Actually, I think the straw that broke the camel's back was the attention for the post, and then VC's reading gems like this one:
The ramifications of these political games were significant: projects were abandoned left and right, OKRs were changed multiple times each quarter, nobody knew what our organizational priorities would be one day to the next, and very little ever got done. We all lived under fear that our teams would be dissolved, there would be another re-org, and we'd have to start on yet another new project with an impossible deadline. It was an organization in complete, unrelenting chaos.
If I had invested a few hundred million dollar in Uber, and seeing that money was spent at alarming rates, signals like this would trigger Defcon 1.
She wasn't the only one that happened to, there are several other witnesses. Either they're all lying, or bro-man was an asshole. Since he got fired later, all while being a "stellar performer", I'm going to bet the guy was an asshole.
What the heck is that, even? Is that: (a) grabbing women by the pussy because you have money and will get away with it? (b) drugging women and raping them, because you are famous and will get away with it? (c) killing your ex-wife and her lover because they made you look stupid, because you are famous and will get away with it? (d) trying to force a new hire into sex on day 1, because you are the manager and can fire them? (e) all of the above?
You really didn't read the post, did you? She responded pretty cool to all forms of shit inside that company. She got stellar performance reviews, her manager actively sabotaged her reviews to stop her from transferring out... I mean, the things she describes have now been verified by loads of other witnesses, and clearly describe a company with huge problems. She's not the one with the problem, but if any manager from Uber would be interviewing with me, I'd be having a very long and tough discussion with them.
So... you're in a new job, relatively inexperienced, and on day one your manager asks you to have sex with him. Do you really think sitting down for a chat is an option at that point? This is so totally out of whack, you really need to involve HR pronto. If it starts from here, where will it end?
I need to drive far beyond Tesla limits (which are going to be much increased over the next few years) just once or twice a year. I think adding a few extra breaks won't be that much of a hassle. I once worked in Germany and drove there. Having a car drive the distance and in return, I have to stop 10 minutes longer on the single break, doesn't sound like much of a penalty. In fact, it sounds like a trade-off I'd love to be able to make.
This discussion has been done to death here on slashdot and it boils down to: there are a few use-cases where EV is clumsy or currently not going to work. But for loads of people in densely populated areas, the benefits massively outweigh the penalties.
Yes. I fondly remember the Transputer. Brilliant stuff, but noone wanted to learn Occam, one of the most elegant parallel-from-the-ground-up languages I know. But they invented parallellizing compilers and libraries for that. Suboptimal, but given the raw power of this beast, I'm not sure that matters much.
It wasn't a mistake, it's much more ominous than that. Once The Machine will go live, all other machines that are connected in the (aptly named) Internet of Things will rise up against humanity. Afterwards, the survivors will be used as batteries to power The Machine and others of its kind. They will need approximately 80 billion humans to power the Eight Machines that make up the Council of Kobol. That is your future once this machine goes live. And they even have the gall to tell us outright.
Without regulation, we'd have a wild west with the customers' money. There's really nothing "left" about regulating an industry that can plunge most of capitalism into a world-wide crisis just because they can make a few bucks more that way. It's not the "left" that requires capitalism to keep working, it's capitalism itself that suffers from the behaviour of a small part of its members. Hence, they get regulated.
Without regulations, private profit will go hand in hand with public bail-outs and crises like the one in 2008. The loan-to-capital ratio was so far out of whack that ANY mishap would trigger a cascade failure of the system. It made massive profits for a few but when the system went down those profits were never returned and the cost of the failures was left with other companies and the public. Most capitalists would rather not have crises, thank you very much.
I saw a glare screen on a colleague's laptop once. Made me cringe. It's on top of my list of things to avoid as well. And glare+touch means you will be constantly wiping thumbprints off the screen. No thanks.
"Progressives" is rather broad - the CPUSA never held that position and one leading female member famously got herself arrested for dancing with a black man on the first of may. Not really the sign of a party prepared to sterilize black folks. Of course, once Stalinism took hold things went downhill rather fast.
But yeah, social democracy has much to answer for in this area. They never had the excuse of Stalinism, they got their all on their own.
