Who actually uses crypto to make everyday purchases such as toilet paper, food, gasoline, etc., not just for impulse buying Lamborghinis or South Bay real estate. Imho, it's not really a "currency" unless it fulfills the same role as cash, not just in theory, but also in practice.
Let's assume he's 100% innocent. Why should I have more pity for this person than the millions who lost health insurance under Trump? Or Farmers who are losing their livelihoods because of a misguided trade war? [snip]
You should have great concern over the loss of due process....
....How would you feel about losing the job of your lifetime to an accusation?
Let's assume he's 100% innocent. Why should I have more pity for this person than the millions who lost health insurance under Trump? Or Farmers who are losing their livelihoods because of a misguided trade war? Or the children put in immigration prison and separated from their families indefinitely? Or small investors who will lose their life savings in the next crash because the Trump administration is eliminating the CFPD and making fraud legal again. Or the thousands of Yemenis and Syrian civilians who were killed by U.S. bombs, dropped by the Trump administration? Or Heather Heyer who was run over by a Trump supporter, who happens to be a "good person". I could go on and on. There are millions of U.S. citizens who have very good reasons to vote against this administration in November.
I'm supposed to feel sorry for a very well-to-do jurist who went to Georgetown prep, was a legacy admission to Yale, and had political opportunities up the wazoo because he was buddies with all the right Republicans at a very early age. This person is a judge on the second-highest court in the country. He has a nice upper-class life. If he gets sick, doctors will take care of him. When he retires, or is disabled and can no longer work, he will receive a golden pension and live in dignity. I'm sorry Republicans, but I just cannot feel sorry for your boy. Even if he's 100% innocent and this is a "con-job orchestrated by the Clintons". Kavanaugh is the ultimate snow flake.
Obama, does not tell the Fed how much money to print. I'll take a page from the Tea Party 2011 playbook and mention that Trump and the Republicans have been in control of all three branches of government for almost two years now. It's time to stop blaming the last President for everything.
How come no one worries about inflation due to the constantly rising wages of CEOs and Wall Street douche-bags?....subsidized by government programs like foodstamps.
Because the powers that be prefer to pit skilled workers against unskilled workers. We tell the $40 per hour worker he's being screwed over by the $10 per hour minimum wage worker. All the while we rob both blind. Inflation is caused by monetary policy PERIOD. Wages. and everything else is a side effect of this policy because it effects the prices of everything that we buy.
The standard shift was nine hours in 1914 and probably included a break at some point. Originally the daily wage was $2.50 for a nine hour shift. Ford had to hire 52,000 men (there were no women back then) to maintain a staffing level of 14,000 in the production plant. The high rate of turnover was causing very serious production problems and costing Ford a lot more money than doubling the wages would. Ford doubled the wage to $5, reduced turnover and saved a lot of money.
$15 is probably fine most places in the US if you're only supporting yourself. I imagine in places like Bay area in California, or New York $15 is really hard to live on. Rural America $15 is easy to live on for 1 person if you don't have rich tastes.
The only major difference between and major metro area and any rural area is the cost of housing. Wages are lower in rural areas because most employers hold a jobs monopoly and the only way to get a pay raise is to quit and move to another region. Most cannot afford to move, so stay put and wages stagnate. I suspect Amazon cannot find workers in Seattle at $15 per hour. If Amazon goes to a rural area, their only real competition is probably Wallmart, which pays $11 per hour minimum plus health care benefits. Most Wallmart employees earn more than $11, so $15 is probably barely enough to get some workers in the door.
I read the article and couldn't figure out why or when this engineer was allegedly fired; only that he's representing himself and suing Apple for 735 shares of stock that he believes he is owed. Did Apple steal his patents? Did Apple claim ownership of work he did outside of Apple? Did Apple fire him for reporting a quality issue or a legal issue? Nothing... Just a lot of complaining about Apple's culture.
