What happens in the church is just the result of forced abstinence, it has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality. Same thing as in prisons. And homosexuality has nothing to do with pedophilia; a gay dude isn't going to mess around with young boys in his charge, just like a straight woman isn't... besides a rare few exceptions.
I remember Avatar, seeing it in 3D in a movie theatre was a pretty mind blowing immersive experience. Cameron came close again with Sanctum. That was 3D done right, not "solving a problem" but certainly adding something to the experience... The problem with 3D is that is that it is very difficult and expensive to get those results, and you simply cannot get the same depth (literally) of experience at home with current technology, that's just a physical limitation. Even on a big screen 4K TV with awesome 3D glasses, that same Avatar movie is going to be... ok-ish. And probably not worth the hassle of finding those glasses, charging them, and keeping them on for the movie. But even though 3D TV is going the way of the dodo, I expect that studios will continue to make the odd 3D movie.
VR doesn't have the problem that it doesn't work at home. This time round it's gotten to a point where it actually works very well visually (the controls still leave a lot to be desired). I suspect that the gear is simply too expensive and complex for mainstream consumers to bother with.
I think Gabe Newell was right when he said piracy is a quality of service problem.
It certainly is, but at some point it becomes a monetary issue as well. I'm happy to pay to see Game of Thrones, the Expanse, House of Cards, and some of the other great original content out there, but I don't really want to shell out north of $100 a month in subscriptions to every streaming service, effectively paying multiple times for access to the generic stuff they all carry.
And sure, I also don't want to deal with all these damn apps, and I most certainly don't want to add another box. I've recently switched to NVidia Shield devices running Android TV throughout the house, and I'm very happy with that: it does most of the streaming services very well, plus Youtube, and Kodi for locally stored media. But I doubt it'll have an app for Apple's exclusive content.
Maybe the news feed contained a non existent article, and the app keeps refreshing the feed and articles every time it runs into such an error. We all make that mistake... then we add a retry counter or delay.
A full grown adult capable of making her own decisions about her personal life.
So what is this #metoo movement about, then? All fully grown women who made their own decisions about what was in their own best interest... and men taking advantage of a situation of unequal power. The decision was hers to make, but Clinton shouldn't have suggested or given her the option of having sex in the first place. It's not rape, but it's not ok either.
Reminds me a bit of Atlas Shrugged somehow: at some point the protagonists in the story realize they can simply ignore such moral blackmail despite what society expects of them. Maybe Trump read that book (though I doubt that). By the way: that works for left wing politicians as well, one in the Netherlands was getting seriously #me-too'd but he just shrugged it off and ignored it. And got away with it too.
#Metoo and moral outrage works on a couple of levels: your supposed victims, public opinion and the press, and the people you depend on. You can get away with ignoring it if you don't care about your accusers, if you can afford to ignore or sway public opinion, and most importantly if you can convince the people you depend on - be it family, political allies, or your employer - that it's all much ado about nothing. Or that they need you as much as you need them and that getting rid of you works against their own interests. This is where it gets dirty... Trump and that Dutch politician got away with ignoring the blame culture because they had the trust of their constituents and the people around them. But in many other cases, a small but very vocal group can manage to sway public opinion and then turn that opinion not against you, but for instance your boss, and your position becomes untenable almost by default.
Works for apps that make / invite you to register using your email address, or apps that harvest your mobile phone number. Once you start using the app they link the Push ID device as well as your account, and when you uninstall the app and a push message comes back "Push ID unknown", the app's author can look up the email address to start nagging.
Which is why I prefer the (rare) appearance where someone states that there is room for improvement of their behaviour (something that's true for most of us), without issuing an apology as well. There's rarely a need to bring right and wrong into these matters, and an apology is basically an admission of guilt. Someone* once said: "regret is something for little children", so just leave out that part and you won't have to acquit yourself either, again and again as the bar keeps getting lowered.
