Spilling beer during some drunken orbital hijinks could also risk damaging equipment... without the assistance of gravity, liquid and gases can tumble around in an astronaut's stomach, causing them to produce rather soggy burps.
Isn't it about time they started doing the whole artificial gravity thing? From what I've read, it can be done cheaply with a long tether and a counter weight at the other end.
A lot of special considerations are necessary for space living. Think showers, where you not only need a pump for the water, you also need one sucking the water down the drain. Sleeping? You need straps to keep you in place. Using a laptop? You need external fans to cycle hot air away from it. Even your body starts deteriorating because it's not exercising as much, and you need to devote many hours to physical fitness just to stay healthy. Zero G living is just to foreign to us.
he'll pay you 2.99 for each item you box/wrap, print and stick on an address label, and take to post office and put on postage
Well he's a hipster who doesn't understand economies of scale. I'll bet he ships 3 CD's a week, max.
I've actually did something like this as an intern and I earned $20 an hour (mainly because the things I shipped cost thousands). I packed 2 boxes a minute. Filling out the UPS shipping form takes no time at all once I set up AutoHotkey. The label printer was slow, maybe 10 labels a minute, but I can stick them on as soon as each page was printed. The drive to UPS is 5 minutes, then add a few minutes to move the boxes between the car and the buildings etc., I can ship about 75 boxes an hour.
At $3 a box? Hell yes! I'll take $225 / hour any day.
Whatever damage a lawsuit could've done to her personal career has already been done by her publicizing this. Generating a PR disaster is not any better than starting a lawsuit.
If you are a manager, would you be willing to risk someone like her? What if she screams sexism for every little thing that doesn't go her way? What if one of your workers actually makes a mistake? What if HR is incompetent and misplaced / lost a complaint of hers? Keep in mind, no matter whose fault it was, ultimately, your boss is going to blame you for it.
I think people would actually be more comfortable hiring her if she sued and won, because it would prove wrongdoing on Uber's part. So far, she's provided no evidence whatsoever. She might be telling the truth, she might be exaggerating, or she might have made up the entire thing. She could even be a shill, paid by taxi associations to damage Uber's reputation.
By suing Uber, she can prove she's not making this up. She will be forcing Uber to change their policy (for the sake of everyone who's still there) and she will probably get a decent settlement out of it. So there's every reason to do it.
Just setup an always-on VC at the office, then tell everyone to log in to it during work hours. This is exactly the same as having them all in the same room. And as a added bonus, you avoid a major disease vector that could put the entire team out of commission. Don't give them excuses to not be on: buy them headsets, mic's, additional screens, and if necessary, internet. No matter how you cut the cost, it's still going to be cheaper than renting a bigger office and equipping them with $1000 desks and chairs.
The rest of the problems you mentioned are not problems with distributed work. Someone (presumably the manager) should know what their people are working on and tell them to stop working on obsolete stuff. If that guy can't figure that out without constantly looking over people's shoulders, then the higher-ups need to find themselves a better manager.
The only real problem I've seen with a distributed team is timezone differences, but you can avoid that by hiring on the same side of the globe.
Are all of the passengers in these self driving cars going to be neat and tidy? Without a semblance of someone being in charge of the car, I think the future od driverless cars might have the unmistakable reek of shit and piss.
There's a simple fix for that. The car takes photos of the interior between every passenger pickup. If the passenger after you complains, then you'll be charged a cleaning fee of say, $30.
It's always been that way. A decade ago WSJ ran an article on discrimination against White students in my high school (presumably because my high school was majority Asian). After the story broke, the school paper went and re-interviewed everyone who spoke to WSJ reporters to see what they really thought. Turns out WSJ patched together a bunch of out-of-context sentences from the people they interviewed and made up the rest. Nobody thought there was discrimination.
The key here is how newspapers like WSJ write these stories. You might think they go interview a bunch of people, then based on what they learned, write a story. The reality is the exact opposite. They write an eye-catching headline first, then the story, then finally goes out in search of "evidence" to sprinkle onto their story so that it can look legitimate.
Israel is Christian homeland. In case you forgot, there were several failed attempts to retake it in the middle ages, more commonly known as the Crusades.
The concern is... we can introduce horrific problems into the gene pool that may go unnoticed for many generations, long after it is too late.
If you notice a problem, just change it back. If the genes are easy to edit, they'll be easy to un-edit.