I once worked as a low-level engineer at a company with what I believed to be a similarly "rotten culture". You have three options: (1) find a job at a better company, (2) start your own company, or (3) change careers / retire. There is no justice in this world and as a low level engineer, you are not in a position to change corporate culture. My advice is to smile, be a model employee and very quietly work behind the scenes on your exit strategy. When you leave, take the minimum notice, be professional and don't burn any bridges. Forgo any snarky comments, shake your bosses hand and thank him or her for the opportunity to work there. Leave with your respect and reputation intact. The bottom line is that nobody has to work at Apple or at any other company. You are the master of your own fate. Just remember that when your company starts treating you like you have to work there and decides to see how much they can screw you over.
Moore's law predicted early exponential growth in semi-conductors, but as in all fields it eventually hits an inflection point and becomes asymptotic, infinite transistor density will never happen.
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand was feeling a bit peckish, realized he had forgotten to pack something to eat, so he ordered the chauffeur to retrace the parade route back to get a sandwich....
The Franco Prussian war really did start with a tweet.
....One of the negatives of single-payer healthcare is that it would be funded from taxpayer dollars, meaning as per usual -- central government lacks motivation to keep the costs down....
In many cases the government is forbidden by law to keep costs down. It's not for a lack of motivation or competence on the part of civil servants. It's that elected politicians who make laws and policies do not work for the people, nor do they work for the government. They work for their campaign donors and those donors have agendas. It's not a coincidence that the private health insurance industry and the medical product industries are two of the biggest campaign contributors.
On a side note, our very partisan Supreme Court ruled that "money is speech" and "corporations are people". If we're willing to accept that unlimited dark money can buy our elections, what's to prevent a hostile foreign country from buying our election???
Seriously we could just start by allowing and mandating that Medicare, etc. negotiate the best possible prices for medical products. Thatâs not socialism. Itâs just good stewardship of tax dollars and is the essence of a free market. But the current laws mandate fiscal malpractice and enable these kinds of practices, which is literally textbook crony capitalism.
The American healthcare industry is really just a gold mine for those on the right side of the equation. This person has given up any hope that the American health care industry can ever be reformed to put curing disease and human welfare back into the center focus.
1. Get a government granted monopoly in the form of a patent.
2. Make sure the government health insurance programs such as Medicare and Tricare cannot negotiate drug prices with the pharaceutical companies.
3. Get insurance companies and government to make your drug the only approved method for treating opioid addiction.
4. Jack up the price to an astronomical level. Anyone without sufficient insurance coverage will go bankrupt and ruin their livelihood buying your product.
5. Take 10% of your earnings to hire more lobbyists to protect your goldmine
6. Get talking heads to scream at the patients and voters that any effort to control cost or reform the system is SOCIALISM and we'll all be "eating rats" as in VENEZUELA, or Obama will come and pull the plug on granny because she's a conservative christian.
What management school fails to teach young inexperienced executives: If the company's future existence depends on whether or not an employee does the job correctly or not, they are "worth more than money".
....One of them offered me the job on the spot after the interview and I was already shutting them down and refusing it before they even got started.....
It begs the question, why even apply there in the first place.
AV Moving in autonomous mode: 38 accidents, 37 attributed to human error.
AV Moving in manual mode: 19 accidents, 13 attributed to human error.
AV stopped in autonomous mode: 24 accidents, 100% of which attributed to human error.
AV stopped in manual mode: 7 accidents, 100% attributed to human error.
What strikes me is the raw number of accidents are higher in autonomous mode. Maybe the vehicles spend the majority of their time in autonomous mode. The data need to be normalized in accidents per mile driven.
But what strikes me is the default in a two-vehicle incident seems to be to blame it on the human driver, i.e. the autonomous vehicle could not accurately predict the human driver's intentions and there was a collision. Maybe the human didn't use the turn signals, or started a turn and then decided in the last instance to go the other way. There are plenty of bad drivers out there and a good driver knows how to drive defensively. Blaming the accident on the human driver because he didn't drive the way the AI predicted he should is the wrong answer.
