I wish I could mod you up but I've already commented here:(
If you're a victim of a crime or about to become one, I wish you luck if your recourse is waiting for the cops to arrive and save you. Especially in Canadian winter when the roads are bad and people forget how to drive.
In Canada, if you're about to get robbed, the cops will NOT be there to save you. And they won't even really be motivated to investigate afterwards.
I agree, mostly. Freedom and safety are often at odds. I disagree that "stop and frisk" is a vile abuse of gov't power. It's an unfortunate action but maybe a necessary one. I know someone, somewhere is going to trot out the old, "If you sacrifice liberty for safety, you deserve neither" line but c'mon. A minutes inconvenience (if that, even) is not depriving you of your liberty, unless you decide to escalate the issue.
Whoa, whoa..... just... whoa. I'm from a visible ethnic minority and have been stopped a few times while minding my own business. The first few times, it was really annoying but the cops were super polite and very clear on what they were doing. I was polite back, they asked a few questions (e.g. "Are you carrying a weapon, how's your day going so far etc) but never actually searched me.
Was I so offended that I considered that illegal detention? Of course not. Put it in perspective dude/dudette. I was inconvenienced for maybe a minute. Not even really inconvenienced - apart from them having lawful authority to detain me if they so wanted, it was more akin to having a quick chat with a stranger.
I work in analytics so maybe I have a completely different viewpoint from most folks. But here's why I'm not up in arms, before anyone freaks out, I would ask you try and take and objective view of this..
1. I am from a visible ethnic minority that is responsible for some not-insignificant portion of crime
2. My minority group also generally falls into the lower income bracket
3. It is statistically more probable that a member from my ethnic group will commit a violent crime compared to Caucasian or other groups
4. If I'm stopped and even searched by someone who is polite and has the welfare of MY community at heart, I welcome it
Now, on the other hand, if a cop stops you in the street and starts asking you questions and your first reaction is to get uber-defensive and maybe even confrontational, then I'm sorry to say but in my eyes, you're the problem. If you are unfortunate to fit the profile of someone the police are concerned about, you don't ALWAYS have to take it personally. It's not YOU they are interested in, it's the profile. Some folks just need to be able to distinguish between the two.
It's not a social agenda as you correctly pointed out, but it most definitely has a social impact. By watching shows made in different regions, by people who have different cultures and ideals, you're helping share a different mindset and outlook of ideas.
For example, an American watching 'The Bodyguard' (TV series) might better understand the difference in attitudes to firearms. I'm not saying one is better than the other, it's just different. Or it might help someone in South Korea better understand British politics when it comes to public policy.
So... there's no "issue", just the observation from Netflix that globally, people are interested in content from other regions, not just the US.
Is there a German or Argentinian version of 'Game of Thrones' that would be equally enjoyable but we just don't know about it because it's not broadcast outside of their home countries?
I mean, GoT is a fantastic show but is it equally enjoyed by people in China for example? I'm an avid subscriber of Netflix but I must admit, I skip over any show that isn't made in Britain, Canada, or the US... but maybe it sounds like I'm missing out on some awesome TV
I've yet to see anyone 'hide the truth'. It's just physics and chemistry. Cold negatively affects battery range. You can do a bunch of things to mitigate it but it's a fact of life
What you're ignoring is that most EV drivers find ways to accommodate those scenarios and it's not like they have to make fundamental changes to their lives in order to do so. If it's -40 outside, maybe they leave their coat zipped up. Maybe they leave their gloves on. It's not like ICE drivers suddenly take their coats off and get changed into swimwear when it's -40 just because the inside of the car is toasty.
EV sceptics always focus on the reduced range in cold weather, but ask yourself this: If you commute 50km to work one way and your EV has a range of 400km that drops to 200km, does it really mean you can't get to work and back home on a single charge?
I have a PHEV with a small battery (7.2kwh I believe..) and my commute it around 40km one way. In the summer, I can get to work no problem on battery power alone. In the winter, I can get to work on battery power* if I don't use my seat heaters and leave the heat on the lowest fan setting. My world doesn't end by making those small adjustments.
I have a Level 2 charger at home, so I program the car to pre-heat itself right before I leave and I also program my engine block heater to warm up the engine fluids. That way, when the engine doesn't need to kick on to give me warm air. None of those things are huge deals.