It's also working against evolution, which can impair the survivability of the species in the long term. You wanted all those essential vitamins to be self-manufactured? Sounds great, right? Well, sorry, energy requirements are now up and if famine strikes, or you even lose your high-energy western diet, your gene line is the first to die.
The only thing impairing the survivability of the species is the fact that we all live on this same rock. Famine will never kill everyone.
Everyone leaps on the latest genetic trend? Whoops, monoculture - everyone succumbs to the same deadly disease.
You have to ask why they couldn't do exactly what they want while working within the Google ecosystem.
The way I see it, there's only 2 benefits to a startup:
1. More payout when a startup succeeds
2. More freedom to do what they want
If the founder's award was supposed to fix #1, then it's obviously #2 that's causing people to still leave the company, because there's plenty of downsides to running a startup:
1. Risk of failure
2. No access to existing Google tech or customers
3. Need to spend time looking for funding
4. Need to deal with every other aspect of business other than the product, like accounting, legal, HR and so on.
So if Google (and literally every other big tech company) could be smart enough to pay their own people for the successful products they build, and just let them build what they want (instead of bogging them down with regulations), they'd never have to pay billions to acquire some startup.
And it looks like this engineer missed the entire point of the episode, which tells you, loudly and clearly, exactly why you shouldn't build such a drone.
Also, why the heck didn't they just cover up the woman's face while she was in the bathroom? The bees rely on facial recognition so they're not going to see past a piece of clothing and know she was the target.
"It's always right to punch a Communist. It's always right to punch an SJW. It's always right to punch a religious nutjob."
Screw you. You are what's wrong with this country. When you hear something you don't agree with, you try to shut them down with force instead of having a rational discussion.
Apparently people can't support border controls now, because talking about it turns them into racists and nazis. But guess what? The majority of people in this country still want functioning borders and a social support system that hasn't been overwhelmed by illegal immigrants.
At some point, testing what's in their head would become pointless. If every practicing lawyer had access to an instantly searchable database of case law, then what's the point of testing them on their ability to memorize them?
I would say the majority of existing tests are testing knowledge rather than aptitude, because aptitude is very hard to test. How do you test whether the lawyer can make a convincing argument in front of a jury? How do you test whether they can find that one email that implicates the defendant out of tens of thousands of emails? How do you test whether they can settle a case for as much benefit to their client as possible? Sure, there's things I expect a lawyer to know, like all the procedural tricks that can get evidence thrown out or unsympathetic jury members kicked off, but I imagine most of what makes a good lawyer good cannot be tested with a pen-and-paper test.
America wants to shut the door on them, tragically citing the same reasons which they deplore elsewhere.
Some people do. Most the comments on this site suggests making reforms to prevent IT sweatshops from popping up. Very few are saying we should stop immigration completely.
If you are born and raised American, with all the benefits and advantages that entails (freedom, education, security of life and property, natural resources, environmental quality) and you cannot compete with a third-world jumped-up peasant, you should be ashamed of yourself.
I'm not, because I'm a first generation immigrant. The H1-B process is utterly disgusting. It both dehumanizes people like myself and disenfranchises American workers. It's only purpose as it exists today is to pad the coffers of rich business men. I don't speak out against it because I'm scared to compete with immigrants --- I already did and I'll happily do it again. I speak out because it's a shitty system that should be fixed.
If the government stopped handing out freebies like candy, we would not have this problem, and there would be no need for Trump's wall.
Of course, not supplying social services would probably cause a huge outcry amongst entitled Americans like yourself.
You are just too funny. Do you have any idea just how socialist Indians are? Hint: they have always been friends with the USSR, better than even the Chinese.
The problem they're facing is not racism. Nobody's calling Indians dirty or stupid. But we do need to limit immigration in some way, so why not let in the best and brightest? Those kinds of Indians will have no trouble getting an H1-B in the new system because they can command $200k salaries. It's the barely competent ones earning $40k that will be hurt. But you know what? That's fine. The US does not owe them a job or any social services.
And in case you're wondering why we need to limit immigration: India has been a democracy for a long time now, but their people are still very poor. In a democracy, the only thing that decides how well the country is run is the people, directly or indirectly. If you move all 1.1 billion Indians to the US, you won't be giving them US living standards, you'll be turning the US into India, and giving everyone Indian living standards.
They will still have to compete with jobs that will go overseas (and SOME will if hiring foreigners gets harder), which is one reason I'm for open borders when it comes to employment.
