online notes are organized chronologically and easily searchable by keyword.
When I used to take notes on paper, they were also organized chronologically, but I had no way to search.
If I remember discussing something in a meeting a couple months ago and wanted to look up the details, I'd have to do a manual search through many pages to try to find the subject I'm looking for (and my handwriting doesn't lend itself well to quickly scanning the page). It'd be really hard to index handwritten notes by subject since a single meeting could touch a dozen different subjects.
While with my notes on computer, I just do a keyword search in the timeframe I'm looking for. It's not perfect, since context matters, but far better than searching handwritten notes.
Though in my company, Slack has almost entirely replaced note taking, many meetings have been replaced by Slack discussions.
I still take handwritten notes during meetings, but almost never refer to them after the meeting, I find that I retain information better if I write it down, but if there's anything I want to refer to later, I type it into a note. If I type during the meeting, I find that I retain a lot less information and pretty much only remember what I typed.
I've been noticing that lately smart phones such as android and iphones are terrible at their primary role which is to just make and receive calls.
You don't understand what smartphones are used for if you think that making calls is their primary role, it's been at least a month since I've made or received a call on my smartphone (I get lots of voicemails, I ignore 90% of them, and for 90% of the remainders, I reply via SMS, IM, or Email). My last phone developed a bad speaker, I kept it for nearly 6 months before I finally replaced it -- turns out that not being able to make calls is wasn't really much of an issue.
Animojis from the iPhone X or AR Emojis from the S9 may not be your thing, but they are absolutely driving interest in the flagship phones from both companies.
Are they though? Apple and Samsung obfuscate their sales figures but there's a fair bit of evidence that new generations of high end phones have disappointing sales figures and people are either keeping their old phone or buying a budget one.
The majority of people download zero apps per month.
And of the ones who do how many need a 2.8Ghz Snapdragon 845 SoC? The apps I use would run fine on a much slower CPU than that.
It's like with PCs. An old high end or new budget device is good enough for most people. And people bitch about the features that are being removed from new end devices.
I'm one of those that downloads around 0 apps per month (last time I got a phone, I didn't install any new apps, just carried over the ones from my new phone).
However, with every OS and app update, my phone seems to get slower and slower, I want to stay on top of security updates, so ignoring updates is not really a solution.
I realize that this is right where Google wants me to be -- to keep me trapped in the upgrade cycle but my 2.5 year old Nexus 5X is starting to feel unusable at times and I'll likely update it by the end of the year when I see what phones Google comes out with. I don't know if the bottleneck is memory or CPU, but any phone I move too will be better in both.
I'll probably stick with a Google phone though, I like Samsung's hardware, but not their Android customizations, if they sold a pure Android version, I'd get an S9 tomorrow.
You're being snarky, but look at the big picture. This person is alleging that she was outright sexually harassed multiple times, and her superiors did nothing. Damore is alleging that he simply voiced an opinion outside the PC party line, and was immediately fired. Not both of those things can be true. Somebody is lying, and lying poorly.
Have you ever worked in a large company? Despite being under the same corporate umbrella, different departments handle things *much* differently -- especially when some departments have come from acquisitions.
Assign the overhead space to the seats below it. If your bags don't fit in the space assigned to you, the airline can charge you extra, and keep them happy juicing their customers.
Of course, that would lead to reduced space utilization. But it might encourage folks to check bags that are too big and obscenely cry to be checked.
Seems like that's just going to make things worse as many more bags need to travel upstream from the rear of the plane up front where they can be gate checked... and kind of silly to do that since as the bag travels foward, it's going to pass up empty bins from passengers that didn't use their assigned space.
You must work for the airlines, you've come up with a solution that's going to make the problem worse while also charging customers more.
