>> one question -- if they suffer from job burnout, and 57.16% said "Yes."
I doubt they know what burnout is then. Are you dragging yourself to work AND finding yourself still getting there two hours late because fuckit AND then working at home past when you really wanted to go to bed multiple nights in a row AND hating your job AND not caring if the current deathmarch you are on actually yields a product? Then, yes, you're burned out and it's time to find a cush corporate job or maybe just a few weeks of beach/mountain/whatever. Did someone at work hurt your feelings this week but you're still OK with the work for the money? Well then not so much.
>> never understood exactly how watson could be reasonably used in the healthcare industry
The endgame is "Dr. Watson", as smart as and more accurate than 98% of all human physician. (Pricing will be based on caseload, but is just 50% the regular cost of a human doctor.) Why else do you think you "see" Watson on gameshows vs. smart people, winning contests vs. smart people, and in articles about how much more accurate it is in diagnosing disease X or Y than real doctors?
>> many doctors could be replaced, since a nurse using a paper checklist could diagnose with the same accuracy. This is exactly what was done in many countries, with nurses or PAs handling the routine cases, while referring the difficult cases to MDs. But in America, we instead got an institutional resistance to any reform that could reduce profits
Don't know if I agree. Within the past ten years (and corresponding to a massive increase in cost of care) I've seen a lot of "Nurse Practitioners" step in where I used to see doctors with the kids when they were younger.
>> There are no incentives for doctors, or patients, or insurance companies to control costs
Maybe not doctors, but there are now tremendous incentives for companies and employees to control costs. So, we use the $XX company nurse/doctor instead of the $XXX option available under our health care plan. And we try to stay as far away as possible from any Urgent Care or ER services.
What seems to be driving the massive cost increase is that free care is increasing, government payments are capped, and the surviving health care providers are squeezing the last handful of us who can still pay the bills. Meanwhile, no hospital system wants to stop building hotel-quality hospitals with huge atriums ("atrium...get it?") and chasing plastic surgery patients (which requires keeping up appearances), so they keep spending like coke addicts. All we're asking for out here in the middle class is change, which is part of the reason Bernie almost won and then Trump did win. Unfortunately...
>> IBM strategy was buying competency in a market they had no footprint in...proceeded to slap (IBM) brand on it
Again, IBM SOP. If IBM (or CA or any other low-contribution, high-licensing-fee behemoth) buys your company, it's usually best to just find a new company and wait for the buyout package.
>> Every single tech company in Silicon Valley depends on the success of other tech companies
Not the ones that tap into the consumers themselves. (Google. Apple. Facebook. Uber. Etc.) Those companies have such market presence that they can line up quality, even name vendors (e.g., Foxconn, Intel) around them, and replace them like interchangable commodities as needed.
>> Privacy and government affairs officers from a number of the largest tech companies plan to convene in San Francisco on Wednesday to discuss how to tackle growing questions and concerns about consumer privacy online.
Read that carefully: "government affairs officers" - this is lobbyists saying the only way to suppress the voice of the people (and avoid new regulation and ongoing enforcement) regarding privacy is to hire MOAR lobbyists.
Agree they have these, but both of these are working against Intel right now: the inertia is what drove them into the ditch while more nimble chipmakers were passing them by, and their ample resources are blinding them from the danger because they assume they can always write checks to get back on the right track if they ever figure it out.
My point still applies: Intel is an important company in Silicon Valley, but not the "most important" (because their success depended on another company; the location of that other company is irrelevant).
Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.
>> arguably the most important company in Silicon Valley's history
Wait - I thought this was an article about Intel. (Not sure a PC chipmaker would be on top; without Microsoft and it's strategy to commoditize the PC makers Intel wouldn't have been a Tier 1 brand.)
Pretty much this. Waiters are less often college-degree'd and more often neck-tatted and GED'ed these days as the economy heats up. Managerial soft skills (and minimization of crap data from the kiosk systems your kids get to fill out when they "pay the bill") are suddenly back in vogue.
>> Once they have the industry, they want to push us out
This is news? I remember visiting a couple of mid-to-high tech companies doing business in China ten years ago and every company was structured the same way: the one or two foreigners running the plant and the hundreds or thousands of local Chinese doing everything.