You just made a very big jump from losing a few jobs overseas to completely open borders. First, many jobs cannot be outsourced like IT can. Open borders will force carpenters, farmers, cashiers, truckers and many other professions into competition with 3rd-world wages. This will affect tens of millions of jobs.
Second, open borders with India and China will mean the US will become the most populous country in the world in a few short years. The homeless in the US live better than the average do in those countries. All of our social services like food stamps, unemployment benefits, medicare, schools, police and utilities will collapse under the weight of having to serve 5 times the number of people they were built to serve.
An easy way to end H1-B abuse is to untie their employment from the green card application process. Allow them to go back to their own country if they get fired, then try again at another H1-B job. As long as they're working in the US, count that time towards earning permanent residency. I think if you make it too easy, like giving out green cards to people before they come, conservatives will start complaining about "diluting the culture" or whatever, and it will be an uphill political battle.
Google Fiber is not a loss. Accountants put it on the books as a loss, but it's not. It's just an expensive investment in physical plant with a long payoff period.
Unless you're an accountant working for Google, you can't know that.
Google Fiber may not be a loss to the general public, but it is a loss to Google, who apparently could not get enough ROI with their test rollouts to continue doing it. This makes sense if you think about it economically. Even if they did roll it out to all the other cities, all that they would've accomplished is turn a bunch of monopoly markets into competitive markets, and their income will never reach what the previous ISP was getting. This is great for the consumer, but Google gets none of the savings.
The real solution is to have a city or town pay for its own infrastructure using bonds etc., or just nationalize the existing infrastructure with eminent domain. Utility grids (and yes, internet is a utility) should never have been private, because all of them are natural monopolies. Google might seem like they have the heart of buddhas right now, but you never know they won't spin off the division and put a new guy in charge.
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Spilling beer during some drunken orbital hijinks could also risk damaging equipment ... without the assistance of gravity, liquid and gases can tumble around in an astronaut's stomach, causing them to produce rather soggy burps.
Isn't it about time they started doing the whole artificial gravity thing? From what I've read, it can be done cheaply with a long tether and a counter weight at the other end.
A lot of special considerations are necessary for space living. Think showers, where you not only need a pump for the water, you also need one sucking the water down the drain. Sleeping? You need straps to keep you in place. Using a laptop? You need external fans to cycle hot air away from it. Even your body starts deteriorating because it's not exercising as much, and you need to devote many hours to physical fitness just to stay healthy. Zero G living is just to foreign to us.
he'll pay you 2.99 for each item you box/wrap, print and stick on an address label, and take to post office and put on postage
Well he's a hipster who doesn't understand economies of scale. I'll bet he ships 3 CD's a week, max.
I've actually did something like this as an intern and I earned $20 an hour (mainly because the things I shipped cost thousands). I packed 2 boxes a minute. Filling out the UPS shipping form takes no time at all once I set up AutoHotkey. The label printer was slow, maybe 10 labels a minute, but I can stick them on as soon as each page was printed. The drive to UPS is 5 minutes, then add a few minutes to move the boxes between the car and the buildings etc., I can ship about 75 boxes an hour.
At $3 a box? Hell yes! I'll take $225 / hour any day.
Whatever damage a lawsuit could've done to her personal career has already been done by her publicizing this. Generating a PR disaster is not any better than starting a lawsuit.
If you are a manager, would you be willing to risk someone like her? What if she screams sexism for every little thing that doesn't go her way? What if one of your workers actually makes a mistake? What if HR is incompetent and misplaced / lost a complaint of hers? Keep in mind, no matter whose fault it was, ultimately, your boss is going to blame you for it.
I think people would actually be more comfortable hiring her if she sued and won, because it would prove wrongdoing on Uber's part. So far, she's provided no evidence whatsoever. She might be telling the truth, she might be exaggerating, or she might have made up the entire thing. She could even be a shill, paid by taxi associations to damage Uber's reputation.
By suing Uber, she can prove she's not making this up. She will be forcing Uber to change their policy (for the sake of everyone who's still there) and she will probably get a decent settlement out of it. So there's every reason to do it.
Just setup an always-on VC at the office, then tell everyone to log in to it during work hours. This is exactly the same as having them all in the same room. And as a added bonus, you avoid a major disease vector that could put the entire team out of commission. Don't give them excuses to not be on: buy them headsets, mic's, additional screens, and if necessary, internet. No matter how you cut the cost, it's still going to be cheaper than renting a bigger office and equipping them with $1000 desks and chairs.