Chevalier’s supervisors were critical of Chevalier’s political participation and dismissive of his attempts to change Google’s culture. Ultimately, Google fired Chevalier. Human Resources explicitly told Chevalier that Google was ending his employment because of his political statements in opposition to the discrimination, harassment, and white supremacy he saw being expressed on Google’s internal messaging systems
The proper recourse for harassment is to report it to HR and let the company deal with it -- you don't get free reign to try to change the company's culture yourself. If the company doesn't deal with it, *then* you sue the company.
the release sees the company crossing its fingers and hoping that everything works out this time
Intel has relationships with pretty much every computer OEM and cloud computing provider -- why do they need to cross their fingers and hope for the best when they can get their partners (who are just as motivated as Intel to have a usable solution) involved in large-scale tests?
Most of the movies they have left are pretty poor quality movies that you'd find in the bargain bin at Walmart.
I think the movie studios may be shooting themselves in the foot on this -- most of the recent movies i've seen on Netflix suck, which makes me less likely to even venture to a theater to see a first-run movie. Since I watch Netflix instead of TV, I don't see ads for new movies, and I don't see them in the theater so I have little idea what new movies are out.
So I'm kind of living in a Netflix movie wasteland, watching crappy movies and lamenting the quality of movies these days.
On the other hand eBooks have more than filling in the gap, Smashwords has been a great (and inexpensive) place to find new authors.
If you don't want them to have a say, use a debit card.
But their money is on the line when I buy jewelry, a jet ski, or whatever frivolous purchase I want to make, why do they draw the line at cryptocurrency? They gave me a credit limit because presumably they expect me to be able to pay it back, why do they think I'm less likely to pay them back when I buy $5000 in cryptocurrency than when I spend $5000 on airfare+hotel+tickets to go see a Justin Bieber concert?
I have relied on a bike for transportation. If it's raining, dark, icy, snowing, or windy then the bike is often not safe to ride. I have a nice scar on my elbow from my bike sliding out from under me when I hit a wet patch of pavement, leaving me skidding across the concrete.
I still rely on a bike for transportation, and regularly ride in the rain, even the dark and rain. Snow/ice are not a problem where I live now, but when I was in college, I regularly rode in the snow, which was tolerable. Ice was a problem, but then, it was a problem in a car too.
Getting to my destination soaked to the bone, with a nice stripe of mud down my back from the rear wheel picking up dirt and flinging it at me, is not the most comfortable way to spend my day. That's also not great on my clothes, that mud can stain
Ahh, I think I see the problem, you haven't discovered the utility of a fenders and a rain jacket for riding in the rain. I always wear rain gear when it's cool or cold and raining. When it's very warm or hot, then I forgo the rain jacket and just change clothes at work since in the rain jacket, I get as wet from sweat as I would from the rain.
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I've also found it fun to go ride out in the rain, but only when I know I can at any time turn around, go home and shower off the sweat, mud, and rain. I'd also wear clothes for the occasion, not something I'd wear to work.
I still have that bike but it hasn't been moved in years, foot problems prevent me from enjoying riding my bike like I did before.
Try putting yourself in a situation where $50 is a big expense, and I think you'd manage to get yourself on the bike when it's the difference between getting to work in 30 minutes or getting there in 2 hours by walking since you can't afford a car. A foot problem is less of an issue when the bike means the difference between eaning enough money to eat versus not earning any more. I biked for 6 weeks with a broken ankle (in a cast) for just this reason -- it was either ride the bike, walk (which was even harder than riding), or skip work (and the paycheck). Driving wasn't an option.
Better spend the money on computers and potato chips than on guns and ammunition for killing animals for fun.
Unless you're a vegetarian, you can't really have a moral argument against killing animals for food. Even if the hunting part is "for fun". Not to mention that in some states, there are so few predators that unless hunters killed the deer, overpopulation and starvation would.
They did the same thing here regarding Amber alerts. The public doesn't need to know every time there's a custody dispute.
I turned off Amber alerts the time I was woken up for an alert for a missing child 400 miles away. I don't even know what I'm supposed to do with the alert -- am I supposed to call the police every time I see a "Blond girl, 90 lbs, white or grey Toyota, heading north"?
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Broadband providers have worked hard over the past 20 years to deploy ever more sophisticated, faster and higher-capacity networks, and uphold net neutrality protections for all," USTelecom CEO Jonathan Spalter wrote. "To continue this important work, there is no question we will aggressively challenge state or municipal attempts to fracture the federal regulatory structure that made all this progress possible."