That happened to a great many tech companies. HP, for instance. At some point these companies become institutionalized internally; they no longer serve to bring about the vision and dreams of the founders, and the company becomes a goal unto itself. That always reminds me of the movie Tron, the founder of ENCOM lamenting to the CEO: "Sometimes I wish I was back in that garage...". Here's hoping that we'll never hear the same sentiment from guys like Elon Musk.
Perhaps the problem with these generic MBA "business fucks" is that they lack a grand vision, other than increasing profit and growing the company. They want to conquer the world rather than change it.
So add a filter or whatever. A dehumidifier isn't built to extract potable water, it's designed to produce dry air, so if any crap extracted by the process ends up in the water instead of the air or the machine, that's a bonus.
Small devices for extracting drinking water from the air already exist, but they are fairly expensive to run. This devices presumably changes that, if the resulting water really only costs $0.02/l
We recently had a similar study conducted in my country as well, with (of course) a much more alarmist summary: we must reduce pollution NOW or else... And while a further reduction of pollution is good, the urgency with which we do so and the expense and disruption incurred by that urgency must be weighed against the benefits. So... what kind of deaths are these? Normal people with healthy lives tragically cut short, as is the case in traffic accidents and shootings? Or people with respiratory ailments that are exacerbated rather than caused by pollution ? Not that we shouldn't care about the latter, but in terms of public health these are not comparable.
The big auto makers only starting doing so because Musk was eating their lunch. And for all the crying about Tesla missing production targets, they are still dominating the market. Other brands are starting to get wise to the fact that people want normal looking EVs with some range to them, and only now are we seeing some models like that hit the market. In numbers that are nowhere near Tesla's current production volume, I might add.
Am I a fan? Hell yes. I still ordered a Hyundai Kona EV instead of a Model 3, just thought it'd be a better car for me... but the waiting list for the Kona is longer than for the 3 now, due to the fact that they only make a handful of them.
Even optional overtime can be mandatory de facto, as Hauser himself implied with his "make yourself look better" remark. If your colleagues are all pulling 100 hour shifts and you are not, guess who is not going to come out all that well in the next performance reviews? And one could argue that this is justified: if your team mates are working long days and weekends and you are not, you're only making it even harder for them, right? So it all comes back to corporate culture and norms. Some companies with a conscience - or hard-pressed to retain quality staff - are actively pushing a healthy work-life balance for that reason: if most people (and most notably the boss) work 100 hour weeks, the rest of the staff will feel obligated to follow suit. But if most people leave at 5 and the boss doesn't send emails during the weekend, everyone will feel comfortable working normal hours.
If overtime truly is to be optional, you will have to make sure that most people and especially management do not work long hours on a regular basis.
If he makes good, innovative products for which there is a clear demand, and at some point manages to turn a profit, then I should be happy to invest in his companies and let him call other people whatever he wants. I'm not one of those douchebags who thinks just because someone is a public figure they are not allowed to have a temper, or a bad day. I'll take authenticity over carefully groomed but deeply fake media personae any time, even if the person in question is sometimes behaving like an authentic douche.
He seems to be getting there. SpaceX is doing reasonably well, arguably on government money but coming from government contracts rather than subsidies, and offering a real value: Uncle Sam is saving money on those contracts. As for EV's... I don't think that market - meaning all auto makers, not just Tesla - would be where it is today if it wasn't for those tax breaks. Perhaps tax breaks are necessary to kick-start certain markets... I'm all for that, as long as those subsidies are doled out equally, and end at some point.
Here's hoping that Tesla can get over the financial hump, they've pulled out all the stops to meet important targets, but next 2 quarters are going to be make or break, and Musk will have to show that they can not only reach the current production (and distribution) levels, but sustain them as well, while turning to a positive cash flow.
The biker and driver populations both have a few rotten apples who behave badly. But going by Youtube, only bikers are proud of it and gleefully post videos of themselves acting like a douche.