....Bernie Sanders has three homes and made $3.6 million dollars last year....Leftists and socialists violently riot....
Bernie Sanders never said people shouldn't own their own homes or be able to make money. He's for "medicare for all" because he believes that health care is a human right and that the role of government is to guarantee some basic human rights. If you're politically opposed to the idea of health care as a basic human right, make an intelligent intellectual argument as to why healthcare is not a right and why the government shouldn't provide medical insurance, but don't just attack the man and try to paint him as a hypocrite for owning three homes or having a job. He's not against individual property ownership or private enterprise.
It wasn't leftists who rioted in Charlottesville last year and ran over a counter protestor. It wasn't a leftist President who regularly and openly encourages violence at his political rallies, then promises to pay the legal bills if his supporters beat someone. It wasn't a leftist who committed the most deadly domestic terrorist attack in our nations history. You're trying to frame the debate in your own terms.
I'm a professional pilot. If we want autonomous flight, we really need to be looking at the way we manage airspace and control air traffic. In principle it's been done much the same way since the 1960s. ATC uses radar or their eyeballs in the tower to see aircraft, then they give aircraft voice instructions on radio. How do you talk to a drone? The drone people say that's easy, you just tell the drone operator what to do. But then you're back to having a human "pilot" in the loop and you have to pay this human drone operator a meaningful salary. To completely remove the human, you would have to revise the way we control air traffic, especially around our major airports. How much time and money are these startups investing in solving the ATC problem? It's the same problem autonomous vehicles have driving on old fashioned roads, only far more complex because the computer cannot simply stop and put on the warning lights.
On an unrelated note, I had the auto-pilot go out at 37,000 feet the other week. The air data computer had a malfunction and the autopilot could not figure out the airspeed and altitude. The passengers in the back didn't notice because we had two human pilots who took over manually and continued to fly the aircraft safely to the destination. We've been working on automation since Sperry put a gyroscope in a primitive biplane back in 1912. After 106 years of constant refinement, contrary to popular opinion, airplanes do not fly themselves reliably and we still need humans up front for safe operation. While I am sure drones are useful for things such as aerial photography, banner towing, etc. I do not see drones carrying people within my lifetime. If they did, it would be more of an aerial stunt than a viable, safe method of transporting people. I've seen automation fail too many times, and would not trust one enough to put my family on it. You shouldn't either.
Kids, when I was your age, I walked uphill in a snow storm 10 miles to download Slackware version 1 on my university's time share, then used Kermit to transfer it to about 25 floppies. It took about three hours. Then I walked uphill in a snowstorm 10 miles back home to install it one floppy at a time on my 486. I got it working and learned basic C programming, UNIX shell commands, EMACS, VI, networking, etc. than I would have learned taking some basic 101-level CS courses. Learning by doing is still the best way.
1. FTA: "Eight of these were engineering interns." So the real number is 36.
2. also FTA: "...others had been dismissed or laid off before joining Apple."
So the real number is fewer than 36. i.e. they needed a job.
3. FTA: "This year Apple has also hired former Tesla Autopilot, QA, Powertrain, mechanical design and firmware engineers, and several global supply chain managers..." We don't know who these people were or how vital they were to Teslas operation.
I'm no fan of Tesla, but when you read the article, it sound like normal turnover that any company the size of Tesla would have and is not indicative of anything else.
In the words of Warren Buffett, it's called "the greater fool business model" and it's the belief that a greater fool will come along and pay you more than you paid.
I'm perfectly happy with my "dumb watch". It runs on an analogue CPU which requires winding, but main-spring battery life is about three days. It has an automatic winding pendulum that recharges the spring-battery when you wear it. The analogue OS on my watch comes with three built-in applications. One app, tells date and time. The second app is a timer applet. The third is a slide rule flight computer that allows you to compute time-speed-distance problems. The watch plays a cool "tick" sound when you listen closely. The only draw back to my analog watch is I couldn't find any App Store where I might download newer functions or change the "tick" sound. oh well....