If chipmakers don't like the way China works...why not try building elsewhere instead of whining about industry protections aimed at a specific country (that screw up things for lots of other people)?
In a couple of years it can be cross-sold into the hospice and funeral services industries to provide more ecological-friendly "burials". That's probably the real business plan.
In my town we have a theater that runs first-run movies for $4/seat. (Place was filled for Incredibles 2 this week.) They make it work, probably like other theaters do: rape you on concessions.
From: Elon Musk To: Everybody Subject: Some concerning news June 17, 2018 11:57 p.m.
I was dismayed to learn this weekend about a Tesla employee who had conducted quite extensive and damaging sabotage to our operations. This included making direct code changes to the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System under false usernames and exporting large amounts of highly sensitive Tesla data to unknown third parties.
The full extent of his actions are not yet clear, but what he has admitted to so far is pretty bad. His stated motivation is that he wanted a promotion that he did not receive. In light of these actions, not promoting him was definitely the right move.
However, there may be considerably more to this situation than meets the eye, so the investigation will continue in depth this week. We need to figure out if he was acting alone or with others at Tesla and if he was working with any outside organizations.
As you know, there are a long list of organizations that want Tesla to die. These include Wall Street short-sellers, who have already lost billions of dollars and stand to lose a lot more. Then there are the oil & gas companies, the wealthiest industry in the world — they don't love the idea of Tesla advancing the progress of solar power & electric cars. Don't want to blow your mind, but rumor has it that those companies are sometimes not super nice. Then there are the multitude of big gas/diesel car company competitors. If they're willing to cheat so much about emissions, maybe they're willing to cheat in other ways?
Most of the time, when there is theft of goods, leaking of confidential information, dereliction of duty or outright sabotage, the reason really is something simple like wanting to get back at someone within the company or at the company as a whole. Occasionally, it is much more serious.
Please be extremely vigilant, particularly over the next few weeks as we ramp up the production rate to 5k/week. This is when outside forces have the strongest motivation to stop us.
If you know of, see or suspect anything suspicious, please send a note to [email address removed for privacy] with as much info as possible. This can be done in your name, which will be kept confidential, or completely anonymously.
Looking forward to having a great week with you as we charge up the super exciting ramp to 5000 Model 3 cars per week!
Will follow this up with emails every few days describing the progress and challenges of the Model 3 ramp.
Thanks for working so hard to make Tesla successful, Elon
(copied from https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/18/elon-musk-email-employee-conducted-extensive-and-damaging-sabotage.html)
Might as well start using Facebook again and scroll my "feed" then, since that appears to be half videos no one cares about these days.
>> cable news
If you've been on the road for any part of your career, just the sight of a USA Today newspaper, CNN on a TV or anything Wolfgang Puck can ruin your day. (Obligatory explanation: that's most of what you'll see in hotels or in airports.)
>> You would think (Slashdot editor) could have managed to (do the job good editors do)
Nah, this is obvious clickbait. In Slashdot's quest to become "Yahoo News for Nerds" you're supposed to click into a crappy paywalled site (who actually subscribes to any of these? please stop) and then either buy something or enter your contact information before you can actually read the article.
The Most Remote Island in the World is Home to Seals, Seabirds, and an Internet Top-Level Domain Bouvet Island's most valuable resource might be its untapped.bv country code By Michael Koziol 2013 NASA Earth Observatory image showing Bouvet Island, and the ice that covers about 94 percent of the island year round. Image: Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon/NASA Earth Observatory Ice covers about 94 percent of Bouvet Island year-round. Advertisement
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The Fight Over the.africa Domain Name
U.S. Court Postpones Decision On.africa Domain Name Bouvet Island has little to offer. The most remote island in the world is fewer than 20 square miles in size, and it’s almost entirely covered by a glacier. Long ago, it was an active volcano, but those fiery days have long since passed. Now, it’s home to hundreds of thousands of seabirds, a Norwegian research station, and its own top-level internet domain.
Top-level domains serve as part of the Internet’s architecture. Aside from generic domains like.com and.edu, every country has a specific two-letter domain assigned to it. The United Kingdom, for example, uses.uk; Japan uses.jp. The United States has.us, though it’s not widely used. The original idea was that each country could manage the websites registered by individuals and organizations within its borders by issuing them websites that use their country-specific domain.