Used to work at Benz. A cracked A-pillar is uncommon but they happily delivered Smarts knowing that the engine would blow up in 20.000 km, and that the glass ceiling would crack in winter temperature when the airco was turned on. They delivered me an A-class with a faulty set of sensors and happily replaced the engine and transmission at my cost, claiming it was my fault. Nowadays I don't work there anymore and happily drive a Toyota.
I'm not saying Tesla is sacred and I'm actually pretty disappointed that they seem to be importing some of the manners of the old carmakers, but the main reason I was stoked about Tesla is precisely because they seemed to be doing away with many of the revolting practices of the old carmakers.
There was also some damned fine trowel-work in the original excavation. I take my handlens and knee-pads off to the archaeologist who did that salvage excavation and recording.
Part of the criticism of the paper is that the excavation was time-pressured, impossible to reconstruct and also had to leave out a few things that would have helped answer some questions.
Like: is there no possibility at all that the mammoth died in an accident? What was the exact geology of the area? And other questions raised in the comments above. As one scientist replied: "extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence, and we don't see that here."
he number of pro-life folks who are actually misogynists is probably fairly small, though I'm sure that they do exist.
They're all misogynists. All of them have decided they can control the body of a woman just because she is a woman. They can dress it up however they want to, it remains misogynist. They all know that "protecting the unborn" is just code for "forcing women to bear children they don't want". In countries like Ireland, this includes children born from incest, rape, or even when the woman is dying because of the pregnancy. Even more gruesome is that the father can them claim paternal rights. Oh joy, that will certainly make for some interesting thanksgiving meals.
And in the USA there have been such lovely items as women dying because the doctors were afraid to give them chemo. It might have caused an abortion, which would be illegal. let's not even get started about all the desperate women who do NOT want these children and go for back-room abortions, a procedure that kills tens of thousands of women each year. Apparently the protectors of life suddenly have a callous disregard for life when the women in question are concerned. Another red flag for misogyny as driving force.
In my opinion, the whole ani-abortion movement is misogynist through and through, from the base to its policies, wherever you look. There is no compromise possible with that movement for anyone who values personal freedom, for if you have no right to determine what happens to your own body, you have no rights at all. This goes for abortion, suicide, medical treatments, hunger strikes, hairstyle, piercings... all of them are based on the same right: the right to self-determination, the right to control what happens with your body. If that goes out the window, everything goes, because it is the most fundamental right of all.
Oh, and coal is maxed out for cost-down potential, while solar and wind are still nowhere near their limits. That fact alone has lead enough companies in the past to abandon or adopt technologies. I predict this will be no different. Except for the old guard with vested interests in coal to protect.
Coal is only cheap when you ignore the environmental damage it does. Even disregarding the CO2 issue. Once you factor in all the measures you need to take to protect the environment from the radioactive waste, the sulphur and other nice byproducts of burning coal, well, it's not that cheap anymore.
Also important to note: in all of those countries English is a very strong second language, especially for the younger generations who get taught English from age 12 in The Netherlands (and it's lowering to 7 now). As for Sweden, "There is currently an ongoing debate among linguists whether English should be considered a foreign or second language in Sweden (and the other Scandinavian countries)[11] due to its widespread use in society. " - source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's not the only explanation though: all 3 countries have an open outlook, meaning they are immigration countries, mostly depend on trade with the rest of the world, and benefit from open exchange of ideas. Germany, France and Japan are much more heavy production countries.
It's only cheaper when we ignore the output of the plant, which is more carbon in the air. And it's only cheaper *now*, but the cost-down property of coal is nil, while the cost-down property of solar is still being explored. Which means that solar can keep becoming cheaper for a while, and coal will likely become more expensive.
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Actually, I think the straw that broke the camel's back was the attention for the post, and then VC's reading gems like this one:
The ramifications of these political games were significant: projects were abandoned left and right, OKRs were changed multiple times each quarter, nobody knew what our organizational priorities would be one day to the next, and very little ever got done. We all lived under fear that our teams would be dissolved, there would be another re-org, and we'd have to start on yet another new project with an impossible deadline. It was an organization in complete, unrelenting chaos.