That is for 80 hours a month. Our normal work jobs in the us have us ordinary folks working 160 hours a month....
I'm a regional airline pilot and work well over 160 hours a month for between 80 -100 hours of flight pay. I have worked many 14+ hour days where I only get 4.5 - 5 hours of pay. The rest of the time is aircraft swaps, delays, maintenance, weather, time between legs (airport appreciation), ready reserve, etc.
The only reason people work for low pay at a regional is the carrot of being able to move on to a legacy airline such as Delta, United, America, etc and being able to earn a middle-class living. But there's no clear path to a legacy carrier. Some promise flow through, but that seems to be the exception rather than the rule. You apply and hope to get invited for an interview and maybe a job. When the economy goes down the tubes, a lot of legacy pilots wind up back at the regionals and take a 70% pay cut to just keep flying. I'm considering going to Asia as a plan B.
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Who actually uses crypto to make everyday purchases such as toilet paper, food, gasoline, etc., not just for impulse buying Lamborghinis or South Bay real estate. Imho, it's not really a "currency" unless it fulfills the same role as cash, not just in theory, but also in practice.
Let's assume he's 100% innocent. Why should I have more pity for this person than the millions who lost health insurance under Trump? Or Farmers who are losing their livelihoods because of a misguided trade war? [snip]
You should have great concern over the loss of due process....
Rebuttal in one word: Garland
....How would you feel about losing the job of your lifetime to an accusation?
Let's assume he's 100% innocent. Why should I have more pity for this person than the millions who lost health insurance under Trump? Or Farmers who are losing their livelihoods because of a misguided trade war? Or the children put in immigration prison and separated from their families indefinitely? Or small investors who will lose their life savings in the next crash because the Trump administration is eliminating the CFPD and making fraud legal again. Or the thousands of Yemenis and Syrian civilians who were killed by U.S. bombs, dropped by the Trump administration? Or Heather Heyer who was run over by a Trump supporter, who happens to be a "good person". I could go on and on. There are millions of U.S. citizens who have very good reasons to vote against this administration in November.
I'm supposed to feel sorry for a very well-to-do jurist who went to Georgetown prep, was a legacy admission to Yale, and had political opportunities up the wazoo because he was buddies with all the right Republicans at a very early age. This person is a judge on the second-highest court in the country. He has a nice upper-class life. If he gets sick, doctors will take care of him. When he retires, or is disabled and can no longer work, he will receive a golden pension and live in dignity. I'm sorry Republicans, but I just cannot feel sorry for your boy. Even if he's 100% innocent and this is a "con-job orchestrated by the Clintons". Kavanaugh is the ultimate snow flake.
Obama, does not tell the Fed how much money to print. I'll take a page from the Tea Party 2011 playbook and mention that Trump and the Republicans have been in control of all three branches of government for almost two years now. It's time to stop blaming the last President for everything.
How come no one worries about inflation due to the constantly rising wages of CEOs and Wall Street douche-bags? ....subsidized by government programs like foodstamps.
Because the powers that be prefer to pit skilled workers against unskilled workers. We tell the $40 per hour worker he's being screwed over by the $10 per hour minimum wage worker. All the while we rob both blind. Inflation is caused by monetary policy PERIOD. Wages. and everything else is a side effect of this policy because it effects the prices of everything that we buy.
They had 10-11 hour shifts back then.
The standard shift was nine hours in 1914 and probably included a break at some point. Originally the daily wage was $2.50 for a nine hour shift. Ford had to hire 52,000 men (there were no women back then) to maintain a staffing level of 14,000 in the production plant. The high rate of turnover was causing very serious production problems and costing Ford a lot more money than doubling the wages would. Ford doubled the wage to $5, reduced turnover and saved a lot of money.