An animated gif zooming out on Bouvet Island to give a sense of it's location in the world. Gif: Google Maps/Google Earth/IEEE Spectrum Where in the world is Bouvet Island? But here’s the weird thing about Bouvet Island having its own top-level domain: It’s uninhabited. It’s always been uninhabited. Located in the southern Atlantic, the closest land to Bouvet Island is the coast of Antarctica, 1,100 miles to the south. The closest inhabited land is the island Tristan da Cunha, a British overseas territory located 1,400 miles to the north (Interestingly enough, Tristan da Cunha does not have its own top-level domain).
So how did Bouvet Island end up with the.bv domain—a domain which is not in use and not open to registration?
It starts with the United Nations. The UN’s Statistics Division maintains a publication called the Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use. Published since 1970 and also known as the M49 standard, the UN’s primary intention is to use its three-digit codes to group nations and geographic regions for statistical analysis.
Since 1974, the International Organization for Standardization, an international standards body just as unaffiliated with management of the Internet as the UN, has used the M49 standard to develop its own standard, ISO 3166. There are several lists, but the important one for now is ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, a very alphanumerical way of naming what is essentially a list of two-letter codes to represent “countries, dependencies, and other areas of particular geopolitical interest,” according to ISO. Does “two-letter codes” sound familiar?
We’re almost through the briar-patch of organizations and lists that resulted in the current set of country-specific domains. Since 1988, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority has managed the web’s Domain Name System—basically the system that converts our plaintext addresses like spectrum.ieee.org into the actual numerical IP addresses that computers use to navigate to specific sites. As such, IANA is also responsible for managing top-level domains. For countries, IANA pulled from ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, in order to avoid the messy business of being an Intern
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>> one question -- if they suffer from job burnout, and 57.16% said "Yes."
I doubt they know what burnout is then. Are you dragging yourself to work AND finding yourself still getting there two hours late because fuckit AND then working at home past when you really wanted to go to bed multiple nights in a row AND hating your job AND not caring if the current deathmarch you are on actually yields a product? Then, yes, you're burned out and it's time to find a cush corporate job or maybe just a few weeks of beach/mountain/whatever. Did someone at work hurt your feelings this week but you're still OK with the work for the money? Well then not so much.
(ducks)
>> never understood exactly how watson could be reasonably used in the healthcare industry
The endgame is "Dr. Watson", as smart as and more accurate than 98% of all human physician. (Pricing will be based on caseload, but is just 50% the regular cost of a human doctor.) Why else do you think you "see" Watson on gameshows vs. smart people, winning contests vs. smart people, and in articles about how much more accurate it is in diagnosing disease X or Y than real doctors?
>> many doctors could be replaced, since a nurse using a paper checklist could diagnose with the same accuracy. This is exactly what was done in many countries, with nurses or PAs handling the routine cases, while referring the difficult cases to MDs. But in America, we instead got an institutional resistance to any reform that could reduce profits
Don't know if I agree. Within the past ten years (and corresponding to a massive increase in cost of care) I've seen a lot of "Nurse Practitioners" step in where I used to see doctors with the kids when they were younger.
>> There are no incentives for doctors, or patients, or insurance companies to control costs
Maybe not doctors, but there are now tremendous incentives for companies and employees to control costs. So, we use the $XX company nurse/doctor instead of the $XXX option available under our health care plan. And we try to stay as far away as possible from any Urgent Care or ER services.
What seems to be driving the massive cost increase is that free care is increasing, government payments are capped, and the surviving health care providers are squeezing the last handful of us who can still pay the bills. Meanwhile, no hospital system wants to stop building hotel-quality hospitals with huge atriums ("atrium...get it?") and chasing plastic surgery patients (which requires keeping up appearances), so they keep spending like coke addicts. All we're asking for out here in the middle class is change, which is part of the reason Bernie almost won and then Trump did win. Unfortunately...
>> IBM strategy was buying competency in a market they had no footprint in...proceeded to slap (IBM) brand on it
Again, IBM SOP. If IBM (or CA or any other low-contribution, high-licensing-fee behemoth) buys your company, it's usually best to just find a new company and wait for the buyout package.