The rest of the problems you mentioned are not problems with distributed work. Someone (presumably the manager) should know what their people are working on and tell them to stop working on obsolete stuff. If that guy can't figure that out without constantly looking over people's shoulders, then the higher-ups need to find themselves a better manager.
The only real problem I've seen with a distributed team is timezone differences, but you can avoid that by hiring on the same side of the globe.
That's why the car takes photos between every passenger. If you receive a complaint, you just have to point to the photo it took before you got in.
And unlike you, Lyft can ignore your girlfriend's stupid complaints.
YouTube Red's price feels like a rip-off.
It's $10 a month and it includes Google Play Music. Comparable music services like Spotify also costs $10 / mo., so you are getting a better deal.
Are all of the passengers in these self driving cars going to be neat and tidy? Without a semblance of someone being in charge of the car, I think the future od driverless cars might have the unmistakable reek of shit and piss.
There's a simple fix for that. The car takes photos of the interior between every passenger pickup. If the passenger after you complains, then you'll be charged a cleaning fee of say, $30.
It's always been that way. A decade ago WSJ ran an article on discrimination against White students in my high school (presumably because my high school was majority Asian). After the story broke, the school paper went and re-interviewed everyone who spoke to WSJ reporters to see what they really thought. Turns out WSJ patched together a bunch of out-of-context sentences from the people they interviewed and made up the rest. Nobody thought there was discrimination.
The key here is how newspapers like WSJ write these stories. You might think they go interview a bunch of people, then based on what they learned, write a story. The reality is the exact opposite. They write an eye-catching headline first, then the story, then finally goes out in search of "evidence" to sprinkle onto their story so that it can look legitimate.
Too bad he wasn't running for president. This might just put him in the lead.
Don't forget, it was MSM that popularized the term "fake news", and now they're getting that label slapped on them for doing exactly that.
What's the Christian homeland?
Israel is Christian homeland. In case you forgot, there were several failed attempts to retake it in the middle ages, more commonly known as the Crusades.
The concern is ... we can introduce horrific problems into the gene pool that may go unnoticed for many generations, long after it is too late.
If you notice a problem, just change it back. If the genes are easy to edit, they'll be easy to un-edit.
It's also working against evolution, which can impair the survivability of the species in the long term. You wanted all those essential vitamins to be self-manufactured? Sounds great, right? Well, sorry, energy requirements are now up and if famine strikes, or you even lose your high-energy western diet, your gene line is the first to die.
The only thing impairing the survivability of the species is the fact that we all live on this same rock. Famine will never kill everyone.
Everyone leaps on the latest genetic trend? Whoops, monoculture - everyone succumbs to the same deadly disease.
What is quarantine?
The way I see it, there's only 2 benefits to a startup:
If the founder's award was supposed to fix #1, then it's obviously #2 that's causing people to still leave the company, because there's plenty of downsides to running a startup:
So if Google (and literally every other big tech company) could be smart enough to pay their own people for the successful products they build, and just let them build what they want (instead of bogging them down with regulations), they'd never have to pay billions to acquire some startup.
And it looks like this engineer missed the entire point of the episode, which tells you, loudly and clearly, exactly why you shouldn't build such a drone.
Also, why the heck didn't they just cover up the woman's face while she was in the bathroom? The bees rely on facial recognition so they're not going to see past a piece of clothing and know she was the target.
Playing FPS games with a controller is about as bad as playing third person platformers with keyboard and mouse.
What's wrong with playing platformers with a keyboard & mouse?
It's always right to punch a Nazi.
"It's always right to punch a Communist. It's always right to punch an SJW. It's always right to punch a religious nutjob."
Screw you. You are what's wrong with this country. When you hear something you don't agree with, you try to shut them down with force instead of having a rational discussion.
Apparently people can't support border controls now, because talking about it turns them into racists and nazis. But guess what? The majority of people in this country still want functioning borders and a social support system that hasn't been overwhelmed by illegal immigrants.
Two things:
1. Test your backups
2. TEST your BACKUPS!
At some point, testing what's in their head would become pointless. If every practicing lawyer had access to an instantly searchable database of case law, then what's the point of testing them on their ability to memorize them?