$15 is probably fine most places in the US if you're only supporting yourself. I imagine in places like Bay area in California, or New York $15 is really hard to live on. Rural America $15 is easy to live on for 1 person if you don't have rich tastes.
The only major difference between and major metro area and any rural area is the cost of housing. Wages are lower in rural areas because most employers hold a jobs monopoly and the only way to get a pay raise is to quit and move to another region. Most cannot afford to move, so stay put and wages stagnate. I suspect Amazon cannot find workers in Seattle at $15 per hour. If Amazon goes to a rural area, their only real competition is probably Wallmart, which pays $11 per hour minimum plus health care benefits. Most Wallmart employees earn more than $11, so $15 is probably barely enough to get some workers in the door.
$5 for an eight hour shift in 1914 dollars would be $123.26 in 2018. $15 times 8 hours is $120. Ford in 1914 paid better than Amazon in 2018.
I once worked as a low-level engineer at a company with what I believed to be a similarly "rotten culture". You have three options: (1) find a job at a better company, (2) start your own company, or (3) change careers / retire. There is no justice in this world and as a low level engineer, you are not in a position to change corporate culture. My advice is to smile, be a model employee and very quietly work behind the scenes on your exit strategy. When you leave, take the minimum notice, be professional and don't burn any bridges. Forgo any snarky comments, shake your bosses hand and thank him or her for the opportunity to work there. Leave with your respect and reputation intact. The bottom line is that nobody has to work at Apple or at any other company. You are the master of your own fate. Just remember that when your company starts treating you like you have to work there and decides to see how much they can screw you over.
Moore's law predicted early exponential growth in semi-conductors, but as in all fields it eventually hits an inflection point and becomes asymptotic, infinite transistor density will never happen.
World war III will start with a tweet.
(yes I know the sandwich thing is a myth)
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand was feeling a bit peckish, realized he had forgotten to pack something to eat, so he ordered the chauffeur to retrace the parade route back to get a sandwich....
The Franco Prussian war really did start with a tweet.
....One of the negatives of single-payer healthcare is that it would be funded from taxpayer dollars, meaning as per usual -- central government lacks motivation to keep the costs down....
In many cases the government is forbidden by law to keep costs down. It's not for a lack of motivation or competence on the part of civil servants. It's that elected politicians who make laws and policies do not work for the people, nor do they work for the government. They work for their campaign donors and those donors have agendas. It's not a coincidence that the private health insurance industry and the medical product industries are two of the biggest campaign contributors.
On a side note, our very partisan Supreme Court ruled that "money is speech" and "corporations are people". If we're willing to accept that unlimited dark money can buy our elections, what's to prevent a hostile foreign country from buying our election???
Seriously we could just start by allowing and mandating that Medicare, etc. negotiate the best possible prices for medical products. Thatâs not socialism. Itâs just good stewardship of tax dollars and is the essence of a free market. But the current laws mandate fiscal malpractice and enable these kinds of practices, which is literally textbook crony capitalism.
What management school fails to teach young inexperienced executives: If the company's future existence depends on whether or not an employee does the job correctly or not, they are "worth more than money".
....One of them offered me the job on the spot after the interview and I was already shutting them down and refusing it before they even got started.....
It begs the question, why even apply there in the first place.
What strikes me is the raw number of accidents are higher in autonomous mode. Maybe the vehicles spend the majority of their time in autonomous mode. The data need to be normalized in accidents per mile driven.
But what strikes me is the default in a two-vehicle incident seems to be to blame it on the human driver, i.e. the autonomous vehicle could not accurately predict the human driver's intentions and there was a collision. Maybe the human didn't use the turn signals, or started a turn and then decided in the last instance to go the other way. There are plenty of bad drivers out there and a good driver knows how to drive defensively. Blaming the accident on the human driver because he didn't drive the way the AI predicted he should is the wrong answer.