If I had invested a few hundred million dollar in Uber, and seeing that money was spent at alarming rates, signals like this would trigger Defcon 1.
Troll. Don't feed it.
She wasn't the only one that happened to, there are several other witnesses. Either they're all lying, or bro-man was an asshole. Since he got fired later, all while being a "stellar performer", I'm going to bet the guy was an asshole.
There are two options here, I think:
A: *everyone else* is moving left very hard. Possible, but very unlikely in the current political climate.
B: *You* are moving very fast to the right.
B sounds like the most plausible option to me. If it's everyone else, it's probably you.
Do you wear tinfoil on your head, or all over? Just curious.
natural male masculinity?
What the heck is that, even? Is that:
(a) grabbing women by the pussy because you have money and will get away with it?
(b) drugging women and raping them, because you are famous and will get away with it?
(c) killing your ex-wife and her lover because they made you look stupid, because you are famous and will get away with it?
(d) trying to force a new hire into sex on day 1, because you are the manager and can fire them?
(e) all of the above?
Just curious about which one it is for you.
Are you a Catholic priest? You sound like one, trying to silence his victims by telling them they shouldn't disparage the Church.
You really didn't read the post, did you? She responded pretty cool to all forms of shit inside that company. She got stellar performance reviews, her manager actively sabotaged her reviews to stop her from transferring out... I mean, the things she describes have now been verified by loads of other witnesses, and clearly describe a company with huge problems. She's not the one with the problem, but if any manager from Uber would be interviewing with me, I'd be having a very long and tough discussion with them.
So... you're in a new job, relatively inexperienced, and on day one your manager asks you to have sex with him. Do you really think sitting down for a chat is an option at that point? This is so totally out of whack, you really need to involve HR pronto. If it starts from here, where will it end?
In short, she hated everyone.
I will. Right after I have made clear that I, for one, welcome our new Machine overlord!
I need to drive far beyond Tesla limits (which are going to be much increased over the next few years) just once or twice a year. I think adding a few extra breaks won't be that much of a hassle. I once worked in Germany and drove there. Having a car drive the distance and in return, I have to stop 10 minutes longer on the single break, doesn't sound like much of a penalty. In fact, it sounds like a trade-off I'd love to be able to make.
This discussion has been done to death here on slashdot and it boils down to: there are a few use-cases where EV is clumsy or currently not going to work. But for loads of people in densely populated areas, the benefits massively outweigh the penalties.
Yes. I fondly remember the Transputer. Brilliant stuff, but noone wanted to learn Occam, one of the most elegant parallel-from-the-ground-up languages I know. But they invented parallellizing compilers and libraries for that. Suboptimal, but given the raw power of this beast, I'm not sure that matters much.
It wasn't a mistake, it's much more ominous than that. Once The Machine will go live, all other machines that are connected in the (aptly named) Internet of Things will rise up against humanity. Afterwards, the survivors will be used as batteries to power The Machine and others of its kind. They will need approximately 80 billion humans to power the Eight Machines that make up the Council of Kobol. That is your future once this machine goes live. And they even have the gall to tell us outright.
Without regulation, we'd have a wild west with the customers' money. There's really nothing "left" about regulating an industry that can plunge most of capitalism into a world-wide crisis just because they can make a few bucks more that way. It's not the "left" that requires capitalism to keep working, it's capitalism itself that suffers from the behaviour of a small part of its members. Hence, they get regulated.
Without regulations, private profit will go hand in hand with public bail-outs and crises like the one in 2008. The loan-to-capital ratio was so far out of whack that ANY mishap would trigger a cascade failure of the system. It made massive profits for a few but when the system went down those profits were never returned and the cost of the failures was left with other companies and the public. Most capitalists would rather not have crises, thank you very much.
I saw a glare screen on a colleague's laptop once. Made me cringe. It's on top of my list of things to avoid as well. And glare+touch means you will be constantly wiping thumbprints off the screen. No thanks.
"Progressives" is rather broad - the CPUSA never held that position and one leading female member famously got herself arrested for dancing with a black man on the first of may. Not really the sign of a party prepared to sterilize black folks. Of course, once Stalinism took hold things went downhill rather fast.