>> (company) acquires companies, fires acquired employees
This is news because? This is how the world works.
>> Every single tech company in Silicon Valley depends on the success of other tech companies
Not the ones that tap into the consumers themselves. (Google. Apple. Facebook. Uber. Etc.) Those companies have such market presence that they can line up quality, even name vendors (e.g., Foxconn, Intel) around them, and replace them like interchangable commodities as needed.
>> Privacy and government affairs officers from a number of the largest tech companies plan to convene in San Francisco on Wednesday to discuss how to tackle growing questions and concerns about consumer privacy online.
Read that carefully: "government affairs officers" - this is lobbyists saying the only way to suppress the voice of the people (and avoid new regulation and ongoing enforcement) regarding privacy is to hire MOAR lobbyists.
Fifty had no comment
>> shitload of resources and inertia
Agree they have these, but both of these are working against Intel right now: the inertia is what drove them into the ditch while more nimble chipmakers were passing them by, and their ample resources are blinding them from the danger because they assume they can always write checks to get back on the right track if they ever figure it out.
See "Sears"...
My point still applies: Intel is an important company in Silicon Valley, but not the "most important" (because their success depended on another company; the location of that other company is irrelevant).
Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.
>> arguably the most important company in Silicon Valley's history
Wait - I thought this was an article about Intel. (Not sure a PC chipmaker would be on top; without Microsoft and it's strategy to commoditize the PC makers Intel wouldn't have been a Tier 1 brand.)
Pretty much this. Waiters are less often college-degree'd and more often neck-tatted and GED'ed these days as the economy heats up. Managerial soft skills (and minimization of crap data from the kiosk systems your kids get to fill out when they "pay the bill") are suddenly back in vogue.
>> Once they have the industry, they want to push us out
This is news? I remember visiting a couple of mid-to-high tech companies doing business in China ten years ago and every company was structured the same way: the one or two foreigners running the plant and the hundreds or thousands of local Chinese doing everything.
If chipmakers don't like the way China works...why not try building elsewhere instead of whining about industry protections aimed at a specific country (that screw up things for lots of other people)?
Screenless but fuck it, we're doing five cameras!
>> an automated burger machine
In a couple of years it can be cross-sold into the hospice and funeral services industries to provide more ecological-friendly "burials". That's probably the real business plan.
In my town we have a theater that runs first-run movies for $4/seat. (Place was filled for Incredibles 2 this week.) They make it work, probably like other theaters do: rape you on concessions.
>> ride-hailing company
The word you are looking for is "taxi", as in "Uber is a taxi company"
>> that isn't how debates ought to take place
I disagree. This was clearly an even match between two master debaters.
Telsa was at war with FordGM: therefore Telsa had always been at war with FordGM.
From: Elon Musk
To: Everybody
Subject: Some concerning news
June 17, 2018 11:57 p.m.
I was dismayed to learn this weekend about a Tesla employee who had conducted quite extensive and damaging sabotage to our operations. This included making direct code changes to the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System under false usernames and exporting large amounts of highly sensitive Tesla data to unknown third parties.
The full extent of his actions are not yet clear, but what he has admitted to so far is pretty bad. His stated motivation is that he wanted a promotion that he did not receive. In light of these actions, not promoting him was definitely the right move.
However, there may be considerably more to this situation than meets the eye, so the investigation will continue in depth this week. We need to figure out if he was acting alone or with others at Tesla and if he was working with any outside organizations.
As you know, there are a long list of organizations that want Tesla to die. These include Wall Street short-sellers, who have already lost billions of dollars and stand to lose a lot more. Then there are the oil & gas companies, the wealthiest industry in the world — they don't love the idea of Tesla advancing the progress of solar power & electric cars. Don't want to blow your mind, but rumor has it that those companies are sometimes not super nice. Then there are the multitude of big gas/diesel car company competitors. If they're willing to cheat so much about emissions, maybe they're willing to cheat in other ways?
Most of the time, when there is theft of goods, leaking of confidential information, dereliction of duty or outright sabotage, the reason really is something simple like wanting to get back at someone within the company or at the company as a whole. Occasionally, it is much more serious.
Please be extremely vigilant, particularly over the next few weeks as we ramp up the production rate to 5k/week. This is when outside forces have the strongest motivation to stop us.