Could you not buy a $60k+ car AND want to save the environment? Are they mutually exclusive?
If I buy a reasonably equipped 3500 series truck, I'm easily into $60K+ but you'd be hard pressed to argue the $60k truck is as environmentally friendly as a Tesla.
The value / cost of the car doesn't really factor into 'saving the environment', if on a per km basis, you aren't negatively impacting the environment as other cars in the same cost bracket, you can safely and accurately say you're 'saving the environment'
You keep linking the cost of the car with the environmental impact and I'm not sure why.
Charging port frozen (fixed in 2 hours, not really an issue anymore apparently)
Doesn't accelerate as quickly when it's cold, but still plenty quick enough so no issue..?
So you're marking it as a 5/10, over 18,000 miles, based on a frozen charging port than was fixed in 2 hours and hasn't been a problem since? Surely the $400 monthly savings is nothing to sneeze at?
On my Chevy Avalanche, to get to the rear most spark plug, you have to loosen the engine from it's mounts and then drop it a few inches. To change a spark plug. You. Have. To. Lower. The. Engine.
Folks on YouTube have gotten around it by using a bunch of swivel connections but then you also run the risk of something falling into the depths of the engine bay, never to be seen again - unless you're doing 100 down the highway, the steel extension bar drops out and the poor sap behind you hits it.
Bixby get's in the way ALL the time for me. The button to invoke it is right below the volume buttons and I'm forever hitting it and then spending time trying to shut the damn thing down. It is THE most infuriating thing about my Samsung phone and the sole reason I've decided not to buy another Samsung phone until they make it uninstallable.
- An Apple contractor has a building that isn't as spiffy as the main Apple HQ?
- Do Managers tell staff to walk a few blocks because it's in an area where it's difficult for taxis to get to?
- Contractors for Apple don't get treated the same as actual Apple staff?
The article makes it sounds like there's something nefarious or dodgy going on but doesn't provide any real detail.
This is a cool idea! When I'm walking around a new city, especially downtown, I hate having to keep referring to my phone at each turn. I'm terrible with directions, I don't know why but I often can only deal with one or two streets worth of direction at any time. I can recite annual performance metrics going back years at a whim, or recall the prices of menu items from 2 hours ago but when it comes to directions, my memory span is literally seconds.
Your suggestion would make walking around so much easier
IVRs are one of those antiquated things that I can't believe still exist. Worse are the 'voice recognition' ones. I have an English accent but live in Canada and I have all but given up on those travesties
I can detect anger in someone's voice practically immediately, even before they've finished the first word because as a human, I use a number of other clues e.g. facial contortion, body positioning, finger pointing etc.
1.2 seconds to detect a change in pitch, volume etc. seems too long and I think that's the overall problems with artificial intelligence or machine learning - they're great for massive data sets that have common patterns (or used to build patterns) but not so good at immediate analysis of something new.
This is exactly right. User bias in beta testing or customer experience testing is largely unavoidable. You can design around it but people change their behavior when they know they're being watched / recorded / monitored - even when they KNOW they're evaluating the experience of an app and should be unbiased. It cannot be helped and it cannot be 100% eliminated.
We've done comparative analysis of internal staff who participated in a beta and later compared their actual usage of the app and I can tell you, it's extremely rare that the two match.
The analogy I use is driving. When you're taking your driving test, you're doing everything by the book. Maybe even months after your test, you're still driving 10 to 2, using the indicator religiously etc. But after 2 years of driving? Not so much. When you ask folks to participate in a beta program or CX session, they just don't use the app as they would normally.
You missed the part where I said we run through a beta phase to understand the customer experience and use internally best practice guidelines - which are derived from the results of beta testing (as all good best practices should be)
Good lord man. You jumped to the assumption that we didn't ask the user to begin with. I'm glad you got downvoted because you're either a troll (and deserved it) or you're insane (in which case I hope the voting makes you inwardly reflect).
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I'll just say this, my experience with cops must be vastly different to yours for us to have such polarizing opinions
I wish I could mod you up but I've already commented here :(
If you're a victim of a crime or about to become one, I wish you luck if your recourse is waiting for the cops to arrive and save you. Especially in Canadian winter when the roads are bad and people forget how to drive.
