Most people I know who went to SpaceX planned to work there 5 years + 1 day to ensure they were vested in their options. If those options are starting to look shaky that could be a bit of a problem for employee retention.
- - - - - He also failed to get the required approvals for conducting experiments on humans without their consent. He is now being punished for failing to get the required approvals for conducting experiments on humans without their consent. Hoping to avoid/lessen his punishment, he is now engaging the public at-large in an attempt to have those perpetually aggrieved about academia rally to his defense.- - - - -
Did they put their experiment in front of their universities' human experiment approval board prior to publishing it? Because they were conducting an experiment on non-consenting human beings a board review would have been required, and I'll bet they didn't.
It would not be difficult to build an autonomous vehicle that could drive coast-to-coast on I-80. The autonomous systems company I worked for in the oughts could have built such a vehicle in the 1970s. Except of course for those tricky bits at the endpoints, San Francisco and New York City, I'd suggest it not trying to go through the Chicago metro area at rush hour either even though I-80 is fairly far south. So yeah, possible, easy even - except for the hard part.
And had it been possible to do such studies at the time I think we would have found that use of television changes the structure of the human brain, long periods talking on the telephone to people who would previously have been inaccessible more than once/twice in a lifetime changes the structure of the human brain, reading changes the structure of the human brain, riding a horse changes the structure of the human brain, learning how to build a fire and being up awake at night staring into it changes the structure of the human brain... The connected world is the one we live in now; human brains are adapting. As they always do.
- - - - - - However, with parachutes, even if they got them working, the only place they could land was in earth's oceans. Not on land. Not the moon. Not on Mars. - - - - -
Soyuez lands on dry Earth with parachutes. Multiple Mars landers have landed on Mars with parachutes.
Landing on the Moon does require a reaction engine. Or the Universe's largest pogo stick.
Drivers of automobiles do not have the right to mow down pedestrians whether or not the pedestrian is obeying the "jaywalking" laws.
And many modern cities such as Phoenix are designed so that it is basically impossible for people who do not have cars to transport themselves. By all accounts the design of that zone of Phoenix was terrible for non-auto-driving citizens and it was well known to all who drove through that area that people crossed at non-designated locations on foot and by bike. Why wasn't that information captured in the GIS database?
I still fault the employer who created a task that it is essentially impossible for human beings to perform. It simply isn't possible to maintain full intensity attention for long periods of inactivity and then instantly spring into taking immediate high-stakes actions requiring fast response time.
= = = The hard part is that the lights don't help you as much as you'd think. Actually headlights and the like make it harder to see pedestrians, because the bright lights turn people into moving shadows that are harder to see than you'd think. Yes, Uber's dashcam with the crappy dynamic range overstate how dark it is, but your eyes do have problems seeing dark objects (pedestrians) vs. the lights. Because I deliberately watch for this, I notice the moving shadows, but I didn't always, it's one of the things you get used to because pedestrians like this are, unfortunately, really common.= = =
I doubt it was that pedestrian's first time crossing that highway at that point. Given that she was reported to be developmentally disabled she probably found a pattern that worked for her and stuck to it. How many times did she cross there at night? 10? 100? 1,000? Assume 1/3 of those crossings were at night to be conservative. And yet she was never hit by a human driver in full control...
Simple explanation: Facebook set their preferences to Seizure of Documents = No but when there was a change of Parliament that setting was defaulted back to Seizure of Documents = Yes to improve customer delight in the Visiting UK Experience.
Most of what I have seen is (1) lack of understanding of what databases are, what they were designed to do, and what they are capable of (2) fear of using databases based on a shared cultural non-understanding stemming from 1 (3) broken workaround after broken workaround to allow the architect and developer... not to use databases.
I'm betting that the Friends of Scott Walker have so far reaped 10s millions of dollars in legal fees, "consulting fees", etc so not a fail for them. And now there will be a nice fat cushy job waiting at one of those Friends' firms after inauguration day - so not a fail for Walker.
It is quite normal when starting up a new location in a different region whether across town, different county/province, or different nation) to send some managers, construction people, engineers, and supervisors to get the new location built and local staff hired. Then at startup production workers often are sent for a few weeks/months to train the new production team how to operate according to company standards. So as long as local staff is being hired for eventual local operation I see nothing out of the ordinary here.
Yes, I'm well aware of those stories. I doubt very much Apple had any intention of "deliberately slowing down their phones" [with hidden subtext of driving more sales]; it is equally or more likely that they were trying to provide better usability for their customers with older phones. Regulatory agencies don't have to investigate or take intent into account if they don't believe it is necessary, but that doesn't mean a regulatory agency's action is the final word on why an action was taken. Interestingly this is the position many techbro Slashdotters take in regards to regulatory agencies that regulate, e.g. Uber and its self-driving car division, but go "huh?" when it is pointed out concerning Apple. Odd that.