That's probably what he is afraid of: people still drive horses and carts for fun, but they are relegated to minor roads. Like horses, humans will not be able to keep up with what comes next: self driving cars. Imagine a special "diamond lane" for autonomous cars: you could have those cars do 180km/h and follow each other really closely, but a human would have no business driving in that lane. Then, those lanes are expanded and highways may (or may not) be left with a single "slow poke" lane for human drivers. Then come intersections without traffic lights, etc... At some point it will be too dangerous or too disruptive to let human-driven cars onto the highways and major thoroughfares in town.
With that said, I doubt he needs to worry much just yet. I'm fairly optimistic about self driving cars; I think we'll see production models appear within 10 years, but it will take much longer for them to become mainstream. And even when the majority of cars are self driving, it'll be another decade or 2 before all the older model cars are phased out. I doubt he'll see a ban on human driven cars in his lifetime.
IIRC he hid because he was afraid Sweden would extradite him to the US, not because he was unwilling to face charges in Sweden which, as you say, most likely wouldn't have gone anywhere.
Some funny chemicals are harmful only in larger doses. Some of them are harmful in a cumulative way. Some are not harmful at all. So the question stands: does it matter? Simply stating “OMG chemicals!” Is as meaningless as the slogan “now with more molecules!”
Part of the problems we are having in IT are due to notions like the one that coding is a dead end job. Some people prefer to stay involved with coding professionally instead of moving on to architect or management positions. Sure, some people remain the same coder they started out as, and will turn into the proverbial aging code monkey. But some coders keep learning and growing and actually become good at their jobs. I know several such people and they are worth their (sometimes substantial) weight in gold when it comes to putting out good, maintainable code, by doing coding work themselves, or by coaching and training junior staff members. Sadly even those guys are often regarded as dinosaurs by colleagues and management. So they are forced into a promotion or into the street, and we’re left with young “senior” coders with 5 years worth of experience under their belts, reinventing the wheel and putting out shit code.
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I would not recommend that thunderf00t video, it's sloppy and full of assumptions and false comparisons at best.
What happens in the church is just the result of forced abstinence, it has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality. Same thing as in prisons. And homosexuality has nothing to do with pedophilia; a gay dude isn't going to mess around with young boys in his charge, just like a straight woman isn't... besides a rare few exceptions.
I remember Avatar, seeing it in 3D in a movie theatre was a pretty mind blowing immersive experience. Cameron came close again with Sanctum. That was 3D done right, not "solving a problem" but certainly adding something to the experience... The problem with 3D is that is that it is very difficult and expensive to get those results, and you simply cannot get the same depth (literally) of experience at home with current technology, that's just a physical limitation. Even on a big screen 4K TV with awesome 3D glasses, that same Avatar movie is going to be... ok-ish. And probably not worth the hassle of finding those glasses, charging them, and keeping them on for the movie. But even though 3D TV is going the way of the dodo, I expect that studios will continue to make the odd 3D movie.
VR doesn't have the problem that it doesn't work at home. This time round it's gotten to a point where it actually works very well visually (the controls still leave a lot to be desired). I suspect that the gear is simply too expensive and complex for mainstream consumers to bother with.
I think Gabe Newell was right when he said piracy is a quality of service problem.
It certainly is, but at some point it becomes a monetary issue as well. I'm happy to pay to see Game of Thrones, the Expanse, House of Cards, and some of the other great original content out there, but I don't really want to shell out north of $100 a month in subscriptions to every streaming service, effectively paying multiple times for access to the generic stuff they all carry.
And sure, I also don't want to deal with all these damn apps, and I most certainly don't want to add another box. I've recently switched to NVidia Shield devices running Android TV throughout the house, and I'm very happy with that: it does most of the streaming services very well, plus Youtube, and Kodi for locally stored media. But I doubt it'll have an app for Apple's exclusive content.
Self driving bus with weapons and a rogue AI. There's a Mad Max movie in there somewhere...
Maybe the news feed contained a non existent article, and the app keeps refreshing the feed and articles every time it runs into such an error. We all make that mistake... then we add a retry counter or delay.
A full grown adult capable of making her own decisions about her personal life.