We support net neutrality so strongly that we will sue anyone that dares to try to enforce net neutrality.
So your a captain that gives blowjobs in Limos, ugh, your dreams suck, heh, heh.
Don't be crass, in my dreams I give blowjobs in the Captain's Chair.
Not to mention, as others have pointed out, the matter that makes up 'you' changes constantly and is totally replaced every 7-10 years.
Though that's not quite true, Neurons, in particular, are not replaced, you die with what you were born with. Other cells are replaced more frequently, but the essence of consciousness is in the brain. No one would call you a different person after a kidney transplant, but nearly everyone would call you a new person after a brain transplant.
http://askanaturalist.com/do-w...
Neurons in the cerebral cortex are never replaced. There are no neurons added to your cerebral cortex after birth. Any cerebral cortex neurons that die are not replaced.
Why Star Trek transporters won't work in real life has nothing to do with Heisenberg. A living being cannot survive the process of having all their atoms ripped apart, due to the large among to energy required.
I just ripped some atoms off my body and survived... if I could save a map of where they all belong and reassemble them somehow, I could probably rip them all off. I didn't rip apart the atoms themselves, but presumably I can do that after they've been moved away from my body.
You can also have sex with a supermodel or captain a star ship
In my dreams I am a supermodel starship captain.
That safety driver was not even looking at the road, but the exterior camera showed the bicycle was visible to the car for about 2 seconds before the collision...
Thats the fallacy of "safety drivers" in these cars -- no human will stay alert and attentive for hours while letting the car do all of the driving, and when a bad situation does arise and they need to take over they don't have enough situational awareness to do the right thing. The same thing can happen to pilots.
It would take less than a week to move the business officially out of the US. The FCC can literally suck it. They are a useless bureaucracy that does nothing but protect incumbent monopolies. The best thing a hardware company can do to accelerate their development and lower their costs is leave the FCC in the dust.
Unless, of course, they want to sell their product in the USA.
I'm not a user of Slack but if that's how the app handles notifications, I shudder to think about how one could possibly understand how to use the software effectively.
You don't have to use all of the options - just use the ones you need.
Who names a productivity software, "Slack"
If you've seen the inane conversations that go on in a typical company's slack channels, you'd know that it's an appropriate name
How the fuck did they ever have 100 engineers in the first place? Not to belittle their efforts, but you'd think that even the awesomest, most futuristic, most complicated messaging app in the history of civilization would have about .. three engineers, maybe?
How complicated can it be?
It turns out that even simple things are complicated when you drill down to all of the details.
When someone asks a question like this, I like to point to the Slack decision flow to decide whether or not to show a notification. Seems simple on the surface, right? If the user is in the channel and they get a message then notify. But in reality it's considerably more complicated:
https://twitter.com/mathowie/s...
Now multiply this across every feature and it turns out that even a simple chat app is complicated. Throw in build engineers, QA, SRE's,24x7 monitoring, etc and it's easy to get to 100 engineers.
"Every single person in San Francisco is talking about the same things, whether it's 'I hate Trump' or 'I'm going to do blockchain and Bitcoin,'" he said. "It's the worst part of the social network."
Stop surrounding yourself with people just like yourself - if you want diversity, seek it out. But don't hang out in a tech-heavy bar sipping $18 hand crafted artisanal cocktails and bemoan the lack of diversity there. There are still a *lot* of people in SF and the Bay Area that don't work in tech.
If you lose it, you're disorganized, a computer will never help you with that either. If you lose your notes, you're losing your files too by not remembering what you stored in what file and or storing everything in one gigantic directory.
My online notes are organized chronologically and easily searchable by keyword.
When I used to take notes on paper, they were also organized chronologically, but I had no way to search.
If I remember discussing something in a meeting a couple months ago and wanted to look up the details, I'd have to do a manual search through many pages to try to find the subject I'm looking for (and my handwriting doesn't lend itself well to quickly scanning the page). It'd be really hard to index handwritten notes by subject since a single meeting could touch a dozen different subjects.