....Bernie Sanders has three homes and made $3.6 million dollars last year....Leftists and socialists violently riot....
Bernie Sanders never said people shouldn't own their own homes or be able to make money. He's for "medicare for all" because he believes that health care is a human right and that the role of government is to guarantee some basic human rights. If you're politically opposed to the idea of health care as a basic human right, make an intelligent intellectual argument as to why healthcare is not a right and why the government shouldn't provide medical insurance, but don't just attack the man and try to paint him as a hypocrite for owning three homes or having a job. He's not against individual property ownership or private enterprise.
It wasn't leftists who rioted in Charlottesville last year and ran over a counter protestor. It wasn't a leftist President who regularly and openly encourages violence at his political rallies, then promises to pay the legal bills if his supporters beat someone. It wasn't a leftist who committed the most deadly domestic terrorist attack in our nations history. You're trying to frame the debate in your own terms.
On an unrelated note, I had the auto-pilot go out at 37,000 feet the other week. The air data computer had a malfunction and the autopilot could not figure out the airspeed and altitude. The passengers in the back didn't notice because we had two human pilots who took over manually and continued to fly the aircraft safely to the destination. We've been working on automation since Sperry put a gyroscope in a primitive biplane back in 1912. After 106 years of constant refinement, contrary to popular opinion, airplanes do not fly themselves reliably and we still need humans up front for safe operation. While I am sure drones are useful for things such as aerial photography, banner towing, etc. I do not see drones carrying people within my lifetime. If they did, it would be more of an aerial stunt than a viable, safe method of transporting people. I've seen automation fail too many times, and would not trust one enough to put my family on it. You shouldn't either.
Kids, when I was your age, I walked uphill in a snow storm 10 miles to download Slackware version 1 on my university's time share, then used Kermit to transfer it to about 25 floppies. It took about three hours. Then I walked uphill in a snowstorm 10 miles back home to install it one floppy at a time on my 486. I got it working and learned basic C programming, UNIX shell commands, EMACS, VI, networking, etc. than I would have learned taking some basic 101-level CS courses. Learning by doing is still the best way.
I'm no fan of Tesla, but when you read the article, it sound like normal turnover that any company the size of Tesla would have and is not indicative of anything else.
In the words of Warren Buffett, it's called "the greater fool business model" and it's the belief that a greater fool will come along and pay you more than you paid.
.... I have several from the 60s still going strong - make corp profitability less good...
that's the whole point behind smart watches. Planned obsolescence.
How about I never buy a smartwatch instead?
I'm perfectly happy with my "dumb watch". It runs on an analogue CPU which requires winding, but main-spring battery life is about three days. It has an automatic winding pendulum that recharges the spring-battery when you wear it. The analogue OS on my watch comes with three built-in applications. One app, tells date and time. The second app is a timer applet. The third is a slide rule flight computer that allows you to compute time-speed-distance problems. The watch plays a cool "tick" sound when you listen closely. The only draw back to my analog watch is I couldn't find any App Store where I might download newer functions or change the "tick" sound. oh well....
That is for 80 hours a month. Our normal work jobs in the us have us ordinary folks working 160 hours a month....
I'm a regional airline pilot and work well over 160 hours a month for between 80 -100 hours of flight pay. I have worked many 14+ hour days where I only get 4.5 - 5 hours of pay. The rest of the time is aircraft swaps, delays, maintenance, weather, time between legs (airport appreciation), ready reserve, etc.
The only reason people work for low pay at a regional is the carrot of being able to move on to a legacy airline such as Delta, United, America, etc and being able to earn a middle-class living. But there's no clear path to a legacy carrier. Some promise flow through, but that seems to be the exception rather than the rule. You apply and hope to get invited for an interview and maybe a job. When the economy goes down the tubes, a lot of legacy pilots wind up back at the regionals and take a 70% pay cut to just keep flying. I'm considering going to Asia as a plan B.