Regardless of the proximity to the airport, all stadiums are under a TFR up to 3000 AGL above and around a stadium during NFL games. See https://www.faa.gov/uas/where_...
The point is this really is not a problem. You can have exchanges without problematic hoarding, even if the relative value is changin by the second in 24 hour/day currency markets. People will pay wth 500 silver coins and keep their gold coins when silver is in sort supply and valued too high relative to gold. This is called a healthy, self correcting market
Sometimes the gold humbugs are even sillier than the gold bugs they mock
> The problem with this: gold and silver can change their relative value to each other and that screws up > the exchange rate. This can lead to hoarding of the coins that are appreciating in value (Gresham's law).
Who is going to tell this AC that all fiat currencies change their relative value to each other today/everyday and really blow his/her/xer mind?
Yes Iâ(TM)d like to know if that happened. I would also like to know if Hillary Clinton is actually an alien from a far away galaxy. Wouldnâ(TM)t you like to know if that was the case? Or do you not care about your country or democracy? She was a sitting senator, after all, and ran for the highest seat in the land, with millions of people voting for her (many of them citizens!). If an alien from a far away galaxy were able to infiltrate our demoracy to that extent, I hope we would all want to know about it.
Hi. Stuff costs money. There is no free lunch. I know we pretend ad-supported stuff is free, but obviously it is not. Assuming the economics of ad-supporter stuff actually does work, then users are spending more on shit they otherwise wouldn't have purchased by at least as much as the "free" stuff costs to make.
Is this the tech VC's version of the 7 Minute Abs pitch? "Why would anyone travel in two dimensions when they can travel in three?"
It's a little more complicated than that. Here are some things that don't matter so much in 2D road travel but matter a lot when you're flying * wind, winds changing at higher altitudes, and wind shear * Air speed vs ground speed * Heading vs ground track * Convective weather (at takeoff, all along path of travel, and at destination) * Air density (at takeoff, all along path of travel, and at destination) * Vehicle weight for takeoff and travel, and weight changes as fuel burns * Lift characteristics at altitude (at takeoff, all along path of travel, and at destination) * Ability to descend safely if a system fails (single engine?) or you are crashed into * Empty gas tank doesn't fail gracefully * Inability to stop moving (probably) * Obstacles (hills, mountains, towers, buildings * Etc
As someone who flies, I am (a) certain there will be some sort of flying vehicle some day, and (b) aware there is a lot to figure out. These are all obviously solvable problems because people already do fly. It's just hugely expensive and requires a lot of training (relative to driving). What we are talking about here is ModelT-izing flight which will require a lot of idiot proofing including expensive redundancy while at the same time really driving down the purchase and operational costs of flying. These are not small problems, and these problems are not analogous to the problems of autonomous driving.
Hi. Stay current. Stay wage competitive. Maintain strong work ethic. Be accountable.
If you do these things and you're still let go when you're older, it may be ageism. If you don't do these things, it may be something called a labor market.
Sea temperature models are so predictive they didn't even need to know about 100 volcanoes. Also, please don't consider what other major variables we may not fully understand
Sorry, nobody is trying to silence him? The general consensus is that this guy should fired for expressing this opinion. You can agree or disagree with that, but I don't know how you get to suggesting nobody is trying to silence him. Why does anyone want him fired? Especially people who don't work at google?
I understand your point, and it looks to me like he is criticizing a rather unique HR policy focus at the company as misguided and unfair. And in my comment I said this guy's career is over, whether he knows it yet or not. The smart thing to do would be to shut up. But that doesn't mean that he also doesn't have a valid point that there is something wrong with needing to shut up.
> The goal is not to force people to become engineers, which he actually > suggests is happening at one point. The goal is to help people do the > things they want to do.
Well, that is really the question, isn't it. If everyone could do what they wanted to do, would we see equal representation of gender in fields like software engineering? This movement believes yes. I am skeptical. And I have see studies suggesting that as choice of career increases (e.g. wealthier countries with more freedom and opportunity), certain aggregate gender preferences express themselves more not less.