So what is this #metoo movement about, then? All fully grown women who made their own decisions about what was in their own best interest... and men taking advantage of a situation of unequal power. The decision was hers to make, but Clinton shouldn't have suggested or given her the option of having sex in the first place. It's not rape, but it's not ok either.
Reminds me a bit of Atlas Shrugged somehow: at some point the protagonists in the story realize they can simply ignore such moral blackmail despite what society expects of them. Maybe Trump read that book (though I doubt that). By the way: that works for left wing politicians as well, one in the Netherlands was getting seriously #me-too'd but he just shrugged it off and ignored it. And got away with it too.
#Metoo and moral outrage works on a couple of levels: your supposed victims, public opinion and the press, and the people you depend on. You can get away with ignoring it if you don't care about your accusers, if you can afford to ignore or sway public opinion, and most importantly if you can convince the people you depend on - be it family, political allies, or your employer - that it's all much ado about nothing. Or that they need you as much as you need them and that getting rid of you works against their own interests. This is where it gets dirty... Trump and that Dutch politician got away with ignoring the blame culture because they had the trust of their constituents and the people around them. But in many other cases, a small but very vocal group can manage to sway public opinion and then turn that opinion not against you, but for instance your boss, and your position becomes untenable almost by default.
Works for apps that make / invite you to register using your email address, or apps that harvest your mobile phone number. Once you start using the app they link the Push ID device as well as your account, and when you uninstall the app and a push message comes back "Push ID unknown", the app's author can look up the email address to start nagging.
Which is why I prefer the (rare) appearance where someone states that there is room for improvement of their behaviour (something that's true for most of us), without issuing an apology as well. There's rarely a need to bring right and wrong into these matters, and an apology is basically an admission of guilt. Someone* once said: "regret is something for little children", so just leave out that part and you won't have to acquit yourself either, again and again as the bar keeps getting lowered.
*) Yes it was Eichmann.
That happened to a great many tech companies. HP, for instance. At some point these companies become institutionalized internally; they no longer serve to bring about the vision and dreams of the founders, and the company becomes a goal unto itself. That always reminds me of the movie Tron, the founder of ENCOM lamenting to the CEO: "Sometimes I wish I was back in that garage...". Here's hoping that we'll never hear the same sentiment from guys like Elon Musk.
Perhaps the problem with these generic MBA "business fucks" is that they lack a grand vision, other than increasing profit and growing the company. They want to conquer the world rather than change it.
So add a filter or whatever. A dehumidifier isn't built to extract potable water, it's designed to produce dry air, so if any crap extracted by the process ends up in the water instead of the air or the machine, that's a bonus.
Small devices for extracting drinking water from the air already exist, but they are fairly expensive to run. This devices presumably changes that, if the resulting water really only costs $0.02/l
We recently had a similar study conducted in my country as well, with (of course) a much more alarmist summary: we must reduce pollution NOW or else... And while a further reduction of pollution is good, the urgency with which we do so and the expense and disruption incurred by that urgency must be weighed against the benefits. So... what kind of deaths are these? Normal people with healthy lives tragically cut short, as is the case in traffic accidents and shootings? Or people with respiratory ailments that are exacerbated rather than caused by pollution ? Not that we shouldn't care about the latter, but in terms of public health these are not comparable.
The big auto makers only starting doing so because Musk was eating their lunch. And for all the crying about Tesla missing production targets, they are still dominating the market. Other brands are starting to get wise to the fact that people want normal looking EVs with some range to them, and only now are we seeing some models like that hit the market. In numbers that are nowhere near Tesla's current production volume, I might add.
Am I a fan? Hell yes. I still ordered a Hyundai Kona EV instead of a Model 3, just thought it'd be a better car for me... but the waiting list for the Kona is longer than for the 3 now, due to the fact that they only make a handful of them.