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Note to author: It was determined during WWII that repeating plaintext makes it far easier for an opponent to crack the cyphertext. Just sayin'.
At the peak of the Great Depression the US came close to a red revolution. Unemployment at that point was 25%. "Only" 25%.
Or Occam's alternative: Tesla is floundering and are now trying the "cut your way to success" method.
Most people I know who went to SpaceX planned to work there 5 years + 1 day to ensure they were vested in their options. If those options are starting to look shaky that could be a bit of a problem for employee retention.
Should be pretty easy for him to provide his pre-submission approval by his university's human experiment review board then.
Yup.
Did they put their experiment in front of their universities' human experiment approval board prior to publishing it? Because they were conducting an experiment on non-consenting human beings a board review would have been required, and I'll bet they didn't.
Sure.
As opposed to the $1 trillion/year subsidy to the oil industry known as the "US Army" that those with electric vehicles are still paying.
Whoosh!
It would not be difficult to build an autonomous vehicle that could drive coast-to-coast on I-80. The autonomous systems company I worked for in the oughts could have built such a vehicle in the 1970s. Except of course for those tricky bits at the endpoints, San Francisco and New York City, I'd suggest it not trying to go through the Chicago metro area at rush hour either even though I-80 is fairly far south. So yeah, possible, easy even - except for the hard part.
LOL
And had it been possible to do such studies at the time I think we would have found that use of television changes the structure of the human brain, long periods talking on the telephone to people who would previously have been inaccessible more than once/twice in a lifetime changes the structure of the human brain, reading changes the structure of the human brain, riding a horse changes the structure of the human brain, learning how to build a fire and being up awake at night staring into it changes the structure of the human brain... The connected world is the one we live in now; human brains are adapting. As they always do.
Definitely not true in NYC, Chicago, and other large wealthy cities.
Soyuez lands on dry Earth with parachutes. Multiple Mars landers have landed on Mars with parachutes.
Landing on the Moon does require a reaction engine. Or the Universe's largest pogo stick.
CO2 doesn't create smog [1] - NOx creates smog.
[1] In the short run that is. In the long run the endless Carboniferous rains start to fall...
Drivers of automobiles do not have the right to mow down pedestrians whether or not the pedestrian is obeying the "jaywalking" laws.
And many modern cities such as Phoenix are designed so that it is basically impossible for people who do not have cars to transport themselves. By all accounts the design of that zone of Phoenix was terrible for non-auto-driving citizens and it was well known to all who drove through that area that people crossed at non-designated locations on foot and by bike. Why wasn't that information captured in the GIS database?
I still fault the employer who created a task that it is essentially impossible for human beings to perform. It simply isn't possible to maintain full intensity attention for long periods of inactivity and then instantly spring into taking immediate high-stakes actions requiring fast response time.
I doubt it was that pedestrian's first time crossing that highway at that point. Given that she was reported to be developmentally disabled she probably found a pattern that worked for her and stuck to it. How many times did she cross there at night? 10? 100? 1,000? Assume 1/3 of those crossings were at night to be conservative. And yet she was never hit by a human driver in full control...
Simple explanation: Facebook set their preferences to Seizure of Documents = No but when there was a change of Parliament that setting was defaulted back to Seizure of Documents = Yes to improve customer delight in the Visiting UK Experience.
Ah, the Scots version of Calvinism that infects so much of the United States' population - can't live with it, can't get away from it.
Most of what I have seen is (1) lack of understanding of what databases are, what they were designed to do, and what they are capable of (2) fear of using databases based on a shared cultural non-understanding stemming from 1 (3) broken workaround after broken workaround to allow the architect and developer... not to use databases.
I'm betting that the Friends of Scott Walker have so far reaped 10s millions of dollars in legal fees, "consulting fees", etc so not a fail for them. And now there will be a nice fat cushy job waiting at one of those Friends' firms after inauguration day - so not a fail for Walker.
Crony capitalism: it works. For cronies.
It is quite normal when starting up a new location in a different region whether across town, different county/province, or different nation) to send some managers, construction people, engineers, and supervisors to get the new location built and local staff hired. Then at startup production workers often are sent for a few weeks/months to train the new production team how to operate according to company standards. So as long as local staff is being hired for eventual local operation I see nothing out of the ordinary here.
Yes, I'm well aware of those stories. I doubt very much Apple had any intention of "deliberately slowing down their phones" [with hidden subtext of driving more sales]; it is equally or more likely that they were trying to provide better usability for their customers with older phones. Regulatory agencies don't have to investigate or take intent into account if they don't believe it is necessary, but that doesn't mean a regulatory agency's action is the final word on why an action was taken. Interestingly this is the position many techbro Slashdotters take in regards to regulatory agencies that regulate, e.g. Uber and its self-driving car division, but go "huh?" when it is pointed out concerning Apple. Odd that.