This just doesn't seem nearly as settled as people like to say it is. Even in this thread I got a reply that pretty much said anyone expressing other opinions are just factually wrong and can be safely ignored. That's valid for people running around saying the earth is flat, but is this really in the same category of certainty? It is quite a claim to suggest there are no gender career preferences. It wasn't that long ago that I was in PSY college classes where we learned quite a bit about differences between genders (in aggregate) that would be pretty reasonably expressed in career choices.
Science moves on and maybe all that as been "debunked" as has been claimed here. But this degree and pace of change in understanding is not what I would expect from a settled matter.
One point where the author is spot on is the overwhelming efforts to silence any other viewpoints. Loom no further than the response to this memo. On twitter, a prominent tech entrepreneur said he thinks the real problem isn't the memo's content but that the author thought it was okay to share it at a place like Google. Isn't that exactly the point the author makes?
I also found interesting his point about how we feel differently about seeking 50-50 gender representation in manual labor occupations and work related deaths.
These topics are worthy of discussion. The "we must get girls to code" push always seemed worthy of skepticism. But there is no real debate in this area, and raising questions gets you labeled unfairly and possibly fired.
One thing is for sure: this guy's career is over. He will be doxxed by some news org who apparently does remember how to do investigative journalism when it comes to random civilians expressing a politically incorrect opinion. And the pitchforks will come out from the SJWs and no company -- certainly google -- wants to get mixed up in that PR nightmare. Game over, bro. Hope it was worth it.
Slashdot Mirror
If a company spent $x the past 5 years, obviously they will spend $x the next 5 years!
Second article today where slashdot ignorantly refers to something as free when itâ(TM)s just bundled into the price you are paying. Stop it.
âThe âoesponsoringâ money comes from somewhere (hint: thatâ(TM)s you)â
Regardless of the proximity to the airport, all stadiums are under a TFR up to 3000 AGL above and around a stadium during NFL games. See https://www.faa.gov/uas/where_...
You guys really have a tough time staying on topic
This is really a minor issue. Iâ(TM)m not sure why you are presenting it like a major roadblock.
That wasnâ(TM)t his point
The point is this really is not a problem. You can have exchanges without problematic hoarding, even if the relative value is changin by the second in 24 hour/day currency markets. People will pay wth 500 silver coins and keep their gold coins when silver is in sort supply and valued too high relative to gold. This is called a healthy, self correcting market
Sometimes the gold humbugs are even sillier than the gold bugs they mock
> The problem with this: gold and silver can change their relative value to each other and that screws up
> the exchange rate. This can lead to hoarding of the coins that are appreciating in value (Gresham's law).
Who is going to tell this AC that all fiat currencies change their relative value to each other today/everyday and really blow his/her/xer mind?
Yes Iâ(TM)d like to know if that happened. I would also like to know if Hillary Clinton is actually an alien from a far away galaxy. Wouldnâ(TM)t you like to know if that was the case? Or do you not care about your country or democracy? She was a sitting senator, after all, and ran for the highest seat in the land, with millions of people voting for her (many of them citizens!). If an alien from a far away galaxy were able to infiltrate our demoracy to that extent, I hope we would all want to know about it.
Hi. Stuff costs money. There is no free lunch. I know we pretend ad-supported stuff is free, but obviously it is not. Assuming the economics of ad-supporter stuff actually does work, then users are spending more on shit they otherwise wouldn't have purchased by at least as much as the "free" stuff costs to make.
The cool thing about your reply is that it has the tone of disagreement without any actual content of disagreement. Impressive.
Is this the tech VC's version of the 7 Minute Abs pitch? "Why would anyone travel in two dimensions when they can travel in three?"