Even optional overtime can be mandatory de facto, as Hauser himself implied with his "make yourself look better" remark. If your colleagues are all pulling 100 hour shifts and you are not, guess who is not going to come out all that well in the next performance reviews? And one could argue that this is justified: if your team mates are working long days and weekends and you are not, you're only making it even harder for them, right? So it all comes back to corporate culture and norms. Some companies with a conscience - or hard-pressed to retain quality staff - are actively pushing a healthy work-life balance for that reason: if most people (and most notably the boss) work 100 hour weeks, the rest of the staff will feel obligated to follow suit. But if most people leave at 5 and the boss doesn't send emails during the weekend, everyone will feel comfortable working normal hours.
If overtime truly is to be optional, you will have to make sure that most people and especially management do not work long hours on a regular basis.
If he makes good, innovative products for which there is a clear demand, and at some point manages to turn a profit, then I should be happy to invest in his companies and let him call other people whatever he wants. I'm not one of those douchebags who thinks just because someone is a public figure they are not allowed to have a temper, or a bad day. I'll take authenticity over carefully groomed but deeply fake media personae any time, even if the person in question is sometimes behaving like an authentic douche.
With that said, all my money is in real estate...
He seems to be getting there. SpaceX is doing reasonably well, arguably on government money but coming from government contracts rather than subsidies, and offering a real value: Uncle Sam is saving money on those contracts. As for EV's... I don't think that market - meaning all auto makers, not just Tesla - would be where it is today if it wasn't for those tax breaks. Perhaps tax breaks are necessary to kick-start certain markets... I'm all for that, as long as those subsidies are doled out equally, and end at some point.
Here's hoping that Tesla can get over the financial hump, they've pulled out all the stops to meet important targets, but next 2 quarters are going to be make or break, and Musk will have to show that they can not only reach the current production (and distribution) levels, but sustain them as well, while turning to a positive cash flow.
The biker and driver populations both have a few rotten apples who behave badly. But going by Youtube, only bikers are proud of it and gleefully post videos of themselves acting like a douche.
The thing to do is wait until it comes to a complete stop...
That's probably what he is afraid of: people still drive horses and carts for fun, but they are relegated to minor roads. Like horses, humans will not be able to keep up with what comes next: self driving cars. Imagine a special "diamond lane" for autonomous cars: you could have those cars do 180km/h and follow each other really closely, but a human would have no business driving in that lane. Then, those lanes are expanded and highways may (or may not) be left with a single "slow poke" lane for human drivers. Then come intersections without traffic lights, etc... At some point it will be too dangerous or too disruptive to let human-driven cars onto the highways and major thoroughfares in town.
With that said, I doubt he needs to worry much just yet. I'm fairly optimistic about self driving cars; I think we'll see production models appear within 10 years, but it will take much longer for them to become mainstream. And even when the majority of cars are self driving, it'll be another decade or 2 before all the older model cars are phased out. I doubt he'll see a ban on human driven cars in his lifetime.
IIRC he hid because he was afraid Sweden would extradite him to the US, not because he was unwilling to face charges in Sweden which, as you say, most likely wouldn't have gone anywhere.
Some funny chemicals are harmful only in larger doses. Some of them are harmful in a cumulative way. Some are not harmful at all. So the question stands: does it matter? Simply stating “OMG chemicals!” Is as meaningless as the slogan “now with more molecules!”
They were about 25kg, sent through regular Japan Post.
Part of the problems we are having in IT are due to notions like the one that coding is a dead end job. Some people prefer to stay involved with coding professionally instead of moving on to architect or management positions. Sure, some people remain the same coder they started out as, and will turn into the proverbial aging code monkey. But some coders keep learning and growing and actually become good at their jobs. I know several such people and they are worth their (sometimes substantial) weight in gold when it comes to putting out good, maintainable code, by doing coding work themselves, or by coaching and training junior staff members. Sadly even those guys are often regarded as dinosaurs by colleagues and management. So they are forced into a promotion or into the street, and we’re left with young “senior” coders with 5 years worth of experience under their belts, reinventing the wheel and putting out shit code.
Pharma’s R&D budget is matched by their marketing budget, so meh.