I would say the majority of existing tests are testing knowledge rather than aptitude, because aptitude is very hard to test. How do you test whether the lawyer can make a convincing argument in front of a jury? How do you test whether they can find that one email that implicates the defendant out of tens of thousands of emails? How do you test whether they can settle a case for as much benefit to their client as possible? Sure, there's things I expect a lawyer to know, like all the procedural tricks that can get evidence thrown out or unsympathetic jury members kicked off, but I imagine most of what makes a good lawyer good cannot be tested with a pen-and-paper test.
America wants to shut the door on them, tragically citing the same reasons which they deplore elsewhere.
Some people do. Most the comments on this site suggests making reforms to prevent IT sweatshops from popping up. Very few are saying we should stop immigration completely.
If you are born and raised American, with all the benefits and advantages that entails (freedom, education, security of life and property, natural resources, environmental quality) and you cannot compete with a third-world jumped-up peasant, you should be ashamed of yourself.
I'm not, because I'm a first generation immigrant. The H1-B process is utterly disgusting. It both dehumanizes people like myself and disenfranchises American workers. It's only purpose as it exists today is to pad the coffers of rich business men. I don't speak out against it because I'm scared to compete with immigrants --- I already did and I'll happily do it again. I speak out because it's a shitty system that should be fixed.
If the government stopped handing out freebies like candy, we would not have this problem, and there would be no need for Trump's wall.
Of course, not supplying social services would probably cause a huge outcry amongst entitled Americans like yourself.
You are just too funny. Do you have any idea just how socialist Indians are? Hint: they have always been friends with the USSR, better than even the Chinese.
96% of adult Hindus in the US have college degrees.
36% of adult Christians in the US have college degrees.
Because the US only lets in the smart ones. In India, only 8% have college degrees. 36% are illiterate. Should we let them in too?
Nice copy pasta. Too bad it does not apply.
The problem they're facing is not racism. Nobody's calling Indians dirty or stupid. But we do need to limit immigration in some way, so why not let in the best and brightest? Those kinds of Indians will have no trouble getting an H1-B in the new system because they can command $200k salaries. It's the barely competent ones earning $40k that will be hurt. But you know what? That's fine. The US does not owe them a job or any social services.
And in case you're wondering why we need to limit immigration: India has been a democracy for a long time now, but their people are still very poor. In a democracy, the only thing that decides how well the country is run is the people, directly or indirectly. If you move all 1.1 billion Indians to the US, you won't be giving them US living standards, you'll be turning the US into India, and giving everyone Indian living standards.
They will still have to compete with jobs that will go overseas (and SOME will if hiring foreigners gets harder), which is one reason I'm for open borders when it comes to employment.
You just made a very big jump from losing a few jobs overseas to completely open borders. First, many jobs cannot be outsourced like IT can. Open borders will force carpenters, farmers, cashiers, truckers and many other professions into competition with 3rd-world wages. This will affect tens of millions of jobs.
Second, open borders with India and China will mean the US will become the most populous country in the world in a few short years. The homeless in the US live better than the average do in those countries. All of our social services like food stamps, unemployment benefits, medicare, schools, police and utilities will collapse under the weight of having to serve 5 times the number of people they were built to serve.
An easy way to end H1-B abuse is to untie their employment from the green card application process. Allow them to go back to their own country if they get fired, then try again at another H1-B job. As long as they're working in the US, count that time towards earning permanent residency. I think if you make it too easy, like giving out green cards to people before they come, conservatives will start complaining about "diluting the culture" or whatever, and it will be an uphill political battle.
Google Fiber is not a loss. Accountants put it on the books as a loss, but it's not. It's just an expensive investment in physical plant with a long payoff period.
Unless you're an accountant working for Google, you can't know that.
Google Fiber may not be a loss to the general public, but it is a loss to Google, who apparently could not get enough ROI with their test rollouts to continue doing it. This makes sense if you think about it economically. Even if they did roll it out to all the other cities, all that they would've accomplished is turn a bunch of monopoly markets into competitive markets, and their income will never reach what the previous ISP was getting. This is great for the consumer, but Google gets none of the savings.
The real solution is to have a city or town pay for its own infrastructure using bonds etc., or just nationalize the existing infrastructure with eminent domain. Utility grids (and yes, internet is a utility) should never have been private, because all of them are natural monopolies. Google might seem like they have the heart of buddhas right now, but you never know they won't spin off the division and put a new guy in charge.