If you know of, see or suspect anything suspicious, please send a note to [email address removed for privacy] with as much info as possible. This can be done in your name, which will be kept confidential, or completely anonymously.
Looking forward to having a great week with you as we charge up the super exciting ramp to 5000 Model 3 cars per week!
Will follow this up with emails every few days describing the progress and challenges of the Model 3 ramp.
Thanks for working so hard to make Tesla successful,
Elon
(copied from https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/18/elon-musk-email-employee-conducted-extensive-and-damaging-sabotage.html)
>> channel surfing
Might as well start using Facebook again and scroll my "feed" then, since that appears to be half videos no one cares about these days.
>> cable news
If you've been on the road for any part of your career, just the sight of a USA Today newspaper, CNN on a TV or anything Wolfgang Puck can ruin your day. (Obligatory explanation: that's most of what you'll see in hotels or in airports.)
>> AT&T Watch TV - $15 a month - ad-supported
Just like Netflix, only twice as much and half as good, plus you have to watch ads.
Seems like a winner to me!
>> You would think (Slashdot editor) could have managed to (do the job good editors do)
Nah, this is obvious clickbait. In Slashdot's quest to become "Yahoo News for Nerds" you're supposed to click into a crappy paywalled site (who actually subscribes to any of these? please stop) and then either buy something or enter your contact information before you can actually read the article.
You're welcome though.
The Most Remote Island in the World is Home to Seals, Seabirds, and an Internet Top-Level Domain .bv country code
.africa Domain Name
.africa Domain Name
.com and .edu, every country has a specific two-letter domain assigned to it. The United Kingdom, for example, uses .uk; Japan uses .jp. The United States has .us, though it’s not widely used. The original idea was that each country could manage the websites registered by individuals and organizations within its borders by issuing them websites that use their country-specific domain.
.bv domain—a domain which is not in use and not open to registration?
Bouvet Island's most valuable resource might be its untapped
By Michael Koziol
2013 NASA Earth Observatory image showing Bouvet Island, and the ice that covers about 94 percent of the island year round.
Image: Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon/NASA Earth Observatory
Ice covers about 94 percent of Bouvet Island year-round.
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Photograph of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
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Bouvet Island has little to offer. The most remote island in the world is fewer than 20 square miles in size, and it’s almost entirely covered by a glacier. Long ago, it was an active volcano, but those fiery days have long since passed. Now, it’s home to hundreds of thousands of seabirds, a Norwegian research station, and its own top-level internet domain.
Top-level domains serve as part of the Internet’s architecture. Aside from generic domains like
An animated gif zooming out on Bouvet Island to give a sense of it's location in the world.
Gif: Google Maps/Google Earth/IEEE Spectrum
Where in the world is Bouvet Island?
But here’s the weird thing about Bouvet Island having its own top-level domain: It’s uninhabited. It’s always been uninhabited. Located in the southern Atlantic, the closest land to Bouvet Island is the coast of Antarctica, 1,100 miles to the south. The closest inhabited land is the island Tristan da Cunha, a British overseas territory located 1,400 miles to the north (Interestingly enough, Tristan da Cunha does not have its own top-level domain).
So how did Bouvet Island end up with the
It starts with the United Nations. The UN’s Statistics Division maintains a publication called the Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use. Published since 1970 and also known as the M49 standard, the UN’s primary intention is to use its three-digit codes to group nations and geographic regions for statistical analysis.
Since 1974, the International Organization for Standardization, an international standards body just as unaffiliated with management of the Internet as the UN, has used the M49 standard to develop its own standard, ISO 3166. There are several lists, but the important one for now is ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, a very alphanumerical way of naming what is essentially a list of two-letter codes to represent “countries, dependencies, and other areas of particular geopolitical interest,” according to ISO. Does “two-letter codes” sound familiar?
We’re almost through the briar-patch of organizations and lists that resulted in the current set of country-specific domains. Since 1988, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority has managed the web’s Domain Name System—basically the system that converts our plaintext addresses like spectrum.ieee.org into the actual numerical IP addresses that computers use to navigate to specific sites. As such, IANA is also responsible for managing top-level domains. For countries, IANA pulled from ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, in order to avoid the messy business of being an Intern