It's a little more complicated than that. Here are some things that don't matter so much in 2D road travel but matter a lot when you're flying
* wind, winds changing at higher altitudes, and wind shear
* Air speed vs ground speed
* Heading vs ground track
* Convective weather (at takeoff, all along path of travel, and at destination)
* Air density (at takeoff, all along path of travel, and at destination)
* Vehicle weight for takeoff and travel, and weight changes as fuel burns
* Lift characteristics at altitude (at takeoff, all along path of travel, and at destination)
* Ability to descend safely if a system fails (single engine?) or you are crashed into
* Empty gas tank doesn't fail gracefully
* Inability to stop moving (probably)
* Obstacles (hills, mountains, towers, buildings
* Etc
As someone who flies, I am (a) certain there will be some sort of flying vehicle some day, and (b) aware there is a lot to figure out. These are all obviously solvable problems because people already do fly. It's just hugely expensive and requires a lot of training (relative to driving). What we are talking about here is ModelT-izing flight which will require a lot of idiot proofing including expensive redundancy while at the same time really driving down the purchase and operational costs of flying. These are not small problems, and these problems are not analogous to the problems of autonomous driving.
rare events are not evidence of a change in a distribution
12 years without a major hurricane landfall. Where were the front page slashdot posts talking about how extreme that was?
Hi. Stay current. Stay wage competitive. Maintain strong work ethic. Be accountable.
If you do these things and you're still let go when you're older, it may be ageism. If you don't do these things, it may be something called a labor market.
You're paying the 2% either way unless there is a separate cash price
Sea temperature models are so predictive they didn't even need to know about 100 volcanoes. Also, please don't consider what other major variables we may not fully understand
He was stupid to post the memo. Being fired was a completely foreseeable outcome.
Google is clearly a dysfunctional culture willing to ignore basic facts and logic in pursuit of social justice objectives.
It's okay to believe both things are true.
Sorry, nobody is trying to silence him? The general consensus is that this guy should fired for expressing this opinion. You can agree or disagree with that, but I don't know how you get to suggesting nobody is trying to silence him. Why does anyone want him fired? Especially people who don't work at google?
I understand your point, and it looks to me like he is criticizing a rather unique HR policy focus at the company as misguided and unfair. And in my comment I said this guy's career is over, whether he knows it yet or not. The smart thing to do would be to shut up. But that doesn't mean that he also doesn't have a valid point that there is something wrong with needing to shut up.
Are you suggesting Iranian tech companies and higher ed institutions are discriminating against men?
> The goal is not to force people to become engineers, which he actually
> suggests is happening at one point. The goal is to help people do the
> things they want to do.
Well, that is really the question, isn't it. If everyone could do what they wanted to do, would we see equal representation of gender in fields like software engineering? This movement believes yes. I am skeptical. And I have see studies suggesting that as choice of career increases (e.g. wealthier countries with more freedom and opportunity), certain aggregate gender preferences express themselves more not less.
This just doesn't seem nearly as settled as people like to say it is. Even in this thread I got a reply that pretty much said anyone expressing other opinions are just factually wrong and can be safely ignored. That's valid for people running around saying the earth is flat, but is this really in the same category of certainty? It is quite a claim to suggest there are no gender career preferences. It wasn't that long ago that I was in PSY college classes where we learned quite a bit about differences between genders (in aggregate) that would be pretty reasonably expressed in career choices.
Science moves on and maybe all that as been "debunked" as has been claimed here. But this degree and pace of change in understanding is not what I would expect from a settled matter.
One point where the author is spot on is the overwhelming efforts to silence any other viewpoints. Loom no further than the response to this memo. On twitter, a prominent tech entrepreneur said he thinks the real problem isn't the memo's content but that the author thought it was okay to share it at a place like Google. Isn't that exactly the point the author makes?
I also found interesting his point about how we feel differently about seeking 50-50 gender representation in manual labor occupations and work related deaths.
These topics are worthy of discussion. The "we must get girls to code" push always seemed worthy of skepticism. But there is no real debate in this area, and raising questions gets you labeled unfairly and possibly fired.
One thing is for sure: this guy's career is over. He will be doxxed by some news org who apparently does remember how to do investigative journalism when it comes to random civilians expressing a politically incorrect opinion. And the pitchforks will come out from the SJWs and no company -- certainly google -- wants to get mixed up in that PR nightmare. Game over, bro. Hope it was worth it.
Huh? My eyes roll for the technical challenges.
Regardless of the ethics... This guy is risking his entire livelihood by doing a talk and interview. Amazing what people will risk for a little fame.