In Canada, if you're about to get robbed, the cops will NOT be there to save you. And they won't even really be motivated to investigate afterwards.
I agree, mostly. Freedom and safety are often at odds. I disagree that "stop and frisk" is a vile abuse of gov't power. It's an unfortunate action but maybe a necessary one. I know someone, somewhere is going to trot out the old, "If you sacrifice liberty for safety, you deserve neither" line but c'mon. A minutes inconvenience (if that, even) is not depriving you of your liberty, unless you decide to escalate the issue.
Whoa, whoa ..... just... whoa. I'm from a visible ethnic minority and have been stopped a few times while minding my own business. The first few times, it was really annoying but the cops were super polite and very clear on what they were doing. I was polite back, they asked a few questions (e.g. "Are you carrying a weapon, how's your day going so far etc) but never actually searched me.
Was I so offended that I considered that illegal detention? Of course not. Put it in perspective dude/dudette. I was inconvenienced for maybe a minute. Not even really inconvenienced - apart from them having lawful authority to detain me if they so wanted, it was more akin to having a quick chat with a stranger.
I work in analytics so maybe I have a completely different viewpoint from most folks. But here's why I'm not up in arms, before anyone freaks out, I would ask you try and take and objective view of this..
1. I am from a visible ethnic minority that is responsible for some not-insignificant portion of crime
2. My minority group also generally falls into the lower income bracket
3. It is statistically more probable that a member from my ethnic group will commit a violent crime compared to Caucasian or other groups
4. If I'm stopped and even searched by someone who is polite and has the welfare of MY community at heart, I welcome it
Now, on the other hand, if a cop stops you in the street and starts asking you questions and your first reaction is to get uber-defensive and maybe even confrontational, then I'm sorry to say but in my eyes, you're the problem. If you are unfortunate to fit the profile of someone the police are concerned about, you don't ALWAYS have to take it personally. It's not YOU they are interested in, it's the profile. Some folks just need to be able to distinguish between the two.
That sounds like a LOT like Downtown Abbey, which I'm a huge fan of. Gonna give 'The Crown' a shot, cheers!
It's not a social agenda as you correctly pointed out, but it most definitely has a social impact. By watching shows made in different regions, by people who have different cultures and ideals, you're helping share a different mindset and outlook of ideas.
For example, an American watching 'The Bodyguard' (TV series) might better understand the difference in attitudes to firearms. I'm not saying one is better than the other, it's just different. Or it might help someone in South Korea better understand British politics when it comes to public policy.
So... there's no "issue", just the observation from Netflix that globally, people are interested in content from other regions, not just the US.
I know I said 'version' but I actually meant 'equivalent'.....
Is there a German or Argentinian version of 'Game of Thrones' that would be equally enjoyable but we just don't know about it because it's not broadcast outside of their home countries?
I mean, GoT is a fantastic show but is it equally enjoyed by people in China for example? I'm an avid subscriber of Netflix but I must admit, I skip over any show that isn't made in Britain, Canada, or the US... but maybe it sounds like I'm missing out on some awesome TV
I think the lack of stories where Tesla drivers have died in the cold probably tell us more about the scope or likelihood of the problem..
I'm in South Western Ontario
I've yet to see anyone 'hide the truth'. It's just physics and chemistry. Cold negatively affects battery range. You can do a bunch of things to mitigate it but it's a fact of life
What you're ignoring is that most EV drivers find ways to accommodate those scenarios and it's not like they have to make fundamental changes to their lives in order to do so. If it's -40 outside, maybe they leave their coat zipped up. Maybe they leave their gloves on. It's not like ICE drivers suddenly take their coats off and get changed into swimwear when it's -40 just because the inside of the car is toasty.
EV sceptics always focus on the reduced range in cold weather, but ask yourself this: If you commute 50km to work one way and your EV has a range of 400km that drops to 200km, does it really mean you can't get to work and back home on a single charge?
I have a PHEV with a small battery (7.2kwh I believe..) and my commute it around 40km one way. In the summer, I can get to work no problem on battery power alone. In the winter, I can get to work on battery power* if I don't use my seat heaters and leave the heat on the lowest fan setting. My world doesn't end by making those small adjustments.
I have a Level 2 charger at home, so I program the car to pre-heat itself right before I leave and I also program my engine block heater to warm up the engine fluids. That way, when the engine doesn't need to kick on to give me warm air. None of those things are huge deals.