But yeah, social democracy has much to answer for in this area. They never had the excuse of Stalinism, they got their all on their own.
Used to work at Benz. A cracked A-pillar is uncommon but they happily delivered Smarts knowing that the engine would blow up in 20.000 km, and that the glass ceiling would crack in winter temperature when the airco was turned on. They delivered me an A-class with a faulty set of sensors and happily replaced the engine and transmission at my cost, claiming it was my fault. Nowadays I don't work there anymore and happily drive a Toyota.
I'm not saying Tesla is sacred and I'm actually pretty disappointed that they seem to be importing some of the manners of the old carmakers, but the main reason I was stoked about Tesla is precisely because they seemed to be doing away with many of the revolting practices of the old carmakers.
The steam engine? That's easy -- it was invented by Montgomery Scott, supported by his Irish-Jewish friend Cap'n Kirk.
This sir, deserves +Hilarous Mod-Points.
Your sense of humor is so low, it was probably excavated together with that poor mammoth...
There was also some damned fine trowel-work in the original excavation. I take my handlens and knee-pads off to the archaeologist who did that salvage excavation and recording.
Part of the criticism of the paper is that the excavation was time-pressured, impossible to reconstruct and also had to leave out a few things that would have helped answer some questions.
Like: is there no possibility at all that the mammoth died in an accident? What was the exact geology of the area? And other questions raised in the comments above. As one scientist replied: "extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence, and we don't see that here."
he number of pro-life folks who are actually misogynists is probably fairly small, though I'm sure that they do exist.
They're all misogynists. All of them have decided they can control the body of a woman just because she is a woman. They can dress it up however they want to, it remains misogynist. They all know that "protecting the unborn" is just code for "forcing women to bear children they don't want". In countries like Ireland, this includes children born from incest, rape, or even when the woman is dying because of the pregnancy. Even more gruesome is that the father can them claim paternal rights. Oh joy, that will certainly make for some interesting thanksgiving meals.
And in the USA there have been such lovely items as women dying because the doctors were afraid to give them chemo. It might have caused an abortion, which would be illegal. let's not even get started about all the desperate women who do NOT want these children and go for back-room abortions, a procedure that kills tens of thousands of women each year. Apparently the protectors of life suddenly have a callous disregard for life when the women in question are concerned. Another red flag for misogyny as driving force.
In my opinion, the whole ani-abortion movement is misogynist through and through, from the base to its policies, wherever you look. There is no compromise possible with that movement for anyone who values personal freedom, for if you have no right to determine what happens to your own body, you have no rights at all. This goes for abortion, suicide, medical treatments, hunger strikes, hairstyle, piercings... all of them are based on the same right: the right to self-determination, the right to control what happens with your body. If that goes out the window, everything goes, because it is the most fundamental right of all.
Oh, and coal is maxed out for cost-down potential, while solar and wind are still nowhere near their limits. That fact alone has lead enough companies in the past to abandon or adopt technologies. I predict this will be no different. Except for the old guard with vested interests in coal to protect.
Coal is only cheap when you ignore the environmental damage it does. Even disregarding the CO2 issue. Once you factor in all the measures you need to take to protect the environment from the radioactive waste, the sulphur and other nice byproducts of burning coal, well, it's not that cheap anymore.
Also important to note: in all of those countries English is a very strong second language, especially for the younger generations who get taught English from age 12 in The Netherlands (and it's lowering to 7 now). As for Sweden, "There is currently an ongoing debate among linguists whether English should be considered a foreign or second language in Sweden (and the other Scandinavian countries)[11] due to its widespread use in society. " - source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's not the only explanation though: all 3 countries have an open outlook, meaning they are immigration countries, mostly depend on trade with the rest of the world, and benefit from open exchange of ideas. Germany, France and Japan are much more heavy production countries.
It's only cheaper when we ignore the output of the plant, which is more carbon in the air. And it's only cheaper *now*, but the cost-down property of coal is nil, while the cost-down property of solar is still being explored. Which means that solar can keep becoming cheaper for a while, and coal will likely become more expensive.