While with my notes on computer, I just do a keyword search in the timeframe I'm looking for. It's not perfect, since context matters, but far better than searching handwritten notes.
Though in my company, Slack has almost entirely replaced note taking, many meetings have been replaced by Slack discussions.
I still take handwritten notes during meetings, but almost never refer to them after the meeting, I find that I retain information better if I write it down, but if there's anything I want to refer to later, I type it into a note. If I type during the meeting, I find that I retain a lot less information and pretty much only remember what I typed.
I've been noticing that lately smart phones such as android and iphones are terrible at their primary role which is to just make and receive calls.
You don't understand what smartphones are used for if you think that making calls is their primary role, it's been at least a month since I've made or received a call on my smartphone (I get lots of voicemails, I ignore 90% of them, and for 90% of the remainders, I reply via SMS, IM, or Email). My last phone developed a bad speaker, I kept it for nearly 6 months before I finally replaced it -- turns out that not being able to make calls is wasn't really much of an issue.
Animojis from the iPhone X or AR Emojis from the S9 may not be your thing, but they are absolutely driving interest in the flagship phones from both companies.
Are they though? Apple and Samsung obfuscate their sales figures but there's a fair bit of evidence that new generations of high end phones have disappointing sales figures and people are either keeping their old phone or buying a budget one.
The majority of people download zero apps per month.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08...
And of the ones who do how many need a 2.8Ghz Snapdragon 845 SoC? The apps I use would run fine on a much slower CPU than that.
It's like with PCs. An old high end or new budget device is good enough for most people. And people bitch about the features that are being removed from new end devices.
I'm one of those that downloads around 0 apps per month (last time I got a phone, I didn't install any new apps, just carried over the ones from my new phone).
However, with every OS and app update, my phone seems to get slower and slower, I want to stay on top of security updates, so ignoring updates is not really a solution.
I realize that this is right where Google wants me to be -- to keep me trapped in the upgrade cycle but my 2.5 year old Nexus 5X is starting to feel unusable at times and I'll likely update it by the end of the year when I see what phones Google comes out with. I don't know if the bottleneck is memory or CPU, but any phone I move too will be better in both.
I'll probably stick with a Google phone though, I like Samsung's hardware, but not their Android customizations, if they sold a pure Android version, I'd get an S9 tomorrow.
You're being snarky, but look at the big picture. This person is alleging that she was outright sexually harassed multiple times, and her superiors did nothing. Damore is alleging that he simply voiced an opinion outside the PC party line, and was immediately fired. Not both of those things can be true. Somebody is lying, and lying poorly.
Have you ever worked in a large company? Despite being under the same corporate umbrella, different departments handle things *much* differently -- especially when some departments have come from acquisitions.
Assign the overhead space to the seats below it. If your bags don't fit in the space assigned to you, the airline can charge you extra, and keep them happy juicing their customers.
Of course, that would lead to reduced space utilization. But it might encourage folks to check bags that are too big and obscenely cry to be checked.
Seems like that's just going to make things worse as many more bags need to travel upstream from the rear of the plane up front where they can be gate checked... and kind of silly to do that since as the bag travels foward, it's going to pass up empty bins from passengers that didn't use their assigned space.
You must work for the airlines, you've come up with a solution that's going to make the problem worse while also charging customers more.
Chevalier’s supervisors were critical of Chevalier’s political participation and dismissive of his attempts to change Google’s culture. Ultimately, Google fired Chevalier. Human Resources explicitly told Chevalier that Google was ending his employment because of his political statements in opposition to the discrimination, harassment, and white supremacy he saw being expressed on Google’s internal messaging systems
The proper recourse for harassment is to report it to HR and let the company deal with it -- you don't get free reign to try to change the company's culture yourself. If the company doesn't deal with it, *then* you sue the company.
the release sees the company crossing its fingers and hoping that everything works out this time
Intel has relationships with pretty much every computer OEM and cloud computing provider -- why do they need to cross their fingers and hope for the best when they can get their partners (who are just as motivated as Intel to have a usable solution) involved in large-scale tests?