Could you not buy a $60k+ car AND want to save the environment? Are they mutually exclusive?
If I buy a reasonably equipped 3500 series truck, I'm easily into $60K+ but you'd be hard pressed to argue the $60k truck is as environmentally friendly as a Tesla.
The value / cost of the car doesn't really factor into 'saving the environment', if on a per km basis, you aren't negatively impacting the environment as other cars in the same cost bracket, you can safely and accurately say you're 'saving the environment'
You keep linking the cost of the car with the environmental impact and I'm not sure why.
How come? The problems maxrate mentioned are:
Charging port frozen (fixed in 2 hours, not really an issue anymore apparently)
Doesn't accelerate as quickly when it's cold, but still plenty quick enough so no issue..?
So you're marking it as a 5/10, over 18,000 miles, based on a frozen charging port than was fixed in 2 hours and hasn't been a problem since? Surely the $400 monthly savings is nothing to sneeze at?
Amateurs. I've got you all beat :)
On my Chevy Avalanche, to get to the rear most spark plug, you have to loosen the engine from it's mounts and then drop it a few inches. To change a spark plug. You. Have. To. Lower. The. Engine.
Folks on YouTube have gotten around it by using a bunch of swivel connections but then you also run the risk of something falling into the depths of the engine bay, never to be seen again - unless you're doing 100 down the highway, the steel extension bar drops out and the poor sap behind you hits it.
I'm gonna go with "No" here.
Bixby get's in the way ALL the time for me. The button to invoke it is right below the volume buttons and I'm forever hitting it and then spending time trying to shut the damn thing down. It is THE most infuriating thing about my Samsung phone and the sole reason I've decided not to buy another Samsung phone until they make it uninstallable.
- An Apple contractor has a building that isn't as spiffy as the main Apple HQ?
- Do Managers tell staff to walk a few blocks because it's in an area where it's difficult for taxis to get to?
- Contractors for Apple don't get treated the same as actual Apple staff?
The article makes it sounds like there's something nefarious or dodgy going on but doesn't provide any real detail.
I said "South Asian" meaning both.
This is a cool idea! When I'm walking around a new city, especially downtown, I hate having to keep referring to my phone at each turn. I'm terrible with directions, I don't know why but I often can only deal with one or two streets worth of direction at any time. I can recite annual performance metrics going back years at a whim, or recall the prices of menu items from 2 hours ago but when it comes to directions, my memory span is literally seconds.
Your suggestion would make walking around so much easier
IVRs are one of those antiquated things that I can't believe still exist. Worse are the 'voice recognition' ones. I have an English accent but live in Canada and I have all but given up on those travesties
1.2 seconds sounds kinda long for anger detection
I can detect anger in someone's voice practically immediately, even before they've finished the first word because as a human, I use a number of other clues e.g. facial contortion, body positioning, finger pointing etc.
1.2 seconds to detect a change in pitch, volume etc. seems too long and I think that's the overall problems with artificial intelligence or machine learning - they're great for massive data sets that have common patterns (or used to build patterns) but not so good at immediate analysis of something new.
Dude, I'm south Asian. I can't think of a single brown family I know that has less than 3 kids. Maybe the brown folks around you are different
This is exactly right. User bias in beta testing or customer experience testing is largely unavoidable. You can design around it but people change their behavior when they know they're being watched / recorded / monitored - even when they KNOW they're evaluating the experience of an app and should be unbiased. It cannot be helped and it cannot be 100% eliminated.
We've done comparative analysis of internal staff who participated in a beta and later compared their actual usage of the app and I can tell you, it's extremely rare that the two match.
The analogy I use is driving. When you're taking your driving test, you're doing everything by the book. Maybe even months after your test, you're still driving 10 to 2, using the indicator religiously etc. But after 2 years of driving? Not so much. When you ask folks to participate in a beta program or CX session, they just don't use the app as they would normally.
You missed the part where I said we run through a beta phase to understand the customer experience and use internally best practice guidelines - which are derived from the results of beta testing (as all good best practices should be)
Good lord man. You jumped to the assumption that we didn't ask the user to begin with. I'm glad you got downvoted because you're either a troll (and deserved it) or you're insane (in which case I hope the voting makes you inwardly reflect).