Most of the movies they have left are pretty poor quality movies that you'd find in the bargain bin at Walmart.
I think the movie studios may be shooting themselves in the foot on this -- most of the recent movies i've seen on Netflix suck, which makes me less likely to even venture to a theater to see a first-run movie. Since I watch Netflix instead of TV, I don't see ads for new movies, and I don't see them in the theater so I have little idea what new movies are out.
So I'm kind of living in a Netflix movie wasteland, watching crappy movies and lamenting the quality of movies these days.
On the other hand eBooks have more than filling in the gap, Smashwords has been a great (and inexpensive) place to find new authors.
They'll science something for you.
This sounds more like engineering than science -- 3d printers and laser heating sounds more like an application of engineering than science.
Because until you have paid the bill, it's the bank's money on the line, and too many people are short-sighted, scam-prone, or plain untrustworthy, and ain't nobody got time for that nonsense.
If you don't want them to have a say, use a debit card.
But their money is on the line when I buy jewelry, a jet ski, or whatever frivolous purchase I want to make, why do they draw the line at cryptocurrency? They gave me a credit limit because presumably they expect me to be able to pay it back, why do they think I'm less likely to pay them back when I buy $5000 in cryptocurrency than when I spend $5000 on airfare+hotel+tickets to go see a Justin Bieber concert?
The rule applies to credit card transactions, not debit card transactions. It's their money - you've only pinky-promised to pay back the debt.
Why does the bank care (or have any say in) whether I buy $10k of cyptocurrency or a $10k diamond ring that I mail to my Russian fiance?
The get their transaction fee either way and they have no collateral either way.
I have relied on a bike for transportation. If it's raining, dark, icy, snowing, or windy then the bike is often not safe to ride. I have a nice scar on my elbow from my bike sliding out from under me when I hit a wet patch of pavement, leaving me skidding across the concrete.
I still rely on a bike for transportation, and regularly ride in the rain, even the dark and rain. Snow/ice are not a problem where I live now, but when I was in college, I regularly rode in the snow, which was tolerable. Ice was a problem, but then, it was a problem in a car too.
Getting to my destination soaked to the bone, with a nice stripe of mud down my back from the rear wheel picking up dirt and flinging it at me, is not the most comfortable way to spend my day. That's also not great on my clothes, that mud can stain
Ahh, I think I see the problem, you haven't discovered the utility of a fenders and a rain jacket for riding in the rain. I always wear rain gear when it's cool or cold and raining. When it's very warm or hot, then I forgo the rain jacket and just change clothes at work since in the rain jacket, I get as wet from sweat as I would from the rain.
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I've also found it fun to go ride out in the rain, but only when I know I can at any time turn around, go home and shower off the sweat, mud, and rain. I'd also wear clothes for the occasion, not something I'd wear to work.
I still have that bike but it hasn't been moved in years, foot problems prevent me from enjoying riding my bike like I did before.
Try putting yourself in a situation where $50 is a big expense, and I think you'd manage to get yourself on the bike when it's the difference between getting to work in 30 minutes or getting there in 2 hours by walking since you can't afford a car. A foot problem is less of an issue when the bike means the difference between eaning enough money to eat versus not earning any more. I biked for 6 weeks with a broken ankle (in a cast) for just this reason -- it was either ride the bike, walk (which was even harder than riding), or skip work (and the paycheck). Driving wasn't an option.
Better spend the money on computers and potato chips than on guns and ammunition for killing animals for fun.
Unless you're a vegetarian, you can't really have a moral argument against killing animals for food. Even if the hunting part is "for fun". Not to mention that in some states, there are so few predators that unless hunters killed the deer, overpopulation and starvation would.
They did the same thing here regarding Amber alerts. The public doesn't need to know every time there's a custody dispute.
I turned off Amber alerts the time I was woken up for an alert for a missing child 400 miles away. I don't even know what I'm supposed to do with the alert -- am I supposed to call the police every time I see a "Blond girl, 90 lbs, white or grey Toyota, heading north"?